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3.00 Credits
Through a three-pronged approach, students develop an analytical and inquisitive point of view as it relates to the mathematics they encounter in their daily lives. Students are challenged in their critical thinking and verbal reasoning through class discussions, with self-directed projects and by developing a much stronger and innate understanding of foundational math skills. By working in-depth in the student's area of interest, students will follow a natural development of understanding of math concepts and how they relate to their personal interest topics. QUANTITATIVE METHODS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to improve the student's analytical thinking skills, increasing the student's ability to analyze and solve mathematical and logical problems. Students not only examine the thought processes and techniques that lead to correct answers but also carefully explore the thought processes that lead to errors, learning to avoid making similar mistakes in the future. Students review and build upon basic knowledge in algebra and geometry, applying their learning to practical applications of mathematics, logic and reasoning. QUANTITATIVE METHODS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses such issues as budgeting, planning for retirement, long term health care, investments, stocks, mortgages, and other areas applicable to understanding the finance of everyday life. QUANTITATIVE METHODS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines logic as a defensive tool, focusing on gaining an understanding of argument. Students gain the ability to recognize the major fallacies of informal logic, to utilize formal logic notation to analyze arguments, and to recognize logic and illogic under real world conditions. QUANTITATIVE METHODS & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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4.00 Credits
The course introduces students to experimental and non-experimental designs used in psychological research. Class time is divided between discussion of the reading material and laboratory work. Students discuss commonly used designs, the elements of these designs, and the benefits of each type of design. Students get hands-on experience with several studies, serving as subjects in these studies, analyzing the data, and writing reports on the research using an APA-style format. Students are involved in designing their own studies, gathering data, analyzing the data, and presenting this information both in oral and written form. Prerequisite: MAT 403/PSY 414 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. QUANTITATIVE & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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4.00 Credits
This course concentrates on the application of statistical methods to research problems. Statistical methods such as correlation analysis, t-tests, and analysis of variance are applied to research designs. In addition, students learn how to utilize computer programs to solve statistical problems. QUANTITATIVE METHODS & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the origins and current state of chaos theory from a conceptual perspective. Topics discussed include the butterfly effect, bifurcation and wildlife populations, Mandelbrot sets, the geometry of nature, strange attractors, Feigenbaum sequences, fractals, biological rhythms, and pattern formation. The inescapable relationship between chaos and complexity is also discussed. QUANTITATIVE METHODS DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which Western politics over the past century have been negotiated in music. The first goal is to become familiar with writing, listening, and speaking critically about the relationship between musical works and history. Subsequently the course explores how individuals formulate our views about politics in history (and now), our understanding of how politics connects to issues of nationalism, oppression, war, pacifism, grief, morality, spirituality, and religion, and how people have created, produced, and listened to music as an expression of such political complexities. The course examines the criteria needed for music or a musically related activity to be political. Ultimately, students address the wide range of musical ways that societies, cultural groups, and individuals engage with politics - from the explicit, to the subtle, to the hidden. The focus includes experimental music, popular music, art music, and jazz. No grade equivalents allowed. FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAINS
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the varieties of musical voices of 1960s America. Students look at various musics as cultural artifacts, in an attempt to forge a revisionist view of what has become a mythologized decade in American history. Contemporary views reflecting back on the 1960s tend to either idealize the era for its sex, drugs, rock n' roll and successful social activism or denounce it as the beginnings of America's moral downfall. To address this historiographical mythology, the course moves chronologically through the 1960s, examining what musics reveal about changing notions of individuality, communality, social structures, politics, race, gender, the environment, sex, and spirituality. The goal is to understand how meaning was made and negotiated in different socio-cultural arenas by looking at the relationship between historical events, movements, attitudes, and the types of music that expressed them. No grade equivalents allowed. FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
Prior learning credit is awarded for college-level learning acquired outside of a college setting. It must be documented by the student and evaluated by an AULA-approved faculty member in order to be credited to the BA degree. The three-hour prior learning workshop enables students to learn the philosophy, theory and process by which prior learning is awarded. Students write a sample proposal, explore methods of documentation, and learn specific criteria and rules necessary to successfully earn this form of credit. It is recommended that the prior learning workshop be taken no later than the student's second quarter of attendance at AULA and, for students who have reduced residency, in their first quarter. Students may not propose or document prior learning without having first taken this workshop. This workshop can be taken more than once. No grade equivalents allowed.
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