May 04, 2024  
2017-2018 Online Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Online Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Course Descriptions

The course number system is:

000-099 Institutional Credit. (Does not meet graduation requirements and will not transfer to four-year colleges.)

100-199 Freshman Courses

200-299 Sophomore Courses

 

Fine Arts

  
  • FIA 109 - Introduction to Drawing


    This course provides a study of basic visual elements in drawing, emphasizing observation, selection, and recording of perceptual form. Value relationships, spatial organization, linear gesture, composition, balance, and the human figure are explored using graphic media.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 110 - Introduction to Painting


    This course provides an exploration of the basic visual elements using painting media and techniques.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 111 - Art History Survey I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course offers an historical and visual survey of art and architecture from prehistoric beginnings through the Medieval Period. Study includes aesthetic, cultural, historic, and formal examination of works of art in a chronological, evolutionary sequence. A considerable amount of time is spent focusing on diversity and multicultural issues that have defined and shaped the process of development historic to human creative activity. Lecture course with supplemental visual presentation.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 112 - Art History Survey II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This is a lecture course with supplemental visual presentation of art and architecture from the Gothic Period through the 19th Century. Study includes an aesthetic, formal, historic, and cultural examination of painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture in a chronological, evolutionary sequence. Time is spent focusing on how issues of cultural diversity and gender define and shape creative activity. Lecture course with supplemental visual presentation.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 115 - Fundamentals of Figure Drawing


    This course offers advanced drawing study using graphic media as a tool for expressive interpretation of the human figure and other visual problems. Study focuses on the tools, techniques, concepts, and approaches of two-dimensional image making.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 116 - Fundamentals of Painting


    This course offers advanced study of painting concepts and technical processes involving light, shape, form, space, and composition.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 117 - Survey of Music in the Twentieth Century


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course offers an examination of the development of Classical, Film, Musical Theater, Non-Western, Jazz and Rock music composed in the twentieth century, including Women, Latino, and African-American composers and their contribution to twentieth century music.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 119 - Introduction to Architectural History


    This course provides the student with visual literacy and an introduction to aesthetic concepts, its story, and methodologies within Western and Non-Western architecture. Integrated are the architectural processes, techniques, and their deployment within the literary and cultural history. A variety of art historical sources will be referenced to develop critical thinking, critiquing, and writing. The course will cover the period from primitive building structures, the Egyptian and Middle East to the Greco-Roman, early Christian, Islamic, African, Asian, Romanesque and Gothic.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 120 - Architectural History


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    This course provides the student the visual and literary vocabulary that adds to the first semester course a fundamental perception of the aesthetics and construction techniques involved with the art of architecture. Included are the architectural advancements and styles within a variety of global cultural and literary history gleaned from a variety of sources. This will enable the student to critically think when writing the term paper. This course covers the occasion of the renaissance to the baroque, neo-classical and the Age of Reason, 19th century, and the modern period up to the post-modern, global period.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 121 - Introduction to Architectural Rendering


    This course offers a study of graphic styles used in architecture and development of perspective renderings of interior and exterior buildings.
    Prerequisite: FIA 109  or permission of instructor.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 122 - Introduction to Film Photography


    This course provides an introduction to photography principles and practices including 35mm camera operation, film development, print processing, exposure technique, and some contemporary issues of photographic practice in the arts.
    Prerequisite: Students must have their own appropriate camera (or access to one).
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 123 - Introduction to Color Film Photography


    This course offers an introduction to color photography involving film exposure, print processing, color correcting and analysis, with an exploration of contemporary issues/techniques of color photography.
    Prerequisite: FIA 122 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 124 - Theater Appreciation


    This course provides an introduction to the basic social, artistic, and technical elements of theater. Topics include theater as storytelling; dramatic genres, styles, and structures; the various physical theater spaces; and the contributions of the playwright, designers, director, actors, and audience to the theatrical process. 
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 125 - Introduction to Digital Imaging


    This course provides students with an introduction to the technical and creative aspects of manipulating photographic and digitally generated images in a Macintosh computer environment utilizing state of the art hardware and software.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 127 - Introduction to Acting


    This course offers basics of voice, movement, and interpretation. Course includes development of imagination and observation leading to the ability to present these skills in all forms of dramatic presentations.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 128 - Introduction to Illustration


    This course is an introductory studio course which provides the student with a basic vocabulary and fundamental understanding of the concepts, techniques, and skills involved in the visual arts communication field of illustration. Along with a historic and contemporary examination of illustration, the student is taught to differentiate between product, journalistic, and advertising forms of illustration. Considerable time is spent on specific studio approaches to illustration including use of pencil and dry media, pen and ink, watercolor, oil, gouache, tempera, acrylic painting techniques and applied computer technology.
    Prerequisites: FIA 109  or FIA 110 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 130 - Introduction to Graphic Design


    This course is an introductory design studio course which provides a basic vocabulary and fundamental understanding of the technique, concepts, and processes involved in the visual communication field of Graphic Design. Topics include a historic and contemporary examination of graphic communication, paste-up, layout, preparation of comps, roughs, and mechanicals, and an introduction to computers and design-related software.
    Prerequisite: FIA 104 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 132 - Introduction to Drama


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course offers a study of the classics of European drama both as “text” and “event.” Readings of selected masterworks together with active class participation in several modes of drama through scene study, criticism, improvisation, field trips and, for those interested, playwriting and directing. Readings include Aeschylus, the Elizabethans, and Moliere.
    Prerequisite: ENG 101 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 220 - Introduction to History of Photography


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    A course examining the history of photography from 1839 to the present. Emphasis is placed on a study of the evolution of photographic processes, art historical and sociological impact, trends and major artists.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 222 - Advanced Black-and-White Film Photography


    This course is an advanced black and white photography course with an emphasis on the zone system exposure and printing methods. Course includes an introduction to large format cameras and studio lighting.
    Prerequisite: FIA 122 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 225 - Advanced Digital Imaging


    This course provides students with advanced technical training in the field of digital imaging and an opportunity to apply learned skills to create digitally manipulated images from two-dimensional and three-dimensional photographic and computer generated sources. An integrated component of this course focuses on the use of “state of the art” digital hardware and software to output high resolution, exhibition quality, ink jet and dye sublimation images on a diversity of media. Students are required to complete study in Digital Imaging for Art and Photography I prior to enrollment in the Advanced Digital Imaging for Art and Photography course.
    PrerequisiteFIA 125 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 227 - Advanced Acting


    This course offers advanced work on developing voice, body, and imagination as components of the actor’s “instrument”. Course includes discovering styles suitable for works from different periods and the relationship between the actor and the text. Course also includes an examination of tradition and techniques of the principal modes of theater: tragedy, comedy, realism, fantasy, and farce.
    Prerequisite: FIA 127 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 228 - Advanced Illustration


    This course is an advanced commercial art course in illustration that serves as a continuation of the Illustration I course. A more specific focus on beginning and advanced problem solving is provided using learned studio illustration skills. Study includes the preparation of black and white, three-color, and four-color illustrations and comps for various journalistic, product, and advertising purposes. Emphasis is on visualization, originality of expression, and concept/problem solving using applied computer technology.
    Prerequisites: FIA 109  or FIA 110  and FIA 128 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 230 - Advanced Graphic Design


    This course is an advanced course in graphic design that serves as a continuation of Graphic Design I. A more specific emphasis on beginning and advanced design problem solving is provided using learned graphic design skills. Study includes a more complete understanding of the graphic design production process including typesetting, typography and lettering, advanced use of computers and software duotone and four-color production.
    Prerequisite: FIA 130 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FIA 232 - Fundamentals of Drama


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course offers a study of classics from the modern theater both as “text” and “event.” Course includes readings of selected masterworks together with active class participation in several modes of drama through scene study, criticism, improvisation, field trips and, for those interested, playwriting and directing. Readings include Ibsen, Shaw, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, and others.
    Prerequisite: ENG 101 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Fire Science Technology

  
  • FST 102 - Building Construction


    This course provides professional fire service personnel and individuals in related fields with an understanding of the basic principles of building construction. It presents background information concerning the national and local building codes, the national fire codes and how they affect modern design and building construction. It relates these principles to practical problems of the fire service.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096 , if required..
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 103 - Fire Protection


    This course provides an introduction to general aspects of fire protection. Topics include the behavior of fire, the extinguishing agents used in suppressing fire, and the strategies used to prevent fires. The roles of public and private fire protection services are also analyzed.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 105 - Fire Prevention


    This course provides a study of the basic principles of fire prevention and inspection with emphasis on the recognition of fire hazards in commercial and industrial occupancies, the various protection systems dealing with these hazards, the use of practical test facilities, and the enforcement of building laws, fire ordinances, and municipal codes.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096 , if required..
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 106 - Fire Fighting Tactics


    This course provides an examination of the tactical capabilities and limitations of company-level operations at emergency incidents. Particular attention is given to the operation of the basic tactical units of fire departments: Engine, Ladder, and Rescue companies.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 107 - Hazardous Materials


    This course provides professional fire and safety personnel with an understanding of the hazards found in industry and techniques used to control them. Topics include a study of the use, proper storage, and transportation of hazardous materials, with particular emphasis placed on safety measures to be followed when handling these materials at a fire or other emergency.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 108 - Fire Hydraulics


    This course provides fire protection personnel and professional firefighter with an understanding of the properties, principles, and concepts of fluid materials, particularly water. The course presents a background of the basic properties of fluids, pressures, flows, pumps, and practical applications.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 109 - Fire Protection Systems


    This course provides an introduction to fire detection and suppression devices. The design, operation and maintenance of, and code requirements for, the various systems are examined, with special emphasis on the special problems created by hazardous occupancies.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096  , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 111 - Fire Causes and Detection


    The course provides students with an understanding of the history, development, and philosophy of fire investigation and detection; the gathering of evidence and development of technical reports; and the processing of criminal evidence and examination of criminal procedures as they relate to arson investigation.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096  , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 112 - Emergency Rescue Operations


    This course provides students with instruction in various aspects of rescue operations. Topics include responsibilities of the officer in command, the use of specialized rescue tools and equipment, problems of vehicle rescue, and techniques for handling casualties.
    Prerequisites: ENG 096 , if required..
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 113 - Fire Department Organization and Management


    The course provides students with the basic concepts of management and organization of fire departments. It examines the structure and types of fire department organizations, the functions of the manager, and the role of leadership.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096 , if required..
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 114 - Legal Aspects of Fire Protection


    This course provides a study of legal rights and obligations, liability concerns and responsibilities involving fire department organizations carrying out their duties.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 115 - Insurance Grading Schedules


    This course provides an understanding of all aspects of fire insurance with a major emphasis on its function, type of carriers, provisions, and how rating systems are established. Additionally, it examines handling of risk and settlement claims.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 116 - Fire Safety Code


    This course provides a study of the history and development of fire safety codes, with an emphasis on the nature and scope of legal statutes and related codes in fire protection control.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 119 - Incident Command


    This course provides a study of the command and control of operations at major incidents or disasters. The role of the fireground or incident commander is stressed. Major features include central control over and coordination of human and material resources with particular recognition given to the safety of fire personnel and disaster victims.
    Prerequisite: FST 106  
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FST 218 - Fireground Strategies and Concepts


    This course provides a study of the advanced tactical procedures and underlying strategic concepts required for effective operations at emergency incidents. Emphasis is on multi-unit and special emergency operations.
    Prerequisite: FST 106 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

French

  
  • FRE 101 - Beginning French I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course includes development of the fundamentals skills of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. Listening practice is available. Media are incorporated into the classroom experience and web-based materials are a required part of the course. Native speakers of French must get approval of the instructor.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 102 - Beginning French II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.FRE 101  
    This course is a continuation of FRE 101 . Media are incorporated into the classroom experience and web-based materials are a required part of the course. Native speakers of French must get approval of the instructor.
    Prerequisite: FRE 101  or two years high school French.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 111 - Intermediate French I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course offers review of fundamental skills of understanding, speaking, reading and writing. Media are incorporated into the classroom experience and web-based materials are a required part of the course. This course is not generally open to native French speakers.
    Prerequisite: FRE 102  or three years high school French.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 112 - Intermediate French II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a continuation of FRE 111 . Not generally open to native French speakers.
    Prerequisite: FRE 111 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 115 - French Culture and Civilization (Foreign Study)


    This course includes a comprehensive survey of French culture and civilization including geography, social and economic factors. The achievements in painting, sculpture and architecture will be examined. This course is offered only in conjunction with a trip to France or French Canada and fulfills one semester of the French Modern Language requirement.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 121 - Advanced French I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course includes further development of skills in reading, composition and conversation.
    Prerequisites: FRE 112 , 3 years high school French or its equivalent.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 122 - Advanced French II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a continuation of FRE 121 .
    Prerequisite: FRE 121 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • FRE 215 - History of French Film


    This course offers a survey of the major periods in the evolution of French film from the silent era through the New Wave to the present, with an emphasis on the major filmmakers: Renoir, Truffaut, Godard. The place of French film in the social and political history of the twentieth-century France will be explored.
    Prerequisite: ENG 102  or ENG 122  or permission of instructor or Division Dean’s office. Fulfills one semester of Foreign Language requirement or may be taken as a free elective.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours

Game Design Development

  
  • GDP 101 - Fundamentals of Game Design


    This course covers the many aspects of game design. The course explains the process of how a game is designed and developed from the original concept through its distribution. Other topics included in the course are fundamental rules of good game design, basic storytelling, understanding the importance of game design development teams, and incorporating external resources to complete the game.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GDP 110 - Game Design and Development I


    This course provides students with the basics of game design. Students will be familiar with videogames, computer games, and just plain games. Students will have the opportunity to learn about a variety of games from non-computer games – Monopoly to Diplomacy – to computer games. Topics include the four essential elements of game design: imagining a game, defining the way that it works, describing its internal elements, and communicating this information to others.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GDP 115 - The Business of Gaming


    This course covers many aspects about the business of game development including new media and intellectual property. Students learn about legal issues that concern the game industry. Some of these issues are choosing a business entity to finance, human resources, intellectual property protection, publishing contract negotiation, and licensing. This course will help students become more efficient in the game development industry.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GDP 201 - Principles of Animation


    This course provides students with animation techniques. Students will learn facial animation, cloth simulation, animation blending, soft body mesh deformation.
    Prerequisites: ENG 101 , GDP 110 , MAT 119 .
    2 lecture and 2 laboratory hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GDP 210 - Game Design and Development II


    This course provides students with the basic mechanics of building a double buffered sprite engine and the ability to write their own games using Visual Basic along with Windows API routines and DirectX. Students will learn about the game engine and how it is used as well as interactivity.
    Prerequisites: GDP 110 , CST 130 , MAT 119 .
    2 lecture hours and 2 laboratory hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GDP 215 - 3D Game Programming


    This course provides students with the fundamentals of 3D Programming. Students will explore topics such as lighting, materials, particles and dynamics, character animation, rendering and using paint effects. Another topic covered is the modeling technique, NURBS which is Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines.
    Prerequisite: GDP 210 .
    2 lecture and 2 laboratory hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GDP 280 - Game Development Portfolio


    In this course students will development their own games from design to completion. Students will be using the practical skills that they learned in previous courses in game development. This portfolio can then be used by students looking for employment.
    Prerequisite: Completion of all third semester courses.
    3 credit hours.

Geography

  
  • GEO 201 - World Geography


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is an introduction to the physical and political geography of the world. It explores how the earth’s physical features, natural resources, and climate connect with economics and politics to shape human culture. The major world geographic regions are also explored.
    Co-requisite: ENG 101 , or permission of Division Dean’s office.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Geology

  
  • GEY 101 - Physical Geology


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    Study of the origin and nature of rocks and minerals, volcanism and metamorphism, surficial processes of erosion and deposition; problems of water supply and pollution. One or more all day field trips are required in addition to regularly scheduled lab sessions.
    3 lecture and 3 laboratory hours per week.
    4 credit hours.
  
  • GEY 102 - Historical Geology


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    Study of structural geology and sedimentation, evolution of continents and ocean basins; evolution of animals and plants, plate tectonics and continental drift; man’s place in evolution. One or more all day field trips are required in addition to regularly scheduled lab sessions.
    3 lecture and 3 laboratory hours per week.
    4 credit hours.
  
  • GEY 121 - Physical Geology


    GEY 101  without the laboratory component. This course will not fulfill a college laboratory science requirement. Division approval required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GEY 122 - Historical Geology


    GEY 102  without the laboratory component. This course will not fulfill a college laboratory science requirement. Division approval required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

German

  
  • GER 101 - Beginning German I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course includes development of the fundamental skills of understanding, speaking, reading and writing. Listening practice is available. Media are incorporated into classroom experience. Native speakers of German must get approval of the instructor.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GER 102 - Beginning German II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a continuation of GER 101 . Media are incorporated into classroom experience. Native speakers of German must get approval of the instructor.
    Prerequisite: GER 101  or two years high school German.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GER 105 - Conversational German I


    This course includes development of ability to communicate orally in German. The course stresses the development of aural/oral skills through conversation based on topics of everyday life. Students who wish to take German 105 must have completed two years of high school German or GER 102 , or must have the permission of the instructor. This course fulfills one semester of the foreign language requirement. Not open to native German speakers.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Government

  
  • GOV 201 - American Government and Politics


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course provides a comprehensive analysis of American political institutions on the federal, state, and local levels. Topics covered include the U.S. Constitution, Federalism, public opinion, political parties, elections, pressure groups, and the role of the citizen in the American Political process.
    Prerequisites: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GOV 202 - American National Government


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization, functions, and administration of the American national government. Topics include the Presidency, Congress, Judiciary, civil rights and civil liberties, constitutional law, and domestic and foreign policy.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GOV 203 - Urban Government and Politics


    This course provides an introduction to urban government and politics. It looks at the political structures, forces and issues that affect the urban community. Topics include machine politics, the politics of reform, the service challenge, and civil disorders.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GOV 204 - Public Administration


    This course provides an introduction to one of the main subfields of political science. It analyzes the government’s utilization of human and material resources in developing and implementing public policy. The concepts covered include bureaucracy, leadership, decision-making, human resources, and fiscal management.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GOV 205 - Comparative Governments


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course provides a traditional introduction to the comparative analysis of political systems. It focuses on governmental institutions and processes. Case studies include the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia, as well as non-Western states.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GOV 207 - International Politics


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course offers an introduction to the international relations subfield of the academic discipline of “political science.” It is an introductory survey course in the field of political science; it serves as a “social science general education” course. This course provides a traditional introduction to international politics. The nature of the state system, national power, national interest, war, the rise and collapse of the Soviet Union, the United Nations, and the impact of the so-called Third World are considered.
    Prerequisite: GOV 201 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • GOV 208 - New Jersey Government and Politics


    This course provides an introduction to State Government in New Jersey. It is a survey course within a subfield of political science. It examines the structure and functions of state government, the political subdivisions of the State, politics, and public policy issues.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

History

  
  • HIS 101 - Introduction to Western Civilization I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course examines the history of Western Civilization from ancient times to c. 1600. It covers the development of the Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Early Modern civilization. Political, economic, social, religious, and cultural factors are considered.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 102 - Introduction to Western Civilization II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course continues the exploration of Western Civilization from the early modern period to the present. It discusses such topics as absolutism, constitutionalism, modern science, revolution, industrialization, colonialism, the World Wars, totalitarianism, the Cold War, and the forming of a new global civilization. Political, economic, social, religious, and cultural factors are considered.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 103 - Introduction to World History I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a study of the major elements of world history from ancient times to 1500 with attention to prehistoric humans; the irrigation societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India; the classical civilizations of Greece, Rome, India, and China; the later cultures of Byzantium, Islam, East Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Students may take this course, with its more global emphasis, instead of HIS 101  in any program where HIS 101  is required. Students will not, however, earn credit for both HIS 101  and this course.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 104 - Introduction to World History II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a study of the major elements of world history from 1500 to the present with attention to the Protestant Reformation, Absolutism, the rise of Enlightenment, the impact of revolution, democracy and nationalism, the world wars, and challenges faced by contemporary humankind in an age of global interdependence. Students may take this course with its more global emphasis, instead of HIS 102  in any program where HIS 102  is required. Students will not, however, earn credit for both HIS 102  and this course.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 105 - Afro-American History I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a history of Black people from their advent in the New World to the Civil War. The African heritage and its contributions to the development of African-American culture are considered along with the slave trade and the effects of the institution of slavery. Also included are the early struggles for emancipation, resistance to slavery, the Abolitionist movement viewed from both the black and white perspective, the reasons behind the Emancipation Proclamation, and the impact of the Civil War on American society. In order to satisfy degree requirements, students may substitute this course for HIS 101  or HIS 201  with permission of Division Dean’s office.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 106 - Afro-American History II


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a history of Black people from Reconstruction to the present. The promise and disappointment of freedom in the post-Civil War world and the emergence of the new black leadership in the struggle for equality and dignity are considered. From Booker T. Washington’s cooperative approach to the present, the student studies the forces that are shaping the emergence of Black people as full participants in American Life. In order to satisfy degree requirements, students may substitute this course for HIS 102  or HIS 202  with permission of Division Dean office.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 201 - United States History to 1865


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a survey of U.S. history from its colonial foundations to the Civil War with a focus on the major political, economic, social, and intellectual developments of the period.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 202 - United States History Since 1865


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is a survey of U.S. history from Reconstruction to the present with a focus on the major political, diplomatic, economic, social, and intellectual developments of the period.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 205 - British History from 1600 to the Present


    This course is a study of major political, economic, social and cultural events and issues occurring from the end of the Tudor period to the present. Emphasis is on the unification of the national state, the growth of parliamentary democracy and its effects on the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the growth and decline of the Empire, the Welfare State, and the entrance into the Common Market.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 209 - Twentieth Century European History


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course examines the economic, social, and political trends of the twentieth century. The focus is on Europe, but attention is also given to the impact of the two world wars and their after-effects on the rest of the world.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 215 - The American Experience in the Twentieth Century


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course examines twentieth century America covering major events, trends, and ideas. Flexibility within the course permits focusing on themes of special interest such as the Great Depression, Urbanization, the Cold War, the Counterculture, and the complexities of current national life.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 270 - The Classical Heritage of Greece and Rome


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course is an introduction to classical Greek and Roman history. Topics include the rise of the Greek city-states, the Trojan War, the political influence of Sparta and Athens, the Greco-Persian relationship, and the Peloponnesian War. Students will also consider the historical significance of Alexander the Great, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, and the spread of empire during Rome’s imperial stage. The course will conclude with a look at Roman culture in the second millennium and the rise of Christian Europe in the fourth century B.C.E.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 279 - New Jersey History


    This course covers the history of New Jersey from early exploration and settlement to the present, with more emphasis on the origins and establishment of New Jersey as a colony and a state, and the role the state has played in the development of the nation. The historical background will serve as a springboard for the study of the 19th and 20th century industrial growth that would make New Jersey one of the most influential states in the nation.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HIS 281 - The Era of the American Revolution


    This course is a broad-based introduction to eighteenth century American society and its major event the American Revolution. The course explores the cultural, social, economic, ideological, and political developments of the century which ultimately led to resistance, armed rebellion, and the creation of the American republic.
    Prerequisite:  ENG 097 
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Honors Studies

  
  • HRS 103 - Honors Seminar in Cross-Cultural Study


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    To help students appreciate the complexity and diversity of other cultures, this course will focus on a specific topic each semester and explore it from multiple cultural perspectives. Attention will be paid to the contexts that help inform and shape the views of particular cultures on a given topic and related issues. Topics include: Gender and Sexuality, Peace Studies, Race and Ethnicity in American Culture, Religious Fundamentalisms in the Modern World, U.S. Immigrant Cultures, Contemporary World Film. To promote closer student/faculty collaboration and encourage independent learning, the class is conducted in a seminar format, emphasizing in-depth discussion and higher level thinking skills in an active learning environment.
    Prerequisites: A minimum GPA of 3.4, 12 credits completed, and permission of the Dean of American Honors.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HRS 104 - Honors Seminar in Interdisciplinary Study


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course will focus on a specific topic each semester and explore it from the perspective of different academic disciplines with emphasis placed on the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of a given topic and related issues that do not readily fall under the purview of any single discipline. Topics include: Global Issues, Biomedical Ethics, A Skeptical View of the Paranormal, Death and Dying, The Psychology of Advertising, Film and Society. To promote closer student/faculty collaboration and encourage independent learning, the class is conducted in a seminar format, emphasizing in-depth discussion and higher level thinking skills in an active learning environment.
    Prerequisites: A minimum GPA of 3.4, 12 credits completed, and permission of the Dean of American Honors.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management

  
  • HSM 100 - Introduction to the Hospitality Industry


    This course takes a management perspective in introducing students to the organization and structure of hotels, restaurants, clubs, cruise ships, and casino hotels. The emphasis is on business ethics, franchising, management contracts, and areas of management responsibility such as human resources, marketing and sales, and advertising.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HSM 110 - Food and Beverage Management


    This course gives students a basic understanding of the management process in food and beverage operations. All aspects of food and beverage operations are covered, including organization, marketing, menus, costs and pricing, production, service, safety, and finances.
    Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required..
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HSM 120 - Managing Front Office Operations


    This course presents a systematic approach to front office procedures by detailing the flow of business through a hotel, from the reservations process to check-out and account settlement. The course also examines the various elements of effective front office management, paying particular attention to the planning and evaluation of front office operations and to human resources management. Front office procedures and management are placed within the context of the overall operation of a hotel.
    Prerequisites: HSM 100 , ENG 101 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HSM 205 - Planning and Control of Food and Beverage Operations


    This course explains the principles and procedures involved in an effective food and beverage control system, including standards determination, the operating budget, cost-volume-profit analysis, income and cost control, menu pricing, theft prevention, labor cost control, and computer applications.
    Prerequisites: HSM 100 , HSM 110 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HSM 220 - Managing Housekeeping Operations


    This course presents a systematic approach to managing housekeeping operations in the hospitality industry. Topics include inventory lists, frequency schedules, and performance and productivity standards.
    Prerequisites: HSM 100 , ENG 101 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HSM 240 - Hospitality Sales and Marketing


    This course is designed to provide students with a solid background in hospitality sales and marketing. The main focus is on practical sales techniques for selling to targeted markets.
    Prerequisite: HSM 100 .
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HSM 290 - Co-op Education Experience in Hospitality Management


    This course is a one-semester internship in an approved hospitality organization reinforces classroom and textbook theory with practical hospitality operations experience. This course provides a forum where students can apply the management concepts learned in class and can acquire the hands-on experience necessary to qualify for an entry-level position in the hospitality industry. This course is only open to matriculated students in the hospitality management program. This course should be taken in the student’s last semester of the program.
    Prerequisites: HSM 205  and HSM 220 .
    135 contact hours.
    3 credit hours.

Human Services

  
  • HUS 101 - Community Resources in Human Services


    This course provides an introduction of human service needs and how various community service agencies are organized on the local, county, state and federal levels to meet these needs. The course examines how service agencies function in the areas of public health, welfare, mental health, rehabilitation, employment, correction and protection. Existing programs and their operation in the alleviation of personal and social problems are evaluated. In addition, an overview of theory, practice and trends in human services are examined.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • HUS 201 - Co-op Education Experience in Human Services


    This course is a 135-hour field placement of the student as an observer-participant in two or more human service facilities/agencies.  The course provides students with an in-depth study and acquaints them with the services of the agencies and needs of the agencies’ clients.  Log reports and seminars are used in conjunction with the field activities.  Division approval required.

     
    Prerequisite: HUS 101 .
    135 contact hours.
    3 credit hours.


Interdisciplinary Studies

  
  • IDS 128 - Business Communications


    This course offers the Walt Disney College Program participant the opportunity to learn the concepts inherent in business communication and apply them in the workplace. The skills taught are applicable to a wide variety of business environments. Participants will learn about the elements of communication, explore methods used to process information, identify basic listening skills, and recognize inclusive communication approaches. Other topics include meetings and group dynamics, presentations, and public communications. This course does not fulfill curriculum requirements for ENG 128  or ENG 129 .
    Co-requisite: Participation in Walt Disney College Program.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Interpreting Spoken Language

  
  • INT 101 - Interpreting I


    Interpreting I is the first of a two-part sequence that develops the students’ interpreting skills. Bilingual students in any spoken language will learn, practice, and acquire consecutive interpreting skills. These skills include: listening skills, analytical ability, note-taking, short-term memory enhancement, paraphrasing, rapid language switching, and self-monitoring of accuracy. An introduction to sight translation will also be included.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • INT 102 - Interpreting II


    Interpreting II is a continuation of Interpreting I. In this course students will continue to improve on the skills needed to do professional interpreting in spoken languages. Interpreting II will incorporate more difficult passages to interpret and will introduce simultaneous interpreting. Students will focus on the separate skills necessary for the simultaneous interpreting task, such as determining lag time, shadowing, improving comprehension by chunking, focusing on production by modulating delivery, and developing an intuitive ability in their target language. An important aspect of this course will be to teach students techniques they can use to maintain and improve their skills long after they have finished the program.
    Prerequisite: INT 101  
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
  
  • INT 105 - The Role of the Interpreter


    The Role of the Interpreter will be a practical course on the many aspects of the profession that are not so obvious to the novice. The Interpreters Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and its implications for impartiality will be stressed. Cultural considerations for interpreting will be discussed, especially the notion of interpreting content and style rather than grammar and vocabulary. The course will also deal with the role of professional organizations and tools that translators and interpreters use in their work. The course requires students to observe professional interpreters in a courtroom. This course is open only to students enrolled in the Certificate Program for Interpreting Spoken Languages.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.

Italian

  
  • ITA 101 - Beginning Italian I


    ▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
    This course includes development of the fundamentals skills of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. Listening practice is available. Media are incorporated into the classroom experience. Native Italian speakers must get approval of the instructor.
    Prerequisite: ENG 096 , if required.
    3 lecture hours per week.
    3 credit hours.
 

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