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The College of Arts & Sciences offers lots of online courses for summer 2016, and many of them fill Ohio University general education Tier II requirements.
African American Studies
AAS 1060 Introduction to African American Studies ONLINE
Class #5805 | Full Summer Session
Description: This introductory course investigates the foundation, nature, scope, and structure of African American/Africana Studies in American universities. The course explores various descriptions, definitions, and meanings of the discipline/field, as well as approaches to understanding its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary nature; survey major disciplinary literature written about it, and the perspectives advanced by scholars. The course also critiques and systematically outlines essential components of and/or arguments advanced about, for, or against the discipline.
AAS 1100 Introduction to African American Literature ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #5518 | First Summer Session
Description: This course focuses broadly on African American literature from work of the 18th century to contemporary writings with the intention of providing the student with an introduction to the topic. With readings in poetry, short fiction, the novel, and other forms of writing, the course explores such questions as how black writers address African American literary inheritance and production. A final paper affords the student the occasion of applying a critical approach to literary texts. Topics may include slave and freeman and free woman narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, and the postmodern black novel. The aim of the course is to equip the student with a strong academic knowledge of African American literature in its cultural and historical contexts.
AAS 2100 Slave Narrative and Freeman/Freewomen Fiction of the 18th and 19th Centuries ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #5519 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers the African American slave narrative, from the 18th to the 19th centuries, along with free-woman and free-man writings of the later 19th century and possibly the early 20th century. Readings typically include works by such authors as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. The course considers contemporary debates surrounding the question of authenticity as well as current views of how slave narratives merit aesthetically. The course also interrogates questions pertaining to how the slave narrative challenges conventional notions of autobiography and how the early black novel confronts received and developing notions of the U.S. novel.
AAS 2900 The Long Civil Rights & Black Power Movements ONLINE
Class #5477 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course explores major African American leaders, events, organizations and strategies i.e. non-violent direct action and armed self-defense during the Civil Rights-Black Power Era from 1950 to the late 1970s. Questions that will be explored include: When and why did the movements start? When did the movements end? What exactly was the struggle for black equality in the United States? What were the differences between the Civil Rights and Black Power struggles? What impact did World War II have on these movements? What were the goals of the movements? What did civil rights in the South look like compared to the North? What organizations and leaders had the best solution for the American Race problem—Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, the Black Panther Party, Cultural Nationalist such as the U.S. Organization etc.? How might the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements help explain current disillusionment around racial issues?
AAS 3450 The Black Woman ONLINE
Class #1165 | First Summer Session
Description: Through the powerful voices of women like Ida B. Wells, Madam CJ Walker, Madam St. Clair, Maya Angelou, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, bell hooks and more this course investigates the experiences and representations of black women from the American Slave period to today specifically exploring the ways in which black womanhood has been shaped and imagined in American minds through the standards of race, gender, and social class. Through in-depth discussion students will become familiar with key women in the African American experience, and theories such as Black Feminism, Womanism and Africana Womanism and analyze other aspects of black women in America.
AAS 4900 Black Women’s Leadership in the Civil Rights/Black Power Movements and Beyond ONLINE
Class #5478 | Second Summer Session
Description: While there has been much attention given to leaders like Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. Roy Wilkins, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin and other black men during and after what historians have called the long Civil Rights movement, little has been explored concerning the contributions of women. This course explores the role of black women in the Civil Rights-Black Power movement in the broader context of 20thand 21st century activism and social movements. Students explore the ebbs and flow of the movement and its leaders. Special attention is given to women in the movements and the contributions they made to these efforts as well as the challenges they faced and continue to address.
Biological Sciences
BIOS 1000 Animal Diversity ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS)
Class #1304 | First Summer Session
Description: For non-majors, this is a broad survey of all of the major groups of animals. Aspects of the biology, reproduction, ecology, and evolution of the animal phyla.
BIOS 1030 Human Biology 1: Basic Principles ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS)
Class #1306 | First Summer Session
Description: For non-majors, this course examines humans as biological organisms: our origins, ecology, and inheritance, and functioning of our body systems.
BIOS 2060 Drugs and the Brain ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS)
Class #1325 | Second Summer Session
Description: For non-majors: The brain creates behavior in part via multiple chemical messenger (neurotransmitter) systems that serve specific functions such as mood alteration and arousal. Recreational and psychoactive medical drugs work by mimicking these natural messenger systems, and thus help elucidate the behavioral functions of different neurotransmitter classes. This course reviews nervous system structure and chemical signaling pathways and then surveys the major classes of psychoactive drugs, including alcohol, opium, cocaine, amphetamines, nicotine, caffeine, marijuana, the hallucinogens, and the antidepressants. Particular attention is paid to the biological bases of their effects.
BIOS 2200 Conservation and Biodiversity ONLINE
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics (2AS) | Sustainability Studies theme course
Class #1307 | First Summer Session
Description: For non-majors, this course introduces the student to the modern field of conservation biology and the role of genetics, ecology, life history, and biogeography in the preservation and maintenance of biodiversity. Case studies of endangered animal and plant species are highlighted.
BIOS 2210/2215 Microbes and Humans & Lab ONLINE (With Online Component or Online and In-Class Hybrid Lab Course)
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics (2AS)
Class #1335/5487 | Full Summer Session
Description: For non-majors, this course is a good introduction to microbiology for allied health fields. Introduction to the history and life of microorganisms with an emphasis on bacteria and viruses. Discussion covers the interaction between humans and microbes including vaccines, antibiotics, biotechnology, immunity, disease transmission, and food spoilage. This overview of infectious diseases affecting human organ systems includes application of concepts through reading on current topics.
Economics
ECON 1030 Principles of Microeconomics ONLINE & On Campus
Tier II Social Sciences (2SS)
Class #4648, 4696, 5622 | First & Full Summer Sessions
Description: This course covers basic theory and economic analysis of prices, markets, production, wages, interest, rent, and profits. It include analysis of how the capitalistic system determines what, how, and for whom to produce.
ECON 1040 Principles of Macroeconomics ONLINE & On Campus
Tier II Social Sciences (2SS)
Class #4652, 5623, 4788 |
Basic theory of national income analysis. Causes of unemployment and inflation. Monetary and fiscal policies of the federal government.
ECON 3050 Managerial Economics ONLINE
Class #4656, 4655 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course provides analysis of decision making in enterprise; market environment; measurement of influence of policy and nonpolicy variables on sales and costs; sales, cost, and profit forecasting; and empirical studies of market structure and pricing.
ECON 3410 International Monetary Systems ONLINE
Class #4657 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course covers how exchange rates are determined, fixed vs. flexible rates, government intervention, fiscal and monetary policy in open economy, transmission of inflation and unemployment among nations, international capital movements, covered interest arbitrage, forward exchange, and Euro-currency markets.
ECON 3600 Money and Banking ONLINE
Class #4658 | Full Summer Session
Description: Role of money and banking system in determination of national income and output.
ECON 3810 Economic Statistics
Class #5704 | First Summer Session
Description: Statistical methods are developed within an economic context. The course includes fundamental statistical topics include descriptive statistics, basic probability theory, random variables, sampling, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
ECON 4550 Economics of Africa ONLINE
Class #4782 | First Summer Session
Description: This course provides an analysis of African economies.
ECON 4760 Economics of Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia ONLINE
Class #4659 | Full Summer Session
Description: Study the economic characteristics, current economic problems, and future growth prospects for these economies.
Environmental & Plant Biology
PBIO 1030 Plants and People ONLINE
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics
Class #2000 (section 100) | First Summer Session
Class #2001 (section 101) | Second Summer Session
Description: This course examines the interrelationships of plants and humans from both historical and modern points of view, origins of agriculture and civilization, tropical and temperate food plants, medicinal plants, drug plants, and the destruction of environment and its ultimate effect on food plants.
PBIO 1090 Americans and their Forests ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences
Class #1998 | First Summer Session
Description: This course provides an understanding of modern forests encompassing both recent and long-term effects arising from natural and human causes. The pattern and character of forest utilization will be interpreted in terms of varied cultural experiences in different regions and times.
PBIO 2470 Biomes of the World ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences
Class #2002 | Second Summer Session
Description: This is a detailed survey of biomes around the world. Broad characterization of each ecosystem globally is coupled with details on representative protected areas for each biome in North America. Emphasis is placed on geologic and ecological processes determining vegetation zones and the plant and animal species characteristic of each biome. Conservation issues, human impacts, and products for human use, are discussed throughout the course.
Geography
GEOG 1100 Physical Geography ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences
Class #5163 | First Summer Session | 4 credits | Sack
Description: This course is an introduction to the earth’s dynamic, natural environmental systems–weather and climate, landforms, soils, ecosystems, and biomes.
GEOG 1310 Globalization and the Developing World ONLINE
Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Class #2126 | First Summer Session | 3 credits | Wangui
Description: This is a survey of globalization and its impact on development, international relations, environment and culture in developing countries around the world.
GEOG 2680 Introduction to GIS and Mapping Sciences ONLINE
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics
Class #2125 | Second Summer Session | 4 Credits | Sinha
Description: This introduction to core concepts of geographic information science includes data collection, data management, mapping, and spatial analysis. The overview covers application of these core concepts in the mapping sciences of GIS, remote sensing, and cartography, as well as basic principles of GIS software for exploring and practicing these fundamentals.
GEOG 3380 Geography of Asia ONLINE
Class #2117 | First Summer Session | 3 Credits | Kim
Description: This course examines the Asian region with emphasis on intra-regional economic integration through trade, investment and labor migration flows and on inter-regional relations with other parts of the world through colonialism, political engagement and globalization. It studies issues of economic development, regional bloc, Cold War conflicts, nationalism, and urbanization in Asia.
Geological Sciences
GEOL 1300 Geology of the National Parks ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS)
Class # 4717 | First Summer Session
Description: This course is a survey of the geologic features of the national parks of the United States, emphasizing the history of their geologic development.
GEOL 1400 Dinosaurs and the Mesozoic ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS)
Class # 4718 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course is an introduction to the systematics, anatomy, physiology, ecology, evolution, and extinction of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic life, as well as a review of the science of paleontology and basic Earth history during the Mesozoic including climate, geography, tectonics, mass extinctions, and other major geologic events. The course begins with an introduction to the sciences of paleontology and geology including an overview of the theories of plate tectonics and evolution, geologic time, relative and absolute age dating, and the fossil record. The history of the science of paleontology also is explored as well as the different methods and techniques employed by modern paleontologists to ask and answer scientific questions about ancient life including dinosaurs. Topics then focus on the physical, biological, and chemical conditions of the Mesozoic world and a general introduction to dinosaurs including their classification, anatomy, physiology, and behavior. Three major groups of dinosaurs are discussed in detail, the Ornithischia, Sauropoda, and Therapoda in addition to other major components of Mesozoic ecosystems including marine reptiles, pterosaurs, mammals, insects, and plants. The course concludeS with an overview of the evolution of terrestrial and marine ecosystems during the Mesozoic and the causes and effects of the end Cretaceous mass extinction.
GEOL 2170 Water Resources and Sustainability ONLINE
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics (2AS)
Class # 4719 | Second Summer Session
Description: Sustainability of water resources is complicated because groundwater and surface water are connected, and the use of water resources should be in a manner that can be maintained for an indefinite time without causing unacceptable environmental, economic, or social consequences. The course emphasizes the importance of water resources and its sustainable development in the 21st century. Students learn fundamental concepts and theories related to the occurrence, movement, storage, quality, and sustainability of water resources. They are exposed to real-world issues of water resources sustainability, e.g., water risks, contamination, remediation, health, economics and disputes;the water-energy nexus water security; and efforts to improve sustainability of water resources.
GEOL 2210 Earth and Life History ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences (2NS)
Class # 2159 | Second Summer Session
Description: This nontechnical survey explores the 4.5 billion-year history of the interaction between life and the environment. Topics include the origin of the Earth, the origin and development of life, the origin and evolution of the continents, the history of the atmosphere and ocean, catastrophic extinctions, and the impact of human evolution.
GEOL 2310 Water and Pollution ONLINE
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics (2AS)
Class # 2156 | First Summer Session
Description: This course explores the interrelationship between geologic and hydrologic principles and technology as they relate to the use of water resources and the environmental problems associated with its pollution.
Linguistics
LING 1010 Grammar in Language Learning and Teaching ONLINE
Class #4471 | Full Summer Session
Description: This self-paced online course provides a basic introduction to English grammar in language learning and language teaching.
LING 3500 Introduction to Linguistics ONLINE & On Campus
Class #4472, 4473 | Full Summer Session
Description: This general course in fundamental linguistic principles covers duality of patterning; phonetics/phonology; syntax/semantics; morphology.
LING 3900 Language of Women and Men ONLINE
Class #4474 | Second Summer Session
Description: American speech as used by women and men in terms of linguistic and social factors is the focus of this course.
LING 4750 Language Learning ONLINE
Class #4475, 5884 | Full and Second Summer Sessions
Description: Introduction to theories of first and second language acquisition and their implications for language teaching methodology.
LING 4800 Methods and Materials in TEFL ONLINE
Class #4477 | Full Summer Session
Description: The course covers second language teaching theory and methodology, with emphasis on teaching English as foreign language.
T3 4830 Language, Culture and Sport ONLINE
Tier III Synthesis (3)
Class #5741 | First Summer Session
Description: In this course, we explore the interface of language and culture. Language is a symbolic system through which we communicate our experience of the world to others. Culture is a set of beliefs and actions through which we, in concert with others in a community of practice, enact a common understanding of our experiences of the world as they are now, as we understand them to have been in the past, and how we imagine them to be in the future. The context of culture that this course uses to illustrate the connection between language and culture is that of sport. Sport is a community of practice in which language is used to report on sporting events, express opinions, and express support for a team through chants, etc. We are interested in how language is used in the specific culture of sport and how it expresses both individual, group and national identity. By the end of this course, students will be better able to understand how culture is expressed through language.
Mathematics
MATH 1090 Consumer Math ONLINE
Tier I Quantitative Skills (1M)
Class #4741 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course covers applications of elementary mathematics to day-to-day problems, with special emphasis on consumer topics such as compound interest, mortgages, and installment buying. A scientific calculator is required. No credit for this course if taken after MATH 1250 or higher-level MATH course.
History
HIST 1220 Western Civilization: Modernity from 1500 ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #3696/3707 | Second Summer Session
Description: What is the West? Is there indeed a coherent, identifiable Western heritage? If so, what is distinctive about the West’s heritage? And what, further, is distinctive about the West’s modern heritage? Addresses these questions by way of an examination of major intellectual, cultural, and political developments from 1500 until the present. Topics to be considered include the Renaissance; the religious Reformations of the 16th- century; absolutism, constitutional monarchy, and enlightened despotism; the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; the American and French Revolutions; industrialization and nation building; modernism; imperialism and the World Wars; and the rise and fall of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century.
HIST 2460 The Rise of Modern Asia ONLINE
Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)
Class #3700 | First Summer Session
Description: This introductory survey of the history of Asia from the early modern era to the present day emphasizes the rise of modern nationalism, economic development, and social and cultural achievements.
HIST 3231 Latin American History: From Independence to the Present ONLINE
Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)
Class #3697 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course examines Latin American history in the 19th- and 20th- centuries, focusing on causes and consequences of Independence; the political, social and economic challenges of nation-state formation; competing political/ideological responses to structural crisis in the 20th- century (social revolution, authoritarianism, democratic change); and ongoing search for viable formulas of economic development.
HIST 3250 History of U.S.- Latin American Relations ONLINE
Class #3698 | First Summer Session
Description: This survey of inter-American relations from the 19th century focuses on evolving, and often conflicting, definitions of national interest that have shaped the United States and Latin American policy orientations toward each other.
HIST 3501 Nature, Science and Religion to 1800 ONLINE
Class #4714 | First Summer Session
Description: This overview of the history of science from the ancient world to the 17th century examines areas of knowledge and technique most modern people consider to be a part of science, and some they do not, including medicine, astronomy, construction, mining, navigation, and warfare. It considers how politics, economy, gender, and religion affected the development of these technologies and sciences.
HIST 3741 Origins of World War II, 1914-1941 ONLINE
Class #4715 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers international problems of peace and war, international organization and alliances.
HIST 3862 English History to 1688 ONLINE
Class #3207 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course surveys the social, political, religious, and constitutional history of England from its first settlement until the end of James II’s reign. Major topics to be considered include the impact of the Roman, Christian, Viking, and Norman conquests of England; the demographic, social, and political crises of the late medieval period; religious reformation during the 16th century; and England’s relationship to Britain, Europe, and the world.
HIST 3900 History Through Film ONLINE
Class #3701 | First Summer Session
Description: Examination of selected topics in the United States, European, or Third World history through films and readings accompanied by lectures and discussion.
T3 4100 The Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution ONLINE
Tier III Synthesis (3)
Class #4716 | Second Summer Session
Description: This interdisciplinary course examines the intellectual origins of the American Revolution. In particular, it will explore the ways in which English and North American authors thought about sovereignty, religion and empire from 1550s until the 1770s and the ways in which thinking on those subjects laid the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution. Among the authors considered are John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.
Philosophy
PHIL 3320 Philosophy of Sex and Love ONLINE
Class #2471 | Full Summer Session
Description: In this philosophical and evaluative investigation into the subject of sexual love and Western morality, topics include roles and relations between sexes, abortion, monogamy, sexual perversion, homosexuality, promiscuity, adultery, the semantics of sex, etc.
PHIL 2160 Philosophy of Science Survey ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2467 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course is a nontechnical survey of types, testing, and credibility of hypotheses; methods of experimental inquiry; measurement; and laws, theories and their role in explanation, concept formation.
PHIL 3200 Symbolic Logic I ONLINE
Class #2469 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course covers the techniques of modern symbolic logic.
Political Science
POLS 1600 Engaging Politics ONLINE
Class #4546 | Second Summer Session | 3 Credits | Grant and Tadlock
Description: This is an innovative online class in which students will be challenged to rethink common ideas about power and politics. The course begins with the assumption that politics happens in unexpected places and that power is exercised in ways that are not easily visible. The class is co-taught by Dr. Judith Grant and Dr. Barry Tadlock and feature lessons provided by 10 faculty members of Ohio University’s Political Science Department. This novel approach for a class enables students to acquire a much fuller understanding of the discipline of political science, not to mention the far-reaching teaching and research interests of POLS faculty at OHIO.
POLS 2700 Introduction to Political Theory ONLINE
Class #4547 | First Summer Session
Description: This course introduces a range of the canonical works in the western tradition of political thought. It uses the contemporary context of political struggles for equality, community, and justice as a lens through which to assess the problems and possibilities of this work.
POLS 3040 State Politics ONLINE
Class #4550 | Second Summer Session
Description: This comparative analysis of state political systems emphasizes the structure and process of policy making of states within federal context.
POLS 4060/5060 Elections and Campaigns ONLINE
Class #4553/4554 | First Summer Session | 3 Credits | Burton
Description: This course examines the operation of political campaigns in the context of American elections.
POLS 4070 Strategic Decision-Making ONLINE
Class #4552 | Second Summer Session | 3 Credits | Burton
Description: Using a wide range of cases—the Cold War, resource depletion, political campaigns, and legislative politics—this course engages students in the construction and analysis of strategic interaction. Students assess the public value of private and official actions and learn to discover Nash Equilibrium and Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium.
POLS 4570 National Security in the Contemporary Era ONLINE
Class #5513 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course introduces the concepts and problems of attaining international “security” in an ever-changing world. Profound changes at the international level have taken place in the past decade that have had a major impact on how we conceive of security. The course provides an overview of the traditional and new sources for insecurity and explores the consequences of states’ quests for security in the contemporary era.
POLS 4700 Democratic Theories and Practices ONLINE
Class #4548 | First Summer Session
Description: Placing contemporary democracies in both historical and comparative context, this course examines the relationship between legitimacy, authority, participation and voice. The central focus is the “edges” or boundaries of democracies: Is there a private realm at the edge of democracy? How is it established? What is democracy’s jurisdiction? There are margins within and outside of a democratic community, where lines between insiders and outsiders are drawn and redrawn. How do location and membership shape our practices of democratic responsibility? What is the relationship between injustice and democracy?
Sociology
SOC 2600 Criminal Justice ONLINE
Class #4928 | First Summer Session
Description: This course examines structures and decision processes of agencies that deal with crime and criminal offenders. An emphasis is placed on how practice is based on politically derived public policies and how sociology can be used to analyze the practice of these agencies. Topics include criminal law, policing, court systems, sentencing, and corrections.
SOC 3000 Development of Sociological Theory ONLINE
Class #4925 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course offers an introduction to sociological theory. Students examine the historical roots of sociological theory and understand major theoretical paradigms with an emphasis on social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis.
SOC 3270 Sociology of Education ONLINE
Class #4940 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers school as social institution in relation to community and development of child; comparative systems of education; issues of access and inequality in delivery of educational services.
SOC 3500 Elementary Research Techniques ONLINE
Class #4936 | First Summer Session
Description: This course introduces the techniques employed by social scientists to identify research problems, gather data, analyze data, and reach conclusions about their research ideas. Topics include how to identify a research problem, ways to develop data gathering procedures, techniques of gathering data, ways to summarize data, and ways to analyze data. The overall goal is to provide the tools to be able to design and carry out a research project.
SOC 3600 Criminology ONLINE
Class #4934 | First Summer Session
Description: This course covers theories and research in criminal behavior and societal reaction to criminality, as well as causes and consequences of crime.
SOC 3660 Punishment and Society ONLINE
Class #4935 | First Summer Session
Description: This course examines history, operation, and problems of punishment. Patterns of prison organization, inmate group structure, personnel organization, and racism are examined. Purpose and effectiveness of penal institutions are described. Prisons, juvenile institutions, parole, halfway houses, and alternatives to punishment are studied.
SOC 3680X Immigration and Crime ONLINE
Class #4937 | First Summer Session
Description: This course provide students with the basic knowledge about how immigration and crime intersect. The students first learn the fundamentals of immigration, to include the basic history of immigration in the United States, the push and pull factors that bring immigrants to the United States, and contemporary issues relating to modern-day immigrants. The course then covers the ways in which immigrants come in contact with the criminal justice system in this country.
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