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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS


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  • MUSC 4121 - Jazz Ensemble BMUS

    Hours: 1
    Jazz Ensemble participants pursuing a Music Performance major.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4122 - Berg Combo

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Berg Combo.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4123 - Jazz Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Jazz Ensemble.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4124 - Towers Brass Quintet

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Towers Brass Quintet.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4125 - Clarinet Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Clarinet Ensemble.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4126 - Classical Guitar Quartet

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Classical Guitar Quartet.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4127 - Early Music Group

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Early Music Group.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4128 - Flute Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Flute Ensemble.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4129 - Jazz Guitar Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Guitar Ensemble.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4130 - Horn Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Horn Ensemble.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4131 - Opus One

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Opus One.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4132 - Otterbein Vocal Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Otterbein Vocal Ensemble.
     
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4133 - Pep Band

    Hours: .5
    The Pep Band supports the men’s and women’s basketball teams during the spring, acting as an extension of the fall Marching Band.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4134 - Percussion Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Percussion Ensemble
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4135 - Piano Duo

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Piano Duo.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4136 - Saxophone Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Saxophone Ensemble.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4137 - String Chamber Music

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the String Quartet/Quintet.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4138 - Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4139 - Westerville Symphony

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Westerville Symphony.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4140 - Woodwind Quintet

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Woodwind Quintet.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4141 - Jazz Combo

    Hours: .5
    Participation in the Wohlwend Combo.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4142 - Red Noise New Music Ensemble

    Hours: .5
    The Red Noise New Music Ensemble is dedicated to performing repertoire composed in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Personnel is flexible and is driven by the instrumentation required by the programming. Provides an opportunity to explore performance techniques not often required by traditional repertoire, as well as rehearsal and conducting opportunities.
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and applied teacher required.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4143 - Chamber Winds

    Hours: 0.5
    Exploration of a variety of chamber music through performance and pedagogy. Performing a wide range of literature (based on available instrumentation), peer-coaching the ensemble(s), creating original arrangements of chamber music, and continued development of instrumental sight reading skills.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4144 - Alternative String Ensemble

    Hours: 0.5
    Exploring the many, varied styles of music performance available to string players today: jazz, fiddle and rock. Traditional music using traditional techniques, using aural transmission rather than written notation, and utilizing improvisation and work from memory when possible. Use of amplification and incorporating electric instruments, effects pedals, and loop pedals.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4145 - Chamber Music with Piano

    Hours: .5
    Participation in Chamber Music with Piano.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4146 - Contemporary Jazz Ensemble

    Hours: 0.5
    Participation in the Contemporary Jazz Ensemble.
    Prerequisites: Open through audition only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4150 - Ensemble Participation

    Hours: 0
    Participation in an ensemble.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the department chair.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4151 - Winds and Percussion Ensemble

    Hours: 0
    Participation in an ensemble.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Area Head of Winds and Percussion.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4152 - String Ensemble Participation

    Hours: 0
    Participation in an ensemble.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Area Head of Orchestral and String Activities.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4153 - Choral Ensemble Participation

    Hours: 0
    Participation in an ensemble.
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Area Head of Choral Activities.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4154 - Otterbein Summer Chorale

    Hours: 0
    Participation in Summer Chorale.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • MUSC 4155 - Pit Orchestra Participation

    Hours: 0
    Participation in Pit Orchestra for musical theatre and opera productions.
    Notes: This course is repeatable. Graded Pass/Fail.
  
  • MUSC 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-16
    Participation in an internship.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 16 hrs.
  
  • NURS 2300 - Introduction to Pharmacology and Medication Administration

    Hours: 3
    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: NURS 2400 and 2600 with grades of C+ or higher.
  
  • NURS 2400 - Nutrition Through the Life Span

    Hours: 2
    Digestion, absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Exploring nutrition through the lifespan for health promotion, maintenance and restoration. Global issues of under and over nutrition.
    Prerequisites: Admission to Nursing Program.
  
  • NURS 2600 - Foundations for Professional Nursing Practice I

    Hours: 8
    Providing quality professional nursing care for chronically ill vulnerable populations in a variety of clinical settings. Exploring health care concepts of safety, communication, culture, collaboration, evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning. Introduction to the concepts of genetics and genomics and their role in the etiology and treatment of selected health alterations.
    Prerequisites: NURS 2400 and 2600 with grades of C+ or higher, and BIO 3500 with a grade of C or higher.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • NURS 2700 - Professional Nursing Practice I

    Hours: 7
    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 alternations.
    Prerequisites: NURS 2400 and 2600 with grades of C+ or higher
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • 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.
  
  • NURS 3300 - Evidence-based Practice, Research and Informatics

    Hours: 2
    Provides a basic understanding of evidence-based practice and research. Includes looking at how evidence is developed and how the research process is used. Clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preferences as applied to practice are included. Using and evaluating data sources including technology to identify practice issues, appraise and integrate evidence and evaluate outcomes. Ethical and legal precepts that guide data management, information, and technology use as well as research conduct in gathering research evidence to inform practice decisions are included.
    Prerequisites: MATH 1240 with a grade of C or better; and NURS 2400 and NURS 2600 with a C+ or better for Spring 2019
  
  • NURS 3500 - Public Health and Epidemiology - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 5
    Public/community health nursing, epidemiology with an emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention, and emergency preparedness, along with providing quality professional nursing care for diverse patients with acute alterations in mental health. Developing assessment skills, screening techniques, and other strategies to minimize the health risks of individuals and populations. Attitudes and values about mental illness, aging and older adults will be explored using an integrated model of mental health. The principles of epidemiologic study design and the influence of culture and environment on health are explored. Information and communication technologies for health promotion and disease prevention.
    Prerequisites or Corequisites: NURS 3300, 3600 and 3800 with grades of C+ or higher.
  
  • NURS 3510 - Community Nursing

    Hours: 6
    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.
  
  • NURS 3600 - Professional Nursing Practice II

    Hours: 8
    Providing quality professional nursing care for diverse patients with acute alterations in physical health in a variety of settings. Concepts of culture, communication, collaboration, evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning, and pharmacological management. Attitudes and values about aging and older adults are explored using an integrated model of physical health. Nursing skills of therapeutic communication and holistic caring are emphasized.
    Prerequisites and Corequisites: When taken in fall: NURS 3300 with a grade of C+ or higher
    When taken in spring: NURS 3300 and NURS 3800 with grades of C+ of higher.

    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • NURS 3800 - Nursing Care of Childbearing and Childrearing Families

    Hours: 7
    Providing quality professional nursing care for the childbearing family, the childrearing family, and the developing child in a variety of settings. Explores genetic, environmental, developmental and physiological influences. Emphasis on the role nursing plays in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of the health of these individuals and families.
    Prerequisites and Corequisites: When taken in fall: NURS 3300 with a grade of C+ or higher
    When taken in the spring: NURS 3300 and NURS 3600 with grades of C+ or higher.

    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • NURS 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    Content is determined by the faculty member and student collaboratively. For the student who wishes to study a specific nursing problem intensively.
    Prerequisites: NURS 2300 and 2700 with grades of C+ or higher, and a negotiated learning contract with a faculty member.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 16 hrs.
  
  • NURS 3910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 4
    Experimental course topics.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • NURS 4300 - Professional Nursing Practice III

    Hours: 8
    Providing quality professional nursing care for children and adults in acute, critical care, or community settings. 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 are explored.
    Prerequisites: NURS 3600 and 3800 with grades of C+ or higher.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • NURS 4400 - Healthcare Policy, Finance and Regulatory Environments

    Hours: 2
    An understanding of the healthcare system in a broader context including the healthcare service delivery, organization, financial and reimbursement structures. Observing 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. Actively engaging in the political process as advocates for patients, families, communities and the nursing profession with the primary goal of promoting social justice.
    Prerequisites: NURS 3600 and 3800 with grades of C+ or higher.
  
  • NURS 4500 - Gerontology

    Hours: 2
    Reinforcement and expansion of content about older adults throughout the curriculum. Explores health and health deviations in older people. Consideration of our 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.
    Prerequisites: Completion of spring sophomore level nursing courses.
  
  • NURS 4700 - Professional Nursing Practice IV

    Hours: 5
    An immersion clinical experience for students with an assigned nursing preceptor. Bridges the gap between education and practice by providing an opportunity to live out the role of an entry-level nurse and preparing to obtain professional licensure. Providing 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 intra-professional and inter-professional teams, performing care coordination, as well as developing delegation and conflict resolution skills.
    Prerequisites: NURS 4300 with a grade of C+ or higher. Corequisites: NURS 4800.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • NURS 4800 - Leadership and Professionalism

    Hours: 3
    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 inter-professional teams in various healthcare settings. Using quality improvement concepts, processes, and outcome measures. Initiating basic quality and safety investigations. Assisting in the development of quality improvement action plans, and monitoring the results of these action plans within a clinical microsystem.
    Prerequisites: NURS 4300 with a grade of C+ or higher Corequisites: NURS 4700.
  
  • NURS 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-16
    Internships are available upon submission of a written proposal as described in the internship packet. They are arranged individually, usually with local organizations, agencies or companies.
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chair.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 16 hrs.
  
  • NURS 4999 - Special Topics

    Hours: 3
    Important topical issues related to health care. Identifying key components of the issues by examining scientific literature, and by reflecting on current health care practice.
    Prerequisites: NURS 2300 and 2700 with grades of C+ or higher.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • PADM 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    An opportunity to engage in independent study in an area not otherwise available.
    Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • PHED 2200 - Health and Movement Education for the Early Childhood Classroom

    Hours: 3
    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.
    SP Sem. 
    Prerequisites: EDUC 1600 or instructor permission.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee. This course has an off-campus field experience.
  
  • PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 3
    The important questions addressed by Western Philosophy from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the modern day. 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. Grappling 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? Are things really the way they seem to be? Does it really matter if I know?
  
  • PHIL 1200 - Symbolic Logic

    Hours: 3
    An introduction to symbolic logic, including propositional logic and first-order predicate logic with multiple quantifiers and the identity function. Emphasizes construction derivations, with some focus on translating arguments from ordinary English in symbolic notation.
    Prerequisites: MATH 0900 with a grade of C- or better, or qualification through Otterbein’s Mathematics Placement Exam.
  
  • PHIL 1300 - Contemporary Moral Problems

    Hours: 3
    Uses the tools of philosophy to address contemporary moral problems. Though the particular problems might vary term to term, among the topics that are frequently discussed are: What are our obligations toward animals? Are practices like euthanasia and abortion morally acceptable? Are there such things as just wars? Do businesses have any ethical obligations, and, if so, what are they? Other topics to be discussed include poverty, racism, feminism, and the moral quandaries posed by emerging medical technologies.
    Notes: Cross-listed with INST 2209.
  
  • PHIL 1910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 1-3
    Experimental course topics.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • PHIL 2200 - Existentialism

    Hours: 3
    Existentialism is a philosophical worldview that asks all of us to confront deep and potentially troubling questions about the way we live our lives. Is freedom as valuable as many of us think it is? Are we in denial about our own mortality? Are we avoiding our responsibility for our lives when we blame our upbringing, our culture, our biology, or our psychology for the way we behave or the beliefs that we have? Are our relationships with other people poisoned by our competing value sets? If there is no transcendent set of values, how can we find meaning in our lives? These and other questions set the agenda for Existentialism, a philosophical worldview that flourished in Europe in the middle of the 20th Century, but which has roots in the 19th Century. We will read philosophical essays, but also novels, short stories, and plays. Themes to be addressed include: 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: Cross-listed with INST 2207.
  
  • PHIL 2300 - Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

    Hours: 3
    Reading philosophical essays, novels, short stories, and plays of the 19th Century. Themes addressed include: 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.
  
  • PHIL 2400 - Environmental Philosophy

    Hours: 3
    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. Investigates 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. How our behavior with respect to the environment affects other human beings. Among other topics that may be discussed include population explosion, world hunger, pollution, economics and the environment, and energy and global justice.
    Notes: Cross-listed with INST 2208.
  
  • PHIL 2500 - Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity

    Hours: 3
    Foundational issues concerning race and ethnicity talk as it manifests/has manifested itself in the United States. Asking questions like: What is race/ethnicity? Is racial and ethnic talk itself racist? Do we live in a post-racial society? What makes an action, attitude, or belief racist? Can institutions be racist? Taking up issues concerning race and ethnicity which may include: the criminal justice system, economic inequality, reparations, education, affirmative action, racial integration, beauty standards, cultural appropriation, and humor.
  
  • PHIL 2910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 1-3
    Experimental course topics.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • PHIL 2950 - Ethics

    Hours: 3
    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. Among the questions discussed are: What is the standard by which we determine whether actions are morally acceptable or not? What character traits are distinctive of a flourishing human being and how can they be cultivated? What is the proper role of emotion in ethics? Is there a universal standard of morality?
    Notes: Cross-listed with INST 2210.
  
  • PHIL 3050 - Special Topics in Philosophy - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 3
    An 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 PHIL courses at the 2000 level, or permission of the instructor.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 6 hrs.
  
  • PHIL 3150 - Greek and Roman Philosophy

    Hours: 3
    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, examining what these philosophers have to say about the good life, ideal political arrangements, the nature of reality, and the possibility of knowledge.
  
  • PHIL 3300 - Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Kant

    Hours: 3
    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. Focused on seven of the most important philosophers of the time: Rene 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.
  
  • PHIL 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    An 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.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • PHIL 4000 - Seminar in Philosophy - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 3
    An opportunity to study, in a deep and sustained way, some particular philosophical topic of interest. Gaining greater knowledge of that topic, greater expertise as writers and researchers, and being provided with opportunities to present this work in a public setting. Results in a highly polished piece of writing and a greater facility with the craft of academic work.
    Prerequisites: Open to Philosophy majors only, or permission of instructor.
  
  • PHIL 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-16
    Internships are available to majors upon submission of documents described on the internship website of the Center for Career and Professional Development. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations, agencies or companies.
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chairperson required.
  
  • PHYS 1000 - 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: Eligibility to enroll in MATH 1240 or 1250.
  
  • PHYS 1100 - Introduction to Physics I

    Hours: 4
    An introduction to mechanics as a foundation for the discipline of physics, based on a working knowledge of algebra and trigonometry.
    FA Sem, every other year, odd years. 
    Prerequisites: MATH 1250.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • PHYS 1200 - Introduction to Physics II

    Hours: 4
    A continuation of Introduction to Physics I: Wave phenomena, electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics.
    SP Sem, every other year, even years
    Prerequisites: C- or better in PHYS 1100, 1300, or 1500.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • PHYS 1300 - Physics Fundamentals I

    Hours: 4
    Calculus-based introductory physics, including mechanics and thermodynamics, intended for Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, or related majors.
    FA Sem, every other year, even years.
    Corequisites: MATH 1700
    Notes: This course has an additional fee. 
  
  • PHYS 1400 - Physics Fundamentals II

    Hours: 4
    A continuation of Physics Fundamentals I. Wave phenomena, electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics.
    SP Sem, every other year, odd years.
    Prerequisites: MATH 1700, and a C- or better in PHYS 1300 or 1500; MATH 1800 recommended.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • PHYS 1500 - Principles of Physics I

    Hours: 5
    An introduction to mechanics and thermodyamics as foundations for the discipline of physics, using calculus.
    Corequisites: MATH 1700.
    Notes: This course has an additional fee.
  
  • PHYS 1600 - Principles of Physics II

    Hours: 5
    A continuation of Physics I. 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.
  
  • PHYS 2200 - Mathematical Methods for Physics

    Hours: 3
    Mathematical and computational methods for physics. Ordinary differential equations, linear algebra, and scientific computing.
    FA Sem. 
    Prerequisites: MATH 1800, and C- or better in PHYS 1600.
  
  • PHYS 2500 - Experimental Methods - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 3
    Experimental methods in physics, including both a hands-on review of historical physics experiments, modern instrumentation, and data analysis. Writing intensive with a focus on writing scientific results.
    Prerequisites: C- or better in PHYS 1600 or permission of instructor.
    Notes: SP Sem, every other year, odd years.
  
  • PHYS 3000 - Classical Mechanics

    Hours: 3
    Topics in classical physics: special relativity, motion of particles in linear and nonlinear systems, angular momentum and the central force problem.
    FA Sem, every other year, odd years. 
    Prerequisites: PHYS 1600. Corequisites: PHYS 2200.
  
  • PHYS 3050 - Classical Mechanics II

    Hours: 3
    Advanced classical theory. Dynamics of extended objects, Lagrangian and Hamiltoniam formalisms, other topics.
    SP Sem, every other year, even years.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 3000.
  
  • PHYS 3100 - Electricity and Magnetism

    Hours: 3
    An intermediate treatment of electro- and magnetostatic fields and potentials.
    FA Sem, every other year, even years.
    Corequisites: MATH 2700 and PHYS 2200.
  
  • PHYS 3150 - Electrodynamics

    Hours: 3
    A continuation of Electricity and Magnetism: Maxwell’s equations, conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, and physical optics.
    SP Sem, every other year, odd years.
    Prerequisites: MATH 2700 and PHYS 2200 and 3100.
  
  • PHYS 3200 - Statistical and Thermal Physics

    Hours: 3
    Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and kinetic theory.
    FA Sem, every other year, even years. 
    Prerequisites: PHYS 2200 and 2500.
  
  • PHYS 3500 - Advanced Laboratory - 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 2500.
    Notes: FA Sem, every other year, even years. 
  
  • PHYS 3700 - Electronics

    Hours: 3
    Introduction to electronic circuits, passive and active circuit elements, and devices such as operational amplifiers and transducers.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 1600 and 2200, or permission of instructor.
  
  • PHYS 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    Independent study of physics or physics-related topics, including astronomy, industrial applications, or science education.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 2200, 6 hours of core physics courses required for the major, and approval of a study plan by the department.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 6 hrs.
  
  • PHYS 4000 - Quantum Mechanics

    Hours: 3
    Introduction to quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger equation, one-dimensional systems, angular momentum and spin, the hydrogen atom.
    SP Sem, every other year, even years. 
    Prerequisites: PHYS 2200 and 2500.
  
  • PHYS 4050 - Quantum Mechanics II

    Hours: 3
    Advanced quantum mechanics. Multi-particle systems, time-independent perturbation theory, semiclassical methods, applications to atomic and molecular systems.
    FA Sem, every other year, even years. 
    Prerequisites: PHYS 4000.
  
  • PHYS 4100 - Solid State Physics

    Hours: 3
    Solids, liquids, and macroscopic quantum states of matter, superconductivity and superfluidity.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 4000.
  
  • PHYS 4200 - Subatomic Physics

    Hours: 3
    Nuclear structure and reactions, elementary particles and fundamental processes.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 4000.
  
  • PHYS 4601 - Advanced Mathematical Methods

    Hours: 1-3
    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.
  
  • PHYS 4602 - General Relativity

    Hours: 3
    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.
  
  • PHYS 4603 - Advanced Quantum Theory

    Hours: 1-3
    Advanced topics in quantum theory. Topics may include quantum field theory, time-dependent perturbation theory, semi-classical methods, and scattering theory, and/or applications to atomic and molecular systems.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 4050.
  
  • PHYS 4701 - Materials Physics

    Hours: 1-3
    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 4000.
  
  • PHYS 4703 - Computational Physics

    Hours: 1-3
    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 2200, or MATH 2500 and 3100.
  
  • PHYS 4704 - Astrophysics

    Hours: 1-3
    Selected topics in astrophysics, including the dynamics of astronomical bodies, stellar nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution, cosmic rays, and cosmology.
    Prerequisites: PHYS 4000.
  
  • PHYS 4800 - Research

    Hours: 1-3
    Directed research in an experimental or theoretical area of physics of interest to the department.
    Prerequisites: 20 hours of physics courses, and approval of a research plan by the department.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 6 hrs.
  
  • PHYS 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-6
    Internships are available to majors upon submission of documents described on the internship website of the Center for Career and Professional Development. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations, agencies or companies.
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chair.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • PHYS 4910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 1-3
    Experimental course topics.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
 

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