Elective Courses

Functions of money; role of financial institutions; roles of Federal Reserve Banks and monetary policy. Introduction to the determination of interest rates, the stock of money and other monetary theory concepts as they relate to economic activity.

An in depth analysis of development from early adulthood through old age. The course focuses on current literature in areas such as physical, cognitive, and personality changes, relationships, parenthood, work and retirement. Central questions: Is adulthood a period of decline or development? How is the experience of aging affected by cultural attitudes toward the aged?

Intensive work in fiction writing within the context of contemporary fiction. Study of modernist and post-modernist techniques. Frequent writing assignments designed to help students gain technical control of their writing and find their individual writer’s voice. This course culminates in a portfolio of original fiction (short stories or a novel-in-progress) and a public reading of original fiction for the College community.

The course addresses issues relating to the death penalty, including its history as well as its level of effectiveness, costs, and discriminatory application. In addition, the course will analyze data on miscarriages of justice and public opinion and the effect of Supreme Court decisions.

The course addresses issues relating to the death penalty, including its history as well as its level of effectiveness, costs, and discriminatory application. In addition, the course will analyze data on miscarriages of justice and public opinion and the effect of Supreme Court decisions.

Working in a critical and collaborative environment students develop advanced recording projects and learn the art of mixing. Through focused listening, reading, discussion, group critique and disciplined studio practice, students begin to achieve professional quality in their work. Students learn advanced mixing techniques including customized effect, 3D listening, and precision editing. CAT 310 is a hands-on studio production course which emphasizes development of the ear, attention to detail, creativity, and critical discourse in sonic manipulation.

This combined lecture and laboratory course includes research projects based on traditional research designs as well as archival, observational, correlational, and quasi-experimental methods. A laboratory component is included in the course.

The impact of government bureaucracies on the policy-making process. Internal processes of the federal administrative units including recruitment, budgetary conflicts, formal and informal rules and rule making; regulatory distributive and control functions. Interaction between bureaucracies and state and local governing agencies.

Application of microeconomic principles to management decision-making. The concepts of production transformation and cost of output; sales or revenue side of production; demand for product under different market structures and the implications for selling price. Overall application of the above to management decision-making: breakeven analysis, maximization of net income, markup pricing, target return pricing, advertising, estimation of market demand curves, and other case studies.

Principles of French grammar and expression as found in the spoken language and the more difficult literary works. Practical application through the writing of original essays and translations.

A continuation of FRN 310.

This course is a formal development of thermodynamic and equilibrium principles and their application to both chemical reactions and a variety of physical, biological, and engineering processes. The course includes lecture and recitation.  

Major issues in macroeconomic Public Finance. The course examines the process by which government provides and allocates public goods. Major topics include the impact of Federalism upon fiscal policy, voting and interest group behavior impact upon Finance policy as well as the empirical and normative issues of taxation.

This combined lecture and laboratory course primarily focuses on qualitative and applied research methods used in educational, social services and corporate settings. Methods covered will include focus groups, structured interviews, archival research and program evaluation.

A rigorous but mathematically simple treatment of modern macroeconomic theory and its applications. The determinants of national income, employment, and inflation; the Keynesian, post-Keynesian and monetarist models discussed and compared; the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies evaluated in the context of the above models. The applied aspect of macroeconomics will be emphasized and recent American economic experience discussed.

This course was designed to provide you with the information and tools needed to begin a freelance or full-time career. Some of these include a comprehensive overview of business practices, systems and interpersonal skills. Among the subjects to be covered are the studio set-up, portfolio, résumé, how to research and identify markets, promotion, taxes, copyright, negotiation and contracts.

This course presents a formal development of kinetics and theories of molecular structure with applications to chemical reactivity as well as physical and biological properties. The course includes lecture and recitation.  

This course explores the theoretical basis of the nonprofit sector in the Untied States, both historically and in today’s society. Differences in theory and practices in the nonprofit sector which distinguish it from private for-profit and government sectors will also be studied.

This course includes selected advanced topics in physics.

Please contact your instructor for specific topic.

This course is based on Cisco Networking Academy CCNA curriculum. This is the second of two courses to prepare students for the CCNA/ICDN2 certification test. The course introduces student to designing and connecting a WAN. Topics include point-to-point connections, frame relay, broadband solutions and how to secure a site-to-site connection. Students will also be able to monitor and troubleshoot a network using various hardware/ software tools.

Introduction to the principles of financial management. Topics include: analysis of financial statements, roles of financial managers, financial functions, preparation of cash budgets, pro forma financial statements, introduction to working capital management, capital budgeting, valuation theory.  

This four hour laboratory is associated with CHM311. Laboratory work emphasizes measurement of thermodynamic data such as heats of combustion, heat capacities, enthalpies, and free energies. Physical properties of materials are also explored and data are presented with construction of phase diagrams.  

Analysis of the principles and practices of personnel (human resources) management, including personnel policy, selection, training and development, wages and salary administration, labor and employee relations, benefits administration and performance appraisal, how human resources departments function and their contribution to the organization.

Study of classical theories of knowledge, including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. Treatment of primary texts both for the sake of themselves as great moments in western thought and for the sake of establishing a knowledge base for understanding contemporary problems of knowledge.

This course provides an introduction to Positive Psychology. We will explore the concepts and research of Positive Psychology and complete exercises that will enhance your own understanding of well-being. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living. It is a call for psychological science and practice to be as concerned with strength as with weakness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst; and as concerned with making the lives of “normal” people fulfilling as with healing pathology.