From consumer products to space age technologies, chemistry affects our daily lives. In this course, students will learn the structure of matter and how it behaves under various conditions in order to better understand the chemical world. Designed for students with little or no chemistry background, this course can stand alone or be followed by CHEM&131; not intended for students continuing to CHEM&161. Laboratory activities extend lecture concepts and introduce the student to the experimental process.

This is an introductory course in principles of macroeconomics. Macroeconomics studies aggregate economic phenomena such as inflation, economic growth and recession, and unemployment, and addresses issues related to economic growth and the role of government policies in maintaining a healthy, prosperous economy. The goal of the course is to enable students to think about aggregate economic issues in an insightful manner, and to critically evaluate the economic information and analysis provided in popular news publications.

This course examines the market system and the role of government in the economy. Students learn to analyze resource and income distribution, assess consumer and business behavior, and evaluate price determination and production cost. Students will also be able to identify the economic and socio-political forces that impact consumer demand, business production, and exchange within both domestic and international markets.

Students will gain an understanding of the vast diversity of living things and their adaptations to their environment from an evolutionary perspective. They will examine the ecological relationships among all life on the planet.

This course is the first in a three quarter sequence designed for liberal arts and other majors that do not require calculus-based physics. Students will learn and apply the laws that govern motion, explore the relationship between work and energy, and examine momentum. Laboratory activities extend lecture concepts and introduce the student to the experimental process.

Six of the ten leading causes of death in America are diet-related. In this course students will learn the macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, proteins) and micronutrients (vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals) that promote optimum health. Students will examine digestion and metabolism of food; energy balance and weight control; use of exercise as related to energy balance; how current culture influences food choices and health; and risks of obesity, diabetes, and other nutrition related, prevalent diseases. Students will design an individual, healthy diet, discuss the role of government in the education of people, use the scientific method to analyze dietary claims; and learn basic food safety and bio-engineering. Designed for students with little or no biology or chemistry background.

This 5 credit course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the core concepts of calculus with a primary focus on applications from disciplines of economics and the social sciences. The content is applications in differential, integral and multivariable calculus with an introduction to The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Learners will continue to refine their independent study skills, cooperative problem solving, logically correct and mathematically precise writing and thinking, and their ability to use geometric, symbolic and analytic formats in presenting solutions to both abstract and real world applications.

This course reviews arithmetic skills and introduces algebraic notation, rules and concepts. Students explore linear relationships, with an emphasis on graphing and modeling data. Simplifying expressions and solving basic equations are also discussed. Learning to study math successfully, gaining confidence in approach and accuracy, and using a variety of ways of thinking about a single situation are outcomes for learners who take this course. Applications to real life are emphasized.

Students learn how to develop a research process that includes creating topics and questions, searching for and evaluating a variety of sources, and synthesizing and incorporating those sources to compose original texts.

This course helps students learn how to make judgments and decisions about their own and others’ communication, especially in college writing. They will practice various modes of reading, developing strategies for interpreting, responding to, and making use of a wide array of texts in their own writing. They will develop and document a personalized process to compose texts that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience, are thoughtfully organized, achieve appropriate levels of correctness, and are crafted with specified purposes for identified audiences. This class is organized around a theme chosen by the instructor.

This survey course introduces students to the origins of human diversity by tracing the origins of humanity and material culture from its ancient beginnings to the first literate societies. Through readings, videos, the Internet, and other materials, students will journey to Africa, Mesopotamia, Asia, India, Europe and the Americas as they learn about human adaptations to both the natural and cultural environments. This course may involve a service learning project.