This introductory course provides students with a broad understanding of computer hardware, software and operating systems. Topics include the history of computers; logic circuits; major hardware components and their design, including processors, memory, disks, and video monitors; programming languages and their role in developing applications; and operating system functions, including file system support and multitasking, multiprogramming and timesharing. Weekly labs give hands-on experience. Enrollment limited to 35. Offered first or second half of the semester.

Examination of individual differences and their consideration in the teaching-learning process. Research and prepracticum required. Prerequisites: EDC 238.

Topics course. This class examines the relation of perhaps the defining American film genre to questions of both American cinema and American identity. How are Westerns reflective and symptomatic of vital issues in United States history and culture? How does the genre help shape and define how Americans think of themselves? How did the genre change over the post-war period, and what does this tell us about the changing needs, ideas and ideologies of both American filmmaking and the United States itself?

Sectioned course. Students must have a working knowledge of the four basic tennis strokes (forehand, backhand, volleys, serves). The format for Tennis II is a "play and learn" environment. There will be emphasis on positioning and basic strategies for singles and doubles. Lobs and overheads will be introduced. In addition, tennis drills will be presented to help students refine and practice the four basic strokes. Prerequisite: Tennis I or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 16 per section.

Sectioned course. This course provides an introduction to various methods of resistance training. The focus of this class is functional strength training. Students will learn specific training methods with a purpose. This is an ideal course for students interested in sport, applied sports medicine, and rehabilitation. Enrollment limited to 20.

Injuries due to involvement in sport result in untold expense, discomfort and possible lifelong problems. The etiology and prevention of injury are discussed. Also covered are over-training, childhood sport and specialization, and how to maintain healthy athletes. The most common sport injuries are analyzed. Lecture and discussion are supported by applied laboratory exercises. Enrollment limited to 20.

Drawing upon a variety of sociological perspectives and analytical methods, this course considers the place of culture in social life and examines its socially constituted character. Culture, treated as a set of distinctive practices, as symbolic representation, and as a domain of creative expression, will be viewed contextually, in specific social, historical, and institutional locations.

Topics course. What could lead you to you sell your soul? And what fate would await you if you did? Since the 16th century, the story of Faust the scholar-magician-charlatan has explored these questions anew, and each retelling provides a window into the struggles and ambitions of its age: from Elizabethan drama to Soviet-era samizdat, from the Germany of Sturm und Drang to that of the Third Reich. Readings from Marlowe, Calderon, Lessing, Byron, Goethe, Bulgakov, Thomas Mann; films from Murnau, Sokurov.(E)

This two-semester course leverages students? previous coursework to address an engineering design problem. Students collaborate in teams on real-world projects sponsored by industry and government. Regular team design meetings, weekly progress reports, interim and final reports, and multiple presentations are required. Prerequisites: EGR 220, 270, 290 and at least one 300-level engineering course, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite: EGR 410D. (E)

This course engages the class in a semester-long design and/or analysis project. Students work in ad hoc teams using a variety of skills and knowledge to address a current issue or question related to environmental sustainability for our local community. The specific projects vary from year to year. Students gain direct experience with the range and complexity of activities required to address a real-world environmental project. Student work is assessed via progress reports (written and oral), reflective essays and a final report. Prerequisites: ENV 101, Statistics, ENV 201/202, ENV 311.