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2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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This section of the Catalog includes course descriptions, listed alphabetically by discipline. The descriptions provide information on course numbers, titles, the level of instruction, credit, course sequence, content, and prerequisites as shown in the following example:
CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry
5 (4 + 2)
Prerequisite: CHE 1100
A study of the elements of organic and biological chemistry. This course satisfies requirements for nursing programs and other fields requiring a survey of organic and biological chemistry.
The first three to four letters, called the course subject code, represent the area of study or discipline, e.g., CHE represents chemistry. The course number follows the course subject code, e.g., 2100. The first digit in a four-digit course number designates the level of instruction. Only courses numbered 1000 or above will be included in credits toward a degree. Courses with numbers up to and including 1999 are primarily for freshmen, 2000 through 2999 primarily for sophomores, 3000 through 3999 primarily for juniors, and 4000 through 4999 primarily for seniors. In general, students should not take courses above the level of their class (based upon semester hours earned), but they may do so at one level above if they have the specified prerequisites. In special cases, students may be permitted to take courses more than one level above that designated for their class if they obtain the permission of their advisor and of the faculty member teaching the course and if they meet the prerequisite requirements. Following each course number is the semester hours of credit. As an example, CHE 2100-5 is a freshman-level, five-credit course. After the course number and is the course title, which is followed by the number of credit hours (5) and a second set of numbers in parentheses indicating the division of time between lecture, laboratory, field experience, or—in music—performance. The first number represents the number of lecture hours each week of a 15-16 week semester; the second number indicates the number of laboratory, shop, or field hours; and the third (in music) represents performance hours. For example, CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry has four hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory each week. Lecture hours equate one hour per week of contact to one credit hour; laboratory experience equates two hours of contact per week to one credit hour. Therefore, CHE 2100, 5(4+2) would earn five hours of credit—four for lecture and one for laboratory work. Course descriptions provide a summary of the content of the course. If there is a prerequisite that must be met before a student can register for the course, this information is listed above the course description. Attributes, such as Multicultural, General Studies, or Guaranteed Transfer, are listed after the course description. A list of courses being offered in a given semester, instructors, class meeting times, and locations is described in the Class Schedule located on the Office of the Registrar’s website, msudenver.edu/registrar/classschedules. |
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ACC 2010 - Principles of Accounting I
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy.
Description: This course introduces students to the role of accounting in society and economic decision making. The course focuses on financial accounting and reporting as tools to aid external decision making, financial analysis, and interpretation. Topics covered include: conceptual foundations and principles underlying financial statements; accounting systems overview; analysis and interpretation of financing, investing, and operating activities; and attestation.
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ACC 2020 - Principles of Accounting II
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010, ENG 1020, completion of General Studies requirements in Oral Communication; MTH 1110 or MTH 1310 or MTH 1400; and ACC 2010.
Description: This course is a continuation of ACC 2010. The course focuses on managerial accounting and cost management as tools to aid internal decision making, planning and control. Topics covered include: accounting and management decisions; traditional and activity-based costing systems; planning and control systems; managerial accounting in a global environment; and current approaches including ABM, JIT, value chain, target costing, continuous improvement and quality management.
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ACC 3090 - Income Tax I
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1110 or 1310 or 1400; ACC 2010, PSC 1010, and junior standing
Description: This course is a study of federal income tax laws with an emphasis on personal income taxation, including such topics as gross income, gains and losses and deductions.
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ACC 3100 - Income Tax II
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ACC 2020 and 3090
Description: This course is a continuation of ACC 3090 with a comparative focus on the taxation of organizational tax entities, including partnerships, corporations and S-corporations.
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ACC 3110 - Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ACC 3090 Students will have primary responsibility for operating a VITA site as a tax service
Description: Students will prepare both federal and State of Colorado income tax returns. The focus will be on preparing returns for the elderly, disabled, foreign students and low income individuals.
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ACC 3200 - Governmental Accounting
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1110 or MTH 1310 or MTH 1400; and ACC 3300
Description: This course is a study of generally accepted accounting principles and financial reporting used by state and local governmental units. This includes achieving an understanding of fund accounting and inclusion of budgets within the accounting systems. A study of accounting and financial reporting of colleges, hospitals, voluntary health and welfare organizations, and other not-for-profit institutions is included.
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ACC 3300 - Accounting Information Systems
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1110 or 1310 or 1400; ACC 2010 and CIS 2010; and at least junior standing
Description: This course is a study of principles and current issues relating to the design, implementation, control and regulation of accounting information systems. Tools and technologies related to accounting systems and the place of accounting systems within the modern enterprise provide a focus for the course, which includes an introduction to accounting-related information technology (IT) audit issues.
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ACC 3400 - Cost Accounting
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1110 or 1310 or 1400; ACC 2020 and ACC 3300
Description: This course includes coverage of cost behavior relationships, job order and process costing systems, overhead allocation methods, budgeting and budget variance analysis, cost-volume profit relationships, and cost prediction for supporting management decision-making in service, sales, and manufacturing organizations. Computer applications are an integral part of this course.
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ACC 3410 - Advanced Cost Accounting
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ACC 3400, CIS 2300
Description: This course applies cost accounting concepts and procedures to particular business decisions. Topics covered include cost allocation, short-run decisions, capital budgeting techniques, inventory management, organization performance evaluations, transfer pricing, and other current topics which support management decision-making.
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ACC 3510 - Intermediate Accounting I
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): MTH 1110 or 1310 or 1400; and ACC 2200; and junior standing.
Description: This is the first course in Intermediate Accounting. The Intermediate Accounting courses are designed to teach the concepts and procedures underlying the measurement and reporting of financial information.
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ACC 3520 - Intermediate Accounting II
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): A grade of “C” or better in ACC 3510
Description: This course is a continuation of ACC 3510 and covers an in-depth study of basic accounting principles with an emphasis on stockholders’ equity and special problems.
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ACC 3750 - International Accounting
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ACC 3510 or FIN 3100
Description: This course is a study of the impact on financial reporting and managerial decision-making due to the similarities and differences in accounting standards throughout the world. This course examines the history and development of accounting standards and reviews current topics which affect the comparison of global financial reporting.
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ACC 3980 - Internship in Accounting
Credits: 1-12 (0 + 3-36)
Prerequisite(s): Major in accounting; junior or senior status; permission of instructor
Description: Supervised by a faculty member within the major department, internships provide practical, hands-on experience in a professional field related to the major. Internship placements must be established prior to enrollment in this course in consultation with the Applied Learning Center.
To register with the Applied Learning Center, students must meet the following qualifications:
- Completed at least one semester at MSU Denver
- Sophomore, junior or senior status
- Declared major in an undergraduate program
- 2.5 minimum cumulative GPA at MSU Denver
- Currently enrolled and taking classes at MSU Denver
For information and instructions on finding and enrolling in an internship, contact the Applied Learning Center at 303-556-3290 or internships@msudenver.edu.
Note: Variable Credit
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ACC 4200 - Auditing and Attestation
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ACC 3510
Corequisite(s): ACC 3520
Description: This course is an introduction to contemporary theory and practice of auditing and attestation. The course will acquaint the students with Generally Accepted Auditing and Attestation Standards (GAAS), professional ethics, internal control, objectives and procedures for audits and attestation, risk assessment, audit and attestation reports, legal liability, research methodology, and corporate governance. Concepts included are professionalism, independence, evidence, risk, control, and enhancement of reliability and relevance properties of attester’s services.
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ACC 4510 - Advanced Accounting
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ACC 3520
Description: This course includes coverage of reporting requirements of partnerships, SEC-regulated companies, not-for-profit organizations, and financially distressed entities, as well as disaggregated information disclosure requirements and international harmonization of accounting standards.
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African and African American Studies |
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AAS 1010 - Introduction to African American Studies
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing pre-assessment placement tests.
Description: This interdisciplinary course in African American Studies provides an overview of the evolution, scope and objectives of African American Studies, and examines the history, literature, arts, material culture, as well as sociological, political, economic, and philosophical perspectives of the experience of African Americans in the United States. The course places the experience of African Americans within the broader context of the African Diaspora as it explores issues of identity and the liberation movement. The course sheds light on the relationship between the past, present and future in shaping a Black worldview and its contributions to the human experience.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences I
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS3 Human Behavior and Social Systems
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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AAS 1080 - Readings in African American Studies
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course is a self-paced course based on selected readings in books, magazines, and newspapers on African American studies.
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AAS 1130 - Survey of African History
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing preassessment placement tests
Description: This course surveys the major developments on the African continent from ancient times to the modern period. It focuses on political, social, economic, legal, historical, and cultural developments in African civilizations from ancient Egypt to the present.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or HIS.
General Studies: Historical, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-HI1
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 1940
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AAS 2000 - Social Movements and the Black Experience
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010, SOC 1010, or Permission of instructor
Description: This course analyzes and interprets the nature, cause, and consequence of Black social movements in the United States, ranging from the slave period to the present. Particular attention is given to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or SOC.
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 2000
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AAS 2010 - Interdisciplinary Research Methods in Social Issues
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): WMS 1001 or AAS 1010 or CHS 1000 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course focuses on the interdisciplinary study of methods, analyses and critiques used by scholars to study social issues within and across a range of disciplines (e.g., history, arts, humanities, sciences, education, health, economics, law and social/behavioral sciences). Research designs and general statistical interpretation will be reviewed for each methodology. Techniques for laboratory and field research, conducting qualitative and quantitative studies, and writing research reports will also be included.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: WMS or AAS or CHS.
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AAS 2100 - Women of Color
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010, CHS 1000, or WMS 1001; or permission of instructor
Description: Though U.S. women share much in common, their differences are salient to a thorough understanding of all these women’s experiences. Comparative analysis of women’s race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation are central to this course. The similarities among diverse groups of women are also examined in order to better understand the complexity ofwomen’s lives. The course addresses issues of work, health, interpersonal violence, globalization, as well as resistance, activism, and social change across identities.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, CHS, or WMS.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences II
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS3 Human Behavior and Social Systems
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 2100, WMS 2100
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AAS 2130 - West African Civilizations
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010 and Completion of General Studies requirements in Oral Communication
Description: This course surveys histories and cultures of West Africa from A.D. 1000 to the modern period. It focuses on political, cultural, and economic developments among West African peoples and states.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or HIS.
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 2950
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AAS 2200 - Politics and Black People
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of General Studies requirements in Quantitative Literacy, and either ENG 1010 or the General Studies requirement in Oral Communication
Description: Black politics is examined as a vehicle and potential in decision making for positive change for Black people in this country. The realities and the challenges, both historical and current, are emphasized.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: PSC or AAS.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): PSC 2200
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AAS 2300 - African Peoples and Cultures
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course examines traditional cultures of African peoples and gives added understanding of culture and people in relation to human problems and experiences.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or ANT.
Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 2350
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AAS 3130 - Readings in African History
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1130 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course provides the opportunity for students to explore important writings in a selected subject area of African history. Students advance their knowledge of the materials and information related to the field of African history.
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AAS 3220 - Prejudice and Discrimination in Contemporary Society
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010 or WMS 1001, Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy; or Permission of instructor.
Description: This course examines the origins and characteristics of race, racism, gender biases and ethnic prejudices; the social, psychological, and cultural courses of discrimination and bias; and implications in current societal structures and institutions.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, SOC or WMS.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3220, WMS 3220
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AAS 3240 - African American Literature
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Six semester hours of English above 1020 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course is a study of the various forms of literature produced by Black Americans. The works are considered in the context of the historical and social conditions of the time at which they were written.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or ENG. Suitable for non-English majors.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 3240
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AAS 3300 - The Black Community
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010 or AAS/SOC 2000, or Permission of instructor, and Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy.
Description: This course relates fundamental concepts and theories of sociology and African American studies to the study of the Black community through an analysis of educational, political, religious, economic, and family dimensions. It emphasizes local, national, and international Black communities. Classic and contemporary black community studies are examined.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or SOC.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3140
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AAS 3310 - African Art
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010 and ENG 1020
Description: This course examines the art of the continent of Africa and evaluates the ways it has been studied and displayed. It traces historical relationships between regions, from the shores of the Mediterranean and the Nile Valley, the west and Ivory Coast, to the central regions and east and south to the Swahili Coast and the Cape.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ARTH or AAS.
Cross Listed Course(s): ARTH 3310
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AAS 3330 - Egyptian Art
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010 and ENG 1020
Description: This course examines Egyptian art from the beginnings of civilization in Kemet (the Black Land), through Greek, Roman, and Byzantine colonial periods and continuing into the Islamic period.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or ARTH.
Cross Listed Course(s): ARTH 3330
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AAS 3400 - Contemporary Africa
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course focuses on the political, social, and economic highlights of post-independence Africa. Africa’s relations with the outside world and the question of South Africa are also examined in this course.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or PSC.
Cross Listed Course(s): PSC 3400
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AAS 3550 - The Black Family
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010 or SOC 1010, and completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy.
Description: This course provides an in-depth exploration of the Black family as a social institution, emphasizing the historical roots of the Black family and how the African influence is enmeshed in the functioning of the family in modern society. It examines the factors responsible for the ability of the Black family to meet the challenge of a changing society.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or SOC.
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3440
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AAS 3570 - African American History I
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course covers the early history of African Americans in the United States, beginning with their ancestry in West and West-Central Africa and culminating with the Civil War. It analyzes their cultural, social, economic, and political transformation in the colonial and national history of the United States. Topics include the Atlantic Slave Trade, colonial identity, plantation slavery, slave communities, resistance, the Constitution and race, demographics of freedom, abolitionism, the Civil War and its aftermath.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, HIS, or HON.
General Studies: Historical
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 3570, HON 3570
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AAS 3580 - African American History II
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course focuses on the collective experience of African Americans in American history, thought, and culture from Reconstruction to the present. It addresses the process of freedom and citizenship through an examination of the major political, economic, and social themes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular attention will be paid to the agency of African Americans in community-building, migration, protest, and patriotism.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or HIS.
General Studies: Historical
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 3580
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AAS 3700 - Psychology of Group Prejudice
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1001 or AAS 1010 or CHS 1000 or WMS 1001
Description: This course covers psychological theory and research that examines causes, effects, expressions, and reduction of group prejudice. Various types of group prejudice are addressed, most notably prejudice against cultural and ethnic minorities in the United States (i.e., Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans). Sexism and heterosexism also are discussed.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
General Studies: Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 3700, PSY 3700, WMS 3700
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AAS 3910 - African Politics and Government
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1130, AAS 2300, or Permission of instructor
Description: This course surveys present-day political systems in Africa and examines internal and external factors that have contributed to their emergence.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or PSC.
Cross Listed Course(s): (PSC 3910)
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AAS 3980 - Internship in African and African American Studies
Credits: 1-12 (0 + 3-36)
Prerequisite(s): Major in African and African American studies; junior or senior status; permission of instructor
Description: Supervised by a faculty member within the major department, internships provide practical, hands-on experience in a professional field related to the major. Internship placements must be established prior to enrollment in this course in consultation with the Applied Learning Center.
To register with the Applied Learning Center, students must meet the following qualifications:
- Completed at least one semester at MSU Denver
- Sophomore, junior or senior status
- Declared major in an undergraduate program
- 2.5 minimum cumulative GPA at MSU Denver
- Currently enrolled and taking classes at MSU Denver
For information and instructions on finding and enrolling in an internship, contact the Applied Learning Center at 303-556-3290 or internships@msudenver.edu.
Note: Variable Credit
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AAS 4010 - Education of African American Children
Credits: 3 (2.5 + 1)
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010, EDU 3000, EDU 3200, EDU 3640, and EDU 3650
Description: This course analyzes the historical and contemporary factors that influence the education of African American children in the United States. Focus is on the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required by educational institutions, educators, and parents to provide an effective and equitable education for African American children. Practical application is integrated with theoretical research and conceptual information. Students who successfully complete this course will receive introductory skills and experiences as effective practitioners, reflective decision makers, and resources for the community.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS or EDU.
Cross Listed Course(s): EDU 4010
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AAS 4490 - Contemporary Issues in African American Studies
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): At least junior standing and AAS 1010
Description: This course provides an in-depth study of selected issues that significantly impact the Black people in the U.S.
Note: Topics vary and the course may be repeated for credit with the permission of the department chair.
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AAS 4850 - Research Seminar in African American Studies
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Six hours of upper-division courses in African American studies
Description: This course provides the opportunity for refining research skills. Students participate in planned seminar sessions and conduct in-depth research on selected topics under close supervision of a faculty member.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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Air Force ROTC |
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AFR 1010 - Foundations of the United States Airforce 1
Credits: 1 (1 + 0)
Description: Consisting of one 1-hour lecture and one 1 1/2-hour lab per week, this course deals with the Air Force in the contemporary world through a study of the total force structure, strategic offensive and defensive forces, general purpose forces, aerospace support forces, and the development of communicative skills.
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AFR 1020 - Foundations of the United States Airforce 2
Credits: 1 (1 + 0)
Description: This continuation of AFR 1010 consists of a 1-hour lecture and one 1 1/2-hour lab per week.
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AFR 2010 - The Evolution of USAF Air and Space Power 1
Credits: 1 (1 + 0)
Description: Consisting of one 1-hour lecture and one 1 1/2 hour lab per week, this course is a study of air power from balloons and dirigibles through the jet age; a historical review of air power employment in military and nonmilitary operations in support of national objectives; a look at the evolution of air power concepts and doctrine; and an introduction to the development of communicative skills.
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AFR 2020 - The Evolution of USAF Air and Space Power 2
Credits: 1 (1 + 0)
Description: This continuation of AFR 2010 consists of one 1-hour lecture and one 1 1/2-hour lab per week.
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AFR 3010 - Air Force Leadership Studies 1
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: Two 1-1/2-hour seminars plus one 1-1/2 hour lab per week, this is an integrated management course emphasizing concepts and skills required by the successful manager and leader. The curriculum includes individual motivational and behavioral processes, leadership, communication, and the group dynamics, providing the foundation for the development of the junior officer’s professional skills (officership). Course material on the fundamentals of management emphasizes decision-making and the use of analytic aids in planning, organizing, and controlling in a changing environment. Organizational and personal values (ethics), management of change, organizational power, politics, managerial strategy, and tactics are discussed within the context of military organization. Actual Air Force case studies are used throughout the course to enhance the learning and communication process.
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AFR 3020 - Air Force Leadership Studies 2
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: Consisting of two 1-1/2-hour seminars and 1-1/2-hour lab per week, this course is a continuation of AFR 3010. Basic managerial processes are emphasized, while group discussion, case studies and role playing as learning devices are employed. The emphasis on communicative skills development is continued.
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AFR 4010 - National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society 1
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: Consisting of two 1 1/2-hour seminars and one 1 1/2-hour lab per week, this course is a study of U.S. National Security Policy which examines the formulation, organization, and implementation of national security policy; context of national security; evolution of strategy; management of conflict; and civil-military interaction. It also includes blocks of instruction on the military profession/officership, the military justice system, and communicative skills. This course is designed to provide future Air Force officers with the background of U.S. National Security Policy so they can effectively function in today’s Air Force.
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AFR 4020 - National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society 2
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: In two 1 1/2-hour seminars and one 1 1/2 hour lab per week, this course is a continuation of AFR 4010. Special themes include defense strategy and conflict management, formulation/ implementation of U.S. defense policy, and organizational factors and case studies in policy making, military law, uniform code of military justice, and communicative skills.
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ALP 2200 - Diversity and Multicultural Education
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is designed to increase student awareness of the values and beliefs, traditions, identifiers, and contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Historical, cultural, and individual variations, including socio-economic status, gender, sexual orientation, language background and disabilities will be investigated to help develop respect for all students, parents, and educators in school settings. Students will discover how personal attitudes may affect expectations and decisions in the elementary, secondary, and special education school settings.
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ALP 3600 - Exceptional Learners in the Classroom
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course provides a survey of various exceptionalities, ranging from moderate to severe. Information about child abuse and medical conditions, and their possible effects on student learning and behavior is provided. Teacher candidates are introduced to the special education processes, including the development of individualized education plans from a general education teacher perspective. Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) curriculum accessibility issues are addressed.
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ALP 3650 - Individualized Education and Curriculum
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course focuses on Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and transition plans for purposes of preparing special educators for teaching curricula within the context of special and general education classrooms. An overview of the philosophical, historical, and sociological foundations of education will be addressed.
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ALP 3700 - Educational and Medical Aspects of Disabilities
Credits: 3 (2.5 + 1)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course provides an overview of the multidisciplinary needs of students with physical, communicative, cognitive, and sensory disabilities. Emphasis is placed on explaining the impact of medical needs on educational experiences. Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) will be addressed. Teacher candidates must complete a 15-hour field experience in an assigned public school that provides services for students with severe disabilities.
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ALP 3750 - Assessment, Methods, and Assistive Technology for Severe Disabilities
Credits: 3 (2 + 1)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is designed to introduce pre-service teachers to assessment, curriculum and instruction for students with severe disabilities. Focus will be given to including students in their neighborhood schools, homework, and community. The course also emphasizes the selection and efficacy of assistive device technologies. A minimum 45-hour, field-based experience is required.
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ALP 3820 - Elements of Literacy Instruction for Students with Disabilities
Credits: 3 (2 + 2)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: Assessment data is used to design lesson plans and apply scientifically-based interventions to address the needs of students with literacy challenges, including dyslexia. A direct-instruction teaching approach based on best practices is a focus. The course includes a 30-hour field-based experience with elementary level students who are experiencing reading difficulty in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension.
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ALP 3950 - Mathematics Instruction for Students with Disabilities
Credits: 3 (2.5 + 1)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is designed to introduce effective classroom methods and strategies for teaching, assessing, and monitoring the mathematical performance of students with disabilities within diverse classroom settings. An emphasis is placed on practical classroom techniques to facilitate, maintain, retain, and generalize skill acquisition. Computation and problem-solving techniques are covered. This class requires a 15-hour, project-based field experience.
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ALP 4050 - Assessment and Instructional Planning
Credits: 3 (2.5 + 1)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is designed to increase student awareness of the values and beliefs, traditions, identifiers, and contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Historical, cultural, and individual variations, including socio-economic status, gender, sexual orientation, language background and disabilities will be investigated to help develop respect for all students, parents, and educators in school settings. Students will discover how personal attitudes may affect expectations and decisions in the elementary, secondary, and special education school settings.
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ALP 4200 - Reading Disabilities and Content Instruction
Credits: 3 (2.5 + 1)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course explores the nature of dyslexia including etiological, sociological, and psychological perspectives, as well as treatment methods. Special emphasis is devoted to reading disabilities in reference to the demands of content instruction at the secondary school level. Critical thinking, study skills, cooperative learning, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) will be addressed within the context of improving reading and writing achievement of students with disabilities. This class requires a 15-hour field experience at the secondary school level.
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ALP 4250 - Effective Behavioral Support Systems
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is designed to introduce the management process in the classroom from a decision-making perspective. The use of systematic behavioral assessments, functional behavior assessment plans, and intervention strategies such as social-skill development are emphasized. Teacher candidates are prepared to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and management decisions in diverse contexts that include both general and special education classes.
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ALP 4300 - Assessment and Methods for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Credits: 3 (2 + 2)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is designed for teacher candidates to learn how to select, adapt, and use instructional interventions and strategies with students with emotional and behavioral disorders in a variety of settings. Theoretical approaches, identification, educational placement, and evaluation issues will be addressed. In addition, specific categories of disordered behavior, such as bipolar, depression, anxiety, oppositional defiant disorders, schizophrenia, and childhood psychosis, will be discussed. Students are required to apply knowledge and skills in a 30-hour field-based experience.
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ALP 4400 - Special Education Student Teaching and Seminar: Elementary
Credits: 12 (1 + 40)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is a full-time special education student teaching experience in an accredited elementary public or private school that provides teacher candidates responsibility for teaching an identified group of learners with exceptionalities. A minimum of 16 weeks is required for 12 credits. College supervisors provide regularly scheduled observations and seminars and guidance on the development of the teacher work sample.
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ALP 4430 - Instruction and Collaboration Practicum: Elementary
Credits: 3 (1 + 8)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This practicum is a culminating experience that provides teacher candidates with a structured, supervised secondary level practicum in a special education setting for adolescents. A strong emphasis is placed on transition planning and process for the middle and/or high school student in special education. The seminars are designed to address assigned topics and activities that are linked to the teaching responsibilities of the practicum.
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ALP 4440 - Instruction and Collaboration Practicum: Secondary
Credits: 3 (1 + 8)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This practicum is a culminating experience that provides teacher candidates with a structured, supervised secondary level practicum in a special education setting for adolescents. A strong emphasis is placed on transition planning and process for the middle and/or high school student in special education. The seminars are designed to address assigned topics and activities that are linked to the teaching responsibilities of the practicum.
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ALP 4490 - Special Education Student Teaching: Elementary
Credits: 12 (1 + 40)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is a full-time special education student teaching experience in an accredited elementary public or private school that provides teacher candidates responsibility for teaching an identified group of learners with exceptionalities. A minimum of 8 weeks is required for 6 credits, and a minimum of 16 weeks is required for 12 credits. College supervisors provide regularly scheduled observations and seminars and guidance on the development of the teacher work sample.
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ALP 4491 - Alternative Licensure Program I
Credits: 10 (1 + 22.5)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: The Alternative Licensing Program 1 course (ALP 1) is a course in which candidates learn appropriate educational practices in discipline, management of the learning environment, short/long range planning, assessment and pedagogy to meet the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers. Candidates will apply content knowledge assigned classrooms to facilitate learning and improve student achievement. ALP candidates will address the needs of diverse learners (gender, ethnicity, second language learners, handicapping conditions) in different contexts as reflected in daily decision-making and as evidenced by direct observation and selected artifacts. Seminar includes required readings, articles, field-based examples, student-centered instructional tasks, classroom interaction and analysis to meet proficient level of performance in the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers. Candidates will learn about and practice selected theories and programs in discipline, management, and pedagogy. Coaching and feedback as strategies are used to support the development of ALP candidates in the classroom.
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ALP 4492 - Alternative Licensure Program II
Credits: 15 (3 + 30)
Description: The Alternative Licensing Program 2 course (ALP 2) is a course in which candidates put educational theory into practice as a classroom teacher and in the field to meet the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers. Candidates will apply content knowledge and pedagogical strategies with appropriate discipline and management practices in assigned classrooms to facilitate learning and improve student achievement. ALP candidates will address the needs of diverse learners (gender, ethnicity, second language learners, handicapping conditions) in different contexts as reflected in daily decision-making and as evidenced by direct observation and selected artifacts. Field experiences include application of methodology introduced at weekly seminars to meet proficient level of performance in the Colorado Performance Based Standards for Teachers. Candidates will model and practice selected theories and programs in discipline, management, and pedagogy. Coaching and feedback as strategies are used to support the development of ALP candidates in the classroom.
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ALP 4493 - Educational Theory and Methods
Credits: 10
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Corequisite(s): ALP 4494
Description: Alternative Licensure Program candidates learn appropriate educational practices in management of the learning environment, short/ long range platming, assessment and pedagogy to meet the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers and licensure requirements. Candidates will apply content knowledge and pedagogical strategies with appropriate discipline and management practices in assigned classrooms to facilitate learning and improve student achievement in the advanced field experience ALP 4494. ALP candidates will address the needs of diverse learners (gender, ethnicity, English language learners, exceptional learners, socioeconomic differences, etc.) in different contexts as reflected in daily decision-making and documented by direct observation and selected artifacts. Instruction includes required readings, articles, field-based examples, student-centered instructional tasks, classroom interaction and analysis to meet proficient level of performance in the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers. Candidates will learn about and practice selected theories and programs in discipline, management, and pedagogy. Coaching and feedback as strategies are used to support the development of ALP candidates in the classroom.
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ALP 4494 - Advanced Field Experience
Credits: 20
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Corequisite(s): ALP 4493
Description: Alternative Licensure Program candidates put educational theory into practice as a classroom teacher in the field to meet the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers and licensure requirements. This course is the advanced field experience for ALP 4493. Candidates will apply content knowledge and pedagogical strategies with appropriate discipline and management practices in assigned classrooms to facilitate learning and increase student achievement. ALP candidates will address the needs of diverse learners (gender, ethnicity, English language learners, exceptional learners, socioeconomic differences, etc.) in different contexts, as reflected in daily decision-making, and will be assessed by direct observation and selected artifacts. Field experiences include application of methodology introduced in ALP 4493 to meet proficient level of performance in the Colorado Performance-Based Standards for Teachers. Candidates will model and practice selected theories and programs in discipline, management, and pedagogy.
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ALP 4500 - Special Education Student Teaching and Seminar: Secondary
Credits: 12 (1 + 40)
Prerequisite(s): Course participants must hold a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution and have been hired by a Metro-area school or school district to teach in an area for which the candidate can meet grade level and content licensure requirements under the Alternative Licensure legislation, SB 09-160.
Description: This course is a full-time special education student teaching experience in an accredited secondary public or private school that provides teacher candidates responsibility for teaching an identified group of learners with exceptionalities. A minimum of 16 weeks is required for 12 credits. College supervisors provide regularly scheduled observations and seminars and guidance on the development of the teacher work sample.
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ANT 1010 - Physical Anthropology and Prehistory
Credits: 3 (2 + 2)
Description: The course focuses on human biology utilizing the biocultural approach, that is, the interaction between human biology and human culture. Topics include the study of non-human primates, human evolution, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and modern human variation. The laboratory sections embedded within the course provide practical experience in the following areas: genetic analysis, identifying fossil hominins, human skeletal anatomy, examining differences between human and non-human primate anatomy, population genetics, and modern human variation.
General Studies: Natural and Physical Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SC1
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ANT 1310 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course provides a comparative perspective on human cultural behavior and theory by exploring a variety of world cultures in the major domains of language, food-getting strategies, economics, marital and family systems, kinship, sex and gender, political organization and social control, social stratification, religion, and art. The applied aspects of anthropology are also investigated.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences II
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS3
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ANT 2100 - Human Evolution
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course is an intense look at Darwin’s century and the ideas that have contributed to our present understanding of human evolution. The hominid fossil record is presented as living history in light of what fossils reveal about the populations they represent, their behavior, and their social organization.
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ANT 2330 - Cross-Cultural Communication
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course explores anthropological approaches to cross-cultural communication. Emphasizing an applied approach, the course focuses on how language and language use vary from culture to culture, and how knowledge of these differences can lead to understanding of difference and dominance relations between groups within the United States, specifically African-American, Asian, Hispanic American, and Native American, and internationally. Topics include the relationship between language and culture, sociolinguistic variation, politeness, multilingualism, and language politics.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences II
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS3
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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ANT 2350 - African Peoples and Cultures
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course examines traditional cultures of African peoples and gives added understanding of culture and people in relation to human problems and experiences.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT or AAS.
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 2300
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ANT 2360 - Living Culture and Language of the Mexican and Chicano
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): CHS 1000 or CHS 1020
Description: This course traces the fusion of cultures and dialects of the Spanish-speaking Southwest into elements that characterize Chicano intracultural and intercultural diversity.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT or CHS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 2000
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ANT 2400 - Women’s Folklore
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course provides an exploration of folklore in everyday life, including folk narrative and other verbal genres, as well as material forms and other manifestations of traditional expressive behavior, as it pertains to reinforcing and resisting gender identity and norms. This course focuses on the centrality and pervasiveness of creativity, developing a contextual approach to understanding aesthetic expression.
Note: Credit will be granted for one prefix only: ANT or WMS.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities
Cross Listed Course(s): WMS 2400
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ANT 2500 - Anthropology of Language
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Preassessment Placement Tests: Reading and Writing (minimum performance standard scores)
Description: This course provides an introduction to the concepts and methods of linguistic anthropology. Topics include language and culture, langauge structure, the origins of language, linguistic diversity, and language ideologies. The course also provides opportunities to observe and record speech and other communicative behaviors; identify the sequential organization of talk; and determine how language reflects and creates social identities, relationships, and realities.
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ANT 2640 - Archaeology
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Description: This course will be an examination of how archaeologists discover and interpret the material remains of human behavior from the past.
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ANT 2710 - Archaeological Field Research
Credits: 3 (1 + 4)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 2640 or equivalent, or Permission of instructor
Description: This course covers archaeological field investigations that may consist of surveying, mapping, testing of sites, and/or excavations. The course may be repeated for up to a maximum of six hours. No more than three credit hours may be applied toward a major or minor in anthropology.
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ANT 3110 - Human Variation
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: The varied forms and features of humanity can be grouped and understood in terms of their adaptive costs and benefits. Modern appreciation of human variation lies in the processes that have developed differing human populations. The course will search out the fundamental features of these processes and analyze them.
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ANT 3120 - Mummies of the World
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course offers instruction in the field of physical anthropology in the particular subfield of bioarchaeology. The course examines the processes of mummification and the occurrence of mummies around the world. It identifies where in the world mummies have been found, how they have been studied, what environments are necessary for mummification, how intentional human interference affects the process and what these kinds of practices can reveal about the cultures involved.
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ANT 3122 - The Neanderthal Enigma
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course offers instruction in the basic definition of physical anthropology. It offers instruction regarding human evolution and then intensely focuses on the evolution of Homo Neanderthalensis. It specifically addresses where remains have been found, the types of remains found, the physical characteristics of the species, and the cultural characteristics of this intriguing species. The course further addresses the controversies concerning this species including the nature of interaction with anatomically modern humans and the question of whether or not this hominin was capable of language.
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ANT 3150 - Primate Studies
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: From the jungle to the zoo, non-human primates are fascinating. Through observation and recent contributions from the field and laboratory, the student will analyze the behavior and structure of living primates. Resulting interpretations will assist in understanding human behavior and human development.
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ANT 3251 - Ethnographic Field Methods
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or permission of instructor
Description: This course will address ethnographic (qualitative) methods of data collection, management, interpretation, and analysis. Class discussion, lecture, and student fieldwork will focus on ethnographic methods to obtain in-depth information on human behavior and beliefs in their natural settings.
Note: Students cannot earn credit for both ANT 3250 and ANT 3251.
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ANT 3300 - Exploring World Cultures: Variable Topics
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or Permission of instructor
Description: The focus of study will be an exploration of selected non-Western cultures. Using films and various ethnographic procedures, the student learns how culture—and by extension, human culture—is a living thing shaped by the people who carry it.
Note: The course may be repeated under different topics.
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ANT 3310 - Ethnography of North American Indians
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course studies the nature and consequences of distinctive Indian cultures that occupied North America at the time of European contact. Includes a close analysis of the many different aspects of social organization and environment that contribute to the unique cultures we call American Indian.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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ANT 3340 - Native Americans in Historical Perspective
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course is a survey of the response of Native American societies to the overrunning social, economic, and political structures of Euro-America. Broad areas of cultural change are covered, and the fundamental issues of land, economic development, and cultural integrity are looked at.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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ANT 3350 - Vanishing Cultures and Peoples
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or Permission of instructor
Description: Industrial civilization is now completing its destruction of technologically simple tribal cultures. Intense contextual and comparative analysis of the cultures undergoing drastic modification enhances awareness of the fundamental right of different lifestyles to coexist and develop analytical skills to help understand cultural changes.
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ANT 3360 - Peoples and Cultures of the American Southwest 1500-1848
Credits: 3 ( 3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or CHS 1000; or Permission of instructor
Description: This course provides an ethnographic focus on the Hispano-colonial culture and the Pueblo Indian cultures of the American Southwest, or Provincias Internas. The daily cultural life of the Pueblo and Plains Indians, Spanish colonials, and later Mexican nationals are analyzed in detail. Custom and tradition, from first contact to the Mexican-American War, are placed in the context of overlapping conquests by the Euro-American powers that struggled for control of this culturally diverse region.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 3860
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ANT 3370 - South American Peoples and Cultures
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or CHS 1000; or Permission of instructor
Description: This course presents an ethnographic focus on the native peoples of South America. Students will analyze the daily cultural life of selected Indian peoples beginning at the point of contact in the 16th century, and the Spanish Colonial peoples of this time, to the present. Custom and tradition are studies in depth among Amazonian and Caribbean foragers, tribal groups of Patagonia, chiefdoms of the Andes inter-montane valleys, and the state-level civilizations of the high Andes. The cultural focus is in the context of the conquests of the European powers that struggled for domination of this highly diverse region.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 3870
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ANT 3380 - Exploring Folklore
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or CHS 1000; or Permission of the instructor
Description: This course will help the student to analyze the various elements of folklore from verbal to non-verbal classifications, survivals, revivals, and the implications for modern society. Folklore will be studies in a historical and contemporary context. The student will gain an understanding of both the universality and variability of folklore through many global examples compared and contrasted with a regional focus on the folklore of the American Southwest.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 3880
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ANT 3391 - History of Anthropological Theory
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or permission of instructor
Description: Cultural norms have an enormous influence over the kinds of behavior found in any society. Using various contemporary anthropological perspectives and theoretical orientations over the past one hundred years, this course provides the background to understand the nature of humanity in all its diversity and complexity and to mitigate cross-cultural differences.
Note: Students cannot earn credit for both ANT 3390 and ANT 3391.
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ANT 3460 - Social Organization and Evolution
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1310 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course is an intensive look at forms of social organization, with a focus on kinship, arranged in evolutionary sequence from the hunting-and-gathering band to the complex social networks of a complex society.
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ANT 3480 - Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy, and permission of instructor.
Description: This course prepares students to understand the many different viewpoints and concepts related to health and illness in other cultures and emphasizes the need and means to provide culturally appropriate health care.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT or HON.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 3480
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ANT 3600 - World Prehistory
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020
Description: This course provides an overview of the prehistoric record of humans from the emergence of Homo Sapiens until the advent of urban life and written records. The data for this survey include archaeology and the human fossil record, and span the geographic regions of Asia, Africa, India, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
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ANT 3610 - Archaeology of North America
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course is a prehistory of North America emphasizing the peopling of the New World, earliest Indian cultures, and later regional developments.
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ANT 3620 - South American Archaeology
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or equivalent, or Permission of instructor
Description: This course focuses on the origins and developments of prehistoric South American cultures. Starting with the first people to arrive in South America and culminating in the conquest of the Incas by the Spanish, coverage ranges from the Andean highlands to the tropical jungles of the Amazon.
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ANT 3660 - Ancient American Civilizations
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or equivalent, or Permission of instructor
Description: The course will concentrate on the study of the emergence, culmination, and fall of Central and South American civilizations. The cultural situation of precivilization America will be presented at the beginning of the course. Throughout, the contributions of American civilizations to our culture will be stressed.
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ANT 3680 - Practical Archaeology
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 2640 or equivalent, or Permission of instructor
Description: A course emphasizing the practical application of selected archaeological methods and techniques consisting of lectures and demonstrations. The students will have an opportunity to get acquainted with various field and laboratory equipment and work with archaeological material. Active class participation is expected. The application of computers in archaeological work will also be discussed.
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ANT 3800 - Forensic Anthopology
Credits: 3 (3 + 0)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: This course offers instruction in the foundational concepts, theories, and methodologies used in the field of forensic anthropology. Students are instructed in human osteology, human skeletal analysis, statistical analysis, evidence analysis, crime scene location, recovery and anlysis, chain of evidence preservation, and trial preparation and testimony. This course is a prerequisite to ANT 3810, teh Forensic Anthropology Field and Laboratory course.
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ANT 3810 - Forensic Anthopology Field and Laboratory Experience
Credits: 3 (1 + 4)
Prerequisite(s): ANT 3800 or permission of instructor
Description: This course offers instruction and practical experience in the field of forensic anthropolgy. Students have the opportunity to practice their skills in both the field (outdoor laboratory) and classroom laboratory settings. The outdoor laboratory experience will consist of five full-day Friday sessions where students will have the opportunity to excavate, recover, and analysze evidence from a mock crime scene.
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