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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of schools and schooling for students in grades Pre K-6. It is organized around the principle themes of school, teacher, and curriculum. Topics include preschool, primary and intermediate grade cultures, staff roles, special population needs, issues related to student diversity and multiculturalism, teaching skills, classroom management, and introduction to instructional strategies, state curricula, and current reforms. This course is a gateway course designed to allow students to determine if becoming an early childhood or elementary school educator is an appropriate career choice. Students are asked to view early childhood and elementary education through the lens of a professional teacher, perhaps for the first time. Prerequisites: SBS 1500 and SBS 1502
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to environmental issues from a geological perspective. Water, mineral, soil and energy resources and conservation, waste disposal, land reclamation, land-use planning, and geological hazards are covered. Scientific principles necessary for the understanding of the geological aspects of environmental problems are emphasized. Corequisite: SCI 1006
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2.00 Credits
Lab activities include exercises on natural hazards, natural resources and land use planning using topographic and geologic maps and rock and mineral samples. Corequisite: SCI 1005
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4.00 Credits
Students in this introductory course in physical geology investigate earth's materials, changes in the surface and the interior of earth, and the forces and processes that cause these changes. Topics covered include the theory of plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, weathering and erosion, glaciers, streams, wind and deserts, waves and coastlines, the sea floor, mountain formation, rock formation, and earth history. Corequisite: SCI 1019
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2.00 Credits
Laboratory activities include the identification of rocks, minerals, and fossils, use of topographic and geologic maps, use of computers to obtain data on global geologic activity, work with models to investigate earth's processes, and field trips to local areas of geologic interest. Corequisite: SCI 1018
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with a basic understanding of weather and climate and the forces that create them. Topics include the dynamics of the atmosphere, macro and micro causes of weather, macro and micro causes of climate and climatic classification. This course is designed to meet the needs of both majors and non-majors. Corequisite: SCI 1021
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2.00 Credits
Lab activities include collecting and interpreting data from both the Internet and on-campus sites and working models to simulate weather phenomena. Corequisite: SCI 1020
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3.00 Credits
This is a comprehensive course covering nutrition, diet and menu planning using sound nutritional guidelines. Food chemistry including portein, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and water are presented with respect to their function within the body. The connection between food choices, specific nutrients and associated disease states are explored, as well as the changing nutritional needs of children and the elderly. The microbiology of food poisoning and food allergies are also covered.
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory exercises compliment the topics studied in class. Students cover the practical applications of menu planning for healthy adults and those with medical conditions that require diet modification. Basic food chemistry is covered, including: storage, food processing, preservatives, chemical components, contaminants, and the physical properties of food.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to the tools, history, methods and objects of astronomy. Topics covered include the study of the origin of modern astronomy; telescopes, spectroscopes, space probes, and other astronomical tools; structures, characteristics and cycles of the sun, moon, and other solar system members; properties, structure, formation, and death of stars; galaxies, constellations; and an introduction to cosmology. Corequisite: SCI 1029
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