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MUSC 4141 - Wohlwend Combo Hours: .5
Students placed in the Wohlwend Combo should register for this course; this ensemble is open through audition only.
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MUSC 4142 - New Music Ensemble Hours: .5
The New Music Ensemble is dedicated to performing repertoire composed in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The personnel is flexible and is driven by the instrumentation required by the programming. This ensemble provides students with the opportunity to explore performance techniques not often required by traditional repertoire, as well as student-initiated rehearsal and conducting opportunities. Permission of instructor and applied teacher required.
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MUSC 4143 - Chamber Winds Hours: 0.5
This course is designed to explore a variety of chamber music through performance and pedagogy. Students will perform a wide range of literature (based on available instrumentation), peer-coach the ensemble(s), create original arrangements of chamber music, and continue development of instrumental sight reading skills.
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MUSC 4144 - Alternative String Ensemble Hours: 0.5
This course is designed to explore the many, varied styles of music performance available to string players today – jazz, fiddle and rock. Students will learn traditional music using traditional techniques, using aural transmission rather than written notation and students will utilize some improvisation and work from memory when possible. The course will also provide some use of amplification and incorporate electric instruments, effects pedals and loop pedals. This course is open to all bowed string players, guitarists and bassists.
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MUSC 4145 - Chamber Music with Piano Hours: .5
Students who desire to be in Chamber Music with Piano should register for this course.
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MUSC 4146 - Contemporary Jazz Ensemble Hours: 0.5
Students placed in the Contemporary Jazz Ensemble should register for this course. This ensemble is open through audition only. May be repeated for credit.
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MUSC 4150 - Ensemble Participation Hours: 0
Students whose course registrations have reached 18 semester hours who still need or desire to register for an ensemble may register for this course with the permission of the Chairperson.
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MUSC 4151 - Winds and Percussion Ensemble Participation Hours: 0
Students whose course registrations have reached the limit beyond which they would encounter an overload, but who still need or desire to register for an ensemble, may register for this course with the permission of the Area Head of Winds and Percussion.
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MUSC 4152 - String Ensemble Participation Hours: 0
Students whose course registrations have reached the limit beyond which they would encounter an overload, but who still need or desire to register for an ensemble, may register for this course with the permission of the Area Head of Orchestral and String Activities.
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MUSC 4153 - Choral Ensemble Participation Hours: 0
Students whose course registrations have reached the limit beyond which they would encounter an overload, but who still need or desire to register for an ensemble, may register for this course with the permission of the Area Head of Choral Activities.
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MUSC 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Students completing internships should register for this course in the semester(s) they complete internships.
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NURS 2300 - Introduction to Pharmacology and Medication Administration Hours: 3
This course focuses on pharmacodynamics and clinical uses of various drug classifications of medications in health care settings. Pharmacological concepts across the life span are explored. Principles of dosage calculation and safe medication administration are included.
Prerequisites: Admission to Nursing Program.
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NURS 2400 - Nutrition Through the Life Span Hours: 3
This course focuses on digestion, absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. It explores nutrition through the lifespan for health promotion, maintenance and restoration. It addresses global issues of under and over nutrition.
Prerequisites: Admission to Nursing Program.
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NURS 2600 - Foundations for Professional Nursing Practice Hours: 8 (6 Lecture; 2 Lab)
This course focuses on foundational and theoretical concepts for skills of professional nursing practice. It emphasizes assessment, wellness and health promotion across the lifespan using the framework of holistic caring. Theories of learning, health education and prevention to initiate behavioral changes for self and others will be explored. Students learn to provide safe, competent basic nursing care related to human needs of activity, safety, hygiene, sleep and nutrition.
Prerequisites: Admission to Nursing Program.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 2700 - Professional Nursing Practice I Hours: 7 (4.5 Lecture, 2 Clinical, 0.5 Lab)
This course focuses on providing quality professional nursing care for chronically ill vulnerable populations in a variety of clinical settings. It explores health care concepts of safety, communication, culture, collaboration, evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning. It will introduce the concepts of genetics and genomics and their role in the etiology and treatment of selected health alterations.
Prerequisites: NURS 2600 with a grade of C+ or higher.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 3000 - Theoretical and Evidence-based Foundations for Practice in Nursing Hours: 4
An introduction to the nursing program philosophy and curriculum for the ADN to MSN student. Concepts of study include caring framework, theoretical foundations of nursing, professional role, teaching/learning principles, scientific thought and evidence-based practice and research.
Prerequisites: (RN Students only) Admission to ADN to MSN program.
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NURS 3300 - Evidence-based Practice and Research Hours: 2
This course focuses on the basic principles of evidence-based practice and research. It includes the application of evidence development and utilization, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives and patient preferences. Students identify practice issues, appraise and integrate evidence and evaluate outcomes. Ethical/legal precepts guiding research conduct are included.
Prerequisites: MATH 1240, Upper Division Status.
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NURS 3500 - Public Health/Epidemiology - Writing Intensive Hours: 3
This course focuses on public/community health nursing and epidemiology with an emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, and emergency preparedness. The student will develop assessment skills, screening techniques, and other strategies to minimize the health risks of individuals and populations. The principles of epidemiologic study design and the influence of culture and environment on health will be explored. Information and communication technologies for health promotion and disease prevention are included.
Prerequisites: Upper Division Status; MATH 1240; NURS 3300 with a grade of C+ or higher.
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NURS 3510 - Community Nursing Hours: 6
A study of the concepts of public health nursing with a focus on health promotion and disease prevention. Development of assessment skills to determine the health of the community. Application of caring, nursing process, research and teaching/learning to minimize the health risks of individuals and families in the community. Cultural influences, chronic health problems, epidemiology, communicable diseases and environmental issues are studied as they relate to community and family health beliefs and practices.
Prerequisites: NURS 3000 with a grade of C+ or higher.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 3600 - Professional Nursing Practice II Hours: 8 (5.5 Lecture, 2 Clinical, 0.5 Lab)
This course focuses on providing quality professional nursing care for diverse patients with acute alterations in mental or physical health in a variety of settings. It emphasizes concepts of culture, communication, collaboration, evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, and pharmacological management. Student attitudes and values about mental illness, aging, and older adults will be explored using an integrated model of mental and physical health. Nursing skills of therapeutic communication and holistic caring will be emphasized.
Prerequisites: NURS 3300 and NURS 3800 with grades of C+ or higher.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 3800 - Nursing Care of Childbearing and Childrearing Families Hours: 7 (4.5 Lecture, 2 Clinical, 0.5 Lab)
This course focuses on providing quality professional nursing care for the childbearing family, the childrearing family and the developing child in a variety of settings. It explores genetic, environmental, developmental and physiological influences. Emphasis is on the role nursing plays in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of the health of these individuals and families.
Prerequisites: NURS 2300 and NURS 2700 with grades of C+ or higher.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
The student must negotiate with a faculty member to establish a learning contract prior to registration for this course. The course content is determined by the faculty member and student collaboratively. The course is designed for the student who wishes to study a specific nursing problem intensively.
Prerequisites: Upper division status, completion of “Program Requirements for Clinical Courses”.
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NURS 4300 - Professional Nursing Practice III Hours: 8 (5.5 Lecture, 2 Clinical, 0.5 Lab)
This course focuses on providing quality professional nursing care for children and adults in acute, critical care, or community settings. It emphasizes clinical reasoning skills and high level nursing interventions for patients experiencing complex health alterations and multisystem disorders. End of life care and the ethical/legal issues associated with acute and critical care nursing will be explored.
Prerequisites: NURS 3600 with a grade of C+ or higher.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 4400 - Healthcare Policy, Finance and Regulatory Environments Hours: 2
This course focuses on an understanding of the healthcare system in a broader context including the healthcare service delivery, organization, financial and reimbursement structures. Students will observe the process of identifying healthcare issues, the development and reevaluation process pertaining to healthcare policy, and the influence nurses, other healthcare professionals, advocacy groups and individual citizens can exert onto the process of healthcare policy change. Students will actively engage in the political process as advocates for patients, families, communities and the nursing profession with the primary goal of promoting social justice.
Prerequisites: Upper Division Status and NURS 3300 with a grade of C+ or higher.
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NURS 4500 - Gerontology Hours: 2
This course focuses on reinforcement and expansion of content about older adults throughout the curriculum. It explores health and health deviations in older people. Students consider their own and societal attitudes toward aging, and how these influence the health care that older adults receive. Consideration of successful aging across a continuum that promotes an appreciation of how aging has changed through history and how aging is valued across cultures is included. Ethical/legal issues that pose threats to the autonomy of older adults are discussed.
Prerequisites: Upper Division Status
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NURS 4700 - Professional Nursing Practice IV Hours: 6 (2 Lecture, 4 Clinical)
This course focuses on an immersion clinical experience for students with an assigned nursing preceptor. The purpose is to bridge the gap between education and practice by enabling students to live out the role of an entry-level nurse and prepare them to obtain professional licensure. Students provide holistic, safe, quality care to groups of patients in a variety of settings. Opportunities are provided for critical decision making, maintaining effective working relationships, collaborating with intraprofessional and interprofessional teams, performing care coordination, as well as developing delegation and conflict resolution skills.
Prerequisites: NURS 4300 with a grade of C+ or higher.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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NURS 4800 - Leadership and Professionalism Hours: 3
This course focuses on organizational, leadership, management, and change theories and their various applications in the health care delivery system at micro and macro-system levels. Emphasis is on communication and collaboration skills with interprofessional teams in various healthcare settings. Students will use quality improvement concepts, processes, and outcome measures; initiate basic quality and safety investigations; assist in the development of quality improvement action plans; and assist in monitoring the results of these action plans within a clinical microsystem.
Prerequisites: NURS 4300 with a grade of C+ or higher; to be taken concurrent with NURS 4700.
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NURS 4999 - Special Topics Hours: 3
This course focuses on an important topical issue related to health care. It identifies key components of that issue by examining scientific literature and by reflecting on current health care practice.
Prerequisites: Upper division status. If clinically based, completion of program requirements for clinical courses.
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PADM 2000 - Introduction to Public Administration Hours: 4
This introductory course in public administration explores responsive, equitable, effective, efficient, and accountable governance processes, public policies, and institutional-base programs. Set within a context of contemporary political, social, economic, and administrative realities. The course examines essential competencies, values, and issues important to public service organizations and the importance of public policy at the local, state, national and international levels.
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PADM 3000 - Public Policy Hours: 4
The course introduces students to policy process in the United States and demands for public action, organization and the nature of political support, process and problems of decision making in major policy areas.
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PADM 3500 - Public Budgeting Hours: 4
This course examines theory and practice of budgeting in the public setting (government or non-profit settings). The budget has evolved from a simple line item budget to include complex performance systems that attempt to provide relevant information for public policy decisions. Budgetary practice now includes utilizing the budget as a strategic planning document. The budget has become a complicated process characterized by a struggle for resources between competing interests.
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PADM 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Internships are available to majors upon submission of a written proposal as described in the internship packet that must be obtained from the Office of Academic Affairs. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations, agencies or companies.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chairperson required.
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PADM 4950 - Practicum Capstone Hours: 4
This capstone will include a significant experiential component and an opportunity for students to engage in critical self-reflection on how these experiences relate to the theory and practice of public administration. As part of the process, students will consider connections between the practice of public administration, liberal learning, ethics, and citizenship.
Prerequisites: Senior standing.
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PHED 1000 - Fundamental Skills and Concepts in Physical Education Hours: 4
This course focuses on the fundamental movement skills and concepts that are the foundation of a quality physical education curriculum (individual-dual-team sports, rhythmic and dance activities and fitness components). Through active participation, prospective physical education professionals will self and peer assess their knowledge and ability in the fundamental movement skills and fitness components, identify key levels in developing skill competence and learn appropriate teaching cues for helping learners improve in these areas.
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PHED 1300 - Motor Development/Motor Learning Across the Lifespan Hours: 4
The focus of this course is to introduce the prospective physical education professional to the basic concepts of motor development and motor learning from a lifespan perspective. The content will address the physiological, cognitive, social and physical aspects of motor development and motor learning which affect skill acquisition, motor performance, and the teaching-learning process.
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PHED 1700 - Professional Perspectives in Health and Physical Education Hours: 4
This course will focus on the Beginning Teacher Standards for the Health Educator and AAHE K-12 Student Standards and the Physical Education Beginning Teacher Standards and NASPE K-12 Student Standards. It will also cover the History, Ethics and Professional Organizations of the Professions, Education Critical Dispositions, Education Department admissions requirements, PRAXIS I exams and what it means to be a Professional. A four year Education Portfolio will be started.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHED 2100 - Sports and Games Concepts and Skills Hours: 4
The purpose of this course is to prepare prospective physical education teachers to teach team, individual and dual sports and games to students in grades K-12. The course will consist of teaching techniques and cues, progressions, skill transfer, error analysis and correction and include personal skill development, lesson planning, and peer teaching experiences. Students will also demonstrate and apply the cognitive components of sports and games such as history, rules, strategies, safety measures and equipment selection.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHED 2200 - Health and Movement Education for the Early Childhood Classroom Hours: 4
This course focuses on the role of the early childhood educator (preK-5) in providing developmentally appropriate health and movement content and activities for young children. Teacher Candidates will learn to recognize the developmental levels of fundamental motor skills important to the present and future movement abilities of young children and begin to develop the ability to create, select and evaluate developmentally and functionally appropriate health and movement materials, methods, equipment, and environments. Emphasis is placed on integrating movement and health activities across the curriculum and throughout the school day as well as on integrating school, family, and community resources to insure opportunities to develop sound health and movement programs for young children.
Prerequisites: EDUC 1600
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHED 2900 - Practicum in Physical Education/Recreation Hours: 4
This course is for Non-licensure Physical Education majors. Students will be required to complete a clinical experience in a recreation setting focusing on facilitating recreation and physical activity programs. Students will be required to complete a resume, career search, and interview with a recreation specialist. Students will also be required to plan and implement a physical activity or recreation program.
Prerequisites: Junior status, 2.5 GPA and PHED 3600; or permission of instructor.
Notes: 50 hours of field experience required. This course has an additional fee.
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PHED 3600 - Early Childhood and Adapted Physical Education Hours: 4
This course focuses on developmentally appropriate, inclusive physical education for preK-5 age children from the perspective of the physical education specialist. Emphasis will be on acquiring a basic understanding of planning, delivering and assessing appropriate integrated and inclusive physical education experiences for all children. It also includes the legal basis and processes for identification, placement support and programming to accommodate children identified with special needs. The course includes 30 hours field experience working with both general and adapted physical education specialists.
Prerequisites: PHED 1000, 1700 and EDUC 1000; or permission of instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHED 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
This course is taken for elective credit and allows the qualified student the chance to work independently in learning beyond the required program of study. Registration for such work is in collaboration with the student’s academic advisor.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and permission of the instructor.
Notes: May be repeated for up to four credits.
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PHED 4000 - Physical Education Methods Hours: 4
This course focuses on Daily Lesson and Unit Planning in Physical Education, National and State Physical Education Standards, Teaching of Physical Education, Critical Teaching Elements, Assessment, Technology Integration and Classroom management. This course is a combination lecture and field experience. Students will be placed in Elementary, Middle or High School Physical Education settings while non-licensure students will be placed in a community setting. Students will be required to implement developmentally appropriate physical education. (50 hr. field exp.) Students will also have class discussions on policies and practices in an urban school setting.
Prerequisites: Senior status.
Notes: 50 Hour Field Experience required. This course has an additional fee.
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PHED 4200 - Health and Physical Education Technology Applications Hours: 1
This course focuses on specific technologies used in the areas of health and physical education. This course will focus on integrating technology into the classroom and gymnasium. Students will incorporate technology into lessons completed with students during PHED 4000 and HLED 4000 Teaching methods courses.
Corequisites: PHED 4000 or HLED 4000.
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PHED 4400 - Exercise Physiology Hours: 4
This course is a study of the effect of exercise on the physiology of metabolism, circulation, respiration, and muscle function. Sport performance will be examined with factors such as environment, body composition, nutrition, ergogenic aids, and training. A laboratory component is included as part of this course.
Prerequisites: BIO 1810 and 1820 (Athletic Training & Allied Health major) or HLED 1111 and 1112 (Health Promotion & Fitness, Health Education and Physical Fitness major); or permission of instructor.
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PHED 4900 - Physical Education Internship Hours: 1-16
Students will complete an internship on or off campus focusing on recreation and physical activity. Students will be responsible for seeking out an internship placement and completing the internship manual assignments.
Prerequisites: Senior status and PHED 2900.
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PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy Hours: 4
This course is a general survey of the important questions addressed by Western Philosophy from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the modern day. The course is arranged topically, so that it deals sequentially with ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, the nature of human knowledge and how it is acquired, philosophy of art, the nature of reality itself and how our minds perceive it. Students taking this course can expect to grapple with questions such as: Why should I be moral? Would it matter if I did things that other people think are wrong? Is it possible to prove the existence of God? Is it possible to have knowledge? Is there any reason to avoid a genuinely virtual reality? And the set of questions that run through the entire course as a constant refrain: Are things really the way they seem to be? Does it really matter if I know?
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PHIL 1200 - Symbolic Logic Hours: 4
An introduction to symbolic logic, including propositional logic and first-order predicate logic with multiple quantifiers and the identity function. Emphasis will be on construction derivations, with some focus on translating arguments from ordinary English in symbolic notation.
Prerequisites: A C- or better in ASC 0900 or qualification through Otterbein’s Mathematics Placement Exam.
Notes: Satisfies the general education mathematics requirement for some degree programs. Required for Philosophy majors.
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PHIL 1300 - Contemporary Moral Problems Hours: 4
This is a class in applied ethics. Philosophical works in the realm of applied ethics attempt to address particular ethical concerns that are important for determining how to live our lives. Among the topics that might be discussed are: Animal Ethics, Medical Ethics, Poverty, Business Ethics, Race and Gender Theory, and Ethics of War. Topics Vary.
Notes: This course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility requirement.
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PHIL 2100 - Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Kant Hours: 4
This is a course in the history of European philosophy from the middle of the 17th Century to the end of the 18th Century, one of the most fertile and important periods of philosophic thought in the history of Western Civilization. The same era that gave rise to modern political, economic, and scientific ideals saw the most important transformation of philosophy since the time of the ancient Greeks in the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.E. We will focus our attention on seven of the most important philosophers of the time: René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Benedict Spinoza, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Among the topics to be discussed are the nature of the mind, the possibility of knowledge, the nature of the physical world, and the existence of God.
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PHIL 2200 - Existentialism Hours: 4
This course is an introduction to Existentialism, a philosophical worldview that flourished in Europe in the middle of the 20th Century, but which has roots in the 19th Century, and which is still an important philosophical, artistic, and literary outlook. The course will begin with an examination of the roots of Existentialism in the work of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (and others), and move to its flowering in the 20th century in the works of Sartre, Heidegger, Camus, and others. The readings will be drawn both from philosophical texts as well as from novels, short stories and plays. Themes to be addressed include: existentialist phenomenology, the rejection of human nature, existentialist approaches to God and religion, existentialist freedom, the nature of the self, the relationship between the self and others, as well as existentialist ethics.
Notes: This course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibiity requirement.
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PHIL 2300 - Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Hours: 4
This course is an introduction to several issues that arise in contemporary debates in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Some of the questions that we will consider are: Are aesthetic judgments objective or subjective? Is an authentic work of art of greater artistic value than a forgery of this work? Is photography an art form? Is there something irrational or strange about being moved by fictional characters? What is ‘horror’ and why do we seek out such experiences? Are artworks artistically flawed, if they are morally flawed? Why should we fund public art?
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PHIL 2400 - Environmental Philosophy Hours: 4
This is a course that investigates ethical, political, and metaphysical questions concerning the environment and human beings’ relationship to it. Issues in environmental ethics are becoming ever-more pressing as contemporary society confronts its environmental problems. This course will investigate philosophical views on the value of nature, the moral status of animals, our responsibilities to preserve species and natural objects (like trees), and our obligations to future generations. Among other topics that may be discussed include population explosion, world hunger, pollution, economics and the environment, and energy and global justice.
Notes: This course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility requirement.
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PHIL 2500 - Contemporary Ethics and Metaethics Hours: 4
This course focuses on the nature and content of ethical theorizing. Some of the questions that we will consider are: Is pleasure the only good? Are individual’s preferences the only basis for assessing the quality of their lives? What makes right acts right? What is the role of character in ethical behavior? In an attempt to answer these questions we will look to contemporary defenses of three influential ethical theories: consequentialism, neo-Kantianism, and virtue ethics. We will also pursue important issues in meta-ethics, including the nature and possibility of objective truth in ethics.
Notes: This course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility requirement.
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PHIL 2600 - Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind Hours: 4
This course is centered not on particular philosophers from history, but rather on various key issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. Topics in metaphysics to be discussed may include the nature of properties, the nature of physical things, causation, the nature of time and change, identity, free will, modality, and cosmology. When it comes to the philosophy of mind, we shall think about the following questions: What is the relationship between minds and bodies? Can an adequate account of the mind be given in completely physicalist, or materialist, terms? What is the nature of the emotions? What are the distinctive features of a mind? Is artificial intelligence possible? Do other creatures besides humans have minds? What is the nature of consciousness? Competence and familiarity with these issues is essential for a well-rounded philosophical education.
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PHIL 2700 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Hours: 4
This course is centered not on particular philosophers from history, but rather on various key issues in epistemology and the philosophy of science. The basic questions in the course center on knowledge: What is knowledge? How, if at all, is knowledge possible? Can memory, testimony, and perception provide us with knowledge, or are there limitations on these familiar sources? What is the methodology of science, and can it provide us with knowledge of the world? Some other questions related to science may include: What is a scientific theory? What is the difference between a scientific explanation and other sorts of explanation? What distinguishes predictions from guesses? Can we ever prove that there are true causal relationships between events in the world? What is a scientific law? Is there one “scientific method” that is guaranteed to give correct answers no matter in what specific discipline it is employed? What distinguishes a real science like astronomy from a pseudo science like astrology? Competence and familiarity with these issues is essential for a well-rounded philosophical education.
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PHIL 2800 - Social and Political Philosophy Hours: 4
In this course, we will address subjects that arise in thinking about our social practices and political institutions. Some of the subjects that this course might focus on are: human rights, just-war theory, philosophy of race, distributive justice, equality, political authority, feminist philosophy, and cosmopolitanism. This class will draw from classical, modern and contemporary sources. Topic varies.
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PHIL 2950 - History of Ethics Hours: 4
This course is a general survey of the most influential works in the history of moral philosophy. Some of the works that we will consider are: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature, Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, and John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism.
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PHIL 3000 - Special Topics in Value Theory Hours: 4
The topic of this course is subject to change, but the purpose is the same: to take on a particular topic in ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, or related fields and examine it in a seminar format. Students will have the opportunity to pursue in greater depth a topic, issue, or philosophical thinker that was either passed over quickly in some other philosophy course, or left out altogether.
Prerequisites: Two previous philosophy courses at the 2000 level or permission of the instructor.
Notes: Course is repeatable for credit, so long as the specific topic is different.
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PHIL 3100 - Special Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology Hours: 4
The topic of this course is subject to change, but the purpose is the same: to take on a particular topic in metaphysics, epistemology, or related areas and examine it in a seminar format. Students will have the opportunity to pursue in greater depth a topic, issue, or philosophical thinker that was either passed over quickly in some other philosophy course, or left out altogether.
Prerequisites: Two previous philosophy courses at the 2000 level or permission of the instructor.
Notes: Course is repeatable for credit, so long as the specific topic is different.
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PHIL 3150 - Greek and Roman Philosophy Hours: 4
This course will examine some of the major philosophical movements and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome. The philosophers who flourished in the “classical age” set the agenda for all of western philosophy, and an understanding of the views of these philosophers is crucial for an understanding of all that comes afterwards. From the pre-Socratic philosophers like Thales, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, through Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and their Greek and Roman successors such as Epicurus, Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, this course will examine what these philosophers have to say about the good life, ideal political arrangements, the nature of reality, how to respond to human imperfection, the existence and nature of the soul, and the possibility of knowledge.
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PHIL 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
Opportunity for work in topics of special interest; by initiative of student and agreement of instructor. Intended to guide students in discussion and independent research in areas of philosophical thought.
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PHIL 4000 - Seminar in Philosophy - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
This course is designed to give students an opportunity to study, in a deep and sustained way, some particular philosophical topic of interest to them. As students move through the quarter, they will gain greater knowledge of that topic, greater expertise as writers and researchers, and will be provided with opportunities to present their work in a public setting. Students will leave the course with a highly polished piece of writing and a greater facility with the craft of academic work.
Notes: This course is required for Philosophy majors though it is open to non-majors with permission of the instructor.
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PHYS 1100 - Introduction to Physics I Hours: 4
Lecture and laboratory. An introduction to mechanics as a foundation for the discipline of physics, based on a working knowledge of algebra and trigonometry.
Prerequisites: MATH 1250.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHYS 1200 - Introduction to Physics II Hours: 4
Lecture and laboratory. A continuation of PHYS 1100: Wave phenomena, electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics.
Prerequisites: C– or better in PHYS 1100 or 1500.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHYS 1500 - Principles of Physics I Hours: 4
Lecture and laboratory. An introduction to mechanics as a foundation for the discipline of physics, using calculus.
Corequisites: MATH 1700.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHYS 1600 - Principles of Physics II Hours: 4
Lecture and laboratory. A continuation of PHYS 1500. Electrodynamics, wave phenomena, and optics.
Prerequisites: C– or better in PHYS 1500 or permission of instructor. Corequisites: MATH 1800.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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PHYS 2100 - Introduction to Physical Science Hours: 4
A descriptive introduction to the physical sciences with emphasis on concepts and scientific thought processes developed through a combination of discussion and laboratory experiences.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and a C– or better in ASC 0900 if that course is required by placement exam.
Notes: This course may be used as a substitute for the INST Natural Foundations requirement.
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PHYS 2700 - Principles of Modern Physics Hours: 4
Lecture and laboratory. Special relativity and quantum physics, with applications to atomic systems, nuclei, condensed matter systems, and elementary particles.
Prerequisites: C– or better in PHYS 1600 or permission of instructor. Corequisites: Recommended MATH 2700.
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PHYS 3000 - Classical Mechanics Hours: 4
Foundation of Newtonian dynamics: motion of particles in linear and nonlinear systems; angular momentum and the central force problem; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations.
Prerequisites: PHYS 1600.
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PHYS 3150 - Electrodynamics Hours: 4
A continuation of PHYS 3100: Maxwell’s equations, conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, physical optics, and special relativity.
Prerequisites: PHYS 3100.
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PHYS 3200 - Statistical and Thermal Physics Hours: 4
Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and kinetic theory.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700 or permission of instructor.
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PHYS 3500 - Advanced Laboratory I - Writing Intensive Hours: 3
Selected experiments from all areas of physics with emphasis on independent work in the design of experiments, computer data acquisition and analysis, report writing and oral presentation.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700.
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PHYS 3700 - Electronics Hours: 3
Lecture and laboratory. Introduction to electronic circuits, passive and active circuit elements, and devices such as operational amplifiers and transducers.
Prerequisites: PHYS 1600 or permission of instructor.
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PHYS 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
Independent study of physics or physics-related topics, including astronomy, industrial applications, or science education. Limited to no more than five hours cumulative credit.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700, 7 hours of core physics courses required for the major, and approval of a study plan by the department.
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PHYS 4000 - Quantum Mechanics Hours: 4
Foundations of quantum mechanics: the Schrödinger equation, one-dimensional systems, angular momentum and spin, the hydrogen atom, multi-particle systems.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700.
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PHYS 4100 - Solid State Physics Hours: 4
Solids, liquids, and macroscopic quantum states of matter, superconductivity and superfluidity.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700.
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PHYS 4200 - Subatomic Physics Hours: 4
Nuclear structure and reactions, elementary particles and fundamental processes.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700.
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PHYS 4601 - Mathematical Methods of Physics Hours: 4
A survey of advanced mathematical techniques used in physics. Topics covered may include vector analysis, matrices, tensors, and groups, complex analysis, Fourier series and integrals, and boundary and initial value problems.
Prerequisites: PHYS 3000.
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PHYS 4602 - General Relativity Hours: 4
Introduction to the general theory of relativity with application to cosmology. Gravitation as space-time geometry, geodesics, the Schwarzschild metric, the big bang and the large-scale structure of the universe, gravitational waves, black holes.
Prerequisites: PHYS 3000.
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PHYS 4603 - Advanced Quantum Theory Hours: 2-4
Advanced topics in quantum theory. Topics may include time-dependent perturbation theory, semi-classical methods, and scattering theory, with applications to atomic and molecular systems.
Prerequisites: PHYS 4000.
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PHYS 4701 - Materials Physics Hours: 2-4
A survey of materials science and engineering including processing, structure, properties, and performance. Physical aspects of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. Applications are presented in a variety of modern contexts.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700.
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PHYS 4702 - Advanced Classical Mechanics Hours: 2-4
Advanced topics in classical dynamics. Topics covered may include rigid-body motion, non-inertial reference frames, continuum and wave mechanics, and chaos.
Prerequisites: PHYS 3000.
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PHYS 4703 - Computational Physics Hours: 2-4
A survey of computational methods used in physics. Topics may include techniques for numerical quadrature, solution of ordinary and/or partial differential equations, Monte Carlo simulations, genetic algorithms, parallel computing and visualization. Applications are taken from all areas of physics.
Prerequisites: PHYS 1600.
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PHYS 4704 - Astrophysics Hours: 2-4
Selected topics in astrophysics, including the dynamics of astronomical bodies, stellar nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution, cosmic rays, and cosmology.
Prerequisites: PHYS 2700.
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PHYS 4800 - Research Hours: 2-4
Directed research in an experimental or theoretical area of physics of interest to the department. Limited to no more than six hours cumulative credit.
Prerequisites: 20 hours of physics courses and approval of a research plan by the department.
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POLS 1000 - American National Government Hours: 4
A survey of the institutions, processes, and politics of the government of the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on the historic development of federalism, the Congress, the Presidency, the Judiciary, the national bureaucracy, political parties, and interest groups.
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POLS 1150 - Political Philosophy - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
An introduction to the study of political philosophy and survey of the major thinkers in the Western political tradition, from Plato to the present, including an examination of the principal concepts and theories.
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POLS 1300 - Introduction to Global Politics Hours: 4
This course introduces the student to world political systems and theories of interaction in the global community. It provides a framework for understanding international issues and problems.
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POLS 2150 - American Legislative Process Hours: 4
This course examines the legislative and representative process with attention to the committee system, seniority, party leadership, and relations with other branches of government. Primary focus is on the U.S. Congress and its norms, rules, and procedures.
Prerequisites: POLS 1000 or permission of instructor.
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POLS 2220 - The Presidency Hours: 4
The evolution of presidential power and theories of presidential behavior. The function of the Electoral College and the primary system in presidential elections are examined. The role of the Executive Office and the bureaucracy is explored.
Prerequisites: POLS 1000 or permission of instructor.
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POLS 2250 - Judicial Process Hours: 4
Analyzes the role of federal and state courts as political institutions, with special attention to the roles of judges and lawyers in the judicial process. Civil and criminal courts are studied, as well as judicial norms and procedures.
Prerequisites: POLS 1000 or permission of the instructor.
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POLS 2270 - Comparative Government Hours: 4
An introduction to the comparative method of analysis as applied to nation-states and regional governments of the world. Emphasis may be on western or non-western nation-states.
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POLS 2300 - Methods of Research and Inquiry in Political Science Hours: 4
A seminar required for majors in political science, designed to acquaint students with basic procedures, material and research tools used by political scientists. Students will be introduced to qualitative and quantitative aspects of the discipline.
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POLS 2400 - Democratic Theory Hours: 4
This course examines the historical development of and contemporary debates regarding the meaning of democracy. The course will examine the ideas, possibilities, and limitations of democratic governance, as well as the conceptual, theoretical, and institutional understandings of democracy in relation to participatory democracy, liberalism, and representation.
Prerequisites: POLS 1150 or permission of instructor.
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POLS 2450 - The Political Film Hours: 2
The Political Film provides an opportunity to examine the culture industry by investigating how movies (and entertainment more generally) structures ideology and inform a critique of political life. Power will be examined through a study of the way culture is framed, produced, and consumed. The course involves taking a critical approach to popular media, especially film.
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POLS 3100 - State and Local Government Hours: 4
State and local government structures, operations, and intergovernmental processes in the United States. The state and local governments of Ohio are used as a basis for providing comparative analysis among state and local governments.
Prerequisites: POLS 1000 or permission of instructor.
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POLS 3280 - Environmental Political Theory Hours: 4
This course examines key perspectives and contemporary currents in environmental political theory. The course will consider the issues of political practice and the underlying theoretical questions concerning environmental and ecological politics. The course will analyze the actors, spaces, and power relations of environmental politics in relation to the different ways to think about the natural environment and the major themes of politics and political theory, such as law, policy, social movements, political economy, subjectivity, justice, citizenship, and democracy.
Prerequisites: POLS 1150 or permission of instructor.
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POLS 3350 - Campaigns and Elections Hours: 4
A study of the structure, functions, and operations of political parties, elections, public opinion, the media, and interest groups in American national politics.
Prerequisites: POLS 1000 or permission of instructor.
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