Courses


Course Descriptions

ANTH 1102 ARTS 1100 BIOL 1011K BIOL 1012K CHEM 1211K CHEM 1212K COMM 1100 CSCI 1301K DATA 1501 ECON 2105 ECON 2106 ENGL 1101 ENGL 1102 ENGL 2111 ENGL 2112 ENGL 2131 ENGL 2132 ENVS 2202 GEOL 1121K HIST 1111 HIST 1112 HIST 2111 HIST 2112 MATH 1001 MATH 1101 MATH 1111 MATH 1113 MATH 1401 MATH 1501 MUSC 1100 PHIL 2010 PHYS 2211K PHYS 2212K POLS 1101 PSYC 1101 SOCI 1101 SPAN 2001 SPAN 2002 THEA 1100

Introduction to Anthropology - ANTH 1102

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

ANTH 1102 is an examination and analysis of what it means to be human, biologically and culturally. This comparative study of humankind draws materials from the widest possible range of peoples, cultures, and time periods to determine and explain similarities and differences among peoples of the world. This course brings the perspectives of the major sub-fields of anthropology to the study of humanity: cultural anthropology, archeology, anthropological linguistics, and biological anthropology.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Art Appreciation - ARTS 1100

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

ARTS 1100 is a 3 semester-credit-hour course focused on fostering an awareness, understanding, and appreciation for the visual arts. Through exposure to cross-cultural art images throughout history, students will build a global artistic vocabulary that allows for the constructive analysis of art objects. Students will also gain an understanding of the influence of art on other important aspects of culture including politics, history, religion, and science

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introductory Biology and LAB - BIOL 1011K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

An introduction to fundamental unifying principles in biology. Topics covered in the course include: chemistry of life, cell structure and membranes, cellular functions (metabolism, respiration, photosynthesis, communication, and reproduction), genetics (inheritance patterns, DNA structure and function, gene expression, and biotechnology), and evolution. This course involves both lecture and lab components.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

Introductory Biology II and LAB - BIOL 1012K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course covers the evolution and diversity of organisms, including microbes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. Additional topics include body systems, the immune system, reproduction and development, and ecology. For non-biology majors only.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

Principles of Chemistry I and LAB - CHEM 1211K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

The first course in a two-semester sequence covering the fundamental principles and applications of chemistry designed for science majors. Topics to be covered include composition of matter, stoichiometry, periodic relations, and nomenclature.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

Principles of Chemistry II and LAB - CHEM 1212K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

The continuation of a two-semester sequence covering the fundamental principles and applications of chemistry designed for science majors. Topics to be covered include intermolecular forces, properties of solutions, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, chemical thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. Laboratory exercises supplement the lecture material.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

Human Communication - COMM 1100

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A broad approach to oral communication skills including intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group, and public speaking.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Computer Science I - CSCI 1301K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

The course includes an overview of computers and programming; problem solving and algorithm development; simple data types; arithmetic and logic operators; selection structures; repetition structures; text files; arrays (one-and-two-dimensional); procedural abstraction and software design; modular programming (including subprograms or the equivalent).

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introduction to Data Science - DATA 1501

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course is intended to provide an introduction into the field of Data Science. Students will develop skills in appropriate technology and basic statistical methods by completing hands-on projects focused on real-world data and addresses the social consequences of data analysis and application.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Principles of Macroeconomics - ECON 2105

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

ECON 2105 is the study of how the economy, as a whole, functions. The course is intended to introduce students to concepts that will enable them to understand and analyze economic aggregates and evaluate economic policies.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Principles of Microeconomics - ECON 2106

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This principles of economics course is intended to introduce students to concepts that will enable them to understand and analyze structure and performance of the market economy.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

English Composition I - ENGL 1101

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation. The course includes an introductory use of a variety of research skills.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

English Composition II - ENGL 1102

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the level of proficiency required by English Composition I. English Composition II emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

World Literature I - ENGL 2111

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A survey of important works of world literature from ancient times through the mid-seventeenth century.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

World Literature II - ENGL 2112

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A survey of important works of world literature from the mid-seventeenth century to the present.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

American Literature I - ENGL 2131

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course surveys American Literature from the Pre-Colonial Period through the mid-nineteenth century. It begins with the Age of European Exploration and interaction with Native American cultures and continues through the 18th century Enlightenment, the American Renaissance, and the Romantic movement, ending with the beginning of American Realism. The literature is studied within the context of history and culture and with an emphasis on literary periods. Students will utilize various critical approaches and reading strategies as they examine important authors and themes of these periods.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

American Literature II - ENGL 2132

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A chronological study of American literature from the Civil War to the present, this course presents a broad overview of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Students will utilize various critical approaches and reading strategies as they examine important authors and themes of this period. The course will pay attention to literary movements, regional writing, native and immigrant cultures, and multiple perspectives.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Environmental Science - ENVS 2202

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

Environmental Science, the study of interactions between humans and the environment, is an interdisciplinary science course that integrates principles from biology, chemistry, ecology, geology, and non-science disciplines. Issues of local, regional, and global concern will be used to help students explain scientific concepts and analyze practical solutions to complex environmental problems. Emphasis is placed on the study of ecosystems, human population growth, energy, pollution, and other environmental issues as well as important environmental regulations.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introductory Geosciences I and LAB - GEOL 1121K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This is a 4 semester-credit-hour course, equivalent to an on-campus geology lecture course combined with a geology laboratory course. This course covers Earth materials and processes.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

World History I - HIST 1111

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A survey of world history to early modern times.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

World History II - HIST 1112

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A survey of world history from 1500 to modern times.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

United States History I - HIST 2111

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

History 2111 is the history of the United States from the Age of Discovery through the Civil War. The course focuses on the geographical, intellectual, political, economic and cultural development of the American people and places U.S. events in the context of world politics.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

United States History II - HIST 2112

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

History 2112 explores the major themes and issues in American history from the end of the Civil War to the present. Emphasizes the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of United States history; causal relationships and patterns of change and continuity over time; and the significance of ethnicity, gender, race, and class in historical events.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Quantitative Reasoning - MATH 1001

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course emphasizes quantitative reasoning skills needed for informed citizens to understand the world around them. Topics include logic, basic probability, data analysis and modeling from data.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introduction to Mathematical Modeling - MATH 1101

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course is an introduction to mathematical modeling using graphical, numerical, symbolic, and verbal techniques to describe and explore real-world data and phenomena. Emphasis is on the use of elementary functions to investigate and analyze applied problems and questions, supported by the use of appropriate technology, and on effective communication of quantitative concepts and results.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

College Algebra - MATH 1111

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course provides an in-depth study of the properties of algebraic, exponential and logarithmic functions as needed for calculus. Emphasis is on using algebraic and graphical techniques for solving problems involving linear, quadratic, piece-wise defined, rational, polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Precalculus - MATH 1113

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course is an intensive study of the basic functions needed for the study of calculus. Topics include algebraic, functional, and graphical techniques for solving problems with algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions and their inverses.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Elementary Statistics - MATH 1401

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A course in basic statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, distributions, hypothesis testing, inferences, correlation, and regression.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Calculus I - MATH 1501

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course includes material on functions, limits, continuity, the derivative, anti-differentiation, the definite integral, and techniques of integration.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Music Appreciation - MUSC 1100

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

An introduction to music history, music literature, and critical listening skills.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introduction to Philosophy - PHIL 2010

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

Introduction to the central issues, questions, and theories of Western Philosophy. Topics covered include logic & critical thinking; religion; knowledge & skepticism; philosophy of mind; freedom and determinism; and ethics.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Principles of Physics I and LAB - PHYS 2211K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

Principles of Physics I and Laboratory is a 4 semester credit hour introductory course which will include material such as mechanics, thermodynamics and waves. Elementary differential calculus will be used.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

Principles of Physics II and LAB - PHYS 2212K

Fall 2024

4 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

An introductory course that will include material from electromagnetism, optics, and modern physics. Elementary differential and integral calculus will be used. This course has a laboratory component that requires a lab kit.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Important Lab Information

This course requires lab materials and resources. Please access your course in GoView during the first week of class for information about lab materials and/or to complete the necessary order forms.

American Government - POLS 1101

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A study of government and politics, including the philosophical and constitutional foundations, governing institutions, political behavior and major public policy issues. This course satisfies the State legislative requirement concerning the United States Constitution and the Georgia Constitution.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introduction to General Psychology - PSYC 1101

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A broad survey of the major topics in psychology including, but not limited to, research methodology, biological and social factors influencing behavior, development, learning, memory, and personality.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Introduction to Sociology - SOCI 1101

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A survey of the discipline of sociology. Topics will include sociological theory, methods and selected substantive area.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Intermediate Spanish I - SPAN 2001

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A rapid review of grammar with continued use of listening, speaking, and reading and writing skills in Spanish, all with a cultural emphasis.

Learning Objectives

Intermediate Spanish II - SPAN 2002

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

This course focuses on listening, speaking, and reading and writing skills in Spanish in an introduction to literature and within a cultural context.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students:

Theatre Appreciation - THEA 1100

Fall 2024

3 Credit HoursPrerequisites Free Textbook (OER)
Description

A study of theatre as a collaborative art form, from script to performance. Includes historical background, the roles of various persons involved both on and off stage, and the importance of both the performance space and the audience.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

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