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2013-2014 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
Courses
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MUS 3370 - Music History III
Goals: Provide students with a rigorous knowledge of the chronology of music history. Ability to read music required.
Content: A detailed survey from the mid-19th century to the present.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3400 - Dalcroze Eurhythmics
Goals: Develop active listening skills, coordination of body and mind, internalization of rhythm, melody, harmony, and improvisation skills.
Content: Eurhythmics exercises in beat, twice as fast/slow, rhythmic patterns, simple and compound meter, complementary rhythm, phrase, measure shape (anacrusis-crusis-metacrusis)
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with note reading.
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3410 - Theory of Music I: The Language of Music
Goals: Develop a basic knowledge of tonal harmony.
Content: Musical analysis, basic harmonic progression, principles of voice leading, elements of composition, sight-singing, and aural training including computer-based instruction. Course work requires basic piano skills. If piano skills are lacking, MUS 1210 Beginning Class Piano should be taken in the fall term prior to MUS 3410.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisites: MUS 1210 and self-administered test on department website.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3420 - Theory of Music II: Techniques of Analysis & Composition
Goals: Intermediate development of written and aural skills.
Content: Harmonic progression, seventh chords, modulation, composition in small forms, and aural training including harmonic dictation. Elements of style analysis.
Taught: Fall term
Prerequisite: MUS 1220 and MUS 3410.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3430 - Theory of Music III: Chromatic Harmony
Goals: To develop advanced skills in theory for music majors.
Content: Chromatic harmony, analysis of musical forms, style analysis, and aural analysis and composition.
Taught: Spring term
Prerequisite: MUS 3420
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3450 - Arranging, Orchestration, and Computer Notation
Goals: Develop skills in arranging and orchestrating music through the use of the latest computer notation software.
Content: Techniques of arranging music for various combinations of instruments and voices using computer notation.
Prerequisite: MUS 3410
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 3500 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Voice
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3510 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Piano
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3520 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Organ
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3530 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Harpsichord
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3540 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Guitar
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3550 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Flute
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3560 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Oboe
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music music
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MUS 3570 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Clarinet
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3580 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Saxophone
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3590 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Bassoon
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3600 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Violin
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3610 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Viola
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3620 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Cello
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3630 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Double Bass and/or Jazz Bass
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3640 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Trumpet
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3650 - Advanced Level Performance Studies French Horn
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3660 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Trombone
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3670 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Tuba
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3680 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Baritone Horn
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3690 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Harp
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3700 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Percussion
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3710 - Composition–Popular Music
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3720 - Composition–Classical Music
Compose original works for solo players, chamber music, and/or works for orchestra, band, choir.
Prerequisites: Competence in the traditional language of music is required. Theory of Music I or Arranging and Orchestration are recommended.
Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 3730 - Composition–Jazz
Increase students’ understanding of functional form and harmony in jazz composition through analysis of classic and modern jazz literature. To gain a deeper realization of these principles through application of these conventions in composing new works. To begin to develop an individual and original voice through composition in jazz.
Prerequisites: Competence in the traditional language of music is required. Theory of Music I or Arranging and Orchestration are recommended.
Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Credits: Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
Department: Music
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MUS 5330 - Topics in Classical and Romantic Music
Goals: Designed for Artist Diploma candidates, the course will explore issues in 18th and 19th century music. The impact of the enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions, the differentiation of concepts of Classicism and Romanticism, the import of late 19th century thought (Darwin, Marx, Freud); these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period. These matters will be related to actual performance.
Content: Music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, and others.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: Enrollment in Post-baccalaureate Artist Diploma in Piano Performance.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 5340 - Topics in Twentieth Century Music
Goals: Designed for Artist Diploma candidates, the course will explore issues in 20th century music. The impact of wars, of political systems, of technology, of gender and race, the import of expressionism, of impressionism, of technical systems, and of the conflict between classical and popular cultures; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period. These matters will be related to actual performance.
Content: American music, serialism, electronic music, new structural principles.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: Enrollment in Post-baccalaureate Artist Diploma in Piano Performance.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 5510 - Advanced Level II Performance Studies Piano
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites:
- Advanced performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition).
- At least four semesters of 3000 level Performance Studies or equivalent.
- Audition and signature of the Chair required.
Note: Students may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 5930 - Senior Musical Arts Project
Goals: Develop a paper, recordings, or another project appropriate to the discipline of music.
Content: Student works closely with instructor to develop, research, or otherwise prepare this capstone project.
Taught: Every semester
Prerequisites: Senior music major with musical arts concentration.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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MUS 5940 - Senior Recital
Goals: To prepare and perform a recital representative of a student’s best work.
Content: Together, teacher and student select appropriate repertoire to be performed.
Taught: Every semester
Prerequisite: Senior music major or consent of instructor.
A writing-intensive component may be selected with permission from the faculty advisor.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Music
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NPFT 1010 - Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector
Goals: This course includes an introduction to management and leadership in the nonprofit sector, investigating the critical history of nonprofits as part of our American heritage.
Content: Concepts of public good, volunteerism, service and servant leadership, organizational structure, mission and management philosophy, the role of philanthropy, reasons for giving, ethics, and organizational development. The course will combine a review of texts, student research, expert guest lecturers,
workshops and student presentations.
Credits: 4 credits
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NPFT 3010 - Nonprofit Governance, Finance, and Law
Goals: This course includes an introduction to nonprofit governance and policy structures, with emphasis on the legal, regulatory, and financial aspects of managing nonprofit organizations.
Content: Board development, governance, strategic planning, policy making, federal and state reporting requirements, crucial aspects of financial structures and audits, regulatory compliance, and record keeping. Students will work on the processes for creating, growing, and sustaining a nonprofit organization.
Credits: 4 credits
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NPFT 3020 - Development and Fundraising
Goals: This course will expose students to the wide variety of development and fundraising activities that are critical for nonprofit growth and sustainability.
Content: Starting with why individuals, foundations and businesses give to philanthropy, course will include types of gifts, fundraising programs, special events, and grant writing. Special emphases on program goals, outcomes assessment, marketing, and public relations will provide an underlying theme throughout the course. Students will work on actual projects with community partners throughout the course.
Credits: 4 credits
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NPFT 5860 - Nonprofit Seminar and Internship
Goals: This capstone course is intended to be the cumulative application of all the competencies developed in the program.
Content: Internship selection and placement will be finalized during the prior semester to ensure an engaging and productive work experience emphasizing hands-on learning with weekly attendance in a capstone classroom seminar. The internship incorporates education and professional development into a service-learning work experience, including the production of a senior portfolio.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1010 - Beginning Strength Training
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1030 - Beginning Tae Kwon Do
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 1040 - Self Defense
Goals: This course will focus on practical techniques for self-defense drawn from Shaolin Kenpo Karate. The course will also improve physical conditioning and instruct students in recognizing and avoiding threats.
Content: Through solo and partnered exercises, as well as forms, students will learn how to strike and defend using a wide range of techniques. Defenses to specific attacks will be included, such as being grabbed from the front or behind, and defending against various punches and weapons attacks.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 1060 - Racquetball
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1100 - Intermediate Strength Training
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1140 - Beginning Golf
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1150 - Beginning Tennis
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1170 - Personal Fitness
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills and strategies to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Taught: Spring
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 1390 - Scuba Diving
Goals: To acquire the skills and knowledge to become a certified diver.
Content: Scientific principles and techniques of scuba diving. Marine physics, physiology, and medical knowledge are studied to ensure a safe exposure to an underwater environment.
Aquatic Activity
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 1400 - Fundamental Concepts of Physical Education
Goals: To acquaint the student with an overview of the physical education profession, its associated disciplines and subdisciplines, and anticipated career opportunities open to physical education graduates. A major emphasis is placed on acquainting the student with the anatomy of the skeletal and muscular systems.
Content: Philosophical, physiological, psychological, historical, and sociological foundations of physical education with major emphasis upon anatomy, muscular origin, insertion, and action.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 1540 - Individual Activities
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Secondary teaching methods for the individual activities of physical fitness, aerobics/conditioning, gymnastics, tumbling, self-defense/wrestling.
Taught: Biennially.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 1550 - Rhythms
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Fundamentals of folk dance, square dance, social, and modern dance.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1570 - Lifetime Sports
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Tennis, badminton, racquetball, handball, bowling, recreational games, downhill and cross-country skiing, outdoor education, golf, and archery.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1650 - Team Sports
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Floor hockey, soccer, speedball, team handball, basketball, volleyball, softball, lacrosse, football, track and field, and cross-country.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1800 - Fitness
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 3030 - Intermediate Tae Kwon Do
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the basic physical fitness activities to encourage physical fitness activity for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor Activity
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 3340 - Lifeguard Training
This is the American Red Cross Lifeguarding course. The content includes surveillance skills, rescue skills, First Aid and CPR training, and professional responsibilities of the lifeguard.
Prerequisite: American Red Cross swimming skills test.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 3700 - Coaching and Theory of Swimming
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to swimming.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3710 - Coaching and Theory of Football
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to football.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3720 - Coaching and Theory of Basketball
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to basketball.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3730 - Coaching and Theory of Track and Field
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to track and field.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3740 - Coaching and Theory of Baseball/Fastpitch
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to baseball and fastpitch.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3750 - Coaching and Theory of Hockey
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to hockey.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3770 - Sport Management and Marketing
Goals: To become familiar with the functions and processes of management: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and evaluating. To understand basic principles and practices of management as they relate to sport organizations. To understand critical professional skills needed for sport managers, with an emphasis on effective written communication. To develop an awareness and understanding of social issues related to sport management, including race, gender, and class.
Content: Principles of management, organization theory, management of sport organizations, including physical education, interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics, amateur and professional sport, facility and event management, public relations, marketing, fiscal management, risk management, ethics, and social issues.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4
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PHED 3780 - Coaching and Theory of Volleyball
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to volleyball.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3790 - Coaching and Theory of Soccer
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to soccer.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 3800 - Coaching and Theory of Strength and Conditioning
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to strength and conditioning.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 5620 - Adaptive/Developmental Physical Education
Goals: To blend theory and practice of present trends in adaptive/developmental physical education. To enhance student knowledge about handicapping conditions as they relate to physical education. To inform students of the mandates of recent federal legislation. To develop a better appreciation for special students through direct experience in the school setting.
Content: Public school programming in response to public laws 94-142, assessments used for entrance/exit criteria, developing an individualized education program (IEP), and providing an understanding of identifying a quality physical education program for students with special needs.
Taught: Biennially.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 5640 - LAB: Physiology of Exercise
This lab must be taken concurrently with the PHED 5640 lecture. The lab itself has zero credit value.
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PHED 5640 - Physiology of Exercise
Goals: Students will be able to describe how physical activity affects the functioning of specific systems of the human body.
Content: Cell and tissue function, nervous system, endocrine system, cardio-respiratory and lymphatic systems, bioenergetics, body composition, the affect of training and diet on human performance.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: BIOL 1120 and PHYS 1130, or CHEM 1100, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 5850 - Physical Education in the Elementary School
Goals: To know the theoretical basis of elementary physical education and strategies for implementing the program. To understand basic needs of children in today’s society, and to develop and organize material to be used in effective instruction programs.
Content: Application of knowledge, skills, methods, and techniques.
Taught: Biennially.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior status.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 5910 - Scientific Bases of Physical Education
Goals: To acquire an in-depth perspective of the contributions of science and history to physical education.
Content: The biological, philosophical, psychological, and historical bases of physical education.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 5920 - Programming and Evaluation in Physical Education
Goals: To acquaint students with problems, trends, principles, and techniques of curriculum development and evaluation of student performance in physical education. To familiarize students with the computer software available for programming and evaluation in physical education.
Content: History and principles of program development and planning, Minnesota State education requirements, evaluation techniques used in analysis of fitness, motor skills, sports skills, and knowledge. Basic research methods and statistics.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 5950 - Senior Seminar
Students will identify and delimit a research problem, search and review pertinent literature, formulate a testable hypothesis, design and conduct research to test the hypothesis, analyze and report the results, and discuss the meaning and implications of the results. The final product must be presented in written form, and if judged to be of sufficient quality, may fulfill partial requirements for departmental honors.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 1120 - General Philosophy
Content: Selected important philosophic works; the main problems of philosophy, the natures of reality, valuing, and knowing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 1130 - Logic
Content: Formal and informal reasoning, deductive and inductive; traditional and symbolic techniques for distinguishing correct from incorrect reasoning.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 1140 - Ethics
Content: The concepts of goodness, right, duty, obligation, responsibility, and freedom; important moral theories of the Western tradition; contemporary moral issues in light of these theories.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 1145 - Development Ethics in Jamaica
Goals: This course examines ethical issues related to “third world” or “developing” nations.
Content: After a week of study on campus, we will travel to rural Jamaica on an Operation Classroom work team, living and working with locals on a school construction project. Students will study and directly experience ethical issues connected to development, combining service learning with academic reflection. We return to campus for the last week of the term to complete independent research, writing, and presentation of work.
Taught: Alternate years, winter term.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 1250 - Introduction to African Philosophy
Content: Definitions of African Philosophy, discussions of ethnophilosophy, problems of language in Africa, and connections with African American and feminist philosophies.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3100 - Introduction to African-American Studies
Crosslisted
Also listed as ENG 3100.
Goals: To develop an understanding of several key issues in African American Studies emphasizing close textural reading and analysis. Additionally, students participate in academic service learning to synthesize textual and experimental learning.
Content: The course materials will focus on critical readings about construction of race as a concept; intersections of race, class and gender; afrocentrism; pan-africanism; diasporic connections; nationalism; religious dimension; literary theory and popular culture.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3150 - Ancient Greek Philosophy
Content: The main problems of philosophy, the natures of reality, valuing and knowing, through the works of important ancient Greek philosophers, especially the pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3160 - Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
Content: The main problems of philosophy, the natures of reality, valuing, and knowing, through the works of influential European philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries, especially Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, and Kant.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3190 - Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Content: The main problems of philosophy, the natures of reality, valuing, and knowing, through the works of influential 19th century thinkers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, and selected Pragmatists.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3200 - Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Content: The main problems of philosophy, the natures of reality, valuing, and knowing, through the study of analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and deconstruction.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3250 - Feminist Philosophy
Content: An examination of major areas of contemporary feminist philosophy, with special attention to the interaction between multiple forms of oppression, including racism, homophobia, and class-based oppression.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: WSTD 1010 or PHIL 1120 or PHIL 1140.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3320 - Philosophy of Religion
Crosslisted
Also listed as REL 3320.
Content: The nature and problems of religious thought including the existence of God, religious experience, faith, and reason.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3330 - Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Content: Philosophical issues in social, political, and legal systems, including problems such as the justification of power and the development of the concept of human rights.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3340 - Philosophy of Art
Content: Aesthetic issues from the point of view of the creator as well as appreciator, including questions of artistic truth, meaning, beauty, value, criticism, and judgment applied to the range of art media.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3360 - Philosophy of Nonviolence
Goals: To understand the concepts, principles, and practices of nonviolence.
Content: Focus on understanding the concepts, principles, and practices of nonviolence emphasizing theorists and practitioners of nonviolent direct action including Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Tich Nhat Hanh, and others, attentive to the contexts in which they emerge. Course participants will pursue independent research on nonviolence for presentation to the seminar.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3370 - Philosophy of Science
Content: Philosophical issues of the sciences, including questions of scientific progress and rationality, our understanding of the physical world, and values and objectivity in the sciences.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 3380 - Concepts of Nature
Content: An examination of some of the different ways people have thought about the natural world and our relationship to it. Some of the views discussed will be: nature as a mechanism, a divine creation, and a source of values. We will consider multicultural, feminist, and postmodern challenges to the modern scientific conception of nature.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 5550 - Theories of Knowledge
Content: Questions of epistemology, including the nature of knowledge, the role of experience in knowing, the role of reason, the limits of knowledge, and the concept of meaning.
Prerequisite: PHIL 3160 or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 5560 - Metaphysics
Content: The concepts of being, reality, existence, essence, nature, causation, and reason together with their implications for knowledge and values.
Prerequisites: PHIL 3150 and PHIL 5550, or, PHIL 3160 and PHIL 5550, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHIL 5750 - Senior Seminar
Content: Advanced value theory, broadly conceived, studied through selected classical and contemporary sources.
Prerequisite: Philosophy major or minor, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHYS 1110 - Energy, Environment, and the Economy
Goals: To investigate, for nonscience students, availability of energy in the world and environmental concerns and the supply-demand aspects of our nation’s economy.
Content: Conceptual understanding and measurement of relevant physical quantities; the impact of fossil fuels, nuclear power, solar and other “alternative” forms of energy on air and water quality; the economy and lifestyles; the fragile world energy balance; research in energy and various models for extrapolation into the future.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHYS 1110 - LAB: Energy, Environment, and the Economy
This lab must be taken concurrently with the PHYS 1110 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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PHYS 1130 - LAB: Physics for Poets
This lab must be taken concurrently with the PHYS 1130 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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PHYS 1130 - Physics for Poets
Goals: To introduce non-science students to the conceptual development and philosophical implications of some aspects of physics, allow students to gain insights into the practice of science, and give students experience with problem solving
Content: Topics will vary with instructor but may include motion, energy, solids, heat, sound, light, electricity, magnetism, atoms, the nucleus, particles, and astronomy. The laboratory will include a variety of experiences designed to allow students to practice investigative science and gain hands-on experience.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHYS 1140 - LAB: Physics of Sound and Music
This lab must be taken concurrently with the PHYS 1140 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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PHYS 1140 - Physics of Sound and Music
Goals: To introduce non-science majors to the physical description of the oscillations and resonances involved in the production and detection of sound and music.
Content: Wave phenomena including propagation and interference, frequency analysis of sounds including music, theory of instruments, biological generation, and detection of sound.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.
Credits: 4 credits
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