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AAF 399: Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
Introductory course focusing on multiculturalism as a major paradigm.
February 5, 2023
AAF 399: Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
Introductory course focusing on multiculturalism as a major paradigm.
November 29, 2023
ACC 199: Financial Accounting for Nonbusiness Majors
Basic concepts used in financial accounting for business organizations.
February 5, 2023
AFS 105G: Food from the Sea
Introduction to capture fisheries and aquaculture and their contribution to food supply, methods of production, environmental and ecological considerations, practices employed, processing, and marketing, with a regional New England focus.
AFS 132G: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Systems, and Society
Food is essential to life, and a foundation of civilization.
AST 118: Introductory Astronomy: The Solar System
Celestial sphere, Earth, formation of and motions and characteristics of objects in solar system, the Sun, exoplanets, and search for extraterrestrial life.
AVS 101: Introduction to Animal Science
Animal industry's role in world and national economy; inheritance, growth, physiology, nutrition, and diseases of domestic animals and poultry; geographic distribution and marketing of animal products.
AVS 132G: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Systems, and Society
Food is essential to life, and a foundation of civilization.
BAI 310: (BUS) Business Data Analysis with Excel
Introduces intermediate and advanced spreadsheet concepts for business applications.
BAI 310: (BUS) Business Data Analysis with Excel
Introduces intermediate and advanced spreadsheet concepts for business applications.
November 1, 2023
BIO 181G: The Information Age: From Politics to Medicine
How big data affects our society, from advertising to politics to medicine.
February 5, 2023
BIO 220: Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology I
Explores the integration of the structures and functions of the human organism through a systems approach; including the biochemical properties of the cell, integumentary, muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems.
October 24, 2023
BIO 220: Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology I
Explores the integration of the structures and functions of the human organism through a systems approach; including the biochemical properties of the cell, integumentary, muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems.
November 22, 2023
BIO 222: Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology II
Explores the integration of the structures and functions of the human organism through a systems approach; including senses, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive.
October 24, 2023
BIO 222: Fundamentals of Human Anatomy and Physiology II
Explores the integration of the structures and functions of the human organism through a systems approach; including senses, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive.
November 21, 2023
BIO 331: Parasitology
An introduction to the biology of parasitic organisms, including life cycles, infection pathways, and impacts on hosts.
September 25, 2023
BIO 331: Parasitology
An introduction to the biology of parasitic organisms, including life cycles, infection pathways, and impacts on hosts.
October 30, 2023
BIO 396: Biology And Society
A seminar course dealing with the impact of biological discoveries on societal questions and with the social influences that affect biological discovery.
November 10, 2023
CCJ 274: Criminal Justice System
The American system of criminal justice, general processing of cases, principal actors, study of theories of criminal law, and pretrial detention and sentencing.
February 5, 2023
CHM 100X: Learning to Learn Chemistry
Focus on chemistry fundamentals, enhancing learning skills and creating a growth mindset for students to be successful in CHM 101 or 103.
CLA 395: Greek Mythology: Gods, Heroes, and Humans
Nature and function of myth in the ancient world and today: ideas of divinity, relationship of divine to human, origins of cosmos and human society, male and female principles, power hierarchies, coming of age, the heroic experience.
September 19, 2023
CLA 395: Greek Mythology: Gods, Heroes, and Humans
Nature and function of myth in the ancient world and today: ideas of divinity, relationship of divine to human, origins of cosmos and human society, male and female principles, power hierarchies, coming of age, the heroic experience.
October 31, 2023
CLA 396: Myths of Rome
Nature and function of myth in Roman society; origins and influence of Romanitas as found in Roman literature: history, epic, lyric, novel.
February 5, 2023
COM 100: Communication Fundamentals
Integrates basic theory and experience in a variety of communication contexts including public speaking, small groups, and interpersonal communication.
COM 100: Communication Fundamentals
Integrates basic theory and experience in a variety of communication contexts including public speaking, small groups, and interpersonal communication.
COM 100: Communication Fundamentals
Integrates basic theory and experience in a variety of communication contexts including public speaking, small groups, and interpersonal communication.
COM 100: Communication Fundamentals
Integrates basic theory and experience in a variety of communication contexts including public speaking, small groups, and interpersonal communication.
October 30, 2023
COM 100: Communication Fundamentals
Integrates basic theory and experience in a variety of communication contexts including public speaking, small groups, and interpersonal communication.
November 7, 2023
COM 108G: Spaceship Earth: Communication and Sustainability
Through in-depth study of films, social media and readings students will explore the principles of sustainability and the communication challenges linking scientific evidence, public policies and individual behavior.
February 5, 2023
COM 202: Public Speaking
Theory, attitudes and skills essential to effective and ethical public communication.
COM 210: Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Influence
Analysis of communication influencing beliefs, attitudes, and/or behavior.
September 18, 2023
COM 221: Interpersonal Communication
Examines basic theory and skills, including impart of perception, self-concept, listening, nonverbal messages, and language on interpersonal communication, including conflict, relationship development, friendship, family and romantic relationships.
COM 315: Environmental Dimensions of Communication
Investigation of individual and mediated sustainability messages, impact of communication on environmental knowledge, attitudes and behavior; design of communication campaigns to affect resource use, community engagement an.
February 5, 2023
COM 321G: Social Media and Interpersonal Communication
Explore theories and research on interpersonal communication and social media.
COM 381: Research Methods in Communication
Basic concepts and techniques of communication research.
September 18, 2023
COM 382: Communication Theory
A critical survey of social science based communication theories; an examination of the nature, processes and functions of communication theory in a variety of contexts.
February 5, 2023
COM 385: Crossover: Sports Communication Research
This class will introduce sports analytics research methods and investigate how human communication affects individual performance, team success, and profits.
September 18, 2023
COM 422: Communication and Conflict Intervention
An examination of the role of communication theories in conflict intervention in interpersonal, group, and organizational settings.
February 5, 2023
CVE 220: Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical properties of materials; analysis of members under axial, torsional, and transverse loads; stress and strain; beam deflections, and introduction to statically-indeterminate beams and buckling of columns.
CVE 220: Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical properties of materials; analysis of members under axial, torsional, and transverse loads; stress and strain; beam deflections, and introduction to statically-indeterminate beams and buckling of columns.
November 14, 2023
DSP 181G: The Information Age: From Politics to Medicine
How big data affects our society, from advertising to politics to medicine.
February 5, 2023
EDC 203: Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders.
EDC 203: Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders.
EDC 204: Advancing Mental Health on Campus
Advancing Mental Health on Campus teaches students how to apply knowledge gained from their Foundations in Mental Health First Aid course (EDC 203) and deepen their knowledge of mental health concerns (across diagnoses and with a particular focus on disparities in care and treatment for multicultural and diverse students).
September 18, 2023
EDC 401: (KIN) Current Issues in Health Education
Designed to develop student awareness of contemporary issues that are of concern to school health and other health educators.
EDC 593: Professional Learning Communities(PLCs) in Pre-K-12 Settings
This course is designed to support teachers and administrators in PreK-12 schools to develop and facilitate professional learning communities (PLCs) on a timely and relevant topic in education.
ENG 243: The Short Story
Critical study of the short story from the early 19th century to the present.
February 5, 2023
FLM 101: Introduction to Film Media
Introduction to techniques of film practice, film history, genres, analysis of film texts, and reading of film images in their aesthetic, cultural, and literary context.
FLM 101: Introduction to Film Media
Introduction to techniques of film practice, film history, genres, analysis of film texts, and reading of film images in their aesthetic, cultural, and literary context.
FLM 101: Introduction to Film Media
Introduction to techniques of film practice, film history, genres, analysis of film texts, and reading of film images in their aesthetic, cultural, and literary context.
October 30, 2023
FLM 101: Introduction to Film Media
Introduction to techniques of film practice, film history, genres, analysis of film texts, and reading of film images in their aesthetic, cultural, and literary context.
October 31, 2023
FLM 101: Introduction to Film Media
Introduction to techniques of film practice, film history, genres, analysis of film texts, and reading of film images in their aesthetic, cultural, and literary context.
November 14, 2023
FLM 205: History of Film II
A survey of world cinema from the 1950's to 2000, examining the production, distribution and exhibition of narrative, documentary and experimental among other forms of film.
February 5, 2023
GWS 150: Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
Images of women, the theories and processes of socialization, historical perspectives, and implications for social change.
GWS 310: Race, Class, and Sexuality
Interconnections among race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality and the impact of sexism, racism, classism, and heterosexism are investigated.
GWS 325G: International Women’s Issues
Focuses on women's rights in a global context, ideologies and practices that deny women equal status in society, including violence against women, freedom and democracy movements and women's rights.
GWS 330: Gender and the Holocaust
This course will examine the Holocaust, Nazi ideology, and antisemitism from the perspective of gender.
GWS 350: Special Topics-Women Studies: Women and Health
This course offers a broad introduction to health issues that affect women’s bodies and minds, along with the historical, structural, political, economic, and cultural factors that influence our understanding of health and illness.
HDF 130G: “This is Us”: Individual and Family Development
Students in this course will learn about contemporary issues of human development, family systems, and cultural diversity based on the television show, This is Us.
February 5, 2023
HDF 130G: “This is Us”: Individual and Family Development
Students in this course will learn about contemporary issues of human development, family systems, and cultural diversity based on the television show, This is Us.
November 7, 2023
HDF 205G: Money Skills for Life
An interdisciplinary framework to review important personal financial issues and to offer applicable tools to help students make good financial choices on earning, spending, borrowing, protecting, investing and saving money.
February 5, 2023
HDF 205G: Money Skills for Life
An interdisciplinary framework to review important personal financial issues and to offer applicable tools to help students make good financial choices on earning, spending, borrowing, protecting, investing and saving money.
October 31, 2023
HDF 205G: Money Skills for Life
An interdisciplinary framework to review important personal financial issues and to offer applicable tools to help students make good financial choices on earning, spending, borrowing, protecting, investing and saving money.
November 8, 2023
HDF 230: Couple and Family Relationships
Intimate romantic and family relationships are explored across the life span.
September 25, 2023
HDF 318G: Health and Wealth
This course will draw from the disciplines of economics, public policy, public health, and consumer behavior to offer a comprehensive understanding of the intersection of health and wealth.
September 18, 2023
HDF 357: Family and Community Health
Individual, family and community health concerns throughout the lifespan.
February 5, 2023
HDF 381: Exploring Internships in Human Service Agencies
To prepare HDF students to identify goals and professional interests in human services before applying for Senior Field Placement.
November 2, 2023
HDF 550: Relationship Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Students are introduced to mediation principles, phases of mediation, mediator¿s role, and standards of the profession.
September 18, 2023
HLT 100G: Perspectives on Public Health in the 21st Century
Introduces students to current and controversial public health topics; addresses the implications of contemporary public health topics from a health policy perspective (cost, quality, access) and from ethical standpoints.
HLT 401: (KIN) Current Issues in Health Education
Designed to develop student awareness of contemporary issues that are of concern to school health and other health educators.
HPR 344: Honors Seminar in Arts & Design and Writing: Experiencing Film in Rhode Island
This experiential class includes meetings with Rhode Island film professionals and viewing films in varied movie theaters around the state.
February 5, 2023
INE 315: (BUS) Legal Environment of Business
An introduction to the origins, framework, and concepts of the legal environment of business.
ISE 311: Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Introduction to probability and statistics in engineering applications including data analysis, probability theory, probability distributions, sampling distributions, statistical inference, hypotheses testing, confidenc.
September 18, 2023
ITR 300: Career Plan: Concepts & Skills: Career Pathways in HDF
This section of ITR 300 is a career and professional development course specifically tailored to Human Development and Family Science majors.
February 5, 2023
ITR 300: Career Plan:Concepts & Skills: Career Rhode Trip for Economic
Students in this section of ITR 300 will identify personal strengths, interests, skills and values as they relate to career exploration and decision making.
ITR 300: Career Plan:Concepts & Skills: Career Strategy and Coaching
Students enrolled in this course will develop effective career strategies and receive one-on-one career coaching to build professional skills and tools.
ITR 300: Career Plan:Concepts & Skills: Careers in Health & Healthcare
Identify personal strengths, interests, and professional values related to career exploration.
ITR 300: Career Plan:Concepts & Skills: Exploring Careers in Justice
This hands-on course engages students with justice-focused organizations within different career sectors, including private business, government, and nonprofits.
ITR 300: Career Plan:Concepts & Skills: Personal Branding & Networking
Students in this section of ITR 300 will develop self-awareness of their strengths through completion of the CliftonStrengths assessment.
ITR 300: Career Plan:Concepts & Skills: Rhode Trips: Pharm Industry
Students will identify personal strengths, interests, and professional values related to career exploration in pharmaceutical sciences.
JOR 340: Public Relations Strategies
Principles and procedures in public relations: emphasis on role of the public relations practitioner as a specialist in communication; analysis of publications produced as a part of public relations.
KIN 123: Foundations of Health
Development of attitudes and practices that lead to more healthful living.
KIN 243: Prevention And Care Of Athletic Injuries
Conditioning, use of physiotherapy equipment, massaging, taping and bandaging technique.
LAR 201: Survey of Landscape Architecture
Introduction to landscape design theory and composition as an applied art form.
October 10, 2023
LHR 532: Seminar in Labor and Employment Law
Advanced seminar to review and evaluate current issues and changing trends in selected aspects of labor and employment law.
February 5, 2023
LHR 546: Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Examination of the interpersonal dynamics of negotiations and conflict resolution processes, including interest-based or collaborative bargaining in a variety of contexts; e.
LIB 150: Search Strategies for the Information Age
Introduction to the exploration and practice of information literacy and library research concepts and skills, with an emphasis on the communication of information in today's world.
MBA 574: Consulting and Management Practice
Review of the theory and practice of effective consulting and development of consultation skills.
September 18, 2023
MCE 263: Dynamics
Kinematic and kinetic study of motion of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies, acted upon by unbalanced force systems, using both scalar and vector methods; development of methods of analysis based on the direct application of Newton's laws, work-energy and impulse-momentum principles.
February 5, 2023
MCE 411: Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Introduction to probability and statistics in engineering applications including data analysis, probability theory, probability distributions, sampling distributions, statistical inference, hypotheses testing, confidenc.
September 18, 2023
MCE 466: Introduction to Finite Element Method
Application of the finite element method to problems in mechanical engineering including plane elasticity, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics.
February 5, 2023
MGT 201: (BUS 340) Management Foundations: Building Better Businesses
Management concepts, processes and practices with an emphasis on inclusion, agility and evidence based decision making: organizational behavior; individual differences and elements of diversity; interpersonal dynamics and communication; work design, motivation and outcomes; social justice and worker voice; structure (including business functions) and culture.
October 18, 2023
MGT 341: (BUS) Organizational Behavior
Introduction to organizational behavior; focus on individual, interpersonal, team and organization factor, and how these shape individuals behaviors at work.
February 5, 2023
MGT 345: (BUS) Business in Society
Examination of the contemporary social, political, cultural, legal and ethical forces that shape the business environment.
MKT 265: (BUS 365) Marketing Principles
An introduction to marketing from a managerial viewpoint.
September 18, 2023
MKT 367: (BUS) Marketing Research
Describes the nature and scope of marketing research activities.
February 5, 2023
MKT 475: (BUS) Social Media for Marketing: Analytics and Strategy
Analyze a brand's social media positioning, apply analytical skills to social network data for marketing research, and develop strategies for social media marketing that help meet broad marketing objectives.
October 11, 2023
MSL 101: Introduction to Leadership I
Introduction to leadership dimensions while presenting a big picture understanding of a leadership development program.
September 18, 2023
MTH 107: Introduction to Finite Mathematics
Concepts and processes of modern mathematics concerned with sets, the theory of probability, and statistics.
February 5, 2023
MUS 101: Introduction to Music
Fosters a better understanding and appreciation of the world's great music.
MUS 101: Introduction to Music
Fosters a better understanding and appreciation of the world's great music.
October 31, 2023
MUS 106: History of Jazz
The nature and origin of jazz and its development as an American folk idiom: European and African heritages, blues, ragtime, dixieland, boogie-woogie, swing, bop, cool, funky, gospel, jazz-rock, free-form, and progressive.
February 5, 2023
MUS 106: History of Jazz
The nature and origin of jazz and its development as an American folk idiom: European and African heritages, blues, ragtime, dixieland, boogie-woogie, swing, bop, cool, funky, gospel, jazz-rock, free-form, and progressive.
November 2, 2023
NUR 427: Emergency Nursing
The course in Emergency Nursing is designed to provide nursing students with an introduction to the specialty of emergency nursing within a hospital setting.
October 19, 2023
NUT 207: General Nutrition
Fundamental concepts of the science of nutrition with application to the individual and community.
September 18, 2023
NUT 207: General Nutrition
Fundamental concepts of the science of nutrition with application to the individual and community.
November 6, 2023
NUT 212G: Public Health Nutrition
Introduction to the concepts of public health as it relates to the field of nutrition in population-and individual-based approaches.
September 18, 2023
PHL 101: Critical Thinking
Identification, formulation and evaluation of both inductive and deductive patterns of reasoning.
February 5, 2023
PHL 314: Ethical Problems in Society and Medicine
Ethical analysis of topics such as war, capital punishment, sexual morality, suicide, animal rights, honesty and deception, world hunger, discrimination, abortion.
September 18, 2023
PLS 132G: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Systems, and Society
Food is essential to life, and a foundation of civilization.
February 5, 2023
PRS 100: Introduction to Public Relations
Examine and explore public relations principles, concepts and emerging trends associated with the role of the PR practitioner.
September 18, 2023
PRS 340: Public Relations Strategies
Principles and procedures in public relations: emphasis on role of the public relations practitioner as a specialist in communication; analysis of publications produced as a part of public relations.
February 5, 2023
PSC 274: Criminal Justice System
The American system of criminal justice, general processing of cases, principal actors, study of theories of criminal law, and pretrial detention and sentencing.
PSY 399: Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
Introductory course focusing on multiculturalism as a major paradigm.
PSY 399: Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
Introductory course focusing on multiculturalism as a major paradigm.
November 29, 2023
PSY 442: Disability in Childhood and Adolescence
Introduction to disability in childhood and adolescence.
February 5, 2023
SCA 255: (BUS) Operations and Supply Chain Management
Operations management problems in global and domestic environments.
SOC 100: Introduction to the Sociological Perspective
Sociological approaches to inequality and contemporary social issues regarding race, ethnicity, class, gender.
STA 220: Statistics In Modern Society
Introductory statistics exploring and understanding data, relationships between variables, randomness and probability.
STA 409: Statistical Methods in Research I
Same as STA 308, but is for students who have better mathematical preparation.
SUS 108G: Spaceship Earth: Communication and Sustainability
Through in-depth study of films, social media and readings students will explore the principles of sustainability and the communication challenges linking scientific evidence, public policies and individual behavior.
SUS 315: Environmental Dimensions of Communication
Investigation of individual and mediated sustainability messages, impact of communication on environmental knowledge, attitudes and behavior; design of communication campaigns to affect resource use, community engagement an.
THE 338G: Ethical Dilemmas in Contemporary Theatre
Exploration of ethical dilemmas raised by contemporary dramatic works and the history of theatre as a tool for social activism.
TMD 126: Introduction to Design
Elements and principles of design as applied to textiles, apparel, and interiors.
October 27, 2023
UCS 160: Success in HigherEd Learning Environments
Analyze learning and studying in college settings; Assess college learning needs, apply effective study and work management strategies to academics, and improve metacognitive awareness and academic skills.
February 5, 2023
WRT 235: Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Create digital, visual, and multimedia content.
September 18, 2023
