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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the Indian, Eskimo, and Aleuts of North America from first contacts with the European world to the present. Native Americans will be viewed from an interdisciplinary and culture area perspective. Topics discussed include pan-Native American ideologies and problems. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the meanings, processes, and impacts of globalization. It highlights sensitivity to global diversity and examines how global companies cope with a wide array of political/ legal forces and transform social/cultural differences into competitive advantages. Topics include conflict resolution in business diplomacy and strategies of managing global diversity. (3-0) Y
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Subject matter will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit (6 hours maximum). ([1-6]-0) R
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3.00 Credits
Issues relevant to childhood in the 20th century. Topics include day care, divorce, parenting styles, and parental leave. The influence of social policy, socioeconomic factors, and family structure on childrearing will be discussed. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the influence of language on nonlinguistic aspects of culture and society. Topics will include patterns of communication, speech community, communication and social structure, varieties of language, and the analysis of communicative competence and communicative performance. (3-0) R
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3.00 Credits
History of the major fundamentals of modern physics: Classical Physics and Newton's Theory of Gravitation; The Maxwell Theory of Electrodynamics; Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity; Einstein's Theory of Gravitation. Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Electrodynamics, the Quantum Theory of Weak Interactions and Quantum Chromodynamics. The unification of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions. The Standard Model of Fundamental Elementary Particles and the Interactions. Recent development of String and M-Theory. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
Major Energy Consuming Sectors: Residential, Industrial, Transportation and Electric Energy Generating Sectors. Present major energy resources: oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric, and nuclear. Energy mix used in consuming sectors. Imported energy. Domestic and world resources in conventional energies. Future energy resources: nuclear fission (conventional and breeder reactors), fusion reactors, technology and safety aspects, nuclear proliferation and terrorism, nuclear waste disposal, solar energy, solar heating and cooling. Non-conventional energy resources. Major problems of energy transportation. An energy mix for the future. Possible scenarios for a U.S. energy plan. Major fields of research and development. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
Practically all scientists, politicians, statesmen and other leaders of our society agree that the ultimate most tragic danger confronting our whole civilization is nuclear terrorism. the invisible terrorist with a shielded (invisible) nuclear weapon. The physical principles of nuclear weapons, access to them, possibility to smuggle them into the US, nuclear proliferation, the possibility of escalating a nuclear attack into full scale nuclear war, and the technical possibilities to reduce this terrible danger are discussed. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
Earthquakes and volcanoes appear capricious and devastating in human terms, but they are also a regular part of geological history. This course will integrate current geological thinking with elements of statistics, physics, chemistry, human history, sociology, psychology, and religion to develop an understanding and to provide pragmatic strategies for living with these events. (3-0) Y
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3.00 Credits
Physical, chemical, biological, and geological aspects of oceanography. Description and origin of features on sea floor; evolution of ocean basins; chemistry of sea water; influence of oceans on weather and climate; formation of waves, tides, currents; factors affecting biological productivity; economic resources and environmental problems. Can only receive credit for one of ISNS 3367 and GEOS 3401. (3-0) S
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