2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Jul 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue

Course Descriptions


 

Operations

  
  • OM 330 - Operations Management

    (3.00 cr.)

    Develops the processes by which organizations create value. Students develop an overview of the planning and operation of systems using resources to convert raw materials, components, etc. to goods and services consumed by end customers. Topics include operations strategy, design of processes, product and process quality, global competition and supply chain issues, productivity of operating systems, impact on societal and physical environment, and both qualitative and quantitative methods to improve decision making.

    Prerequisite: EC 102 , EC 220 , IS 251  or BH 251 MA 151  or MA 251  or equivalent. 
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • OM 334 - Global Supply Chain Strategy and Sourcing

    (3.00 cr.)

    Global supply chain strategy and sourcing management introduces the students to global supply chain issues including strategy and sourcing management. Topics include understanding global supply chain structure, key tensions in designing a supply chain and cultural issues when dealing with global supply chains. Sourcing and procurement topics include purchasing process, sourcing strategy development, supplier evaluation and selection, supplier management and development, and understanding elements of negotiation and purchasing law. Recommended completion during junior year.

    Prerequisite: OM 260  or OM 330  or BH 330 .
    Restrictions: Restricted to sophomores, juniors, or seniors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IMC
  
  • OM 335 - Project Management

    (3.00 cr.)

    Develops principles and management techniques needed to successfully complete projects. Utilizes technology to assist in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing a project. Discusses the human costs of change and disruption associated with new projects. Recommended completion during the junior year.

    Prerequisite: OM 260  or OM 330  or BH 330 MG 201  or BH 201 .
    Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IMC
  
  • OM 406 - Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics

    (3.00 cr.)

    In supply chain management, logistics is the planning, implementation, and control of the efficient and effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the consumer. This course provides a practical management perspective of these areas: distribution, transportation, international logistics, inventory control, sustainable logistics practices, and leadership in a supply chain. The course provides hands-on logistics technology experience using an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. Students will be prepared to gather, describe, and analyze data; use advanced statistical tools to make decisions; understand what data is needed; and how to use data to measure supply chain performance. On this basis, students learn how to apply various data tools and methods to analyze trends, forecast customer demand, extract business intelligence, and make decisions.

    Prerequisite: OM 334 .
    Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IMC
  
  • OM 499 - Internship in Operations Management

    (3.00 cr.)

    Individual study and group preparation and reflection while working for an organization. Students work with an operations or information systems professional, performing duties which are matched with Loyola coursework. Each internship is constructed by an operations management professor in conjunction with the on-site supervisor. Students work with the professor before engagement and at end of the term.

    Prerequisite: OM 260  ​or OM 330  or BH 330 .
    Restrictions: Restricted to seniors or written permission of the instructor.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually


Philosophy

  
  • PL 201 - Foundations of Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    A one semester introduction to philosophy. Three focal points are covered: the emergence and development of rational theories on the nature of reality (metaphysics); questions concerning the grounds for distinguishing between knowledge and opinion (epistemology); and the nature and status of values (ethical, aesthetic, religious, etc.). Special attention is paid to the origins of philosophy and its historical beginnings in the ancient world.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 202 - Philosophical Perspectives: The Project of Modernity

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines distinctive aspects of the modern philosophical project as it relates to questions of science, politics, society, history, or morals. Philosophical theories ranging from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries are treated in their historical development and/or their opposition to ancient teachings.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 210 - Philosophical Perspectives: Politics and Society

    (3.00 cr.)

    Addresses the basis and goals of human society, including issues concerning the structure of the good community as balanced against the interests of the individual.

    Recommended Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IPJ
  
  • PL 216 - Philosophical Perspectives: Asian Thought

    (3.00 cr.)

    An introduction to the philosophical and spiritual traditions of Asia, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Comparisons with Western thought are explored.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IA/ICL
  
  • PL 220 - Philosophical Perspectives: Art and Imagination

    (3.00 cr.)

    An exploration of the parallel development of philosophy and art as truth-disclosing activities.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 224 - Philosophical Perspectives: Soul and Psyche

    (3.00 cr.)

    An examination of the philosophical foundations of psychology from Plato to Freud.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 228 - Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy and Genocide

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the challenges that genocide poses for philosophy and what philosophy and philosophers might do to confront and even prevent genocide.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
  
  • PL 230 - Philosophical Perspectives: Humanity and Divinity

    (3.00 cr.)

    A philosophical investigation of the nature and meaning of the religious life.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 232 - Philosophical Perspectives: Gender and Nature

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the history of Western concepts of nature and science with particular attention to how ideas about hierarchy, gender, and violence have affected our relationship to the natural world. Introductory course for the Gender Studies minor.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/IG/ISM/SR
  
  • PL 235 - Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy and Science

    (3.00 cr.)

    A philosophical examination of science. Explores topics such as confirmation of the scientific method, the possibility of scientific progress, and the value of scientific inquiry.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IES/IFS
  
  • PL 236 - Philosophical Perspectives: Environmental Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Explores the place of human beings within the much larger natural world and the fundamental conceptions of nature. Is nature savage, a resource for our use, or a mindless machine? Special topics may include animal consciousness, sustainability, indigenous cultures, global climate change and other ecological crises, and the effects of contemporary technologies.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/ISM/SR
  
  • PL 299 - Modern Histories of Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Introduces key concepts and figures from the history of modern European Philosophy, while also enabling students to critically examine the contested nature of 'philosophical canons'. Students consider cultural perspectives and historical developments (such as colonialism, race, gender or non-western philosophical traditions) that complicate dominant narratives of the European philosophical tradition.  Recommended for philosophy majors and minors.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 302 - Ethics

    (3.00 cr.)

    Explores, both historically and topically, the basic questions about values and obligation, the social and individual influences on moral judgement, the application of general guidelines to particular situations, and the search for a personal moral life.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE
  
  • PL 303 - Special Topics in Ethics

    (3.00 cr.)

    Introduces students to foundational ethical concepts and theories, while also offering students a chance to explore those core ideas in a specific applied and thematic area. May be repeated twice for degree credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 305 - The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

    (3.00 cr.)

    The language and idea of "human rights," "the rights of man," and "natural rights" enter into political and moral discourse in the late eighteenth century. In 2005 the United Nations adopted the Responsibility to Protect, intended to protect all populations from human rights abuses. Ethics demand humanitarian intervention. Yet the ethical demand for intervention is confronted with the complexities of real politics. This course invites students to explore the relationship between ethics and politics with regard to humanitarian intervention. Case studies include the genocide in Rwanda, the ongoing crisis of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the human rights abuses in Chechnya, and the practice of honor killing in Asia and other locations.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IHE/IPJ
  
  • PL 306 - Ethics of Race and Gender

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines how relations of race and gender construct ethical subjects and change the way we understand what it means to live a good life. The course begins by offering some historical context for ethics of race and gender. The course then uses contemporary texts to explore how ethical subjects feel, act, and live their lives within the structures of violence, oppression, domination, and privilege. Students also explore possibilities of resistance and ethical/political action under such conditions.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IG/IHE/IPJ
  
  • PL 310 - Business Ethics

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the relevance of ethics to business, with special emphasis on the similarities and differences between business and personal life. Case studies and special readings cover such topics as the social responsibilities of business and the notion of the economic common good.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 311 - Bioethics

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the moral problems and uncertainties connected with biomedical research. Theoretical questions on the nature of morality and methodological foundations of science lead to a discussion of current topics, such as recombinant DNA, cloning, organ transplants, definitions of death, and death therapy.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IHE
  
  • PL 314 - Environmental Ethics

    (3.00 cr.)

    An investigation of the relationship between human beings and the natural world, with attention to the ethical dimensions of our life-style and environmental policies. Students explore their obligations to the nonhuman world and to future generations. Fulfills ethics core requirement.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IEN/IES/IHE/ISM/SR
  
  • PL 315 - Ethics after Auschwitz

    (3.00 cr.)

    When philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote that "to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric," it was a profound recognition that the Holocaust changed everything. This course explores ways in which philosophy might be implicated in the Holocaust and other genocides. It then turns to the failures of traditional philosophical ethics that we are forced to confront in the wake of the Holocaust. Finally, the course raises questions about the possibility of hope after Auschwitz.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IGE/IHE/IPJ
  
  • PL 320 - Logic

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the basic principles and types of reasoning as they function in such fields as business, politics, law, and the natural and social sciences. Attention to the various ways in which language, argument, and persuasion can be used/misused.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 321 - Cross-Cultural Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    In today's multicultural societies, with increasingly frequent cross-cultural interaction taking place on a global scale, there is greater need than ever for philosophical reflection on how cultures have interacted and should interact. This course examines major theories and debates regarding the ethics and politics of cross-cultural relations and the hermeneutics of cross-cultural dialogue.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IA/ICL
  
  • PL 326 - Philosophy of Religion

    (3.00 cr.)

    An examination of phenomenological descriptions of religion, and a discussion of the possibility of metaphysical statements about God. Topics include contemporary problems of God-talk, secularization, the relationship between philosophy and theology.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 327 - Philosophy of War

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines war through Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and von Clausewitz's On War. Tolkien describes Lord of the Rings as 'a tale about war.' To explore this claim, the course pairs Tolkien with the classic Western analytics of war, von Clausewitz's On War. As Clausewitz was a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and Tolkien was a veteran of World War I, both authors raise critical philosophical questions about the nature of war born from real experience.  A core inquiry of the course is the problem of geography and friction as it arises in the Lord of the Rings.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IGE
  
  • PL 330 - Social and Political Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Addresses fundamental issues pertaining to the nature, shape, principles, and norms of the social and political order. Focuses on one or more special topics such as power, political authority, conflict, violence, oppression, marginalization, justice, equality, liberty, solidarity, rights, inclusion, and plurality.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 333 - Philosophy of Law

    (3.00 cr.)

    An examination of some basic systems of law, including legal positivism, common law, and natural law. Places where these systems come into conflict-for example, the tort law of wrongful birth-are a special focus of this course. By way of a central theme, students are introduced to the kinds and scope of laws governing homicide and how these apply domestically and internationally. The course is historical-covering authors such as Bentham, Blackstone, and de Vitoria-as well as topical.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
  
  • PL 334 - Contemporary Political Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Introduces the fundamental ideas which shape the way we think politically such as power, politics, political action, conflict, cooperation and contestation, authority, legitimacy, identity, resistance, and democracy. While exploring these ideas, we discuss some of the central questions of contemporary political philosophy: Does democracy need a common identity which unites the 'body' politic? In what ways does the pluralistic nature of democratic societies challenge the identity of the people? How do different political approaches understand the permanence of pluralism and the inevitability of conflict? How should we understand the nature and limits of politics, power, and authority?

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 335 - Political Philosophy: Justice and Mass Incarceration

    (3.00 cr.)

    The United States imprisons more people per capita than any other nation in the world. A disproportionate number of those incarcerated are people of color, particularly Black, Latino, and indigenous men. How can mass incarceration in the United States be understood? What are the beliefs and ideologies that underwrite this cultural fact?

    This course is an exercise of "societal exegesis," using philosophical, theological, and sociological texts to examine the system of mass incarceration in the United States. Students unpack the institutional history that has created mass incarceration in the United States today, read selections from philosophical and theological literature written from and about prison, and inquire into the feasibility of intervening upon the systemic injustice and racism woven into the prison-industrial complex by way of an experiential practicum in restorative justice.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IPJ

  
  • PL 336 - Comparative Philosophy: East-West Dialogues

    (3.00 cr.)

    Places in dialogue Western philosophical topics or figures with those drawn from Asian traditions. One or more specific themes are chosen as the focus of the course; for example, Eastern and Western conceptions of being and nothingness; human nature; the problem of evil; or mind and body.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IA/ICL
  
  • PL 337 - Philosophy and Feminism

    (3.00 cr.)

    Treats analyses of oppression, conceptions of agency and autonomy, and accounts of the relationship between politics and social reality developed from several feminist philosophical perspectives. Taken together, the course texts challenge students to approach issues in moral and political theory in light of an understanding of how power dynamics involving gender function across cultural-historical contexts.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IG
  
  • PL 338 - Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines recent interpretations of psychoanalysis, informed by existential philosophy and new conceptions of the nature of language. These perspectives restore the fertility and sophistication of Freud's thought and present new opportunities/challenges for philosophical questioning.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 339 - Philosophy of Information and Media

    (3.00 cr.)

    Today we are living through one of human history's great media shifts, on par with the invention of the written language and the printing press. A shift of this magnitude invites philosophical reflection: both historical and phenomenological reflections on the nature of reading, writing, and thinking as well as a general examination of the way media affects consciousness. In this course, students trace the history of media shifts and their impact by looking at thinkers as diverse as Plato and Marshall McLuhan. Special attention is given to reflection on the internet and social media, with readings from earliest theorists of the internet such as Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson and contemporary critiques of the internet such as Nicholas Carr, author of "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Same course as CM 339 .

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 343 - Philosophy of Human Rights

    (3.00 cr.)

    Addresses basic questions about the nature, content, and philosophical foundations of human rights, with a specific emphasis on the philosophical-historical development of the idea of human rights. Various contemporary human rights problems are explored, including ethnic cleansing and genocide, poverty, and humanitarian intervention.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE/IPJ
  
  • PL 345 - Sight and Insight: Topics in Aesthetics and Art History

    (3.00 cr.)

    Studying works of art inevitably brings up philosophical questions about the nature of art and the status of aesthetic judgments. Is art just about emotion and not reason? Is art basically subjective? Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Conversely, the philosophy of art must grapple with the acute particularity of artworks, and efforts to probe art in the realm of ideas are inescapably freighted by the objects themselves and the history of art. How is form related to meaning? What is modernism? What is the future of art? In short, art history and philosophy of art need each other, and students need both to fully pursue fundamental questions about the role of art in human life. This course brings abstract theorizing together with contextualized case studies, allowing students to develop nuanced perspectives on our modes of thinking about art and our cultural practices of making, exchanging, and experiencing artworks. Same course as AH 345 .

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 346 - Philosophy of Peace

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the nature, aims, and possibility of peace. Students read what philosophers have had to say about peace and war from ancient to contemporary times. Some of the issues examined include just war theory, conscientious objection, nonviolent protest, and the current Iraq war. In general, the course asks the question of whether humans are condemned to eternal war or can hope-as Kant did-for perpetual peace.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IPJ
  
  • PL 349 - Philosophy and Art

    (3.00 cr.)

    Explores the relationship between philosophy and art, such as how philosophical concepts shape artistic expressions and, conversely, how art influences and molds philosophical discourse. Students explore key philosophical themes, including aesthetics, epistemology, phenomenology, and the nature of creativity, and develop the skills to articulate the interplay between philosophy and art. Questions covered may include: How do we define and distinguish art from non-artistic expressions? Can everyday objects or actions be considered art? Is beauty objective or subjective? What role does art play in society? To what extent is the artist's intention relevant to the interpretation of their work? What is the nature of creativity, and how does it relate to artistic endeavors? Is there a single correct interpretation for a given artwork? How might evolving technologies and societal changes impact the future of art?

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 351 - Philosophy of Economics

    (3.00 cr.)

    A critical and historical inquiry into economic theory from a philosophical perspective.  The emergence of the field, its development through the lens of colonialism, its solidification in contemporary market capitalism, and dissenting voices along the way are examined, ending with a look into Green economics. Major figures from the field are also studied.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 352 - Philosophy of Freedom

    (3.00 cr.)

    A philosophical and historical analysis of the multiple meanings and uses of the concept of freedom through text, literature, and film, including some cross-cultural exploration. What does the mythic land of freedom look like? Topics include emancipation and incarceration, political liberty and fascism, individual and collective rights, existential freedom, and Gaia.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 353 - Philosophy of Experience

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the major Western articulations of holism with emphasis on the experience of unity and the unity of experience, including the Neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus; the Christian mystical tradition inspired by Pseudo-Dionysius; the early modern philosophies of Spinoza and Leibniz; the philosophical idealism of Hegel and Bradley; and the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE
  
  • PL 354 - Chinese Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students are introduced to some of the major themes and figures of philosophical thought in China. Major attention is given to the classical schools of Chinese philosophy, especially Daoism and Confucianism. Recent works on Chinese philosophy in comparison with Western philosophy may also be examined.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IA/ICL
  
  • PL 355 - Philosophy of History

    (3.00 cr.)

    History is a central theme of philosophical inquiry. The study of the philosophy of history raises the question as to whether there is meaning in events over time and space, granting regularity and human freedom. Some key authors are Cicero, Augustine, Vico, Kent, Herder, Hegel, Marx, Dilthey, Ricoeur, and Danto, each of whom contributed to shaping the understanding of history.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/IGE
  
  • PL 357 - Philosophy and Literature

    (3.00 cr.)

    Literature gives concrete expression to our sense of reality and in its history "re-presents" the status of man and human events as each age presupposes it. Herein resides the intimate relationship which has always existed between literature and philosophy. The history of this relationship explains both the continuity and the discontinuity which is present in Western literature. Focuses on one (or more) special topics, such as tragedy, modernism, aesthetic theories of literature, and existentialism. Same as EN 357 .

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 363 - Kant's Revolutions

    (3.00 cr.)

    An introduction to the revolutionary contributions made by the great German thinker Immanuel Kant to the fields of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. Kant shifts the focus of inquiry from reality in itself to the role of the mind in constructing experience; from moral emotions to rational moral principles; and from the artist's poetic making to judgments of beauty.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IGE
  
  • PL 365 - Japanese Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students are introduced to some of the major themes and figures of philosophical thought in Japan. The focus is on traditional thought, such as that of the Zen Buddhist philosopher Dogen, and/or on modern thought, such as that of the Kyoto School.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IA/ICL
  
  • PL 366 - Studies in Plato

    (3.00 cr.)

    An inquiry into the epistemological, moral, and metaphysical writings of Plato's middle and later periods, with special reference to the relation of anamnesis, participation and the theory of forms in the middle dialogues to koinonia and the theory of the greatest kinds in the later dialogues. Same course as CL 366 .

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 370 - Medieval Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    The Middle Ages is a period which not only excels for its cultural richness-in architecture (e.g., the emergence of the Gothic cathedral), literature (e.g., the vibrant innovations in love poetry), and intellectual life (e.g., the rise of universities)-but also for its profound concern with regard to philosophical issues. The scholastic period (approximately c. 1300-1500) particularly stands out for its vigorous and engaged discussion of profound philosophical questions such as time and eternity, being and thinking, soul and intellect, language and truth. Due to the encounter and fusion of four philosophical traditions-the Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin philosophies-medieval thought turns out to be a unique cross-cultural enterprise whose impact contributed substantially to the formation of modern Western intellectual culture.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IC/ICL/IM
  
  • PL 373 - Philosophy/The Enlightenment

    (3.00 cr.)

    Studies the major questions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers, such as Descartes, Voltaire, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Rousseau.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 375 - Topics in Buddhist Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Studies the basic teachings that are shared by Buddhist traditions throughout Asia, and focuses on certain key texts, figures, and schools of Buddhist philosophy. This course, also at times, compares Buddhist philosophy with Western philosophies and religions, and students' own ways of thinking and living. An optional service-learning experience may be included. May be repeated twice for degree credit.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IA
  
  • PL 377 - Philosophy of Nature

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the changing view of nature from the period of the early modern philosophers of nature, Newton and Bacon, through the Cartesian mechanization of nature adopted and extended by Enlightenment scientists and its rejection by Goethe and Schelling, who defended an organic and holistic view of nature. The basic opposition between the idea of nature as no more than mere natural resources to be exploited for human profit and nature as both alive and the source of all life is shown to be indispensable for understanding contemporary approaches to environmental ethics as well as the looming threat of a global ecological crisis.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/IGE/IHE
  
  • PL 380 - Marx and Marxism

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the philosophical writings of Marx and of the views on man and society presented by some contemporary Marxist authors.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 381 - German Idealism

    (3.00 cr.)

    German idealism is the name usually given to the explosive series of developments in philosophy during the period immediately after Kant. Seldom in the history of philosophy has so brief a space of time produced so many philosophical innovations, many of which live on today, albeit under other names. Provides an introduction to the seminal role of Kant's thought as it influenced three of the most important thinkers of the time-Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IGE
  
  • PL 382 - Existentialism

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of some of the philosophical and literary works of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Marcel, and Camus.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 384 - Phenomenology

    (3.00 cr.)

    An introduction to phenomenology through a study of its major representatives, notably Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 389 - Nietzsche

    (3.00 cr.)

    Nietzsche is the first major figure in the history of philosophy to repudiate the tradition of Western thought that began with Plato. The nature of this repudiation and Nietzsche's attempt to inaugurate a new mode of philosophical thinking are examined.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IGE
  
  • PL 390 - The Political Challenge of Socrates

    (3.00 cr.)

    Draws on the striking stance of Socrates in the Athenian crisis of the 5th century to illuminate a perennial tension now evident in our age of political hyper-partisanship. How are we to balance the need for political concord and patriotism against the need for critical independence and moral self-examination? Did Socrates deserve his hemlock for sowing disunity in a time of trouble, or was he the tragically unheeded voice of reasoned rehabilitation? Readings from ancient authors Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides, alongside moderns including Mill, Nietzsche, Rousseau. Same course as CL 390  and PS 390 

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 393 - Technology and the Crisis of Nature

    (3.00 cr.)

    Is the human use of technology rooted in a kind of thinking or way of being? Through a reading primarily of Martin Heidegger's work, students look at the dark side of technology and the devastating effects of human technical manipulation of the natural world.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/IGE/SR
  
  • PL 394 - Process Philosophy

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the basic principles of process philosophy through Whitehead's Process and Reality. Topics include actual entities and their formative principles, the phases of feeling, the concrescence of an actual entity, actual entities, nexus and societies, the theory of perception.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PL 398 - Philosophy and Film

    (3.00 cr.)

    Our culture has been reshaped by the new technologies of cinema and television. Examines a range of philosophical issues surrounding the audio-visual structure of these media, and their impact upon society. Also uses films, like written texts, as a medium for addressing significant issues in philosophy.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
  
  • PL 409 - Creating the World: Theories of Imagination

    (3.00 cr.)

    Imagination has been variously conceived as a necessary aid to cognition (Aristotle), an "inferior kind of perceiving" (Berkeley), a "blind but indispensable function of the soul" (Kant), and "reason in its most exalted form" (Wordsworth). In this seminar, students investigate the history of the concept of imagination, with particular attention given to the philosophical significance of shifts in its characterization and its role in our contemporary self-understanding. Which kinds of human cognition are imaginative and in exactly what sense? How have our imaginative capacities been theorized in relation to reason and emotion? And, what roles do these capacities play in cognition, poetic practices, and moral agency? The very pursuit of answers to these questions requires intellectual imagination, as no single framework or method provides all of the resources needed to think expansively about the nature of the mind and its relationship to the world.

    Prerequisite: PL 201 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 496 - Environmental Studies Experience

    (3.00 cr.)

    A capstone experience in the environmental studies minor, in which a student arranges an internship, independent study, or research experience with a faculty sponsor to engage in an in-depth exploration of a topic associated with environmental or sustainability issues. Written or electronic permission of a sponsoring faculty member and the environmental studies director. Generally completed during the senior year.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES
  
  • PL 498 - Philosophy and Work: Career Discernment

    (1.00 cr.)

    This course is designed for those who want to participate in the career discernment aspect of PL 499 , but are not interested in or unable to participate in the internship. Generally completed during senior year. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.

    Restrictions: Restricted to philosophy majors and minors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PL 499 - Philosophy and Work: Internship

    (3.00 cr.)

    Combines internship work hours with philosophical reflection. To participate in the course, students need to have secured an internship that meets the university required number of hours (120 hours completed at the internship site) prior to the beginning of the course. In addition to internship hours, students are asked to philosophically reflect on their experience through targeted readings, writing assignments, and seminar discussion. Generally completed during senior year. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Fulfills major seminar requirement.

    Restrictions: Restricted to philosophy majors and minors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies


Photography

  
  • PT 270 - Basic Digital Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students acquire an understanding of and appreciation for both the technical and aesthetic aspects of reading and making photographs. Among the numerous techniques explored are lighting composition, and image enhancement and output. Students are expected to supply a digital camera with the ability to control aperture and shutter speed. Fulfills fine arts core requirement.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IEN/IFS
  
  • PT 300 - Photocraft

    (3.00 cr.)

    An intermediate, technical introduction to photography concentrating on the fundamentals of imagemaking, editing, and presentation in both silver and digital processes. Students gain a wide range of technical skills and experiences in both the darkroom and digital labs, focusing on in-camera exposure techniques, film/digital printing, and project-based work. A basic introduction to the Zone System, studio lighting, and image presentation is also provided. Students are expected to supply a digital SLR camera (with full manual controls). A film SLR camera is recommended.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or written permission of the instructor.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 301 - Photographic Vision: Tools, Techniques, and Theories

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students work with film and digital single lens reflex (SLR) cameras in the studio, darkroom, and computer labs. Students learn to use their cameras to craft thoughtful, intentional photographs and to enrich their understanding through careful readings of core texts of photographic theory and analysis of historic and contemporary photographs. Fulfills core requirement. Closed to students who have taken PT 300 . Same course as HN 323 .

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 319 - History of Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    An examination of the major technical and aesthetic movements in the history of photography since its invention. Covers the works of major artists working in this medium as well as the major styles. Students in this class will not be expected to produce photographs. Same course as AH 319 .

    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Odd Years.

  
  • PT 333 - Spirit Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    Do you believe in ghosts? Spirits? The metaphysical? Have you ever seen or felt such a presence? Photography has a long history of capturing things the eye cannot see. Does this include spirits or the metaphysical? This course investigates these inquiries by examining nineteenth century spirit photographers through contemporary artists who strive to photograph the metaphysical. Students are introduced to the history of this discourse and guided through the process of making spirit photographs, constructing their own personal photographic spiritual spaces, and exploring the metaphysical through photography.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PT 350 - Visual Thinking

    (3.00 cr.)

    Focuses on methods of interdisciplinary study essential to scholar and artist. This course combines elements of studio art, photography, and art history in a hybrid, seminar/ studio format investigating the history, theory, and material practices of the visual arts. The course offers a versatile, topics-based curriculum bringing the techniques of the artist and the labor of the scholar together in one class. Interpreting research as a creative activity crossing the boundaries of academic disciplines, the principal learning aim is the cultivation of a scholar-artist capable of innovative and rigorous investigation of the history of art and the individual creative processes. Combining experiences of art making and research in the theoretical and historical context of visual art, assignments offer students a choice of responses involving text and image. Same course as AH 350 SA 350 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or AH 109  or AH 110  or AH 111  or SA 224  or SA 227 .
    Restrictions: Restricted to visual arts majors and art history, interArts, photography, and studio arts minors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 353 - Book Arts and Artists' Books

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students are introduced to the materials, techniques, concepts, and equipment used in the craft of making traditional and nontraditional books. They learn folding, stitching, enclosing, and binding methods while creating three-dimensional works that literally or metaphorically reference the structure of books, address contemporary ideas about visual content, and exist as three-dimensional works of art. Same course as CM 349 /SA 353 .

    Prerequisite: SA 224  or written permission of the instructor.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PT 360 - Digital Mixed Media

    (3.00 cr.)

    A combination studio and digital photography course in which the computer is used as a tool and an integral part of the creative process, but work is achieved through mixed media studio methods. Two- and three-dimensional projects may include installation and/or virtual works that exist only on the Internet. Some prior computer experience recommended. Same course as CM 360  and SA 360 . (Pass/Fail).

    Prerequisite: SA 224  or SA 226  or SA 227 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
  
  • PT 361 - Digital Image

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the ways in which the computer and various software programs can be used to modify and enhance an image as a visual statement for artistic and photojournalistic use. Students are expected to supply a digital SLR camera (with full manual controls). Same course as CM 369  and SA 361 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
  
  • PT 364 - Contemporary Digital Art

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students taking this course gain an understanding of contemporary artists focusing on new media, while developing their own digital art practice. Video, animation, sound, web-based artwork, 3-D, interactivity, and other media practices are addressed. Classes consist of research, discussion, studio projects, critiques, and written work. Same course as CM 364  / SA 364 .

    Prerequisite: SA 224  or SA 226  or SA 227 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
  
  • PT 370 - Artist in Residence Seminar

    (1.00 cr.)

    A seminar led by and related to the work of the current semester's Artist in Residence at the Julio Fine Art's Gallery. Students collaborate with the artist on a project of a group or individual nature related to the artist's exhibition and practice. Varies by semester. May be repeated three times for degree credit. Same course as SA 370 . (Pass/Fail).

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 375 - Silver Processes

    (3.00 cr.)

    An intermediate study of black and white silver photography. Students produce their own darkroom work. Exposure, development, and printing are explored in detail in the darkroom. Students are expected to furnish a 35-millimeter film SLR camera.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 376 - Directed Workshop

    (3.00 cr.)

    Designed to allow students to pursue an interest in a specific area of photography such as sports, portraits, landscape, nature, etc. Weekly critiques of ongoing projects and a final exhibition portfolio required. May be repeated twice for credit.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 377 - Landscape and Nature Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    An intensive workshop in photographing the landscape and elements from it as an expression of personal statement. Some weekend field trips required.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES
  
  • PT 378 - Alternative Photographic Processes

    (3.00 cr.)

    A study of the early processes by which photographic images were recorded and displayed. Students make their own pinhole cameras and light sensitive materials, and produce original photographs. Explores the aesthetic and expressive possibilities of alternative photographic processes, including cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, and wet-plate collodion. Same course as SA 378 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 379 - Color Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students study the history and production of color photographic processes. Students explore making color photographs using digital cameras. Color theory, history, and practice are studied through numerous readings and image analyses.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 380 - Studio Lighting

    (3.00 cr.)

    Aims at expanding students' visual awareness and their ability to create fine art imagery through the controlled use of studio lighting. Students work in film or digital as they explore a variety of light sources from natural light, to hot lights, to professional strobe lights in a studio environment. Same course as CM 378 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 381 - Photojournalism

    (3.00 cr.)

    Engages students in photography as a storytelling medium and narrative vehicle, specifically in news and documentaries. Students learn how to communicate compelling stories via single images and photo essays, and are introduced to the various types and outlets of news and journalistic image-making. In addition to producing images, students analyze published materials and are introduced to professional ethics in the field. Same course as CM 381 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301  or CM 308 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IPJ
  
  • PT 383 - The Photographic Essay

    (3.00 cr.)

    Under the instructor's direction, students develop a body of photographic images exploring, in depth, a specific photographic subject. Frequent classroom critiques of the ongoing project, technical demonstrations, and museum/gallery visits.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 386 - Video Art

    (3.00 cr.)

    An examination of the aesthetics and history of video art, as well as a study of the techniques of video production. Students produce numerous short and long video works. Same course as CM 327 SA 386 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301  or CM 308  or SA 224 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
  
  • PT 391 - Image and Text

    (3.00 cr.)

    Explores the dynamic relationship between photographic imagery and text. Students study the history of art that combines text and visual imagery. They also explore in their own work the ways that text as an interactive, subversive, or antithetical element can conspire with the photographic image to construct or deconstruct opinions and provoke new responses.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 393 - Portraiture

    (3.00 cr.)

    Provides a basic foundation for students interested in portraiture. By examining the evolving roles of the photographer and the person being photographed, students are acquainted with contemporary trends in portraiture. Students work on projects that explore different ways of making portraits. Instruction includes slide presentations on the history and aesthetics of portrait photography.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Recommended Prerequisite: PT 380 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 394 - The Body in Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    Throughout history the human image has been the most important subject through which artists have expressed their personal visions and identities. This course offers students an opportunity to study the human form as an artistic, photographic topic.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Recommended Prerequisite: PT 380 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PT 399 - Special Topics in Photography

    (3.00 cr.)

    An intensive examination of a specific topic utilizing lens-based production. Topics may be historical, cultural, or genre generated. Bi-weekly critiques and a final portfolio are required. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301  .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

  
  • PT 400 - Senior Capstone for Artists

    (3.00 cr.)

    Students are introduced to the working world of the professional artist. Students create a cohesive body of work that is critiqued throughout the semester and exhibited at the end of the semester. Students produce a portfolio of digital images of their artwork with accompanying professional materials aimed at being able to participate in the art world in some form upon graduation. Students enter at least one exhibition, mat and frame an artwork, and attend at least one opening reception for an exhibition off-campus. Normally taken in the fall semester of the senior year. Senior photography minors must have written permission of the instructor. Same course as SA 400 .

    Prerequisite: PT 270  or PT 300  or PT 301 . 
    Restrictions: Restricted to senior visual arts majors with a concentration in photography.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
    Years Typically Offered: Annually


Physics

  
  • PH 101 - Introductory Physics I with Lab

    (4.00 cr.)

    A non-calculus-based introduction to physics. Fundamental concepts of classical physics including mechanics, fluids, heat, and thermodynamics. Lab component introduces basic principles of experimentation, error analysis, and report writing. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PH 102 - Introductory Physics II with Lab

    (4.00 cr.)

    A continuation of PH 101  which includes wave motion, sound, electrostatic and electromagnetic fields, DC and AC circuits, geometric and physical optics, and selected topics in atomic and nuclear physics. Lab component introduces basic principles of experimentation, error analysis, and report writing. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.

    Prerequisite: PH 101 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PH 116 - Integrated Science I

    (4.00 cr.)

    An interdisciplinary presentation of the sciences, focusing on unifying concepts and real-life examples from physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and astronomy. A particular focus is placed on areas where these traditional disciplines overlap. Hands-on activities and inquiry-based learning methods are used extensively to help in the development of a conceptual understanding of the material. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.

    Restrictions: Restricted to elementary education majors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PH 117 - Integrated Science II

    (4.00 cr.)

    A continuation of PH 116 . Fulfills one math/science core requirement.

    Prerequisite: PH 116 .
    Restrictions: Restricted to elementary education majors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PH 120 - Introduction to the Universe

    (3.00 cr.)

    A survey of the history of astronomy and the current state of this science. A look at the probabilities of, and search for, extraterrestrial life. A study of our solar system, stars and their evolution, our galaxy and other galaxies, supernovas, pulsars, black holes, quasars. Fulfills one math/science core requirement. Closed to students who have taken PH 140  or PH 141 .

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

  
  • PH 125 - Practical Meteorology

    (3.00 cr.)

    Teaches students the science behind what causes weather. Course content highlights cloud types, storm systems, weather instruments, and foundations of forecasting. Throughout the course, students analyze the most up-to-date computer models, radar, satellite, and forecast discussions. This course prepares students to create their own weather forecasts by understanding meteorological terminology, interpreting graphs, and forecasting models. By the end of the semester, students put their skills to the test by effectively communicating their personalized forecasts with the class. Fulfills the natural science core requirement.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES
  
  • PH 150 - Energy and Environment

    (3.00 cr.)

    An examination of energy sources for the future: nuclear power, breeder reactors, gasoline substitutes, the future of coal, solar and geothermal sources are studied in view of the laws of thermodynamics. Studies the impact of energy use on resource conservation, water resources, air quality, waste disposal, and land use. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/SR
  
  • PH 160 - Light and Color

    (3.00 cr.)

    Light and its behavior influences our perception of the world around us. Reflection, refraction, polarization, diffraction and interference are investigated, as well as optical instruments, vision and the phenomena of color. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

 

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