FAD 3432
Stress and Resilience in Individuals and Families (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to major
This course provides undergraduate majors with an introduction to family-based, stress-focused mini-theories. The course will provide a framework for understanding the differences between family patterns when families are centered on growth related themes and when they are pre-occupied with a variety of stressor events.

GLY 1000
Dynamic Earth (3)
Introduction to geology as the study of planet earth, its internal dynamics and its surficial weathering, erosion, and sedimentary processes.

HME 4221
Family Resource Management (3)
Analysis of family decision making, goals, values, and resources.

LIS3103
Information and Society (3)

OCE 1001
Elementary Oceanography (3)
Prerequisite: MGF 1106 or 1107
Structure and motion of the ocean and its environs, properties, populations, and energy budget. Not intended for upper-division science or mathematics majors. Upper-division science or mathematics majors are encouraged instead to take OCE 4008.

STA 3032
Applied Probability Statistics for Science and Engineering (3)

Interdisciplinary Social Science

CPO 3034
Politics of Developing Areas (3)

CPO 3123
Comparative Government and Politics of Great Britain (3)

ECO 2023
Principles of Microeconomics (3)

ECO 4704
International Trade (3)
Prerequisites: ECO 2013, 2023; ECO 4101 recommended.
Theory of international trade, the gains from trade, tariffs and other trade restrictions, cartels.

GEA 1000
World Geography (3)
A regional survey of the human occupation of the face of the earth, local cultures, political systems, and development problems.

PAD 4223
Budgets and Finances in Managing Public Affairs (3)
Concepts and practices in budgeting and financial processes such as planning, goal setting, and implementation.

PAD 4374
Introduction to Terrorism (3)
This course helps you identify terrorism, its historical roots, and consequence management in response to terrorism. Topics include the distinctions between nuclear, biological and chemical agents; acceptable risk in terms of individual and community exposure; the role of government in managing terrorist events; the legal and political relationships among federal, state, and local emergency management agencies; and the kinds of problems that develop when programs require intergovernmental/multi-organizational cooperation.

SYA 4010
Sociological Theory (3)
This course introduces the student to the kind of theory that has developed in the field of sociology since its foundation, moving through to the contemporary scene. Major theoretical fields, major theorists, and dominant theoretical issues that continue to be part of the sociological approach to explanation are covered.

SYA 4300
Methods of Social Research (3)
Broad coverage of research design, data collection, and data analysis. This is a required course for sociology majors.

SYA 4400
Social Statistics (3)
This course involves the application of statistical techniques to sociological data as illustrated in the research and writing of social scientists. As a course for majors, it represents an important part of the student's methodological training with respect to the statistical analysis of data typically used by sociologists. The student is expected to carry out a number of exercises involving the statistical analysis of sociological data and to interpret the results.

SYD 3020
Population and Society (3)
This course examines the causes and consequences of population change in the United States and the world with an assessment of the impact of demographic change on various social institutions.

SYO 3460
Sociology of Mass Media (3)
This course provides a sociological view of mass communications by critically examining the origin, history, and functions of the American mass media and its effect on social life.

SYP 3454
The Global Justice Movement (3)/p>

SYP 3540
Sociology of Law (3)
This course examines the interrelationship between the legal order and the social order. Limitations of civil and criminal law for conflict management and for implementation of social policy are considered.

SYP 3730
Aging and the Life Course (3)
In coming years, Americans will have to make important decisions regarding the consequences of population aging. This course explores how changing life course patterns have influenced retirement, health care, politics, and family structure. It also considers the policy choices that will have to be made in the twenty-first century as the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.

SYP 4570
Deviance and Social Control (3)
This course focuses on major theories and research traditions, including structural and social psychological causes of deviant behavior, processes of labeling deviants, and social conflict over definition and treatment of deviance.

Nursing

NUR 3655
Multicultural Factors and Health (3)
A comparative analytical approach to the study of communication, current problems, issues, health care beliefs, values, and practices of different systems and cultural norms as they affect health care practices that conflict with ethnic or cultural communication related to standards and value systems.

NUR 3805
Nursing: Role and Scope (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to RN to BSN Program.
This course is designed for the returning registered nurse student. Current and emerging concerns of professional nursing are addressed within the context of nursing history, nursing practice, impact of global trends, and the influence of political and socioeconomic policies on nursing and health care. The roles of the baccalaureate nurse are examined in relation to individual, family, and community outcomes with emphasis on client advocacy, teaching, autonomy, accountability, change agent, research, critical thinking, and leadership. The legal and ethical framework for professional nursing and cultural diversity also are explored. Selected nursing practice models and health belief models are considered for applicability to nursing practice.

NUR 4069C
Advanced Health Assessment (3)
Pre- or Co- requisites: NUR 3167, 3286, 3805
Designed to develop students' knowledge of skills for advanced health assessment, including health history and physical examination.

NUR 4637
Public Health Nursing (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4835, 4835L
Co requisite: NUR 4637L
The course focuses on complexity and diversity of groups or aggregates within communities and their corresponding health care needs. The third fundamental aspect of nursing practice established by the American Association of Colleges of Nurses, "population based health care," is addressed. Topics include: the philosophy and concepts of public health nursing, comparison to community health, and the role of the public health nurse as a leader, change agent, case finder, and case manager in settings such as schools, industry, correctional institutions, group homes, sheltered workshops, and clinical settings. The family structure and its impact on healthcare, environmental safety, effects of poverty, epidemiology, communicable disease, resources (Centers for Disease Control and research), impact of violence in community settings, disaster (both natural and man-made), and global and environmental health also are examined.

NUR 4637L
Public Health Nursing Laboratory (2)
Generic BSN Program
Prerequisites: Term I, II, III, and IV courses
RN to BSN Program Prerequisites: NUR 4835, 4835L
Co requisite: NUR 4637
This course utilizes the findings from the community assessment performed in NUR 4619. Implementation of an appropriate project is performed. Clinical experiences are conducted with the guidance of a preceptor and may occur in a variety of settings.