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Social Organization   (ANT-332)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
Principles of social organization studied cross-culturally: locality, age, sex, kinship and marriage, comradeship. Institutional bases: household organization, kinship, religion, law, production, and distribution.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify principles applied in social organization in various cultures
  • Discuss bases behind social organization, notably age, sex, marriage and comradeship
  • Identify institutional determinants of group organization with reference to household, kinship, religion, and law
  • Present economic considerations at work in production and distribution of goods and services
  • Suggest practical applications of findings and means of information sharing

 
Identification of Gangs   (AOJ-122)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
History, philosophy identification of prison organized gangs & revolutionary groups in the United States. Includes types of gangs, philosophy underlying gang behavior, beliefs & philosophies of individual organizations, & techniques for identifying gang members.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Understand the historical development of gang culture in America.
  • Define gangs and gang membership.
  • Develop a sense of how gangs have evolved into large networks of organized crime in our society.
  • Evaluate and discuss theories explaining the social factors leading to gang membership and activity.
  • Examine the role of law enforcement, the legal system, and the prison system regarding gang membership and activity.

 
Police Role in Community   (AOJ-302)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
Focuses on the nature and responsibilities of the policeman's role. Topics include the following: police work as a profession; image of the police; and tensions, conflicts and cooperation between the police and the community.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Define community and police functions in a macro setting.
  • Define the development of relationships between law enforcement organizations and community groups and social agencies.
  • Define the key stages of the police agency's unique functions in community support organizations
  • Explain the community's response to various police actions and practices.
  • Describe the attributes of a successful police-community relations program.
  • Identifying and managing conflict and stress in developing community and social agency support
  • Describe personal competencies necessary for a police officer in a community policing environment.
  • Analyze the framework for community policing.
  • Define techniques for working with diverse populations.
  • Define the process for building police-community partnerships.
  • Identify effective police-community partnerships.

 
Victimology and Criminal Behavior   (AOJ-381)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
This course will focus on the criminal event from both the perspective of victims and the motives of offenders. It will examine victimization patterns, typologies, lifestyles, causal factors, consequences and the treatment of victims by the criminal justice system. Students will identify pre-incident warning signs, learn about techniques used to defuse immediate danger and learn about strategies used to prevent future harm.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the nature of the victim through history.
  • Analyze the victim movement.
  • Assess the impact of the victim movement.
  • Analyze the concerns with restitution.
  • Identify the cost of being a victim.
  • Assess the concept of victim rights
  • Assess the significance of sex offender registration
  • Analyze the nature of violence and criminal behavior.
  • Explain the concept of victimology in terms of the history, theories, typologies, and factors relating to the emergence of the victim movement.
  • Utilize crime data to identify the extent, trends, and patterns of crime victimization.
  • Identify the emotional, psychological, financial, physical, productivity, and social consequences related to crime victimization.
  • Discuss sexual assault and stalking as they relate to the concept of victimization.
  • Evaluate the issue of family violence, particularly the area of spouse abuse.
  • In their relation to victimization, analyze two forms of extreme violence: homicide and workplace violence.
  • Identify and explain ways to recognize threats of violence and to prevent violence.

 
History of Western Art I   (ART-166)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
The History of Western Art I course examines the greatest works of the Western visual tradition, highlighting issues of social content, form, and iconography. The course is a survey of Western European art and architecture from antiquity to 1600 CE. The course provides an excellent introduction and general overview of the seminal works of Western art. The social, political, and philosophical influences on the art and architecture are also examined. Students will gain a knowledge and appreciation of the great works, their artists, and the cultures that produced them.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify and discuss works of art that represent the greatest achievements of Western civilization and define the Western visual tradition from antiquity to 1600 CE.
  • Identify key periods or movements and summarize their essential visual features.
  • Identify important artists and political figures and associate them with their works.
  • Discuss the social, political, and historical events that influenced art history.
  • Discuss the technological advances that influenced art history.
  • Compare and contrast artists, artworks, and styles.
  • Analyze the qualities that distinguish the great works, great artists, and styles.

Available by DSST exam. 
History of Western Art II   (ART-167)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
The course History of Western Art II is a survey of Western art and architecture from 1600 CE to the present. Students will learn about the artists, architects, and social, political, and historical events and figures who formed the history of European and American art and architecture of this period. The course examines and compares the great masterworks, from Night Watch to Guernica, and examines the trends and art periods from Baroque through Pop art. This course is an excellent introduction to modern art and a good complement to the History of Western Art I course (ART-166).

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify and discuss works of art that represent the greatest achievements of Western civilization and define the Western visual tradition from 1600 CE to the present.
  • Identify key periods or movements and summarize their essential visual features.
  • Identify important artists and political figures and associate them with their works.
  • Discuss the social, political, and historical events that influenced art history.
  • Discuss the technological advances that influenced art history.
  • Compare and contrast artists, styles, and techniques. .
  • Analyze the qualities that distinguish the great works, artists, and styles

Available by DSST exam. 
Graphic Design III   (ART-333)   3.00 s.h.  


Course Description
Basic introduction to the principles of layout including grid systems and their use. Introduction to methods used to turn a design into a finished printed piece including basic understanding of printing and beginning past-up and mechanicals.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Document the use of Typography and design in publications of any type of size.
  • Explain the use of a grid system for page layout.
  • Explain the characteristics, classification and applications of advanced type in such uses as custom spacing kerning and tracking.
  • Explain a thorough knowledge of type styles, fonts, families and characteristic; ligatures and white space, visual hierarchy.
  • Document the creation of art in publications.
  • Explain the preparation of words and art for publication.
  • Document and explain color printing, separations, bleeds, varnishes die cuts, and other special effects.
  • Document and explain electronic prepress file preparations.
  • Document how to organize words and images in design layouts using typographic structural systems, alignments and grids.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of tools and technology, including their roles in the creation, reproduction, and distribution of visual messages. Relevant tools and technologies include drawing, offset printing, photography, and time-based and interactive media.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of design history, theory and criticism from a variety of perspectives including those of art history, linguistics, communication and information theory, technology, and the social and cultural use of design objects.

Through the portfolio assessment process, student will articulate and provide evidence of the following learning outcomes: 10-12 works are appropriate for this level. Most students will have a good deal more than that. In other cases, there may be less works, but the deeper conceptual/historic content of the works are to be revealed in the narrative about those works.

 
Man's Best Friend: The Biology and Behavior of Dogs   (BIO-310)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
Dogs and humans have been working and playing together for as long as 30,000 years. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the most critical components of a successful human-animal relationship, and requires students to synthesize what they learn about biology and behavior. This is accomplished by first examining the origin of the relationship between humans and dogs, and follows the development of the dog from the first stages of domestication through present day by including the dog's physiology, structure, reproduction and genetics. Next, developmental behavior of the dog is examined from birth to adulthood, as well as breed specific behaviors. Learning process and principles of training are also investigated through several common behavior problems and their solutions. Health, disease, and nutrition are also discussed.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the role of genetics related to reproduction and breeding management, and the interaction of genetics and behavior.
  • Analyze anatomy and physiology.
  • Assess the coevolution of man and dog along with its relationship to domestication.
  • Describe developmental behavior.
  • Analyze learning processes and training principles, including: habituation and sensitization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and social learning.
  • Explain common behavioral problems and solutions.
  • Identify infectious diseases and common noninfectious disorders.
  • Discuss common nutrient requirements and nutritionally responsive disorders.

 
Business in Society   (BUS-311)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
Analyzes the interrelationship and influences among business, society and government.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Evaluate, and set in an historic context, the respective roles of the public, business, and government as an interactive system in our society.
  • Outline a stakeholder management framework emphasizing the social and ethical responsibilities of business to both external and internal stakeholder groups.
  • Analyze how business ethics relates to various positions within a business hierarchy.
  • Hypothesize how ethical and moral considerations can be integrated into the decision-making process for managers within organizations.
  • Outline a plan to identify stakeholders and illustrate ways to incorporate their concerns into an organization's strategy and operations.
  • Analyze how changing workplace demands and the need for companies to downsize can be balanced with protecting the needs of workers.
  • Assess the influence of environmental forces, both economic and non-economic, on business and their impact on public values, expectations and demands. What influence do these forces have on political processes and in turn on corporations and other businesses?
  • Analyze how globalization, ecological concerns, and ethical norms affect corporate stakeholders.
  • Evaluate the social and ethical impact of business on society as a whole.
  • Defend the need for government regulation of business.
  • Justify the importance of business having social (as well as economic) responsibilities to society.

Available by TECEP exam.  
Chinese Literature I   (CHI-340)   3.00 s.h.  

Course Description
Such major literary works as Shih-ching, Mencius, Shih-chi, T'ang poetry, Sung tz'u, Yuan drama, and Ming-Ch'ing fiction.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of a survey of the following works of Chinese literature: Shih-ching, Mencius, Shih-chi, T'ang poetry, Sung tz'u, Yuan drama, and Ming-Ch'ing fiction.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the social, cultural and political history associated with the literature of the time.
  • Build an annotated bibliography or literary database of texts, authors and genres, with a minimum of 20 entries. Literary texts must have been read in the original Chinese.
  • Submit portfolio narrative written in Chinese.

 
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