A study of evolving ideas of wilderness in journals and other non-fiction, along with readings in fiction and poetry which dramatize civilized humanity’s relationships with wilderness. Nineteenth and 20th century American authors including Thoreau, John Muir, Fenimore Cooper, Edward Abbey, Jack London, Faulkner, James Dickey and Gary Snyder.
A study of English literature, exclusive of Shakespeare, from 1500 to 1660. Authors studied may include, but are not limit- ed to, More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Lanyer, Marvell and Milton. Pays special attention to the peri- od’s rich and varied modes of poetry, fiction, drama and non- fictional prose.
Introduces students to aspects of human impact on the environment and means of monitoring, controlling and regulating detrimental practices. Topics include food technology and protection; housing, industrial, occupational and recreational environments; air quality, waste management; and water quality and pollution control programs. May be taken for biology credit by non-environmental health science majors.
Overview of the health marketplace and safety procedures. Examination of strategies essential for analyzing health prod- ucts, health services and maintaining safety. Emphasis placed on information and concepts required as foundation knowledge for school health educators.
Explores and analyzes the philosophical meaning of violence and nonviolence, the ethics of just and unjust wars, and the moral efficacy of pacifism. Applies to issues such as capital punishment, nonviolent resistance and specific wars.
Study of the effect of the contructed enviroment and natural enviroment on human behavior. Consideration is given to such topics as ambient temperature, density, crowding, urban stress, enviroment attitudes and behavior change.
Blended lecture and laboratory-based exploration of biochemical techniques commonly used in industrial and academic laboratories. Demonstrates the relationship between structure and function of biomolecules. Cross-listed with CHEM 419. May not receive credit for both BIOL 440 and CHEM 419.
A study of British and American poetry from Yeats through World War II. Poets include Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Frost, Williams, Robinson, Crane, Stevens, Auden and Dylan Thomas.
