|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
A continuation of PS 83, this course covers the basic concepts of static electric and magnetic forces and fields, potentials, induction, motors, generators, DC circuits, and capacitance.Students investigate geometric and physical optics along with selected topics in modern physics such as special relativity and the wave-particle concept of matter and use introductory level calculus where appropriate.The course stresses conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills for health science students.Three credits.
-
1.00 Credits
Same as PS 16L.One credit.
-
3.00 Credits
This course introduces students who are not majoring in science to the principal areas, traditional and contemporary, of astronomy.Traditional topics include a historical background to astronomy, telescopes, the sun, the moon, the major and minor planets, comets, and meteors.After discussing these subjects in detail, the course covers areas appropriate to modern astronomy such as the composition and evolution of stars, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, black holes, and cosmological models.Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This course introduces concepts from science, particularly physics, by using illustrations from a wide variety of sports.For example, it explains why a baseball curves, why gears work on a bike, the speeds obtainable by a windsurfer or skier or tennis ball or arrow, how scuba divers survive, and a wide variety of other sports phenomena from football, golf, skiing, climbing, sailing, skating, baseball, scuba, fishing, sky-diving and so forth.The association of sports with motion, forces, and energy is explained by scientific reasoning and analysis.The course includes a small laboratory/experiential component that illustrates the scientific method, where various examples of sports are made quantitative, using readily available equipment.Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
This course introduces students not majoring in the natural sciences to topics relating to work, energy, and power, and explores many of the environmental consequences resulting from our use of energy.The course examines the finite nature of fossil fuels as well as many alternative energy sources including solar energy; wind, tidal, and geothermal energy; nuclear fission; and nuclear fusion.Students use arithmetic and simple algebra.Three credits.
-
3.00 Credits
American Government And Politics Prerequisite: None Basic introductory course in political science and the American political process. Both institutional and behavioral aspects of American government will be examined. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department Course Attributes: GER IVB-Eco/PoliSci/Geography, LAC T1SS-Social Science
-
3.00 Credits
Political science and international relations. By means of the conflict-resolution approach, major influences shaping nation-state relations will be analyzed.
-
3.00 Credits
State And Local Politics And Government Prerequisite: None State and local governments and their institutional arrangements and processes. Particular attention will be given to local governments in Connecticut. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department
-
3.00 Credits
Public Administration Prerequisite: PSC 110 Introduction to public administration. Surveys executive branch and independent agencies and their efforts to shape and implement legislation and public policy. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department
-
3.00 Credits
Comparative Government And Politics Prerequisites:LAC student with T1SS course or GER student A comparison of various politcal processes and structures among selected countries designed to identify and highlight significant differences amoung various political models and practices. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department Course Attributes: GER IVB-Eco/PoliSci/Geography, LAC T2IS-Individual&Societies
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|