|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course provides for detailed study of issues in contemporary world politics. Specific course topics will vary each semester. Topics may include a regional area focus, such as the Middle East or a broader topical focus, such as terrorism. This course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits applicable for graduation. (1-3 lect.)
-
3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of interactions in the global political arena. The course focuses on classic International Relations theories of national power and war. Specific units of study will address state sovereignty, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, nonproliferation issues, global democracy, rogue states and failed states, intergovernmental organizations, transnational institutions and non-government organizations, human rights and international law, poverty and international development, environmental issues, and other issues of globalization. (3 lect.) SOC
-
3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to world political issues through the medium of film. The course first studies film as a political tool, i.e. as propaganda, featuring works such as Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", and Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin". Next, the course focuses on film as an expression of key world political issues such as fascism, communism, democracy, demagoguery, deterrence, ethnic conflict, genocide, and others. Assigned films will be accompanied by examples of the most important texts on each issue. (3 lect.)
-
3.00 Credits
Individual course descriptions are on file in the Academic Dean's Office and the Office of Admissions and Records.
-
3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the different automotive systems, how they function, and how the individual components of the system operate independently and as a complete system. Students will learn to apply correct technical terminology for the components vs. vernacular terminology. Students will learn the basic assembly and disassembly of certain repairable parts within an automotive system that will increase their working knowledge of the system or components. (3 lect.)
-
4.00 Credits
This course will study the neurological basis of behavior, motivation, emotions, perception, learning and thinking, individual differences, personality development, mental health, and the treatment of emotional illness. (4 lect.) SOC
-
1.00 Credits
This course will answer some of the universal questions we have about sex, particularly gender expectations during courting and mating, the physiological responses that happen during sex, how physical and psychological aspects interfere with sex, and historical research about sex. (1 lect.)
-
1.00 Credits
This personality-primer course provides an avenue for students to determine underlying characteristics of themselves. A variety of standard and unorthodox tests will help provide students with questions psychologist are now trying to answer about personality: Where did you get your personality? Have you always been "you" or did you become "you" through environmental factors? Does your personality change under stress, or is there a core personality that carries you through all life's situations? (1 lect.)
-
1.00 Credits
The course is designed to be a brief encounter with the physiological and psychological impacts of music and an analysis of the basic components of music in psychological terms. It helps to answer the following questions: Why music is so emotionally compelling? Why is rhythm physically arousing? What has been the evolutionary role of music in the social development of humans? How does a culture determine what you hear? (1 lect.)
-
1.00 Credits
This course examines the many facets of the behaviors and resulting emotional bods that are created when we develop relationships with the animals that live and work with us. It explores the psychology of both human and animal in this interaction. (1 lect.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|