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ECN 4601 Economics 1 4 QH
Examines development of macroeconomic analysis, national income concepts, national income determination fluctuation and growth, role of the banking system and the Federal Reserve System, government expenditures and taxation, international trade, and balance of international payments.ED 4003 Integrated Language Skills A 4 QH
Strives to improve reading and related study and language skills. Emphasizes reading skills such as vocabulary, comprehension, interpretation, and critical reading, as well as study skills such as previewing, finding main ideas and details, outlining, summarizing, classifying information, and locating signal words. Focuses on strengthening study habits, time management, basic computer skills, memory and listening techniques, note-taking and exam-taking strategies. Examines the correlation between reading and writing within the course and across the disciplines. Assignments from both fiction and nonfiction address the primary theme of the course, forming an identity.ED 4004 Integrated Language Skills B 4 QH
Continues to strengthen reading and study skills. Explores techniques for researching, organizing, and writing term papers using critical reading and thinking skills as they relate to the learning process. Helps students develop insight into their strengths and interests regarding a choice of major and career. Reading and research assignments emphasize the primary theme of the course, developing a social conscience.ED 4005 Integrated Language Skills Seminar 1 QH
Integrates critical reading, thinking, and study skills with other courses in order to provide support for students with differing abilities. Uses literature, films, discussion, and related assignments to explore and develop themes relating to world events. Assists students in preparing the necessary documents and information to obtain sophomore status and a co-op assignment.ENG 4013 Introductory Writing 1 4 QH
Introduces students to the components of the writing process: generating and developing ideas, organizing and structuring essays, considering audience, drafting and revision, and controlling the conventions of standard edited written English. Provides students with the opportunity to learn to read short texts of some complexity (which in turn serve as the occasion for their own writing) and to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies and research methods. Prereq. SGS students only.ENG 4014 Introductory Writing 2 4 QH
Continues ENG 4013. Prereq. ENG 4013; for SGS students only.HST 4110 History of Civilization A 4 QH
Covers the major ideas and institutions of civilization from ancient times to 1648.HST 4111 History of Civilization B 4 QH
Continues HST 4110, covering the period since 1648. Prereq. HST 4110.MGT 4110 Survey of Business and Management 4 QH
Offers an introduction to the setting and general structure of American business, the characteristics of private enterprise, and the nature and challenge of capitalism and other forms of economic enterprise. Discusses the forms of business, the structure of organizations, and the functions of management in the context of their influence on the various forms of business. Lecture and class discussion give the student an overview of the methodologies used in planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the functions of production, marketing, sales, pricing, and finance.MTH 4000 Mathematical Preliminaries 1 4 QH
Reviews precollege mathematics, primarily arithmetic and elementary algebra. Covers operations with numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, exponents, signed numbers, simple equations, and polynomials, together with applications of these skills and concepts. The sequel to this course is MTH 4010.MTH 4010 Mathematical Preliminaries 2 4 QH
Surveys algebra, including exponents, multiplication of polynomials, factoring, linear equations, quadratic equations, graphing, linear systems with two variables together with applications. A TI-83 graphing calculator is required. For students whose background in algebra is weak.MTH 4020 Functions and Algebra 4 QH
Examines how to solve and graph various kinds of algebraic functions: linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, rational as well as linear systems with two and three unknowns. Includes applications such as variation, motion, and mixture problems.MTH 4030 Applications of Algebra 4 QH
Examines linear equations and their graphs, systems of equations, and linear inequalities in two variables with application to linear programming. Introduces matrices and cryptography, set theory, techniques of counting permutations, combinations, and elementary probability.MTH 4040 College Mathematics for Business 4 QH
Focuses on using the TI-83 graphing calculator to solve and graph various nonlinear functions, such as quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, and logistic equations. Applies modeling, scatter plots, and finding the Òbest fitÓ equation to real-world problems in business and other fields. Concentrates on solving finance problems, including annuities and loans in the second half of the course. Requires a business project analyzing a publicly traded companyÕs performance. A TI-83 graphing calculator is required.POL 4106 Introduction to Politics 4 QH
Studies the basic political concepts and forces of organization from the classical Greeks to the modern nation-state. Contrasts the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom as illustrations of the institutional distinction between a totalitarian and a constitutional system.SOC 4010 Principles of Sociology 1 4 QH
Introduces basic concepts and theories relating to the study of humans as participants in group life. Emphasizes socialization, culture, social structure, primary groups, family, social stratification, and population.SOC 4011 Principles of Sociology 2 4 QH
Continues SOC 4010. Emphasizes critical analysis of American society, with attention to problems of social, political, urban, and industrial change. Prereq. SOC 4010.
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