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Course Descriptions

@ = Indicates a non-liberal arts course. Please refer to College Credit Policies  for a description of non-liberal arts credits.
 

Education

Where possible, the academic term the course is generally taught has been provided. For courses where no specific term of teaching is provided, students should contact the chair of the department, the Center for Graduate Studies or their adviser for guidance.
  

  • @SPMT 304 - @EVENT MANAGEMENT

    3 Credit(s)

    This class will provide a comprehensive overview of both the business and creative elements of events and how they are planned and coordinated. It applies organizational principles to insure successful sporting events. All of the creative elements used in sports event management are discussed and evaluated. The course will provide the knowledge necessary to cultivate, organize, and execute any sporting event from a managerial standpoint. Spring Only

  

  • @SPMT 491 - @Sports Management Internship

    3 Credit(s)

    The internship is a combination of academic study and work experience in an organization. A qualified student will work part-time or full-time at a private or public institution. A faculty member in the Department of Business Administration will supervise the academic project, while a supervisor at the work site will monitor the work experience. Either an instructor or the student may initiate the type of work.  Fall and Spring.


English as a Second Language
  

  • ESL 190 - Conversational English

    1-3 Credit(s)

    This course assists speakers of English as a foreign language with areas where they need improvement in order to succeed at the university level, including listening comprehension, speaking, reading, grammatical structures, and cultural understanding, with possibilities for individualized help in areas of special needs. Spring

  

  • ESL 195 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ESL 198 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • ESL 295 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ESL 298 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • ESL 395 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ESL 398 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • ESL 495 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • @ESL 497 - Teaching English Practicum: Conversation Partners Program

    3 Credit(s)

    Teaching ESL Practicum is a Service Learning course offering the opportunity to help international students adjust to social life in the U. S. and improve their English proficiency and their understanding of American culture. The course helps American students to understand another society and culture, gain an international perspective and experience, build cross-cultural competency, prepare to live in a multicultural world or to teach in a multicultural classroom. This linguistic and cultural exchange makes students more sensitive to language, offering opportunities to improve their English while also learning about their own culture and that of their partners.

  

  • ESL 498 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)


Environmental Studies
  

  • ENVR 110 - Introduction to Environmental Studies

    3 Credit(s)

    This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary study of environmental issues. It will incorporate readings and discussions regarding social, political, economic, cultural, and biophysical dimensions of a diversity of environmental issues and solutions. Human-environmental relations are complex and this course aims to provide students with the tools to critically research environmental issues from a variety of perspectives, with readings from many different voices. The course will look at historical and contemporary views of the environment, review human impacts on the environment, and explore environmental activism and other potential solutions to current environmental problems. Students are expected to actively engage in class discussions, group work, and practical exercises, and to complete written assignments. Fall and Spring.

  

  • ENVR 120 - Introduction to Sustainability

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: SW
    This course is a comprehensive exploration of the intertwining sustainability challenges in the environment, society, and economy and potential solutions for creating more resilient, sustainable societies.

  

  • ENVR 195 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ENVR 198 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • @ENVR 210 - Environmental Futures

    3 Credit(s)

    This is a required course for ENVR majors, designed for students to gain skills and knowledge as environmental citizens and professionals. Through class exercises, guest speakers, and independent research, students prepare for future internships and professional or graduate work in Environmental Studies. The course also helps students to develop their individual program of study and career planning skills - including resume writing, cover letters, and interviewing. Environmental Studies majors only. Minimum of sophomore standing required.  Fall.

  

  • ENVR 290 - Environmental Inquiry

    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to the concept and practice of interdisciplinary research methods, including arguments for, and critiques against interdisciplinary research. It examines why environmental issues lend themselves to the practice of interdisciplinarity and the process of scientific knowledge production. It introduces students to research methodologies commonly found both in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Students will work through the stages of an interdisciplinary research project. Environmental Studies majors only. Minimum of Sophomore standing required. Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110 .
  

  • ENVR 295 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ENVR 298 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • ENVR 304 - Sustainable Agriculture

    Lecture and active learning activities are designed to investigate topics vital to understanding agriculture sustainability, including issues of: land use, biological diversity, pest control, labor, and human rights economic viability. Field trips to local farms will serve as examples of the various local agroecosystems. The class will document differences between these farms and analyze them for their relative sustainability. Class members will also grow crops themselves to investigate tools for sustainability assessment. Cross listed with BIOL 304 .

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 100 , BIOL 125 , BIOL 151 , BIOL 152 , OR ENVR 110  
  

  • ENVR 310 - Adirondack Environmental History

    3 Credit(s)

    This study of the environmental history of the Adirondack region will give particular focus to the interrelated natural and cultural history of today’s Adirondack Park. Current land use conflicts will be regarded as the legacy of a human history of territorial contest and ambivalent attitudes toward nature, embracing the full range of conservation issues in other American protected areas and many developing countries as well. Cross listed with HIST 378 . Fall.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110 .
  

  • ENVR 320 - Policy & Protected Areas

    3 Credit(s)

    Conservation has long been taking place in protected areas of all varieties, from national parks and forests preserves to seashores and monuments. In this course we will look at both local and global protected areas and examine what policies have been successful conservation strategies and why. The course will use CIS, research, and discussion to create a project on a park of international importance. We will begin the course with a focus on the Adirondack State Park as a model for the world. Equivalent to POLS 303.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110  or POLS 110  or  BIOL 101 .
  

  • ENVR 340 - Environmental Justice Narratives

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the concept of environmental justice, as well as the associated concepts of environmental racism and radioactive colonization, through an interdisciplinary lens. The environmental justice narratives we find in literature, nonfiction, and documental films will introduce environmental studies students to the experiences of marginalized oppressed, and overlooked individuals and communities contending with and responding to environmental harm, which comes to bear on such communities disproportionately. An examination of these narratives will moreover demonstrate to students that nature is not only found in “wilderness,” but also in the places where many of us live and work, and revise our understanding of “environment” showing that nature exists in National Parks and nuclear waste sites, wild rivers and mega-dams, industrialized food production, and the human body. Ultimately, this course will illuminate for students the reality that environmental harm always comes to bear on human lives and that environmental challenges are inseparable from social issues and concerns.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110  OR ENVR 120  
  

  • ENVR 343 - Environment & Society

    3 Credit(s)

    An examination of worldwide environmental crisis. Topics: energy, non-renewable resources, hazardous wastes, the ecological implications of technological changes, agricultural and food issues in the context of social systems, beliefs and institutions. Cross listed with SOCI 343. As warranted

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110  OR SOCI 101  
  

  • ENVR 350 - Sustainable Development

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores economic systems that support sustainable development and allow human prosperity to occur within planetary environmental limits. Sustainable development is defined as, “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (UNCSD, Brutland Report) We are failing on both actions. We are not meeting the current needs of support for our own ecosystems and their human and nonhuman processes, and we are continually compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This course will examine a model of strong sustainability, which includes the practices that integrate economic and social systems within the ecological systems required to support and maintain life on the planet.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110  OR ENVR 120  
  

  • ENVR 360 - Equity and the Outdoors

    3 Credit(s)

    This course will introduce students to the concept of the “adventure gap,” which will illuminate the reality that individuals hailing from minority, indigenous, LGBTQIA, disabled, and/or middle- and lower-class communities, among other marginalized communities, are underrepresented in outdoor recreation. In this course, we will investigate the ways in which majority communities have excluded marginalized individuals from the arena of outdoor and adventure recreation. We will, moreover, attend to shifting trends in contemporary outdoor recreation, wherein minority recreationalist and athletes are carving out a space for themselves in the able-bodied, white-male-dominated realm of outdoor recreation.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110 .
  

  • ENVR 371 - Globalization and the Environment

    3 Credit(s)

    This course analyzes attempts to conceptualize environmental globalization from a variety of disciplines, examines the elements of the global economy that most effect our one planet, and assesses some of the complex consequences of the globalization of environmental issues across a range of challenges including the ecological commons, gender, and indigenous rights. Students in this course will attain an in-depth knowledge of key historical and contemporary debates in global environmental studies. Cross listed with SOCI 371. 

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 110  or ENVR 120  
  

  • ENVR 391 - Field Project

    1-6 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CT
    This course is the field experience for the Environmental Studies major. Each student will participate in a self-designed internship or field project with a non-profit or government organization. As a service-learning project, the field project will provide students with hands-on experience in the environmental field while providing service to the organization where they work. Instructor permission required. Fall, Spring, and Summer.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 210 .
  

  • ENVR 395 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ENVR 398 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • ENVR 470 - Field Research/Practicum

    3 Credit(s)

    May be fulfilled by an internship, research project with a faculty member, or other integrative, applied learning activity such as a service-learning project or travel course. Under the direction of a faculty sponsor, students will develop a portfolio documenting their work, including a narrative reflection applying each of the the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education’s sustainability core content standards to their experience. Prereuisites: Appropriate upper division Environmental Studies coursework in consultation with sponsoring faculty member. Instructor permission required.

    Prerequisite(s): ENVR 120  AND BIOL 148  OR BIOL 304  OR BIOL 402  OR CHEM 301  
  

  • ENVR 480 - Sustainable Communities

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores sustainable communities and leadership skills for generating them. Emphasis will be placed on the ecovillage model, transition initiatives, and assorted public sector solutions (from neighborhood scale to city/state/nation level) and will apply the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) framework. Cross listed with SOCI 480. Spring odd years.

    Prerequisite(s): SOCI 101  OR ENVR 110  OR ENVR 120  
  

  • ENVR 485 - Research in Environmental Studies

    1-6 Credit(s)

    This course is comprised of a student designing, performing, interpreting, and summarizing a research project under the supervision and guidance of a staff member. Fall and Spring.

  

  • ENVR 490 - Senior Seminar

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CM
    The course is the culmination of the Environmental Studies major. It brings together academic and experiential components of the major and provides students with an opportunity to complete an independent research project, which students present to the entire Environmental Studies community. Students will demonstrate proficiency in conducting independent research and analysis of an environmental issue, and synthesize course work, experiential opportunities, and research to critically assess and analyze a contemporary environmental issue. Environmental Studies majors only. Senior standing and instructor permission required. Fall and Spring.

  

  • ENVR 495 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • ENVR 498 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)


Exercise Science
  

  • @EXSC 303 - Techniques of Coaching

    2 Credit(s)

    Theory, strategy, and skill development at various grade levels. Fall and Spring.

  

  • @EXSC 305 - Personal Training Fundamentals

    4 Credit(s)

    This course provides an overview of the personal training profession and aids students in preparation to sit for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Personal Trainer exam. Key course topics include: exercise science and theory; health and fitness assessment; administration; program design and implementation; nutrition and lifestyle modification; and professional administrative considerations. The course is delivered in both classroom and practical settings. Registration for the ACSM exam is optional. Exercise Science majors, Community Health majors and Fitness minors only. Equivalent to PE 305.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 107  or BIOL 151  or BIOL 210 .
  

  • EXSC 326 - Health and Sports Management

    3 Credit(s)

    Fall Only

  

  • EXSC 331 - Body Composition and Health

    3 Credit(s)

    This 3-credit course examines the impact of body composition on general health. Specific focus will be on overweight/obese/overfat populations but will include implications for those with Type II diabetes. Combining research/theory and applied practices, students will gain a deeper understanding of these metabolic/psychosocial conditions.  

  

  • EXSC 332 - Fitness Management

    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to successful business models across a variety of fitness settings (private and commercial clubs, wellness centers, training studios, corporate fitness centers, medically-based fitness facilities, and physical therapy clinics). Course topics include facility design and management, leading a team of exercise professionals, client acquisition and retention, and building your professional brand.  

  

  • @EXSC 395 - Pre-Internship/Professionalism Seminar

    1 Credit(s)

    Special topics course for Exercise Science majors who will be completing EXSC 490 Internship within the next academic year.

  

  • @EXSC 420 - Strength and Conditioning

    3 Credit(s)

    Introduces the study of theory and application of concepts that influence the design of strength and conditioning to optimize individual and team performance adaptations. Specific emphasis is placed on sport-specific assessment and prescription of annual training programs. Topics include performance testing, resistance training, sport-specific skill development (power, speed, agility, reaction time), energy system conditioning and periodization as they relate to enhanced performance and fitness. Successful course completion aids in preparation for NSCA certification.

    Prerequisite(s): EXSC 305  Or PE 305   
  

  • EXSC 422 - Applied Strength and Conditioning

    3 Credit(s)

    This 3-credit course builds on the content from EXSC 420 Scientific Principles of Strength and Conditioning with a focus on application and advanced training techniques. Students will examine technological advances in performance testing and athlete monitoring, program design through various periodization models, and athlete needs analysis. Coach/athlete interactions (connections), Olympic lifting, variable resistance, and velocity-based training.  Students will also be introduced to program organization, administration and oversight concepts as they relate to strength and conditioning facilities.

  

  • EXSC 425 - Exercise Physiology

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the physiological adaptations to exercise for fitness, with consideration of factors that affect physical performance and methods for evaluating physiological capacities. Spring.

    Corequisite(s): BIOL 107   or BIOL 151  or BIOL 210 .
  

  • EXSC 450 - Kinesiology & Movement Science

    3 Credit(s)

    Examines human movement principles as they relate to musculoskeletal anatomy and normal function. Emphasis is placed on role of external and internal forces that govern motion. The course will expand the student’s understanding of functional musculoskeletal anatomy and the relationship between physics principles and human movement.

    Concurrent: BIOL 403  
  

  • @EXSC 460 - Exercise Assessment & Prescription

    3 Credit(s)

    Addresses the knowledge, skills and abilities employed to effectively assess fitness levels, interpret assessment results and design an exercise program. The course lecture/laboratory format places emphasis on exercise testing theory and methods, conducting client interviews, demonstration of appropriate exercise leadership skills, exercise prescription and program design. Successful course completion aids in preparation for ACSM certification.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 403 .
  

  • @EXSC 490 - Internship in Exercise Science

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CT
    Exposes students to hands-on practical experience that promotes refinement of the knowledge, skills and abilities accumulated through the preceding coursework. Students complete a semester of experiential learning placed in a setting based on their area of interest (clinical, athletic, corporate, wellness). To enroll, students must successfully complete all courses required for their major.

  

  • @EXSC 495 - Exercise Physiology Practicum

    1 Credit(s)

    Practicum to supplement EXSC 425 Exercise Physiology. Spring only.

    Concurrent: EXSC 425  

Finance
  

  • FINA 195 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 198 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 295 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 298 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 301 - Finance

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on the sources and costs of funds used by businesses to obtain the assets needed for operations. It also analyzes working capital components and the sources and uses of cash. Additional topics include the basic analysis of risk and return, the time value of money, and an introduction to basic financial statement analysis. Fall and Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): ACCT 202  and CIS 125 , or MATH 125 , or STAT 100 .
  

  • @FINA 320 - Management of Risk and Insurance

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on analyzing and managing the risks inherent in running any economic enterprise. Emphasis will be placed on identification of risk exposure and using specific types of insurance to address those exposures. This course may be of interest to Math majors interested in actuarial science.

    Prerequisite(s): CIS 125 , or MATH 125 , or STAT 100 . As warranted.
  

  • FINA 395 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 398 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 410 - Investments and Portfolio Analysis

    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides an introduction to various investment possibilities for both institutional and individual investors with a concentration on the use of portfolios and diversification for risk management. Topics include job-related investments such as 401Ks, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and real estate with an emphasis on valuation theory and modeling. Fall.

    Prerequisite(s): FINA 301 .
  

  • @FINA 460 - Financial Statement Analysis

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on the use of corporate financial statements in the analysis of past, present, and expected future financial performance. Topics include industry analysis, accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasting, valuation models, and mergers and acquisitions. Emphasis is placed on case analysis. Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): FINA 301 .
  

  • @FINA 491 - Internship

    1-12 Credit(s)

    The internship is a combination of academic study and work experience in an organization. A qualified student will work part-time or full-time at a private or public institution. A faculty member in the Department of Business Administration will supervise the academic project, while a supervisor at the work site will monitor the work experience. Either an instructor or the student may initiate the type of work. No more than six credit hours may be counted toward the major. Junior standing at the time of internship required. For application deadlines and more information, see your adviser. Fall and Spring.

  

  • FINA 495 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FINA 498 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)


First Year Programs
  

  • FY 100 - First Year Success Seminar

    0-3 Credit(s)

    This course is designed to accelerate students’ transition to SUNY Potsdam. FYSS provides students with the opportunity to become integrated into the life of the campus by exploring the academic standards of the College, learning to manage their academic progress, and, most importantly, making a connection with the College, its faculty, staff and students. In addition, FYSS provides support for first year students by exploring problems and issues common to the first-year experience.

  

  • FY 150 - Metaskills

    1 Credit(s)

    This is an eight-week course designed to assist students with study skills and developing a sense of responsibility for their education.

  

  • @FY 190 - Academic Support Recitation

    1 Credit(s)

    This course serves to complement existing courses by building a student’s skill level and content understanding in a small group format. This course is for new EOP/Bridges Freshmen only.

  

  • FY 215 - Career Development

    1 Credit(s)

    This course allows students to explore career interests and skills, research occupational and graduate school information and set objectives. The course is particularly aimed at sophomore students who are undeclared, but is appropriate for any student who is uncertain about his or her career path.


French
  

  • FREN 101 - FREN Level 1 Alors on Chante!

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CL
    Alors on Chante introduces and reinforces present tense concepts and basic vocabulary in French. It also provides cultural touchstones regarding French and Francophone cultures. Emphasis is placed on acquiring cultural awarness as well as basic oral and written communication. Classic, popular, and contemporary songs os all time periods will become instruction material.  Fall and Spring.

  

  • FREN 102 - Contemporary French Language II

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CL
    Sequel to FREN 101 . Fundamentals of reading French stressed in addition to speaking and listening. Fall and Spring.

  

  • FREN 103 - FRENCH Level 3 L’Amour Francais

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CL
    FREN Level 3:L’Amour Francais introduces past tenses, reinforces present tense, and builds vocabulary in French. It also provides cultural touchstones regarding French and Francophone cultures. Emphasis is placed on acquiring oral and written communication as well as cultural awareness. Fall and Spring.

  

  • FREN 195 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 198 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 202 - French for Business

    3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: CG
    Linguistic preparation and communication practice for the business world. Writing includes C.V., letters of request, ads and business report writing.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 102 .
  

  • FREN 203 - Oral and Written French I

    3 Credit(s)

    Initial course in major sequence. Emphasis on expanding vocabulary, learning to write correctly in French and review of grammar. Fall.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 103  or four years of high school French required.
  

  • FREN 213 - Intermediate Conversation

    3 Credit(s)

    Designed to increase fluency. Emphasis on comprehension of spoken French and developing strategies for conversation. Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 103  or four years of high school French required.
  

  • FREN 295 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 298 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 301 - Oral and Written French II

    3 Credit(s)

    Advanced grammar and syntax in francophone cultural contexts. Sequel to FREN 203 . Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203 .
  

  • FREN 303 - Contemporary France

    3 Credit(s)

    Evolution of French nation. Attention to social structures, ideas and attitudes. Every fourth semester.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203 .
  

  • FREN 304 - Contemporary Quebec

    3 Credit(s)

    Evolution of New France into modern Province of Quebec. Emphasis on period since the Quiet Revolution. Attention to current social structures, ideas and attitudes, linguistic features and cultural achievements, as well as to Quebec’s relations with France, English Canada and the United States. Every fourth semester.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203 .
  

  • FREN 315 - French Composition

    3 Credit(s)

    Builds proficiency in use of written French. Correspondence and original expression through intensive short text reading and writing. Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203  and FREN 301 .
  

  • FREN 325 - French Literature and Thought I

    3 Credit(s)

    French literature from Middle Ages to French Revolution. Techniques of literary analysis. Emphasis on study of literary genres. Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203  and FREN 301 .
  

  • FREN 326 - French Literature and Thought II

    3 Credit(s)

    Principal writers, genres and schools from modern day to 1960. Methods in modern literary criticism. Emphasis on the study of literary genres. Fall.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203  and FREN 301 .
  

  • FREN 350 - North African Literatures and Cultures

    3 Credit(s)

    Examination of “plurality” in Maghrebine cultures. Exploration of the historical, literary and culture perspectives. Every fourth semester.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 203  and FREN 301 .
  

  • FREN 395 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 398 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 410 - French Translation

    3 Credit(s)

    Varieties of written and spoken French at theoretical level. Applications in technology, business, politics, economics and others. Even years

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 315 .
  

  • FREN 461 - French Literature I: Origins - 1700

    3 Credit(s)

    Authors from Middle Ages, 16th and 17th centuries. Specific topics and readings determined each semester. Even years

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 325  and FREN 326 .
  

  • FREN 462 - French Literature II: 1700 - Present

    3-9 Credit(s)

    Authors from 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Specific topics and readings determined each semester. Even years

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 315  or FREN 325 , or FREN 326 .
  

  • FREN 495 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • FREN 498 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)


Geology

Note: Some Geology courses include or require co-registration with a laboratory component. See descriptions for details.
  

  • ESCI 200 - Environmental Science

    3 and 1 Credit(s)

    Since most of us understand that the environment controls many aspects of our way of life (e.g. food and fiber production, water supplies, resources for shelter and infrastructure), it is clear that the adverse impacts to the environment affect the well-being of humans and other living organisms. Therefore, this course is designed to introduce students to the basic scientific methods, tools and techniques needed to understand and analyze environmental issues using an earth systems (air, water, soil, life and solid earth) approach. Topics covered include ecosystem structure and function, population dynamics and regulation, earth’s resources and resource management and pollution.  Prerequisites: BIOL 152, CHEM 105, and GEOL 101.  Fall

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 152  and CHEM 105  and GEOL 101  
  

  • ESCI 301 - Soil Science

    1 and 3 Credit(s)

    Soils are the most important component of terrestrial ecosystems and represent the intersection between the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and solid earth. Through lectures and labs, students will learn how to describe and quantity the properties of soils, classify them using soil taxonomy, understand the relationship between the properties of soil and their favorable traits and limitations, and develop an appreciation for the soil as an ecosystem. Students will explore how land use management practices can help shape the properties of soils. Fall

    Prerequisite(s): GEOL 101  or GEOL 103  or GEOL 125  And GEOL 320  
  

  • GEOL 101 - Environmental Geology

    1 and 3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: NW
    Geology is the science of the Earth including study of the processes related to its composition, structure, and history. It’s not JUST naming rocks. The study of the Earth is a broad topic and geology draws on the knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology to help us understand Earth processes. Geologists perform a wide variety of tasks such as finding resources, helping clean up environmental messes, mapping geologic hazards, and researching basic Earth processes to gain a better understanding of how the planet works. Environmental Geology is applied geology and it focuses on the interaction of geology and humans. Must register for both the lecture and lab for a total of 4 credits. Fall and Spring.

  

  • GEOL 102 - Ancient Life

    3 Credit(s)

    This is a survey course designed to describe the countless forms of organisms that have lived on the Earth since it formed 4.6 billion years ago. We will explore how and why those organisms evolved and why many went extinct, and also the ecological interactions between organisms with the physical environment. Other major topics are: understanding evolution, tracing evolutionary relationships, and interpreting the behavior of extinct organisms. Fall.

  

  • GEOL 103 - Physical Geology

    1 and 3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: NW
    The overarching goals of this class are: 1) to understand Earth systems by examining the materials and features of our planet and 2) to understand the nature of the scientific endeavor using Earth systems as a context. Geologists engage in scientific discovery, the search for and extraction of resources, and the assessment of natural and environmental hazards. Geologic understanding aids in societal functioning and development. Must register for both the lecture and the lab for a total of 4 credits. Fall and Spring.

  

  • GEOL 125 - Earth Systems

    1 and 3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: NW
    This course provides an overview of Earth Science from a systems approach that focuses on the interaction of the major spheres: the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Topics covered include Earth materials, Earth history, plate tectonics, volcanism, geomorphology, hydrology, meteorology, climate, and energy. Must register for both lecture and lab for a total of 4 credits.  Fall and Spring.

  

  • GEOL 195 - Special Topics

    1-12 Credit(s)

  

  • GEOL 198 - Tutorial

    1-3 Credit(s)

  

  • GEOL 200 - Historical Geology

    1 and 3 Credit(s)

    Gen Ed: TF
    Historical Geology (GEOL 200) focuses on the methods, principles, and foundational assumptions that geologists use to interpret Earth History. This is accomplished through critical examination of the climatic, geological, and biological history of the Earth. Must register for botht he lecture and lab for a total of 4 credits. Fall and Spring.

    Prerequisite(s): WAYS 101  or GEOL 101  or GEOL 103  or GEOL 125  
 

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