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3.00 Credits
Goal To gain practical experience in the field of Physical Education. Content Work in a physical education setting. Taught Offered occasionally. Prerequisite Permission of the instructor. Credit 1-9 hours.
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Goal To introduce students to writing from around the world by women and/or focusing on women's issues. To enable students to study literature in a cross-cultural context. Content Fiction, poetry, drama, essays primarily by women and/or about women. Representative writers might include Shikibu, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, Gita Mehta, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sawako Ariyoshi,Wang Anyi, Isabelle Allende. Taught Annually Prerequisites WIS 101 or ENG 101 Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as WST 260.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To enable students to broaden their experience of the Humanities. Content An interdisciplinary approach in Humanities. The class will typically be associated with learning experiences such as team teaching or study abroad. Areas of study could include Studies in Italian Culture, Studies in Francophone Culture, War and Peace, and the New South. Taught Occasionally Prerequisites WIS 101 or ENG 101 Credit 3 hours
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3.00 Credits
Goal To teach students to speak, understand, read, and write Italian. Content Subjects used for learning the four basic skills include Italian culture and everyday situations. Taught Occasionally. Prerequisite No prerequisite for 101; 101 or equivalent for 102. Credit 3; 3 hours (will satisfy foreign language proficiency requirement).
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3.00 Credits
Goal To teach pronunciation and conversation; to introduce Japanese culture. Content Japanese language and culture. Taught JPN 103, Fall; JPN 105, Spring. Prerequisite None for JPN 103; JPN 103 or equivalent for JPN 105. Credit 2; 2 hours. (will NOT satisfy foreign language proficiency requirement).
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3.00 Credits
Goal To study, with emphasis on the function concept, the essentials of algebra. Content General properties of graphs and functions; properties, graphs, and applications of polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions. Taught Fall, Spring. Prerequisite Two years of high school algebra and one year of high school geometry or the equivalent. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To study, with emphasis on the function concept, the essentials of trigonometry and analytical geometry. Content Properties, graphs, and applications of trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions; trigonometric identities and equations; systems of equations; conic sections; introduction to vectors, matrices, and complex numbers. Taught Fall, Spring. Prerequisites Two years of high school algebra and one year of high school geometry or the equivalent and sufficiently high score on the mathematics placement exam, or permission of the instructor, or MAT 130. Gen. Ed. Category Quantitative reasoning. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To survey the elements of geometry. Content This course includes the concepts of sets, points, lines, curves, angles, polygons, circles, area, volume, symmetry, congruence, similarity, parallels, construction, transformations, tessellations, fractals, measures, the metric system, and the history of geometry. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Prerequisites None. Gen. Ed. Category Quantitative reasoning. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To study, from an intuitive viewpoint, the concepts of differential calculus and to begin the study of integral calculus, with an emphasis on applications in the social sciences. Content A short review of the properties and graphs of algebraic and transcendental functions, intuitive concepts of limits and continuity, rate of change, the derivative, derivative formulas, applications in the social sciences, and an introduction to definite integrals. Taught Offered occasionally. Prerequisites MAT 140 or equivalent; or demonstration of proficiency through placement test. Gen. Ed. Category Quantitative reasoning. Credit 3 hours. Credit may be received for only one of MAT 180 and MAT 205. Students planning graduate work in social sciences should take MAT 205.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To learn how to analyze and solve problems encountered in various areas of mathematics, in real life, and in other areas of study. Content Topics covered include problem solving, patterns in mathematics, deductive reasoning, logic, analyzing arguments, set theory, the real number system, number theory, numeration systems, polygons, transformations, tessellations, graphical descriptions of data, and counting methods. Taught Fall, Spring Prerequisite None. Gen. Ed. Category Quantitative reasoning. Credit 3 hours.
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