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2018-2019 Greensburg Campus Catalog
University of Pittsburgh Greensburg
   
2018-2019 Greensburg Campus Catalog 
    
 
  Mar 29, 2024
 
2018-2019 Greensburg Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


Special Courses

Pitt-Greensburg offers a variety of special courses that students may use to enhance their educational experience. The special courses include independent studies, internships, excellence courses, study abroad courses, and capstone courses. Most of the special courses are optional, but for some majors (e.g. criminal justice) an internship is required, and the capstone course is required of all majors.

An independent study allows a student to explore a topic for which no course is available at Pitt-Greensburg or extend the exploration of a topic begun in a regular course. To arrange for an independent study, a student must find a faculty sponsor and work with the sponsor to develop a course plan. Independent study courses are available in every department. See an advisor for more details.

Internships allow students to earn credits toward graduation while gaining on-the-job experience in their majors. An internship is required in some majors (e.g. criminal justice and the journalism track in English writing), but it is available as an elective in most majors. Students are expected to find their own internship opportunities, but faculty advisors and the Office of Career Services may be aware of employers looking for interns and can provide suggestions about seeking an internship. Some departments ask students to complete an internship application. See a faculty advisor for more information.

Pitt-Greensburg students have an opportunity to study abroad in a country/region of their choice. Academic credits are earned while abroad and will transfer directly back into the student’s academic degree requirements. See the study abroad coordinator for more information.

As part of the new Pitt-Greensburg curriculum that took effect in fall 1999, every Pitt-Greensburg student must complete a senior seminar or a senior project as a capstone to the work in the major program. The faculty views the capstone course as a significant enhancement to the UPG degree program because it provides students with the opportunity to bring together the themes and skills of the major. Capstone work typically involves research and both written and oral reports.

Departmental Course Listings

Please note, when searching courses by Catalog Number, an asterisk (*) can be used to return mass results. For instance a Catalog Number search of ” 1* ” can be entered, returning all 1000-level courses.

 

Anthropology

  
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    ANTH 0455 - DIVERSITY IN THE US


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Who is an American? What does it mean to be American? What are the issues surrounding education as practice and as policy in the varied social context of the U.S.? This course explores the multi-layered and overlapping fields of identity in the United States from an anthropological perspective. Underpinning the various topics in the course are understandings of the interplay of culture (including language), power, and history. The particular fields that we shall examine include ethnicity, race, gender and sexualities, and class to better gain insight into the very meaning of the term “diversity” in the lives of “Americans.”
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0536 - MESOAMERICA BEFORE CORTEZ


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    When Cortez and his Spanish soldiers arrived in Mexico, they found Indians living in large cities with impressive temples raised on tall pyramids, lavish palaces for rulers, elaborate markets, and skilled craftsmen working in gold, copper, feathers, stone, pottery, and other materials. They were astonished at a civilization so like their own and yet so different (so “barbaric” to European eyes). This course explores the development of this civilization back to its roots several thousand years ago, by reconstructing earlier cultures known only from archeological evidence.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0582 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Examines the nature of modern archaeological research. Lectures look at how archaeologists work in the field, their analytic techniques, and some of the principal methodological and theoretical problems facing the field. Specific examples are used to illustrate these topics.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0680 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to introduce the undergraduate to the issues, theories and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider, the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0681 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an introduction to human evolution and, in general, the evolution of the larger group to which we belong, the order primates. We will survey first the development of evolutionary ideas and modern developments in biology and geology and then review the diversity of living and fossil primates, dwelling especially on the discoveries and controversies surrounding our own evolutionary past.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0715 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The purpose of this course is to offer students a basic yet comprehensive survey of the anthropology (including history, archeology and geography) of Latin America. This survey course will emphasize the development of Latin American societies and cultures since the European conquest, and focus on key issues/themes that have consistently surfaced in Latin American cultural anthropology and that have continuing priority, relevance and interest up to the present. This course is especially tailored to freshmen students with little or no knowledge of Latin America.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0780 - INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    By examining the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world, the course considers what it means to be human. We will describe the patterns of marriage, family organization, warfare and political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples, especially those of tribal societies, and compare these with American social patterns. Anthropological films and slide presentations will supplement lectures.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1030 - INDIA THROUGH ITS FILM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the portrayal of Indian cultures and society through the popular medium of art and commercial feature films over time. Topics such as gender roles, class, family, caste, secularism, religion and morality, urban and rural life, communalism and violence, colonialism, and nationalism will be analyzed in conjunction with anthropological readings on these topics. Films are subtitled.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1110 - ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    What are people like? What motivates them? How is “culture” constituted? How do we study culture, past and present? What might be the distinctions between culture and society in approaches to the study of human behavior? To what extent is human behavior comparable and universal? This course seeks to address these questions by examining the development of theory in anthropology from its 19th century roots to the present. We shall do this by looking at some major paradigms (evolution, structuralism, processualism, post structuralism, etc.) And methodologies that have shaped the cultural component of anthropology (sociocultural anthropology and archaeology) as we find it today. This course is required for students in the sociocultural track, and is recommended for students in the archaeology track.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582 or 0780; PLAN: Anthroplogy major
  
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    ANTH 1164 - INTEGRATED FIELD TRIP ABROAD: INDIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course takes students on a three-week project-focused experience in eastern India. It is literally “integrated” with the ANTH 1764 course and is therefore an extension of it.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: CREQ: ANTH 1764
  
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    ANTH 1220 - CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE HUMAN CHALLENGE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Drought and famine in the horn of Africa, the affected wine industry in France, loss of islands in the South Pacific, the opening of Arctic Seas. Environments in flux present us with dilemmas that span the spectrum of human life, from sheer survival to economic ‘windfalls.’ This course explores some of the issues related to shifting climate in various regions in the world today. It examines the impacts, consequences, and ‘solutions’ for human populations and environments, with a focus on the differing worldviews/cultures at play in connection with things economic, political, and ethical.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1305 - RELIGION AND CULTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The relationship of religion to human behavior in societies of various kinds will be examined in this course. The objective is to gain an understanding of the different theories that have been offered by anthropologists to explain the widespread existence of religion in modern and tribal societies. Special attention is given to the problem of defining religion and witchcraft, and the religious treatment of death.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780
  
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    ANTH 1310 - MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The seemingly accelerated movement of peoples in today’s world is an often misunderstood phenomenon, triggering political and socioeconomic anxieties for recipient localities (in both “internal” and “external” migrations). This course examines the situations, conditions, motivations, etc. Which initiate the various movements of peoples in different parts of the world and their experiences, from an anthropological and historical vantage.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1421 - GEOARCHAEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course, available to advanced students in archeology, is designed to introduce geological principles, methods, and techniques employed in contemporary archeological research. Topics include a detailed study of agencies and environments of sediment deposition, soil formation processes, and paleo-environmental reconstructions.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582 and (ANTH 1525 or 1526)
  
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    ANTH 1445 - LANGUAGE AND CULTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Language is the primary means of communication among humans. It operates on multiple levels, verbal and non-verbal, social, and cultural. The first part of the course introduces the main components of human language such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The second portion will focus on the connections between language and culture and the social contexts and forms (gender, class, etc.) In which language use occurs.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1447 - LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Certain cultural concerns are well-labelled linguistically: kinship, plant-names, diseases, colors, etc. The study of how such semantic fields are labelled and organized is ethnosemantics. Much of the way language is used depends on the context of speaking. Different ways of talking to different people is the subject matter of sociolinguistics. Some thoughts that we habitually think seem illogical on reflection, but it seems as if our language predisposes us to think this way. Such phenomena are addressed by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1481 - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Death as process and as fact generates a plethora of practices, beliefs, and responses cross-culturally. This course explores aging and death by examining cultural meanings and social actions employed by various cultures in dealing with the end of life, from the vantage of both the dying and the living. Included will be issues of identity and transformation, relegation and ritual, as well as the material implications of death.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1485 - THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL IN ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The contemporary ‘global’ world, so labeled due to an interlocked (thus, “independent”) economy, bears with it an array of “dilemmas”, confusions, and blurs of boundaries. Accelerated movements of peoples, cultures/ideas, labor/ work, diseases, etc., serve to transform human experience everywhere, and to bring into question notions of autonomy and identity in the world at large. Using anthropological insight and engagement, the course addresses the dynamic interaction between local cultures and globalization forces.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1510 - SURVEY WORLD PREHISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This basic course surveys the evolution of culture over the past two million years. Topics include the evolution of homo sapiens, development of agriculture, and rise of civilizations, from the perspectives of the old world and the Americas.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1525 - EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course deals with cultural development in the eastern United States from approximately 20,000 years ago to the period of European contact. Particular attention will be paid to man’s adaptation to late pleistocene and holocene environments, the initial occupation of the region East of the Mississippi, the origins of agricultural systems and the rise of complex societies, including the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian manifestations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582
  
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    ANTH 1526 - WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The prehistory of Western North America is examined in detail from the initial peopling of the area to the period of historic contact. Special emphasis is given to the Paleo-Indian and archaic techno/subsistence stages in the arid portions of the West.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582
  
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    ANTH 1534 - ARCHEOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS 1


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    An introduction to quantitative data analysis in archeology, this course covers basic principles of statistics, including exploratory analysis of batches, sampling, significance, t tests, analysis of variance, regression, chi-square, and estimating universe means and proportions from samples. The approach is practical, concentrating on understanding these principles so as to put them to work effectively in analyzing archeological data. Much of the statistical work is done by computer.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582 and (ANTH 1525 or 1526)
  
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    ANTH 1535 - BASIC ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TRAINING


    Minimum Credits: 6
    Maximum Credits: 6
    The university of Pittsburgh field training program in archaeology is conducted at various locations. Features of the excavations include basic training in mapping, archaeological survey, excavation methods, soil analysis, data recording, and preliminary artifact analysis.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1537 - BASIC LABORATORY ANALYSIS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is a follow-up course for anthropology 1534 basic field methods in archaeology. In anthropology 1537, students who have participated in the summer field training program will be instructed in the Methodology of Artefactual and Non-Artifactual analysis. All data recovered during the summer field training program will be processed by the students under the supervision and direction of the instructor. Special emphasis will be placed on lithic and perishable analysis as well as paleo-climatic reconstruction and quantitative methods.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582 with a B grade
  
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    ANTH 1540 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582, ANTH 1525, ANTH 1526
  
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    ANTH 1544 - ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the rise and fall of several ancient civilizations. It covers the archaeology and earliest history of regions recognized as significant independent centers for the development of early civilization: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China, South East Asia, MesoAmerica, and Andean South America. Central themes concern: why and how civilizations first emerge and then collapse; relationships among economic, political, social, and ideological factors in early civilizations; generic versus unique qualities of different early civilizations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1603 - HUMAN ORIGINS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This will be an in-depth look at the history of study of human evolution and the current theories and controversies surrounding the interpretation of our relatedness to the various apes as well as of the fossils representing our evolutionary past.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1627 - PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to introduce advanced students in anthropology to experimental flintworking and lithic analysis used in contemporary archaeological research. As part of the detailed study of lithic technology it provides hands-on experience in all facets of replicative manufacture, use, and analysis of stone tools.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0582 and (ANTH 1525 or 1526 or 1626)
  
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    ANTH 1705 - SUPERNATURAL WORLDS: ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The anthropology of religion endeavours to place things religious within the wider context of society and culture. This approach to religion is comparative, allowing for greater insights into the influences of religion in one’s own social and cultural setting. The focus of the course is on systems of belief and practice, which occur on what is often referred to as the “margins” of society. Course will examine theories in the anthropology of religion and address specific topics such as 1) myth, symbol, and ritual; 2) magic, witchcraft, and divination; 3) healing and possession, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1732 - POLITICS IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Whether it be Melanesian Big Men, Caste Councils in India, Polynesian chiefdoms, or modern states, an understanding of political realms involves a consideration of both systemic and individual levels of cultural ideologies and practice. In this course, we will examine some of the key literature in political anthropology that focus on notions of power and powerlessness, agency, and autonomy from an anthropological cross-cultural vantage, past and present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780
  
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    ANTH 1736 - NEWS OF THE WORLD


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Students who wish to gain academic credit for attendance and participation in ‘news of the world’ may now do so. The format of the meetings will remain informal and continuous, and will be for 1 credit per term, for up to three credits for three (not necessarily contiguous) terms. Students who wish to register for credit will be evaluated on a minimum number of attended meetings, on participation and sharing, and on two write-ups. This course fulfills an international culture requirement.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1738 - GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course analyzes gender perspectives in anthropology. Students are asked to consider how gender differences relate to women’s and men’s roles in productive labor, in property rights, and in family and kin relations. Special attention is given to the way gender and sexual difference are represented in culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1750 - UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This seminar brings together all undergraduate majors in anthropology for a seminar on the methods by which cultures around the world change over time. Defining such methods occupies much of any anthropologist’s time, be he or she an ethnographer, archaeologist, physical anthropologist or linguist. The seminar therefore examines this central problem from many perspectives and affords the student ample opportunity for personal expression as well as rewarding discussion and research in a peer group environment.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780
  
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    ANTH 1756 - ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course reviews the development of economic anthropology as a special field of study. Emphasis is placed on economic change and the impact of industrialization on the third world. Ethnographic examples are drawn from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Topics to be discussed include economic theory in anthropology, exchange and the origin/use of money, the development of wage labor, marketing and commodity production, theories of economic development and underdevelopment.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1761 - PATIENTS AND HEALERS: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys the field of medical anthropology and its history within the discipline of anthropology as a whole, from the perspective of social-cultural theory. Topics dealt with include ethnomedicine, ethnographic cases, cross-cultural studies of healing practices and connections between medicine and religion. Reference is also made to applied research in contemporary situations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1762 - HUMAN ECOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the ecology of the human species. We will study how humans adapt to their physical and cultural environment, and the interrelationships between people and the environment. Topics discussed include evolution and adaptation, population growth and regulation, foraging and subsistence strategies and production decisions, population interactions and resource management, and energy and human society.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780 + one other ANTH course
  
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    ANTH 1763 - FIELD METHODS


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    This course is designed to acquaint students with basic ethnographic fieldwork techniques. Topics addressed include taking and managing fieldnotes on participant-observation, systematic or structured interviews, behavioral observation, and use of archival materials. There will also be some discussion of the relationship between research design, data collection, and data analysis.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1764 - CULTURES AND SOCIETIES OF INDIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to introduce students to the cultural history of India and to the culture and society of the modern country, concentrating on the description and analysis of modern Indian society. Topics to be covered include caste, kinship and marriage, village communities, law and society and politics in modern India.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1775 - APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Viewing applied anthropology as a possible career choice, this course will define the field, contrast it with basic anthropology, examine the concept of policy analysis, and survey the kinds of applied anthropology conducted within the realm of cultural anthropology (urban, education, community development, etc.). Methods and techniques used in applied anthropology will be reviewed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1780 - INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys the biological and cultural heritages which distinguish humans from other advanced evolutionary forms. Through physical anthropology and prehistory, it outlines major developments over the past five million years. Through linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, it describes the universal features of social institutions and human behavior, drawing comparative examples from primitive, traditional, and modern societies.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1787 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 4
    This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780
  
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    ANTH 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course allows qualified students to develop highly personalized research projects in conjunction with a faculty sponsor. The student will have to develop a bibliography, outline an approach to the project, and devise a methodology. The project work products are agreed to by the student and the faculty sponsor. Typical products may be a report, paper, or other tangible result of the student’s efforts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780 and one upper-level ANTH course
  
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    ANTH 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH-READINGS


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Not all topics in anthropology can be adequately addressed in formal courses. The reading course allows qualified students to develop a bibliography for a specific topic not covered by other courses in the department. The work is done in conjunction with a faculty sponsor, and the student and faculty sponsor jointly determine the work products for the course, a research paper or annotated bibliography based upon the readings is typical, but other products may be substituted.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780 and one upper-level ANTH course
  
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    ANTH 1955 - ANTHROPOLOGY CAPSTONE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Capstone course for senior anthropology majors.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780; LVL: Senior
  
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    ANTH 1956 - ARCHEOLOGY CAPSTONE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Capstone course for senior archeology majors.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 1525, ANTH 1526 or (ANTH 1534 and ANTH 1626); LVL: Senior

Astronomy

  
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    ASTRON 0088 - STONEHENGE TO HUBBLE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course focusing on practical astronomy and providing a historical perspective of our place in the universe. Phenomena that can be readily observed with the unaided eye or a small telescope are discussed. The historical perspective starts with the earliest views, and discusses scientific discovery as a process leading up to modern ideas of the expanding universe of galaxies.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ASTRON 0089 - STARS, GALAXIES AND THE COSMOS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course deals primarily with astronomical objects lying outside our solar system. The level is appropriate for non-science students.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

Biological Sciences

  
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    BIOSC 0070 - BIOLOGY LABORATORY 1


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course is designed to introduce biology as an experimental science. The course exposes the student to some basic concepts and laboratory techniques and provides a foundation for future laboratory courses and work in biology.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 0170
  
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    BIOSC 0080 - BIOLOGY LABORATORY 2


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course is designed to introduce biology as an experimental science. The course exposes the student to some basic concepts and laboratory techniques and provides a foundation for future laboratory courses and work in biology.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0170/0070; COREQ: BIOSC 0180
  
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    BIOSC 0105 - TOPICS IN BIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Intended for students who do not have a strong biology preparation from high school. The lecture will cover a subset of topics from Foundations of Biology 1 and 2.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 0170 - FOUNDATION OF BIOLOGY 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an introductory course divided into two parts. The first part covers the cellular basis of life including a discussion of simple chemistry-cells as units of structure and function and energy transformations. The second part includes an examination of those functions common to all organisms such as nutrition, gas and fluid transport and hormonal and neuronal control. Throughout, the emphasis is on the mechanisms used by different organisms to accomplish these basic functions.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 0070
  
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    BIOSC 0180 - FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course covers the basic principles of classical and molecular genetics, evolution, and ecology. Emphasis will be placed on the experimental and observational basis for our knowledge of these subjects.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0170/0070; COREQ: BIOSC 0080
  
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    BIOSC 0350 - GENETICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to examine the gene in the following dimensions: the gene as a unit of transmission, a unit of function, and a unit of mutation. In addition, the distribution and activity of genes in populations will be considered in the context of current theories of evolution.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080
  
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    BIOSC 0470 - BIOLOGY OF AGING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Biological aging is a phase of growth and development which starts at conception and ends at death. This course will provide an understanding of the gradual deterioration of body structures and functions characteristic of senescence. The various biological theories that attempt to explain the pheno- of aging will be examined.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 0745 - FIELD STUDIES IN ECOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 6
    Basic ecological (biomes, ecosystems, community ecology, population ecology, and adaptations) and environmental science (human population growth, resource use, and pollution) concepts, will be taught in outdoor locations. Sites will vary, and may include the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the Amazonian Rainforest. All-day field trips to significant sites will be supplemented by evening lectures and talks by local experts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 0750 - EXPLORING THE BOLIVIAN ENVIRONMENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course uses ecological principles as a foundation to address major global environmental problems. Special emphasis will be given to Bolivian concerns as well as solutions to those problems. Particular topics will include energy, water resources, environmental health, biodiversity, agriculture, and environmental education and ethics. Student will visit Bolivia during spring break to have first-hand contact with these topics via talks from local experts as well as field trips to environmentally significant sites, including the amazon rain forest.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 0820 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course for non-science majors utilizing basic scientific principles to investigate human interactions with the environment. The social, political and economic effects of these interactions will also be studied. Topics include scientific principles; populations and health concerns; food, land, and biological resources; and society and the environment. Through an understanding of science and the possible consequences of human decision-making regarding the environment, students are equipped to become better citizens.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 0950 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An introductory course in structure and function of the human body designed as a foundation course for nursing students. Emphasis is given to the chemical and cellular organization of the body, as well as the principal systems. Throughout the course, concepts of homeostasis, stress response, metabolic activities, and pathological diseases are continually stressed. The first term covers cell chemistry, cell ultrastructure and physiology, histology, integument, musculoskeletal physiology, nervous system, endocrine system, and sense organs.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 0951 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY 1


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Laboratory associated with Anatomy and Physiology 1 lecture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: CO-REQ: BIOSC 0950
  
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    BIOSC 0970 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The second term of the introductory course in structure and function of the human body for nursing students. The body systems discussed are the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory, and reproductive.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREREQ: BIOSC 0950
  
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    BIOSC 0971 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB 2


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Laboratory associated with Anatomy and Physiology 2 lecture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: CO-REQ: BIOSC 0970
  
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    BIOSC 0980 - MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    BIOSC 0981 - MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY LAB


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    BIOSC 1000 - BIOCHEMISTRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the principles and underlying themes of modern biochemistry. The course includes all the major topics in biochemistry in considerable depth including thermodynamics and enzymology, protein and nucleic acid structure, function, and synthesis, lipids and membranes as well as metabolic pathways. This course will require that you master a new vocabulary including chemical structures, and there is an emphasis throughout on experimental approaches, molecular mechanisms, and problem solving. Although the same topics will be covered as in the two semester biochemistry series (BIOSC 1810-1820), no one topic in BIOSC 1000 will be covered in as much detail.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; CHEM 0310/330; CHEM 0320/0340
  
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    BIOSC 1017 - EPIDEMIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces the basic principles and methods of epidemiology for studying the distribution and determinants of disease outcomes. Topics include descriptive epidemiology, morbidity and mortality studies, analytical techniques, and evaluation of preventive methods.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1090 - INTRODUCTION TO BIOPSYCHOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is a survey course in which the biological bases of certain classes of behavior are explored. The behaviors studied are limb movement, sleep and wakefulness, feeding, sexual behavior and learning and memory. Each of these behaviors is considered from the point of view which brain structures and which neurotransmitters are involved in the production of that behavior. Emphasis is also placed on experimental techniques used to obtain relevant data and on the type of inferences which can be made from these experiments.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or BIOSC 0170
  
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    BIOSC 1110 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The first course in a two-part sequence dealing with macroscopic and microscopic anatomy and physiology of the human body, with special emphasis on relationships between structure and function. Included in the two courses are cell biology, histology, embryology, bone and skeleton, muscles and contraction, the cardiovascular system and its regulation, the nervous system and nervous impulse, the urinary system and electrolyte balance, and the respiratory, digestive, endocrine, and reproductive systems.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180 and 0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1111
  
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    BIOSC 1111 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB 1


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Laboratory exercises illustrating the anatomy and physiology of the human body.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREREQ: BIOSC 0180 and 0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1110
  
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    BIOSC 1115 - HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The second course in a two-part sequence dealing with macroscopic and microscopic anatomy and physiology of the human body, with special emphasis on relationships between structure and function. Included in the two courses are cell biology, histology, embryology, bone and skeleton, muscles and contraction, the cardiovascular system and its regulation, the nervous system and nervous impulse, the urinary system and electrolyte balance, and the respiratory, digestive, endocrine, and reproductive systems.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 1110
  
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    BIOSC 1116 - ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB 2


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Laboratory exercises illustrating the anatomy and physiology of the human body.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1150 - HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will examine the theory, process and pattern of evolutionary change. The history of the change of thinking about evolution in society will be highlighted, with critical thinking skills being emphasized. This course will encompass both microevolutionary and macroevolutionary concepts. Lecture topics will include inheritance and variation, population genetics, natural selection, speciation, adaptation, the fossil record, and phylogenetics.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    BIOSC 1200 - VERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of the gross anatomy, histology, development, and evolution of the vertebrate body. Topics: vertebrate origin, phylogeny, and classification; basic histology; early embryology; evolutionary morphology; integument; skeletal system; muscular system; sense organs; nervous system; endocrine system; body cavity and mesenteries; digestive system; respiratory system; circulatory system; excretory system; reproductive system. Each system is examined in terms of its embryonic development, histology, functional anatomy, and evolutionary history. General principles of evolutionary morphology are emphasized. The purpose of the course is to provide an understanding of the history and functional anatomy of the body. It is designed as a background for studies in embryology, physiology, systematics, and human anatomy and physiology in professional schools.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1210
  
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    BIOSC 1210 - VERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This is a laboratory to accompany BIOSC 1200. Students will dissect a shark and a cat, study various skeletons (including human), and examine histology slides. The purposes of the course are to illustrate the structures discussed in the BIOSC 1200 lectures, and to give the student the personal experience of learning animal structure through dissection and observation.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 1200
  
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    BIOSC 1215 - INTRODUCTION TO NEUROSCIENCE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies the basic structure and function of the central and peripheral nervous system. There is an emphasis on the effects of lesions of the nervous system on human function and disability.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180, 0080
  
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    BIOSC 1280 - MICROBIAL GENETIC ENGINEERING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will consist of a series of lectures discussing the molecular genetics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes and ways in which they can be genetically engineered. It includes: (1) the genome structures of microbes, (2) classic methods for genetic exchange, (3) current approaches to genetic engineering, (4) applications of genetic engineering to human disease. Visits to the computer lab will introduce web-based analysis of microbial genome sequences.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1320 - POPULATION BIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is a course in the scientific study of the distribution and abundances of animal and plant populations. The course will begin with the dynamics of single populations, emphasizing demography, exponential growth, and intra-specific competition. Next we will cover interactions between populations, especially competition and predation. Finally we will consider the implications of population dynamics to the evolution of life history strategies, to population regulation, and to community structure. Throughout, empirical studies of natural and laboratory populations will be used to test mathematical models of population processes.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1371 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is an introduction to the scientific study of environmental hazards that affect human health. Biological, chemical and physical factors that are found in the air, water, soil, and food will be assessed from the perspective of both the industrialized and developing worlds. Students will learn about current issues in the field of environmental health, including the assessment, correction, control, and prevention of environmental hazards and their effects on the human body.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0070, BIOSC 0170, BIOSC 0080, BIOSC 0180
  
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    BIOSC 1380 - GLOBAL ECOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Compelling evidence points to the 1990’s as the decade of environmental crisis. Human quality of life, and probably survival, likely depends more on treaties about land, air, and water than on weaponry. This course will examine environmental issues of the decade and the basic concepts of the fundamental environmental science - ecology - that underlie them. The nature of key environmental changes, their extent and rates, will be considered, along with likely consequences and possible solutions.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1385 - ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    This course addresses areas of major environmental concerns after a foundation in selected ecological principles is established. The basic understanding of natural systems, including organism, population, community, and ecosystem ecology will be explored. Then current issues related to human population growth, natural resource use, and pollution will be examined using a global case study approach. Student discussion and writing concerning controversial issues will be stressed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PLANS: Pre-Education/Early/Secondary Education
  
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    BIOSC 1470 - BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will deal with fundamental physical chemical principles especially applicable in the study of molecular biology. Topics will include (1) thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium; (2) kinetic theory and transport; and (3) chemical and enzyme kinetics. These subjects will be richly highlighted with numerous examples from biological systems, and techniques for studying these systems will be described. The topics covered will be developed from a physical chemical point of view.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1480 - EMBRYOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The development of some invertebrates’ and vertebrates’ eggs, embryos, organs and systems is examined in the light of basic concepts and problems of embryology, emphasizing the techniques, critical approaches, and analytic methods of experimental embryology.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1490
  
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    BIOSC 1490 - EMBRYOLOGY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    The embryological development of the frog, chick and pig are intensively studied in microscopic preparations emphasizing the integration of temporal and spatial events with attention to homology and adaptation.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 1480
  
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    BIOSC 1500 - CELL BIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will be devoted to a discussion of the current state of our understanding of cell structure and function. Eukaryotic cells will be emphasized with particular attention to animal cells. However, prokaryotic cells will be discussed for comparative purposes. Course material will emphasize the experimental basis for our understanding of cell biology and the relationship between structure and function. Most of the techniques to be considered will involve biochemical and molecular biological approaches used in the study of cell function. Thus the course will assume a familiarity with the principles of biochemistry covered in the prerequisites and will not repeat this material. Topics will include membranes, the nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts, the cytoskeleton, cell motility, growth and division, endocytosis and exocytosis, and selected topics on the cellular biological aspects of cancer and the immune system.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1510
  
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    BIOSC 1510 - CELL BIOLOGY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This experimental methods course is designed to give upper division majors and opportunity to learn modern techniques used in cell biology research. Students will master the fundamentals of light microscopy (bright field, phase contrast, and dark field) and explore more advanced techniques such as fluorescence, confocal, video, and differential interference contrast microscopy. Students will isolate plasma membranes, mitochondria, nuclei, brush borders, and flagella and characterize these organelles by microscopy, enzyme assays and antibody labeling.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 1500
  
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    BIOSC 1520 - DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The mechanisms of animal development will be analyzed. The first half of the course will emphasize classic embryological investigations focusing on how the embryonic body plan becomes organized, while the second half will deal primarily with the genetic and molecular regulation of development. The experimental analysis of such processes as fertilization, morphogenetic movements, tissue interactions, pattern formation, and gene expression will be discussed using examples from a variety of animal embryos, and by discussion of the current research literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1530 - DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This laboratory course is designed to provide students with practical experience in the scientific method of experimental research with regard to animal development. Initial labs will stress observational skills, but the goal of each will be to understand the careful and deliberate process of experimental design, execution, and the interpretation of results. The importance of establishing and interpreting controls in experimental procedure will also be emphasized.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    BIOSC 1535 - SENSATION AND PERCEPTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the nature of the mechanisms that transform sensory input into our perceptual experience of the world. Topics include: structure and function of sensory system, perception of color, object, motion, etc. Both information-processing and ecological approaches to the study of perception are considered.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0170 or PSY 0010
  
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    BIOSC 1560 - CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    In this seminar course, a single topic each term is developed by student presentations of research articles from the original scientific literature, as chosen by the instructor. Possible topics might include genes encoding major developmental switch proteins, the cytoskeletal basis of morphological movements in development, or establishing and subdividing body axes in development.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 1480 or BIOSC 1500 or BIOSC 1520
  
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    BIOSC 1580 - BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    In this seminar course, a single topic each term is developed by student presentations of research articles from the original scientific literature, as chosen by the instructor. Recent topics have included biosynthesis of peptide hormones, recombinant DNA technology, processing of mRNA precursors, protein folding with emphasis on the molecular biology and biochemistry of chaperonins, and protein translocation within cells.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 1000 or BIOSC 1810
  
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    BIOSC 1760 - IMMUNOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Course will describe the role of the immune system invertebrates. The molecular and cellular basis of immunity will be emphasized. The roles of antigens, antibodies and immunocompetent cells in pathogenesis and immunity will be covered. The applications of immunology in the design of vaccines, immunotherapeutic, immunodiagnostics, organ transplantation, cancer therapy, and immune system diseases will be discussed, as will the use of immunology in biological research.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080
  
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    BIOSC 1810 - MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is concerned primarily with the structure and functions of proteins and nucleic acids. These are large polymers where structure and function are determined by the sequence of monomeric units. Topics will include the physical and chemical properties of the monomer units (amino acids/nucleotides); the determination of the linear sequence of these units; analyses of the three-dimensional structures of the macromolecules; kinetics and mechanisms of enzyme catalyzed reactions, including RNA enzymes; regulation of enzyme activity; molecular recognition; and fidelity of protein synthesis. Emphasis throughout will be on experimental methods, molecular mechanisms and problem solving.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; CHEM 0310/0330; CHEM 0320/0340
  
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    BIOSC 1820 - METABOLIC PATHWAYS AND REGULATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The primary focus of this course will be on the pathways of intermediary metabolism by which all cells and organisms synthesize and degrade carbohydrates, lipids (fats), nitrogenous compounds, and nucleotides. Specifically, we will examine the chemistry of the reactions that constitute these pathways, and discuss how energy is derived from the breakdown of nutrients. A strong emphasis will be placed on how the pathways are regulated by specific molecules and hormones in living systems. Finally, we will consider how several human diseases arise from defects in metabolic pathways, and will review papers in the current scientific literature on new techniques by which the components of metabolic pathways are characterized in the laboratory.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 1810; CREQ: BIOSC 1825
  
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    BIOSC 1825 - BIOCHEMISTRY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Introduces several basic experimental techniques of biochemistry including spectrophotometry, ion-exchange and gel-permeation chromatography, radio-chemical methods, gel electrophoresis, enzyme isolation, and nucleic acid purification. Lecture will concern the techniques under study.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 1810 CO-REQ: BIOSC 1820
  
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    BIOSC 1830 - BIOCHEMISTRY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Course introduces several basic experimental techniques of biochemistry including spectrophotometry, ion-exchange and gel-permeation chromatography, radio-chemical methods, gel electrophoresis, enzyme isolation, and nucleic acid purification. Lecture will concern the techniques under study.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 1810; CREQ: BIOSC 1820
  
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    BIOSC 1850 - MICROBIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce students to the basic biology, diversity in types, and survival strategies of microorganisms. We will study basic topics, including microbial growth, metabolism, nutrition and genetics, as well as the relevance of microorganisms to human disease, biotechnology and environmental science.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1860
  
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    BIOSC 1860 - MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This laboratory course introduces basic techniques used for isolation of microorganisms in pure culture, identification of groups of microorganisms, and study of microbial physiology, genetics, and ecology. Some topics in applied microbiology that are covered include food microbiology, water and waste water analysis, and identification and antibiotic sensitivity-testing of pathogenic isolates. Viruses, archaebacterial, bacteria, algae, protozoa, and fungi that students isolate from soil, pond water, human skin, and other sources are used to illustrate these methods.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 1850
  
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    BIOSC 1870 - ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Course is a survey of the current state of our knowledge of how animals work. The emphasis will be on physiological mechanisms for survival in natural environments. A comparative approach will stress the diversity of physiological adaptations throughout the animal kingdom. Topics include nutrition, metabolism, muscle, respiration, circulation, osmoregulation, sensory and neural physiology, and hormones. The material will stress multi-cellular systems of organization at the levels of tissues, organs, and whole animals.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180/0080; COREQ: BIOSC 1875
  
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    BIOSC 1875 - ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    A comprehensive study of the various physiological mechanisms employed by different animal groups in adapting to their environment.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: COREQ: BIOSC 1870
  
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    BIOSC 1885 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduces the fundamental principles of medicinal chemistry. It explains the molecular basis for the mechanisms of action of drugs, drug-receptor interactions, and drug design approaches, including structure-based and ligand-based drug design.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0180; CHEM 0320
  
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    BIOSC 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 6
    A program of independent reading with individual tutorials on a topic chosen in consultation with the BIOSC faculty member who will supervise the program.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
 

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