- Facilitator : SHELLY CARROLL

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About WVSU
Founded in 1891, West Virginia State University is a public, land-grant, historically black university, which has evolved into a fully accessible, racially integrated, and multi-generational institution.The University, “a living laboratory of human relations,” is a community of students, staff, and faculty committed to academic growth, service, and preservation of the racial and cultural diversity of the institution.
With the goal of improving the quality of our students’ lives, as well as the quality of life for West Virginia’s citizens, the University forges mutually beneficial relationships with other educational institutions, businesses, cultural organizations, governmental agencies, and agricultural and extension partners.
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Available courses
Prerequisite: Math 120 – College Algebra (Formerly Math 101)
- Instructor: MICHAEL LEWIS
- Instructor: MATTHEW CARROLL
(3 credit hours) Study of the tasks involved in the marketing of goods and services for both for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. Provides an overview of marketing mix decision requirements within a framework of contemporary economic, social, technological, competitive and regulatory influences.
Course Prerequisites: ECON 201 and 202
- Instructor: Cheryl King
- Instructor: ALAN TILLQUIST
(3 credit hours) This course embraces the conceptual and practical problems associated with the financial management of the nonfinancial corporation. Topics covered, in brief, are an analysis of fund commitments to current assets, short-term financing, evaluation and choice of capital assets, the principle issues of debt/equity mix, investment policy and divided policy as they influence the market value of corporate claims.
Prerequisite: BA 216 and 209. (Note: BA 216 may be taken concurrently with permission of instructor.)
- Instructor: MATTHEW CARROLL
(3 Credit Hours) The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the behavior of employees at the individual, group and organizational levels. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of application and theory. Topics to be covered include: motivation, team building, perception, attitudes, communication, conflict, stress and leadership.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102; Grade of C or better in BA 301.
- Facilitator : SHELLY CARROLL
Prerequisites: BA 209 and BA 301.
- Instructor: MICHAEL LEWIS
(Credit hours: 4) A comprehensive, issues based examination of the Earth’s environment, and humanity’s impact on it. Students will complete group discussions on various topics in environmental biology, and a laboratory experience consisting of a series of independent problems in environmental biology, in addition to mastering the standard lecture material. Does not count toward a major in Biology.
- Instructor: Vasilios Dianellos
- Instructor: Thomas Guetzloff
Environmental chemistry is the study and appreciation of the phenomena in the environment. In this course we look at various environmental issues from the viewpoint of the chemist and look at the political implications as well. The study of various environmental factors and pollutants in our water, soil and air and their effects on the planet. Includes laboratory work.
- Instructor: Thomas Guetzloff
- Facilitator : KRISTINA RAYNES
- Instructor: CASSANDRA WHYTE
3 credit hours) Introduction to the concepts and methods of social science research: the role of theory in research, forming hypotheses and questions, identifying variables and gathering and analyzing statistical data. Emphasis will be on developing good writing skills, and using computers for basic statistical evaluation. This course meets the requirements of POSC 311 and SOC311.
This course will introduce undergraduate students to the role of research in our understanding of criminal justice and the criminal justice system. Emphasis will be placed on understanding different methods of research as well as the manner in which research should be conducted. Over the course of the semester, students will participate in class exercises to highlight the topics from the subject matter.
- Instructor: LEIGHANN DAVIDSON
3 Credit Hours - This course is a continuation of CJ 320 and is designed to cover the issues related to the creation of written documentation in the three major components of the criminal justice system: law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Students will be introduced to the various formats, styles, and organizational patterns commonly utilized in criminal justice reports and research. Students will become aware of the writing recommendations, guidelines, and accrediting requirements of criminal justice organizations. Emphasis is also placed upon professional writing skills; including report structure and construction, mechanics, grammar, and specific criminal justice vocabulary and usage.
- Instructor: William Whyte
- Instructor: FREHOT HAILOU
(3 credit hours) This course explores change theory and its application to the school setting. Candidates will identify and explore emerging trends and issues in the change process with emphasis on sustaining innovation through reculturing and ongoing professional learning and development.
Prerequisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Paige Carney
(3 credit hours) This course focuses on applying information on school needs as well as knowledge of local, state, and national policy to effective management practices. Students will learn how to legally and effectively manage school operations, including management of financial and human resources and how to schedule for the effective use of time and physical resources. This is an intense eight-week program that will allow you to learn what policies, procedures and technologies are in place for you to develop the proper allocation of resources.
- Instructor: Mickey Blackwell
(3 credit hours) The goal of this course is to prepare and equip educational leaders with the ability to examine critical issues related to providing leadership for diverse student populations. Educational leaders will understand what it means to be culturally responsive and learn strategies to rectify current race, class and gender inequities that exist throughout educational systems.
Prerequisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program. To facilitate learning, the instructor may alter the syllabus at any time during the course of the semester.
- Facilitator : SARA LEWIS-STANKUS
This field-based practicum will allow candidates to apply knowledge of educational leadership, educational law and policy, change, innovation, professional development, financial and human resource management, and data-based decision making for school and district improvement.
- Instructor: Paige Carney
- Facilitator : AARON MORRIS
A study of poetry, fiction and drama. The course stresses
basic themes and formal elements found in literature.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 placement.
- Facilitator : AARON MORRIS
(3 Credit Hours) This course helps students improve their writing by reviewing the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics. Systematic attention is given to sentence construction, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary development, and self-help through effective use of the dictionary. Emphasis will be placed on the use of such skills in practical, everyday communication. (English 160 cannot be substituted for English 101 or 102.)
- Instructor: Lan Wang
The study and application of writing formats, styles, and organizational patterns essential in various professions, with particular emphasis on correspondence, reports, and research is the primary focus of this course. There is also a unit covering the writing of resumes and job application letters as well as suggestions for job hunting and interviewing. Prerequisite: English 102
- Instructor: JESSICA BARNES-PIETRUSZYNSKI
The study and application of writing formats, styles, and organizational patterns essential in various professions, with particular emphasis on correspondence, reports, and research is the primary focus of this course. There is also a unit covering the writing of resumes and job application letters as well as suggestions for job hunting and interviewing. Prerequisite: English 102
- Facilitator : CATHRYN CARENA
(3 credit hours) This class will examine the meaning of literacy in the digital age by examining, through the lens of technical communication, various modes of composition. Through readings and on-line discussions, the course will explore theories of cultural convergence and how we produce and consume information. As students discover new technologies such as blogs, social media, Twitter, YouTube, Wikis, Podcasts, and others as they emerge, they will learn how to transform theory into practical application using the various media. While students are developing these functional literacies, they will also examine the technologies critically and rhetorically learning not only how to use a technology but why and when.
Prerequisite: ENGL 112: Technical Writing
- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
(3 Credit Hours) This class is a continuation of Information Design I. Applying the theories and principles of information design learned in Information Design I, students will work on a client-directed project. Student will also learn about theories and principles of website design and practice creating and managing websites. Prerequisite: English 412 (Information Design I).
- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
First Year Experience is designed to help students develop the skills needed to be successful at WVSU and beyond. Course content includes developing college-level reading and study skills, career and major exploration, managing time and money wisely, building connections with faculty and students, awareness of campus and community resources, and increasing sensitivity to other cultures so students can effectively interact in an increasingly diverse and global community.
- Instructor: DAVE BROCK
(3 Credit Hours) An introduction to the historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives of school health education, physical education and sports studies. This course will also look at career development, and job opportunities in each of the fields and the new world of the technological workplace.
- Instructor: DEBRA ANDERSON-CONLIFFE
Designed to inform, interest and motivate students toward good health as it relates to effective, productive and satisfying living. We will look at health as a dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual and environmental dimensions. 2 Credit Hours
- Instructor: AARON SETTLE
(3 credit hours) This course is designed to be an introductory experience for the research consumer as well as the research producer in the health sciences. This course emphasizes developing conceptual understanding of using the scientific method as a means of problem solving, both as a critical consumer and as an entry-level researcher.
- Instructor: AARON SETTLE
(3 Credit Hour Course) This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to plan, implement and evaluate health promotion in a variety of settings. Emphasis will be placed on conducting needs assessments, data collection, intervention theories and models, implementation strategies, evaluation models, reporting. Prerequisite(s): HHP 456.
- Instructor: LINDSEY GOOD
(3 Credit Hours) This course addresses the full scope of leadership and its challenges with special emphasis on leading within the healthcare environment. Prerequisite(s): HHP 454.
- Instructor: LINDSEY GOOD
(3 Credit Hours) Problem solving, number systems, logic, consumer math, basic algebra and geometry, basic probability and statistics.
- Instructor: UPALI KARUNATHILAKE
(3 Credit Hours) Problem solving, number systems, logic, consumer math, basic algebra and geometry, basic probability and statistics.
- Instructor: UPALI KARUNATHILAKE
(3 credit hours) Linear and quadratic equations; radical expressions; polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions; systems of linear equations; matrices; linear programming; input / output models; applications to business and economics.
- Instructor: NAVEED ZAMAN
- Facilitator : SHERRI FOX
(Credit hours: 4) A comprehensive, issues based examination of the Earth’s environment, and humanity’s impact on it. Students will complete group discussions on various topics in environmental biology, and a laboratory experience consisting of a series of independent problems in environmental biology, in addition to mastering the standard lecture material. Does not count toward a major in Biology.
- Instructor: Vasilios Dianellos
First Year Experience is designed to help students develop the skills needed to be successful at WVSU and beyond. Course content includes developing college-level reading and study skills, career and major exploration, managing time and money wisely, building connections with faculty and students, awareness of campus and community resources, and increasing sensitivity to other cultures so students can effectively interact in an increasingly diverse and global community.
- Facilitator : MARK PARSONS
- Instructor: Kristina Deonaldo
- Instructor: James Rieber
- Facilitator : Test Instructor
- Instructor: Test Instructor
- Instructor: Sarah Howard
- Instructor: Course Instructor
- Instructor: Test Instructor
- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
- Instructor: Thomas Kiddie
- Instructor: ALAN TILLQUIST
This is a lecture/discussion/creating course that starts with objects of art in the student’s environment and proceeds from the comfortable and familiar to the internationally accepted aesthetic. Periods of art history and cultures of the world will be examined. The student will be exposed to the basic concepts of art through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial art, fibers and film.
- Facilitator : Rose Namay
This is a lecture/discussion/creating course that starts with objects of art in the student’s environment and proceeds from the comfortable and familiar to the internationally accepted aesthetic. Periods of art history and cultures of the world will be examined. The student will be exposed to the basic concepts of art through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial art, fibers and film.
- Instructor: MOLLY ERLANDSON
This is a lecture/discussion/creating course that starts with objects of art in the student’s environment and proceeds from the comfortable and familiar to the internationally accepted aesthetic. Periods of art history and cultures of the world will be examined. The student will be exposed to the basic concepts of art through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial art, fibers and film.
- Facilitator : Rose Namay
This is a lecture/discussion/creating course that starts with objects of art in the student’s environment and proceeds from the comfortable and familiar to the internationally accepted aesthetic. Periods of art history and cultures of the world will be examined. The student will be exposed to the basic concepts of art through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial art, fibers and film.
- Facilitator : Rose Namay
A combined lecture and studio course in which specific works from the past and present will be studied, analyzed, and used as a motivation for projects and discussion.
Designed to enhance your awareness of the visual world in which we live, this course will be a combination of lectures (visual presentations and films), discussions, and studio productions (your assignments and projects).
No prerequisites.
- Instructor: REIDUN OVREBO
A combined lecture and studio course in which specific works from the past and present will be studied, analyzed, and used as a motivation for projects and discussion.
Designed to enhance your awareness of the visual world in which we live, this course will be a combination of lectures (visual presentations and films), discussions, and studio productions (your assignments and projects).
No prerequisites.
- Instructor: REIDUN OVREBO
A combined lecture and studio course in which specific works from the past and present will be studied, analyzed, and used as a motivation for projects and discussion.
Designed to enhance your awareness of the visual world in which we live, this course will be a combination of lectures (visual presentations and films), discussions, and studio productions (your assignments and projects).
No prerequisites.
- Instructor: REIDUN OVREBO
A combined lecture and studio course in which specific works from the past and present will be studied, analyzed, and used as a motivation for projects and discussion.
Designed to enhance your awareness of the visual world in which we live, this course will be a combination of lectures (visual presentations and films), discussions, and studio productions (your assignments and projects).
No prerequisites.
- Instructor: REIDUN OVREBO
(3 credit hours). A survey of the origins and character of the visual arts from the Renaissance to the contemporary art world.
As manifestations of human ideas, the visual arts are central to understanding a culture or an historical era. While it is impossible to authentically reconstruct the past, a contextualized understanding of the historical development of Western arts and ideas will provide vital sense to the organization of our present dominant culture. It will aid in explaining the formation of artistic ideas, myths and traditions which continuously affect our concepts of art, and it will demonstrate the close correlation between a society's power structure and its definitions of artistic purpose and values.
Prerequisites: English 101 & 102
- Instructor: REIDUN OVREBO
The course provides an introduction to the functional disciplines of Business
Administration: Accounting, Finance, Management and Marketing. The course provides a survey of the
disciplines and will assist a student in choosing an area of concentrated studies leading to a degree in Business
Administration. The course will begin to build the skills necessary for a successful career in business.
- Instructor: ABAINESH MITIKU
The course provides an introduction to the functional disciplines of Business
Administration: Accounting, Finance, Management and Marketing. The course provides a survey of the
disciplines and will assist a student in choosing an area of concentrated studies leading to a degree in Business
Administration. The course will begin to build the skills necessary for a successful career in business.
- Instructor: ABAINESH MITIKU
Study of the tasks involved in the marketing of goods and services by both for-profit and nonprofit enterprises. Provides an overview of marketing mix decision requirements within a framework of contemporary economic, social, technological, competitive, and regulatory influences. Prerequisite(s): ECON 201 and 202.
- Instructor: Cheryl King
Analysis of the environment and the managerial functions of recruiting, employee assessments and development, retention, and employee relations with the enterprise, with emphasis on the relationships among people, on group interactions, on relations, and on relations between employers and employees.
- Instructor: ALAN TILLQUIST
The purpose of this 3 Credit Hours course is an overview of basic concepts of personal finance.
We will be concerned with formulation and implementation of payment methods, whether to
afford loan for measuring credit capacity debt payments-to-income ratio and debt-to-equity ratio,
computing unit prices, cost of renting, purchasing and insurance coverage, selecting
investments, and retirements.
- Instructor: MICHAEL LEWIS
- Instructor: PAUL KONSTANTY
- Web Instructor: Virginia Sullivan
This 3 Credit Hours course explores the many dimensions of new venture creation and growth
and to foster innovation and new business formations in independent and corporate settings.
We will be concerned with content and process questions as well as with formulation and
implementation issues that relate to conceptualizing, developing and managing successful new
ventures
- Facilitator : Nathan Gainer
(3 Credit Hours) This
course primarily focuses on the research writing process for a broad academic
community. It covers basic research inquiry, use of the library with electronic
and nonelectronic sources and techniques of formal writing. Attention is given
to argumentation and critical thinking skills.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.
- Instructor: JEFFREY PIETRUSZYNSKI
- Instructor: Cheryl King
- Instructor: JOHN HODGES
(3 credit hours) An introduction to different
types of securities, markets, transaction costs, security regulations, and
taxes. From the viewpoint of an individual investor, students investigate
stocks, bonds, money markets, instruments, options, futures, and mutual funds,
with detailed analysis of risk/return, pricing, and value.
- Instructor: Nathan Gainer
An international management survey course focusing on the nature and scope of global trade and
investment, the role of multilateral institutions including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund
(IMF), and World Trade Organization (WTO), the international monetary system and exchange markets,
and differences in national cultures in providing the environment in which trade and investment take
place. Additionally, the course focuses on the impacts that this environment has on the operating
decisions of international and multinational enterprises, especially with respect to the development of
global strategies and their effect on business functions such as management, marketing, finance, and
operations. Prerequisite: completion of BA 301.
- Instructor: ABAINESH MITIKU
- Instructor: MICHAEL LEWIS
(Credit hours: 4) A comprehensive, issues based examination of the Earth’s environment, and humanity’s impact on it. Students will complete group discussions on various topics in environmental biology, and a laboratory experience consisting of a series of independent problems in environmental biology, in addition to mastering the standard lecture material. Does not count toward a major in Biology.
- Instructor: Vasilios Dianellos
3 Credit Hours This course presents a comprehensive overview of Corrections as a “system”
and is a review of the philosophical and historical roots of punishment as well as contemporary
developments. Particular attention will be paid to Twentieth Century developments and evolving
trends in the Twenty - First Century. Prerequisite: CJ 101
- Instructor: CASSANDRA WHYTE
(3 Credit Hours) This course will examine the multifaceted problem of crime victimization. Focuses on the incidence of criminal victimization, social characteristics of crime victims, the treatment of the victim in the criminal justice system and efforts designed to alleviate the consequences of criminal victimization and provide support for the victim. Prerequisite(s): CJ 101.
- Instructor: Mark Addesa
3 Credit Hours The study of the dynamics of racial prejudice in the United States and how it
affects the criminal justice system. The relationship between minority status and criminality and
the interaction of minorities with criminal justice organizations will be analyzed. Characteristics
of female offenders are surveyed and offender classification systems are reviewed for their
relevance to understanding motivational and behavioral patterns of female offenders. This
course will explore the response of police and court officials to women as victims of crimes and
will examine employment opportunities for women and minorities in the criminal justice system.
Prerequisite: CJ 101
- Instructor: CASSANDRA WHYTE
(3 Credit Hours) This course is designed to cover the issues related to the development of
appropriate professional research techniques, document development, written and oral
communications in the criminal justice system, law enforcement, courts and corrections.
Students will concentrate on the development of proper research skills involving professional
and peer reviewed resources in various formats. The students will engage in a variety of
criminal justice writing styles, including policy analysis, regulation creation, legislation
development and case studies. They will refine their utilization of a criminal justice style sheet.
In addition to writing skills, attention will be given to the development of effective professional
oral communication techniques in the areas of conversation, interviewing, sworn depositions,
evidence and expository speaking. Prerequisite(s): CJ 223, 224, 226; also ENG 102 and COMM
100; all with a grade of C or better.
- Instructor: William Whyte
This course examines organizational and management theories as they apply to criminal justice agencies and organizations. Different management styles, practices and problems are discussed. Also covered are the structure, purpose and process of the criminal justice system and policy making in justice administration. Prerequisite(s): CJ 101, 223, 224, 225, 226, 307, 308, 313, 315, 322, 380 and senior standing.
- Instructor: William Whyte
- Instructor: WALTER STROUPE
This course will introduce the student to the study of homicide/murder including the history and types of homicide/murder. The methodology of the investigative process of homicide/murder will include many aspects of homicide/murder including crime scene investigation, modus operandi, sources of information, procedures, interrogation, and criminal profiling.
This course will introduce the student to the various definitions and degrees of homicide/murder as well as the patterns and trends. To further enhance the student’s understanding of homicide/murder, this course will incorporate interdisciplinary knowledge from the fields of criminology, sociology, history, psychology and political science.
- Instructor: WALTER STROUPE
This course focuses on techniques of data processing
emphasizing applications to criminal justice. Students will
increase their technical skills through hands on experiences,
such as analyzing data. They will become more aware of the
importance of SPSS in relation to criminal justice and
research.
- Facilitator : James Davidson
- Web Instructor: LEIGHANN DAVIDSON
This course focuses on the criminal justice system as a
component of the community, including the political, social
and economic networks that make up communities. Topics
include the interrelations between law enforcement, mental
health agencies, juvenile justice and the educational systems.
High-crime communities are studied, particularly in terms of
the impact on citizens, those who are victimized and others
who are not, but are afraid of their safety. The process of
community change is addressed in terms of the prevention of
crime.
- Instructor: MICHAEL KANE
(3 Credit Hours) A practical humanistic approach to interpersonal, small group and public communications. Focus is on the communicative event and its context with special emphasis on communication principles and skills.
- Instructor: ALI ZIYATI
(3 Credit Hours) This course looks at mass communications and the media and how it impacts
our daily lives. Students will explore many areas of communications including radio, television,
movies, books, music, the internet and more.
- Instructor: ALI ZIYATI
- Instructor: BRENDA WILSON
Curriculum development in areas which reinforce content, social, and
vocational learning for individuals with EMI, SLD and Multi-categorical. A field experience of
30 clock hours is required.
- Facilitator : SHERILL MORRIS
(3 credit hours) This course explores change theory and its application to the school setting. Candidates will identify and explore emerging trends and issues in the change process with emphasis on sustaining innovation through reculturing and ongoing professional learning and development.
Prerequisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program.
- Instructor: Paige Carney
This course explores standard and emergent technologies related to effective instruction and administrative operations within a school. Reliable and effective web-based communication and modalities of e-learning are examined, including the development of a school technology plan. This course will provide students with both the theoretical and the practical considerations for planning and implementing technology in public education settings. This course is designed so that students will gain an understanding of the role of the principal in moving beyond short-term thinking and helping schools move forward with technology.
- Facilitator : Kelli Epling
(3 credit hours) This course focuses on applying information on school needs as well as knowledge of local, state, and national policy to effective management practices. Students will learn how to legally and effectively manage school operations, including management of financial and human resources and how to schedule for the effective use of time and physical resources. This is an intense eight-week program that will allow you to learn what policies, procedures and technologies are in place for you to develop the proper allocation of resources.
- Instructor: Mickey Blackwell
(3 credit hours) The goal of this course is to prepare and equip educational leaders with the ability to examine critical issues related to providing leadership for diverse student populations. Educational leaders will understand what it means to be culturally responsive and learn strategies to rectify current race, class and gender inequities that exist throughout educational systems.
Prerequisites: Approved entry into the West Virginia State University’s Master’s in Instruction Educational leadership program. To facilitate learning, the instructor may alter the syllabus at any time during the course of the semester.
- Facilitator : SARA LEWIS-STANKUS
(3.00 credit hours) This course emphasizes writing and reading as elements of active learning and critical thinking.
- Instructor: JESSICA BARNES-PIETRUSZYNSKI
skills. Prerequisite(s): ENGL101.
- Instructor: ANNE MCCONNELL
skills. Prerequisite(s): ENGL101.
- Facilitator : CATHRYN CARENA
(3 Credit Hours) A study of fiction, poetry and drama through selected works of world literature. The course stresses basic themes and formal elements found in literature. Prerequisite: English 101 eligibility and completion of English 098, if you were required to take it, with a grade of “C” or above.
- Instructor: BARBARA LADNER
3 Credit Hours
An introduction to music for the non-major through historical survey and the development of listening skills. The individuals in the class will expect to understand the basic elements of music in order to develop competence in the aural analysis of music. The development of music will be examined in the light of historical events, and will be integrated with developments in the other arts, literature, and the humanities.
- Facilitator : AARON MORRIS
(3 Credit Hours) English 150 is a study of poetry, fiction, and drama through selected works of world
literature. The course stresses basic themes and formal elements found in literature. Prerequisite(s):
ENGL 101 Placement.
- Instructor: ANNE MCCONNELL
(3 Credit Hours) A study of American literary tradition from the Colonial Period through the Civil War. Prerequisites: ENGL 150 and 250
- Instructor: BARBARA LADNER
- Instructor: CAROL TAYLOR-JOHNSON
A survey of literature for the young adult based on wide
reading in the field. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and 150 or
permission of instructor.
- Instructor: CAROL TAYLOR-JOHNSON
2 Credit Hour Course - Designed to inform, interest and motivate students toward good health as it relates to effective, productive and satisfying living. We will look at health as a dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual and environmental dimensions
- Instructor: Jay Canterbury
2 Credit Hour Course - Designed to inform, interest and motivate students toward good health as it relates to effective, productive and satisfying living. We will look at health as a dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual and environmental dimensions
- Instructor: Jay Canterbury
(3 credit hours) This course is designed for current Sport Study Majors who are future fitness
professionals interested in helping individuals, communities, and groups gain the benefits of
participating in regular physical activity in a positive and safe environment. This course includes
guidelines for laboratory testing used in a health and fitness setting and for exercise
programming both in healthy populations and in populations with special needs.
- Instructor: MATTHEW BRADLEY
This course reviews dietary principles and behavior modification in overall health, as well as how to develop nutrition education interventions within community health programming. Prerequisite(s): BIO 303.
- Facilitator : DAVID COTTRILL
([3 Credit Hours]) This course will examine Native America, the European conquest, cultural encounters between Africans, Europeans and Native Americans; the colonial era, slavery, revolutionary and Early National periods; westward expansion, nationalism, industrialization and sectional strife through the Civil War and Reconstruction, centering on issues of race, class, society, politics and power. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102.
- Facilitator : Daniel Coy
([3 Credit Hours])This course focuses on the economic and political maturation of the United States from Reconstruction through the present. The influence of industrialization and increased government activity on the increasingly diverse American people and foreign powers is studied in the context of worldwide imperialism, the Gilded Age, Progressivism, World Wars and the Civil Rights movement in the American Century. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102.
- Facilitator : Daniel Coy
A brief survey of the African and Caribbean heritage followed by a more extensive study of the African in American History from 1619 to date. Appreciable emphasis will be placed on social, economic and political developments since 1954.
- Facilitator : NICK PATLER
(3 credit hours) Linear and quadratic equations; radical expressions; polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions; systems of linear equations; matrices; linear programming; input / output models; applications to business and economics.
- Instructor: NAVEED ZAMAN