S.C.A.L.E. Courses

Accounting

ACC 11 Accounting Principles I
This course presents an introduction to fundamental financial accounting principles, concentrating on identifying, recording, and communicating the economic events of a business organization. This course studies the theory and practice of accounting. Topics covered during the semester include the balance sheet, income statement, and principles required to understand financial accounting systems.
3 credits

ACC 12 Accounting Principles II
This course is the second in the accounting principles sequence. The first part of the course focuses on partnership and the corporate form of business organization, including financial statement analysis and cash flow statements. Students are then introduced to managerial accounting concepts and how they can be used in fostering internal business decision-making. Information concerning the behavior of costs, profit planning, and budgeting is analyzed to enhance meaningful comprehension of managerial accounting.
3 credits

LAW 13 Legal Environment of Business
This course examines the origins of law, business ethics, court system, business related torts, contracts, agency, partnership, corporations, employment law, intellectual property, and international business law.
3 credits

Economics

ECO 5 Current Economic Problems
This course is a survey of basic economic principles.  Topics include: nature and functioning of American capitalism, the socialist alternative, big business and competition, the role of money, inflation and deflation, the economic system and environmental problems, the economy of the city, the ghetto and other urban problems, the U.S. and international economy.
3 credits

ECO 11 Introduction to Macroeconomics
Economic concepts governing society, business organization, government finance, business fluctuations, fiscal and monetary policy are examined.
3 credits

ECO 12 Introduction to Microeconomics
This course examines the theory of supply and demand, theory of the firm, resource allocation, international trade, economic growth and development.
3 credits

Management

BUS 10 Introduction to Business
This course examines the role of business in American society; the interrelated activities through which business provides the goods and services essential to contemporary society; and the interrelationships between business and government, labor, and society at large. General areas of study center on: the foundation of business, management of the enterprise, marketing activities, finance and financial services, and contemporary business problems and development.
3 credits

Marketing

MKT 11 Marketing Principles and Practices
This is a survey course of the field of marketing with particular emphasis on segmentation and target marketing, differential advantage, product life cycle, positioning, marketing mix decisions and product development. 
3 credits

Political Science

POL 1 Introduction to Political Science I
This course is an analysis of the nature of the state, political power, law sovereignty and political ideologies. The stress is on analysis and contemporary concepts. 
3 credits

POL 2 Introduction to Political Science II
This course is a study of the Constitutional structure, major functions and operations of the national government.
3 credits

Art

ART 31 Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture
General study in the methods of structuring clay, hand building, throwing on the potter’s wheel and experimental techniques. This course encompasses the entire ceramic process, forming, glazing, and firing techniques.
3 credits

CGPH 7 Digital Illustration I
Digital Illustration is a hands-on computer class designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to create professional digital graphics. Students create sophisticated and precise vector based graphics and manipulate them.
3 credits

Cinema

CIN 11 History of World Cinema
A concise history of film from its origins in the 1890’s to the present is covered. Silent and sound films from around the world are screened and discussed each week.
3 credits

Communications

BDST 4 Introduction to Audio Technology
This course is an introduction to the tools and techniques of audio production with emphasis on audio analysis, mastery of equipment, editing and assembling of programming elements.  Includes music mixing for radio and production of commercial and public service announcements. Provides the students with basic technical skills required in audio production.
3 credits

CMA 9 Introduction to the Media Arts
This course is an overview of mass media arts and their impact on society and culture. Studies of various media forms and content.  
3 credits

Criminal Justice

CRJ 11 Introduction to Criminal Justice
This course covers agencies and processes involved in the administration of criminal justice. It surveys the roles of police, district attorney, courts, probation, corrections, and parole.
3 credits

CRJ 35 Forensic Psychology and the Violent Criminal
This course analyzes psychological theories relating to aggression and criminal violence; this course focuses on the incidence and forms of violent criminal behavior in all types of surroundings.
3 credits

CRJ 43 Juvenile Delinquency
This course covers the development of the scientific study of juvenile delinquency with emphasis on methods, theories and studies concerning causation, treatment and prevention. 
3 credits

Earth and Environmental Sciences

ERS 1 Earth Science I
This course is an introduction to physical geography including the earth and its relationship to the sun; introduction to maps, meteorology, and world climates; and a consideration of the biogeographical features of world soils and vegetations.
4 credits

ERS 2 Earth Science II
Topics include the basic principles of geomorphology (study of landforms) and the use of topographic maps and air photographs in landform interpretation. Minerals, rocks, and geological structures are studied in factors in the evolution of surface topography.
4 credits

English

ENG 1 Composition
English 1 is an introductory writing course that uses interpretation and analysis of texts to promote clear thinking and effective prose. Students learn the conventions of academic writing.  In addition, students learn how to adapt writing for various audiences and rhetorical situations.
3 credits

ENG 2 Composition: Argument and Analysis
English 2 is a course in analysis and argumentation, focusing on scholarly research and documentation. Building in the work begun in ENG 1, this course develops knowledge of complex rhetorical and stylistic techniques and culminates in a library research paper.
3 credits

ENG 7 Western Literature: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance
The development of the common culture of Western Civilization will be illustrated through such works as the Bible as Genesis and Job and through master pieces such as Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. 
3 credits

ENG 8 Western Literature: Enlightenment to Modern
The development of the variousnational cultures of European civilization during the 18th, 19th, and earlier 20th centuries will be illustrated through literary masterpieces of such writers as Molière, Voltaire, Blake, Mary Shelley, Goethe, Melville, Dickinson, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Pirandello, Kafka.  Selected works from non-Western cultures may be introduced for comparison.
3 credits

ENG 47 Literary Forms and Genres
This course is a close analysis of a particular form of genre illustrated by literary works; for example, contemporary poetry, science fiction, the gothic novel.
3 credits

ENG 48 Ideas and Themes in Literature
This course is a close analysis of a body of literature bound together by a common factor or concern, for example comic literature, literature of the East, the middle class in society, the Industrial Revolution.
3 credits

ENG 50 Great Plays
This course is the study of selected plays from classical to the beginning of the modern period, considering both the dramatic and theatrical concepts.  Reading include such authors as Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marlowe, Lope de Vega, Webster, Corneille, Racine, Etherege, Goldoni, Goldsmith, Goethe, Ibsen, Shaw, Brecht, and Beckett.
3 credits

ENG 68 Mythology
This course looks at myths from such various cultures and traditions as the Babylonian, Hebrew, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Germanic.
3 credits

ENG 74 The American Novel
This course looks at novels by such authors as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Crane, Dreiser, Hemingway, and Faulkner.
3 credits

History

HIS 3 American Civilization, 1607-1877
Major developments in American history from colonial times to the end of reconstruction are covered in this course.
3 credits

HIS 4 American Civilization Since 1877
Major developments in American history from the end or reconstruction to the present are covered in this course.
3 credits

HIS 120 African American History
This course will examine the history of African Americans from the origins of slavery to the present. It will explore the nature of African American slavery, the development of African American culture, the struggle to destroy slavery, experiences of southern blacks during Reconstruction and the impact of the “redemption” of southern white planters. We will explore the rise of the New Negro, southern Jim Crow legislation, the nature of lynchings, as well as the leaders and politics of the anti-lynching campaigns, the “Great Migration” of southern blacks to northern cities, the Harlem Renaissance, African American life during the depressions and World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, black nationalism and the Black Power movement, African American urban culture and politics. Throughout, this course will pay special attention to the myriad ways in which diasporic Africans have shaped and defined American society, politics and culture, as well as the complexities embedded in notions of “race” and the impact of racism on African American lives. 
3 credits  

Math

MTH 7 Calculus and Analytical Geometry I
This course covers the derivative of algebraic trigonometric functions with applications to rates, maximization and graphing and integration and the fundamental theorem.
4 credits

MTH 8 Calculus and Analytical Geometry II
This course covers the applications of the definite integral, the calculus of trigonometric, logarithmic, and exponential functions, methods of integration, improper integrals and infinite series.
4 credits

MTH 19 Basic Statistics
This course is directed toward understanding and interpreting numerical data. Topics covered include: descriptive statistics, regression, correlation, sampling techniques and elements of inferential statistics.
3 credits

Music

MUS 21 Music in Western Civilization I
Characteristics and development of western music, with illustrative examples from literature, are examined.
3 credits

MUS 22 Music in Western Civilization II
This course is a continuation of MUS 21 with emphasis on the 17th-19th centuries.
3 credits 

Philosophy

PHL 8 Beginning Philosophy
This course is an introductory exploration of basic issued raised by great philosophers. Readings focus on questions about human nature, God, knowledge, values, meaning and purpose.
3 credits

PHL 13 Human Values
This course is an introduction to human values that focuses on such ethical, social and aesthetic questions as: What is the basis of right and wrong? How can one gain knowledge of good and evil? How do we judge beauty? What do we mean by justice? What makes life worth living?
3 credits

Physics

PHY 9 Introductory Astronomy
This course is a survey of astronomy that uses elementary mathematics to illustrate the teachings of physics that apply to our understanding of the universe. Topics include: planetary motion, the solar system, the source of energy in the stars, and the origin of the universe.
3 credits

Political Science

POL 1 Introduction to Political Science I
This course is an analysis of the nature of the state, political power, law sovereignty and political ideologies. The stress is on analysis of contemporary concepts.
3 credits

POL 2 Introduction to Political Science II
This course is a study of the Constitutional structure, major functions and operations of the national government. 
3 credits

Psychology

PSY 1 General Psychology I
This course is a survey of the principles of psychology.  Learning, motivation, sensation, perception, statistical methods, and the biological basis of behavior are among some of the topics covered.
3 credits

PSY 2 General Psychology II
This course is a continuation of PSY 1 including cognitive functions, intelligence, personality, abnormal behavior, therapies, social and applied psychology.
3 credits

PSY 25 Developmental Psychology: Childhood
Behavior and development during childhood is covered.  The emphasis is on normal physical, intellectual, emotional, and social growth and development.
3 credits

Sociology

SOC 1 Introduction to Sociology
This course covers nature and the organization of human society, socialization, culture, and social interaction.
3 credits

SOC 2 Social Institutions
This course covers basic institutions of society: the family, religion, education, the state, and the economic order; the social classes and stratification, bureaucracy, population and social change.
3 credits

Spanish

SPN 11 Introduction to Peninsular Literature
This course emphasizes the readings of several works by Spanish authors. Stress is placed on vocabulary building, oral expression and comprehension.
3 credits

SPN 23 Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition I
This course is an in-depth review of Spanish grammar and syntax through review exercises, writing and composition.
3 credits

SPN 24 Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition II
This course is an in-depth review of Spanish grammar and syntax with special emphasis on the use of the present and past subjunctive. The course focuses on sentence structure, stylistics and composition. 
SPN 24 may be taken before SPN 23.
3 credits

SPN 25 Advanced Spanish Conversation
This is an intensive oral practice and expression course with oral reports on assigned topics, vocabulary expansion and a study of the basic phonetics of Spanish.
3 credits

SPN 54 Intermediate Spanish Conversation for Non-Majors
Through the use of dialogues, impromptu and prepared class discussions and oral reports, this course is designed for non-language majors to offer intensive oral practice in Spanish.
3 credits