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NU - 380 Healthcare Informatics Credits: 3
An introduction to health care informatics with a focus on patient safety and quality. This course includes organizational and personal exemplars of health care informatics and the federal regulations, policy, and legal issues associated with health care informatics. Includes an introduction to the use of data analytics to promote health and wellness for individuals, families, and communities with health needs.
Prerequisite(s): NU 220 and NU 230 . Nursing Major.
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NU - 430 Nursing of the Acutely Ill Adult Credits: 5
Nursing care of adults over the life span experiencing acute and complex illnesses with alterations in multiple body systems. The focus is on critical thinking and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care professionals to foster restoration and rehabilitation. Lecture 45 hours, clinical 90 hours. Course fee.
Prerequisite(s): NU 335 , NU 340 , NU 350 , NU 365 , and NU 370
Co-requisite: NU-430C
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NU - 440 Community and Public Health Nursing Credits: 4
A course which examines public health and community health nursing concepts. Students learn to plan aggregate-level care to promote health. The course includes application of basic epidemiological principles and methods, and population-focused management of communicable diseases. Lecture 30 hours, clinical 90 hours. Course fee.
Prerequisite(s): NU 335 , NU 340 , NU 350 , NU 365 , and NU 370
Co-requisite: NU-440C
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NU - 452 Senior Integrating Seminar Credits: 4
Advanced integration of clinical concepts and leadership theories that facilitate full human development potential of individuals, families, aggregates, communities, and populations utilizing a case study approach. Students critically examine significant technological and sociological developments that affect delivery of health care services. Includes preparatory guidance for the State Board examination. This is a capstone course and can only be taken after successful completion of all other clinical practicum rotations and must be taken concurrently with NU 454 . Lecture 60 hours.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing
Co-requisite: NU 454
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NU - 454 Clinical Nursing Internship Credits: 4
Advanced integration and application of clinical knowledge through focused precepted clinical nursing practice. This is a capstone clinical practice experience that can only be taken after successful completion of all other clinical practicum rotations and must be taken concurrently with NU 452 . Clinical 180 hours. Course fee.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing
Co-requisite: NU 452 and NU454C
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NU - 475 Creating a Healthy Lifestyle: Values Seminar & DeSales Experience Credits: 3
Provides students with an opportunity to explore their own and others’ motivations affecting health practices. An interdisciplinary approach will be used to examine the formation of individual values and choices.
Prerequisite(s): TH 109 and junior standing in non-nursing major
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NU - 476 Health Literacy in a Global Context Credits: 3
Health Literacy is ‘the ability of an individual to access, understand and use health-related information and services to make appropriate health decisions’. This course employs a global context in focusing on contemporary issues related to the promotion of health literacy. Students have the opportunity to apply learned principles to a specific at-risk population either in the United States or internationally. 1-2 credit hours lecture on campus; remaining credit hours via international or local field experience.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing in nursing or non-nursing major
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PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking: MOT/Philosophy Credits: 3
Introduces philosophy as an essential human activity. It focuses upon the processes used by philosophers as they examine questions like: What is reason? What can we know? What is real? What ought we to do? Is there a God? Students not only experience major philosophers at work on important human issues, but also participate in this activity by developing their own skills for creative thinking, rational argument, and responsible judgment.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PL - 204 History of Philosophy (600 B.C. - 1400 A.D.) Credits: 3
Surveys the philosophers of the Western tradition beginning with the pre-Socratics and including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stotics, the Epicureans, the Sceptics, Plotinus, Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 205 History of Philosophy (1400 A.D. - 1900 A.D.) Credits: 3
Surveys the philosophers of the Western tradition beginning with humanism and the Renaissance, and including rationalism, empiricism, Kantian criticism, idealism, positivism and utilitarianism.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 209 The Ethics of Character: The DeSales Experience Credits: 3
Practical and philosophical study of moral character focusing on the seven great virtues and the seven capital vices.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 and sophomore standing
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PL - 225 Logic Credits: 3
An introduction to the understanding of how words are used in naming things, the formation of propositions, the construction of arguments and the examination of fallacies. The goal of the course is twofold: that students gain an appreciation of the manifold character of “everyday” reasoning, and that they develop a facility to argue with order, with ease, and without error.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 226 Practical Argumentation Credits: 3
Considers argumentation from a material perspective, detailing the varied contexts in which argumentation occurs and the techniques that are appropriate to them. The principles of inductive and deductive reasoning will be covered, as well as the nature of and procedures proper to dialectical, rhetorical, poetical, and sophistical reasoning, with a special emphasis on how to identify and defeat defective forms of reasoning.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 or permission of the instructor
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PL - 240 The Philosophy of Nature Credits: 3
Examines the ancient and medieval accounts of the natural world, specifically their understanding of nature, change, space, time, purpose, chance, and the principles upon which they rest. This is perhaps most fundamental of all philosophy courses, and, together with logic, establishes the vocabulary basic to the whole of the Western philosophical tradition.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 245 The Philosophy of Human Nature Credits: 3
Studies the question of human nature. The course explores the uniqueness of human beings and inquires into the meaning and value of life. It examines the significance of freedom, action, solitude and community as essential conditions for becoming fully human.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 320 Ethics Credits: 3
Considers the value systems by which human beings ultimately determine what they do. The course analyzes the rational and psychological nature of values, their place in ethical systems, and their role in the human decision-making process.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 323 Business Ethics Credits: 3
Considers the moral dimensions of contemporary business practices. Of particular concern are areas where the profit motive seems to conflict with ethical standards. The course examines various ethical issues facing business today, such as the effects of advertising and workers’ rights.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 340 Existentialism: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Introduces the student in a systematic way to the thought of existential thinkers such as Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, etc. The aim of the course is to encourage personal existential thought.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 345 The Confessions of St. Augustine: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Explores Augustine’s great autobiographical classic where he presents the course of his life from hedonism to Christianity. The course examines why the story of Augustine’s spiritual journey to God still exerts a major influence upon the hearts and minds of people today as they try to cope with eternity, evil, love and God in a world often blind to these.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 350 The Republic of Plato: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Studies Plato’s philosophical masterpiece. The course explores the meaning of goodness both for an individual and for society by investigating the values of wisdom, honor, money, freedom, power, love and passion. It tries to define what people can reasonably expect from themselves and from one another.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 355 The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Considers Aristotle’s great treatise on ethics. The course looks at Aristotle’s account of happiness as the goal of human life, and the role of moral and intellectual virtue in achieving this goal. The treatise ends with a consideration of the place of friendship, and the intellectual life, in human well-being.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 360 The Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Explores the cathedral of thought of the medieval intellectual world. Situating St. Thomas historically as the synthesizer of the two great traditions of Augustinian wisdom and Aristotelian science, the course considers just how far reason can go in proving God’s existence, in describing His nature and ours, in providing a useful map of reality, and by prescribing how we should live.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 370 Masterpieces of Western Ethics: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Surveys seminal ethical texts in the Western tradition, including Plato’s Gorgias, works by Aristotle, Aquinas’ treatises On Happiness and On Law, Mill’s Utilitarianism and Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. The course situates these texts in their historical and cultural contexts, and grapples with underlying metaphysical and anthropological issues at stake in competing views of ethics.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 375 The Age of Reason: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Studies the Enlightenment period of the 17th and 18th centuries, in which individuals emphasized the power of reason to understand the universe. The course examines how the methodology of scientists influenced the thought of philosophers. It also considers the effect of a mechanistic, materialistic world view on religious understanding.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 380 Philosophy of Religion: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Examines the issue of ultimate meaning. The course investigates the meaning of God, explores rational support for belief in God, evaluates the claims of atheism, studies the problem of evil in the world, and examines the significance of religion in the life of both a person and a community.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , Humanities I and II
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PL - 390 Seminar in Creativity & Beauty Credits: 3
Analyzes the presence, nature and function of creativity and beauty in human life. The course concentrates on the nature and value of creativity, of the work of art, and of the reception of art by the viewer or auditor. It is not intended to be a course in art appreciation but rather an analysis of the sources and modalities of human creativity and of beauty.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 395 Special Topics in Philosophy Credits: 3
Special courses that deal with particular issues in the world philosophical thought. These will include Humanities IV courses on “Great Works of Literature” and other courses taught by visiting professors.
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PL - 400 Epistemology: The Human Knower Credits: 3
Surveys the traditional problems and processes associated with human knowing. Limited to juniors and seniors.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 410 Metaphysics: the Search for Synthesis Credits: 3
Explores the nature of reality to that we might more assuredly make the crucial distinction between what is real and what is only illusion. The course is designed for juniors and seniors who are looking for an integrative experience.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 438 Applied Ethics: Values Seminar Credits: 3
Studies contemporary moral controversies from a philosophical perspective. Possible topics abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, just war theory, and sexual ethics. Emphasizes the Catholic natural law tradition.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109 , and Humanities I & II
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PL - 473 Alcohol: Values Seminar Credits: 3
Explores the values associated with the use of alcohol in contemporary American society. The course investigates the nature of human happiness, relaxation and fun, the role of alcohol, college drinking, alcoholism, and the dysfunctional family.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 475 Friendship, Love and Sexuality: Values Seminar Credits: 3
Explores the quality of our personal relationships as a vital component of human happiness. The course investigates these three related values that foster relationships which are life- affirming and rich in meaning. Limited to juniors and seniors.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 476 Happiness: Values Seminar Credits: 3
Explores the values inherent in modern society’s understanding of happiness, especially as it involves the use of medication as a means to emotional stability and personal fulfillment. The course will question whether there are practical and appropriate alternatives to modern views by investigating the intricate relations that exist between views of happiness and the understanding of the human person and his/her destiny. Limited to juniors and seniors.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 477 Faith and Tolerance: Values Seminar Credits: 3
Considers the value of faith and its relationship to tolerance in our modern world. The course explores the issues of fundamentalism, relativism, and the role of reason in religion. Junior and senior status students only.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 478 Philosophy of Work and Leisure: Values Seminar and The DeSales Experience Credits: 3
An interdisciplinary examination of classical and contemporary conceptions of work, business and leisure. The course examines the way these conceptions and their philosophical assumptions affect our culture and the way they affect us as laborers. Several issues in business ethics are discussed with an emphasis on Catholic Social Teaching and the Natural Law tradition.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 479 The Ethics of Personal Success: Values Seminar Credits: 3
Explores the nature of the values found in the business world and in popular “self-help” books that claim to aid the achievement of human happiness and success through time and life management. Students will benefit by learning specific organizational skills, by philosophizing about the principles underlying them, and by grappling with the ultimate issues surrounding human happiness. Limited to juniors and seniors.
Prerequisite(s): PL 109
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PL - 499 Independent Study in Philosophy Credits: 3
Provides the student with the opportunity to pursue independent study under the guidance of departmental faculty. Permission of the directing faculty member during the semester preceding the study is required.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 100 Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Credits: 1
An examination of contemporary information concerning the beneficial effects of a positive healthy lifestyle. By initiating exercise programs, a healthful diet, maintaining optimal body weight, engaging a behavior modification for poor health habits, and using stress reduction techniques, students will be encouraged to develop health behaviors and choices which will facilitate lifetime fitness and wellness.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 105 Foundations of Physical Exercise, Health, and Recreation Credits: 3
This course covers personal beliefs and fallacies regarding health, fitness and recreation. The total person is considered through a holistic model that is presented, studied, and practiced by the students in the areas of health, recreation and exercise. The course provides a foundation for developing lifestyle alternatives and new skills that facilitate a high level of personal health and exercise as well as stress and time management. The final outcome will be a greater awareness and implementation of personal and family health, fitness and recreation for a person’s overall physical and mental well-being. Not open to students who have taken PE 100. Offered only in ACCESS.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 106 Physical Conditioning and Development Credits: 3
A course that examines and evaluates each student’s fitness level and lifestyle. Individualized programs are developed to best meet the overall developmental needs of the student. Students will be able to carry on with these programs for well-being in their daily lives after the course ends. The instructor uses lecture, discussion, individual workout sessions, and video evaluations to lead students to self-knowledge and self-discipline which will enhance their lifestyle and maximize their performance in many aspects of their lives. Not open to students who have taken PE 100. Only offered in ACCESS.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 205 Weight Training Credits: 1
A variety of exercise programs and activities for optimal physical conditioning and development. Individual fitness assessments and training logs provide the foundations for developing personal goals and objectives.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 231 Tennis Credits: 1
Designed to provide students with an overview of the fundamental skills, knowledge, and strategy required for the game of tennis. The mechanics of effective tennis strokes, strategy, equipment used, and rules for the game of tennis will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 232 Volleyball Credits: 1
Designed to provide students with an overview of the fundamental skills, knowledge, and strategy required for the game of volleyball. Skills and techniques for the individual, offensive and defensive systems, and rules of the game will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 240 Exercise Walking Credits: 1
An introduction to walking as a lifetime fitness activity. The course will focus on the physiological benefits of walking and its contribution to wellness.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 245 Disc Golf Credits: 1
This course will introduce students to the sport of disc golf as a lifetime fitness activity. The course will cover the history of the game, as well as rules, strategies, techniques, and health benefits of playing disc golf.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 251 Badminton Credits: 1
Designed to provide students with an overview of the fundamental skills, knowledge, and strategy required for the game of badminton. The activity is presented as a recreational, competitive and social sport that can be enjoyed as a lifetime activity.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 255 Pilates Credits: 1
This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the fundamental knowledge and skills required to perform Pilates. The student will perform Pilates exercises which will increase strength and flexibility. This course will provide an opportunity to experience an alternate for lifetime fitness.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 260 Hatha Yoga Credits: 1
Provides students with the fundamentals of Hatha yoga which can rejuvenate, relax, and energize both the body and mind. Students learn specific postures to improve alignment, balance, vitality, flexibility, and strength, as well as breathing techniques, relaxation practices, and the basics of meditation.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 300 Men’s Varsity Baseball Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 301 Women’s Varsity Softball Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 302 Men’s Varsity Basketball Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 303 Women’s Varsity Basketball Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 304 Men’s Varsity Cross Country Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 305 Women’s Varsity Cross Country Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 306 Men’s Varsity Soccer Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 307 Women’s Varsity Soccer Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 308 Men’s Varsity Tennis Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 309 Women’s Varsity Tennis Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 310 Men’s Varsity Golf Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 313 Women’s Varsity Volleyball Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 314 Men’s Varsity Track Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 315 Women’s Varsity Track Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 316 Men’s Varsity Lacrosse Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 318 Women’s Varsity Field Hockey Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 319 Women’s Varsity Lacrosse Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): None
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PE - 320 Varsity Esports Credits: 1
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PH - 201 General Physics I: Mechanics and Heat Credits: 5
First of a two-semester sequence of calculus-based physics, covering topics including kinematics, Newton’s Laws of motion, forces in nature, work and energy, impulse and momentum, conservation laws, rotational motion, oscillations, fluid mechanics, kinetic theory of gases, and thermodynamics, with an emphasis on problem solving. Lecture 4 hours, lab 3 hours. Course fee. Not open to students who have taken PH-203.
Prerequisite(s): MA 122
Co-requisite: Must register for PH-201L
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PH - 202 General Physics II: Wave Phenomena and Electromagnetism Credits: 5
Second of two-semester sequence of calculus-based physics, covering topics including electric forces and fields, electric potential, electronic circuits, magnetic forces and fields, inductance, mechanical waves, EM waves, reflection, refraction, image formation, interference, and wave optics, with an emphasis on problem solving. Lecture 4 hours, lab 3 hours. Course fee. Not open to students who have taken PH-204.
Prerequisite(s): PH 201
Co-requisite: Must register for PH-202L
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PH - 203 Introductory Physics I Credits: 5
First of a two-semester sequence of algebra-based physics, covering kinematics, Newton’s Laws, forces in nature, circular motion, conservation of momentum and energy, impulse, work, rotational motion and torque, gas laws, fluid statics and dynamics, and thermodynamics. Lecture 4 hours, lab 3 hours. Course fee. Not open to students who have taken PH-201 or PH-211.
Prerequisite(s): MA 110 , MA 112 , or MA 121
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PH - 204 Introductory Physics II Credits: 5
Second of a two-semester sequence of algebra-based physics, covering electric forces and fields, electric potential and energy circuits, magnetism, induction, oscillatory motion, wave phenomena, reflection, refraction, mirrors, lenses wave optics, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Lecture 4 hours, lab 3 hours. Course fee. Not open to students who have taken PH-202 or PH-212.
Prerequisite(s): PH 203 or permission of the instructor
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PH - 208 Hollywood Physics: MOT Natural Science Credits: 3
Designed for students to obtain a deeper understanding of the world they live by understanding the physical laws which govern it - something ever more important as our society becomes more and more technologically dependent. This course will investigate the underlying rules of physics in our universe using examples from popular movies. Lecture 2 hours, lab 2 hours. Course fee. Not open to students who have taken PH-201, PH-202, PH-203 or PH-204.
Prerequisite(s): MOT/Mathematics
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PH - 209 World Awareness Through Physics: MOT/Natural Science Credits: 3
The thought and method of a physicist. The lecture component examines the scientific method and practical examples of its use. The laboratory component examines methods of obtaining scientific data. The course concludes with a mini-research project designed by the students. This course assumes a familiarity with computers, word-processing, and basic probability/statistics. Lecture 2 hours, lab 2 hours. Course fee. Not open to students who have taken another MOT/Natural Science course.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PH - 211 General Physics I: Mechanics and Heat (no Lab) Credits: 4
Same course as PH 201 but without laboratory. Lecture 4 hours. Not open to students who have taken PH-201 or PH-203.
Prerequisite(s): Take MA 122
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PH - 212 General Physics II: Wave Phenomena and Electromagnetism (no Lab) Credits: 4
Same course as PH 202 but without laboratory. Lecture 4 hours. Not open to students who have taken PH-202 or PH-204.
Prerequisite(s): PH 201 or PH 211
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PH - 461 Research Credits: 3
Student research in a specific area of physics. The research will be in the research mentor’s field of competence and interest. The student is responsible for developing and completing an experimental or theoretical research project of professional quality. Regular discussions with the research mentor and other project personnel are required. A minimum time commitment of 9 hours per week is expected. Admission by permission of the instructor. Course fee.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PH - 4611 Research Credits: 1
An introductory research experience in physics. Research will be in the research mentor’s field of competence and interest. The expectations and responsibilities of the student will be determined by the individual research mentor. Regular discussions with the research mentor and other project personnel are required. A minimum time commitment of 3 hours per week is expected. Admission by permission of the instructor. Course fee.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 103 American Federal Government: MOT/Social Science Credits: 3
An analysis of the basic principles of the Federal Constitution, political parties, the electoral process and the political character and behavioral pattern of the American voter. The structure and processes of the Congress, the presidency and judiciary are examined.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 107 Central European Nations Credits: 3
Cross-listed with WC 107 .
An analysis of the political culture, political institutions, and organizations in Central Europe. This course will focus on the communist era, as well as the transition to democracy, and current affairs. In addition to comparisons across countries, issues such as democratization, dual transition, and democratic consolidation will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 108 International Politics Credits: 3
An analysis of the factors of national power and interests as they operate in the international system through various foreign policies.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 109 Government, Law, and Society: MOT/Social Science Credits: 3
A study of major public policies and the methods used to analyze them. Topics considered include major policy areas salient in American politics. The course seeks to provide students with skills used by policy analysts. Emphasis is placed on processes and methods of policy development and evaluation.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 201 Classical Political Thought: Humanities I Credits: 3
An analysis of the development of Western constitutionalism and its protection of human rights, from the Greek philosophers, the Roman lawyers, and medieval theologians to the British and American constitutions. Not open to students who have taken HI 201.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 202 Modern Political Thought: Humanities II Credits: 3
An analysis of the development of modern political thought from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment to its actualization in contemporary regimes. A broad cultural overview of these periods is provided. Not open to students who have taken HI 202.
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PO - 215 Politics of Latin America Credits: 3
An analysis of the range and complexity of political and economic developments in Central and South America. This course will focus on historical and contemporary events taking place in the region. Democratization, economic development, and geopolitics are just some of the major concepts that will be examined.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 255 President and Congress Credits: 3
Examines the constitutional and practical roles that Congress and the presidency play both as separate pollitical institutions and as members of the power sharing arrangement of the American Federal government. Taking both an historical and contemporary view of executive-legislative relations, students identify and analyze how the features of this relationship have evolved in the pastand how they are likely to develop in the future.
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PO - 256 Social Justice Policy Credits: 3
Analyzes public welfare policy in the United States, and the role played by public welfare agencies in the delivery of services. Particular attention is given to the concept of social justice as it relates to poverty and the poor.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 270 Health Policy and Law Credits: 3
Cross-listed with LG 270 .
A study of the development of the American health care system and its impact on American law, economics, and politics. Emerging health care and biomedical policies and laws are examined in terms of their social import.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 280 Environmental Policy and Law Credits: 3
Cross-listed with LG 280 .
A study of American environmental policies and laws as they have developed from the 1960s to the present. Topics include policies pertaining to clean water and air, solid waste, toxic substances, resource conservation, climate change, and worker health and safety. Major court cases in environmental law are examined, as is the impact of politics on the formation of environmental policy.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 302 Democracy in America: Humanities IV Credits: 3
Examines Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, a great work of modern political theory. The validity of Tocqueville’s analysis for understanding the development of American political culture over time is also considered, as is the continuing importance of Tocqueville’s investigation of the significance of democratic values for religion, morality, family, and perceptions of self.
Prerequisite(s): Humanities I and II
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PO - 313 National Security Credits: 3
An examination of relations between geographical globalization and how they shape the role and function of the state. Heavy emphasis will be placed on the issues of war and peace, as well as the attainment of geographical knowledge.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 315 American Foreign Policy Credits: 3
A study of American Foreign policy as it relates to Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Attention is given to the historical development of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present, but primary emphasis is placed on current U.S. economic and strategic interests.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 317 International Law and Organization Credits: 3
This course examines two interrelated subjects. International law is the study of the norms of behavior which nations regard as binding and the international political processes that produce them. International organizations are an integral part of these processes which deal with issues of war and peace, justice, and human welfare. Particular emphasis will be placed on the United Nations.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 330 Constitutional Law Credits: 3
Cross-listed with LG 330 .
An examination of constitutional law and the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court on American politics. Debates regarding constitutional reasoning are examined. Leading Supreme Court decisions in the areas of intergovernmental relations, commerce, and civil rights and liberties are analyzed.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 362 Senior Seminar: Public Policy and Law Credits: 3
Cross-listed with LG 362 .
A seminar based upon individual student research in public policy and law. The course consists of lectures, individual investigations, and presentations and discussions.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 391 Politics Internship Credits: 3
Experiential learning opportunity in the field of political science at an approved setting under professional supervision. Each student should choose a setting related to their personal, professional or vocational interests that will allow them to apply what they are learning in their political science courses. Recommended settings include non-profit agencies, human services, law firms, and government. Permission of the instructor and Career Development Center is required.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PO - 475 Politics and the Family: Values Seminar Credits: 3
An analysis of the various familial structures and issues facing families throughout American history. Attention is given to the diversity of family arrangements, how they have changed over time, and the social/political/economical problems confronting them today. Students will participate in a guided classroom debate at the end of the semester. Limited to juniors and seniors.
Prerequisite(s): TH 109
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PO - 499 Independent Study Credits: 3
Provides the student with the opportunity to pursue independent study under the guidance of department faculty.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PS - 109 Introduction to Psychology: MOT/Social Science Credits: 3
An overview of psychology that emphasizes how psychologists function as scientists. Topics include research methods, psychobiology, motivation, perception, consciousness, learning, cognition, development, personality, psychology and health, psychological disorders, psychotherapy, and social relationships.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PS - 120 Leadership Self Development: DeSales Experience Credits: 3
Designed to enable students to grow their potential to live and lead effectively. The course will enable students to enhance personal growth and leadership development. The goal is to maximize student potential and become a more fully self-actualized person. Students will learn how to take the productive control of their life and transformational in their leadership capacity.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PS - 200 The Unseen Reality: the Psychology of Spiritual Experience Credits: 3
A survey of select topics in the psychology of religion. Special emphasis is placed on the critical analysis of reports of subjective experience which are casually attributed to supernatural agents or an “unseen reality”. Anthropological, historical and sociological material is surveyed within the context of research findings in the cognitive science of religion.
Prerequisite(s): None
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PS - 205 Research Design and Analysis Credits: 3
Provides an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include measures of central tendency, measures of variability, correlation techniques, probability, sampling and reporting of statistical findings. Limited to sophomore, junior or senior students.
Prerequisite(s): PS 109 ; MA 111 recommended
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