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ARCHIVED 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
ARCHIVED 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Information


 

Parks and Recreation Management

  
  • PRM 360 - Recreation Research


    An analysis of the principle methods of recreation research, the application of descriptive and inferential statistics to recreation research, and the development of a research proposal.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 361 - Program Planning and Evaluation in Parks and Recreation Management


    Designed to equip students with a variety of program planning methodologies, including proposal and grant writing. Evaluative research methods are also included. 3 Lecture, 2 Lab.

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PRM 370 - Internship Orientation


    Orientation to the internship; preparation of personnel records; applications, resumes, and agency contracts. Preparation for entry into the profession: interview and application techniques. 2 Lab.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: 361 or permission of instructor.

    Credits: (1)
  
  • PRM 383 - Internship in Parks and Recreation Management


    S/U grading. This internship is designed to allow a student to gain experience by working with a selected parks and recreation agency.




    Credits: (1, R3)
  
  • PRM 389 - Cooperative Education in PRM


    See Cooperative Education Program.

    Credits: (1 or 3, R15)
  
  • PRM 420 - Administration and Leadership of Outdoor Pursuits


    Implementation of outdoor pursuits programs; includes planning and leadership components, outdoor adventure-based administrative techniques, and risk management. 2 Lecture, 2 Lab.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: 254 or permission of instructor.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 425 - Land-Based Outdoor Pursuits Education


    Land-based outdoor instruction in mountain activities, caving, and rescue techniques; includes institutional teaching techniques used by different agencies and adaptations for people with disabilities. 2 Lecture, 2 Lab.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: 254 or permission of instructor.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 426 - Water-Based Outdoor Pursuits Education


    Water-based outdoor instruction in canoeing, kayaking, rafting, and rescue techniques; includes institutional teaching techniques used by different agencies and adaptations for people with disabilities.  3 Lecture, 2 Lab.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: 254 or permission of instructor.

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PRM 427 - Wilderness Education


    An expedition style course, leader decision-making is taught through backpacking, mountaineering and canoeing. National certification is possible through the Wilderness Education Association. Eight or sixteen day expedition.

    Credits: (3-6)
  
  • PRM 430 - Entrepreneurship and Commercial Recreation


    Analysis of types of commercial and private recreation enterprises, probable trends and directions, requirements and procedures for planning and organizing commercial recreation services.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 433 - Outdoor Recreation


    An overview of the professional aspects of outdoor recreation, including classification systems, policies of management agencies, and the perspectives of individuals, non-profit and commercial groups.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 434 - High Adventure Travel and Outfitting


    Practical experience in creation, planning, logistics, execution, and evaluation of adventure travel. Overview of history, development, organization, impacts and trends. 2 Lecture, 2 Lab.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 435 - Park and Recreation Sites, Facilities, and Programs


    Planned tour to study specific types of parks and recreation sites, facilities, and/or programs related to current issues and practices. 1 Lecture or 2 Lab per credit hour.

    Credits: (1-6, R6)
  
  • PRM 440 - Travel and Tourism


    Exploration of recreation-based tourism; national and international; demographics, economic, cultural, and environmental impacts; trends and research.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 461 - Management and Administration of PRM Services


    Management, organization, and supervision in recreation and leisure service administration. Includes entre/intrapreneurship, planning processes, marketing, fiscal strategies, human services, evaluation, and research.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: 250 or permission of instructor.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 480 - Independent Study


    Independent Study

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: Permission of program coordinator.

    Credits: (3, R6)
  
  • PRM 483 - Capstone Internship in Parks and Recreation Management


    Placement in a cooperating agency to relate classroom learning to practice. S/U grading. 9 hours per week per course

    Credits: (3, R6)
  
  • PRM 484 - Internship in Parks and Recreation Management


    Placement in a cooperating agency to relate classroom learning to practice. S/U grading. 9 hours per week per course

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 485 - Internship in Parks and Recreation Management


    Placement in a cooperating agency to relate classroom learning to practice. S/U grading. 9 hours per week per course

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PRM 486 - Field Experience


    Field experience in cooperation with existing programs such as North Carolina Outward Bound School and Nantahala Outdoor Center. 1-12 Lab.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: Permission of instructor.

    Credits: (1-12)
  
  • PRM 493 - Topics in Parks and Recreation Management


    1 Lecture, 2 Lab.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: Permission of program coordinator.

    Credits: (1-3, R6)
  
  • PRM 495 - Senior Seminar in Parks and Recreation Management


    Current trends and issues; individual research topics; employment decision making; graduate school advisement; presentation of internship experience.

    Credits: (1)
  
  • PRM 580 - Independent Study


    Independent Study

    Credits: (1-3, R6)
  
  • PRM 593 - Topics in Parks and Recreation Management


    Topics in Parks and Recreation Management

    Credits: (1-3, R6)

Philosophy and Religion

  
  • PAR 101 - Western Philosophical Traditions


    Introduces students to thinkers foundational to liberal arts education who pursue the examined life, inquiring into human existence, knowledge and moral goodness. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 102 - Western Moral Traditions


    The study of historical theories of virtue, duty and the common good, along with moral education; and contemporary moral dilemmas (e.g., abortion, animal rights, genetic engineering). (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 145 - Eastern Religious Traditions


    Historical, political, and theological contexts in which the major religious traditions of the East (Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Taoism) developed, with attention to distinctive ethical principles. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 146 - Western Religious Traditions


    Historical, political, and theological contexts in which the major religious traditions of the West (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) developed with attention to noted ethical principles. (P3)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 190 - Freedom, Culture, and Utopia


    Study of classic utopian visions of ideal societies, along with criticisms arising from the implications for human freedom in such communities. 3 Seminar.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 201 - Philosophy of Sex and Love


    An examination of key conceptual and ethical questions concerning love and sex. Is love really essential to a good life?  What defines sexual perversion?  (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 230 - Legal, Scientific, & Critical Reasoning


    Argument analysis; validity, strength, soundness of deductive and inductive arguments; logical fallacies; practical uses of critical reasoning in legal, scientific, and ethical case studies. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 242 - What is Religion?


    A reflection upon the methodologies (historical, socio-psychological) used in the modern scholarly study of religion, and theories about the origins and nature of religion. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 250 - Origins of Early Christian Traditions


    Study of the historical events, processes, and key persons involved in the emergence of the early Christian church, stressing philosophical-theological disputes forming early Christianity. (P3)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 251 - Understanding Islamic Traditions


    The religious history of Islam, the beliefs and practices of Muslims, Islamic mysticism, the vitality of Islam, contemporary tensions and interpretations. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 260 - Women and Religion


    Study of women’s narratives and visions—feminist theologians, women mystics, female writers—as they reflect on spiritual life, marginalization, moral imagination, and community. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 295 - Self, Society, & the Good Life


    An intensive seminar teaching the skills of research and writing in the humanities, while studying theories and problems of the good life.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 304 - Justice, Power and Human Nature in the Ancient Greek Polis


    Ancient Greek thinkers that founded the Western liberal arts traditions, first raising central questions about human excellence, knowledge, justice, power, and historical meaning. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 306 - Science, Reason, and Autonomy in the Enlightenment


    Rejecting authority of tradition, rationalists, and empiricists, like Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon, inaugurate modern natural science by demanding new methods and principles of reasoning. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 307 - From Existentialism to Feminism


    Philosophical ideal of freedom as found in German Idealism and Romanticism, and its subsequent development and critique in Marxism, existentialism, postmodernism, and feminism. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 308 - From Pragmatism to Postmodernism


    The development of philosophy in England and America in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 309 - Philosophy In and Of Film


    Philosophical ideas in film; philosophical ideas about film and about the interpretation of film. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 310 - Philosophy of Art


    Consideration of ways of making reflective claims about art; emphasis on development of a personal viewpoint.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 311 - Philosophy of Science


    The structure of scientific explanation and discovery; the cognitive status of scientific theories; relations between the various natural and social sciences.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 312 - Philosophy of Religion


    Selected topics, such as proofs for the existence of God, immortality, the problem of evil, and the nature of religious belief, action, and experience. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 313 - Philosophy of Law


    The nature of law and legal reasoning; classical and modern theories of law; law, freedom of expression, equality, justice, and responsibility explored through case studies. (P1)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 315 - Philosophy of Mind


    A survey of the major philosophical theories of mind, and a study of some select moral and social scientific implications of those theories.  (P1)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 320 - Philosophical and Religious Classics


    An exploration of a seminal text or thinker in philosophical or religious thought. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 323 - Mysticism and the Modern Mind


    Study of the varied meanings of mysticism in thought, religion, and culture. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 330 - America’s Wilderness Ethics and Aesthetics


    Investigates how the American conception of “wilderness” has evolved and the consequences for wilderness preservation, ecological, and aesthetic appreciation of the wild. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 332 - Biomedical Ethics and Social Justice


    Ethical theories surrounding autonomy, beneficence, justice, applied to concepts of health, disease, and personhood; patient-provider relationship, life-death issues, health policy, genetic engineering, and biomedical research. (P1)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 333 - Environmental Ethics


    Environmental ethics concerns how humans ought to be related to nature. One question explored is “Do animal and ecosystems have value independent of human needs?” (P1)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 334 - Biotechnology and Society


    An exploration of the ethical and legal issues raised by recent innovations in biotechnology, emphasizing forensic genetics, human genetic engineering and agricultural biotechnology (GMOs). Cross listed with BIOL 334.  No credit for BIOL 334. (P1)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 353 - Religion in Film


    An examination of how religion and the fundamental problems of religious thought have been portrayed in classic and contemporary film. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 354 - Religion, Suffering, and the Moral Imagination


    Exploration of the perennial problems of human suffering and the quest for moral meaning as exemplified in imaginative creations in literature, philosophy, and religious thought. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 355 - Contemporary Religious Classics


    The spiritual insights of different 20th-century individuals and cultures, as portrayed in quests and experiences of life and death, love and suffering, or “the sacred”. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 365 - Medieval and Reformation Theology: Divine Foreknowledge, Free Will, and Justification by Faith


    Historical-critical study of key texts of medieval Catholic theologians, Anselm and Aquinas, later Scholasticism, Erasmus’ humanism, followed by examination of Reformation theologians, Luther and Calvin. (P3)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 366 - Religion and Science: God’s Law and the Laws of Nature


    Study of the conflicts between religious and scientific explanations of reality; examines pivotal cases-Galileo/Church dispute, Darwinism/creationism - for constructive models of religious-scientific dialogue. (P3)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 367 - Native American Religions


    An interdisciplinary study of indigenous religious beliefs in North America using anthropological, linguistic, as well as religious studies to study North American Religious traditions. (P6)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 380 - Independent Study


    Independent Study

    Credits: (1-3, R6)
  
  • PAR 392 - Global Justice, Liberty, and Human Rights


    Discussion of whether global justice can be achieved, in light of political realism, poverty, women’s inequities, war, markets, with concern for human liberty and rights.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ:  Closed to Freshmen 0-24 hours.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 393 - Topics in Philosophy and Religion


    Topics in Philosophy and Religion

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: Permission of instructor.

    Credits: (1-3, R6)
  
  • PAR 404 - Ancient Cynics, Stoics, and Skeptics


    Study of the late ancient schools - Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics - and their disputes about the proper ends (pleasure, virtue, doubt) to attain human flourishing. (P4)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PAR 495 - Seminar in Philosophy and Religion


    Seminar in Philosophy and Religion

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: 6 hours in philosophy, excluding 101 and 201, or permission of instructor.

    Credits: (3, R9)
  
  • PAR 593 - Topics in Philosophy and Religion


    Topics in Philosophy and Religion

    Credits: (1-3, R6)

Physical Therapy

  
  • PT 190 - Caring for the Aging Population: Challenges and Solutions


    Investigate issues related to aging and health, including longevity, age-related changes in healthy older people, living arrangements, caregiving, programs for healthier aging, nutrition, financial concerns.

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 400 - Complimentary and Integrative Therapies


    Broad overview of the history, development, terminology, research and implementation of complimentary and integrative therapies. (P1)

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 611 - Physical Therapy Science I


    Physical Therapy Science I

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 612 - Physical Therapy Science II


    Physical Therapy Science II

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 613 - Physical Therapy Science III


    Physical Therapy Science III

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PT 614 - Physical Therapy Science IV


    Physical Therapy Science IV

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PT 615 - Physical Therapy Science V


    Physical Therapy Science V

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PT 620 - Promoting Optimal Physical Function In Older Adults


    Examination of age-related physiologic changes and medical conditions with emphasis on implications for physical function in older adults and interventions for modifying the disablement process.

    Credits: 3
  
  • PT 621 - Human Anatomy I


    Human Anatomy I

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 622 - Human Anatomy II


    Human Anatomy II

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 623 - Functional Human Anatomy I


    Functional Human Anatomy I

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PT 624 - Functional Human Anatomy II


    Functional Human Anatomy II

    Credits: (4)
  
  • PT 631 - Human Physiology I


    Human Physiology I

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 632 - Human Physiology II


    Human Physiology II

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 641 - Scientific Inquiry I


    Scientific Inquiry I

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 642 - Scientific Inquiry II


    Scientific Inquiry II

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 643 - Scientific Inquiry III


    Scientific Inquiry III

    Credits: (1-3)
  
  • PT 644 - Scientific Inquiry IV


    Scientific Inquiry IV

    Credits: (1-3)
  
  • PT 645 - Pediatric Interventions


    Pediatric Interventions

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 651 - Clinical Logic I


    Clinical Logic I

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 652 - Clinical Logic II


    Clinical Logic II

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 653 - Clinical Logic III


    Clinical Logic III

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 655 - Management and Supervision


    Management and Supervision

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 660 - Neuroscience


    Neuroscience

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 661 - Motor Behavior


    Examination of motor development, motor control, and motor learning in therapeutic settings; emphasis is on intervention principles for clients across the lifespan with neuromuscular dysfunction.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    2 Lab.

    Credits: 1
  
  • PT 665 - Physical Care and Management of Students with Severe/Profound Disabilities


    Physical Care and Management of Students with Severe/Profound Disabilities

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 670 - Advanced Manual Therapy Techniques


    Advanced Manual Therapy Techniques

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 680 - Directed Independent Study


    Directed Independent Study

    Credits: (1-3, R9)
  
  • PT 683 - Experiential Professional Activities I


    Experiential Professional Activities I

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 684 - Experiential Professional Activities II


    Experiential Professional Activities II

    Credits: (2)
  
  • PT 693 - Topics in Physical Therapy


    Topics in Physical Therapy

    Credits: (1-3, R9)
  
  • PT 720 - Program Assessment


    Program Assessment

    Credits: (1)
  
  • PT 783 - Experiential Professional Activities III


    Experiential Professional Activities III

    Credits: (3)
  
  • PT 784 - Experiential Professional Activities IV


    Experiential Professional Activities IV

    Credits: (10)
  
  • PT 879 - Continuing Research—Non-Thesis Option


    Continuing Research—Non-Thesis Option

    See Policy on Completion of Thesis and Dissertation found in the Admissions and Degree Requirement Section of the Graduate Catalog. S/U grading.  These hours will not count toward fulfilling degree

    requirements.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    PREQ: Must NOT be enrolled in a thesis program.

    Credits: 1-3, R3


Physics

  
  • PHYS 105 - Contemporary Physics


    A lecture-laboratory integrated course covering basic theories and techniques used in physics. Topics include wave motion, matter, heat, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics. 3 Lecture/Lab. (C5)

    Credits: (3)
 

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