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PHIL: Philosophy

Course # Course Title Credits
PHIL 101 Philosophical Problems 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Introduces the problems and systems of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and religion.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better or suitable placement score and pass.

PHYS: Physics

Course # Course Title Credits
PHYS 201 General Physics I 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Explores classical mechanics, including motion, forces, and energy. Intended for students without a calculus background. Lab required.Prerequisites: MATH 112

PHYS 202 General Physics II 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Explores fluids, elasticity, waves and sound, thermodynamics, and electrostatics. Intended for students without a calculus background. Lab required.Prerequisites: PHYS 201.

PHYS 203 General Physics III 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Explores electric and magnetic theory, electronics, light, and optics. Intended for students without a calculus background. Lab required.Prerequisites: PHYS 202.

PHYS 211 Classical Physics I 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Explores classical mechanics, including motion, forces, and energy. Intended for students with a calculus background. Lab required.Prerequisites: MATH 251 or concurrent enrollment in MATH 251.

PHYS 212 Classical Physics II 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Explores fluids, elasticity, waves and sound, thermodynamics, and electrostatics. Intended for students having a calculus background. Lab required.Prerequisites: PHYS 211 and MATH 251 and 252, or concurrent enrollment in MATH 252.

PHYS 213 Classical Physics III 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Explores electric and magnetic theory, electronics, light, and optics. Intended for students with a calculus background.. Lab required.Prerequisites: PHYS 212, and MATH 252, and MATH 253, or concurrent enrollment in MATH 253.

POSC: Political Science

Course # Course Title Credits
POSC 201 American Government 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Introduces the principles of the American constitutional system, and examines civil liberties, minority rights, and issues of social equality.

POSC 202 American Government 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Examines issues of public opinion, interest groups, and their impact upon government systems; political party structures; campaigning and elections; the influence of media; and state and local governments.

POSC 203 American Government 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

Examines the three branches of government plus governmental bureaucracies. Analyzes major policy areas of national government. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.

PSYC: Psychology

Course # Course Title Credits
PSYC 101 Psychology Of Human Relations 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Emphasizes the theory and practice of human relations in the work setting, including self-management skills, role as employee, and effective participation in work groups. Stresses self awareness, awareness of others, managing stress and emotions, building healthy relationships, interpersonal communications, intercultural sensitivity, conflict resolution, and professional behavior.

PSYC 201 General Psychology 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Introduces psychology, discussing biological processes and principles and theories of human behavior. Surveys experimental design, including elementary statistics, tests and measurements. Examines biological, and developmental aspects, including consciousness, senses, and perceptual processes.

PSYC 202 General Psychology 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Stresses memory, thinking, and developmental stages. Discusses theories of intelligence and learning. Surveys psychological processes of language and thought, motivation, emotion, and primary theories of human growth and development.Prerequisites: PSYC 201, or BIOL 101.

PSYC 203 General Psychology 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Spring

Stresses abnormal psychology and social psychology. Discusses theories of personality adjustment, abnormal psychology, psychological intervention, stress, conflict, and social psychology.Prerequisites: PSYC 201, or BIOL 101.

PSYC 231 Human Sexuality 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

A comprehensive study of human sexuality with an emphasis on sexual issues from scientific and humanistic perspectives. This course includes a survey of historical, cultural and cross-cultural variation in sexuality, sex research, female and male sexual and reproductive anatomy and physiology, gender issues, sexual response, sexual communication, sexual behavior patterns, love and sexual orientations.

PSYC 235 Intro To Human Development I 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Discusses theoretical perspectives, and physiological, social, and psychological forces that impact the stages of human development form conception through late childhood.Prerequisites: PSYC 201, or BIOL 101.

PSYC 236 Intro To Human Development II 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Discusses theoretical perspectives, and physiological, social, and psychological forces that impact the stages of human development from adolescence through late adulthood. Discusses special topics pertaining to those stages in life.Prerequisites: PSYC 201, or BIOL 101.

PSYC 237 Seasons Of Life 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Focuses on the concept that development is a lifelong process, beginning at conception and continuing into late adulthood. Considers human development as influenced by three "clocks": the biological clock, the social clock, and the psychological clock.Prerequisites: PSYC 201, or BIOL 101.