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Geology
  

  • GEOL 312 - Introduction to Geology II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A continuation of GEOL 311 , including studies of the active internal processes of the earth, such as plate tectonics and earthquakes, and of the earth’s interior composition and structure, with introductions to historical geology and the succession of life forms that formerly lived on the earth.
    Prerequisite: GEOL 311 


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German
  

  • GERM 110 - Elementary German I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the language, literature, and culture of German-speaking peoples, with emphasis on the basic language skills. Laboratory practice required.


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  • GERM 120 - Elementary German II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A continuation of studies in the language, literature, and culture of German-speaking peoples begun in GERM 110, including further development of the basic language skills, with special attention to improving oral language skills. Laboratory practice required.
    Prerequisite: GERM 110 


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  • GERM 211 - Intermediate German I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Intermediate level studies of the language, literature, and culture of German-speaking peoples, including further development of the basic language skills, with increased emphasis on reading comprehension and writing in German. Laboratory practice required.
    Prerequisite: GERM 120 


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  • GERM 212 - Intermediate German II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A continuation of intermediate level studies of the language, literature, and culture of German-speaking peoples, including further development of the basic language skills, with special emphasis on idiomatic usages and complex grammatical structures. Laboratory experience required.
    Prerequisite: GERM 211 


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  • GERM 310 - Advanced Conversation and Phonetics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A course focusing on developing the level of proficiency in the basic language skills necessary to complete advanced courses taught exclusively in German.
    Prerequisite: GERM 212 


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  • GERM 321 - German Civilization

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the civilization, culture, and history of German-speaking peoples, with attention to the life, customs, philosophy, art, music, and general patterns of culture. Taught exclusively in German.
    Prerequisite: GERM 310 


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Global Literacy
  

  • GLBL 200 - Global Literacy Experience I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An officially sponsored university instructional experience that enhances students’ understanding of one or more of the components of the “Global Literacy” core curriculum requirement. Experiences at the 200 level identify, examine, and synthesize aspects of the following: global diversity; global heritage, such as the arts, sciences, philosophy, literature, economics, language, and athletics; and global interdependence. Academic credit is based on the following formula: one semester credit is equivalent to 750 minutes of documented instruction. The course may be repeated for credit provided the subject matter is different.


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  • GLBL 300 - Global Literacy Experience II

    Credit Hours: 1 to 6
    Lecture Hours: 1 to 6
    Lab Hours: 0

    An officially sponsored university instructional experience that enhances students’ understanding of one or more of the components of “Global Literacy” core curriculum requirement. Experiences at the 300 level primarily examine and synthesize aspects of global diversity, global heritage, and global interdependence. Academic credit is based on the following formula: one semester credit is equivalent to 750 minutes of documented instruction. The course may be offered for variable credit and may be repeated for credit provided the subject matter is different.


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  • GLBL 400 - Global Literacy Experience III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An officially sponsored university instructional experience that enhances students’ understanding of one or more of the components of “Global Literacy” core curriculum requirement. Experiences at the 400 level primarily synthesize the following: one’s self-awareness with global diversity; the diffusion of global heritage through globalization; and models of global interdependence. Academic credit is based on the following formula: one semester credit is equivalent to 750 minutes of documented instruction. The course may be repeated for credit provided the subject matter is different.


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Health Care Management
  

  • HCM 200 - Ethics for Health Professions

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In an era of advanced technology, economic pressure, and national discussions about universal affordable healthcare, professionals require a strong foundation of practice-based ethics to inform their decisions. This course provides an introduction to the theories and principles of ethics and civic responsibility. The course also focuses on the application of ethical theory to a wide range of problems that commonly occur within healthcare settings. In addition, students will explore and understand how ethical theories can inform practice within the healthcare industry.


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  • HCM 310 - Organization of Health Care System

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides an introduction to the Health Services Industry. The course will examine key components, characteristics, and organization of the health care system as well as trends and management challenges in the provision of care to a diverse population.


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  • HCM 311 - Principles of Health Care Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course presents the foundation principles and dynamics of health care management, the healthcare system, and basic concepts and skills in administration. The institutional, social, and political forces in the field of healthcare are analyzed. Topics include fundamentals of management in healthcare and contemporary issues.


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  • HCM 312 - Medical Terminology/Health Care Managers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides an introduction to the language of health care. The course will examine key terms managers and health care providers need to be successful in the health care industry.


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  • HCM 313 - Medical Coding for Managers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will prepare healthcare managers to understand and improve their competence in medical coding as it relates to billing and insurance by providing an introduction as well as in-depth study of Current Procedural Terminology, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD 10-CM), and third-party reimbursement. By the end of the course the student will be prepared to sit for the state exam to become a certified medical coder.
    Prerequisite: HCM 312 


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  • HCM 330 - Healthcare Policy and Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides an introduction to a wide range of topics in the area of health policy, and law. Students will become familiar with the evolution of health care policy as well as potential legal and problems in various health care settings. They will also learn to differentiate between legal and ethical problems. Among the subject areas covered are licensing, professional liability, confidentiality, informed consent, professional relationships, access issues, antitrust, and bioethical issues, with particular emphasis on how these areas impact management practice.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and  MGMT 311  


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  • HCM 350 - Healthcare Quality Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course presents the basic principles and tools associated with quality management. The topics include the definition of quality and its function in health services; pioneers in quality; strategic quality planning; quality tools; customer voice; market voice; statistical quality control and international issues and standards.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and BADM 216  and MGMT 311  


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  • HCM 370 - Marketing Management in Healthcare

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides a foundation for managing the marketing function in healthcare. Particular attention is given to both the use of marketing tools to facilitate attainment of organizational goals in healthcare and the unique issues faced by the healthcare marketers.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 211  and ECON 211  or ECON 212 


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  • HCM 390 - Comparative Health Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Innovation is required to meet the challenges of healthcare delivery, thus the ability to compare and evaluate global approaches enables the healthcare professional to consider and adopt ideas that can be applied to their own system of care. This course examines factors that impact healthcare delivery worldwide, through analysis of the characteristics of global healthcare delivery systems and the governmental, economic, social and political forces that influence them. Special emphasis is placed on comparison to the U.S. healthcare system.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and HCM 311  and HCM 330 


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  • HCM 410 - Human Resource Management for Health Services

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to explore key concepts, theories, and issues of human resource management as they relate to meeting the challenges faced by health service organizations. The strategic value of human resource management will be emphasized as will the healthcare workforce, diversity, and human resource competencies.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and MGMT 311  


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  • HCM 420 - Managed Care

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is intended to provide a foundation for managed care and practice and contractual arrangements, including the evolution of managed care as well as an exploration of the various tools that have been developed to improve systems of care. Particular emphasis is placed on contemporary/integrated systems of care.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and HCM 311  and HCM 330  and HCM 350 


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  • HCM 430 - Leadership for Health Service Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides a foundation to study leadership theory and practice as they relate to health service organizations. Further, the course seeks to provide an understanding of how healthcare leaders can achieve organizational goals through concrete behaviors and actions across interconnected disciplines and diverse populations.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and MGMT 311   and HCM 410  or MGMT 410  


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  • HCM 450 - Healthcare Senior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides an introduction to health services research for senior students within healthcare management, including fundamentals of health services research and managerial epidemiology. A health services research project with a focus on managerial applications will be facilitated through a service learning format.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and HCM 330  and HCM 350  and MGMT 311  


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  • HCM 460 - Health Services Research I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This class is designed as an introduction to health service research as it applies to healthcare delivery, facilitating the basic skills needed to design a successful research proposal.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and HCM 330  and HCM 350  and MGMT 311  


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  • HCM 461 - Health Services Research II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This class is designed to facilitate successful progress from a proposal to a completed research project. Topics included are relevant to all research projects. This course provides an opportunity to expand basic research skills introduced in HCM 460 - Health Services Research I . This course will provide a review of the initial steps required to write a research proposal, but will emphasize implementation of a research project with faculty direction.
    Prerequisite: HCM 460  and permission of instructor


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  • HCM 470 - Healthcare Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course introduces you to the complexities of strategy analysis, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation in healthcare organizations. The course is divided into different topic areas to investigate these three major processes. We will discuss the basic concepts underlying each topic area. Additionally, we will discuss cases and examples that describe how a real organization confronted successfully (or unsuccessfully) the issues covered in the topic. Two capabilities are of particular importance: (1) the ability to critically evaluate the profit potential of industries or environments and deal with the threats and opportunities presented by each; and (2) an understanding of how organizations work. Because this is a writing intensive course, organization, logical consistency, grammar, and clarity of your writing will impact your grade.
    Prerequisite: BADM 215  and FINC 311  and HCM 310  and MGMT 311  and HCM 370  or MKTG 311  


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  • HCM 490 - Healthcare Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides supervised field work for exemplary senior students within the healthcare management concentration. Students work with health service professionals within the host organization to expand their expertise in solving management problems and to increase their awareness of the issues involved in the day to day operations of the organization. Student performance will be evaluated on the basis of an appraisal by the preceptor and a detailed project report submitted by the student.
    Prerequisite: HCM 310  and HCM 330  and MGMT 311  and Senior standing and Instructor permission


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Health Education
  

  • HEED 112 - Health and Wellness

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course deals with basic concepts of personal and community health in a complex modern society. Sexuality, population planning, mental health, nutrition, fitness, health care delivery system, and diseases of infectious and non-infectious nature are considered. Health behavior and behavior change for quality living for the individual and community are stressed.


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  • HEED 212 - Health Promotion and Wellness

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to health concepts as they relate to the individual, family, and community. Designed to acquaint students with behaviors that promote health and reduce risks to diseases.


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  • HEED 300 - Human Sexuality

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of concepts and methods for sex education programs, including physiological, social and educational aspects of human sexuality, and emphasizing preparation for teaching about human sexuality in K-12 programs.


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  • HEED 301 - Drug Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of the use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco; the psychological and sociological factors associated with drug experimentation and abuse; and the psychosocial and physiological effects of drugs on health and behavior.


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  • HEED 310 - Mental and Emotional Health

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the fundamental principles underlying emotional health, including human relationship, stress, social-learning adjustments, personality, and life styles.


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  • HEED 311 - Environmental Health

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of major areas of environmental health, including the health concerns, problems, and diseases arising from environmental pollutants.


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  • HEED 320 - Introduction to Health Education

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Hours: 2
    Lab Hours: 0

    This is an introductory course to school health and to community health education. The basic philosophy, principles, and content of health education are discussed as basic background for suggested solutions of health problems. Twelve hours field experience is required.


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  • HEED 321 - Health in Early Childhood Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the principles, content, practices, and procedures basic to health education in early childhood, K-3.


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  • HEED 322 - Health in the Intermediate Grades

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the principles, content, practices, and procedures basic to health education at the intermediate level.


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  • HEED 340 - Organization and Administration of School/Community Health Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of modern theories and guiding principles in the organization and administration of school-community health education programs, including coverage of such topics as program planning, fiscal management, vital statistics, and laws pertaining to school-community health.


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  • HEED 372 - First Aid and Safety Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the principles and practices of first aid and safety techniques, with emphasis on emergency procedures and safety-related agencies and their services. Also includes the teaching of first aid and safety K-12.


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  • HEED 401 - School Health Program

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the roles of the classroom teacher, the school nurse-teacher, and other related personnel in the development and implementation of a total school health curriculum, including content, methods, and materials appropriate to elementary, intermediate, and secondary levels.


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  • HEED 410 - Introduction to Epidemiology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The principles of epidemiology used in the investigation of each event, such as disease, accidents, and other health-related problems. These principles will be demonstrated by a class project of epidemiologic investigation. An in-depth study of major public health problems, with emphasis on the K-12 classroom teacher as the change agent for a healthier society through health education.


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  • HEED 411 - Public Health Problems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of major public health problems, with emphasis on the K-12 classroom teacher as the change agent for a healthier society through health education.


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  • HEED 420 - Nutrition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the principles and concepts of nutrition, with emphasis on the importance of nutrition education for the development of healthy eating habits.


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  • HEED 421 - Methods and Materials in Teaching Health K-6

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the content, principles, practices, and procedures in health education at the elementary level, with special focus on the role of the teacher in the elementary school health program.


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  • HEED 431 - Adapted Physical Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of principles and methods for adapting health and physical education programs to handicapping conditions. These principles and methods will be demonstrated by evaluations of physical, perceptual-motor and postural fitness levels, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of an active diversified adapted program. A 25 clock hour laboratory experience is required.


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  • HEED 441 - Measurement and Evaluation in Health Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction of fundamental statistics for measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of health education and community health programs.


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History and Political Science
  

  • HIPO 300 - Contemporary African American Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of selected issues related to African-Americans living in America, with emphasis on contemporary political organizations and activities of African-Americans.


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  • HIPO 310 - Political History of Contemporary China

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of political development in China from the Revolution of 1911 through the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung in the postwar period and continued through successive leaders to the present.


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  • HIPO 341 - Constitutional Law and History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of basic principles of the constitutional system, with particular emphasis upon cases that deal with the framework of the American federal system.
    Prerequisite: POLI 210 


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  • HIPO 342 - Civil Rights and Constitution

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of constitutional principles and their applications as they affect individual civil rights.
    Prerequisite: POLI 210 


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  • HIPO 440 - Modern Ideologies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the principal modern political ideologies: capitalism, communism, fascism, and socialism.


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History
  

  • HIST 100 - Social Institutions

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An historical survey of the development of the basic social institutions such as family, religion, politics, economics, the arts, and education presented as a case study of the African-American experience from past civilizations in Africa to contemporary American society.


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  • HIST 110 - World History to 1600

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An historical survey of the development of civilizations in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas from their beginnings to 1600, with attention to the governmental, social, religious, economic, political, intellectual, and aesthetic movements and activities that contributed to their development. Offered every semester.


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  • HIST 120 - World History since 1600

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An historical survey tracing the continuing development of civilization from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present day, with attention to the governmental, social, religious, economic, political, intellectual, and aesthetic movements and activities that contributed to their development, with special consideration of the movements, ideologies, revolutions, and wars that helped to shape modern history. Offered every semester.


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  • HIST 210 - African-American History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of African-American social, economic, cultural and political history, with emphasis on the contributions of African-Americans to the social, cultural, economic, and intellectual life of American society and with attention to the role of African-Americans in the exploration, settlement, and development of America, the experience of slavery, and the struggle for civil rights. Offered every semester.


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  • HIST 211 - The United States to 1865

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A survey of American history from the colonial period through the Civil War. Offered every semester.


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  • HIST 212 - The United States since 1865

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A survey of American history from the era of Reconstruction to the present. Offered every semester.


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  • HIST 270 - An Introduction to Africa in the World

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course seeks to explore the distinguishing features of the peoples and topography of Africa. Moreover, efforts will be made to assay the interactions of these peoples with the outside world in a way that will reveal the truth about them rather than to recycle myths and prejudices.


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  • HIST 271 - Environmental History of the West, 1750 to Present

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will present a history from the eighteenth century to the present of interactions between humankind and the environment. Students will explore changing conceptions of the environment over time through lectures, discussions, readings, and research projects. This course will also emphasize major events historically, the transformed perceptions of nature, and the rise of historical phenomena such as colonization, imperialism, romanticism, industrialization, consumerism, conservation, and environmentalism.


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  • HIST 280 - History of Alcohol and Drugs

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is a survey of the history of alcohol and drugs from 1500 to the present. This class will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the evolving role of alcohol and drugs in the history of the human experience over the past 500 years. By focusing upon economic, political, intellectual, and religious relationships to alcohol and drugs, the class will reveal the changing ethics of western society from the early modern period and the age of discovery through the recent War on Drugs and the medicalization of addition. The course begins with the introduction of new stimulants like coffee, tea, sugar, tobacco, and an array of distilled liquors (like rum, whiskey, brandy, and gin). In the eighteenth century, the beginning of modern regulation of alcohol is initiated by the British, followed by the development of a temperance movement in North America and western Europe.


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  • HIST 301 - The Era of Civil War and Reconstruction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the War Between the States, with an examination of the forces that led to the outbreak of the conflict between North and South, the ramifications of the Union victory, and the problems of reconstruction following the war.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 302 - Modern America 1914 to Present

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the United States as a modern industrial nation and as a world power, particularly since 1945.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 311 - Early Modern European History, 1600-1789

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A survey of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Europe from the late Reformation to the outbreak of the French Revolution.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 312 - Modern European History, 1789 to the Present

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A survey of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Europe from the French Revolution to the present.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311 


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  • HIST 321 - American Social History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the daily life, institutions, intellectual developments, and artistic achievements in America from the Agrarian Era, 1607-1861, through the Urban Industrial Era, 1861 to the present.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 322 - Ethnic Minorities in American Urban History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the impact of urban life on the history of minority groups in the United States, with special emphasis on the relationships between the urban social order, the condition of minority groups since 1900, and the contributions of minority groups to the American city.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 323 - Oral History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of basic oral history techniques, including interviewing, transcribing, and writing a narrative based on the materials produced.


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  • HIST 331 - History of Modern East Asia

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of modern China from the decline of the Manchu Dynasty in the mid-nineteenth century through the events of Tienanmen Square, and of modern Japan from the Meiji Restoration through its post-World War II development as a leading industrial nation.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 340 - American Diplomatic History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of American diplomacy from the colonial period to the present, with emphasis on U.S. foreign relations in the twentieth century. Offered on request.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 350 - History of Latin America

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the political, economic, and social institutions and problems of contemporary Latin American nations.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 351 - Ancient History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the origins, development, and contributions of the ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman civilizations, through the fall of the Roman Empire.


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  • HIST 352 - North Africa and the Middle East

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of Islamic civilization and culture in areas of the southern and eastern rims of the Mediterranean Sea spanning the time period from the seventeenth century to the present day.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 353 - History of Mexico

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the social, cultural, economic, and political history of Mexico, primarily since independence (1808), with a background on the colonial and Pre- Colombian periods.


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  • HIST 362 - American Military Experience

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The evolution of the American military profession from colonial times to the post-World War II era, with attention to such topics as American military concepts, strategies tactics, doctrines, and technology, and the influence of military experience on American society.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 370 - Africa South of the Sahara

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of ancient, medieval, colonial, and modern civilizations and nations in sub-Saharan Africa, with attention to issues relating to African heritage and to the rise of contemporary African nations and cultures.
    Prerequisite: Prerequisite: HIST 110  And HIST 120 


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  • HIST 371 - Renaissance and Reformation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the rise of individualism and humanistic thought after 1300, the fragmentation of religious and political authority in Europe, the Reformation, and the religious wars through the Treaty of Westphalia.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 372 - History of Women in the Western World

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A survey of the changes in the status of women in Western society from ancient to contemporary times, with special attention given to intergroup differences and to minority women.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 375 - Women In Africa

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores women’s history by region as it has changed over time under pre-colonial, colonial, and independence governments. Topics may include customs of female circumcision, bride wealth, and multiple wives; changes in the control over women’s labor and women’s roles in politics; the effect of structural adjustment on women; and women’s role in sustainable development.


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  • HIST 380 - Medieval Europe

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of Europe from the fourth through the fourteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the characteristics of medieval political organization and socioeconomic life, the formative influence of the Church, and the cultural legacy of the Middle Ages.
    Prerequisite: HIST 110  and HIST 120 


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  • HIST 390 - North Carolina History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the history of the Tar Heel state from its origins to the present. Offered every year.


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  • HIST 400 - History of the South

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the development of the southern United States since 1820, with special emphasis on race relations and on industrial growth in the region in the mid-twentieth century.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 410 - Survey of American Urban History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the forces that have shaped the development of the American city from the colonial era to the present time, with special attention given to the social, economic, political, and cultural effects of urban life on city dwellers.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 430 - Twentieth Century Europe

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of contemporary European issues originating from the two world wars, including the social and political upheavals of the twentieth century, with emphasis on the role of eastern Europe in the decade of the 1990┐s.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312 


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  • HIST 431 - Russia to 1917

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of politics and society in Imperial Russia and the collapse of the empire in the Revolution of 1917.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312 


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  • HIST 432 - History of the Soviet Union

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the Soviet system and Soviet foreign policy from the Revolution of 1917 through its collapse in 1989.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312 


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  • HIST 441 - History of England

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the development of modern England from the English Revolution to the present, with emphasis on the rise and fall of the British empire and the evolution of the Parliamentary system.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312 


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  • HIST 442 - History of Modern Germany

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of German history through five periods: before unification (1815-1870), under Bismarck, under Wilhelm II, between the wars, and since 1945.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312 


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  • HIST 450 - History of Terrorism and Insurgency

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the terrorism phenomenon throughout history, culminating in the present threat posed by transnational terrorism. Special attention is given to subjects including: different forms of historical terrorism, such as political and religious; asymmetrical warfare; the terrorism-media relationship; and anti- and counter- terrorism.


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  • HIST 451 - French Revolution and Napoleon

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the collapse of the Ancient Regime, including an examination of the causes and effects of its demise; Napoleon’s attempt to establish a new order in Europe under French hegemony; the Congress of Vienna.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311 


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  • HIST 460 - Problems in American History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of selected issues in American history.
    Prerequisite: HIST 211  and HIST 212 


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  • HIST 470 - Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the political, economic, and strategic interests of the Great Powers in colonies and former colonial possessions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312  and HIST 331  or HIST 370 


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  • HIST 480 - Problems in European History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of selected problems and issues in the history of Europe.
    Prerequisite: HIST 311  and HIST 312 


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  • HIST 490 - Senior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Selected Topics: In-depth studies in selected areas of special interest, with supervised research and directed readings required. (For History or Social Science majors and minors.)


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  • HIST 491 - Methods of Historical Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to conventional methods of historical research and to new techniques in oral history, family history, and quantitative history. For History or Social Science majors and minors.


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Health Information Technology
  

  • HIT 360 - Healthcare Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on the applications of information technology to improve the quality of healthcare and to lower costs in providing healthcare services. Issues to be covered in this course include: information security, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the implementation of electronic medical records (EMR), the organization of IT functions, IT project management, and standards that guide health information exchange.
    Prerequisite: MIS 300  and HCM 310   


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  • HIT 370 - Healthcare Information Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on issues related to system development, relational databases, and database administration. The implementation of business rules and data modeling in clinical information management systems, healthcare enterprise information systems, and their application in evidence-based practice and clinical decision support will be covered.
    Prerequisite: HIT 360  


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  • HIT 380 - Healthcare Business Intelligence

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course introduces students to the area of business intelligence and how it is used in healthcare. The need for business intelligence, concepts of business intelligence, big data in healthcare, predictive analysis, and quantitative methods will all be covered in this course.
    Prerequisite: HIT 360  and (HIT 370  or MIS 320 )


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  • HIT 460 - Advanced Healthcare Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course expands the concepts taught in HIT 360 - Healthcare Information Systems . The course focuses on the application of information technology in specific skill areas such as clinical decision-support, disease and demographic surveillance, imaging and simulation, and care delivery. Case studies of systems as well as their opportunities and limitations in these areas will be discussed. Legal and ethical issues related to training, security, confidentiality, and the use of informed consent are also addressed. 
    Prerequisite: HIT 360  


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Humanities
  

  • HUMN 211 - Humanities: Music, Art, and Ideas I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An interdisciplinary survey course examining works of art, literature, music, philosophy, and religious thought, focusing on major stylistic developments, intellectual movements and cultural achievements of the ancient and medieval eras in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Completion of HUMN 211 is recommended before enrollment in HUMN 212 .


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  • HUMN 212 - Humanities: Music, Art, and Ideas II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The second part of an interdisciplinary survey course examining works of art, literature, music, philosophy, religious thought, and focusing on major stylistic developments and intellectual movements from the Renaissance to the present day.


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  • HUMN 215 - Arts in Performance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Designed to introduce students to the basic tools an artist uses to create a work of art and to develop an awareness and appreciation of the history and ideas in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts through study and experience with these arts. Students are required to attend scheduled art, music, and theatre events outside of class and engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an appreciation of the arts. Attendance at pre- and post- production discussions and at live performances is required.
    Prerequisite: HUMN 211  or HUMN 212 


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