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2.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers students the opportunity for concentrated planning and research in a topic area of physical education, sport, or dance. Requires students to submit outline of proposed study.
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3.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers students the opportunity for concentrated planning and research in a topic area of physical education, sport, or dance. Requires students to submit outline of proposed study.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers students the opportunity for concentrated planning and research in a topic area of physical education, sport, or dance. Requires students to submit outline of proposed study.
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4.00 Credits
Covers mechanics, fluids, and vibrations and waves. Emphasizes the application of physics to a variety of problems in structural engineering. Mechanics topics include one-dimensional motion, forces, vectors, Newton's laws, equilibrium, work, energy, and power. Fluids topics include density, pressure, buoyancy, and fluids in motion. Vibrations and waves topics include mechanical vibrations and sound.
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1.00 Credits
Intended for freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences. Introduces freshmen to the liberal arts in general; familiarizes them with their major; helps them develop the academic skills necessary to succeed (analytical ability and critical thinking); provides grounding in the culture and values of the University community; and helps them develop interpersonal skills-in short, familiarizes students with all skills needed to become a successful university student.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to philosophy by acquainting them with the theories and arguments of classical and contemporary philosophers and by teaching skills of constructing and analyzing arguments. Emphasizes philosophical inquiry. Topics include the basis of morality, free will vs. determinism, the existence of God, the problem of suffering, and the nature of knowledge.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on current controversial issues and moral debates. Specific topics vary but include subjects like abortion, euthanasia, global poverty, economic justice, affirmative action, gender relations, animal rights, the environment, the death penalty, war, cloning, and same-sex marriage. Offers an opportunity to learn to apply both the methods of philosophical analysis and various ethical and political theories to these controversies.
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4.00 Credits
Overviews an interdisciplinary field that continues to vitalize our understanding of the world theoretically, methodologically, and practically. Seeks to understand and change the gender hierarchies that shape and constrain people's lives. Examines various perspectives on the social construction of gender-what it means socially to be a woman or man-and the ways in which gender is a central organizing principle in our lives. Examines, analyzes, and challenges gender differences, stereotypes, and inequalities. Researchers in the field also inquire into the ways in which women deploy their gender identities to participate in social movements, both political and religious, to address issues of women's health and control over reproduction, as well as to challenge social norms in their roles as writers, artists, and activists.
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4.00 Credits
Begins with an analysis of the theory that original Western religion was goddess centered. Examines image, text, and ritual in the ancient world to analyze this theory and to explore what some scholars call the patriarchalization of these primal religions. Looks at the way that goddesses of the ancient world became saints or sinners under the newly constituted patriarchy. Includes a consideration of scripture such as the Hebrew Bible, Greek Testament, and Qu'ran as well as noncanonical texts.
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4.00 Credits
Offers a philosophical introduction to the scientific world picture. Traces the development of the concepts basic to science from the Greeks to the present century, emphasizing the scope and limits of scientific explanation, the relation of theory and observation, and the relations between the sciences.
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