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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course numbers followed by an ‘L’ are cross-listed with another department or program.
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Environmental Sciences |
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ENVSCI 422 - Zooplankton Ecology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Zooplankton can be called the cows of the sea. These animals range in size from 20 um to >1 mm and are the food supply for many commercially important fish, whales and other larger animals. This course will examine the different classes and functional groups of zooplankton with an emphasis on copepods and pelagic tunicates. Zooplankton morphology, physiology and ecology will be discussed in detail and related to larger environmental issues, e.g. global warming, eutrophication. There will be 1-2 field trips and/or laboratory classes to learn current zooplankton methods.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI /ENVSTY 267L or BIOL 290
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ENVSCI 440 - Chemistry of Natural Waters
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A basic description of the chemistry of natural and especially marine waters designed to lay the foundation for more advanced course work. Emphasis will be on the chemical composition of natural waters and the identification of the important chemical, physical, and biological processes controlling their composition. A case study, emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of these processes, will be given at the end of the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CHEM 115 and CHEM 116 and ENVSCI 210
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ENVSCI 444 - Cooperative Education Field Experiences
3 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
In this program majors are placed in paid work positions. Credit is awarded only to those who complete an approved learning prospectus, including working reports and a substantial research project. Note: No more than a total of 6 credits in ENVSCI 444 or ENVSCI 499 may be counted toward the major.
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ENVSCI 445 - Cooperative Education II
3 - 9 Credit(s) | Practicum |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/54 credits
Description:
For this course, majors are placed in paid work positions in which academic credit is awarded each semester by working at least three hours per week for each credit attempted and by completing an approved learning prospectus including, but not limited to, activities such as reflective assignments, daily/weekly journal entries, supervisor meetings and evaluations,and a final reflective paper. This course is repeatable 6 times for a maximum of 54 credits.
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ENVSCI 450 - Physical Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces the physical processes active in the ocean environment, including coastal and estuarine regions, and investigates the connection between those processes and observed physical characteristics of the ocean.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSCI 472 - Programming for Geospatial Analysis
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction of the Interactive Data Language. IDL is widely used and powerful tool for viewing and manipulating big data, which are usually taken by various imagers. Students will learn the basics, commands, subroutines, loops, and applications of IDL. Also, with real images from various satellites, students will learn to use IDL for extracting useful information or data products for Earth Sciences studies.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 281 and EEOS 370
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ENVSCI 478 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/6 credits
Description:
This course provides an opportunity for a qualified, advanced student to work on a specialized topic or research project under the guidance of a sponsoring faculty member (not necessarily your assigned academic advisor) outside of the traditional lecture/discussion/laboratory course framework. This course will not count towards the capstone requirement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 60 credits and permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 480 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 3 times/9 credits
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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ENVSCI 488 - Advanced Marine Geographic Information Systems
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Advanced Marine Geographic Information Systems in a course on GIS principles, theories, and practices for marine environmental applications. It will focus on the fundamentals of marine GIS, spatial data, and spatial analysis by using real-world marine datasets and ESRI’s ArcGIS software. Topics will include, but are not limited to, oceanographic data acquisition, habitat modeling, species distribution modeling, and marine spatial planning for conservation and human uses.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 281
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ENVSCI 499 - Practicum
3 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A work program opportunity for qualified department majors to obtain practical experience in an approved work position in the field of their interest and training. Students submit critiques of their experience and are supervised by departmental advisors.
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Environmental Studies |
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ENVSTY 101 - The Nature of Environmental Problems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to environmental issues and analysis emphasizing comparisons between the sustainable characteristics of ecosystems, both natural and human, and the human impacts on the Earth’s life support systems. Topics include human population growth, food production, use of natural resources, pollution, loss of bio-diversity, and conservation strategies.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENVSTY 111L - Environmental Concerns and Chemical Solutions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Human society is constantly facing such environmental issues and problems as ozone depletion, air pollution, acid rain, environmental toxins, and renewable energy resources. This course provides students with a foundation in chemistry that can be used to examine these and other environmental concerns. A combination of lecture and group discussion illustrates the science behind these issues, and helps students develop an unbiased view. CHEM 111L and ENVSTY 111L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENVSTY 130L - Sustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This survey course explores multiple dimensions of global sustainable urban development and provides strategies for planning, building, managing, and living in cities while protecting the environment. This survey of the contested nature of sustainable urbanization is accomplished through diverse topics which include but not limited to: the city and vulnerable populations; gender equal cities; strengthening resilience in cities to reduce the risk and the impact of disasters; the inter-connected crisis in infrastructure, urbanization, poverty, social injustice, and sustainable growth of smart cities. sustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally will specifically and directly address race, gender, socio-economic class, and cultural (ethnicity and national origin) diversity as a central theme through a category of difference, as a system of relationality or intersectionality, and as a global/transnational system.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
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ENVSTY 179GL - First-Year Seminar in the School for the Environment
4 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a one semester four-credit version of the School for the Environment’s First-Year Seminar requirement. Course content will vary by instructor, but will focus on current issues in sustainable human, built, and natural systems of coastal New England. Using this approach, students will become increasingly familiar with the experienced in interdisciplinary discourse, the different ways of knowing, and the interplay between the arts, humanities, economic development, and natural and social sciences that comprise the study of sustainable human, built and natural systems. Successful completion of this course will fulfill the students First-Year Seminar requirement which focuses on the capabilities of careful reading, clear writing, critical thinking, information technology, oral presentation, teamwork, and academic self-assessment. CDVCTR 179GL and ENVSTY 179GL are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
First Year Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston
Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar)
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ENVSTY 210 - Second-Year Seminar: Conflict and Resolution
1 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Environmental problem solving involves stakeholder interactions in which conflict can arise and must be resolved in order to provide a solution. In this seminar, students will be introduced to the basic understanding of conflict and a working knowledge of the three major forms of dispute resolution - negotiation, mediation, and arbitration that are needed in adaptive management and stakeholder negations associated environmental problems. This course will prepare students for upper-level conflict resolution courses. Coursework will include readings, written reflective exercises with peer-review feedback, and role-playing activities. This course is designed forvertical alignment and cohort developing in the environmental studies and sustainability major.
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ENVSTY 220 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Interdisciplinary thinking is defined as having basic knowledge about each potently relevant discipline to understand its perspective, and access, translate, think critically about, and use its insights. The goal of this course is to prepare students to become interdisciplinary thinkers and problem solvers. By the end of this course, students will be able to explain why a knowledge society needs both disciplinary specialization and interdisciplinary breadth, understand the differences between disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches; identify the defining elements of a discipline and how this information is used tin interdisciplinary works; identify and explain the assumptions of interdisciplinary study; and identify and develop attitudes and skills that are conductive to interdisciplinary critical thinking.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 24 credits
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ENVSTY 222L - Religion and the Environment: Global Stewardship and Practices of Faith Communities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the influence of religious traditions on environmental ethics across cultures. The course draws on sacred texts of Judeo-Christian, Muslim, Jain, Hindu, and possibly other faiths, and secular perspectives of environmental ethics. From these standpoints, students examine global case studies, from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, America and possibly elsewhere. Students explore how spiritual understandings of the world influence human behavior toward the planet and the ecosystems we inhabit. Through comparisons between religious traditions across cultures and their relationship with environmental ethics, students develop an understanding of how faith systems influence our treatment of the Earth.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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ENVSTY 230 - Introduction to Sustainability
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of sustainability science, a problem-driven, interdisciplinary scholarship seeking to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that foster shared prosperity and reduce poverty while protecting the environment. Students will explore the dual challenge of the need to understand how societal dynamics and environmental dynamics interact over time AND how they help induce or inhabit the functioning of socio-ecological systems. This course introduces students to theories, concepts, mechanisms, analytical frameworks and tools, research designs, and basic data to help advance the understanding of the dynamic relationship between societal changes and environmental changes. Topics explored will include systems dynamics, historical perspectives on natural resource use, economic growth, and sustainability, quality of life, and use of renewable and non-renewable resources. Students will write a 6 to 10 page final paper on sustainability science problem suitable for Writing Proficiency Portfolio.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 122 or ENVSTY 101
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ENVSTY 267L - Introduction to Coastal Biological Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will survey coastal marine habitats in terms of the organisms that inhabit these regions; the biological processes that dominant within those environments and the impacts of that habitat on humans. The objectives of the course will be for the students to gain an appreciation and understanding of the diversity and function of coastal marine systems in terms of the biological organisms and biological processes that are found there. ENVSCI 267L and ENVSTY 267L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI 120 and ENVSCI 121 and ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSTY 280 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies
2 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course covers a variety of areas in environmental studies. The topic is announced during preregistration period.
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ENVSTY 301 - Internship in Environmental Studies
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/6 credits
Description:
The internship requires a minimum of 100 hours of service doing environmental work with government, non-government, corporate, or research organizations. The program can assist students in finding appropriate internship placements. Each student’s supervisor at the placement organization provides a report on the intern’s performance and students submit a paper to the program director describing their internship experience. The number of credits varies according to the number of internship hours. This course may be taken on a pass/fail basis only.
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ENVSTY 310 - Third-Year Seminar: Professional Development
1 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this seminar course students will develop professionally by learning about resumes, personal statements, job cover letters, public presentations, interview skills and etiquette, reading and evaluating the primary literature, writing reports/proposals, learn how to prepare an internship, job, or graduate school application package. After learning about these topics, students will write and evaluate resumes, personal statements, cover letters, make and present a presentation to the general public, and conduct a mock interview. This course also is designed for vertical alignment and cohort development in the environmental studies and sustainability major.
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ENVSTY 321 - Spiders of Nantucket
2 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will learn about spider biology, anatomy, life history, classification and taxonomy, and ecology through classroom lectures and discussions, field sampling, and laboratory processing and identification activities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENVSTY 331 - Feeding the Next Two Billion: Solutions for Food Security
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Currently, there are 7 billion people on planet earth. At this population level, humans have already exceeded the earth’s natural carrying capacity, and as a result, food security is a significant issue across the globe. By 2050, it is estimated that there will be an addition 2 billion more people on the earth. With a growing middle class and the push towards more westernized diets, it is not clear how we will meet the food security challenge. This class will provide students with a knowledge base regarding global food production and from this, students will work to understand feasible solutions for feeding two billion additional people. Students also will understand tradeoffs in food systems and will work to develop new solutions for food security.
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ENVSTY 350L - Green Germany: Environmental Thought and Policy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will introduce students to German conceptions of nature and to the environmental debates and policies that have emerged from those ideas. Over the course of the last two centuries, environmental thought has had a major impact on German politics, history and culture. Comparing German perspectives and policies to those of other countries, this course will foster an understanding of the factors that have shaped German national identity, sustained the country’s environmental movement and elicited Germany’s current image as a world leader in environmental policy.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or permission of instructor
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ENVSTY 351L - Architecture and Human Built Environment Interactions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the connections between architecture and human-made places and spaces and emphasizes student engagement and creative problem-solving. This course is a multidisciplinary and multilayered exploration of how architecture and urban design respond to, and interact with, the numerous forces, such as the culture and environmental contexts, that shape their development and uses case studies from the United States and around the world as examples. Moreover, a broad range of the works of socially-mined architects will be discussed for increasing the awareness of the built environment. Topics will include environmentally conscious architecture, regionalism in architecture, the critical role of architects in reconstruction the built environment after catastrophes, and, how architecture and urban design can foster healthy urban environments.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite:
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ENVSTY 364 - Environmental Justice
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Environmental justice is defined by the state of Massachusetts as the equal protection and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies and the equitable distribution of environmental benefits. This course provides an overview of environmental justice as an aspect of U.S. environmental policy. The goal of the course is to give students the ability to develop and articulate informed opinions about environmental justice, to understand how the concept came into use, and to think critically about measuring and solving environmental justice problems. The course uses written assignments, case studies, and role-playing exercises to help students develop the analytical skills necessary to tackle this topic.
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ENVSTY 371 - Telling the Story: broadcast multi-media communications about natural, built, and human environments
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through lecture and hands on studio activities, students in this course will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to create and publish audio files necessary for communicating their stories about natural, built, and human environments to a broad audience such as stakeholders and community members. This course will train student sin foundational communications skills such as finding, developing, and storyboarding stories and train student sin current technical best practices such as rights and responsibilities and recording, editing, and posting audio files. Studio time will consist of mixture of directed and independent activities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 60 credits
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ENVSTY 380 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course covers a variety of areas in environmental studies at an advanced level. The topic is announced during preregistration period.
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ENVSTY 410 - Fourth-Year Seminar: Environmental Issues
1 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this fourth-year seminar, students will be exposed to current global environmental issues in a discussion and debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Issues covered will fall under fie topic areas: environmental philosophy, principles versus politics, energy issues, food and pollution, and toxic chemicals. Each issue reading is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and issue pro and con stance, and an issue post-script. Students will write issue or analysis reports for each issue and discuss the issue in class via general discussion, panel discussions, role-play discussions, and debates. This fourth-year seminar course also is designed for vertical alignment of the curriculum and cohort development for environmental studies and sustainability majors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSTY 310
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ENVSTY 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Research and reading in a selected area of environmental studies, guided by a faculty advisor.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENVSTY 479 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
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ENVSTY 481L - Introduction to Environmental Management and Clean Energy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the rapidly growing field of environmental management in the context of climate change and corporate sustainability. We will assess the strategies pursued by business as it engages with the challenges and opportunities presented by various environmental issues, including resource scarcity, increasing demand for clean energy and energy efficiency, air and water pollution, hazardous waste, environmental reporting and disclosure and working with environmental organizations and regulatory authorities. We will discuss the impact of regulatory, market, and voluntary approaches to addressing environmental concerns through improved organizational environmental performance. The course will introduce students to the relevant scientific, economic, and policy aspects of climate change and consider their physical, regulatory, and market impacts on business in various sectors. The students will have an opportunity to use this newly acquired knowledge by construction and actionable environmental management plan for an individual business sector of their choice.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSTY 101 or ENVSCI 122
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Exercise and Health Science |
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EHS 120 - Careers in Exercise & Health
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an overview of professions in the fields of exercise and health science. Career opportunities within fitness instruction and management, clinical exercise, sports medicine, health science, and allied health will be investigated. Objectives include describing various aspects of careers, determining requirements for advanced study and learning what necessary coursework would be for applying to several professions of interest. Activities and faculty/guest speakers will introduce students to the wide array of careers related to exercise and health science.
Enrollment Requirements:
Exercise and health science students only
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EHS 150 - Introduction to Nutrition
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines ways in which nutrition promotes health, influences disease, and affects exercise and sports performance. A major goal is to have students better understand the role that nutrition plays in their own health. Participants evaluate popular diets and dietary supplements, examine current nutrient recommendations, and acquire confidence in making sensible nutrition recommendations.
Enrollment Requirements:
Exercise and health science and nursing students only
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EHS 160 - Fitness & Wellness
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students completing this course will learn introductory concepts about 1) fitness and related topical areas, including physical activity, nutrition, behavior change, body composition, muscular strength, cardiorespiratory endurance, and flexibility, and 2) wellness, including lifestyle related chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Students will learn about the components of fitness as it related to health and develop their own personal fitness plan. Students will be introduced to causes and treatments for lifestyle related chronic diseases, relevant organizational websites, and develop their own wellness profile. This is a fundamental course that introduces students to the basic principles of fitness and wellness.
Enrollment Requirements:
Exercise and health science students only
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EHS 230 - Strength and Conditioning
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course addresses the scientific and theoretical basis of strength training and conditioning. Basic terms and concepts will be discussed and an overview of the major research that has been conducted in this area will be explored. The fundamental concepts and variables that influence the design of strength and conditioning programs will be discussed, with an emphasis on functional training. The bioenergetics of exercise and training will be explored. Anaerobic training adaptions will be compared and contrasted with aerobic training adaptions. The course is designed to serve as basic preparations for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification.
Enrollment Requirements:
Exercise and health science students only
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EHS 240 - Prevention and Care of Sport Injuries
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to assist students in recognizing and providing immediate treatment of the common injuries seen in recreational and competitive sports. Additional topics include pre-participation physicals, protective equipment, emergency first-aid, orthotics, illnesses and disease routinely seen in active individuals, and when to treat and when to refer.
Enrollment Requirements:
Exercise and health science students only
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EHS 297 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Addresses a specific topic in exercise and health sciences. Course content varies according to the topic.
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EHS 386 - Exercise Physiology I Laboratory
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course utilizes laboratory experiences to illustrate topics taught in EHS 385 - Exercise Physiology I. Specific labs include: 1) measuring work and power, 2) field tests of aerobic and anaerobic capacity, 3) muscle fatigue and relationships between muscle force, velocity and power, 4) the measurement of oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production and the respiratory exchange ratio, 5) Oxygen deficit and excess post exercise oxygen consumption, 6) direct test of maximal aerobic power, 7) heart rate and blood pressure response to exercise, 8) the ventilator response to exercise, 9) body temperature and exercise, and 10) substrate utilization during exercise.
Enrollment Requirements:
Pre- or corequisite: EHS 385
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EHS 410 - Exercise & Aging
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on fitness, exercise, physical activity, and health issues in the geriatric population. Topics include methods of evaluating fitness levels, exercise prescription, public health issues, and current research issues.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: EHS 380 or EHS 385
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EHS 421 - Pediatric Exercise Externship
1 Credit(s) | Practicum |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will have a practicum experience with hands-on learning through volunteering at a local community site with children and/or adolescents. Time will be spent not only in the community site, but also on campus with special workshops to develop skills related to working with children/adolescents in health/wellness programming. Space is limited and special permission is needed to enroll. Selection for the course is done through a competitive application process. Please contact the instructor for details.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: EHS 420
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EHS 485 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A student may register for independent study only with the permission of the department. The proposed study must be approved by the appropriate departmental committee and supervised by a member of the faculty.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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EHS 497 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Addresses a specific topic in exercise and health sciences. Course content varies according to the topic.
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FRENCH 100 - Intensive Elementary French
8 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Intensive elementary work in the four language skills, with concentration on an audio-lingual approach, for students with no previous training in French. Students completing this course satisfactorily will be allowed to enter directly into courses at the intermediate level. Equivalent to one year of elementary French.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 101 - Elementary French I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Practice in the four language skills, with concentration on an audio-lingual approach, for students who have no creditable training in French. Includes an introduction to French and francophone culture. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 102 - Elementary French II
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A continuation of FRENCH 101 . Concentrated practice in the four language skills, with an audio-lingual approach, for students who have completed FRENCH 101 or its equivalent. Continued attention to French and francophone culture. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 101 or equivalent
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FRENCH 201 - Intermediate French I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course seeks to help students attain the level of intermediate competence in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, through imaginative and personalized activities that are relevant to student interests. These activities include an introduction to the culture and literature of the French-speaking world. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 202 - Intermediate French II
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course seeks to build on the level of achievement reached in FRENCH 201 . Participants study a variety of literary and cultural texts as models of written expression. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 285L - History of French Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will acquaint students with films and filmmakers that have made an impact on French cinema and Society from the early 20th century to today. It provides a broad survey of cinematic practices in France and explores the major social issues political debates, and historical memories that have preoccupied French society. The course focuses on how French film interrogates social and national identity in France, but also in Africa and Europe more broadly. FRENCH 285L and CINE 285L are the same course.
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FRENCH 301 - Composition et stylistique
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A course in written expression beyond the intermediate level. Emphasis is on composition as well as on grammatical and stylistic analysis of contemporary texts.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 302 - Initiation a la litterature et a la civilisation francaises: Depuis le Moyen Age jusqu’a la fin du 1
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
French literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. Selected readings from Chanson de Roland, courtly novels, lyric poetry of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Rabelais, Montaigne, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, LaFontaine, with lectures on the cultural backgrounds of the periods under study.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 303 - Intro Lit & Cult II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
French literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Selected readings from Diderot, Marivaux, Voltaire, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Zola, with lectures on the cultural background of the periods studied.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 304 - French Conversation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Discussions based on authentic documents from a broad variety of sources representing diverse aspects of French and francophone culture: individual oral presentations, exchanges with a partner or small group, full-class discussions. Written summaries of documents, review of grammar points as needed.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 305 - 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will cover major topics in French and Francophone literature and culture during the 20th and 21st centuries. Following historical developments and a chronological order of literary production, this course covers the themes of war, love, language, feminism, immigration and exile. The course is taught in French
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 202 or permission of instructor
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FRENCH 306L - Introduction to French Cinema (in French)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the major works, filmmakers, and movements of French cinema. We will develop a basic knowledge of French film through the analysis of different genres. Through cinema we will also study social, historical and political issues. The course will be taught in French. FRENCH 306L and CINE 306L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 202 or permission of instructor
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FRENCH 307 - French and Francophone Popular Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores trends in popular culture in the French-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present day. We will study digital media, popular music, and films from the French-speaking world for language learning and cultural awareness. These materials will be analyzed for their textual, historical, and cultural values. The course will be taught in French.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 202
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FRENCH 308L - Feminist Histories: Renaissance France and Beyond
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will study one important branch of the history of global feminism: women’s writing in medieval and Renaissance France. In addition to literature, we will also consider the social history of these women, as well as the impact of their feminist thinking on the rest of Europe and beyond, through to our contemporary world.
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FRENCH 310 - French for Heritage Speakers
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
French 310 is an intermediate-level grammar course for students who are heritage speakers of French and for those who have had significant exposure to oral/spoken French and little contact with written French. The course will focus on developing written proficiency of French in a wide variety of real-life situations, explore the cultures of France and the French-speaking world, and practice French grammatical structures and idiomatic expressions. Emphasis will also be placed on all four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), and students will concentrate on developing formal skills in order to articulate more abstract ideas in a coherent and cohesive way. The class is organized thematically and conducted entirely in French.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 312 - French in the Professional and Business World
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed for students who wish to acquire a general understanding and practice of professional communication in French. The course enables students to become familiar with the French professional world from a wide variety of areas: administration, banking, personnel, marketing, management and advertising. ti is designed to help strengthen oral and written communication skills, in French from a practical perspective. The focus of this course will be to write clear and concise professional documents (reports, letters, employment communication, memos and emails) as well as to simulate real life situations pertaining to business and the professional world.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 202 or equivalent
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FRENCH 378 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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FRENCH 379 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
For those students wishing to pursue the study of French language, literature or culture beyond the intermediate level. A course of study is jointly designed by supervising instructor and student.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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FRENCH 411 - Theme et version
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Translation from English into French, and from French into English, with analysis of the grammatical and stylistic problems presented by the texts.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 452 - Roman et theatre romantiques
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The French romantic theatre and novel of Hugo, Vigny, Musset, Sand, Balzac, and Stendhal.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 464 - Roman Du 20e Siecle
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Discussion of representative twentieth century novels, by such writers as Camus, Gide, Bernanos, Malraux, Robbe-Grillet, Sartre, Mauriac, Duras, ben Jelloun and Ba.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 465 - 20th Century French Theater
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines societal trends in 20th century France and the Francophone world through theater. In order to highlight the diversity of French theater throughout the century this course is organized thematically around questions such as war, cruelty, existentialism, art and love. Playwrights include Giraudoux, Sartre, Genet, C?saire, and Reza among others.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
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FRENCH 478 - Readings & Research
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Primarily for seniors with a GPA of at least 3.0 in their major who wish to pursue a research topic in depth, one ordinarily not available in standard course offerings. A written prospectus detailing the plan of study must be submitted to supervising instructor and department.
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FRENCH 479 - Readings & Research
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Primarily for seniors with a GPA of at least 3.0 in their major who wish to pursue a research topic in depth, one ordinarily not available in standard course offerings. A written prospectus detailing the plan of study must be submitted to supervising instructor and department. (Course offered in the spring only.)
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FRENCH 480 - Images of Otherness in French and Francophone Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through a thorough examination of novels, plays, film and poetry in French this class will focus on images of the ‘foreigner’, the ‘stranger’, the ‘other’ as well as on the representation of gender and national differences. Historical and sociological contextual frameworks will help situate the different representations. Course will be taught in French.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Languages
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: FRENCH 301 or permission of instructor
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FRENCH 490 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Topics vary each semester according to instructor.
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