Jun 26, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2009-10 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2009-10 [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


The course information (including course titles, descriptions, credit hours, prerequisites, repeat/retake information, and active status) contained in this catalog is effective as of Fall Quarter 2009-10. This information is necessarily subject to change at the discretion of Ohio University.

 

Tier III

  
  • T3 419B - America In Decline?


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & COMPLETE T2 & 20 HRS SOC SCI

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 419C - New Age Thought


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & COMPLETE T2

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 419D - Emotion, Power, and Gender


    Examines the role played by emotion in our private as well as our public lives. A review of various theories regarding the nature of emotion is presented, followed by discussions of the nature, acquisition, and maintenance of power as well as the uses of power and the relationships between power and emotion. The last section of this course is concerned with the relationship between gender and power, gender and emotion, and how these two broad areas dovetail, providing an explanation of the role of emotion in our everyday public and private lives.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & ANTH 101 OR SOC 101 OR PSY 101

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 419E - Nature of War


    Using a broad social science perspective, the course will examine the causes, consequences, and nature of war and various proposals to prevent war. Contributions of social scientists, philosophers, writers, and professional soldiers to an understanding of the social phenomena of war and peace will be reviewed and assessed.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & SOC 101

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 419F - Images of the Homeless


    Explores images of the homeless in literature, music, film, and the social sciences, with an emphasis on depictions of the homeless in the 20th century United States. Social science, cultural studies, and literary/rhetorical analysis are used to explore the social and historical development and impact of various images of the homeless. Students also do creative projects, such as writing fiction, poetry, songs, etc., in which they develop their own depictions of homelessness.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (2 CRSES HIST OR ENG)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 419G - Images of the Rainforest: Myths, Competitive Realities, and Alternative Futures


    Examines how early explorers created images of the rainforest with unlimited resources, how artists and writers reinforced or challenged mythical views of rainforests, how images of rainforests are depicted in indigenous peoples’ art, stories, music, and medicine, and how their images differ from those of westerners. Ecological perspective will also be examined, with an emphasis on the images of interactions and connections between rainfall, climate, soils, rivers, plants, and animals. Images of political and legal rights, local action, and global awareness are discussed, and links between communities and their impact on the rainforests’ future are examined.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
  
  • T3 419K - Culture and the Sky


    Investigates both historically and cross-culturally the astronomies of several societies, focusing on the relations among conceptual systems, cultural practices, and empirical realities. The roles of scientific reasoning, religious experience, and aesthetic expression will be explored in each case, while the underlying politics in the production of knowledge will be problematized throughout the course.
    Prerequisites: SR & (ANTH 101 OR P SC 100)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 420B - Evolution and the Challenge of Creationism


    Examines two ways of knowing–science and religion–as exemplified in controversy on evolution and creationism. Claims and evidence for evolution and special creation, issues and strategies of conflict, arenas of confrontation, and implications of outcomes for both science and theology are discussed.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & T2 NAT SCI CRSE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 420C - Biology of Human Social Behavior


    Evolutionary perspectives on human social behavior are examined in light of data from the social sciences. Behaviors such as bonding and communication are seen to arise from both biological bases and social experience.
    Prerequisites: SR & 1 COURSE ANTH OR BIOS OR PSY OR SOC

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 420D - Biology Through Biography


    Explores the act of discovery through using major biological breakthroughs as the central theme. Integrates the disciplines of science, history, and philosophy by employing a biographical consideration of selected individuals. Uses the individual as a focal point to attain a sense of scientific discovery and considers the impact of the period’s beliefs and thoughts on the development of the individual and, in turn, the individual’s impact on both the disciplines and society as a whole.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 420E - Disease and Discovery: The Impact of Biology on History


    Explores ways humans have developed and changed their environment and themselves after first studying how environment and disease have influenced their physical and cultural development–how humans compete, migrate, and change in an ever-changing environment and how humans have brought numerous species, including their own, perilously close to extinction.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (BIOS 103 OR 170 OR BIOL 101) & 4 HRS HIST

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 420F - Dynamic Systems: Change, Chaos, and Fractals


    Introduction to the study of dynamic systems focusing on the major classes of dynamic systems, modeling of the systems, and application of these concepts to real-world situations. Provides answers to such questions as: Why can we perfectly predict the activity of a pendulum, yet cannot accurately predict the weather? Is the similarity of physiological homeostasis and household thermostats superficial or fundamental? What are fractional dimensions, and why do they describe the world better than the geometry you learned in high school?
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & MATH 263B

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
  
  • T3 420G - Art & Science Of The Body


    Prerequisites: SR & (BIOL 101 OR BIOS 103 OR 170 OR ART 110)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 430A - The Cultural Revolution of Computers and Information


    Examines role of information systems in impacting self, work, and society with emphasis upon a wide range of positive and negative assessments of how computer systems impact us.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 432A - Seminar in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution


    Examines nature of conflict from systems point of view. Presents theories and techniques of negotiation as method of resolving or managing conflict. Examples of successful and unsuccessful negotiations studied. Examples drawn from many areas of conflict, including purchasing and selling, marriage dissolution, labor contracts, hostage negotiations, plea bargaining, and international peace and arms limitation talks. Differences and similarities at various levels of negotiation are noted. Concludes with mock negotiation.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 432B - Working in the U.S.A.


    Provides students with an understanding of the social, cultural, economic, psychological, and political nature of work in the U.S.; an appreciation of individual reactions to work, as well as the resulting productivity in modern organizations; and a basis for understanding the employment relationships in modern organizations. Focuses on the institution as well as the impact of institutional policies on individual work behaviors and organizational productivity.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 432C - Metaphors and Organization:Mgt. from Multiple Perspectives


    Studies metaphors applied to the understanding of organizations and how a selected metaphor both informs and limits. Gareth Morgan’s book, Imaginization, guides discussions, examining various metaphors that are commonly employed and alternatives Morgan suggests. Discusses how these metaphors show up in elements of popular culture and applies them to real world cases in order to discover how understanding is shaped.
    Prerequisites: (ANTH 101 OR PSY 101 OR SOC 101 OR POLS 230) & SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 432D - Global Business Cultures


    Using case studies depicting cultural issues in eight different countries on four continents, this course examines the differences and cultures and how they may cause misunderstanding or conflict. It considers such questions as why have these differences developed? How do these differences jeopardize success? What can be done to neutralize these differences?
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 4 HRS TIER-2 SOCIAL SCIENCES

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 432E - Social Functions of the Legal System


    Examines the social functions of the legal system in the sense of an integrated process of social behavior and ideas. Focuses on underlying principles of the legal processes and various disciplines including the economic, historical, political, communication, and ethical forces that shape legal concepts and principles.
    Prerequisites: SR & (ECON 103 OR 104) & (SOC 101 OR PSY 101 OR POLS 101)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 432F - Transforming Leadership With Emotional Intelligence


    Explores use of emotional intelligence in transforming leadership style through the integration of management and interpersonal communication. Developmental experiences provide assessments, challenge, praxis, and growth for transforming leadership with emotional intelligence.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & MGT 202 OR 240 & COMS 103

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 435A - Communication and Racism


    Focuses on how racial prejudices are communicated and shared within different racial groups; analyzes how people of specific racial groups perceive and talk about members of other racial groups. Conflict theory and research is studied to gain insight into how interracial conflicts are expressed and managed.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 18 HRS SOC SCI

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 435B - Black Communication Styles


    Explores African American history through the eyes of notable black orators. Selected speeches from these orators will be analyzed in an attempt to understand the historical elements that comprise the unique African American style of communication.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & COMS 103

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 435C - Cultural Inquiry in Diversity in Familiar and Foreign Contexts


    Investigates the dynamics of intercultural and cross cultural communication, cultural diversity, and methods of qualitative research. Requires an on-site qualitatve field research experience in a rural, international location.
    Prerequisites: SR & (COMS 101 OR 103) & 110

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 436A - Mass Political Comm


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 436B - Gender Roles/global Media


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 8 HRS SOCIAL SCIENCE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 436C - Examining Internet Myths


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 4 HRS TIER II SOC SCI & 4 HRS HUM

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 437A - Images of War in Film, Television, and Literature in the 20th Century


    Uses a case study approach to evaluate how our perceptions of war have been shaped by fictional and nonfictional treatments. Course materials include novels, short fiction, television news and documentaries, fiction films, and archival sources that focus on WWI, WWII, Vietnam, regional wars of the 1980s and 1990s, and the Gulf War.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (1 CRSE IN HIST OR POLS OR COM)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 437B - Images Of War:film Tv Lit


    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 437C - Media, Culture, and Identity


    Explores aspects of identity as formed and informed by culture and media in a computer-mediated virtual learning environment.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 437D - Communication Theory in Everyday Life


    Examines the role of language and symbols in interpersonal and mass-mediated contexts in defining and maintaining identity. Students will understand how the different symbol systems people use throughtout life affect how they interpret significant events in their lives.
    Prerequisites: 8 HRS TIER II SOCIAL SCIENCE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 438A - Women in the Information Age


    Investigates the effects of the “information age” on women’s lives. Although information technologies have revolutionized the way we live and work, men and women have not been affected in the same manner. This course explores the reasons women have interacted much differently than men with the two primary emerging technologies–computers and telephones.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (WGS 100 OR ITS 214 OR 8 HRS SOCIAL SCIENCE)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 446A - Images of Handicapped


    Examines the evolution of the media’s portrayal of persons with disabilities. Specifically, by applying relevant interdisciplinary theories and perspectives, selected films and television programs will be analyzed to determine the extent and manner in which selected media have impacted on society’s perceptions and attitudes.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (EDSP 271 OR EDTE 201)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 446C - Disabilities as Portrayed in the Media


    Examines the evolution of the media’s portrayal of persons with disabilities. Specifically, by applying relevant interdisciplinary theories and perspectives, selected films and television programs are analyzed to determine the extent and manner in which selected media have impacted on society’s perceptions and attitudes.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & T2 SOC SCI

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 447A - Authoring Children’s Information Books in Your Major


    Offers an opportunity to integrate knowledge about creative writing, children’s literature, and literacy education through the process of authoring two children’s information books covering personally intriguing aspects and issues of each student’s major disciplines. Students will achieve synthesis of these disciplines through the writing and publishing of information books, and sharing these books and expertise with local schoolchildren. Examines how children effectively learn to read and write, genre in children’s literature, illustrating, and publishing techniques.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & JR COMP CRSE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 447B - Women And Development


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (2 CRSES IN EDU OR SOC SCI)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 450A - Environ Assessments


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & CHEM 123 & MATH 163A

    Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 450B - Technology and Culture


    Intended to provide a synthesis experience for seniors on the topic of engineering and technology and their interactions with and effects on society. Students will have an opportunity to stand outside their particular major and to interact with other specialists to see what they can do to provide clarity of purpose and direction to the technological questions facing humankind.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & COMPLETION OF T2

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 450C - Society and New Technology


    Examines past and present instances in which the course of adopting a technology has been affected by the influences of public and private institutions. Traces technology’s path from the laboratory into functioning society and examines the obstacles new technology faces in becoming an integral part of mainstream society.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 8 HRS TIER II APPLIED SCIENCE & NATURAL SCIENCE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 452A - Appropriate Technology in Developing Countries


    Provides both technical and non-technical majors with an introduction to technology that best suits the economic, social, environmental, political, and technological needs of developing countries. Uses case studies and design project to examine the economic, anthropological and technical aspects of problems in developing countries.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 452B - Technology & Pub Policy


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & ET 280 OR ET 350 & POLS 101 OR 102 OR 103 OR 210 OR 230 OR 270

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 453A - Art Of Modeling/computer


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 454A - Connections: Inventions and Natural Resources


    Investigates the interrelationships between the manufacturing processes necessary to bring the concepts of invention to reality and the influence of limited natural resources on that endeavor.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 455A - People Or Machines


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 460A - Visual Culture Studies


    Various forms of visual culture including art, television, movies, advertising, fashion, domestic architecture, parks, carnivals, body piercing, etc. To discover new ways of understanding and appreciating visual culture, each form is analyzed through different theoretical approaches, including semiotics, feminism, post-structuralism, Marxism, multiculturalism, etc.
    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 461A - Social History Through the Arts


    An examination and comparison of social and political forces of two periods, the Elizabethan and the present, as expressed through the arts. Contemporary issues emphasized are changing gender roles, racism, the influence of African American arts (particularly music and dance) and ethics related to freedom of expression and support for the arts.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 462A - Women in Music


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 462B - Disabilities and the Arts


    Interdisciplinary examination of the role played by the arts in the lives of people with disabilities. Issues of value, function, accessibility as consumers and artists, performing with a disability, utilization of creative arts therapies, public attitudes, and advocacy are explored.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & TIER II SOCIAL SCIENCE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 462C - Music and Health


    An interdisciplinary examination of the impact of music from historical, behavioral, medical, psychological, and technological perspectives. Small group discussion and music experiences will be used to explore music in a healthy lifestyle, music in medicine, therapeutic applications of music, music technology, and advocacy for people who have health impairments.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 462D - Music In Multicultural Us


    Prerequisites: SR & ANTH 101

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 463A - Play and Place


    Examines the historical and contemporary interaction of two art forms, theater and architecture, in the design and construction of theaters. Considers the requirements and demands of theater and architecture and analyzes their synthesis in creating actual theater structures.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & T2 COMPLETION

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 463B - Women Speaking: Then and Now


    Examines the voice and speech composition of famous women orators throughout history. A comprehensive program of voice and speech training is introduced and practiced to improve the quality of the speaking voice and to develop power and range for a more confident, effective, and expressive communication.
    Prerequisites: SR

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 464A - Cultural Traditions and the Arts


    Principal styles of Western art as mirrored in selected masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. Specific works of art examined in relationship to one another and against background of ideas that animated life of their times (Greek, Roman, Medieval).
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 464B - Cultural Traditions and the Arts


    Principal styles of Western art as mirrored in selected masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. Specific works of art examined in relationship to one another and against background of ideas that animated life of their times (Renaissance, Baroque).
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 464C - Cultural Traditions and the Arts


    Principal styles of Western art as mirrored in selected masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. Specific works of art examined in relationship to one another and against background of ideas that animated life of their times (19th and 20th centuries).
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 464F - Art and Morality


    The relation between artworks and moral values, examined through diverging theories and philosophical perspectives. The work of specific artists from various historical periods, with emphasis on recent and contemporary debates among artists and philosophers. The theme of the course is whether aesthetic and ethical values are mutually reconcilable.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 464G - Hero and Heroic Culture Since Antiquity


    Synthesizes Greco-Roman civilization and the literature and arts of five subsequent periods: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Revolutionary Age (1750-1848), and the Modern World.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (IART 117 OR A H 211 OR CLAS 252 OR HUM 107)

    Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 470A - Social Crises in Health Care Policy


    Virtually every medical advance is accompanied by complex set of poorly understood ethical, legal, political, and economic considerations. Course provides students with opportunity to explore in depth all dimensions of crisis that have arisen involving practice of medicine or provision of health care.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 470B - Sport Aesthetics


    An analysis of the aesthetic in sport by viewing various works of art when sport serves as the subject of the artist and by observing sport when sport is the medium for creating aesthetic expression.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 470C - Chemicals: Health and Environment


    Topics presented will include atomic and molecular structure, states of matter, acids and bases, polymers, corrosion, health-related issues (radon, formaldehyde, pesticides, asbestos), and global issues (ozone, greenhouse effect). Topics discussed with regard to their personal and environmental impacts.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 470D - Alternative Health


    Considers basic questions about health and healing from a wide variety of perspectives. Course content will focus on health practices considered alternative health care practices in the United States today. Assumptions underlying these alternative or complementary systems will be contrasted with traditional health care views.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & HLTH 202

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 470E - Chemical Risks and Society Benefits


    Focuses on the chemical industry to teach students to conduct functional risk assessment (i.e., evaluation of the benefits of complex technological materials given limited information or resources pertaining to the costs of such uses.) Examines the role various constituencies can play in controlling such technologies and the products they produce including the expenses to society for these controls.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & TIER II COMPLETED

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 470F - Global Public Health


    This study abroad course examines public health as it is administratively structured and practiced globally. It explores the roles technology, society and science have played in past and current health issues, such as food safety, diet, water and air pollution, infectious disease, and epidemiology. Students will see how public health practices, particularly in the UK and European countries have influenced global public health matters.
    Prerequisites: SR & PERMISSION REQUIRED

    Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 5 hours.
  
  • T3 472A - Self, Aging, and Society


    Interrelates knowledge of aging, modes of thought, and values to one another and to practical problems in life, society and culture, and world of work. Focuses primarily on biological, psychological, sociological, health care, and public policy aspects of gerontology. Designed to analyze in an interdisciplinary way basic assumptions of aging, process of theory construction, interrelationship of theory and research, procedures of empirical investigation, implications of older age structure for American society, and problems of aged in American society.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (1 CRSE IN SOC OR PSY OR HCCF)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 472B - Food Problems and Third World Development


    Provides students with knowledge and understanding of various factors involved in struggle for achieving food security in Third World countries. Focuses on political, economic, educational, health, environmental, social, and cultural factors and how they impact on food security. Also focuses on AIDS and how it has affected agricultural production, marketing, and distribution. Diversities among Third World countries, policy changes, and strategies in relation to world food security also explored.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 472C - Women and Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities


    Analysis of women in leadership roles in relation to historical, sociological, psychological, and economic perspectives. Strategies for developing leadership skills integrated throughout the course.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (1 CRSE IN PSY OR SOC)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 472D - Thanatology


    Synthesizes components inherent in current philosophical and religious views and beliefs, psychological and clinical dimensions, sociological factors, and ethical and moral issues of death in context of defining and coping with death.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & SOC 101 OR PSY 101

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 472F - Mental Health: Social, Economic and Political Impact


    Examines the social, legal, economic and political impact of mental illness and mental health care on society, public policy, and on related fields of study.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 472K - Clothing and Culture


    Knowledge and understanding are built through the interdisciplinary study of apparel, appearance, and cross-cultural influences in variations and functions of dress. Student exploration to focus on apparel and appearance norms as a cultural universal. Emphasis on research methods, resources, and activities relating to cultural/subcultural patterns.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (PSY 101 OR SOC 101) & (1 CRSE IN IART OR A H)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 472L - Food and Culture of the Mediterranean


    Investigates the food and culture of the Mediterranean region from a cultural and geographic perspective.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (1 COURSE ANTH OR GEOG OR SOC)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
  
  • T3 472M - American Childhood


    Examines the ways in which children and the concept of childhood in America has changed in reality and in perception. Historical events, sociological factors in the changing view of children, and psychological factors will be examined. Literature, film, art, and popular media will also be examined to begin a discussion of the changing face of childhood and the depiction in these media. 4 lec.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 473A - Interdisciplinary Mental Health


    Synthesis of literature on culture, diversity, professional communication and teams, and influence of technology in interdisciplinary collaboration. Learners work in interdisciplinary teams in class to address issues around mental health services for children in rural areas. 4 lec.
    Prerequisites: SR & 8 HRS PSY OR S W OR NRSE OR HLTH OR SPECIAL ED

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 474A - Brainscape: The Integrative Brain


    Interdisciplinary course that guides students to explore functions of the human brain. Integrates information on such topics as movement, control, and awareness; sensorimotor integration; language development and use; feelings, emotions, and drives; left brain, right brain; neural rhythmicity; levels of consciousness; and states of mind. Using this integrative information base, students explore and discuss mechanisms and evidences of such human attributes as thought and intellect, learning and memory, play, reason, and decision making.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 475A - Women and Leisure


    Designed to assist students in developing an awareness of the changing roles of women in society, particularly within the leisure components of women’s lives. The course uses a social-psychological perspective, and encourages students to think critically about key issues surrounding women and leisure within a broad social context. This course is taught from a feminist perspective, focusing on how social change is necessary to allow women the opportunities that they deserve related to leisure and recreational pursuits.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 1 TIER II SOCIAL SCIENCE CRSE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480B - Two Decades in Confrontation: The Art and the History of the 1950s and the 1960s


    Taught by professor of history and professor of art. Opportunity for majors in arts and in social sciences to search for motivations and values in recent U.S. history by reviewing arts and political, social, and scientific events of two postwar decades, 1950s and 1960s.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & COMPLETION OF T2 HUM & FA

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480B - Two Decades in Confrontation: The Art and the Historyof the 1950s and the 1960s


    Taught by professor of history and professor of art. Opportunity for majors in arts and in social sciences to search for motivations and values in recent U.S. history by reviewing arts and political, social, and scientific events of two postwar decades, 1950s and 1960s.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & COMPLETION OF T2 HUM & FAR

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480C - Unity and Variety in Biology and Literature


    Unity and variety between and within literature and biology studied primarily by critically examining selected works of Charles Darwin, English naturalist, and Walt Whitman, American poet. Thoughts of these two men analyzed by comparing views on selected set of topics: origins of life and of humans, evolution, nature, and influence of environment. Focus is primarily on these two figures: other writers such as Chardin and Thoreau may be treated briefly.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & TIER 2 CRSE IN PBIO

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480C - Unity and Variety in Biology and Literature


    Unity and variety between and within literature and biology studied primarily by critically examining selected works of Charles Darwin, English naturalist, and Walt Whitman, American poet. Thoughts of these two men analyzed by comparing views on selected set of topics: origins of life and of humans, evolution, nature, and influence of environment. Focus is primarily on these two figures: other writers such as Chardin and Thoreau may be treated briefly.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & TIER 2 CRSE IN BOT OR ENG

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480D - Emergence of a Science


    For both science and nonscience majors interested in historical and philosophical influences that led to the present concept of chemistry as science. Chronological survey, largely nontechnical, of developments in chemistry from Thales to Russell. Not acceptable for 400-level requirement in B.S. chemistry degree program.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 1 CRSE IN SCI OR PHIL

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480E - War: The Human Response


    Human response to war considered in terms of myths of heroism and masculinity, nature of conflict, use and justification of aggression, perception of enemy, effects on both victims and victimizers, and irony of war. Human response examined both from subjective perspective of creators of literature of war and from objective perspective of psychologists who study individual and group behavior in times of conflict.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 12 HRS IN ENG OR PSY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480F - Life Science/commos/med


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & 2 CRSES IN BIOS

    Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480G - Schooling and the State


    Critical inquiry into how education, through citizenship preparation, has been seen by liberal, conservative, and socialist philosophers as resolving social crises. Particular attention to eras of extreme social crisis such as Great Depression and recent decades. Use of popular literature and source documents to relate educational prescriptions to current topics in education.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & T2 CRSE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480K - Meaning in Music


    Survey of recent and historical attempts to explain relationships between musical stimuli and their musical or extramusical referents. Representative musical works examined in light of these theories.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480L - The Nuclear Era


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480M - Gandhi and King: Nonviolence as Philosophy and Strategy


    Provides a view of nonviolence as an end and personal style, although emphasis is placed on nonviolence as a means of responding to oppression. Offers a structural opportunity for students to integrate the theories and practice of nonviolence or other alternative paradigms, as related to real-life situations, into their own life experiences. An interdisciplinary analysis of nonviolence is employed.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480N - Who Controls Science


    Uses specific events and questions in the history of scientific research to explore cultural, industrial, and political attempts to direct or suppress scientific inquiry and/or the dissemination of scientific information.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480N - Who Controls Science


    Uses specific events and questions in the history of scientific research to explore cultural, industrial, and political attempts to direct or suppress scientific inquiry and/or the dissemination of scientific information.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & TIER 2 IN A OR N

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480P - Ethical Issues in the Human Services


    Examines variety of ethical issues facing human service workers (social workers, psychologists, counselors, etc.), including questions of truth-telling and confidentiality, paternalism and self-determination, distributive justice (allocation of resources), etc. Model for analyzing these issues is presented.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & T2 CRSE IN HUM OR SOC SCI

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480Q - Crit&empirical Appr


    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & (MDIA 106 OR 170 OR 4 HRS ENG)

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480R - War: Historical and Dramatic Perspectives


    Through the vehicle of history and drama, examines way in which America has been affected by warfare in 20th century. Dramas studied from historical and theatrical perspectives for insights they offer about history of American society during wartime.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & T2 COMPLETED

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480T - Science Policy in the U.S.


    Considers the intersection of science and politics. Investigates how government affects science, how scientists become involved in political decisions, and how scientific information is used in public policy-making. Examines the values and methods of both science and politics, traces the historical development of science policy, and analyzes contemporary issues where science and politics meet.
    Prerequisites: SR ONLY & POLS 101 OR LAB SCI CRSE

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 480V - Contemporary American Family


    Study of American families based on psychological and literary analysis in professional literature and recent fiction and drama. Four questions designate the nature of the synthesis: (1) What is the relationship between the psychological study of the American family and its presentation in recent literature? (2) Do the portrayals of families in the literature reflect the family dynamics described by the psychologists? (3) What conclusions are best revealed by each approach? (4) What results from the synthesis of literary and psychological disciplines? Concerned with structures, functions, communication, roles, conflict, and intimacy in family settings, and also with the manner of their presentation in the literature.
    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • T3 495E - Biology and Geography of Regional Food Plants


    Integrative course examines biology, geographic origins, historical uses, agriculture and harvesting, chemistry, and food products from plants commonly utilized in a selected geographic region of the world.
    Prerequisites: SR & COMPLETION OF TII INCLUDING 1 TII-N & 1 TII-C

    Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.

Travel and Tourism

  
  • TAT 150 - Travel Career Development Part I


    Introduction to comprehensive and critical information on travel products and destinations, important business issues, and the technical and personal skills needed to begin a career in the travel industry. Emphasis on the travel product and sales and marketing.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 151 - Travel Career Development Part II


    Continuation of 150. Emphasis on agency operations and travel industry careers.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 160 - Destination Training: North America


    Designed to acquaint students with in-depth information about the United States and Canada, including physical geography and political and cultural aspects of the region.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 161 - Destination Training: Ohio


    Designed to acquaint students with in-depth information about the state of Ohio, including physical geography and political and cultural aspects of the region. Also includes in-depth analysis of the group travel business.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 162 - Destination Training: Western Europe


    Designed to acquaint students with in-depth information about Western Europe, including physical geography and political and cultural aspects of the region.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 163 - Destination Training: Asia


    Designed to acquaint students with in-depth information about Asia, including physical geography and political and cultural aspects of the region.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 164 - Destination Training: Mexico, Caribbean


    Designed to acquaint students with in-depth information about Mexico and the Caribbean area, including physical geography and political and cultural aspects of the region.
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
  
  • TAT 250 - Travel Rules and Regulations


    Introduction to the legal procedures, ethics, and relationships involving travel agencies and the airlines, tour operators, and travelers.
    Credit Hours: 4
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
 

Page: 1 <- Back 1052 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62