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  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Dance experience. Students may self-select. This course will offer intermediate-level work in the technique and performance of tap dance. It will also provide a historical overview of tap dance and some of its most influential artists, so that students gain an understanding of the origins of tap dance, its various styles and influences and how it differs from other dance forms. In addition to the art and technique of dance being practiced and performed in class, various other assignments will be required, including reading and writing assignments and critiques of video and live performances. This course may be repeated once for credit. One hour of lecture and two hours of laboratory weekly. (Formerly PHED 271)
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course will involve students in creative/expressive dance using Laban’s Movement Framework as a basis for content. Knowledge of this content will give students a foundation for dance teaching in all settings. Additionally, students will have an opportunity to choreograph dance sequences both individually and in small groups. The intent is for both the non-dancer and the trained dancer to be comfortable in the creative environment. Offered fall semester. (Formerly PHED 281)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: _ _ _ _199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101, and the speaking skills requirement. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _ 299 is taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are speaking-intensive topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their speaking, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: _ _ _ _ 199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101 and ENGL 102. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _298 is taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are writing-intensive topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their writing, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of the department; formal application required Directed study is open to all juniors and seniors who have demonstrated critical and analytical abilities in their studies and who wish to pursue a project independently. May be taken twice for a maximum of six credits.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course is an introduction to the processes that formed and continue to shape the earth. Lecture topics include continental drift, rock and mineral forming processes, and the effects of agents of erosion such as glaciers, streams and waves. The laboratories develop skill in rock identification and map interpretation. Three hours of lecture and one two-hour laboratory period weekly. Either semester. (CNSL)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: EASC 100 This course is an introduction to the origin and evolution of the earth. Topics include the development and transformation of continents, ocean basins, the atmosphere and life over geologic time. An emphasis is placed on modeling earth’s evolution from observations of the rock record. The laboratory fosters development of field and quantitative skills. Three hours of lecture and one two-hour laboratory weekly. Spring semester.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The geologic origin and evolution of the planet earth is surveyed in this course. An emphasis is placed on the co-evolution of life and the changing surface environment over geologic time. Spring semester. (CNSN)
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to introduce students to the wonders and basic geologic processes and principles used to study the geological history of selected national parks and monuments throughout the United States. Lectures will be supplemented with slides, maps and geologic specimens for the regions discussed in class. Catalog Addenda: This course has changed effective Spring 2011. Please click on the icon above.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Climate change is an important and hotly debated topic both in the scientific community and in people’s everyday lives. This course will look at how the Earth’s climate has changed over the last 4.6 billion years, what we know about those changes, and how this information can help us today and into the future. We will examine basic techniques used by scientists to read the climate record and how to analyze this data. Discussion will center on causes for past climate changes and how humans today are possibly impacting or causing a shift in the Earth’s climate. Catalog Addenda: This course has changed effective Spring 2011. Please click on the icon above.
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