24 coloradomesa.edu/academics Catalog 2013 -2014 2013-2014 Academic Calendar Summer Semester 2013 May 20...... First day of classes for First (4-week) Session May 27...... Memorial Day observance – NO CLASSES June 13...... Final exams and last day of May session June 17...... First day of classes for Second (4-week) and 7-week Sessions July 4 ...... Independence Day Holiday – NO CLASSES July 11 ...... Final exams and last day of June (4-week) Session July 15 ...... First day of classes for Third (3-week) Session August 1...... Final examinations for Third (3-week) and 7-week Sessions August 1...... Summer Sessions end

Fall Semester 2013 August 5...... Residency petitions due to Tuition Classification Officer (Admissions Office) August 19...... First day of classes September 3...... Last day to add or drop a full semester class September 3...... Fall census – date after which credit hours are counted in COF attempted hours September 9...... Late Start session begins September 15...... Deadline for filing Intent to Graduate Form with Registrar’s Office for spring and summer graduates October 14-15...... Fall Break – NO CLASSES October 16...... Last day to withdraw from full semester classes with a grade of “W” October 16...... Second module classes begins October 28...... Priority registration for spring 2014 begins November 27-29...... Thanksgiving Holiday – NO CLASSES December 9-12...... Final examinations December 12...... Fall semester ends December 13...... Commencement

Spring Semester 2014 (including January Term) January 2...... Residency petitions due to Tuition Classification Officer (Admissions Office) January 2-17...... January Term January 20...... Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – NO CLASSES January 21...... First day of classes February 5...... Last day to add or drop a full semester class February 5...... Spring census – date after which credit hours are counted in COF attempted hours February 10...... Late Start session begins February 15...... Deadline for filing Intent to Graduate Form with Registrar’s Office for fall graduates March 17...... Last day to withdraw from full semester classes with a grade of “W” March 17...... Second module classes begin March 24-28...... Spring Break – NO CLASSES March 31...... Priority registration for summer and fall 2014 begins May 12-15...... Final examinations May 15...... Spring semester ends TBA...... Commencement Colorado Mesa University 2013-2014 Catalog

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HEOA (Higher Education Opportunity Act) and Gainful Employment Institution Disclosure Information

In compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, information about Colorado Mesa University is available on the University’s website (http://www.coloradomesa.edu/ir/HEOADisclosures.html). Information disclosed includes program information, physical plant facilities, faculty information, financial aid and textbook information, as well as student- right-to-know information.

In compliance with revisions to the Student Assistance General Provisions regulations-to improve disclosure of relevant information and to establish minimal measures for determining whether certain postsecondary educational programs lead to gainful employment in recognized occupations- information about gainful employment is also available on the University’s website at http://www.coloradomesa.edu/gainfulemployment/index.html

Colorado Mesa University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association. 3

General Policy Statement

Colorado Mesa University is a Colorado Mesa University is committed comprehensive coeducational institution to providing admission or access to, operated under the governance of the or treatment or employment in, its Board of Trustees of Colorado Mesa educational endeavors, consonant with University. The programs, policies, applicable laws and without regard to statements, and procedures contained race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, in this catalog are subject to change age, national origin, veteran status, by the University without prior notice. marital status or sexual orientation. Colorado Mesa University reserves the right to, at any time, withdraw courses Inquiries may be made to the or modify the rules, calendar, curriculum, Affirmative Action Officer, Human graduation procedures, and any other Resources Office, Lowell Heiny Hall, requirements affecting students. While Room 237. the information contained in this Colorado Mesa University is a Drug-Free catalog is current and correct insofar as Workplace. All employees and students possible at the time of printing, students of the University agree to abide by the are advised to check with appropriate requirements in the Federal Drug-Free University officials and current program Workplace Act and the policies stated in sheets for up-to-date information. the brochure entitled Drug-Free Schools, This catalog is intended for the guidance Campuses and Workplaces Drug Use and of students and faculty but does not Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program. All constitute a guarantee that all courses employees and students are provided listed will actually be offered during any copies. particular academic year. Colorado Mesa As required by the Campus Security University reserves the right to withdraw Act, Colorado Mesa University publishes or add courses prior to the beginning campus safety policies and statistics of any semester or summer term. In annually. Copies of the annual report some programs, certain courses may are available at coloradomesa.edu/ be offered on an alternate-year basis or security/index.html. as determined by apparent demand. All program offerings are contingent upon adequate appropriations by the Colorado General Assembly.

FERPA Policy Statement

The Family Educational Rights and FERPA covers enrolled and former Privacy Act (FERPA) provides students students, including those who are who are enrolled in an institution of deceased. Students who are not postsecondary education the right accepted to Colorado Mesa University, to inspect, review, and challenge or if accepted, do not attend, have no their educational records. Colorado rights under FERPA. In addition, the Mesa University has the responsibility University will not release personally of maintaining and protecting the identifiable records of students to any confidentiality of students’ official individual, agency or organization educational records. Colorado Mesa without the prior written consent of the University also supervises the access to student, except as provided by FERPA. and/or release of educational records of For further information related to FERPA, its students. see the Registration section of this catalog. 4

How to Use This Catalog

This catalog is designed to assist all types of students—those considering college for the first time, those thinking of transferring from a community college or four-year institution, and those already attending Colorado Mesa University—in choosing the program of study that best fits their aspirations and goals. In this catalog you’ll find admissions guidelines, financial aid information, and academic requirements so that you can make an educated decision about your future. In addition, the catalog describes aspects of student life at CMU and opportunities you’ll find for personal growth outside the classroom.

If you’re thinking about applying UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION INFORMATION 15 to Colorado Mesa University, follow Undergraduate Admission Information these steps: Contact: Admissions Office,ColoradoMesaUniversity,1100NorthAvenue,GrandJunction,CO81501-3122 Calltollfree800.982.6372or970.248.1875 Step 1: See page 15 for information on admission, registration, tuition, expenses, and financial aid. Step 2: Review the matrix beginning on page 11 to find programs of study that fall within your area of interest. 54 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2011-2012 CATALOG Step 3: See the Programs of Study section, Programs of Study Undergraduate Highschoolstudentsmayapplyasearly Home-schooledstudentsshould asthecompletionoftheirjunioryear. provideatranscriptevaluationform Admission Acceptance of registration by Colorado Mesa University and admission to any education program at the University does not constitute a beginning on page 56, for each program (availableintheAdmissionsOffice)or contract or warranty that the University will continue to offer the program in which a student is enrolled. The University expressly reserves Procedures for 2.Submittheappropriatesupporting anoutlineofallcoursestakenatthe the right to change, phase out or discontinue any program. The listing of courses contained in any University bulletin, catalog or schedule is Degree-Seeking documentation,asoutlinedinthe highschoollevel.Studentsshould by way of announcement only and shall not be regarded as an offer of contract. The University expressly reserves the right to: tableonthefollowingpage,directly submittranscriptsofanycoursestaken Students 1. add or delete programs and/or courses from its offerings, that interests you. For detailed degree to:ColoradoMesaUniversity, atatraditionalhighschoolandmay 2. change times or locations of courses or programs, How to Apply AdmissionsOffice,1100North alsosubmitaportfoliotodescribetheir 3. change academic calendars without notice, Tobeconsideredforadmission, Avenue,GrandJunctionCO81501- highschooleducation. 4. cancel any course for insufficient registrations, or requirements visit undergraduateapplicantsshould: 3122.Lettersofrecommendation 5. revise or change rules, charges, fees, schedules, courses, requirements for degrees, and other policies or regulations affecting students, andapersonalessayareoptional TransferstudentstoColoradoMesa including, but not limited to, evaluation standards, whenever the same is in the best interests of the University. 1.SubmittheApplicationfor andshouldbesubmittedtothe UniversityshouldcontacttheCenterfor NOTE: Date in parentheses following faculty member’s name indicates the year of a tenure-track appointment to the Colorado Mesa UndergraduateAdmissionalongwith AdmissionsOffice. TransferServices,withintheAdmissions University faculty or a faculty appointment to Western Colorado Community College. Only full time faculty are listed; prior temporary coloradomesa.edu/academics. a$30non-refundableapplication Office,forhelpwiththeadmissions or part-time service is not indicated. Faculty members with a temporary appointment do not have a year listed. processingfee. StudentswhodonotsubmitACTor andevaluationprocesses.Transfer SATtestscoreswillbeconsideredfor studentsmaybeadmittedintomost Prospectivestudentsarehighly admissionintothetwo-yeardivision baccalaureatedegreeprogramsif encouragedtosubmitapplications ofColoradoMesaUniversity,Western theyareingoodstandingatanother Step 4: Look up descriptions for some of electronicallyviatheColoradoMesa ColoradoCommunityCollege.Ifthe regionallyaccreditedcollegeor Universitywebsiteatcoloradomesa. ACTorSATismorethanthreeyears universityandhaveatotalminimum edu/apply.Uponreceiptofa old,ornoACTorSATissubmitted,the cumulativegradepointaverage(GPA)of the courses listed in the program. Courses completedadmissionsapplicationand studentwillberequiredtocomplete 2.3for13ormoresemestercredithours. supportingdocumentation,applicants theACCUPLACERassessmentformath Incalculatingthecumulativeadmission willbenotifiedoftheiradmissions andEnglishplacement.ACCUPLACER gradepointaverage,ColoradoMesa statusbyletter. isadministeredbytheuniversity’s UniversitywillcomputeatransferGPA are listed alphanumerically by course prefix TestingCenter.Forquestions basedonpriorcollegetranscript(s).If regardingACCUPLACER,pleasecall thestudenthasattendedmorethan beginning on page 112. Courses that theTestingCenter,970.248.1260. fulfill the CMU general education degree requirements are listed on page 51. ACCOUNTING and regional CPA firms. Most graduates will have job offers months before they graduate. PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Science The accounting minor offers students majoring in other areas Accounting – Public Accounting the opportunity to enhance their degrees with basic accounting knowledge. Since all businesses rely heavily on accounting functions, ACADEMIC & STUDENT SERVICES, OFFICES & ACTIVITIES Minor 31 Step 5: Finally, once you’ve reviewed Accounting graduates with a minor have a competitive advantage, particularly in Bachelor of Science + Master of Business Administration (3 + 2) the area of decision making. Accounting is the language of business and regardless of major, the more accounting you have the better PROGRAM DESCRIPTION prepared you will be for a management position. This is a vigorous the programs offered, see page 32 to Academic & Student Services, Offices, & ActivitiesAccounting is the one degree with 360 degrees of possibilities. Every minor that will stand out on a résumé. business needs accounting expertise, whether it’s a Wall Street law firm, a professional sports team, a movie production company or The accounting program also offers an option of a five year (3+2) a rock band. With the proper accounting education employment program which allows students to graduate with a Bachelor of learn about student academic support, Contact: Office of Academic Affairs, 970.248.1881 Science in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration. This options are endless. Office of Student Services, 970.248.1366 combination prepares students to earn the hours necessary to sit for The public accounting degree provides students with basic business the CPA exam. Through careful planning and coordination, students activities and services at Colorado skills as well as the accounting knowledge needed to pass the can complete their four-year degree and begin their graduate degree, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Graduates of this program finishing both simultaneously. have a very high CPA exam pass rate and are heavily recruited by local For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Mesa University. faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Learn more about the programs of study listed here, and find program sheets detailing exact and complete requirements for majors and concentrations, online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. If you’re already a student at Colorado Mesa University, you can use this catalog for the following: • Choose a major (follow Steps 1, 2, and

3 above.) Once you’ve declared a major Admissions Office Undeclared students are assigned The Advising & Career Center provides 1100 North Avenue to the Advising & Career Center and the following services, free of charge, to 800.982.6372 or 970.248.1875 must meet with an advisor prior to students and alumni*: The Admissions Office serves as the registration. Academic advisors guide contact the appropriate department initial point of contact for prospective students in scheduling classes that • Academic Advising students and their families. Among will count towards general education • New incoming freshmen the staff’s responsibilities are the requirements and in career exploration. • Non-degree seeking students to meet with your faculty advisor. If recruitment of students and the Students who have decided on a major • Undeclared returning students processing of admissions applications will be directed to the appropriate • Students considering changing and petitions for changes to residency academic department. A department’s their major classification for tuition purposes. administrative assistant can officially • Career Counseling undeclared, contact the Advising and Activities of the University’s student declare/change the student’s major/ • Career Assessments ambassadors are also coordinated minor, provide a program sheet, and • Career Fairs through this office. assign the student to a faculty advisor. • Cover Letter & Resume Development Career Center to meet with a staff • Employment Preparedness Workshops Advising & Career Center Program sheets outline the • Internship Information Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 127 requirements of the degree or • Major and Minor Selection 970.248.1177 certificate program being pursued. • Mock Interviews advisor and discuss options. Advising is available from two sources: Students should work closely with • MAVjobs (job database) the Advising & Career Center staff their faculty advisors throughout • Referrals for Personal Counseling and the faculty. The Advising & Career their program. The purpose of an Center assists students with undeclared advisor is to assist in the process of *Some restrictions may apply. majors; students who have declared degree completion. It is the student’s • Keep track of your academic progress majors should meet regularly with a responsibility to maintain his/her Information about career fairs is faculty advisor. In addition, the Center program sheet and to keep it up-to- posted to the Advising & Career Center assists employers in implementing date as classes are completed. Advisors website. The Center actively invites recruitment strategies and supports are not responsible for failure to meet selected companies to visit the campus (review the requirements for your Colorado Mesa University faculty with degree requirements. to conduct on-campus recruiting. program of study.) advising and career resources. • Review courses, both required and elective (courses are listed alphanumerically by course prefix, To learn more about career opportunities and programs of study available at page 112.) beginning on Colorado Mesa University, you also may want to view the Guide to Programs • Review degree requirements and of Study booklet, program sheets that detail degree requirements and provide general education courses beginning suggested course sequencing, and the Two-Year Course Planning Calendar/Matrix. on page 47. All are available online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. 5 Table of Contents 2013-2014 Academic Calendar...... Inside Front Cover General Information...... 7 An Overview of Colorado Mesa University, Vision and Values, Accreditation, Montrose Campus, Tilman M. Bishop Campus, Diversity Statement, Student Bill of Rights, Degrees and Programs of Study Undergraduate Admission Information...... 15 Admission Procedures, Admission Decisions, Admission to Specific Undergraduate Programs, Acceptance of Credits from Other Institutions, International Students, Non-Degree Seeking Students, Immunization Policy, Selective Service, Veterans, Concurrently Enrolled High School Students, Colorado Public Higher Education Admission Requirements, Admission Assessment and Counseling Tests, Acceleration of College Study, New Student Orientation Financial Aid...... 23 Overview, Tuition Payment Plan, Scholarships, Colorado Student Aid Programs, CMU Foundation Programs, Federal Student Aid Programs, General Guidelines, Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE), Mountains and Plains (M&P) Expenses at Colorado Mesa University ...... 26 Determination of Residency Status for Tuition Purposes, Petition Deadlines for Residency Status, Tuition and Fees, Other Fees and Expenses, Residence Life and Dining Academic and Student Services, Offices, and Activities...... 32 Registration Policies and Procedures...... 37 Overview, Student Liability for Tuition and Fees, Attendance, Add/Drops-Schedule Adjustment, Withdrawal Procedures, Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), No-Credit-Desired/Audit Courses, Golden Scholars General Undergraduate Academic Policies ...... 40 Student Load and Limitations, Classification Status, Grading System, Academic Standards, GPA Minimum, Calculation of GPA for Graduation, Academic Probation and Suspension , Grade Improvement, Academic Renewal, Non-Traditional Credit, Cooperative Education, Independent Study, Learning Progress Evaluation, Honor Lists, Honor Societies, Student Conduct Undergraduate Graduation Requirements...... 47 Requirements for Degrees, Philosophy and Goals of a Baccalaureate Education, Requirements for a Baccalaureate Degree, General Education Overview, Courses Approved for Colorado Mesa University General Education Baccalaureate Degree Requirements, Guaranteed Transfer Courses, Multiple Concentrations, Second Baccalaureate Degree, Requirements for a Minor Requirements for Teacher Licensure...... 54 Requirements for Associate Degree Programs ...... 54 Requirements for Technical Certificates ...... 55 Programs of Study ...... 56 Accounting...... 56 Addiction Studies...... 57 Administrative Office Technology...... 57 Agriculture Science...... 58 Archaeology...... 58 Art ...... 59 Athletic Training...... 60 Baking and Pastry ...... 60 Biology...... 61 Business ...... 61 Chemistry...... 64 Classical Studies...... 64 Computer Information Systems...... 65 Computer Science...... 66 Construction Management...... 67 Construction Technology...... 67 Criminal Justice...... 68 Culinary Arts...... 68 Education: Early Childhood ...... 69 Education: Teacher Licensure...... 70 Electric Lineworker...... 70 Emergency Medical Services...... 70 Energy Management/Landman...... 71 Engineering...... 71 English...... 71 Environmental Science and Technology...... 72 Exercise Science...... 72 Forensic Anthropology...... 73 Forensics...... 73 Geographic Information Science and Technology...... 73 Geosciences...... 74 6 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog Table of Contents Graphic Design...... 75 Health Information Technology Systems...... 75 History...... 75 Hospitality Management...... 76 Humanities...... 76 Insurance...... 76 International Studies...... 76 Kinesiology...... 77 Liberal Arts...... 77 Manufacturing Supervision...... 78 Manufacturing Technology...... 78 Mass Communication...... 79 Mathematics...... 80 Mechanical Engineering...... 81 Mechanical Engineering Technology...... 82 Medical Laboratory Technician...... 83 Medical Office Assistant...... 83 Music ...... 84 Nurse Aide...... 85 Nursing...... 85 Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) ...... 87 Philosophy...... 87 Physics...... 88 Political Science...... 88 Process Systems Technology...... 89 Psychology...... 89 Public Administration/Public Safety...... 90 Public Safety Diving...... 90 Radiologic Technology ...... 91 Real Estate Broker...... 91 Social Work...... 91 Social Science...... 92 Sociology...... 92 Spanish...... 92 Speech...... 93 Sport Management...... 93 Sustainability Practices...... 94 Sustainable Agriculture...... 94 Teacher Education...... see Education Technology Integration...... 94 Theatre...... 95 Transportation Services...... 96 Visual Communications...... 96 Watershed Science...... 97 Water Quality Management...... 97 Women’s and Gender Studies...... 97 Center for Teacher Education (Licensure)...... 98 Elementary Education, Secondary Education, K-12 Education Licensure University-wide Academic Offerings ...... 100 Academic Honors Program, Freshman Year Initiative Program, International Student Exchange Program (ISEP), Undergraduate Developmental Courses Graduate Programs...... 102 Admission Policies & Procedures, Degree Requirements, Graduation Checklist, Research Master of Business Administration...... 106 Master of Arts in Education...... 107 Master of Science in Nursing ...... 109 Doctor of Nursing Practice...... 110 Course Descriptions...... 112 Administration...... 221 Campuses and Facilities ...... 227 Glossary of Terms ...... 232 Alphabetical Subject Index ...... 235 Campus Directory...... Inside Back Cover Main Campus Map ...... Back Cover OVERVIEW OF COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY 7 Welcome to Colorado Mesa University

Overview of There is hereby established a university at Colorado Mesa University Grand Junction, to be known as Colorado The founding of Grand Junction Junior Mesa University, which shall be a general College in 1925, with 39 students baccalaureate and graduate institution enrolled in seven classes, marked the with selective admission standards. beginning of post-secondary education Colorado Mesa University shall offer on Colorado’s Western Slope. As Mesa liberal arts and sciences, professional, and Junior College, the number of students technical degree programs and a limited grew to 270 by fall 1937; headcount number of graduate programs. Colorado increased to 1,300 by 1963. Over that Mesa University shall also maintain a period, the range of community college community college role and mission, programs expanded, and an area including career and technical education vocational school was added in 1967. programs. Colorado Mesa University shall By 1974, the college had evolved into receive resident credit for two-year course a baccalaureate-granting institution, offerings in its commission-approved leading enrollment to triple in 16 years service area. Colorado Mesa University and reach 3,891 in fall 1979. In 1988, shall also serve as a regional education the College was renamed Mesa State provider. College and in 1994 the Colorado Institutional Vision and Values legislature authorized Mesa State It is the year 2020 and Colorado Mesa College to offer selected graduate University has continued to mature degrees in response to regional needs. into an institution of higher education With the addition of graduate programs, that successfully prepares students Mesa State College became the only from diverse backgrounds for lives of four-year institution in Colorado to career and service anywhere in the offer a full-range of undergraduate world. Over the next decade, Colorado programming that spans technical Mesa University will seek to be the first certificates, associate degrees (both choice institution for students, faculty, academic and vocational), and and staff. baccalaureate degrees to master’s To achieve this vision Colorado Mesa degrees. University will leverage: In 2003, Mesa State College was • An adaptable, flexible approach statutorily assigned the responsibility of to learning that allows students to meeting the educational needs for 14 choose from multiple and potentially Western Slope counties: Delta, Eagle, integrated pathways to achieve Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Mesa, Moffat, certification, associates, bachelors, and Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, graduate degrees. Routt, San Miguel and Summit. In 2005, Mesa State College formally • A highly qualified faculty that excels in created a two-year, open admission teaching and interacting with students. division: Western Colorado Community • A curriculum, often bridging liberal College. education and professional programs, that successfully prepares students The role and mission of the institution for the 21st century in the areas of was reenacted in 2010 by the Colorado personal and social responsibility, civic General Assembly (Colorado Revised engagement, ethics, and intercultural/ Statutes 23-53-101) and amended in global learning. 2011 when Mesa State College was renamed Colorado Mesa University. • Continued investment in facilities and After a 2012 amendment, the role & technology that expand, expedite, and mission is: enhance learning for every student. 8 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

• Community support from businesses, • a community and region that supports Montrose Campus industries, alumni, and residents of the College in multiple ways; Located at the Buell Higher Education the region. • state-of-the-art facilities and Campus in Montrose, the campus • A wide array of academic programs technologies that enhance the offers students the opportunity to that are improved on an on-going, learning environment; and complete an associate degree, or work toward their baccalaureate degree continuous basis for quality and • a diversity of students, faculty, staff by completing the general education relevance to Western Colorado’s needs in that promotes a balanced exchange component. A limited selection of the context of an ever-changing world. of ideas. upper-division coursework is offered • An administration that uses human via distance technology. The Montrose and natural resources wisely, Accreditation Campus offers coursework primarily embraces excellence, is committed to Colorado Mesa University is accredited by in the afternoons and evenings to shared governance, and is focused on The Higher Learning Commission and a meet the needs of both traditional the future. member of the North Central Association: higherlearningcommission.org or and working students. In addition to Colorado Mesa University in 2020 will 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500 the classrooms and office, the campus be respected as a learning community Chicago, IL 60604-1413; 800.621.7440; houses two computer labs and a that embraces diversity of students, 312.263.0456; [email protected] telecommunications classroom. faculty, staff, ideas, and degree levels, The campus office is open from 8 a.m. while maintaining a quality educational Various programs at Colorado Mesa to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; environment that focuses on serving University are accredited and/or phone 970.249.7009. All student its many constituents. As it assumes approved by appropriate state and services are available at the office an expanded leadership role, CMU will national agencies: (admission, assessment, financial, and expand its public engagement of the • Athletic Training: Athletic Training business). Academic advising services region’s stakeholders by serving as the Program: Commission on Accreditation are available by appointment. primary intellectual and cultural center of Athletic Training Education; and promoting the exchange of ideas • Music: National Association of Tilman M . Bishop Campus that are of regional, national, and Schools of Music; The Tilman M. Bishop Campus of international importance. Colorado Mesa University is the result • Nursing: Commission on Collegiate of a partnership of the University, Mesa Colorado Mesa University values: Nursing Education (baccalaureate). County Valley School District 51, and high quality education in a student- • Colorado Mesa University is also area businesses. The applied technology centered environment; approved by the Colorado State programs at the Bishop Campus serve • small class sizes and a high level of Board of Nursing to prepare nurses for the technical education needs of student/faculty interaction; licensure application. National League both university and area high school • a learning environment that develops for Nursing Accrediting Commision students, primarily those in District 51. and promotes the skills of inquiry, (associate; candidate at the PN level). Students at the Bishop Campus— reflection, critical thinking, problem- • Paramedic: Commission on the main site of Western Colorado solving, innovation, teamwork, and Accreditation of Allied Education Community College, Colorado Mesa communication in students; Programs; University’s two-year division­­—can earn • student choice in academic • Radiologic Technology: Joint Review two-year associate degrees or technical programming that prepares future Committee on Education in Radiologic certificates. High school students earn leaders to function as productive and Technology; elective credits and, in many of the responsible members of a global society; • Teacher Education: Approved programs, university credits. Among the • opportunities that engage students in by the Colorado Department of services available at the Bishop campus applied learning; Higher Education and the Colorado are college admission, class scheduling, • a faculty recognized for their professional Department of Education to prepare academic and interest assessments, expertise and quality of instruction; teachers for licensure application. resume preparation, job interviewing skills, and placement in internships • a staff committed to the highest quality • Transportation Services (at WCCC): National Automotive Technicians and jobs. For more information call of service to the College community; 970.255.2600 or toll free, 888.455.2617. • an attainable, accessible post- Education Foundation. secondary experience for students in The University is designated as balanced Diversity Statement and outside of Western Colorado that arts and sciences/professions, some Colorado Mesa University extends its emphasizes continuous improvement; graduate coexistence as part of the services to anyone regardless of age, race, color, national origin, religion, • a vibrant and varied campus setting Carnegie classification of higher education institutions. sex, disability, veteran status, or sexual that values diversity and diverse orientation. activities, and encourages involvement and interaction outside the classroom; Following is the statement of • a culture committed to integrity and philosophy on diversity which has academic and intellectual freedom; been adopted by the faculty at Colorado Mesa University: OVERVIEW OF COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY 9

“Colorado Mesa University is a community of science degree programs in no of scholars in the liberal arts tradition. more than sixty credit hours or their As faculty we believe that all people, baccalaureate programs in no more regardless of age, race, color, national than one hundred twenty credit origin, religion, sex, disability, veteran hours unless there are additional status, or sexual orientation, have degree requirements recognized by something worthwhile to contribute the commission; and that these contributions benefit 3. A student can sign a two-year or us all. Therefore, we intend that within four-year graduation agreement that our academic community all cultural formalizes a plan for the student to differences will be treated with equal obtain a degree in two or four years, respect and tolerance. We desire that unless there are additional degree our students have the opportunity to requirements recognized by the appreciate the diversity of our modern commission; world, and we encourage them to 4. Students have a right to clear and partake of the resources available within concise information concerning our community. As faculty we pledge which courses must be completed ourselves to provide as many divergent successfully to complete their degrees; cultural experiences for our students as the 5. Students have a right to know which resources of the college and the needs of courses are transferable among the our disciplines allow.” state public two-year and four-year “To further tolerance and appreciation institutions of higher education; of our society’s diversity, Colorado Mesa 6. Students, upon successful University requires that all graduates completion of core general fulfill General Education requirements. In education courses, should have doing so we honor the validity of a liberal those courses satisfy the core course education. We hope that the experience requirements of all Colorado public will help our students understand how to institutions of higher education; appreciate the true diversity of the world. Because diversity promotes multiple 7. Students have a right to know if opinions, techniques, viewpoints and courses from one or more public approaches, it is not the individual courses higher education institutions within the General Education program satisfy the students’ graduation which we believe will further the above- requirements; stated goals, but the whole experience of 8. A student’s credit for the completion the program itself.” of the core requirements and core courses shall not expire for ten years Colorado Mesa University expects all from the date of initial enrollment members of the campus community and shall be transferable. to uphold the highest standards of civil and ethical conduct and to promote a culture of respect and Degrees and inclusiveness. For more information on Programs of Study these expectations, go to http://www. coloradomesa.edu/trustees/documents/ Colorado Mesa University offers SafetyResolution.pdf. programs leading to awards in four levels - technical certificates, associate Student Bill of Rights degrees, baccalaureate degrees, and The Colorado General Assembly at the graduate level, the master’s and implemented the Student Bill of Rights doctoral degrees. The matrix at the end to assure that students enrolled in of this section provides an overview of public institutions of higher education the offerings at each level. have the following rights: General requirements for each degree 1. A quality general education and certificate program are listed in experience that develops the graduation requirements sections competencies in reading, writing, of this catalog and in program sheets mathematics, technology and critical on coloradomesa.edu/academics. thinking through an integrated arts While these general requirements are and science experience; as correct and current as possible at 2. Students should be able to complete the time of publication, some changes their associate of arts and associate may occur as programs are updated. Students seeking a specific degree 10 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

or certificate must obtain a program a baccalaureate degree. All A.A. and sheet from the appropriate academic A.S. degrees include the statewide department detailing specific and common core of general education current requirements for the award curriculum and, when completed being sought and are responsible for successfully, meet the lower-division meeting them. general education requirements of most baccalaureate degree programs. Graduate degrees offered by Colorado Mesa University are: Students planning careers in forestry, medical technology, or pharmacy are • Master of Arts (M.A.) in Education encouraged to complete either an • Master of Business Administration Associate of Arts or Associate of Science (M.B.A.) program in one of the science emphasis • Master of Science in Nursing (M.S.N.) areas at Colorado Mesa University, • Doctorate of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) followed by two additional years of study Baccalaureate degrees offered are: at another institution for the baccalaureate degree. • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) • Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) • Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) • Bachelor of Business degrees are offered in a variety of Administration (B.B.A.) technical and vocational programs. A.A.S. programs average two years in • Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) length. • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Technical certificates are normally • Bachelor of Science in Nursing chosen by students whose immediate (B.S.N.). plans are a career in a technical area. While These are programs of study that the length may vary, these programs generally consist of 120 or more credit are usually about one-year long and are hours and provide extensive preparation designed to train for specific skills required in a specific major. Concentrations for employment. are available within many of the baccalaureate degrees. Professional certificates are comprised of upper division (3xx-4xx) courses. For Engineering: Through a partnership a student to attempt a Professional with the University of Colorado Boulder, Certificate after the student has earned students can complete a Bachelor of a baccalaureate degree, the student Science in Mechanical Engineering from must be admitted to study as a post- the University of Colorado Boulder on baccalaureate student or as a graduate the Colorado Mesa University campus. student.

Pre-Health Science Preparation: Graduate certificates contain graduate Admission to the study of dentistry, level (5xx-7xx) courses. A student must medicine, optometry, physical therapy, be admitted as a graduate student to and veterinary medicine usually requires attempt a graduate certificate. the completion of a baccalaureate degree, often in biological sciences. Students planning to enter one of these Non-Credit health fields should declare a major in Continuing one of the sciences after consultation with a faculty advisor. Education Courses Associate degrees are awarded in Non-credit continuing education courses two broad areas: toward personal, civic, vocational, and • Associate of Arts or Associate of professional self-improvement are offered Science (A.A., A.S.) degrees are through the University’s Community available in a number of emphases Education Center. at Colorado Mesa University. Students enrolling in these degrees may be preparing for immediate employment upon graduation or they may expect the two-year degree to be the first phase toward Programs of study 11

LEVEL OF AwARD PROGRAMS OF STUDY Certificate Associate Baccalaureate Graduate Minor NOTE: Students should consult the Financial Aid Office for eligibility requirements of undergraduate and graduate certificates. Accounting Concentrations: General Accounting; B.S. 3+2 M Public Accounting Program: B.S. + M.B.A. See Business Admin Addiction Studies M Agriculture Science A.S. Administrative T.C. A.A.S. Office Technology Archaeology M Art Concentrations: Art History; Studio Art B.F.A. M K-12 Education Licensure B.F.A. (see Teacher Education below) Athletic Training B.S. Baking and Pastry T.C. A.A.S. Biological Sciences Biology B.S. M Secondary Education Licensure B.S. (see Teacher Education below) Business Administration Concentrations: Business Economics; B.B.A. M Emerging Markets; Energy Management/Landman; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Hospitality Management; Human Resource Management; Information Systems; Insurance; Management; Managerial Informatics; Marketing Business Administration B.A.S. M.B.A. 3+2 Programs: B.S., Construction Management + M.B.A.; B.S., Accounting + M.B.A.; B.B.A., Finance + M.B.A. Chemistry B.S. M Classical Studies M Computer Information Systems B.S., B.A.S. M Computer Science B.S. M Construction Management B.S. 3+2 Programs: B.S., Construction Management + M.B.A. Construction Technology Emphases: Craft; Supervision T.C. A.A.S. Criminal Justice Concentrations: Criminal Justice, Law A.A.S. B.A. M Enforcement Culinary Arts T.C. A.A.S. Dance M Decision Support Systems T.C. Early Childhood Education Emphases: Director; Teacher T.C. 12 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

LEVEL OF AwARD PROGRAMS OF STUDY Certificate Associate Baccalaureate Graduate Minor

Economics See Business M Admin Education Cognates: Educational Leadership; M.A., G.C. (see also Teacher English for Speakers of Other Education on page 12) Languages; Exceptional Learner; Initial Teacher Endorsement ; Teacher Leader; Electric Lineworker T.C. Emergency Medical Emphases: Basic T.C. A.A.S. Technician Emphasis: Paramedic T.C. A.A.S. The Paramedic programs are inactive for 2013-14 academic year. Energy Management/ P.C. See Business Landman Admin Engineering Mechanical Engineering delivered in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder; degree awarded by University of Colorado Boulder (also see Mechanical Engineering Technology below) English Concentrations: Literature; Writing B.A. M Secondary Education Licensure B.A. (see Teacher Education below) Entrepreneurship P.C. See Business M Admin Environmental Science B.S. M and Technology Exercise Science B.S. Forensic Anthropology M Forensics M Finance See Business 3+2 Admin Program: B.B.A., Finance + M.B.A. Geographic Information Science & Technology P.C. M Geosciences Concentrations: Geology; Environmental A.S. B.S. M Geology; Secondary Education; Education Licensure (see Teacher Education below) Graphic Design Concentrations: Animation and Motion B.F.A. M Graphics; Visual Design Health Information Technology Systems P.C. G.C. History History B.A. M Secondary Education Licensure B.A. (see Teacher Education below) Hospitality Management A.A.S. B.A.S., B.B.A. - see Business Admin International Studies M Insurance P.C. See Business Admin Kinesiology Concentrations: Adapted Physical B.A. Education; Fitness and Health Promotion K-12 Education Licensure B.A. (see Teacher Education below) Programs of study 13

LEVEL OF AwARD PROGRAMS OF STUDY Certificate Associate Baccalaureate Graduate Minor

Liberal Arts Emphases: Administrative Office A.A. Technology; Business Administration; Business Computer Information Systems; Early Childhood Education; Humanities; Social Science Liberal Arts Emphases: Biology; Computer Science; A.S. Geology; Mathematics; Physics Liberal Arts Non-Education B.A. Elementary Education Licensure: B.A. English; Mathematics; Social Science (see Teacher Education below) Managerial Informatics See Business M Admin Manufacturing Supervision T.C. Manufacturing Technology Emphases: Computer-aided Design T.C. A.A.S. Technology; Machining Technology; Welding Technology Mass Communication Media Strategies and Applications B.A. M Mathematics Concentrations: Mathematics; Statistics B.S. M Secondary Education Licensure B.S. (see Teacher Education below) Mechanical Engineering Technology A.A.S. B.S. Medical Laboratory Technician A.A.S. Medical Office Assistant T.C. A.A.S. Music Concentrations: Elective Studies in B.A. M Business, Liberal Arts; Performance K-12 Education Licensure B.A. (see Teacher Education below) Nurse Aide T.C. Nursing P.N. A.A.S./RN B.S.N. Nursing Cognates (MSN): Advanced Nursing M.S.N. Practice; Nursing Education Nursing Practice D.N.P. Peace Officer Standards & Training (P.O.S.T.) T.C. Personal Training P.C. M Philosophy M Physics B.S. M Political Science B.A. M Process Systems Technology A.A.S. Psychology Concentrations: Counseling B.A. M Psychology; Psychology Public Administration/ Public Safety B.A.S. Public Safety Diving T.C. Radiologic Technology A.A.S. B.A.S. Real Estate Broker T.C. Social Work M Sociology Concentrations: Sociology B.A. M 14 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

LEVEL OF AwARD PROGRAMS OF STUDY Certificate Associate Baccalaureate Graduate Minor

Spanish Concentrations: Applied Professional B.A. M Spanish; Literature & Language Secondary Education Licensure B.A. (see Teacher Education below) Speech M Sport Management A.S. B.S. M Supervision T.C. Sustainable Agriculture A.A.S. Sustainability Practices T.C. Teacher Education: Students must complete degree requirements in one of the following programs of study in addition to required coursework through the Center for Teacher Education for initial licensure: Elementary Education: Liberal Arts (B.A.) Concentrations: English, Mathematics, Social Science Secondary Education: Biology (B.S.); English (B.A.); History (B.A.); Mathematics (B.S.); Physical Sciences - Geology (B.S.); Spanish (B.A.) K-12 Education: Art (B.F.A.); Kinesiology (B.A.); Music (B.A.) Post-Baccalaureate Licensure: Elementary; Secondary: Requires education coursework in addition to leveling courses Technology Integration Network Technician; Network/ T.C. A.A.S. Telecommunication Technician; Telecommunication VoIP Technician Theatre Concentrations: Acting/Directing; B.A. M Dance; Design/Technology; Music Theatre Transportation Services Emphases: Automotive Technology; T.C. A.A.S. Diesel Technology Travel and Tourism M Visual Communications Animation Technology T.C. A.A.S. Water Quality Management A.A.S. Watershed Science M Women’s and Gender M Studies

P.C.=Professional Certificate; T.C.=Technical Certificate; G.C.=Graduate Certificate Learn more about programs of study available at Colorado Mesa University at coloradomesa.edu/academics. Undergraduate Admission Information 15

Undergraduate Admission Information

Contact: Admissions Office, Colorado Mesa University, 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501-3122 Call toll free 800.982.6372 or 970.248.1875

Undergraduate High school students may apply as early please call the Testing Center, Admission as the completion of their junior year. 970.248.1260. Procedures for 2. Submit the appropriate supporting Home-schooled students should Degree-Seeking documentation, as outlined in the provide a transcript evaluation form Students table on the following page, directly (available in the Admissions Office) or to: Colorado Mesa University, an outline of all courses taken at the How to Apply Admissions Office, 1100 North high school level. Students should To be considered for admission, Avenue, Grand Junction CO 81501- submit transcripts of any courses taken undergraduate applicants should: 3122. Letters of recommendation at a traditional high school and may and a personal essay are optional also submit a portfolio to describe their 1. Submit the Application for and should be submitted to the high school education. Undergraduate Admission along with Admissions Office. a $30 non-refundable application Transfer students to Colorado Mesa processing fee or fee waiver from Students who do not submit ACT or University should contact the Center for high school counselor. SAT test scores will be considered for Transfer Services, within the Admissions admission into the two-year division Office, for help with the admissions Prospective students are highly of Colorado Mesa University, Western and evaluation processes. Transfer encouraged to submit applications Colorado Community College. If the students may be admitted into most electronically via the Colorado Mesa ACT or SAT is more than three years baccalaureate degree programs if University website at coloradomesa. old, or no ACT or SAT is submitted, the they are in good standing at another edu/apply. Upon receipt of a student will be required to complete regionally accredited college or completed admissions application and the ACCUPLACER assessment for university and have a total minimum supporting documentation, applicants math, reading and English placement. cumulative grade point average (GPA) of will be notified of their admissions ACCUPLACER is administered by 2.4 for 13 or more semester credit hours. status by letter. the university’s Testing Center. For In calculating the cumulative admission questions regarding ACCUPLACER, grade point average, Colorado Mesa 16 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

Admission of First-time Freshmen and Transfer Students to Colorado Mesa University

Student Category Transfer Students First-time Freshman 12 or Fewer Credit Hours 13-29 Credit Hours 30+ Credit Hours Official High School Standardized High Official Standardized High Official Official Transfer Student Transcripts, Test Scores School College Test Scores School College College (7) (7) (7) GPA Degree including (ACT or SAT) Transcripts Transcripts (ACT or SAT) Transcripts Transcripts Transcripts (1) Intent GED Required; Required; sent Required; sent sent directly directly to directly to to university university by Required; university by Required; Required; by high Required; high school sent directly Required; high school sent directly sent directly school Four-Year sent directly counselor. to university sent directly counselor. to university to university counselor. Degree- to university High School from to university High School from from 2.40 High School Seeking by testing grads >= previously by testing grads >= previously previously grads >= organization (6) Spring attended organization (6) Spring attended attended Spring 2008 must institution(s) 2008 must institution(s) institution(s) 2008 must meet HEAR meet HEAR meet HEAR requirements requirements requirements Required; Required; Required; Required; Recommended; Required; sent sent directly Recommended; sent directly sent directly Two-Year sent directly sent directly directly to to university sent directly to to university to university Degree- to university to university university by from university by Not required from from 2.00 (4) Seeking by high by testing high school previously testing previously previously (AA, AS) school organization (3) counselor attended organization (3) attended attended counselor institution(s) institution(s) institution(s) Required; Required; Required; Required; Recommended; Required; sent sent directly Recommended; sent directly sent directly Two-Year sent directly sent directly directly to to university sent directly to to university to university Degree- to university No to university university by from university Not required from from Seeking by high minimum by testing high school previously by testing previously previously (AAS) school organization (3) counselor attended organization (3) attended attended counselor institution(s) institution(s) institution(s) Required; Required; Required; Required; Required; sent directly sent directly sent directly sent directly sent directly to university to university to university Certificate- to university No Not required to university from Not required Not required from from Seeking by high minimum by high school previously previously previously school counselor attended attended attended counselor institution(s) institution(s) institution(s) Non- Not No Degree- None (2) Not required (5) None (2) Not required Not required Not required Not required required minimum Seeking

(1) Preliminary transcript will be accepted until final transcript is submitted; also applies to home-schooled students. (2) Must become degree-seeking by no later than completion of 30 credit hours and complete high school diploma or GED. (3) May be required for admission to selected programs; will be required for placement in general education courses. (4) Students who left their previous institution(s) and were not in good academic standing must earn a minimum 2.00 GPA during their first semester. (5) Placement tests or prerequisites may be required. (6) 92 or higher index is required. (7) Include transcripts of college courses completed while still in high school. Note: In addition to requirements shown above, some academic programs have additional admission requirements. Admission to Colorado Mesa University does not guarantee admission to those programs. Undergraduate Admission Information 17

University will compute a transfer GPA into any program which has selective • SAT Math 670 or ACT MATH 30 based on prior college transcript(s). If admission standards). Some students They must also maintain a 2.00 for any the student has attended more than may be required to enroll in special college courses taken in high school. one prior institution, the GPA of each courses for correction of academic is combined for a total cumulative or other deficiencies before further Students who plan to transfer into the admission GPA. Students with 13-29 consideration is given. partnership program must complete transfer credit hours must meet HEAR a required sequence of courses with Applicants applying for enrollment in requirements as outlined in the HEAR a minimum 2.9 GPA (see Mechanical Western Colorado Community College, section of this catalog. Engineering in the programs of study Colorado Mesa University’s two-year section of this catalog). These criteria Transfer students who are on probation division, are automatically admitted may be revised. Students should or suspension from another college or through the community college’s open contact the Department of Physical university, or have a cumulative grade admission policy. Students may later and Environmental Sciences and visit point average of less than 2.3, will request transfer into a baccalaureate coloradomesa.edu/engineering for not be admitted into a baccalaureate degree program after successfully more details. degree program but may enroll in completing a minimum of 30 college Western Colorado Community College. level semester credit hours and a Transfer students who are on probation cumulative grade point average of 2.3 Acceptance or suspension from another college may or better or after earning an associate of Transfer be placed on probation at Colorado degree. Students with less than 30 Credits from Mesa University. college-level credit hours may also be subject to the Colorado Higher Other Institutions An evaluation of transfer courses is Education Admission Requirements It is the policy of Colorado Mesa made once the student’s application (HEAR). See page 18 for more details University to accept academic credits file is complete. Credit evaluations are regarding HEAR requirements. from: completed in the Registrar’s Office, with the assistance of academic Any transfer student admitted to 1. All public colleges and universities in department heads. Colorado Mesa University on a the state of Colorado, provided they probationary status must earn a are currently regionally accredited. Returning students (any student who minimum 2.00 GPA the first semester This applies regardless of the has previously attended Colorado Mesa or be placed on academic suspension institution’s accreditation status at University and has been out for at least and will not be eligible to return to the time the credit was earned. two semesters; summer and January Colorado Mesa University as stated 2. Private and out-of-state colleges and terms excluded) must submit an online under the academic suspension universities, provided the institution application at coloradomesa.edu/apply guidelines. is currently regionally accredited and or a paper application obtained from was accredited or was a candidate the Registrar’s Office. If the student has Admission for accreditation at the time the attended another institution since last credit was earned. attending Colorado Mesa University, to Specific official transcripts of all work must Undergraduate 3. Regionally accredited two-year be sent directly to Colorado Mesa Programs community or junior colleges. University, Registrar’s Office, from each Some baccalaureate, associate, and 4. Regionally accredited institutions institution attended. See “Catalog Under certificate programs may have specific that award “S” or “P” grades, if the Which a Student Graduates” section to entrance requirements in addition to granting institution states that such determine the catalog to be followed general university admittance. Admission grade is equal to a grade of “C” or for graduation. to Colorado Mesa University does not better. Students wishing to return after being guarantee admission into an academic or Regional accrediting bodies are: on suspension must complete the technical program. More information is Returning Student Application to be available in this catalog in the Programs • Middle States Association considered for re-admission. See the of Study section. Prospective students of Colleges and Schools Academic Suspension section. should check with the department head • New England Association of the specific academic program for of Schools and Colleges Admission Decisions special requirements. • Northwestern Association Students who are academically Admission to CMU/University of of Schools and Colleges prepared may be admitted to either Colorado Boulder Mechanical • North Central Association the university’s four-year or two-year Engineering Partnership Program of Schools and Colleges divisions, according to the student’s • Southern Association degree intent. Admission to the Students who are applying to the CMU/ of Schools and Colleges university’s four-year division, however, CU-Boulder Mechanical Engineering • Western Association does not guarantee acceptance of Partnership Program are required to: of Schools and Colleges a student into a specific course or • Rank in the top 10% or GPA 3.70; and academic program (i.e., admission to • SAT Critical Reading 610 or 5. gtPathways, Colorado guaranteed the university does not imply entry ACT English 27; and general education transfer courses 18 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

(see Catalog section on General Additional details regarding AP, IB and of 70 (internet based) or 525 (paper Education Overview/Colorado Military credit can be found in the based) or 190 (computer based). Department of Higher Education section on Non-Traditional Credit under 2. Submission of scores of International Statewide Guaranteed Transfer General Undergraduate Academic English Language Testing System Courses) Policies. (IELTS) with a minimum of Band 6. Only courses with a grade of “C” or 3. Submission of results of Michigan better are eligible to be applied toward International Test of English Language with a a degree or certificate. Students minimum score of 80. To be considered for admission, Colorado Mesa University reserves 4. An international student who has students who are not U.S. citizens or been enrolled as a full-time student the right to evaluate, on a course- resident aliens must complete and by-course basis, any credits earned at another college or university submit the following to the Colorado in the United States may request 15 years or more prior to enrollment. Mesa University Admissions Office, Initially, only courses used to fulfill consideration of fulfillment of this 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction requirement on an individual basis. general education requirements will CO 81501-3122 prior to May 1 for fall be accepted in transfer. Other courses semester and by September 1 prior to 5. Other evidence will be considered will be transferred upon acceptance by spring semester: on an individual basis. the department head within the major. Additional transfer polices are available 1. International Student Application Before admission is granted, an at coloradomesa.edu/registrar/transfer.html. form with $30 non-refundable international student must provide application fee; proof of financial ability to meet Advanced Placement and cost of tuition, fees, books, living International Baccalaureate Credits 2. Copy of ACT or SAT scores and proof accommodations, health insurance Advanced Placement (AP) or of English proficiency (if taken); and incidental expenses for at least International Baccalaureate (IB) transfer 3. Official secondary school transcript one full year. credit may be obtained by students (transcripts not issued in English who have successfully completed AP Costs, additional information, and forms must be accompanied by official may be obtained from coloradomesa. or IB courses and tests while in high English translations); school. Information about specific AP edu/international. and IB courses and credits can be found 4. Transcripts from all other colleges or at coloradomesa.edu/registrar/transfer. universities attended (see Transfer International transfer students must html Students section); provide the appropriate official, 5. Notarized Statements of Financial evaluated transcript of courses (or grade Additional information about AP and Support and an official bank reports, exam results, degree awards, IB is available in the General Academic statement showing proof of funds; depending on the standard of the Policy section of this catalog under Non- particular country) before transfer credit Traditional Credit. To receive credit, an 6. Evidence of medical insurance can be determined. Please see www. official copy of the AP or IB transcripts (students who do not have proof of coloradomesa.edu/international for must be sent directly from the testing medical insurance will be required more information on approved foreign agency to the CMU Registrar’s Office. to purchase international student transcription evaluation options. In most health insurance from an approved cases, course descriptions or syllabi Other Types of Transfer Credit: vendor); are required to determine content of Information on the transfer of other 7. For registration purposes, all individual courses. types of course credit not outlined international students are required above can be found in other sections of to comply with the Colorado law Undergraduate this Catalog: on measles, mumps and rubella. A Admission Military credits: refer to the Veterans Colorado Mesa University official section under Undergraduate form must be completed and Procedures Admission Information. returned to the Admissions Office. for Non-Degree Technical credits: refer to the Seeking Students requirements for the Bachelor of Prospective international students who Students who do not wish to pursue a Applied Science degree under are seeking admission to Colorado degree or certificate at Colorado Mesa Undergraduate Graduation Mesa University and whose primary University may apply as non-degree Requirements. language is not English must provide seeking rather than being formally Transfer of final credits for degree documented evidence of ability to admitted to the university. This includes completion: refer to the section on Final read, write, speak, and understand the those students who wish to enroll in Credit Requirements Taken at Another English language. This requirement may Colorado Mesa University courses while University under Undergraduate be fulfilled in one of the following ways: Graduation Requirements. away from their “home” institution, such as during summer and January terms. Graduate credits: refer to the section 1. Submission of scores of Test of on Transfer Credit under Graduate English as a Foreign Language Policies and guidelines include: Programs. (TOEFL) with a minimum average Undergraduate Admission Information 19

1. Applicants must complete Immunization until VA funds are received. Twelve the Colorado Mesa University weeks is the minimal processing time Application for Undergraduate Policy for Measles, required for the Veterans Administration Admission, checking the non-degree Mumps, and Rubella to establish an applicant’s file. Further seeking student box, and submit it Colorado State Immunization Law states information may be obtained from the along with a non-refundable $30.00 that effective July 1, 1992, all college VA certifying official in the Registrar’s application fee. students born since January 1, 1957 Office. 2. Students who do not wish to pursue must have two (2) measles, two (2) a degree or certificate are not mumps, and two (2) rubella doses. If the Credit may be granted for experience required to submit high school or student received a second measles dose and training gained during active college transcripts or test scores. prior to July 1, 1992, the second mumps duty in the armed forces. Students and rubella are not required. must submit appropriate discharge 3. Non-degree seeking students are papers, transcripts, and certificates not eligible for financial aid or Written evidence of titers (blood tests) of completion to the Registrar’s scholarships and will not be assigned showing immunity to measles, mumps, Office. All credit granted will be lower an advisor. and rubella is acceptable. If the student division credit. 4. Non-degree seeking students completes an exemption form and an must consistently earn a minimum outbreak occurs, the student will be Any Service Member or Reservist semester grade point average of subject to exclusion from school. who is unable to attend class or must 2.00 while enrolled at Colorado Mesa suspend their studies due to service University. requirements must coordinate with Selective Service the Veteran’s Benefits and Services 5. Non-degree seeking students Coordinator in the Registrar’s Office in who earn 30 semester hours at Any male student born on or after order to comply with 34 C.F.R. Section Colorado Mesa University must January 1, 1960 wishing to attend 668.18. apply for admission to Colorado classes at Colorado Mesa University Mesa University as a degree seeking must attest to his registration or student in order to continue taking exemption from registration with the Concurrently classes at Colorado Mesa University. Selective Service. This testimony must Enrolled 6. Degree seeking students will have be done prior to initial registration. High School priority over non-degree seeking Students students regarding registration. Veterans Current enrolled high school students 7. Non-degree seeking students Programs offered by Colorado Mesa University, with certain exceptions, are may register for college-level classes are advised that courses taken through four distinct programs as during non-degree seeking status approved by the Community College and Occupational Education System provided through the Concurrent are counted against the state’s Enrollment Act (CE). current allowance of 145 semester for the education and training of those veterans and dependents of veterans credit hours through the College Early Scholars program - Through Opportunity Fund (COF). eligible under applicable public laws. If benefit assistance is desired, a veteran Western Colorado Community College’s Early Scholars Program, high school Non-degree seeking students have not or dependent planning a course of training in a special program not students may access college-level been formally admitted to Colorado courses not replicated in the high Mesa University and are not guaranteed described in the university catalog or identified as approved for veteran’s school curriculum through enrollment admission should they later make on a Colorado Mesa University campus. formal application as degree seeking. benefits should check with the VA certifying official before enrolling in such a program. High School Scholars program - Once non-degree seeking students College-level courses are also taught at apply formally for degree seeking participating high schools by qualified status at Colorado Mesa University, Veterans and dependents who plan to apply for VA benefits while attending and approved high school lecturers for the admission policies in effect at the academic programs at Colorado Mesa time of formal application will be used Colorado Mesa University should contact the Registrar’s Office as soon University. to determine admissibility into the university and general and/or specific as the decision to enroll is made. Application for benefit assistance must ASCENT program - Students meeting academic programs. This includes program qualifications may also enroll satisfying all requirements for admission be made at least twelve weeks prior to initial registration if the certification through Colorado’s ASCENT program as summarized in the admissions table if they have completed all high school found earlier in this section. process is to be processed by the VA before the first day of class. Without this graduation requirements, will have advance application, the student must earned at least 12.0 college credit hours make other financial arrangements and prior to high school completion, and be prepared to finance tuition and fees, agree to the special enrollment terms of books, supplies, and living expenses the ASCENT Program. 20 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

Technical Scholars program - Students students must complete and submit school counselor by mid-September. enrolled in Western Colorado the following: Western Colorado Qualified students must complete Community College’s Career and Community College application, and submit the following by January Technical Education (CTE) high school Concurrent Enrollment Registration 15th to apply for the ASCENT program: program can earn college credits Form, current high school transcript, Western Colorado Community College through the Technical Scholars program. and appropriate test score reports. application, ASCENT Registration Form, During the application process, high current high school transcript, and To participate in the Concurrent school seniors have the option of appropriate test score reports. Enrollment Program, students must requesting admission to Western be currently enrolled in high school Obligations for Concurrently Enrolled Colorado Community College or (public, private, or home-schooled) Students Colorado Mesa University as a first-time and meet all the following in order 1. Upon course registration, students (or freshman upon high school graduation; to be considered (Technical Scholars parents/legal guardians if student is a no additional application is necessary. Program participants are exempt minor) incur a financial obligation to All Early Scholars or High School from the requirements below, but CMU. Scholars Program students must submit must meet other course competency a Concurrent Enrollment Registration 2. Students participating in this requirements to earn college credit): form each semester. This form requires program must apply for the College 1. Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA; completion by the student, lists the Opportunity Fund (COF) stipend. A student not registered for COF is 2. ACT Reading score of 17 or higher; desired courses to be taken, and requires the high school official’s responsible for payment of the COF 3. ACT English score of 18 or higher; or approval. Early Scholars students (taking stipend in addition to any additional SAT verbal score of 470 or higher; and classes on one of Colorado Mesa outstanding tuition/fee charges. 4. ACT Math score of 19 or higher; or University’s campuses) must also submit 3. Because Early Scholars/High School SAT math score of 470 or higher; proof of two (2) measles, mumps, & Scholars enroll in college-level 5. Approval of high school official. rubella vaccinations. course(s), participating students must meet the same course Technical Scholars Program Note: Students must take the requirements as other college and Students may earn college credits ACCUPLACER assessment if the university students. above tests have not been taken. through the Technical Scholars ACCUPLACER may be scheduled by Program while enrolled in the CTE 4. Most courses taken satisfy university contacting the Prometric Testing high school program at Western graduation requirements. Note that Center at 970.248.1260 at a cost of $17 Colorado Community College. Activities (KINA), remedial basic per section. ACCUPLACER may also be Students will register for the college skills, and advanced placement taken through other college testing credit during the start of the second courses are not eligible under the centers and scores provided to Western semester and must meet over 80% Early Scholars/High School Scholars Colorado Community College. of course competencies to qualify for program. college credit. Students are advised to 5. Grades earned in the Concurrent In most cases the school district meet with their WCCC instructors to Enrollment program are part of will pay the tuition of the student determine their eligibility. the student’s permanent CMU record and will appear on his/her to concurrently attend Colorado ASCENT Program Mesa University or Western Colorado The ASCENT (Accelerating Students college transcript; this may affect Community College (summer session through Concurrent Enrollment) future university admission and/or excluded). Students (or parents or legal Program permits eligible students scholarship potential. guardians if student is a minor) are to participate in a “5th year” of high 6. Course credits will transfer only if a always responsible for payment of any school while enrolled concurrently at student earns a C or better in the and all fees, books, and supplies, as Colorado Mesa University or Western course. well as payment of tuition not covered Colorado Community College. To 7. Students who earn a grade of D by the school district. Students must be eligible for the ASCENT program or F in any CMU or WCCC course give notice to the high school 60 students, must fulfill all local school while enrolled in the Concurrent days before the beginning of the district graduation requirements, Enrollment program will be semester they wish to enroll and have completed at least 12 credits financially responsible for repayment have all information submitted to the of postsecondary course work at of all tuition paid for the course to Western Colorado Community College the end of four years, and require no their school district (if applicable). Admission Office. remediation. The school district will Further, students earning a grade Application Process pay the tuition (up to the maximum of D or F while enrolled in the Early Scholars/High School Scholars provided by the Department of Concurrent Enrollment program Programs. All students wishing to enroll Education) for qualified ASCENT will be prohibited from enrolling in the Early Scholars or High School students; however, students are in any additional courses until they Scholars programs must be enrolled in responsible for fees, books, supplies, as successfully pass the failed course(s) high school (or, if home-schooled, be well as any tuition not covered by the and meet their financial obligations at the junior or senior level). Qualified school district. Students must indicate for tuition repayment. their initial interest through their high Undergraduate Admission Information 21

8. If students withdraw from a course language and social sciences) where the Residency Status after the add/drop date, they high school unit requirements have not will receive a grade of W or F on been fulfilled. for Tuition their CMU transcript and will be Purposes responsible for all tuition and fees For students who graduated in 2010, A student’s tuition classification is paid. See official university academic or later, high school course or unit governed by state law. For further calendar for specific dates. requirements include: information regarding tuition 9. Students participating in this classification, please see the Expenses program are not eligible for the • Four years of English section of this catalog, or contact the following: university activities or • Four years of mathematics Tuition Classification Officer located in sports, and/or federal- or state- (algebra I or higher) the Admissions Office at 970.248.1458. funded financial aid, including • Three years of social studies institutional scholarships funded (including one year of U.S. or with general fund dollars. Confirmation world history) 10. Registration in the Early Scholars/ of Attendance High School Scholars/Technical • Three years of natural science Admitted students (first-time freshmen Scholars programs does not admit (two of which are lab-based) and first-time transfers) will receive the student into a degree program. • Two years of academic elective. information regarding the student’s “next steps” highlighting important 11. Student should check with their • One year of foreign language local school district regarding dates, housing information, payment information, student orientation dates, specific eligibility and financial Additional details are available from the obligations. important phone numbers and many CDHE website at: highered.colorado. other necessary details about enrolling Colorado Mesa University does not gov/academics/admissions/. at Colorado Mesa University. guarantee that the approved classes will be available upon registration. Colorado Mesa As soon as a student knows that Before registering for a specific course, they will be enrolling at Colorado students must fulfill the prerequisites University Baccalaureate Mesa University, s/he should log in to listed in the Colorado Mesa University MAVzone and pay the $50 enrollment catalog. For more information Admission confirmation deposit. This deposit related to the Concurrent Enrollment Requirements will be applied directly towards a programs visit coloradomesa.edu/ student’s tuition balance. If the student wccc/concurrent.html. First-year students who are admitted to Colorado Mesa University’s four- decides not to attend, please notify the year division must meet a minimum Colorado Mesa University Admissions index score of 92, as well as the HEAR Office. The deposit will be refunded Colorado Public requirements described in the previous if the student has withdrawn from all Higher Education section. courses for which they registered prior to the end of the add/drop period. Admission Baccalaureate seeking students with Requirements an index of 80-91 may be offered Undergraduate (HEAR) provisional admission provided that they follow a curriculum tailored in Admission The admissions policy of the Colorado conjuction with an Academic Success Assessment and Department of Higher Education Coach. Once the student completes 24 Counseling Tests (CDHE) requires the completion of a college-level credit hours, to include precollegiate curriculum for admission a grade of C or higher in SUPP 100, ACT or SAT to a four-year Colorado public college or SUPP 101, ENGL 111, and MATH 105, Scores from either the ACT or the SAT are university for students graduating from 110, or 113 with a 2.5 GPA or higher, required of all degree-seeking students high school beginning 2008. the student then may transition to a attending Colorado Mesa University, Transfer applicants with fewer than baccalaureate program. except in certain cases as detailed 30 college-level semester credit hours below. Test scores must be on file in Students with an index below 79 will the Admissions Office before official and students transferring within the be admitted automatically to Western same institution must also demonstrate acceptance is granted. Certificate seeking Colorado Community College (WCCC). students are not required to have ACT academic preparation comparable to Once WCCC students complete 30 HEAR if they graduated from high school or SAT scores on file or to have taken the college-level credit hours with a 2.3 alternative assessment test. A student’s in 2008 or later. Such preparation can GPA or higher at the community be demonstrated by completing the attainment of a certain ACT composite college, they may then transfer into a score, or SAT combined score is one of pre-collegiate curriculum in high school baccalaureate program. and/or by successfully completing several criteria considered for admission. (with a grade of C- or higher) a college- Certain programs, such as Health level course in each core area (English, Sciences, may require a minimum ACT mathematics, natural sciences, foreign or SAT score. For specific requirements, 22 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog contact the appropriate academic exceeding the normal course load at learn about the University’s programs department head. Colorado Mesa University or elsewhere; and facilities. Parents of graduating high challenging by examination courses school students are encouraged to ACT and SAT test results also are used in which competence has previously attend the weekend program, as well as by the student and advisor as the been attained; earning credit by Parents Weekend offered later in the fall. basis for planning a course of study testing through the College Level Schedules and registration information and as an aid in academic placement. Examination Program (CLEP), DANTES are available at coloradomesa.edu/ Supplemental academic assistance is and/or Advanced Placement; obtaining stampede. provided on a limited basis for those credit for prior learning (competency whose test scores indicate weaknesses credit). Additional information may Supplemental or deficiencies in certain areas such as be obtained from the Advising & English and mathematics. ACT and SAT Career Center, faculty advisors, or the Academic Support scores also may be used for scholarship Registrar’s Office. Courses consideration and institutional research. The University offers supplemental New Student courses to assist students in the The only exemptions to this admission transition to higher education: requirement are for: Orientation All new degree-seeking Colorado Freshman Year Initiative (FYI) 1. Students who apply for admission to freshmen are required to attend a New freshman students are strongly a two-year program; Student Orientation program in order encouraged to enroll in the university’s 2. Students enrolled only in no-credit to register for their first semester Freshman Year Initiative (FYI) program. desired/audit classes; courses. Although not required, new Students are registered for SUPP degree-seeking transfer and out-of- 3. Students who have already earned 101(Introduction to Higher Education) state students are strongly encouraged to maximize their potential for success an associate or baccalaureate to attend as well. Information degree at another regionally in college. For more information, visit regarding Student Orientation will be coloradomesa.edu/fyi. accredited institution; mailed to students upon notification of 4. Students who are transferring from acceptance and also can be found on Maverick Provisional Program (MVP) other regionally accredited colleges the Colorado Mesa University website New Provisional Baccalaureate freshman or universities with 30 or more at: coloradomesa.edu/orientation. students are strongly encouraged semester hours of credit. to enroll in the university’s Maverick For proper academic advising and Provisional Program (MVP). Students Prospective students are encouraged course placement, new students are registered for SUPP 100 (Higher to take the ACT or SAT during their with low ACT or SAT scores must be Education Success Skills) to assist high school junior or senior year. assessed with a second instrument students in making a successful Transfer students (unless exempt) prior to a Student Orientation session. transition to college by learning are required to have their ACT or SAT The instrument is called ACCUPLACER, strategies and skills they will need scores on file in the Admissions Office and the student’s ACT or SAT sub to successfully navigate their first prior to registration. ACT or SAT scores scores determine whether or not semester. For more information, visit from a previous college or university ACCUPLACER testing is necessary. To coloradomesa.edu/mvp. are acceptable. schedule an assessment, or for more information please contact the Testing Sophomore Year Experience (SYE) Assessment and Evaluation Center, 970.248.1260. Sophomore-level students can enroll After Enrollment in the university’s Sophomore Year Students are required to participate in Students must be admitted prior Experience course to assist them in testing and other programs necessary to attending Student Orientation. For selecting a major that compliments for evaluation and assessment purposes. more information, call 970.248.1875. their career goals. Please see the Learning Progress Evaluation section in this catalog. Stampede Welcome More details on these offerings are Week found in the University-wide Academic Acceleration of Offerings section of this catalog. Stampede Welcome Week is an University Study opening week program for first time It is possible for students to satisfy and returning students, beginning the requirements for baccalaureate degrees Friday before classes each fall. in less than the traditional four years (eight regular academic year semesters). New students to Colorado Mesa Ways of accomplishing this include: University are strongly encouraged to enrolling in university classes while participate in the programs offered in a junior or senior in high school; order to meet fellow classmates and financial Aid Information 23

Financial Aid Information

Contact: Office of Financial Aid, Colorado Mesa University, Lowell Heiny Hall Room 117, 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501-3122 • Call toll free 800.982.6372 or 970.248.1396.

Overview Accurate and timely information from 1. Colorado Grants—Grants are the student and parents to the Financial awarded to Colorado resident students Financial aid at Colorado Mesa University Aid office is the responsibility of the on the basis of documented financial consists of a balanced program of self student. Failure on the part of the student need. Financial aid packages which help, scholarships, and grants-in-aid to supply accurate information on the include Colorado Grants may not awarded for outstanding academic application may result in reduction or exceed the documented financial achievement or outstanding performance total loss of aid. need of the student. in special skill areas including vocational skills, athletics, drama, music, etc. Colorado Tuition Payment Plan 2. Colorado Work-Study—The Work- Mesa University also participates in federal Study program is designed to provide and state programs of grants, loans, and Colorado Mesa University provides a payment program designed to meet the employment on campus for students student employment, the awarding of with documented need and who which is based primarily on need as specific needs of students and parents. Semester charges for tuition, fees and meet the residency requirement for determined by a need analysis system tuition purposes. approved by the federal government. The institutional room and board can be application used to determine need is the paid in monthly installments, beginning Free Application for Federal Student Aid in August (for fall) and in January (for CMU Foundation (FAFSA.) spring). There is a non-refundable Programs application fee, due at the time of The Colorado Mesa University Foundation enrollment. Contact the Business Office Financial aid awards that are based is a non-profit organization governed for more information. on the need analysis system consider by a Board of Directors. The board is family resources as the primary source comprised of talented and successful of funding for education, with federal Scholarships business and community leaders who and state sources considered secondary Scholarships represent an effort by the recognize the University’s pivotal role in and supplemental. Because prospective state of Colorado and Colorado Mesa the future of our state and wish to aid students always apply for more financial University to recognize resident and deserving students at Colorado Mesa aid than there is money available, the non-resident students for outstanding University. This group, which functions following priority order is used: achievement in academic and talent independently of the University, raises areas. Although need is not a factor in funds for scholarships, student loans, 1. As stated in federal law, a parent is determining recipients, students who and a variety of programs that enhance primarily responsible for payment of are awarded a scholarship are also opportunities provided by the University. educational expenses of a dependent encouraged to submit a financial aid In addition, the foundation serves as a child. Thus, parents of students application. receiving and distribution agency for attending college are expected many established scholarships available to make every effort to assist the After students have been admitted to the students at Colorado Mesa student financially. to Colorado Mesa University, they will University. 2. The student, as the benefactor of the automatically be reviewed for academic educational experience, is the next scholarship awarding. For more detailed Private Scholarships—In addition most responsible person for payment information on academic scholarships, to institutional scholarships, many of educational expenses. please call the Admissions Office at scholarships and awards have 970.248.1875 or the Financial Aid Office been established for students of 3. The third level of responsibility is from at 970.248.1396. For detailed information the University by individuals and outside sources such as communities, regarding talent scholarships, please organizations who recognize the clubs, corporations, etc. contact the appropriate academic importance of Colorado Mesa 4. The last resort is federal and state department. University to the community and have financial aid programs. There has never a connection to the University. The been enough funding to assist all Colorado Student amounts of the awards vary, but all are needy students. Therefore, students Aid Programs designed to apply toward tuition and should make every effort to obtain fees. Contact the Financial Aid Office assistance at one of the three levels Programs are available to full-time, half- for additional information. listed above. time and part-time students with priority given to full-time students. 24 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

Federal Student Students must maintain satisfactory 1. be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident Aid Programs academic progress as noted with the of the U.S.; award notification to remain eligible for 2. be enrolled in consecutive fall and 1. Federal Pell Grant Program— financial aid. spring terms registering in a minimum This is a grant program available of 12 credits each semester. Summer to needy students enrolling in an Western term requires six credit hours; eligible institution of post-secondary education. Undergraduate 3. maintain a minimum 2.0 CMU GPA Exchange (WUE) each academic year; and 2. College Based Programs— The Western Undergraduate Exchange 4. remain a permanent resident of your Colorado Mesa University participates (WUE) tuition program allows students home WUE state (maintaining your in many other federal need-based from 14 western states to attend home state driver’s license will be student-aid programs. These include Colorado Mesa University by paying required). the (1) Federal Perkins Loan Program, one and one-half the cost of in-state (2) Federal Supplemental Educational tuition instead of out-of-state tuition. Opportunity Grant Program, (3) For more information please contact the Students who are residents from the Admissions Office at 970.248.1458. Federal Work Study Program. Funding states of Alaska, Arizona, California, is awarded per federal guidelines and Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New on a first-come, first served basis. Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Mountains Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming and Plains (M&P) 3. Federal Direct Loan Program—This are considered for the award; however, The Mountains and Plains (M&P) is a loan program consisting of the acceptance into WUE is not guaranteed. tuition program allows students from Federal subsidized and unsubsidized To be considered students must submit a eleven states to attend Colorado Mesa Stafford Loan Program and the Federal completed CMU application, all required University by paying one and one-half Parent Loan for Undergraduate transcripts and/or test scores, and a the cost of in-state tuition instead of Students (PLUS). Details concerning copy of a valid WUE state driver’s license. out of state tuition. Students who are these programs may be obtained Shortly after admission, students with a residents from the states of Illinois, from the Financial Aid Office or on the minimum GPA of 2.0 and a permanent Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Colorado Mesa University website. address in one of the WUE qualifying Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, states will be notified of their WUE status. 4. Federal Teach Grant—This is a grant Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin are considered for the award; however, awarded to students in exchange for All undergraduate degree programs are acceptance into M&P is not guaranteed. teaching service. Details concerning open to WUE students. New freshman or To be considered students must submit this program may be obtained from transfer students (13-90 credits) enrolling a completed CMU application, all the Financial Aid Office. for the first time at CMU are eligible for required transcripts and/or test scores, WUE consideration. Currently enrolled and a copy of a valid M&P state driver’s General Guidelines students cannot be considered for WUE license. Shortly after admission, students after enrollment at CMU. Returning Financial need for educational with a minimum GPA of 2.5 and a students (those sitting out one or more expenses is an essential requirement permanent address in one of the M&P semesters) will be considered on an to qualify for assistance from most qualifying states will be notified of their individual basis. Students with prior programs. Both full-time and less M&P status. than full-time students will receive bachelor’s degrees are ineligible. Through acceptance of the special WUE tuition consideration. All undergraduate degree programs are classification, students acknowledge their open to M&P students. New freshman or intent to maintain their legal domicile Since financial need is the primary transfer students (13-90 credits) enrolling in their home state at the time of requirement for determining eligibility for the first time at CMU are eligible for application. If students desire to change for assistance under any of the federal M&P consideration. Currently enrolled their legal domicile to any other state, student aid programs, Colorado Mesa students cannot be considered for M&P including Colorado, they must notify the University requires that the student after enrollment at CMU. Returning WUE contact in the Admissions Office. applicant submit the FAFSA to the federal students (those sitting out one or more At that time a student may be changed processor as soon as possible after semesters) will be considered on an to out-of-state for tuition purposes. January 1. FAFSA on the Web is available individual basis. Students with prior Please note that time accrued while at fafsa.gov. bachelor’s degrees are ineligible. Through participating in the WUE tuition program acceptance of the special M&P tuition cannot be used to establish domiciliary Federal Direct Stafford Loans are initiated classification, students acknowledge their intent for purposes of claiming Colorado with the FAFSA application but require that intent to maintain their legal domicile residency. To maintain WUE program a Master Promissory Note and Entrance in their home state at the time of status, students must: Loan Counseling be completed for first- application. If students desire to change time borrowers at Colorado Mesa University. their legal domicile to any other state, Electronic links for these processes are found at www.coloradomesa.edu/finaid.

financial Aid Information 25 including Colorado, they must notify the M&P contact in the Admissions Office. At that time a student may be changed to out of state for tuition purposes. Please note that time accrued while participating in the M&P tuition program cannot be used to establish domiciliary intent for purposes of claiming Colorado residency. To maintain M&P program status, students must:

1. be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.; 2. be enrolled in consecutive fall and spring terms registering in a minimum of 12 credits each semester. Summer term requires six credit hours; 3. maintain a minimum 2.0 CMU GPA each academic year; and 4. remain a permanent resident of your home M&P state (maintaining your home state driver’s license will be required).

For more information please contact the Admissions Office at 970.248.1458.

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Expenses at Colorado Mesa University

Colorado Mesa University reserves the right to adjust any and all charges, including tuition, fees, and room and board, at any time deemed necessary by the Board of Trustees.

Determination of Residency New students seeking in-state status Changing from Out-of-State to Status for Tuition Purposes who are unable to answer either of the In-State Status Tuition classification is governed by above series of questions will need to Students who begin classes at CMU state law (Colorado Revised Statutes, answer all questions on the residency with out-of-state tuition may petition for Sections 23-7-101 to 104 and 23-7-105) section of the admissions application. If in-state status when they believe they and by judicial decisions that apply to all a student is under the age of 23 and not have met all state of CO requirements public institutions of higher education in otherwise emancipated via marriage, for such. A Residency Petition may be Colorado. Colorado Mesa University does having a dependent or having been in submitted if: 1) a student is under the not have discretion to make exceptions military service, then CO statute requires age of 23 and their parent is now a CO to state law. Although an individual parental information to determine the resident; 2) the student is under 23 and may be considered a state resident for student’s residency status. If the parent(s) seeking in-state status on their own voting and other legal purposes after are true CO residents per state law, then accord; or 3) the student is over the age being in the state for a short period of a student under the age of 23 may be of 23 and believe they have now met CO time, the tuition law specifies additional granted in-state tuition based on their requirements for in-state status. A change requirements for classification as “in-state” parental information as long as the in status is NOT automatic after attending for tuition purposes. student is not otherwise emancipated as CMU as an out-of-state student for one previously mentioned. All questions in year; a student’s way to request in-state Initial tuition classification is determined the residency section of the admissions status is by submitting a completed, from information a student supplies on application should be answered with notarized Residency Petition with all an application for admissions to Colorado parent information in this case. requested documents attached. Domicile Mesa University. Failure to completely (bodily living) in CO a full 12 months and answer questions may lead to an initial If a student under the age of 23 is intent to be a permanent resident of classification of out-of-state for tuition emancipated via marriage, having a CO are required. Intent requires severing purposes. A student’s residency status will dependent or having been in military prior state ties and creating them in CO. be stated within their admissions letter. service, they need only provide their own Such items include, but are not limited to: Students who feel their classification is information (not parent information). If a driver’s license, vehicle registration, voter incorrect should contact the Admissions student is over the age of 23, questions registration and payment of CO state Office immediately. need only be answered with student income tax. information (not parent information). Students who are entering a Colorado Colorado statute requires physical The Residency Petition may be found on university immediately after completing presence (domicile) and intent to be a our web site at http://www.coloradomesa. high school are granted in-state status if permanent resident of Colorado a full edu//admissions/documents/ they answer YES to all of the following: 12 months prior to the first day of the resPetitionForm.pdf. You may also pick semester in which the student wishes to • Are you a United States citizen? up a copy in the Admissions Office. be considered in-state. Completed, notarized petitions with • Did you graduate from a CO public or all requested documents attached are private high school? (list school) Students under 23 with no CO to be submitted directly to the Tuition • Did you attend a CO high school for Resident Parent Classification Officer located in the at least three consecutive years? (list Students under the age of 23 seeking Admissions Office. Please see the stated specific years of attendance) in-state tuition, do not have a parent deadlines for submission of Residency who resides in CO, and are not otherwise Petitions. Students who have earned a GED taken emancipated as outlined above must within 12 months of entering college are submit a Residency Petition to request Residency Appeals granted in-state status if they answer YES in-state status on their own accord. These Students who do not agree with the to all the following: students must prove that their sources decision of their residency petition may of income are sufficient to meet their appeal the decision in writing within 15 • Are you a United States citizen? financial needs without any parental days from the date their denial decision • Did you successfully complete assistance for a full 12 month period prior was e-mailed to them. The appeal a GED test? (list test date) to the term they seek in-state status. In and any additional documentation addition, they must prove 12 month’s should be sent directly to the Tuition • Did you reside in CO for the three years domicile (bodily living) in CO and that all Classification Officer located in the preceding the proposed first semester prior state ties are severed and created in Admissions Office. The decision of the of enrollment at a CO college? (list CO for that 12 month period. A Residency Residency Appeals Committee is the specific years of residence) Petition will require documents be final university determination. For further attached as proof. Expenses at COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY 27

residency related questions, please 4) Ha ve completed the College To create a COF voucher account, a contact the Tuition Classification Officer at Opportunity Fund (COF) application student must register at cof.college-assist. 970.248.1458. process including attached Affidavit. org and provide a limited amount of Students having earned a GED may be information. Note that the process of Military Exemptions and Tuition considered as long as they also attended creating a voucher account is separate Certain exemptions for in-state tuition a CO high school for a minimum of from applying for admission to Colorado status are available for military personnel three years prior to earning their GED, Mesa University and can be completed if: 1) military personnel is active duty and are admitted to the university within at any time prior to enrolling. Qualifying stationed in CO – copy of orders needed 12 months of their GED test date, and students who do not establish an account to consider student, spouse, or children have completed the COF application into which the voucher can be deposited in-state without further documentation; and affidavit. Students who were not are responsible for both the state’s and or 2) Honorably Discharged Veteran – admitted to the university within 12 the student’s share of tuition. copy of DD-214 reflecting Honorable months of their high school graduation Discharge and either a CO driver’s or GED test date must prove 18 months Tuition and fees for the 2012-2013 license or CO vehicle registration needed physical domicile in CO in addition to academic year are current as of the time to waive 12 month requirement for the above requirements. Please contact that this catalog was printed. Students immediate in-state status of Veteran. the Tuition Classification Officer in the should check the University’s website for Contact the Tuition Classification Officer in Admissions Office for further details. the most current rates and information. the Admissions Office for further details. Note that summer term pre-registration is held at the same time as pre-registration Citizenship and Tuition Classification Tuition and Fees for fall term and follows a separate policy Unless otherwise noted in this section, The State of Colorado allocates money regarding refunds. only US citizens, permanent residents, for Colorado in-state undergraduates and a select few Visa holders are eligible to help offset the total tuition of their to be considered for in-state tuition college education. The state’s share of status. Additionally, students without in-state tuition—paid from the College lawful immigration status may be Opportunity Fund (COF)—is available for eligible for in-state status if they meet all students once the student signs up for a criteria through ASSET as outlined in the COF voucher account and authorizes their following paragraph. Colorado Mesa University registration. The funds for the COF voucher will be sent Students without Lawful Immigration directly to the institution. Students are then responsible only for their remaining Status and Colorado ASSET Bill share of total tuition. SB 13-033, otherwise known as the ASSET bill, was signed into law in April Most in-state undergraduates qualify of 2013. This bill allows certain students for participation in the program. without lawful immigration status to be Qualifications and the amount of considered in-state for tuition purposes the voucher are subject to actions when all the following criteria are met: by the Colorado General Assembly. 1) A ttended a CO high school for a Additional details are available on the minimum of three years; Colorado Mesa University’s website at 2) Graduated from a CO high school; coloradomesa.edu/cof. 3) Ar e admitted to a CO university within 12 months of CO high school graduation; and

Petition Deadlines Semester qualifying cut-off date Submit petitions nO earlier than… Submit petitions no later than…

Summer 2013 First day of class March 11, 2013 2 weeks prior to first day of class Fall 2013 First day of class June 24, 2013 August 5, 2013 Spring 2014 First day of class November 11, 2013 January 6, 2014 Summer 2014 First day of class March 10, 2014 2 weeks prior to first day of class Fall 2014 First day of class June 23, 2014 August 4, 2014 Spring 2015 First day of class November 10, 2014 January 5, 2015 28 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

Student Liability for Tuition and Fees Tuition and Fee Schedule Upon registration, students (or parents or The tuition rates and student fees shown below are for academic year legal guardian if student is a minor)incur 2013-2014; all rates are subject to change by the University’s Board of a financial obligation to Colorado Mesa Trustees. Rates can be found online at coloradomesa.edu/businessoffice/ University. Anyone who registers for one expenses.html. or more classes is expected to pay the full amount of tuition and fees, unless A one-time matriculation fee of $125.00 will be assessed. This fee takes the they officially withdraw by the specified place of add/drop fees, transcript fees, graduation fees, etc. deadlines listed at coloradomesa.edu/ registar/reginfo. All charges are due and payable on the first day of class. A 1% service charge will be assessed each Examples: month on all outstanding balances. No A. Undergraduate who is full-time, in-state, COF-eligible student will be allowed to register for (Note: 12 credit hours is full-time for financial aid purposes. COF availability and classes, graduate or receive transcripts amounts are subject to change by actions of the Colorado General Assembly.) until their account is paid in full. Per Semester Students are liable for additional late Total tuition for 12 credit hours each term $3,343.20 fees and/or collection costs, including Less COF (state’s share of tuition) -$768.00 attorney fees and other charges Equals student’s share of tuition $2,575.20 necessary for the collection of any Plus general purpose student fees $307.32 overdue financial obligation incurred by Equals total due from student $2,882.52 the student. B. Undergraduate who is full-time, out-of-state, non-COF-eligible (Note: 12 Student financial information is available on the Colorado Mesa credit hours is full-time for financial aid purposes) University website. If you have any Per Semester questions, contact the Business Office at Total tuition for 12 credit hours each term 970.248.1567. (= student’s share of tuition) $6,870.48 Plus general purpose student fees $307.32 NOTE: Students should consult the Equals total due from student $7,177.80 Financial Aid Office for eligibility C. Undergraduate who is part-time, in-state, COF-eligible requirements of undergraduate and Tuition per credit hour $278.60 graduate certificates. Less COF per credit hour (state’s share of tuition) -$64.00 Equals student’s share of tuition $214.60 Other Fees Plus general purpose student fees $25.61 and Expenses Equals total due from student per credit hour $240.21 Books and Supplies D. Undergraduate who is part-time, out-of-state, non-COF-eligible Required textbooks and supplies Tuition per credit hour are sold at the university bookstore, (= student’s share of tuition) $572.54 located in the University Center. Other Plus general purpose student fees $25.61 items sold at the bookstore include Equals total due from student per credit hour $598.15 general books, art supplies, basic school supplies, calculators, imprinted clothing, magazines, software and gift items.

E. Graduate student who is in-state The approximate cost of textbooks for a single semester is $500-$600 but Tuition per credit hour Graduate tuition varies with the program of study. Supply Plus general purpose student fees and fees vary by costs vary depending upon student Equals total due from student per credit hour discipline. Visit preference and course requirements. F. Graduate student who is out-of-state coloradomesa.edu/ businessoffice/ Textbooks may be returned within Tuition per credit hour expenses.html for seven calendar days of purchase, Plus general purpose student fees more information. provided the cash register receipt is Equals total due from student per credit hour shown as proof of purchase and the books have not been defaced. Extended return dates at the beginning of fall and spring semesters are posted in the bookstore and on the website. The bookstore sponsors a book buy- back program that is conducted during Expenses at COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY 29 the final examination week of fall and Personal Computer Recommendation Refunds of Tuition and Fees spring semesters only. Used books may Colorado Mesa University recognizes Refunds are based on withdrawal dates be available for some classes. the importance of computers as and vary each semester. Please see educational tools to be used in the coloradomesa.edu/businessoffice for pursuit of higher education. Students more information. Application, Evaluation, are strongly encouraged, to the extent and Other Charges possible, to have a personal computer Student Financial Planning for their use while attending Colorado If students need assistance with Non-refundable fees: Mesa University. payment arrangements, financial Undergraduate Application planning and financial management, and Evaluation Charge $30.00 Students who will be purchasing a please contact the Student Financial personal computer should consider the Graduate Application Counselor at 970.248.1873, Lowell Heiny following recommendations. and Evaluation Charge . . . . .$50.00 Hall, Room 112.

General recommendation: Most Matriculation Charge . . . . . $125.00 Matriculation Fee for New name brand computers or computers Undergraduate, Transfer, and Housing Application Charge. . $25.00 purchased from reputable vendors Graduate Students will suffice for general college work. Other charges: First-time students to Colorado Mesa Computer performance is enhanced University will be assessed a one-time, Room Reservation deposit. . .$125.00 with sufficient random access memory Enrollment deposit...... $50.00 $125 matriculation fee in addition to (RAM), usually in the two to four gigabit the published tuition and fees for the Parking Permits: (2 to 4GB) range. courses unless they are accepted as Reserved ...... $300.00 Desktop versus laptop: Desktop non-degree seeking at Colorado Mesa Residence Hall ...... $135.00 computers are generally less expensive University. This fee covers add/drop, Commuter ...... $110.00 than laptops of comparable computing career placement, credential (resume) Motorcycle...... $30.00 power. However, portability and services, graduation (petition), MAVcard, Pay Lots...... $1/hour wireless connectivity can make laptops transcripts, and orientation. Faculty/Staff...... $110.00 a preferred choice as a desktop Permits are valid for a full academic year. replacement or second computer. Residence Life and Course-Specific Fees Printer: For black and white printing, Dining When private and special instructional laser printers are more cost effective On-campus living offers many services are required, additional charges than ink jet printers in terms of toner/ advantages and choices. The location will be incurred by the student. Fees ink cost per page. Generally, ink jet makes class attendance and activity vary with the nature of the instruction. printers are an acceptable choice for participation very convenient for Private instruction in applied music is low volume color printing. Colorado Mesa students. In addition, available from instructors approved by Connectivity: Wired and wireless living on campus relieves the the university. Cost of this instruction access to the Internet are provided in students of many time-consuming is regular per credit hour tuition plus all residence halls. Wireless connectivity responsibilities that enable them to a specified amount for one thirty- is available throughout the campus devote more energy to their studies, minute lesson each week. Other special in most buildings, classrooms, and recreational activities, and making new instructional services and courses that commons areas. friends. The many living options we may require students to pay extra fees offer help create different opportunities include labs, program-specific fees, Software: Students may be required to and experiences for you, the student. courses with transportation fees for purchase specific software for specific field trips, locker and towel facilities and courses. In some cases, students will Each residence hall is staffed with kinesiology classes such as bowling, purchase software along with the an Area Coordinator or Residence skiing and golf. textbook used for the class at a nominal Hall Coordinator, as well as Resident cost. Students should not purchase Assistants who are trained to help Student Health Insurance software until advised by instructors. students. Staff members support the educational mission of the University by Student health insurance is available Students majoring in Mass each semester. Plan descriptions, helping residents adjust to college life, Communication, Graphic Design, or offering social and educational activities, enrollment forms and payments options Music often use Apple Macintosh can be found on-line at coloradomesa. explaining policies, answering questions, computers. Students intending to and acting as resources. edu/businessoffice. Enrollment must be major in Mass Communication, Graphic completed by the established deadline Design, or Music are encouraged to Residence Hall Choices each semester. Rates are established by consult with their department before There are several choices of on-campus the insurance providers and vary based purchasing a computer. housing available: on coverage selected. 30 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

1. Four traditional residence halls which Residence Hall application and deposit are received require a meal plan (most rooms and Dining Contract by Residence Life. A student may are designed for double occupancy, Students who wish to apply for qualify for exemption from the although there are a limited number accommodations on campus are on-campus requirement for definite of single rooms). required to submit a $150 deposit with reasons expressed in writing and 2. Two suite style residence halls with their signed contract and completed approved by Residence Life. Reasons four people per suite that share application. On-campus housing is not include: guaranteed, as availability is limited one bathroom. These halls require a 1. Married; or meal plan; to approximately 2250 students. The deposit includes a $25 nonrefundable 2. 21 years of age or older; or 3. Two suite style residence halls that application fee. Fall housing house 2-8 people in a mixture of 3. A part-time student (enrolled for less assignments are made between May 1 than 12 hours per semester); or single, super single and double and the first day of classes. bedrooms – along with sharing two 4. R esiding at the permanent address of bathrooms and a living area. These The Residence Hall and Dining Contract is his/her parents or step-parents within halls require a meal plan; a legal agreement between the student Mesa County; or and Colorado Mesa University regarding 4. One smaller community with 42 housing and meal plans on campus. 5. O f junior class standing as of the residents. The space is suite style and The contract is in effect for the entire beginning of the semester; or houses 10 people in each suite who academic year. These services, however, 6. Not of junior standing, but has share two bathrooms and a living are billed and payable by semester. The resided in the Colorado Mesa area. A meal plan is required for this schedule for room and meal plan refunds University residence halls for four community. is outlined in the contract. semesters; or 5. Three apartment complexes, available Residence Requirement 7. M edically accommodation the for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. First-year and sophomore students University is not able to satisfy with its This gives you the true apartment who are under 21 years of age and available on-campus options (written feel, while being on campus and not residing with their parents in documentation required); or close to everything at Colorado Mesa Mesa County are required to live University. 8. P laced on a waiting list due to limited on campus. Priority is based on the space on campus. date the complete Residence Hall Expenses at COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY 31

Questions concerning housing Multiple entrees are served with Room and Board Charges on campus should be directed to unlimited seconds. Only two meals are All rates listed below are for the Fall 2013 Residence Life at 970.248.1536 or email served on Saturday and Sunday (brunch semester, per student. A $20 per semester [email protected]. and dinner). Both meal plans have full charge will be added to all residents’ access to brunch and dinner 10:30 a.m. accounts for a non-refundable activity fee. Off-campus Housing to 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The university and Residence Life Room and Apartment Rates Saturday night meals are served buffet do not manage off-campus housing Meal plan required* style. Meals are planned with special placements but attempts to assist Elm Residence Hall: needs in mind also, such as for the students in locating housing. “Almost Double room...... $2,260.94* weight conscious or vegetarian. Home” is a Grand Junction community Pinon, Rait, and Tolman Residence Halls: service for listing rental properties and Students living in traditional residence Double room...... $2,260.94* roommate exchange. The listings are hall rooms or suites are required to Single room ...... $3,073.32* posted at www.catholicoutreach.org. select a meal plan. Students living in Bunting Hall: Properties are not religiously affiliated. on-campus apartments or living off- Double room...... $3092.92* Campus Dining campus may, if they wish, purchase Single room ...... $3,168.20* Campus Dining Services offers food meal plans and/ or MAVmoney. Meals Double stacked...... $2,376.97* are served seven days per week service to students at Colorado Mesa Garfield Hall: during the academic year with limited University which includes a choice of Double room...... $2,692.50* four meal plans (prices are per semester): meals during short breaks. Commuter students are welcome to purchase any Monument Residence Hall: Plan A, unlimited meals between 6:45 a.m. of the resident student meal plans, or Double suite ...... $2,825.60* and 8:00 p.m. with $150 in MAVmoney; try one of our commuter plans. Call Grand Mesa Hall: Plan B, unlimited meals between 10:30 a.m. 970.248.1742 or the MAVcard Office at Double room ...... $2,933.22* and 8:00 p.m. with $150 in MAVmoney; 970.248.1059 for more information on Single room ...... $3,247.03* dining services. Super Single ...... $3,562.11*

North Avenue Suites: Double room...... $3,079.01* Single room ...... $3,408.50* North Avenue Apartments: Double room...... $3,365.99 Single room ...... $3,711.17 Orchard Avenue Apartments: Double room...... $3,469.68 Single room ...... $3,825.20 Walnut Ridge Apartments: Double room...... $2,936.68 Single room...... $3,542.31

Meal Plans All rates are per semester. Meal plans are available to all students and mandatory for those living in a traditional or suite-style residence hall. Plan A and Plan B each include $100.00 in MAVmoney. Plan A – Unlimited, 6:45 a.m. - 8 p.m. $1,996.09 Plan B – Unlimited, 10:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. $1,871.17

Contact Information Mail: Residence Life Colorado Mesa University 1100 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 Phone: 970.248.1536 Fax: 970.248.1979 Email: [email protected] Web: coloradomesa.edu/reslife 32 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

Academic & Student Services, Offices, & Activities

Contact: Office of Academic Affairs, 970.248.1881 Office of Student Services, 970.248.1366

Admissions Office course selection and registration, help The Advising Center is committed to 1100 North Avenue students with strategies for academic assisting students in attaining their 800 982. 6372. or 970 248. 1875. success, and guide students in career educational goals. Services provided are: The Admissions Office serves as the exploration. Students who have initial point of contact for prospective decided on a major will be directed to • Advising/eAdvising students and their families. Among the appropriate academic department. • First-semester freshmen the staff’s responsibilities are the A department’s administrative assistant • Students with undeclared majors recruitment of students and the can officially declare or change the • Assist students in course selection and processing of admissions applications student’s major/minor, provide a registration and petitions for changes to residency program sheet, and assign the student • Guide students in major exploration classification for tuition purposes. to a faculty advisor. • Interpretation of the LASSI assessment Activities of the University’s student • Assist students with strategies for ambassadors are also coordinated Program sheets outline the academic success through this office. requirements needed for the degree or certificate program being pursued. Behavioral Clinical Services (BCS) Advising Center Students should work closely with 1005 North 12th Street Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 127 their faculty advisors throughout 970 .241 .6500 970 .248 .1177 their program. The purpose of an Counseling Services Advising is available from two sources: advisor is to assist in the process of Counseling services are contracted by the Advising Center staff and the faculty. degree completion. It is the student’s Behavioral Clinical Services (BCS). All The Advising Center assists students responsibility to maintain his/her students paying student fees are eligible with undeclared majors; students who program sheet and to keep it up-to- for counseling sessions each academic have declared majors should meet date as classes are completed. Advisors year for a $5 copay. Referrals can be regularly with a faculty advisor. are not responsible for failure to meet made through any office on campus degree requirements. and/or students may contact BCS Undeclared students are assigned to directly for an appointment. All sessions the Advising Center and must meet are confidential. Students dealing with an advisor prior to registration. with personal problems affecting their Academic advisors will assist students in Academic & student services, Offices & Activities 33 academic life are encouraged to talk Clubs, Organizations, and Activities students regarding multicultural with a professional counselor. University Center concerns and issues. Member Alcohol/Drug Education 970 248. 1758. groups include the Black Student (Minor in Possession Group) There are a number of student fee-funded Alliance (BSA), Gay-Straight Alliance This program is designed for alcohol organizations that are administered (GSA), Ho’olokahi Polynesian Club, and drug abuse intervention and by Colorado Mesa University students International Student Association prevention. The University, which is an including the following: (ISA), La Raza, and the Native American Student Council (NASC). active participant in the Mesa County • Club Advisory Board (CAB): Many Prevention Policy Board, supports the student clubs and organizations • Fine Arts Organizations: All CMU concepts of proactive prevention and exist at Colorado Mesa University. students are encouraged to audition intervention as part of the University’s Currently CMU has over 70 active to join a musical group, participate overall policy of maintaining a safe clubs on campus including club in theatre, or be part of a dance and healthy campus. The Minor in sports, religious clubs, academic performance. Performances in Possession Group classes will consist clubs and social clubs, which allow the arts are highly regarded at of understanding the effects of binge students to meet other students who Colorado Mesa University and are drinking, drinking and driving, and the share similar interests. A list of current well attended by students and the use of marijuana, methamphetamine, active clubs and organizations can community. club drugs (GHB, ecstasy), and tobacco. be viewed on the Colorado Mesa • Programming Activities Council University website under student life. (PAC): PAC is responsible for Welcome Career Services • Associated Student Government Week, Homecoming and MavFest as University Center, Room 106 well as other entertainment activities 970 248. 1404. (ASG): ASG is the representative body and official voice of the students. including concerts, movies, dances, Career Services provides a variety of comedians, hypnotists and speakers. services to students and alumni* to assist The ASG operates through the General Assembly, a legislative body Best of all, these events are free for all in attaining their career goals. Services CMU students. provided are: composed of students elected by • Career Assessments the student body. Students involved • Media Organizations: These • Career, Graduate, Teacher and Major Fairs in ASG have an opportunity to gain organizations include the student • Workshops leadership skills by representing newspaper The Criterion, the student • Resume workshop student opinions to the CMU radio station, KMSA 91.3 FM, the • Cover Letter workshop administration and the University’s literary and art publication Literary • Interviewing Skills workshop Board of Trustees, and they are Review, the Campus Design Studio • Choosing a Major workshop responsible for reviewing and and the Horizon Magazine. Each of • MAVjobs (job database) administering student fee requests. these groups is professionally advised • Career Resource Center • Cultural Diversity Board (CDB): by faculty members and utilizes the • On-campus employer recruiting This student organization offers latest equipment employed in their programs leadership experiences for students fields. • Optimal Resume and organizes programs to educate • Outdoor Program: This group is *Some restrictions may apply. CMU’s headquarters for outdoor adventure and education. The OP organizes trips and classes including whitewater rafting, rock climbing, and skiing. The rental center is located next to the Residence Life Center. Rent mountain bikes, canoes, kayaks, cross-country skis, backpacks, and other gear.

Educational Access Services Houston Hall , Room 108 970 .248 .1856 Support services for students with documented disabilities are available through Educational Access Services, a division of Academic Services. Several services are available, depending upon the documented disability. Services can include, but are not limited to, volunteer note takers, testing accommodations, and textbooks in alternate formats. Prospective students are encouraged 34 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog to contact the Coordinator of insurance status. Students are required the number of contests so that they Educational Access Services to discuss to pay a $15.00 co-pay for all services shall not unreasonably conflict with accommodations. Students must received at the Student Health Center. students obligations to attend class initiate a request for accommodations The primary services provided are: first regularly, to study, to develop their by contacting the EAS office. A new aid, dispensing of simple medications, intellectual, moral, and social faculties, request must be made each semester. assessment and referral to specialty and to graduate from the university as physicians and dentists, providing educated men and women. The men’s Emergency Contact Services counsel for personal health problems, program at Colorado Mesa University Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 107 simple physicals, and limited lab tests includes baseball, basketball, football, 970 .248 .1366 for a nominal fee. golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, lacrosse, The Office of the Vice President for cross country, track and field and Services include a full-time registered Student Services, located in LHH 109, wrestling. Basketball, cross country, nurse with a part-time physician and is the referral point for emergencies golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, practitioner providing a complement encountered by students. Issues such lacrosse, track and field, and volleyball of health care, Monday-Saturday 8 as messaging for emergencies while a are available to women. student is in class are determined on a.m. to 8 p.m and Sunday noon to a case-by-case basis. It is important to 4 p.m. The physician/practitioner Colorado Mesa University also has six note that the office cannot guarantee provides students with an initial health emerging sports including cycling, a contact with any student due to their assessment and evaluation, treats hockey, cheerleading, rodeo, rugby, and highly mobile behavior, but a good faith minor illnesses, and refers students for skiing. effort will be made. This service is not hospitalization or specialized treatment . Tomlinson Library for non-emergency situations. as needed. A registered nurse is John U available to answer questions and 970 .248 .1862 Tomlinson Library supports the Financial Aid Office provide medical information. educational mission of the University Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 117 The Student Health Center is a by teaching information literacy skills, 970 .248 .1396 contracted service with Community providing assistance in identifying, The Financial Aid Office works Hospital. It is located within easy with students to meet educational locating and evaluating its information walking distance of the college at 1060 sources, and providing a large and expenses through various monetary Orchard Avenue, Suite O. resources. Depending on a student’s diverse collection of materials for use by qualifications, aid is available in the form Hours of Operation: students and faculty. Library materials are of scholarships and grants that do not Monday–Saturday: 8 a.m.–8 p.m. available in a variety of formats including need to be repaid. Additionally, students Sunday: Noon–4 p.m. print, e-books, audio and video; the can apply for loans that are need- or Schedule an appointment on-line at majority of which can be checked out. non-need-based as well as work-study yourcommunityhospital.com/MSCappoint. Articles from journal titles are available employment. cfm or by calling 970-256-6345. through the library website. Materials from other libraries throughout Colorado For emergency illnesses or accidents and the U.S. can be requested for Financial Planning Office that occur after the Center’s hours, Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 112 delivery and pick-up at the Main campus, students can access the Urgent Care WCCC or the Montrose Center. Through 970 .248 .1873 Clinic, also located in Suite O. Immediate If students need assistance with its interlibrary loan service, items not emergency help should be obtained by owned by Tomlinson Library can be payment arrangements, financial dialing 911. planning and financial management, borrowed from other libraries. Help contact the Student Financial Counselor. Intercollegiate Athletics using the library is available in person, Saunders Fieldhouse at the reference desk, or through chat, Health Center 970 .248 .1503 email or telephoning 970.248.1860. The 1060 Orchard Avenue, Suite O Intercollegiate athletics provides library is home to group study rooms, 970 .256 .6345 students with equitable opportunities a silent study area, wireless network, Good health, both physical and to enhance their education, represent computer labs, printing, scanning and emotional, is an important factor in the University, and participate in photocopy capabilities. Tomlinson successful college work. It is the goal of athletics while developing skills and Library is accessible 24/7 via the web. the Colorado Mesa University Student understanding. All undergraduate area, wireless network, computer labs, Health Center to provide competent, students are encouraged to participate printing, scanning and photocopy accessible medical care. Similar to the in intercollegiate athletics as determined capabilities. Tomlinson Library is family physician, the Student Health by their interests and capabilities. accessible 24/7 via the web. Center provides a source of basic medical assistance for the student who Participation in the program, however, Little Mavericks Learning Center is away from home. is secondary to the academic 1340 College Place expectations of students. To this 970 .248 .1318 Outpatient health services are provided end, it is the responsibility of those Childcare is available for children of for registered fee-paying students who administering the program to schedule Colorado Mesa University students. The have a valid student I.D. card regardless the length of playing seasons, the age limit is 1 year and walking up to 5 of the number of credit hours carried or frequency of practice sessions, and Academic & student services, Offices & Activities 35 years. For further information, contact day-to-day worries and pressures of a exchange. For further information, the Center Director. University environment. Students who contact the Admissions Office or visit meet regularly with their mentors are coloradomesa.edu/nes. MAVcard Student I D. . 52% less likely than their peers to miss University Center classes. (Public/Private Ventures study of Office of Student Success 970 .248 .1059 Big Brothers Big Sisters). Albers Hall The Colorado Mesa University MAVcard 970 .248 .1340 is your key to campus services at International Student The Office of Student Success (OSS) Colorado Mesa University. The MAVcard Exchange Program advises all Provisional Baccalaureate (PB) can be used at Tomlinson Library, the Academic Affairs students. These students fall between Hamilton Recreation Center, the Dining Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 208 the Associate and Baccalaureate Hall, Bookcliff Café, the CMU Bookstore, 970 .248 .1881 admission requirements for acceptance Pita Pit, Yoshibowl, J’s Philly Steaks, River Colorado Mesa University is proud to CMU. The PB program gives students City Bagels, Yogo Mojo, Juice Junction, to join the International Student the opportunity to pursue a Bachelor’s all of the campus dining locations as Exchange Program (ISEP). ISEP is a degree while receiving additional well as The Scramble at WCCC and for worldwide network of over 300 colleges advising and academic support. The access to residence halls and athletic and universities across 50 countries. primary role of the OSS is to assist the events. The MAVcard can be enhanced Colorado Mesa University students pay PB students in developing the skills they by linking to a free Wells Fargo® CMU tuition and fees and can apply to need to successfully transition to their checking account, allowing free ATM spend a semester or full academic year desired Baccalaureate program. usage, direct deposit, with access to an at an ISEP foreign institution. A variety The PB program takes a holistic on-campus customer service branch. of exchange options are available. Go to isep.org and/or contact the Academic approach to ensure student success Mentoring Assistance, Affairs Office at 970.248.1881. and is tailored to the individual Student Services Office student through extensive, one-on- Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 107 National Student Exchange Program one interactions with an academic 970 .248 .1366 970 .248 .1613 coach. The OSS has both professional The Student Services Office provides Colorado Mesa University is a member Academic Success Coaches and Peer mentoring assistance for students who of the National Student Exchange Academic Coaches who will assist are in need of support. If a student Program. NSE is a consortium of students with all aspects of their is dealing with any issue the Student over 190 colleges and universities in academic experience, including helping Services office will provide resources the United States and its territories. them successfully transition to college to ensure students success. Mentoring Colorado Mesa University students may life, improve study skills, schedule guarantees a student that there is be able to participate in this program courses, and identify majors and careers someone who cares about them. A at in-state tuition rates for up to one they are interested in pursuing. student is not alone in dealing with academic year and receive full credit for course work completed while on Parking Services University Center 970 .248 .1921 Students and University faculty/staff members who wish to park on campus may purchase parking permits for designated areas. A parking permit does not guarantee a parking space, but allows on-campus parking when such space is available. Campus Recreation Services Hamilton Recreation Center 970 .248 .1592 Campus Recreation Services is established to provide varied programs and services that will contribute to the health and well-being of the students of Colorado Mesa University. The program educates participants in the responsible use of leisure time by providing an atmosphere that fosters the development of lifelong patterns of recreational activities and opportunities for participation in such activities regardless of age, sex, race, or motor ability. To do so, facilities and resources 36 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog are designed to provide appropriate prepares Colorado Mesa University TRiO Student Support Services Program environments for participants through transcripts and evaluates transcripts Houston Hall, Room 121A the following: from other institutions to determine the 970 .248 .1770 number of credits that will apply toward The TRiO Student Support Services • Offering structured competitive a particular degree. Program is sponsored by Colorado Mesa and social opportunities in a variety University and the U.S. Department of individual and team sports Student Diversity & Advocacy of Education. This program is funded (Intramural Sports Program and Club Center for Student Involvement to provide academic and mentoring Sports). Intramural sports include University Center, Room 212I support throughout a student’s flag football, softball, volleyball, The Student Diversity and Advocacy academic career at Colorado Mesa basketball, indoor and outdoor office works alongside the office of University and to increase retention soccer, ultimate Frisbee, disc golf, Student Services to support a diverse and graduation rates of first generation, badminton, tennis, racquetball, student body of Colorado Mesa low income or disabled students. The and dodgeball. Club sports include University. This office specializes in program will assist qualified students cycling, rodeo, rugby, hockey, problem solving and helping students with tutoring, advising, counseling, women’s water polo, men’s volleyball, to become better informed and grow as financial aid advising and mentoring. women’s volleyball, men’s soccer, adults; whether these decisions involve Individual Degree Plans (IDP) are also women’s soccer, Maverick Fencing classes or any other aspect of university developed for selected applicants and Alliance, women’s cross country, life. Student Diversity and Advocacy participants. bowling and men’s swimming. provides for students and faculty the • Providing access to recreation experience of interacting and learning Tutorial Learning Center facilities, equipment, and activities together to respect a broad range of Houston Hall, Room 113 for convenient, informal participation people from diverse backgrounds. This 970 .248 .1392 (Open Recreation Program). These offers an arena for students to have a The Tutorial Learning Center (TLC) facilities include a multi-sport greater appreciation and understanding provides free walk-in tutoring for gymnasium, cardio machines, weight of cultural diversity, and be prepared to a variety of courses and subjects. training circuit machines, free weights, take on leadership roles in society. Students who would like to improve their writing skills, work through math, indoor track, racquetball courts, Testing Center climbing wall, and swimming pool. science, or other technical concepts, Houston Hall, Room 125 review material for any subject, or get .248 .1260 • Offering structured and non- 970 one-on-one assistance and support The Testing Center services include, structured opportunities for improving from other successful students are but are not limited to, examinations and maintaining physical fitness all encouraged to come to the TLC. required for admission to graduate (Fitness/Wellness Program). These Qualified peer tutors, recommended by and professional schools, examinations opportunities include aerobics classes, faculty, are trained to help students with for proficiency and certification in yoga, fitness assessments, exercise their academic endeavors. The central nursing and teaching, and the credit by program prescription, massage goals of peer tutors are to help students examination program. Assessment of therapy, and personal training. become more independent with their academic skills in college level English learning and to create opportunities for • Offering students significant and mathematics are provided through student success. Peer tutors accomplish opportunities for career development, the center for potential students as well as these goals with individuals and small including the acquisition of those who already have been admitted. leadership, management, and groups by: Transfer Services technical skills in all areas of Campus 1) Offering study tips; Recreation Services (Student Admissions Office Employment Program). 970 .248 .1232 2) Giving feedback on student The Center for Transfer Services, within assignments; Registrar’s Office the Admissions Office, offers assistance Lowell Heiny Hall, Room 121 3) Reviewing concepts, types of to students transferring into Colorado problems, and rules; 970 .248 .1555 Mesa University from other institutions. The Registrar’s Office provides a variety Services include preliminary transcript 4) Offering encouragement; of services that include registering evaluation, education planning, 5) Helping students follow an students into classes, maintaining transition to academic departments, instructor’s directions and use their academic records, V.A. benefits and and resolution of transfer problems. textbooks, syllabi, and materials certifying degree requirements for Transfer Services staff is available by more effectively; graduation. The office is responsible for appointment and for walk-ins. As part 6) Introducing students to self-help processing applications for readmission of the Admissions Office, the Center and campus resources available to to Colorado Mesa University, as well works closely with the Registrar’s Office them; and as forms to add/drop a class, holds to provide students with information on registration, change of address, about their transfer credits and how 7) Reinforcing what students already non-release of directory information those credits may be applied. know and understand. protected by federal law, and enrollment verification for loan or insurance purposes. The office also Registration Policies and Procedures 37

Registration Policies and Procedures

Contact: O ffice of the Registrar, Lowell Heiny Hall Room 121, Colorado Mesa University, 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501-3122. Call 970.248.1555.

Overview Colorado Mesa University website. It Administrative drops may be processed is the student’s responsibility to make as a result of non-attendance in the Once admitted to Colorado Mesa a copy of the schedule reflecting any first two weeks. Faculty will report University, a student meets with an courses dropped via the web. attendance on affected students via academic advisor (see Academic the Satisfactory Academic Attendance Advising section). Not all courses Attendance System. Students will be notified via available in this catalog are offered Students are expected to attend all their CMU email account if they may every semester or every year. Course be dropped from the course. Tuition, schedule offerings for each semester, sessions of each course in which they are enrolled. Failure to do so may result fees, and financial aid will be adjusted including registration instructions, are according to the credits remaining in available through the Colorado Mesa in a lowered grade, exclusion from class at the discretion of the instructor, or an the schedule. University website at coloradomesa. edu and in the Registrar’s Office. administrative drop for non-attended courses. Students should not assume that Students who receive financial aid and Students may register via MAVzone or cease attending classes may need to in person at the Registrar’s Office. non-attendance will result in an automatic drop from a class (see the Student Liability repay all or a portion of their financial aid. for Tuition & Fees above). Student Liability Absences for Tuition & Fees Instructors may drop any student It is the responsibility of the student to arrange in advance with instructors For all students, the act of registration who fails to attend the first two class meetings so that other students may for making up missed classwork, automatically confirms attendance assignments or tests incurred because of and the student will incur a financial enroll. Instructors may also initiate a drop or withdrawal for a student a student’s participation in required field obligation to the University. A registered trips, intercollegiate sports, or other trips. student is responsible for paying his/her who fails to attend classes regularly. (“Drops” are up to 15% of class elapsed; The coach, instructor, or other official tuition and fees, regardless of whether whose activities require students to be or not he/she attend classes, unless “withdrawals” are up to the mid-point of the class.) Not all instructors will exercise absent from classes should give each the student officially withdraws from participating student an “official” roster the University through the Registrar’s this option; therefore, a student should not assume that non-attendance will and schedule of events for the semester Office or drops all courses via the web or other appropriate time span which prior to the deadlines published on the result in an automatic drop from a class. may result in classes being missed. The 38 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog student is responsible for contacting in the Registrar’s Office. Students submit a Total Withdraw form to the the instructor of each of his/her classes who officially withdraw from a course Registrar’s Office. See the calendar on affected at least 24 hours in advance of prior to the date of mid-semester (see the Colorado Mesa University website each class that will be missed. website for specific date) will receive a for details. The necessary withdrawal “W.” Students who withdraw after the papers must be filled out by the Absences due to serious illness or deadline will automatically receive student and officially signed by the strictly unavoidable circumstances may a grade of “F” except for cases with appropriate staff. Grades of “W” will be be excused if the instructor in charge extenuating, non-academic reasons. given if done so before the deadline of the course is satisfied as to the and if all withdrawal procedures have cause. In the case of an emergency, the In addition to regular withdrawal from been satisfied for courses in which student may contact the Office of the class(es) by the student, an instructor the student has not already received Vice President for Student Services, and may initiate a withdrawal from his or a grade (including F). Students totally that office will contact the student’s her class for failure to attend class, withdrawing after the deadline will instructors to inform them of the failure to turn in assignments over receive grades of “F.” Exceptions to the emergency. an extended period of time, or for withdrawal deadline are possible and disciplinary reasons. In such cases, are considered only by written appeal Being excused for an absence in the instructor must observe regular in the case of substantial non-academic no way relieves the student of withdrawal deadlines. circumstances outside the student’s responsibility for completing all work control. The Appeals Committee associated with the course to the Emergency or Hardship Withdrawal will review completed, documented satisfaction of the instructor. Being from Individual Classes requests. Appeal forms are available in late to a class or leaving a class early In the case of an event that qualifies the Registrar’s Office. is disruptive and is not acceptable as an emergency or hardship, students except in extreme circumstances or may request an Emergency or Hardship Class Waitlists with prior approval of the instructor. Withdrawal from an instructor after Prior approval is also required of the 50 percent, but before 75 percent of a Automated waitlists are available to instructor if a student wishes to bring a course is completed. An emergency students during the registration process. guest (or a child) to class. or hardship situation is defined For general classes, when a seat opens, as a significant, unexpected non- the first student on the list is emailed Add/Drops— academic circumstance beyond the and given a time period with which the student’s control and is granted at the student can add the course. It is the Schedule discretion of the instructor. Failing, student’s responsibility to check their Adjustments poor performance in a course, or CMU email for notification that his/ her waitlisted class has opened. Failure Students may make adjustments to other academic-related reasons do to register within the designated time their schedules according to specified not constitute circumstances for an frame will result in the student being deadlines and procedures published on emergency withdrawal. removed from the waitlist and the the Colorado Mesa University website. opportunity moving the next student Students dropping all of their courses Students seeking an emergency on the list. The electronic waitlist is should refer to the Withdrawal section withdrawal must complete the proper deleted after the first week of a sixteen- of this catalog. withdraw form, consult the instructor, and return the signed form to the week class (1/16 of the class for non- Registrar’s Office. Substantiating standard parts of term). Withdrawal documentation (e.g., doctor’s notes, Procedures court documents, death certificates) Electronic waitlists for courses with co-requisites (lecture/lab combinations) W ithdrawal from Individual Classes may be required at the request of the are administered by the Registrar’s Students may withdraw from individual instructor. Office. The open spaces are given to classes (full semester duration, modular, the first student on the waitlist who and summer) via MAVzone prior to Total Withdrawal from the College can successfully be registered for both the start of the session (semester Students who desire to withdraw totally the lecture and lab. The waitlist on or modular). Once the session has from Colorado Mesa University are co-requisite courses will be cleared the begun, a withdrawal is permitted up advised to notify their faculty advisor or Friday before the semester starts to to the mid-point of those classes. See the Advising and Career Center prior to ensure class/lab combinations fill. the calendar on the Colorado Mesa obtaining the appropriate paperwork

University website for details. After from the Registrar’s Office. The time limit to add from the waitlist the session has begun, a Change of will drop from 72 hours to 48 hours the Schedule form, properly completed Prior to the first day of the semester, week before school starts and down to and with the instructor’s signature, is students may totally withdraw from 24 hours once classes begin. Students required and must be submitted to Colorado Mesa University by dropping still wishing to add a closed class after the Registrar’s Office by the deadlines all classes via MAVzone. If a student the waitlist has been deleted must published on the Colorado Mesa desires to totally withdraw after the submit a complete Change of Schedule University website. Forms are available semester has begun, he/she must Registration Policies and Procedures 39 form with instructor’s signature to 9. Most recent educational institution The deadline for a student to change the Registrar’s Office prior to the add attended from “no-credit desired/audit,” to credit is deadline (class census). 10. E-mail address the same as the deadline to add a class. The last day for a student to change from Family Educational Note: At any time, a student may credit to “no-credit desired/audit” is the Rights & Privacy Act request to the Registrar’s Office that same as the deadline to drop a class. Directory Information not be released General Policy to other parties without written Golden Scholars The Family Educational Rights and permission. This request will be honored (formerly Senior Passport Program) Privacy Act (FERPA) provides students until the student requests in writing who are enrolled in an institution of Colorado Mesa University provides that Directory Information be disclosed. postsecondary education the right individualized support, including to inspect, review, and challenge academic and scheduling decisions, for Access to Student their educational records. Colorado persons 60 years and older. For more Educational Records Mesa University has the responsibility information, contact the Registrar’s Office. FERPA provides current students, former of maintaining and protecting the students, and parents of students who confidentiality of students’ official Classes for Credit claim the student as a dependent educational records. Colorado Mesa Persons 60 years or older who wish to (according to Internal Revenue Code University also supervises the access to enroll for credit must submit required of 1954, Section 152) for income tax and/or release of educational records of admission and registration materials purposes on their most current federal its students. FERPA covers enrolled and to the Admissions Office. The same tax return the right to inspect, review, former students, including deceased deadlines, costs, etc., as for other and challenge their educational records. students. Students who are not students will apply. accepted to Colorado Mesa University, Students are permitted to inspect and Classes for No Credit or if accepted, do not attend, have no review their educational records within rights under FERPA. In addition, the Persons 60 years of age or older who a maximum of 45 days after the request do not wish to earn college credit University will not release personally is received. Students may not review identifiable records of students to any may attend undergraduate resident financial information received from their instruction classes on a space-available, individual, agency or organization parents or guardians; confidential letters without the prior written consent of the instructor-approved basis at Colorado and recommendations placed in their files Mesa University for a reduced fee. student, except as provided by FERPA. prior to January 1, 1975; academic records containing information regarding other Directory Information Interested persons should obtain students; administrative, disciplinary, law an application from the Registrar’s Colorado Mesa University may, without enforcement, student health records, the consent of the student, release Office. Once admitted, registration and/or records which are maintained in for classes is at the beginning of the to persons outside the institution the sole possession of the maker. information designated as Directory semester either through MAVzone or Information in accordance with the Registrar’s Office. Courses needing While students who have a financial hold special permission must have faculty the provisions of FERPA. Directory or past due account (all holds included) Information shall include information in approval on a signed Add/Drop Form have a right to inspect their academic submitted to the Registrar’s Office. an educational record which would not records, no transcript will be released to generally be considered harmful or an the student or other party until holds invasion of privacy if released, including are reconciled. Bankruptcy, however, but not limited to: removes any financial obligations the student has to Colorado Mesa University. Student name, address, telephone # 1. Please contact the Registrar’s Office with 2. Date and place of birth questions regarding this policy. 3. Major fields of study 4. Participation in officially recognized No-Credit Desired/ activities and sports Audit Courses 5. Weight and height of athletic team A student who desires to attend certain members undergraduate classes regularly, but does not wish to receive grades or 6. Photographs credit, should register for “no-credit 7. Dates of attendance to include desired” in these classes. enrollment status (i.e., full time or part time) Tuition charges for classes taken under 8. Degrees and awards received the “no-credit desired” category are the same as for classes taken for credit, but are not eligible for the COF voucher. 40 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

General Undergraduate Academic Policies

Student Load Student Classification and Limitations Preparation/ Status The normal student load is 15 semester Academic A student is classified based on the hours (some disciplines require a higher Engagement for number of semester hours successfully number). The minimum load required Class Meetings completed as follows: for a student to be recognized as a 0 - 30 Freshman full-time student is 12 semester hours. In compliance with the requirements 31-60 Sophomore If students register for fewer than 12 of the U.S. Department of Education 61-90 Junior semester hours, they are classified as and consistent with the expectations 91+ Senior part-time students. of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Colorado Mesa University Grading System Students receiving scholarships and/ defines a contact hour as 50 minutes. Grades at Colorado Mesa University are or financial aid are generally expected Thus a one credit hour, 15-week course as follows: to complete 12 hours of credit courses equates to 750 minutes (15 contact A = Excellent to superior; each semester. In order to receive hours) of academic engagement plus a B = Good to excellent; full Veteran’s Administration financial minimum of 1500 minutes (30 hours) of C = Satisfactory; benefits, veterans must be enrolled in 12 student preparation. D = Passing but not satisfactory; or more semester hours each semester F = Fail; of attendance, for the entire semester. An undergraduate student should I = Incomplete; expect to spend on an individual course It is recommended that students in IP = In progress; a minimum of two hours outside W = Withdraw; good academic standing limit their the classroom for every hour in the academic load to 18 semester hours or NC = No credit; classroom. The outside hours may vary P = Pass. fewer. Students must obtain a signature depending on the number of credit from their advisor before attempting hours or type of course. This expectation an overload between 19-21 semester Incomplete (“I”) grades are temporary applies to all courses, regardless of grades given to a student only in an hours in a regualr semester or between wherever or however the instruction is 10-12 semester hours in a summer emergency case and at the discretion of delivered. More details are available from the instructor. term. Students interested in enrolling the faculty member or department office for more than 21 hours in a regular and in CMU’s Curriculum Policies and term or more than 12 in a summer At the end of the semester following Procedures Manual. the one in which an “I” is given, the “I” term must submit, in writing, their plan for success during the overload and becomes the grade that is submitted by Academic engagement” may include, the instructor to the Registrar’s Office. If obtain signature approval from their but is not limited to, submitting an faculty advisor. Students must then the instructor does not submit a grade academic assignment, listening to class by the deadline for that semester, the obtain signature approvals from the lectures or webinars (synchronously Department Heads with over sight over grade becomes an “F.” A grade of “I” given or asynchronously), listening to spring semester must be addressed by their degree programs and the Vice a guest speaker, taking an exam, President of Academic Affairs. Students the end of the following fall term. completing a writing assignment, an earning a cumulative Colorado Mesa interactive tutorial or computer-assisted University grade point average of 2.00 Extension of the time to complete instruction, attending a study group work may be made in exceptional or lower will be limited to 15 credit that is assigned by the institution, hours per semester. circumstances at the discretion of conducting research (e.g., for a project, the instructor. A student with an “I” play production, etc.), contributing grade, however, may not change the to an academic on-line discussion, “I” by enrolling in the same course initiating contact with a faculty member another semester. to ask a question about the academic subject studied in the class, conducting laboratory work, completing an externship or internship.

Footnote (1): Student preparation may include, but is not limited to, homework such as reading and study time, completing outside assignments and projects, practice for performance, writing lab reports, attending mandatory theatre and music performances, observing professional meetings (e.g., school board meetings for education courses), and attending faculty seminars and colloquia.

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Grades of “P” are passing grades and are Students failing to achieve the their cumulative grade point average not included in the GPA. “P” grades at minimum GPAs listed above will be at Colorado Mesa University falls the undergraduate level are only used placed on academic probation. The below the minimums listed under GPA for zero credit hour courses, sub-100 student will remain on probation minimum. level labs or non-traditional credits such until the minimum GPA is achieved, as CLEP, AP, military credits, etc., and providing the student earns a minimum Upon being placed on academic may be applicable toward graduation. semester GPA of 2.00. If a student probation, students are permitted to already on academic probation fails to continue studies for one semester, Academic Standards earn a semester GPA of 2.00, the student during which time they are expected to The scholastic standing of a student at will be placed on academic suspension. improve their cumulative grade point Colorado Mesa University is computed The student will be prohibited from average to the minimum required levels. on the basis of all courses attempted further attendance at Colorado Mesa Those who succeed will be removed at Colorado Mesa University (unless University for a minimum of one from academic probation. academic renewal has been approved; semester (see Academic Probation and see next page). Grades awarded from Suspension section.) Students on academic probation will any other institution will not be utilized remain on academic probation until A student must achieve a cumulative they raise their cumulative grade point in the grade point average (GPA) grade point average of 2.00 or higher calculation. average to the required level. Once on to graduate at the certificate, associate, probation, a student must maintain or baccalaureate level. Some programs Colorado Mesa University uses the four a minimum semester grade point have additional GPA requirements average of 2.00 to avoid being placed point system in computing the grade to remain in and graduate from that point average of its students. Under this on academic suspension. Additionally, program. See Programs of Study section students with a cumulative Colorado system, a student receives four quality and subject program sheet for specifics. points for each semester hour of A; Mesa University grade point average of three points for each semester hour of 2.00 or lower will be limited to 15 credit B; two points for each semester hour Calculation of hours per semester. of C; one point for each semester hour Grade Point of D; and no quality points for an F. An Average for Academic Suspension indicates the example follows: student is not in good standing and Graduation represents a temporary, involuntary 3 Semester Hours of A = 12 points Only the grades and credits awarded separation of the student from the 3 Semester Hours of B = 9 points at Colorado Mesa University will be University for a minimum of one 3 Semester Hours of C = 6 points used in calculating the student’s grade semester for failure to meet minimum 3 Semester Hours of D = 3 points point average for graduation. Grades academic standards. 3 Semester Hours of F = 0 points awarded from any other institution 15 Semester Hours 30 points will not be utilized in the grade point Following an academic suspension, a average calculation. student must apply for readmission to Thirty (30) points divided by 15 Colorado Mesa University. For degree semester hours = 2.00 GPA The specific discipline area program programs that do not have separate requirements must be completed as admission policies, the readmission GPA Minimum required by the appropriate academic to Colorado Mesa University is also department with a cumulative grade readmission to the degree program as Students are considered to be making point average of 2.00 or higher. long as the degree still exists. For degree “satisfactory progress” toward a degree if programs having admission policies they attain a cumulative GPA consistent Academic Probation over and above admission to Colorado with the table listed below. Incomplete Mesa University, the student must also (“I”) and In Progress (“IP”) grades are and Suspension reapply to the degree program. tentative grades and until changed are Good Standing signifies that the not considered in computing either the student is making satisfactory academic A student may be suspended from cumulative grade point average or the progress (see Academic Standards and readmitted to Colorado Mesa grade point average for the particular section) and is eligible to continue University a maximum of two times. semester concerned. “W” hours do not studies at Colorado Mesa University. Academic suspension, when imposed, count as hours attempted or in the GPA. becomes effective immediately upon (See section on Withdrawal Procedures) Academic Probation indicates a the recording of grades at the end of student is not in good standing the semester or summer term. Cumulative Credit Hours Cumulative GPA and constitutes a warning to the 0 – 15 1.70 student that the student’s scholastic The first suspension shall be for a 16 – 30 1.80 achievement needs improvement or period of one semester; i.e., a student 31 – 45 1.90 suspension will result. Students will suspended at the end of fall semester 46 and above 2.00 be placed on academic probation if may not attend the following spring 42 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog semester; a student suspended at The option of repeating a course for examination. These exams are the end of spring semester may not grade improvement is available to a administered several times each year attend the following summer and fall student only if the course s/he wishes at numerous locations throughout semesters. A student suspended at the to repeat is still offered at Colorado the United States. College Board end of summer term may not attend Mesa University and is scheduled to be Advanced Placement examination the following fall semester. offered in the semester in which the scores currently accepted by Colorado student wishes to take it. The last grade Mesa University are: Studio Art-General; The second suspension shall be for a earned will be the grade used, whether Studio Art-Drawing; Art History; Biology; period of two semesters (i.e., a student better or worse than the earlier grade(s). Chemistry; Computer Science A; suspended at the end of fall semester Computer Science AB; Macroeconomics; may not attend the next spring or fall Courses taken at Colorado Mesa Microeconomics; English Literature semester; a student suspended at the University may not be repeated at & Composition; English Language end of spring semester may not attend another university for improvement of & Composition; French Language; the following fall or spring semester). the original grade and courses taken French Literature; German Language; A student suspended at the end of at another university may not be German Literature; Latin-Virgil; Latin summer term may not attend the repeated at Colorado Mesa University for Literature; Spanish Language; Spanish following fall or spring semester. improvement of the original grade. Literature; Government & Politics- United States; Government & Politics- Students may not enroll in any credit Academic Renewal Comparative; US History; European classes whatsoever (including summer A student who re-enrolls at Colorado History; World History; Human term) during the period of suspension. Mesa University following an absence Geography; Mathematics-Calculus AB; of at least five years may be eligible Mathematics-Calculus BC; Music Theory; Course Repeat/ for academic renewal. If academic Physics B; Physics C;-Mechanics; Physics Grade Improvement renewal is approved, none of the C-Electricity & Magnetism; Psychology; and Statistics. Any course which is taken more than course credits and grades earned once for academic credit at Colorado at Colorado Mesa University prior The Registrar’s Office will supply Mesa University is done so only for to the five-year minimum absence information concerning the scores “grade improvement” wherein academic will be used for meeting graduation required for earning academic credit in credit is awarded only once and the requirements or in determining the the various subject areas. last grade received is the one used student’s grade point average. to compute the student’s cumulative 2 . C redit by Examination and grade point average and to fulfill Among the requirements to be Department Challenge Exams requirements for the degree. eligible to apply/petition for “academic Students attending Colorado Mesa renewal” is that the student must have University and Western Colorado Exceptions to this policy are DANC completed 24 academic course credits Community College may earn college (performing dance), MUSL (music at Colorado Mesa University, excluding credit by examination in certain lessons) and MUSP (performing music) kinesiology courses and remedial subject areas through the College classes, each of which may be taken courses below the 100 level, with a Level Examination Program (CLEP) and twice for academic credit; Independent minimum grade point average of 3.00. DANTES Examination Program. The Studies (a maximum of six semester The student must apply/petition in Registrar’s Office will supply information credit hours may be taken for credit the Registrar’s Office no later than the concerning the scores required for – see the Independent Study section semester following the completion earning academic credit in the various in this catalog); and in some cases of these 24 semester credit hours. subject areas. Topics, Practica, Seminars, Internships, Matriculation and/or course completion at other institutions during the five-year Credit may also be earned by subject Structured Research, and Cooperative matter tests offered through various Education. See program sheets and period of absence has no bearing on the application/petition. departments at Colorado Mesa the appropriate department head or University and Western Colorado director for these exceptions. Community College through Non-Traditional departmental challenge exams. Additionally, program-specific Credit Students must have completed 12 exceptions to retaking courses semester credit hours of coursework for grade improvement may exist Non-traditional credit can be earned from sources such as the following: at Colorado Mesa University before regarding courses in the major and challenge exam credits will be recorded may supersede the University’s general 1. Advanced Placement Program on a transcript. See the specific policy. Students should check with the Students wishing academic credit or department for more information on head of the academic department for advanced placement for college level possible challenge exam options. their major to determine if there are any work done while enrolled in high restrictions for repeating a course. school should take the appropriate College Board Advanced Placement General undergraduate academic policies 43

3 . I nternational Baccalaureate cooperative education and simply semester credit hours allowed. Program holding a job. Cooperative education Maximum of 30 semester credit Colorado Mesa University recognizes is based on learning objectives which hours for a baccalaureate degree the International Baccalaureate Diploma are related to the student’s academic or 15 semester credit hours for an Program and awards credit to qualifying discipline and are established in associate degree. high school students based on their cooperation with student, the employer, 5. Competency Credit/Credit for examination scores. For policy details the faculty advisor, and others at Prior Learning – maximum of 30 contact the Registrar’s Office or check Colorado Mesa University. semester credit hours toward a the CMU website. Typically, cooperative education is open baccalaureate degree or 25 percent 4 . Credit for Prior Learning to junior and senior students. Interested of the total semester credit hours The practice of awarding credit for students should consult with their faculty required for an associate degree at college-level prior learning is based advisor and academic department the prerogative of the department upon the belief that education which head or director. There are limits on head. A student may earn the builds on, interprets, and incorporates the number of credits which will apply maximum of 25 percent of the past and present knowledge is the towards a degree. Graduate students total semester credit hours required education that is most meaningful to should consult the Graduate Policies and toward the degree or certificate the student. Colorado Mesa University Procedures section of this catalog. through portfolio assessment. and Western Colorado Community Other restrictions may apply. See Non-traditional Credit Guidelines College recognize that students may the Registrar’s Office for details The faculty and department head of have gained college-level knowledge and guidelines or CMU website each department determine if and and competencies through their coloradomesa.edu/eso/pla.html. under what conditions non-traditional work and life experiences which can 6. Cooperative education, Internships, credit is allowed. If allowed, the be incorporated into their academic Practica, etc. – maximum of 15 following limits apply: programs. semester credit hours may be used 1. Military credits – maximum of to satisfy the required academic The development of a portfolio to 20 lower division semester credit semester credits for a baccalaureate demonstrate competency acquired hours. degree and 6 semester credit hours through work or other life experience 2. CLEP, DANTES & Credit by may apply toward an Associate of can be pursued for many technical Examination/Department Arts or Associate of Science degree. or applications-based areas. Students Challenge Exams – maximum A maximum of 15 semester credit wanting to pursue this option must enroll of 30 semester credit hours for a hours may apply toward the 40 in the Portfolio Development Workshop baccalaureate degree, 20 semester upper division hour requirement. SUPP 105 before creating a portfolio. The credit hours for an Associate No restriction on the maximum portfolio will be produced in collaboration of Applied Science degree, 12 number of semester credit hours with faculty from the desired department. semester credit hours for an above and beyond any degree Students must obtain course syllabi Associate of Arts or an Associate requirement is intended. These and complete the application for prior of Science degree, and 6 semester restrictions do not apply to the learning credit to participate in the credit hours for a technical Associate of Applied Science Portfolio Development Workshop. For certificate. Students may not earn degree or technical certificate policy details see the Registrar’s Office or CLEP or DANTES credit in a class programs. check the CMU website. in which they have previously The total combination of non-traditional 5 . Cooperative Education, been enrolled including a class credit cannot exceed: Internships, Practica from which the student withdrew, 1. 30 semester credit hours for a Cooperative education is a working so that the transcript shows a W, baccalaureate degree; partnership in which an educational WP or WF. Students must receive institution such as Colorado Mesa approval and follow the procedure 2. 15 semester credit hours for an University or Western Colorado to challenge a course, including Associate of Arts or Associate of Community College joins with an enrolling in that course. See the Science degree; employer in a structure relationship. Registrar’s Office for a copy of the 3. 20 semester credit hours for an The basic purpose is that of providing a procedure. Associate of Applied Science means whereby a student can combine 3. Advanced Placement – maximum degree; college study with a work experience of 30 semester credit hours for a 4. Twenty-five percent of the semester which is under employer supervision baccalaureate degree, 15 semester credit hours required for a technical to fulfill the total requirements of a credit hours for an associate certificate. particular educational program. degree, or six semester credit hours Cooperative education is a three-way for a technical certificate. Independent Study partnership involving the student, the 4. International Baccalaureate – The Independent study permits the employer and the university. There subject exams and score shown motivated student an opportunity to is a great deal of difference between on each student’s transcript expand his or her body of knowledge will determine the number of beyond the scope of the standard 44 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog curriculum. It endeavors to foster testing, etc. Final examinations are a For Baccalaureate Degrees: qualities of self-initiative, organizational part of the evaluation process. Cum Laude— skills, self-discipline and independent Baccalaureate degree graduates thinking. It is expected that the student Article 13 of House Bill 1187, enacted with cumulative grade point will engage in intensive study and in July of 1985 by the Colorado General averages of 3.50 to 3.74. research of the topic. Assembly, established that institutions of higher education in Colorado are to Magna Cum Laude— Independent study does not satisfy be held accountable for demonstrable Baccalaureate degree graduates general education requirements improvements in student knowledge, with cumulative grade point or specific course requirements. capacities, and skills between entrance averages of 3.75 to 3.89. Independent study hours may be and graduation. Summa Cum Laude— taken for elective credit. Independent Baccalaureate degree graduates study is available primarily to students Students are required by Colorado Mesa University to take part in with cumulative grade point at the junior and senior levels with a averages of 3.90 to 4.00. minimum GPA of 2.75 except in certain testing and other programs deemed certificate and A.A.S. programs and only necessary for compliance with this Exceptions for students not explicitly in those disciplines listed in the Course legislation. Students who do not meeting the criteria for a particular Descriptions section of this catalog. abide by these requirements may be category may be recommended to denied registration and/or graduation the Vice President for Academic Affairs The work is to be completed within privileges. Portions of the assessment by the department head or director. one semester from the initiation date process may require time outside the The grade point average for honors/ and is limited to a total of six or fewer normal class periods. distinction at commencement does semester credit hours taken at Colorado not include final-term, in-progress Mesa University. Honor Lists courses. The ultimate honors/ The department head or director of the The President’s List is made up of those distinction recognition to appear academic department issuing credit students who earn a GPA of 4.00 while on the permanent record/transcript must approve any exceptions. enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester will reflect the appropriate category hours for a particular semester. based on the inclusion of the final- An Individualized Learning Contract, term course grades required for the available from the Academic The Dean’s List includes students completion of degree requirements. Department Head, is to be initiated who achieve a grade point average of by the student desiring independent between 3.50 and 3.99 while enrolled in Honor Societies study in consultation with a supervising a minimum of 12 semester hours for a instructor. The contract must include particular semester. Membership in Alpha Chi is the highest justification, description, monitoring, and academic honor which Colorado Mesa The lists are based on semester grades, University can bestow upon its scholars. evaluating procedures, and the approval not cumulative grade point averages. by the instructor and department head. To be eligible for election, students must Regardless of grade point average, a have completed at least 75 semester Further restrictions apply in some student who receives a failing grade hours toward the baccalaureate degree disciplines. Students wishing to take (“F”) in any course is not eligible for the with a GPA of 3.75 or better and be an independent study should check Dean’s List. fully recognized by their faculty and with the appropriate instructor and/ To graduate with Honors or Distinction, department heads as having the or department head or director well in the student’s cumulative grade qualities of character pertaining to the advance. point average will be used in the true scholar. Alpha Chi is the second oldest and second largest of those With permission of the instructor, determination of inclusion in the national scholastic honoraries which students may register for regular classes Honors/Distinction categories listed elect members from all academic fields. but do the work independently, or below. Each year during formal on their own. This is not the same as commencement ceremonies Colorado Alpha Phi Sigma is the national “Independent Study.” Students who Mesa University recognizes the following honor society in criminal justice. For have made prior arrangement with the categories of academic achievement: membership in Alpha Phi Sigma, a instructor will still register for the regular For Associate Degrees: political science major or other student course, and not for Independent Study. With Distinction— who has completed at least four classes Associate degree graduates in criminal justice must maintain an Learning with cumulative grade point overall GPA of 3.20. Progress Evaluation averages of 3.50 to 3.74. Beta Beta Beta is the National Honor Society in Biology at Colorado Mesa The evaluation of a student’s learning With High Distinction— University. For full membership in Beta progress in a course is considered to Associate degree graduates Beta Beta, a biology major must have be a planned and continuous process with cumulative grade point completed at least three classes in and consists of a variety of activities averages of 3.75 to 4.00. biology and have a minimum GPA of including judgment, observation, General undergraduate academic policies 45

3.00. With these qualifications, a student Psi Chi, the national honor society in the responsibility and obligation of may be nominated for membership. psychology, is open for membership conducting themselves in a manner Kappa Mu Epsilon is an honor society to students with either a major or compatible with the purpose of the for students of mathematics. Its minor in psychology. Minimum University as an educational institution and chapters are located in colleges and qualifications for membership are as the community as a place of residence. In universities of recognized standing follows: rank in the top 35% of one’s addition to University rules and regulations, which offer a strong mathematics class with a minimum 3.00 overall GPA; all students are subject to the same local, major. The nominated and inducted 3.25 psychology GPA; completion of state, and federal laws as non-students and members are selected from students 9 semester hours in psychology; and are beneficiaries of the same safeguards of of mathematics and other closely completion of at least three semesters rights as non-students. of university coursework. The purpose related fields who have maintained The academic community has a long of Psi Chi is to promote and maintain high standards of scholarship, have and cherished tradition of expecting excellence in scholarship in the field of professional merit, and have attained its members to conduct themselves in psychology and to advance the science academic distinction. The local accordance with the highest standards of psychology. chapter, Colorado Delta, is a working of personal behavior. The following organization throughout the academic Sigma Gamma Epsilon, a national are among those acts of misconduct year. It functions as an integral part of honor society for the earth sciences, which are not consistent with the the Computer Science, Mathematics, has for its objectives the scholastic educational goals of Colorado Mesa and Statistics Department of Colorado and scientific advancement of its University or with the traditions of the Mesa University. members and the extension of academic community: Nu Kappa Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau friendship and assistance among colleges, universities, and scientific 1. Academic dishonesty, such as International, recognizes achievement cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly in nursing. The purposes of the society schools for the advancement of the Earth Sciences. Membership in Zeta furnishing false information to are to recognize superior achievement the University. and leadership qualities, foster high Nu Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon professional standards, encourage is open to continuing Earth Science 2. Forgery, alteration, misuse or creative work and strengthen majors with at least twelve credit hours mutilation of University documents, commitment to the ideals and of Earth Science coursework completed records, identification materials, or purposes of the profession. Students with a minimum GPA of 3.00. Qualified educational materials. students are reviewed and may be must have a minimum GPA of 3.00 and 3. Obstruction or disruption of teaching, nominated each semester. rank in the upper 35 percent of their research, administrative, or public class to be eligible for membership. Sigma Pi Sigma is the national honor service functions of the University. Nurses from the community may society in physics. For membership in 4. Intentional interference with an also be nominated for membership Sigma Pi Sigma, a physics major or other individual’s rights to free speech, if they have demonstrated marked student who has completed at least freedom to make academic inquiry, achievement in nursing education, three classes in physics must maintain or freedom of conscience. practice, research or publication. an overall GPA of 3.00 and a 3.25 GPA in 5. Aiding, abetting or inciting others to Phi Alpha Theta is the international physics. A qualifying student may then commit any act of misconduct set honor society in history. The objective be nominated for membership by the forth in 1 through 4 above. of this professional honor society is combined physics faculty. the promotion of the study of history Sigma Tau Delta, the national Penalties for acts of misconduct through the encouragement of research, English honor society, endeavors to including, but not limited to, those good teaching, publication, and the encourage, promote, and recognize set forth above can range from official exchange of learning and thought scholarship and achievement in warning to expulsion from University, among historians. To be eligible for English language and literature. depending upon the seriousness of membership, a student must have Membership is open to sophomore, the misconduct. Detailed disciplinary completed twelve or more hours of junior, and senior English majors with procedures are available from the Office history with a minimum GPA in history of a minimum GPA of 3.00 in English. of the Vice President for Student Services, 3.10 and a minimum overall GPA of 3.00. located in Lowell Heiny Hall 107. Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the national Pi Sigma Alpha is the national honor society for computer science. honor society in political science. Academic Integrity For membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, a Student Conduct All faculty, administration, and students political science major or other student of Colorado Mesa University have a Colorado Mesa University is a community who has completed at least four classes responsibility for establishing and fostering consisting of students, faculty, support in political science (three at the 300 or an understanding of the importance of staff, and administrators. The University 400 level) must maintain an overall GPA academic integrity. Academic dishonesty does not attempt to define all “student of 3.00 and a 3.2 GPA in political science. includes but is not limited to representing conduct.” It relies on students to assume work of others as your own without proper 46 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

acknowledgment, giving or receiving assistance • Vice President for Student Services if on exams, papers, projects, or assignments behavior or conduct related; or unless authorized to do so; and misrepresenting • Director of Human Resources if an your identity or allowing others to do so. alleged violation of discrimination in Incidents should be reported to the instructor of employment or education opportunity. the course if possible, or contact the Academic Department Head. Actions may be taken as a For additional information, go to http:// result of academic dishonesty. For more details, www.coloradomesa.edu/academics/ see the Student and Academic Policies Guide documents/StudentComplaintPolicy_Final. at https://www.coloradomesa.edu/shared/ pdf documents/Academic_Policies_Guide.pdf. Student Appeals Student Complaint Students have the right to appeal actions or sanctions (such as those relating to Policy grades or academic dishonesty) and An official complaint is when a student alleges: should begin the process by meeting with the course instructor. The Student 1. the institution has violated local, state, and/or and Academic Policies Guide provides federal law; a detailed explanation of Academic 2. a breach of contract e.g. failure to meet Integrity, Academic Dishonesty, Student institutional obligations as presented in a Appeals, Grade Appeals and related recruiting material document, application processes. The guide is available on for enrollment or student housing, course the CMU website at https://www. syllabus, etc.; or, coloradomesa.edu/shared/documents/ 3. a passive response by the institution to a Academic_Policies_Guide.pdf. The complaint by a student that resulted in University provides that all student material damages to the student. concerns, grievances, and appeals that are not covered under a specific policy Disagreement with an administrative decision, may be directed either to the Office of or the outcome of an appeal of that decision, the Vice President for Academic Affairs is not a complaint unless it alleges improper, or to the Office of the Vice President for unfair, or arbitrary treatment. The complaint Student Services. must be in writing with an identifiable signature and is not already covered by another existing policy or process (see attached table). A student wishing to file a complaint should do so as promptly as possible following the alleged violation, but by no later than February 15 for a concern occurring during the prior fall semester, June 15 for the prior spring semester, and September 15 for the prior summer term. Timely initiation of a complaint rests with the student. The complaint should be in writing and signed by the complainant or submitted electronically from a Colorado Mesa University student email address. The complaint should 1) describe the issue that is the basis for the complaint, including the steps have been taken to informally resolve the problem, and 2) include any relevant documents the student would like to be reviewed as part of the complaint process. Depending on the nature of the violation, the complaint should be sent to the Office of the - • Vice President for Academic Affairs or the Vice President for Community College Affairs if the concern is academic-related; • Vice President for Finance and Administration if service-related; undergraduate Graduation Requirements 47

Undergraduate Graduation Requirements

Contact: O ffice of the Registrar, Lowell Heiny Hall Room 121, Colorado Mesa University, 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction CO 81501-3122. Call 970.248.1555.

Students are expected to assume set forth in the program sheet which for summer graduates is February responsibility for planning their may be obtained from the department or September, depending on the academic programs in accordance with offering the degree s/he is seeking ceremony in which the student wishes University and department policy. Each or online at www.coloradomesa.edu/ to participate. To participate in the May student is responsible for obtaining programsheets. ceremony, the “Intent to Graduate” is a program sheet, available online at Candidates for all degrees must due September 15 of the fall semester coloradomesa.edu/academics or from accomplish the following: prior to the ceremony. the appropriate academic department, at the beginning of his/her work Graduation Checklist and Deficiencies detailing the exact requirements for Commencement Deadlines All academic and financial deficiencies the degree or certificate being pursued. Graduation documents are due the must be removed (i.e., incomplete Students are urged to consult with semester prior to completion of all grades and/or unpaid financial their advisors. The University assumes coursework. The student should pick up obligations). no responsibility for difficulties arising an “Intent to Graduate” and “Graduation when a student fails to establish Planning Sheet” in the Registrar’s Office. Final Credit Requirements and maintain contact with his or The student must then meet with his/ Taken at Another University her faculty advisor and department her advisor and submit to the advisor Colorado Mesa University generally head. The student is ultimately and his/her completed program sheet. accepts academic credits from regionally solely responsible for knowing the accredited colleges and universities. requirements for a particular degree It is the student’s responsibility to When a student intends to earn a and for fulfilling those requirements. become familiar with the procedure Colorado Mesa University degree but established for his/her particular the final credits for completing that program, and to adhere to the degree program are earned at another Requirements institution, the following restrictions for Degrees designated schedule. The “Intent to Graduate” form must be submitted apply: Some requirements may vary with the to the Registrar’s Office on February program and academic department. 15 for fall graduates and September 1. Specific approval of the proposed Each student must abide by the rules 15 for spring graduates. The deadline institution and courses must be 48 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

given by the appropriate academic an interruption in enrollment occurs General Education requirements may department head and the Office so that the student is no longer also be met with an appropriate AP, of the Registrar at Colorado Mesa “continuously enrolled” as described CLEP, or DANTES test if the test has University during the time of the above, the program sheet and catalog been approved by the appropriate student’s last enrollment at Colorado requirements applicable at the time of academic department at Colorado Mesa Mesa University, and the student reenrollment shall apply. University. Credit may also be awarded must receive a grade of “C” or higher via the Credit for Prior Learning option. in each course. If a candidate for a degree is unable See Non Traditional Credit section in this 2. No more than 15 semester hours of to meet the requirements because of catalog for more information. final credit will be accepted in transfer. some unforeseen circumstance, it shall be the candidate’s responsibility to English and Mathematics 3. Credit must be earned in no more arrange an exception or understanding Requirements than one calendar year immediately approved by the student’s faculty Colorado Mesa University students following final enrollment at advisor and department head. are required to complete English Colorado Mesa University. composition and mathematics for General Education Overview general education prior to exceeding Declaring a Major Students must complete the general sixty semester credit hours. Students The major the student lists on education requirements for their degree should take the courses as freshmen. their application is considered for program. Approved general education Those who need preparatory courses admission purposes. Once admitted, courses are listed in the Requirements before they are ready to enroll in the a student may change his/her major. for a Baccalaureate Degree and the required courses should enroll in the In order to be admitted/declared Requirements for an Associate Degree preparatory courses their first semester into the major, the major must be section of the catalog. Students may at Colorado Mesa University. Any accepting students and the student select their general education courses required mathematics preparatory must meet the requirements to from the designated lists according to courses, as well as the general be admitted to the degree. Some their own preference unless specific education mathematics course, must be majors have additional admission courses from the general education lists completed with a “C” or higher. Students requirements. Students must visit the are prescribed for their degree program. who are completing sixty hours of department for more information. Courses used to meet the major course work will not be permitted Students with an undeclared major requirements cannot be used to fulfill to enroll in any additional courses are required to declare a major or the general education requirement. until they have passed the required meet with an academic advisor prior For specific degree requirements, courses. Exceptions to the policy to registration. go to www.coloradomesa.edu/ require the written permission of the programsheets. appropriate department head (English Students must contact the academic or Mathematics) or their designee. department associated with their The only exceptions to the general desired major/minor to declare or education requirements are: (1) All mathematics prerequisite courses change their major/minor and to students who have earned a must be completed with a grade of “C” be assigned a faculty advisor. Once baccalaureate degree, Associate of Arts or better. students have declared a major/minor, degree, or Associate of Science degree they will need to obtain a program from a regionally accredited institution Wellness Requirement sheet online or from the academic or (2) whose transcript contains the To graduate with a baccalaureate department. “Common Core” statement indicating degree, a student must earn three completion of the Colorado Core semester credit hours in Kinesiology. Catalog Under Which Transfer Consortium general education Each student must take KINE 100 and Student Graduates curriculum. In both these cases, two activity courses. Up to six KINA A student must follow the Colorado the general education curriculum is courses (excluding varsity athletics) may Mesa University graduation completed unless the degree program be taken as electives toward graduation requirements from the catalog of the contains prescribed courses listed with a baccalaureate degree. same academic year as the program under the general education area of sheet for the declared major. This is true the program sheet. The student must To graduate with an associate degree, a provided that (1) a student remains still meet this coursework as well as student must earn two semester credit “continuously enrolled” until graduation any other specified lower division hours in Kinesiology. Each student must and (2) the degree, emphasis or requirements, as part of the degree take KINE 100 and one activity course. certificate area is still accepting students program. Up to three KINA courses (excluding into the program when students varsity athletics) may be taken as officially declare their majors. Students seeking to transfer all or part electives toward graduation with an of a General Education program from associate degree. A student shall be considered to be another institution should check with “continuously enrolled” if there is the Colorado Mesa University Registrar’s Kinesiology activity courses include not an interruption in enrollment of Office to see if it conforms to the those with the “KINA” prefix, DANC 160L, more than one semester at any given statewide guaranteed transfer program. 169L, 174L, 177L, 180, and MUSP 147. time (excluding summer sessions). If undergraduate Graduation Requirements 49

Each course is scheduled for an eight- 1. T he origins and structure of 1. Be able to communicate effectively week module and includes lectures modern society; in the English language; on the history, rules, techniques, 2. The enduring ideas which have 2. Understand the structure and and strategies of the activity and inspired humanity through the ages; discipline of mathematical thought participation in the activity. Students are and its use in problem-solving; examined both on knowledge of the 3. The scientific perspective and its activity and proficiency in the activity. impact on society; 3. Be aware of the great moral, ethical, Prerequisites for all “Intermediate” or Part 4. The expression of the creative spirit and philosophical issues which have II classes: the corresponding beginning in literature and the arts; endured through the ages; course or consent of instructor. 5. The importance of becoming a 4. Have an understanding of the multicultural nature of our world; The only exception to taking KINE 100 contributing citizen; will be for those who request and pass 6. The competencies needed for self- 5. Be able to think critically and a proficiency test at least at the 80 directed, ongoing learning; and creatively; percent level. Contact the Kinesiology 7. Advanced competencies within a 6. Have an understanding of the Department Head for additional specific discipline. complexities of social, economic information. and political systems; Colorado Mesa University reaffirms 7. Have knowledge of the natural Varsity Athletics: Only one varsity sport these ideals. They have been tested world and an understanding of activity course at the 100-level may through the centuries in a tradition scientific methods; be used to meet the Wellness activity which harks back to the earliest 8. Appreciate the contributions of requirement. Varsity athletics may not universities. Their contemporary be used as elective credit. literature to our perception of expression at Colorado Mesa University ourselves and the world; will strengthen the foundation of all Philosophy & Goals academic programs. 9. Appreciate the aesthetic spirit of of a Baccalaureate humanity through the arts; and Education Educated men and women share 10.  Possess the knowledge and skills a basic body of perception and necessary to achieve a healthy The avowed hope of institutions of knowledge. This heritage is at the lifestyle. higher learning is that students will core of the mission of a baccalaureate emerge with well-developed faculties university. Other aspects of a student’s for critical judgment, analytical thought, curriculum reflect particular talents Requirements for and an awareness of their world. In and career aspirations, but this a Baccalaureate the university environment, students statement builds upon universals – the Degree are expected to embrace some of the acknowledged foundations of the arts, great ideas and expressions of creative Colorado Mesa University offers letters, social and natural sciences in baccalaureate degrees in the traditional energy which characterize the human our civilization. condition. Specifically, a baccalaureate liberal arts and sciences disciplines, education emphasizes the following: professional fields of study, and The design of general education has interdisciplinary fields. Candidates for been guided by ten goals. A Colorado Mesa University baccalaureate graduate should: 50 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog baccalaureate degrees must accomplish or be governed by, as Academic Residency for Baccalaureate Degrees appropriate, the following: To receive a baccalaureate degree from Colorado Mesa University, students must complete a minimum of 30 of the Credit Hour Requirements last 60 semester hours of credit at least 15 semester hours in In general, 120 semester credit hours are required for major discipline courses numbered 300 or higher. completion of each baccalaureate degree program. The distribution of the 120 credit hour requirement is: Degree Category A three to six semester credit hour degree category General Education: requirement applies to some, but not all B.A. and B.S. degrees. 31 semester credit hours When applicable, the requirements are a part of a major’s Applied Studies Requirement: program requirements and must be outside the general 3 semester credit hours education requirements. Student must earn a grade of “C” or higher in each degree category course. Wellness Requirement: 3 semester credit hours Bachelor of Applied Science In order to obtain a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) degree Major Requirements: from Colorado Mesa University, the following are general 42-78 semester credit hours* requirements that apply to all B.A.S. degrees. All B.A.S. students Degree Category Requirements: ** are required to meet with the department B.A.S. advisor in 3 semester credit hours order to plan and schedule all classes. Unrestricted Electives: • Formal admission to a B.A.S. program requires completion 0-36 semester credit hours of the appropriate A.A.S. degree from an accredited institution. Any exceptions to this must be approved * Some professional programs may exceed 60 hours. in advance by the department B.A.S. advisor and the ** Applies to some but not all major programs. Consult your Department Head. advisor or obtain a current program sheet. • In order to meet course prerequisites, additional courses may be required. Please meet with the B.A.S. advisor to Note that the same course may not be counted to satisfy more insure all prerequisites are completed. than one category within a degree. • If a student decides to pursue a four-year degree that is not the B.A.S., technical credits transferred from another Students should work closely with their faculty advisors institution will be counted only as electives, with the and obtain a program sheet online at coloradomesa.edu/ number of hours determined through a course evaluation academics, or from that faculty advisor or the department completed by the academic department head in head at the time they begin their baccalaureate degree collaboration with the CMU’s Registrar’s Office. program at Colorado Mesa University. The student is ultimately and solely responsible for knowing the requirements for a • Students who transfer in credits from a recognized particular degree and for fulfilling those requirements. technical program must complete the requirements for an A.A.S. degree before their technical training will be The program sheet lists all requirements for the degree recognized for credit in the appropriate B.A.S. program. program for the catalog under which the student is working. Applicants from a non-regionally-accredited institution It is to be kept up-to-date by the student as the student must complete general education and total credit hour progresses in meeting requirements. requirements from a regionally-accredited institution prior to graduation from Colorado Mesa with a B.A.S. program. The specific number of semester hours that must be earned in • The requirement for 33 hours of upper division coursework courses numbered 300 or higher are indicated on the program must be met by all students seeking a B.A.S. degree, with sheet. A cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or higher for the exception of a B.A.S. is awarded in an interdisciplinary all courses taken and for the courses which comprise the area program. of the major field of study must be achieved. See a faculty • Students are required to participate in exit examinations, advisor for a program sheet listing specific requirements for assessments, and any other programs deemed necessary to the degree and major sought. comply with the college accountability requirement. A list of specific requirements for each B.A.S. degree is available Upper-Division Requirements from the appropriate Academic Department Head of the B.A.S. Students seeking a baccalaureate degree must earn a program and the Transfer Resources section of the University’s minimum number of upper-division semester credit hours web site. (numbered between 300 and 499), depending on the degree and major. Bachelor of Arts Candidates for the B.A. or the B.F.A. in Art History degree shall A minimum of 40 semester credit hours is required for all complete six sequential semester hours of one classical or Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, and modern foreign language with a grade of “C” or higher. At Bachelor of Business Administration degrees. Students seeking the discretion of the foreign language faculty and with the a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Bachelor of Applied approval of the Department Head, the requirement may Science should refer to their program sheet for the minimum be satisfied by demonstration of equivalent competency. upper-division credit hour requirement. undergraduate Graduation Requirements 51

Students with two or more years of high school coursework be taken in all courses listed which have both, if general in a foreign language may (1) see the Department Head education credit is to be received. Courses which fit this lecture for placement in a higher level class; (2) receive credit by and laboratory requirement are marked with an asterisk in the successful completion of a CLEP test in that language; or (3) Natural Sciences general education list. pursue another language. Other Lower-Division Course Requirements Bachelor of Science Candidates with Degree Category requirements for the B.S. Applied Studies: 3 semester credit hours chosen from the degree shall complete at least three semester hours of the list of courses approved on the following page. following: one additional course chosen from any computer science (CSCI), any statistics (STAT) or another university’s Wellness: 3 semester credit hours including KINE 100 mathematics (MATH) course considered higher level than Health and Wellness and any two (2) activity courses university algebra (MATH 113). The candidate must complete chosen from KINA 100-191, DANC 160L, 169L, 174L, each of these courses with a grade of “C” or higher. At the 177L, 180, or MUSP 147. discretion of the mathematics and computer science faculty, the requirement may be satisfied by a demonstration of Note: Only one varsity sport course numbered KINA 180-193 equivalent competency. may be used to meet the activity requirement. The above requirements are separate from and in addition to the General Education requirements (i.e., the same course cannot be used for general education, degree category and/or other major requirements).

General Education Core Course Requirements Each student must complete the 31 minimum semester hour general education requirement of lower division credit as specified by the Colorado Mesa University faculty. For specific course requirements and choices, refer to the section titled Courses Approved for General Education Baccalaureate Degree Requirements.

English: 6 semester credit hours English courses must be taken in sequence and students are encouraged to take them in consecutive semesters. A “C” or higher must be earned in ENGL 111 before a student can take ENGL 112 or ENGL 219 and a “C” or higher grade must be earned in ENGL 112 or ENGL 219 to satisfy this requirement. Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours  For specific mathematics requirement, students should complete the course specified on the program sheet. For all majors, the mathematics requirement and any required mathematics prerequisite can only be met with a grade of “C” or higher. History: 3 semester credit hours Note: 3 additional hours of history may be chosen to fulfill the Humanities requirement below. Humanities: 3 semester credit hours chosen from history, literature, philosophy. Social and Behavioral Science: 6 semester credit hours chosen from anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology. Fine Arts: 3 semester credit hours chosen from art, dance, fine arts, music, theatre. Natural Sciences: 7 semester credit hours (must include 1 lab) chosen from biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, geology, physics.

Note: At least one of the two courses must have an associated lab or field component, and both the lecture and lab must 52 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

Courses Approved for PHIL 120 Ethics (not approved for gtPathways) Colorado Mesa University/ PHIL 130 Philosophy of Religion (not approved for gtPathways) General Education Social and Behavioral Sciences ANTH 202 Introduction to Anthropology Baccalaureate Degree (not approved for gtPathways) Requirements ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics The following courses are approved to meet the general ECON 202 Principles of Microeconomics education requirements for a baccalaureate degree from FOAN 180, 180L Survey of Physical Anthropology and Lab Colorado Mesa University. (not approved for gtPathways) Most CMU general education core courses below are GEOG 102 Human Geography (not approved for gtPathways) approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education GEOG 103 World Regional Geography for statewide guaranteed transfer, as part of the gtPathways POLS 101 American Government program (see “Colorado Department of Higher Education POLS 261 Comparative Politics Statewide Guaranteed Transfer Courses”). PSYC 150 General Psychology English PSYC 233 Human Growth and Development Option 1 SOCI 120 Technology and Society ENGL 111 English Composition and SOCO 144 Marriage and Families ENGL 112 English Composition SOCO 260 General Sociology or SOCO 264 Social Problems Option 2 Fine Arts ENGL 112 English Composition and ARTE 101 Two-Dimensional Design ENGL 219 Introduction to Professional Writing ARTE 102 Three-Dimensional Design (The combination of ENGL 11 and ENGL 219 does not meet ARTE 115 Art Appreciation the general education English requirement.) ARTE 118 Survey of Art History, Prehistory to Renaissance Mathematics ARTE 119 History of Art, Renaissance to Present MATH 110 College Mathematics DANC 115 Dance Appreciation MATH 113 College Algebra FINE 101 The Living Arts MATH 119 Precalculus Mathematics or MUSA 220 Music Appreciation MATH 149 Honors Mathematics MUSA 266 History of Popular Music MATH 151 Calculus I THEA 141 Theatre Appreciation MATH 205 Elements of Mathematics II THEA 145 Introduction to Dramatic Literature Students seeking the B.A. or B.F.A. degree must complete MATH 110 Natural Sciences or a higher level mathematics course with a grade of “C” or higher *BIOL 101, 101L General Human Biology and Lab to fulfill their mathematics competency under general education; *BIOL 102, 102L G eneral Organismal Biology and Lab students seeking the B.S., B.S.N., or B.B.A. degree must complete *BIOL 105, 105L A ttributes of Living Systems and Lab MATH 113 or higher level mathematics course with a grade of “C” *BIOL 250, 250L Introduction to Microbiology and Lab or higher to fulfill their mathematics competency under general (not approved for gtPathways) education; students seeking the B.A.S. degree must refer to their specific program to determine the mathematics competency CHEM 100 Chemistry and Society requirement under general education. *CHEM 121, 121L Principles of Chemistry and Lab *CHEM 122, 122L P rinciples of Organic Chemistry and Lab History *CHEM 131, 131L General Chemistry and Lab HIST 101, 102 Western Civilization *CHEM 132, 132L General Chemistry and Lab HIST 131, 132 United States History ENVS 101 Introduction to Environmental Science Humanities *ENVS 103, 103L F ield-Based Introduction to Environmental ENGL 131, 132 Western World Literature I, II Science ENGL 150 Introduction to Literature ENGL 222 Mythology GEOL 100 Survey of Earth Science ENGL 231, 232 Non-Western World Literature I, II GEOL 103 Weather and Climate ENGL 254, 255 Survey of English Literature I and II GEOL 104 Oceanography ENGL 261, 262 Survey of American Literature I and II GEOL 105 Geology of Colorado GEOL 106 Introduction to Dinosaurs HIST 101, 102 Western Civilization GEOL 107 Natural Hazards and Environmental Geology HIST 131, 132 United States History *GEOL 111, 111L P rinciples of Physical Geology and Lab MASS 110 Mass Media Impact and History *GEOL 112, 112L P rinciples of Historical Geology and Lab PHIL 105 Critical Thinking *GEOL 113, 113L F ield-Based Introduction to Physical Geology PHIL 110 Introduction to Philosophy and Lab undergraduate Graduation Requirements 53

PHYS 100 Concepts of Physics SPCH 102 Speechmaking PHYS 101 Elementary Astronomy SPCH 112 Voice and Diction *PHYS 105, 105L Physics by Inquiry and Lab TSTG 120 Industrial Safety Practices *PHYS 111, 111L General Physics and Lab *PHYS 112, 112L General Physics and Lab Wellness *PHYS 131, 131L Fundamental Mechanics and Lab KINE 100 Health and Wellness *PHYS 132, 132L Elec tromagnetism and Optics and Lab KINA 100-191 Activity Courses * Only these courses fulfill the requirement of Natural Science DANC 160L Beginning Ballet Lab with an associated lab or field component. Both the lecture DANC 169L Beginning Modern Dance Lab and laboratory must be taken if general education credit is DANC 174L Beginning Jazz Dance Lab to be received. DANC 177L Beginning Tap Dance Lab DANC 180 Beginning Hip Hop Dance Courses Approved for MUSP 147 Marching Band Other Lower-Division Credit Requirements Colorado Department of Higher Education Statewide Applied Studies ACCT 201 Principles of Financial Accounting Guaranteed Transfer Courses BUGB 101 Introduction to Business Colorado Mesa University has 75 general education courses BUGB 249 The Business of Life approved for guaranteed transfer and accepts nearly 500 courses from other Colorado public institutions of higher CISB 101 Business Information Technology education. Guaranteed transfer courses are universally CSCI 100 Computers in Our Society transferable across the institutions and are applicable to CSCI 106 Web Page Design I general education requirements within all associate and baccalaureate degree programs. ENGL 219 Introduction to Professional Writing FLAF 111, 112 First-Year French I, II All courses listed under the “Courses Approved for Colorado FLAG 111, 112 First-Year German I, II Mesa University General Education Baccalaureate Degree FLAS 111, 112 First-Year Spanish I, II Requirements” section and STAT 200 have been approved FLGK 111, 112 Introductory Greek I, II by the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) as FLLT 111, 112 Introductory Latin I, II guaranteed transfer courses. For more information regarding FLSL 111, 112 American Sign Language I, II this designation, reference may be made to the CDHE website FLAJ 111, 112 Beginning Japanese I, II at highered.colorado.gov/academics/transfers/students. GEOG 131 Introduction to Cartography html, the Registrar’s Office, or your faculty advisor. Courses approved through Colorado’s gtPathways program, the state’s HSCI 101 Introduction to the Health Care Professions guaranteed transfer program, are grouped into five content KINE 265 First Aid/CPR for the Professional Rescuer areas, four of which have sub groupings: PHIL 275 Introduction to Logic Arts and Humanities: SPCH 101 Interpersonal Communication GT-AH1 - Arts and Expression GT-AH2 - Literature and Humanities GT-AH3 - Ways of Thinking GT-AH4 - Foreign Languages Communication: GT-CO1- Introductory Writing GT-CO2 - Intermediate Writing GT-CO3 - Advanced Writing Mathematics - GT-MA1 [Note: no subgroups] Natural and Physical Sciences GT-SC1 - with laboratory GT-SC2 - without laboratory Social and Behavioral Sciences GT-HI1 - History GT-SS1 - Economic and Political Systems GT-SS2 - Geography GT-SS3 - Human Behavior, Culture, or Social Frameworks 54 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | 2013-2014 Catalog

The course listing found under “CMU’s Requirements Requirements General Education Baccalaureate Degree Requirements” and in back for a Minor for Associate of this catalog identifies gtPathways A minor is an approved program of Degree Programs courses and the above content area for study to broaden the scope of the Associate of Arts (A.A.) which it has been approved. educational experience and can be Associate of Science (A.S.) awarded with any baccalaureate degree. Associate of Applied Science Multiple A minor, if chosen, must be outside (A.A.S.) Concentrations the major field of study. Students are urged to consult a faculty advisor and Credit Hour Requirements Within One Degree to obtain a program sheet for the minor For most associate degrees, 60 semester Under many of the baccalaureate sought. A minor is not a degree by itself credit hours in approved course work degrees, concentrations are available. and must be earned at the same time must be earned. A cumulative grade Before graduating with a baccalaureate as a baccalaureate degree. The number point average of 2.00 or higher for all degree, a student may complete of minors a student may earn with any courses taken and for the courses which requirements for one or several baccalaureate degree at Colorado Mesa comprise the area of emphasis must of the concentrations as desired. University shall not exceed two. be achieved. Some programs have However, after a degree has been additional GPA requirements. awarded, if courses are taken that A minor consists of 15-24 semester would have satisfied requirements hours. There may be prerequisites Academic Residency for an additional concentration, the required for the minor which will for Associate Degrees additional concentration cannot be increase the total number of credit To receive an associate degree from added to the degree already awarded. hours for a student who has not already Colorado Mesa University, students The coursework will be shown on the taken those prerequisites. Since a minor must complete a minimum of 15 of student’s transcript. is optional, courses taken to satisfy the final 30 semester hours of credit at general education, major requirements, Colorado Mesa University. Students wishing to receive multiple or electives can be counted toward concentrations within one degree must the minor if applicable. At least 33 Associate of Arts (A A). and satisfy all the requirements for each percent of the minor must be in courses Associate of Science (A S. ). concentration. Only one degree will be numbered 300 or above and at least 25 Degree Requirements awarded. All concentrations must be percent of the classes must be taken at A.A. and A.S. degree programs are declared on the petition to graduate. Colorado Mesa University. A cumulative designed to prepare students for upper grade point average of 2.00 or higher for division collegiate work (junior level) in Second the courses used for the minor must be colleges and universities granting the achieved. Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Baccalaureate Science (B.S.) degree. All A.A. and A.S. Degree Requirements for degree programs include the Colorado A student seeking a second Teacher Licensure Statewide General Education Core and will thus meet the lower-division baccalaureate degree at Colorado Mesa Students preparing to teach in the University must earn a minimum of 30 general education requirements of public schools (elementary, secondary, most baccalaureate degree programs additional semester hours of credit, at K-12) must contact both the Colorado least 18 of which must be in courses at public institutions in Colorado. A Mesa University Center for Teacher grade of “C” or higher is required in each numbered 300 and higher. None of Education regarding state licensure these 30 credits may have been used core course in order to be accepted requirements and the appropriate for transfer under the Core Transfer toward another baccalaureate degree, department head regarding program and all must be earned at Colorado Agreements. Course work for the A.A. or requirements for the major. It is A.S. degree includes: Mesa University. In addition, the student crucial that students seeking teacher must satisfy all specific program licensure plan their schedules with their 1. Completion of the university’s general requirements of the new degree and advisors early in their academic careers, concentration as well as any graduation education core which is aligned preferably the first semester of their with the state’s general education requirements not previously met (e.g., work at Colorado Mesa University. the degree category). Students with a curriculum. Specific information about baccalaureate degree who are pursuing Teacher licensure is a separate process the content areas, required hours, a second baccalaureate degree from and must be pursued in addition to a and courses are found under general Colorado Mesa University are exempt baccalaureate degree. See the section education overview. from the Wellness and Applied Studies on Center for Teacher Education. 2. Other lower-division requirements, (i.e. requirement. applied studies and wellness) listed in the general education overview. 3. Discipline classes (emphasis), as detailed in the Programs of undergraduate Graduation Requirements 55

Study section in this catalog or as the advisor a program sheet for the Double Emphasis developed in consultation with a degree sought. Within an Associate Degree faculty advisor and indicated on the Students wishing to receive a double program sheet. Coursework for the A.A.S. degree emphasis within one degree must includes: 4. Electives satisfy all the requirements for each 1. General Education Requirements for emphasis. Only one degree will be The A.A. degree is designed for the A.A.S. Degree include: awarded. All emphases desired must be transfer into a baccalaureate degree a. Minimum 3 semester hours of declared on the petition to graduate. program, with junior standing, in the Mathematics: arts, humanities, social or behavioral Second Associate Degree sciences, or one of the professional • MATH 107 or higher A minimum of 15 semester hours of fields with such disciplines as its base. See your advisor for the credit beyond that required for the first The A.S. degree is designed for transfer appropriate course and refer to associate degree must be earned by into a baccalaureate degree program, the specific program sheet for a student seeking a second associate with junior standing, in one of the more information. MATH 107 degree at Colorado Mesa University. A mathematical, biological, or physical and MATH 108 will not meet the minimum of one semester of residency sciences, or in one of the professional mathematics general education at Colorado Mesa University is also fields with such disciplines as its base. requirement for students necessary. In addition, the student must satisfy all specific requirements for the Students should consult with their who subsequently pursue a new degree. Only one A.A. and only faculty advisors to assure that the further associate (AA or AS) or a one A.S. degree may be granted to any emphasis and electives chosen will baccalaureate degree. student. satisfy requirements of the particular b. Minimum 6 semester hours of baccalaureate programs to which Communication: they plan to transfer. A.A. and A.S. Requirements • ENGL 111 and degrees in emphases not described for Technical in this catalog may be developed in • ENGL 112 or SPCH 101 or Certificates consultation with the faculty advisor. SPCH 102 Candidates for the Colorado Mesa An A.A. or A.S. degree indicates that c. Minimum 6 semester hours: the holder has developed proficiencies University Technical Certificate must sufficient to prepare for upper-division • 3 semester hours Social satisfy all requirements specified collegiate work and is awarded only for Sciences/History/Natural for the certificate with a cumulative completion of a coherent program of Science/Fine Arts or Humanities grade point average of 2.00 or higher study designed for a specific purpose. and for all courses. A grade lower than “C” in the discipline filed will not be Once a student has decided upon a • 3 hours from Social Sciences/ counted toward satisfying certificate program of study, s/he needs to obtain History/Natural Science/Fine requirements. a program sheet from the faculty Arts/Humanities or selected advisor. All degree requirements, as Applied Studies as determined agreed upon, will be included on the by the program. program sheet. Note: Applied Studies courses are Associate of Applied Science (A A. S. ). not considered as general education Degree Requirements in the associate (AA or AS) or the A.A.S. degree programs are intended to baccalaureate degree requirements. prepare individuals to enter skilled and/ (See the General Education/Applied or para-professional occupations or to Studies lists on pages 50-51) upgrade/stabilize their employment. With the exception of the Bachelor of 2. Other lower division degree Applied Science degree, these programs requirements: generally are not intended for transfer Wellness Requirement: 2 semester to baccalaureate degree programs; hours however, certain courses may be KINE100 accepted toward a baccalaureate degree at some institutions. The A.A.S. degrees KINA 1XX available at Colorado Mesa University, 3. Additional lower division along with the courses required to requirements may apply to some complete each degree, are listed in the degrees, e.g. prerequisites. Programs of Study section in this catalog. Students are urged to consult with a faculty advisor and to obtain from 56 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog Programs of Study

Acceptance of registration by Colorado Mesa University and admission to any education program at the University does not constitute a contract or warranty that the University will continue to offer the program in which a student is enrolled. The University expressly reserves the right to change, phase out or discontinue any program. The listing of courses contained in any University bulletin, catalog or schedule is by way of announcement only and shall not be regarded as an offer of contract. The University expressly reserves the right to: 1. add or delete programs and/or courses from its offerings, 2. change times or locations of courses or programs, 3. change academic calendars without notice, 4. cancel any course for insufficient registrations, or 5. revise or change rules, charges, fees, schedules, courses, requirements for degrees, and other policies or regulations affecting students, including, but not limited to, evaluation standards, whenever the same is in the best interests of the University.

NOTE: Date in parentheses following faculty member’s name indicates the year of a tenure-track appointment to the Colorado Mesa University faculty or a faculty appointment to Western Colorado Community College. Only full time faculty are listed; prior temporary or part-time service is not indicated. Faculty members with a temporary appointment do not have a year listed.

NOTE: Students should consult the Financial Aid Office for eligibility requirements of undergraduate & graduate certificates.

Assessment of Student Learning Colorado Mesa University is committed to providing quality education for students across all disciplines through a supportive learning environment. Assessment of student learning is a process used by program faculty to measure student progress in the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful after graduation. All students will participate in the process by engaging in assessment activities through submitting course assignments, taking examinations, completing surveys or writing standardized tests. Evidence collected through assessment assists faculty in program improvement at the certificate, undergraduate and graduate level.

Student learning at CMU is centered on specialized knowledge and applied learning in the discipline as well as the intellectual skills of communication fluency, quantitative fluency and critical thinking. Part of assessment also involves student learning at the co-curricular level in areas such as student life or service learning. Students will be expected to participate in assessment and provide honest feedback for evaluation. Data gathered will be evaluated in aggregate form and reported to respective members of the CMU community as well as accreditation organizations. Assessment is a key element to improve teaching and learning, and to enhance the quality of programs at the University.

Accounting The general accounting concentration is designed for undergraduate PROGRAMS OFFERED students who do not wish to pursue CPA certification. This program Bachelor of Science provides students with basic business skills as well as accounting Accounting – Public Accounting knowledge needed to work in an accounting department in private Accounting - General Accounting industry or government. Minor Accounting The accounting minor offers students majoring in other areas Bachelor of Science + Master of Business Administration (3 + 2) the opportunity to enhance their degrees with basic accounting knowledge. Since all businesses rely heavily on accounting functions, PROGRAM DESCRIPTION graduates with a minor have a competitive advantage, particularly in Accounting is the one degree with 360 degrees of possibilities. Every the area of decision making. Accounting is the language of business business needs accounting expertise, whether it’s a Wall Street law and regardless of major, the more accounting you have the better firm, a professional sports team, a movie production company or prepared you will be for a management position. This is a vigorous a rock band. With the proper accounting education, employment minor that will stand out on a résumé. options are endless. The accounting program also offers an option of a five year (3+2) The public accounting degree provides students with basic business program which allows students to graduate with a Bachelor of skills as well as the accounting knowledge needed to pass the Science in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration. This Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Graduates of this program combination prepares students to earn the hours necessary to sit for have a very high CPA exam pass rate and are heavily recruited by local the CPA exam. Through careful planning and coordination, students and regional CPA firms. Most graduates will have job offers months can complete their four-year degree and begin their graduate degree, before they graduate. finishing both simultaneously.

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For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a program description faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. This minor will provide students the knowledge and skills that are in high demand in all aspects of the behavioral health field. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Students receiving this minor will be provided with the latest To be admitted to the accounting program at Colorado Mesa evidence-based practices, research studies and best practices in the University, students must meet certain requirements. See department field of addictions. This 24 credit hour minor is offered to meet the for specific requirements. Note that admission to the University does educational requirements that are needed for the CAC certification not guarantee admission to the program. as outlined by the Colorado Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) and offered through the Department of Regulatory Agencies 1. Prior to admission, potential accounting majors will be given the (DORA). These courses seek to enhance the student’s counseling classification code for “pre-accounting.” To be eligible for admission abilities, knowledge and competencies in becoming an addictions to the program, a student must have successfully completed the professional. By completing the requirements of this minor students following: will be eligible to take the NADAAC exam and apply for their state of a. 30 credit hours (entering freshmen are not eligible) with a 2.75 Colorado CAC certification. All required classes seek to enhance the GPA or higher; student’s ability to offer addiction treatment services in a manner b. Freshman English (ENGL 111 and 112) that respects gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, cultural, c. 9 hours of the General Education requirement excluding the familial, systemic and socioeconomic diversity. English requirement listed above; d. College Algebra (MATH 113) or higher; For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty e. Business Information Technology (CISB 101); advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. f. Principles of Management (MANG 201); g. Financial and Managerial Accounting (ACCT 201 & 202) with a contact information minimum 2.5 GPA. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 2. An application for admission should be submitted to the 970.248.1696. Accounting Program Admission Committee when the above requirements have been met. Specific admission information may be obtained from the department. Only students admitted to the Administrative Accounting Program will be allowed to enroll in upper division accounting courses with the exception of Intermediate Accounting Office Technology I and II and/or Cost Accounting I and II. PROGRAMS OFFERED 3. A grade of “D” in any one of the courses specifically identified Technical Certificate above is not acceptable. Administrative Office Technology – General Office Administration Associate of Arts 4. Exceptions to any of the above requirements may be made by the Administrative Office Technology Emphasis Admissions Committee in special circumstances. Associate of Applied Science Administrative Office Technology – Administrative Professional CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, PROGRAM DESCRIPTION 970.248.1778. The technical certificate in administration office technology specializing in general office administration prepares students to be FACULTY effective, efficient, entry-level office professionals. Students learn how Steve Crowley (2012), Assistant Professor of Accounting; B.S., to use emerging technology to effectively and efficiently manage M.A., The University of Montana--Missoula; Ph.D., University of organizations as well as small businesses. By using current industry Utah. practices, students develop skills with office automation to maintain CRAIG FOSSETT (2004), Assistant Professor of Accounting and financial records, inventory information, payroll records, customer Faculty Athletic Representative; B.A., University of Missouri; and client databases, and other pertinent business information. M.B.A., Western State College. Additionally, students have the option of choosing elective courses that teach them how to manage social networking sites for business GEOFFREY GURKA (2001), Professor of Accounting; B.A., marketing purposes, how to use voice recognition software for University of Connecticut; M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., creating business documents, and how to create and manage web Michigan State University. sites. The general office administration curriculum prepares students SUZANNE LAy (2006), Associate Professor of Accounting; B.S., to be effective office support staff in business, government or non- Norfolk State University; M.B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas profit organizations. City; M.S.Ed., Emporia State University. The Associate of Arts (AA) degree is designed for students who intend to continue their education and obtain a baccalaureate degree. The AA is the appropriate choice for students who will take upper division Addiction studies coursework in the arts, humanities, or social and behavioral sciences. The degree program includes the Colorado Statewide General programs offered Education Core and meets the lower division general education Minor requirements at most public institutions in Colorado. Addiction Studies

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The Associate of Applied Science in administrative office technology with an administrative professional emphasis combines technical, AGRICULTURE SCIENCE interpersonal, and soft skills courses that prepare students for entering the workforce as effective and efficient office professionals. PROGRAMS OFFERED Completion of this degree also reduces the work experience Associate of Science requirements needed to sit for the Certified Administrative Agriculture Science Professional (CAP) exam. Course content is relevant to today’s business needs. The program emphasizes written, verbal, personal Program Description and virtual communication skills, use of current office software The Agriculture Science curriculum is designed to provide students applications, current technology, office procedures, flexibility, team the fundamentals of agriculture and related business practices. With building, time management, diversity, and adapting to change. this degree, students will be well positioned to transfer into a bachelor Students develop proficiency in using word processing software, degree program in agriculture. Graduates are qualified for employment scheduling and time management software, database software, in a variety of positions associated with sustainable agriculture, including spreadsheet software, web site design and maintenance software, horticultural and livestock operations, wholesale and retail management, and presentation software. Curriculum also covers use of electronic nursery operations, and environmental and agricultural education. conferencing equipment, and how to manage social networking sites for business marketing purposes. Students further develop CONTACT INFORMATION effective written and verbal communication skills and learn to work Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann independently as well as with diverse teams. The administrative Avenue, 970.255.2670. professional curriculum demonstrates how varied computer hardware and software as well as the internet is used to create, collect, store, FACULTY manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing BENJAMIN KEEFER (1991) Assistant Technical Professor; B.S., M.Ed., basic tasks and organizational goals. Possible career options include Ph.D., Colorado State University. positions as administrative and executive assistants. JOHN SLUDER (1998), Assistant Technical Professor For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. CONTACT INFORMATION Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann ARChaeology Avenue, 970.255.2670. PROGRAMS OFFERED FACULTY Minor alane wooster (2001), Assistant Technical Professor of Archaeology Administrative Office Technology; A.A.S., Colorado Northwestern Community College; B.S., Colorado Christian University; M.B.A., Colorado Mesa University.

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The BFA in Art, concentrating in K-12 education, leads to licensure The archaeology minor introduces students to the knowledge and for Colorado K-12 art education. The visual art emphasis includes skills necessary to carry out archaeological investigations and to treat coursework in theory, art history and studio art. Art teaching what is recovered through such investigations appropriately. The methods courses in elementary and secondary art are an integral minor especially complements such degree programs as history and part of the degree plan. Students accumulate over 200 hours of geology. Students with the background in archaeology and cultural classroom experience before beginning student teaching. School resource management that the minor supplies will be well prepared districts throughout western Colorado provide opportunities to gain to enter the burgeoning local market in these areas. experience with children of all ages and backgrounds in a variety of school settings. Please see the Teacher Education Admission Packet For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a for further information on admissions criteria. faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. The BFA in Art with a concentration in studio art combines strong CONTACT INFORMATION curriculum requirements in design, drawing, studio (either two Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, or three-dimensional) and art history. Students develop skills and 970.248.1696. aesthetic judgment in the materials, techniques and tools within drawing, painting, printmaking, fibers, ceramics or sculpture studio arts. Art history studies engage students in historic and contemporary ART artists, art movements and styles. The degree culminates in a senior PROGRAMS OFFERED exhibition, and upon graduation, students are prepared to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts career as an artisan or continue with graduate studies in art. Art History Art – K-12 Education The studio art minor acquaints students with some of the core Studio Art elements in either two- or three-dimensional art studio. Students Minors develop skills, sensitivity and aesthetic judgment while pursuing Studio Art individual interests within studio areas such as drawing, painting, printmaking, fibers, ceramics or sculpture. A background in the visual PROGRAM DESCRIPTION arts can provide a variety of opportunities in the areas of studio artist, The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art with a concentration in art art organizations and applied design. history combines strong curriculum requirements in both studio and art history courses. Students in this major develop advanced skills in For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a particular studio techniques and engage in in-depth study of historic faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. and contemporary artists, art movements and styles. This degree can lead to professional employment in art museums and galleries, art CONTACT INFORMATION publishing houses and other areas of art services. The degree also Department of Art, Fine Arts Building 200, 970.248.1833. prepares students for advanced, graduate-level art history studies.

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FACULTY Students seeking degrees in athletic training and teaching should see JAKE ALLEE (2009), Assistant Professor of Art; B.F.A., University of their faculty advisors in both athletic training and teacher licensure. Iowa; M.F.A., University of North Texas. The following are required for admission into the Athletic Training STEven BRADLEY (2004), Professor of Art; B.A., Program: University of Colorado-Boulder; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern 1. Have a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher University. 2. Complete the following courses (Grade “C” or higher) a. KINE 234 (or equivalent) Joshua Butler (2006), Associate Professor of Art; B.F.A., M.F.A., b. KINE 240 (or equivalent knowledge, skills and observations) Colorado State University. c. BIOL 209, 209L (or equivalent). Suzie GARNER (1995), Professor of Art and Department Head of Art; B.F.A., M.A., Stephen F. Austin State University; M.F.A., CONTACT INFORMATION West Texas A&M. Department of Kinesiology, Maverick Center 237, 970.248.1635.

Eli Marco Hall (2012), Assistant Professor of Art; B.F.A., Missouri FACULTY State University; M.F.A., Colorado State University; M.A., Lindenwood RICHARD BELL, Instructor of Kinesiology; B.S., Clemson University; University. M.A., The Citadel; J.D., University of South Carolina; Ed.D., United States Sports Academy. Alison Harris (2013), Assistant Professor of Art; MFA, California State University, Long Beach; M.ED, National University; BFA, JILL CORDOVA (1992), Professor of Kinesiology and Department Sonoma State University; BA, University of California, Davis. Head of Kinesiology; B.A., M.A., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Heather Patterson McCulloch (2011), Assistant Professor of Art; B.F.A., Sonoma State University; M.F.A., University of California, KRISTIN HEUMANN (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; Berkeley. B.A., Northwestern College; M.S., Ph.D., Arizona State University. GUY LEADBETTER (1993), Professor of Kinesiology and Head CAROLYN QUINN-HENSLEY (2000), Professor of Art; B.F.A., M.F.A., Coach, Women’s Cross Country; B.A., Bowdoin College; M.S., University of Hawaii. University of Montana; Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Araan Schmidt (2013), Assistant Professor of Art; BFA, Kansas City STEVEN ROSS MURRAY (1998), Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., Art Institute; MFA, University of Minnesota. University of North Alabama; M.S., D.A., Middle Tennessee State University. Athletic training ELIZABETH SHARP (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., M.Ed., Arkansas Tech University; Ph.D., Middle Tennessee PROGRAMS OFFERED State University. Bachelor of Science Athletic Training

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION BAKING AND PASTRY The Athletic Training Program is a five semester clinical program, usually programs offered completed from the spring of the sophomore through the senior Technical Certificate year, and is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Baking and Pastry Training Education (CAATE). Admission is competitive and admission Associate of Applied Science into Colorado Mesa University does not guarantee admission into the Baking and Pastry program. The Athletic Training Program ensures the highest quality of education by offering collective learning experiences that enable the PROGRAM DESCRIPTION student to successfully challenge the Board of Certification examination This program will prepare students for employment in the field of and pursue numerous career paths as a certified athletic trainer. baking and the art of pastries. The Associate of Applied Science Certified athletic trainers gain employment in a variety of settings program will develop the students’ skills and understanding in the including but not limited to: high school/college athletic programs, production of chocolates, confections, pastries, ice creams and frozen professional sport programs, outpatient physical therapy/sports desserts, yeast products, quick breads, sculpted items, sugar work, use medicine clinics, industrial/corporate settings, and even the US military. of fruits and international desserts. Business and management courses to be taken include nutrition, purchasing, supervision, and business Transfer students are encouraged to contact the Athletic Training information technology. Program at least 1 semester prior to application/ transfer to assure that they have time to develop the required skills and knowledge pre- Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared for an requisites. entry-level position in the broad and expanding hospitality/industry as well as prepared to continue for advanced study in the Bachelor of Application deadline is the Monday following Thanksgiving for Applied Science in Hospitality Management. admission into the clinical program for the following spring semester. CONTACT INFORMATION SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann Health Care Provider CPR/AED certification required. Avenue, 970.255.2670.

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DENISE McKENNEY (1996), Professor of Biology and Department b iology Head of Biological Sciences; B.S., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., PROGRAMS OFFERED North Carolina State University—Raleigh. Associate of Science KYLE MCQUADE (2006), Associate Professor of Biology; B.S., Biology Emphasis Millikin University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Bachelor of Science Biological Sciences – Biology Zeynep ozsoy-bean Instructor of Biology; B.S. Bogazici Biological Sciences – Secondary Education University-Turkey; Ph.D., University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill. Minor APARNA PALMER (1999), Professor of Biology; B.A., B.S., Colorado Biology State University; Ph.D., Washington State University. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Bachelor of Science degree with a biological science major STEphen Stern (2011), Assistant Professor of Biology; B.S., provides a broad background in the biological sciences. Students University of North Carolina—Asheville; Ph.D., University of Utah. choose biology courses from four areas: cell, developmental and THOMAS WALLA (2001), Professor of Biology; B.A., molecular biology; anatomical and physiological biology; organismal University of California—San Diego; Ph.D., University of biology; and ecology, evolution and systematics. The biology Oregon--Eugene. concentration also offers field courses on tropical ecosystems in Ecuador and on marine invertebrate communities in Oregon. The CARRIE McVEAN WARING (1996), Professor of Biology; B.S., Department of Biology operates the only electron microscope facility D.V.M., Colorado State University. in the area. Graduates of our program pursue careers in the medical STEVEN WERMAN (1990), Professor of Biology and Assistant Vice field, plant pathology, wildlife biology, cell biology or biotechnology, President for Academic Affairs; B.S., M.S., California State University— among just a few of the career options available with a biology Long Beach; Ph.D., University of Miami. degree from Colorado Mesa University.

Students wishing to obtain teacher certification complete a Business concentration in secondary education leading to teacher licensure. Graduates of the program can teach in the state of Colorado or use PROGRAMS OFFERED their teaching expertise in other careers. After completing foundation Professional Certificate sciences classes in biology, chemistry, physics and geology, students Energy Management/Landman choose 10 hours of upper level biology course work, in consultation Entrepreneurship with their advisor. Insurance Supervision CONTACT INFORMATION Associate of Arts Department of Biological Sciences, Wubben Science 232, Business Administration 970.248.1993. Associate of Applied Science Hospitality Management FACULTY Bachelor of Applied Science BRUCE BAUERLE (1972), Professor of Biology; B.A., University Business Administration of Kansas; M.S., University of Missouri; D.A., University of Hospitality Management Northern Colorado. Bachelor of Business Administration Business Economics Margot Becktell (2008), Assistant Professor of Biology; B.S., Emerging Markets Mesa State College; Ph.D., Cornell University. Energy Management/Landman KELLY JEAN CRAIG (2012), Assistant Professor of Biology; B.S., Entrepreneurship University of Kansas; Ph.D., Georgetown University. Finance Hospitality Management Richard Dujay Instructor of Biology; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Colorado Human Resource Management State University. Information Systems Insurance SHAY FABBRO Instructor of Biology; B.S., Mesa State College; Ph.D., Management University of Colorado-Denver. Managerial Informatics PAUL HAMPTON (2012), Assistant Professor of Biology; B.S., Eastern Marketing Illinois University; M.S., University of Texas at Tyler; Ph.D., University Minors of Louisiana at Lafayett. Business Administration Economics Susan Longest (2011), Assistant Professor of Biology; B.S., Cornell Entrepreneurship University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Managerial informatics Travel and Tourism Stephanie Matlock, Instructor of Biology; B.A., University of Master of Business Administration Colorado-Boulder; M.S., Montana State University—Bozeman. Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance + Master of GARY McCALLISTER (1973), Professor of Biology; B.S., M.S., Business Administration (3+2) Brigham Young University; D.A., University of Northern Colorado. Bachelor of Science in Construction Management + Master of Business Administration (3+2)

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS managers in advertising firms and project and operations managers Business Adminstration in manufacturing organizations. Many of Colorado Mesa University’s The Associate of Arts (AA) degree is designed for students who BBA graduates have gone on to earn advanced degrees in business intend to continue their education and obtain a baccalaureate such as the Master of Business Administration (MBA) – a desired degree. The business administration AA degree, in addition to degree by employers in today’s job market. providing students with their general education, is useful in giving students an overview of business. The AA is also an appropriate Minors are designed to prepare non-business students with an choice for students who will take upper division coursework in the overview of business knowledge, allowing students to combine arts, humanities, or social and behavioral sciences. Through the other disciplines with necessary business skills. The four functional acquisition of general education credits, the degree also positions areas of business are covered in the minor with additional upper students for completion of a four-year degree in business. The division courses required based upon the chosen minor. The degree includes the Colorado Statewide General Education Core business administration minor complements many other degrees and meets the lower-division general education requirements at and is designed to prepare students to enter the world of business most public institutions in Colorado. with the basic business skills needed to contribute more efficiently and effectively in the workplace. Courses in management, marketing The Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Business Administration and workplace communication provide students an opportunity to combines the technical skills and business proficiency necessary for build a foundation in business. Additionally, courses in accounting, success. A unique program, the BAS degree allows students who finance and computer information systems allow students to choose have already earned an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree to classes that best fit their career goals. A business administration build upon their technical specialties with general education courses minor coupled with a non-business major can increase the and junior and senior level business courses. This allows associate employment opportunities available in a variety of areas. degree holders to gain a 4-year degree in approximately four additional full-time semesters, depending upon prior coursework. The MBA is a challenging degree that prepares graduates in the Business courses to be taken include courses in marketing, ever-changing business world. A combination of theory and promotion, management, accounting, finance, small business application of current business practices, the classes provide management and entrepreneurship. Upon completion of the students the opportunity to analyze actual business scenarios. The program, students will be technically and academically prepared for 24-hour core focuses on the functional areas of business, with six leadership positions in their chosen industries. Prospective students hours focused on research and an applied project and six hours not holding an AAS degree can begin their university career at CMU focused on electives. The MBA program is more than ten years old in a chosen field of study with a 2-year degree and then progress with over140 graduates scattered around the globe. See Graduate to a 4-year degree using the BAS. This degree will provide students Policies and Programs section of this catalog for complete degree with upward mobility in their area of employment as they move into requirements. supervision/management positions. BBA SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree provides an Prior to admission, potential BBA majors will be given the in-depth study of the many facets of business. The program’s extensive classification code for “pre-BBA”. To be eligible for admission to business core provides students with the knowledge, skills and abilities the program, a student must meet certain requirements (see to compete in both local and global business environments. The department for requirements). business core covers the functional areas of business and offers an Once a student has completed 23 semester credit hours and has applied approach, providing students with an opportunity to apply met the other specific criteria for admittance, s/he may apply concepts and theories learned in class to real life business projects. to the Business Administration Program Admission Committee. Students choose from the listed concentrations and gain additional Specific admission information may be obtained from the depth in one or more of those areas. Department of Business. The BBA is a very versatile and valuable degree. In addition to positions in corporate America, graduates hold positions in BBA CONCENTRATION(S) (Students must choose one) nonprofit organizations like hospitals, school systems and theaters Requirements vary with the concentration selected. See faculty and positions in organizations from entry-level manger to chief advisor for a program sheet detailing exact and complete executive officer. Colorado Mesa University’s BBA graduates are requirements for the major and concentration chosen. entrepreneurs, small business owners, bank vice-presidents, product

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To be admitted to the concentrations, certain prerequisites must prior coursework. Business courses to be taken include courses in be satisfied. Please see the Department Head of Business for marketing, promotion, management, accounting, finance, small complete requirements and application form. business management and entrepreneurship. Upon completion of the program, students will be technically and academically prepared A.A.S., MINORS and CERTIFICATES for leadership positions in their chosen industries. Prospective Economics students not holding an AAS can begin their university career Minors are designed to prepare non-business students with an at CMU in a chosen field of study with a 2-year degree and then overview of business knowledge, allowing students to combine progress to a 4-year degree using the BAS. This degree will provide other disciplines with necessary business skills. The four functional students with upward mobility in their area of employment as they areas of business are covered in the minor with additional upper move into supervision/management positions. division courses required based upon the chosen minor. The minor in economics is designed to prepare students with an overview of The business department also offers the Bachelor of Business the basics of economics. Coursework includes the principles classes Administration with a concentration in hospitality management. in macroeconomics and microeconomics, plus the intermediate macroeconomics and microeconomics courses. The required Managerial Informatics coursework prepares students with the critical thinking and problem The minor in managerial informatics is designed to prepare solving skills needed in today’s world, as well as the ability to apply students for managerial level decision making based on the use of economic rationale in the decision making process. information and computer technology. The managerial informatics minor is intended for students who are interested in expanding The business department also offers the Bachelor of Business their knowledge and skills in the use of information and related Administration with a concentration in economics. technology. A managerial informatics minor coupled with any major Entrepreneurship can increase the employment opportunities available in a wide Business certificates are designed to provide entry-level variety of areas. knowledge, skills and abilities in the requisite areas. The coursework in each of the certificates can also be used as hours The business department also offers the Bachelor of Business toward a two-year or four-year degree in that specialization. Administration with a concentration in managerial informatics. Emphasis in each certificate is on knowledge and skill development. The certificate in entrepreneurship is designed Supervision to expose students and prospective entrepreneurs to the The certificate in supervision is designed to expose students and beginning knowledge and skills needed to examine and evaluate business managers to the knowledge and skills needed to supervise entrepreneurship opportunities. The certificate will provide students employees in the workplace. Basic supervisory skills are addressed with an overview of business knowledge, which more fully prepares allowing students opportunities for successful promotions to them to operate their own businesses. managerial positions.

The minor in entrepreneurship is designed to equip students with Travel and Tourism the basic knowledge and skills needed to successfully operate The minor in travel and tourism is designed to prepare students a small business. The entrepreneurship minor is intended for to enter the world of hospitality management. Coursework in the students in disciplines other than business who wish to begin small areas of marketing, management and community tourism will businesses in their major area. The minor will provide students with provide students the basic skills needed in order to contribute more the basics needed as they face the exciting challenges of small efficiently and effectively in the travel and tourism industry. For the business ownership. student interested in the area of travel and tourism, a minor coupled with a bachelor’s degree can increase the employment opportunities The business department also offers a certificate in entrepreneurship available in a variety of travel-related areas. and the Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship. Also see hospitality management.

Hospitality Management For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Upon completion of the Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Hospitality Management, students will be prepared for an entry- level position in the broad and expanding hospitality industry, as CONTACT INFORMATION well as prepared to pursue the Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, in Hospitality Management. The field of hospitality management 970.248.1778. combines the technical skills and business proficiency necessary for success in this challenging industry. Business courses to be taken FACULTY include courses in marketing, promotion, management, accounting, MORGAN BRIDGE (1995), Professor of Business and Department finance, small business management and entrepreneurship. Head of Business; B.B.A., M.A, Chadron State; Ph.D., University of Wyoming. The BAS in Hospitality Management combines the technical skills TIMOTHY HATTEN (1995), Professor of Business; B.A., Western State and business proficiency necessary for success. A unique program, College; M.S., Central Missouri State; Ph.D., University of Missouri. the BAS degree allows students who have already earned an AAS degree to build upon their technical specialties with general Georgann Jouflas, Instructor of Business; B.A., University of education courses and junior and senior level business courses. Colorado; M.B.A., George Washington University. This allows associate degree holders to gain a 4-year degree in ROBERT MAYER (1987), Associate Professor of Business; B.A., M.S., approximately four additional full-time semesters, depending upon University of Northern Colorado.

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deborah parman, Instructor of Business; B.A., Colorado State faculty with a diverse range of specialties (analytical chemistry, University; M.A.M., University of Redlands. biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry and organic chemistry), chemistry majors have the opportunity to learn about nathan perry (2010), Assistant Professor of Business; B.A., each of these fields. Westminster College; Ph.D., University of Utah. matt rosenberg (2011), Assistant Professor of Business; C.F.A., Opportunities for student research are numerous and the C.P.A., M.P.A., The University of Texas at Austin. program is well equipped with modern chemical instrumentation, including a 300 MHz FT-NMR spectrometer, FT-IR and UV-Visible PATRICK SCHUTZ (2004), Associate Professor of Business; B.S., spectrophotometers, high performance liquid and ion Eastern Michigan University; M.S., University of Utah; Ph.D., Colorado chromatographs and an inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission State University. spectrometer. RICHARD VAIL (1997), Professor of Business; B.S., University of California-Davis; M.S., University of Colorado; Ph.D., Oxford As the “central science,” a strong background in chemistry is a University. wonderful complement to many other majors. A chemistry minor should be considered by any student who is interested in a career in science, medicine, patent law or technical sales. Chemistry CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Wubben Science PROGRAMS OFFERED 232, 970.248.1993. Bachelor of Science Chemistry FACULTY Minor James Ayers (2007), Associate Professor of Chemistry; B.S., Chemistry University of Texas-Austin; Ph.D., Stanford University. TIMOTHY D’ANDREA (2009), Assistant Professor of Chemistry; PROGRAM DESCRIPTION B.S. Ursinus College; Ph.D. University of Colorado. Chemistry can be described as the systematic study of matter in the universe. It is often referred to as the “central science” in that it acts as PAUL ENNIS, Chemistry Lab Coordinator; B.S., University of the connection between many other disciplines including physics, California - Riverside. biology, engineering, earth science, environmental science and medicine. Recent graduates have been successful in the chemical Suzanne Kenney, Instructor of Chemistry; B.S., M.S., Clarkson industry and in secondary education. Many have continued their University. education in graduate and professional schools. JOSEPH RICHARDS (1995), Professor of Chemistry; B.A., University of San Diego; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Chemistry students gain a unique perspective on the composition, properties and reactivity of the substances surrounding them. These David Weinberg (2011), Assistant Professor of Chemistry; B.A., students gain problem-solving skills that can be applied in chemistry University of San Diego; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. labs, in other classes and in day-to-day life. By having chemistry KIMBERLY WHITE (2012), Assistant Professor of Chemistry; B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cssla ical studies PROGRAMS OFFERED Minor Classical Studies PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Classical studies provides the opportunity to explore the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome and thus the roots of Western history, literature, and culture.

As an interdisciplinary field, classical studies encourages students to develop multiple intellectual skills and to think about the world around them from different perspectives. Current course offerings include Greco-Roman literature, mythology, history, archaeology, philosophy, political science, rhetoric, and of course, Latin and Greek. There is a significant amount of flexibility in the classical studies minor in terms of the courses one takes, but the study of ancient languages is the core of the program, and all minors must take one year of either Latin or Greek.

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Classical studies is a great complement to other areas of study The Associate of Arts (AA) degree provides students an overview because a student can emphasize those aspects of classical of computer information systems and business. By earning civilization that relate to his or her primary field of study (e.g. general education credits, the degree also positions students for literature, history, language, etc). In a more general sense, the skills completion of a four-year degree in business. The degree program and perspectives one acquires are well suited for those considering includes the Colorado Statewide General Education Core and graduate school or any kind of post-graduate educational meets the lower-division general education requirements at most program such as law school or medical school. As a result of being public institutions in Colorado. This degree also provides a working interdisciplinary, the classical studies minor encourages students knowledge of computer hardware and software. The AA degree to employ a variety of methodologies in various disciplines while with an emphasis in business computer information systems, in still developing a cohesive body of knowledge relevant to many addition to providing students with all of their general education, fields and professions. The linguistic component ensures that one is useful in giving students a working knowledge of computer has a deeper understanding of language and can thus write, speak, and think more clearly. Furthermore, the fact that a great deal of hardware and software. Common productivity tools such as specialized legal and medical terminology is based on Latin and presentation software, spreadsheets and database management Greek means that a minor in classical studies is great training for software used in businesses are presented. If a student stops with someone considering any kind of legal or medical profession. only an associate’s degree, the computer information systems AA provides skills that can be used in the workplace immediately. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. The Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Information Systems is a degree required as organizations face the challenges of CONTACT INFORMATION technology management. The program provides graduates with Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication, business management skills and computer information expertise to Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1687. manage computer systems in today’s organizations. As businesses –or– increasingly rely on technology to provide a competitive advantage, employees with an understanding of both business concepts Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, and computer systems are a necessity. Graduates of this program 970.248.1696. are employed in occupations such as systems analysts, analyst/ programmers, database administrators, network administrators, web FACULTY page designers, help desk specialists and information technology M. Jason Reddoch (2011), Assistant Professor of English; managers. Graduates assist businesses with creating, obtaining and B.A., Millsaps College; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. maintaining computer information systems that solve problems and DOUGLAS O’ROARK (1994), Professor of History; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., assist in facilitating routine business events. Computer information The Ohio State University. systems studies require students to examine computer systems from organizational, social, psychological and technical perspectives. Graduates from this program will have taken a variety of courses computer that were developed based on national guidelines for quality information systems degrees in information systems. PROGRAMS OFFERED The Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Computer Information Professional Certificate Systems combines the technical skills and business proficiency Decision Support needed today. A unique program, the BAS allows students Associate of Arts who have already earned an AAS to build upon their technical Business Computer Information Systems Emphasis specialties with general education courses and junior/senior level Bachelor of Science computer information coursework. This allows associate degree Computer Information Systems holders to gain a 4-year degree in approximately four additional Bachelor of Applied Science full-time semesters, depending upon prior coursework. Computer Computer Information Systems information systems courses to be taken include coursework Minor in project management, systems analysis and design, database Computer Information Systems administration, networking, electronic commerce, productivity Managerial Informatics tools and decision support, as well as systems development and implementation, including programming and information systems PROGRAM DESCRIPTION theory. BAS students will be technically and academically prepared The certificate in decision support systems is designed to expose for management positions within information technology. students and business managers to the knowledge and skills Prospective students not holding an associate of applied science needed to use computer software to solve business problems, degree can begin their university career at CMU in a chosen field particularly in the support of business decision making. This of study with a 2-year degree and then progress to a 4-year degree certificate addresses the need of today’s managers to more fully using the BAS. manage the information systems functions of an organization. The certificate will provide students with an overview of information The computer information systems minor allows students they would encounter if they went on to earn the minor in majoring in other areas to enhance their degrees with information managerial informatics or the BBA concentration in information systems knowledge. Such graduates may use their expertise to systems or the BS in computer information systems, each of which help solve computer system problems for businesses. Since many more fully prepares people to work in or manage the information businesses rely heavily on computer systems as decision-making systems functions of organizations. tools, graduates with this minor will have a competitive advantage.

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Additionally, many employees in numerous organizations find themselves daily using computer hardware and software as computer science productivity tools within their positions. The computer information PROGRAMS OFFERED systems minor assists students in learning skills and background Associate of Science information that they will need in all occupations. Computer Science Emphasis Bachelor of Science The minor in managerial informatics is designed to prepare Computer Science students for managerial level decision-making based on the use Minor of information and computer technology. Today’s world presents Computer Science a wealth of information, although using information effectively requires insight and talent with a variety of tools. The managerial PROGRAM DESCRIPTION informatics minor is intended for students who are interested in The Associate of Science with an emphasis in computer science expanding their knowledge and skills in the use of information includes courses in web page design, various programming and related technology. A managerial informatics minor coupled languages, data structures and computer architecture. While the with any major can increase the employment opportunities associate’s degree prepares students to complete a Bachelor of available in a wide variety of areas. Science in Computer Science (which is strongly recommended), employment opportunities are open to the successful graduate, The business department also offers the Bachelor of Business including positions such as web developers, computer operators Administration with a concentration in information systems. and technical support specialists.

For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Computer science is the study of algorithms and the issues faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. involved in implementing them. The bachelor’s degree in computer science includes core courses in algorithms, data structures, CONTACT INFORMATION logic, programming languages, software design and advanced Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, mathematics. Electives in web page design, artificial intelligence, 970.248.1778. robotics, computer graphics, video game design, databases, security, FACULTY multimedia and networks are also possible. The program and course DONALD CARPENTER (2003), Professor of Computer Information offerings are constantly evolving to keep up with the latest changes Systems; B.S., Kearney State College; M.B.A., University of Colorado- in the computer science field. The small class sizes at Colorado Mesa Colorado Springs; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln. University allow for close interaction between faculty and students, with independent research projects and internships available. Gayla Jo slauson (1993), Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems; B.A., Mesa State College; M.B.A., University of A wide variety of professional and academic opportunities exist Southern Colorado. for graduates in the computer science field, including software Johnny snyder (2005), Professor of Computer Information engineering, software testing, computational finance, game design, Systems; B.A., Fort Lewis College, M.A., Ph.D., University of New computer graphics, robotics, artificial intelligence, internet systems Mexico; M.S., Nova Southeastern University. and technology, security, hardware development, animation, medicine, biotechnology, business management and consulting and modeling, as well as master’s and doctoral studies in computing- related fields. Graduates have continued on to advanced degrees in top tier schools and are employed at IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Lockheed- Martin and many other technical companies.

A minor in computer science is an excellent enhancement to degrees in the many fields which make extensive use of computer software, such as engineering, physics and mathematics, but also for non-science fields such as graphic arts, education or sociology. The degree prepares students to understand computer science foundations in software development and in hardware, as well as common application software development such as database software, graphical user interfaces and video game design.

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CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Wubben Science 132, 970.248.1407. FACULTY ARUN EKTARE (1986), Professor of Computer Science; Ph.D., University of Roorkee (India). WARREN MACEVOY (2001), Professor of Computer Science; B.S., Colorado Mesa University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona.

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LORI PAYNE (1996), Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department Head of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics; B.A., Mesa College; M.S., New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology; Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado. GARY RADER (1995), Professor of Computer Science; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.B.A., University of Phoenix. construction management PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Science Construction Management Bachelor of Science + Master of Business Administration (3+2)

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Construction managers plan, direct and coordinate a wide variety of construction projects, including the building of all types of residential, commercial and industrial structures, roads and bridges. Construction managers coordinate and supervise the construction process from the conceptual development stage through final construction, insuring the project is completed on time and within budget. They are salaried or self-employed managers who oversee construction supervisors and workers. They are also responsible for the safety of the work environment. Potential majors must be comfortable with mathematics, technical instruction, physical science, computers and software programs. They should work well under pressure and have good oral and written communication skills. This degree is intended to provide students with the needed knowledge, skills and abilities to be successful in this fast-paced challenging environment. Graduates of the PROGRAM DESCRIPTION construction management program will possess an OSHA 10-hour The certificate program in construction technology prepares safety card upon graduation. students for a wide range of opportunities in the construction field by introducing practical theory and related field training in For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a construction technology and building construction. Emphasis in the faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. fundamentals of construction safety, framing, floor systems, roofing, building regulations, print reading, as well as concrete and cabinet CONTACT INFORMATION making and installation will be covered. Students with this certificate Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, will be prepared for entry-level positions with construction companies. 970.248.1778. The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Construction Technology with an emphasis on craft focuses on the fundamentals of FACULTY construction safety, framing, floor systems, roofing, building Kelly bevilL (2011), Assistant Professor of Construction regulations, print reading, concrete and cabinet making and Management; B.S., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.S., Cornell installation. Career options include carpenter, concrete former, University. roofer or cabinet maker. This emphasis can also be a pathway into TROY MILLER (2013), B.S., Brigham Young University; M.S., Colorado supervision or management. State University. The AAS in Construction Technology with an emphasis on supervision is designed to prepare students for a wide range of opportunities in the construction field that require management skills. The curriculum incorporates courses in building materials and testing, estimating, Cno struction planning and scheduling, project management and other supervisory Technology and general education courses that develop management skills. Career options include obtaining a position as a purchasing manager, PROGRAMS OFFERED salesperson, crew supervisor, or project manager in the field of Technical Certificate construction. Construction Technology For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Associate of Applied Science faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Construction Technology – Craft Construction Technology – Supervision CONTACT INFORMATION Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann Avenue, 970.255.2670.

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FACULTY Richard Leonard (2007), Technical Instructor of Construction Technology. criminal justice PROGRAMS OFFERED Associate of Applied Science Criminal Justice (WCCC) Criminal Justice (Delta/Montrose Technical Center) Bachelor of Arts Criminal Justice Criminal Justice - Law Enforcement Minor Criminal Justice

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Criminal Justice is designed for students who have completed or wish to complete the police academy program at Western Colorado Community College and incorporates instruction gained from the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) program. Students in the AAS program must complete the general education requirements and choose additional courses in law enforcement related studies either before or after completing the academy. Completion of the AAS in Criminal Justice CONTACT INFORMATION may provide graduates with additional promotional opportunities Associate Degree: in law enforcement areas (such as police and sheriff departments, Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, state enforcement, parole officer, liquor enforcement and wildlife 2508 Blichmann Avenue, 970.255.2670. enforcement). Law enforcement agencies in some areas require an AAS degree for entry-level positions. Baccalaureate Degree: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1696. The Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice is designed to provide FACULTY students interested in careers in the justice system with the MICHAEL DELANEY (2008), Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice; knowledge, communication and critical thinking skills necessary B.A., Transylvania University, J.D., Salmon P. Chase College of Law; for success in their field. The degree will also assist students in their Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. upward mobility in their area of employment. Graduates secure positions in law enforcement, probation, parole and corrections. Katie Dreiling (2011), Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice; B.A., Many also use this degree as the starting point in their pursuit of a M.S., St. Cloud State University; Ph.D., South Dakota State University. law degree. JANE QUIMBY (2012) Director of Department of Public Safety; B.S., University of Utah; J.D., University of Denver. The Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice with a concentration in law enforcement combines the POST requirements of the AAS degree JOHN REECE (2006), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice; B.A., with the academic rigor of the baccalaureate degree. Graduates will Mesa State College; M.P.A., University of Colorado-Denver; Ph.D., be able to secure positions in various law areas (e.g. police officer, Northcentral University. deputy sheriff, parole officer, etc.).

The criminal justice minor is designed to provide students interested culinary ARTs in careers in the justice system with the knowledge, communication and critical thinking skills necessary for success in their field. PROGRAMS OFFERED Graduates secure positions in law enforcement, probation, parole and Technical Certificate corrections. Many also use this degree as the starting point in their Culinary Arts pursuit for a law degree. Associate of Applied Science Culinary Arts For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The culinary arts program trains people interested in developing SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS professional food preparation and management skills. From future The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree is based on chefs to foodies, develop your basic cooking and baking techniques, completing the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) program or take your career to the next level at the WCCC Culinary Arts Center at WCCC. (See the POST entry elsewhere in this section). Students in Grand Junction, Colorado. Small class sizes translate to personal who have completed the POST program must complete the general attention given students by our highly skilled and respected culinary education requirements and three social and behavioral science instructors. Interaction between students and local diners at Chez classes to earn an AAS. Lena restaurant complements marketing, dining room management,

Learn more about the programs of study listed here, and find program sheets detailing exact and complete requirements for majors and concentrations, online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. Programs of study 69 and advanced cooking coursework. Whether you want to start teacher sequence and then continue on to earn an Associate of Arts seriously playing with food or start your own business, discover your in Early Childhood Education. Career options include opportunities in passion at Western Colorado Community College/Colorado Mesa childcare centers and preschools. University. The Associate of Arts (AA) with an early childhood education For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a emphasis provides students with a foundation for working with faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. children from birth to age eight in a variety of settings. Our faculty offer one-on-one guidance for course selection, field placements, CONTACT INFORMATION student teaching and employment. With an increasing focus on Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann quality early education, many organizations are requiring their Avenue, 970.255.2670. employees to demonstrate a level of expertise provided by this AA degree. Our students complete their degree with a culminating FACULTY student teaching experience giving them an opportunity to teach dan kirby, CHE (1999), Assistant Technical Professor and Program in a real preschool classroom for a semester. Graduates of the early Coordinator of Culinary Arts; A.A.S., Colorado Mesa University childhood program go on to be employed in large and small child care centers, open up their own home care centers, work in other WAYNE SMITH CEC, CCE (1998), Assistant Technical Professor of school settings, or use coursework as a foundation to continue into Culinary Arts; A.A.S., Mesa State College. elementary education. In addition, our program aligns with state Jonathan st. peter, CEC, CCE (2004), Assistant Technical requirements for early childhood teacher certification and large Professor of Culinary Arts; A.A.S., Colorado Mountain College. center director qualification. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a E ducation: faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Early Childhood SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Study directed toward the Associate of Arts degree may serve as PROGRAMS OFFERED a basis for the Bachelor of Arts degree with elementary education Technical Certificate licensure. Programs of study are sequential and advanced planning Early Childhood Education Director is necessary for an efficient transition from an associate program to a Early Childhood Education Teacher baccalaureate program. Faculty advisors assist students in planning Associate of Arts programs to meet requirements. Students seeking childcare center Early Childhood Education Emphasis director qualification should meet with an advisor in order to meet PROGRAM DESCRIPTION specific certification requirements. The early childhood certificate program prepares students for careers CONTACT INFORMATION in licensed early childhood care and education programs and enables Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann students to meet the educational qualifications of the Colorado Avenue, 970.255.2670. Department of Human Services. Students who wish to work in licensed early childhood classrooms may complete the director or

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FACULTY LISA FRIEL (1998), Professor of Teacher Education; B.A., University of sherry schreiner (2009), Director, Early Childhood Education; California-Santa Barbara; M.Ed., Ed.D., Northern Arizona University. B.S., Colorado State University; M.S., University of Northern Colorado. JEAN GAULEY, Instructor of Teacher Education; B.S.Ed., University of Vermont; M.A., Ph.D., University of Denver. BRIAN HORN (2012), Assistant Professof of Teacher Education; B.A., E ducation: M.Ed., University of Oklahoma; Ph.D., University of North Texas. teacher licensure sandra murray, Instructor of Teacher Education; B.A., M.A., Adams State College. PROGRAMS OFFERED Coursework Leading to Initial Licensure M.A. Education Electric lineworker Graduate Certificate Educational Leadership PROGRAMS OFFERED English for Speakers of Other Languages Technical Certificate Exceptional Learner Electric Lineworker Initial Teaching Endorsement (Elementary; Secondary) Teacher Leader PROGRAM DESCRIPTION This program covers all areas of training required to work with PROGRAM DESCRIPTION electric lines, including: basic skills and studies of electricity, math, The Center for Teacher Education offers licensure programs in fundamentals of line work, transformer connections and underground elementary, secondary and K-12 education. Licensure to teach installation. In addition to training at the field location, all students in public schools in the state of Colorado requires each teacher are encouraged to obtain Red Cross First Aid and CPR cards as a candidate to complete a baccalaureate degree in a content area and requirement for employment. With this certificate, students will be a sequence of professional education courses that include prepared for entry-level positions as electric line mechanics, electric extensive field experience and classroom placements. Teacher lineworkers or power lineworkers. licensure coursework and experiences are taken through the Center for Teacher Education, while the content degree coursework is For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a completed meeting the requirements of the discipline area. Both faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. departments coordinate to assist teacher candidates to complete the program. Formal admission to the Center for Teacher Education SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS is required of all students planning to obtain a Colorado Educator Climbing and working on poles and towers is required. Students License in any teaching field. Admission to Colorado Mesa University receive field training and practical theory in all phases of powerline does not guarantee admission to the Teacher Education program, installation and maintenance. An outdoor laboratory covers climbing, which requires a separate application process. Contact the Center for setting and removing various sizes of poles, guy work, conductors, Teacher Education for information; also see the section in this catalog transformers, street lights, installation of services and the use and care on the Center for Teacher Education. of safety equipment. Prospective students are encouraged to contact the College about physical requirements. This program begins only in In order to complete all licensure requirements in a timely manner, the fall semester of each year. it is important that students contact the center as soon as possible after enrolling at Colorado Mesa University. Interested students enroll CONTACT INFORMATION in EDUC 211 Foundations of Education before applying for formal Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann admission to the Center for Teacher Education. Avenue, 970.255.2670. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a FACULTY faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. paul behl (2011), Technical Instructor of Electric Lineworker; CONTACT INFORMATION A.A.S., Richland Community College. Center for Teacher Education, Academic Classroom Building, Suite patrick roark (2005), Technical Instructor of Electric Lineworker. 109, 970.248.1786. PROGRAM DIRECTOR Valerie Dobbs (2008), Director, Center for Teacher Education; Emergency B.A., The Ohio State University; M.A., Virginia Tech University. Medical Services

FACULTY The Paramedic programs are inactive for the 2013-14 academic year. Blake Bickham (2007), Associate Professor of Teacher Education; B.A., M.A., Texas A & M University; Ed.D., University of Houston. PROGRAMS OFFERED Cynthia Chovich (2007), Associate Professor of Teacher Technical Certificate Education; B.A., California State University,-San Marcos; M.A., Emergency Medical Technician – Basic Grand Canyon University; Ed.D., Walden University. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION JENNIFER DANIELS (2011), Assistant Professor of Teacher The primary focus of the emergency medical technician (EMT) is Education; Ph.D., Walden University; M.Ed., Loyola College; B.A., to provide basic emergency medical care and transportation for SUNY - Oswego State. critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical system. An EMT possesses the basic knowledge and skills necessary

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The English – Literature program includes instruction and practice in dealing with behavioral English – Writing problems, bleeding, fractures, burns, airway obstruction, cardiac arrest, English – Secondary Education environmental conditions and emergency childbirth. Students learn Minors how to use and maintain common emergency equipment, such as English backboards, suction devices, splints, oxygen delivery systems and a Program Description variety of stretchers. The program prepares the graduate to take the The English department at Colorado Mesa University offers programs NREMT examination and become certified as an EMT. leading to a Bachelor of Arts in literature, creative writing and secondary education. The skills a student develops as an English For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a major, such as writing, editing, problem solving, critical thinking and faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. analysis, are highly prized by employers in nearly every profession. This means that English graduates use their education in a wide variety SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS of fields and that their future careers relate to their personal career Students must earn a “C” or higher for all courses required for interests, work values and transferable skills. completion of the EMS programs. This policy applies regardless of when the course was taken. The Center for Teacher Education offers a comprehensive program of study that leads to licensure in Colorado. The secondary licensure CONTACT INFORMATION program provides teacher education candidates with broad content Department of Health Sciences, Maverick Center 173, 970.248.1398. knowledge in English and prepares them as teachers for grades 7 through 12. Please see the Teacher Education Admission Packet for FACULTY further information on admissions criteria. daniel barela Instructor and Director of Emergency Medical Services; A.A., Colorado Mountain College. The English minor should be of interest to students who want to broaden their backgrounds in the liberal arts as well as to those planning careers in which experience in literature and writing is Energy management/ useful, such as law, journalism, advertising, theatre, business, public Landman service, or graduate study in other academic subjects. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a programs offered faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Professional Certificate Energy Management/Landman CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication, program description Lowell Heiny Hall 445, 970.248.1687. The certificate in energy management/landman is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to FACULTY engage in landman activities in the workplace. The certificate will JULIE BARAK (1997), Professor of English; B.A., M.A., Creighton provide students with a foundation for further study in the energy University; Ph.D., University of Nebraska. management/landman concentration in the BBA, which more fully prepares a person for a successful career in the growing energy KATE Belknap, Instructor of English; B.A., The University of the industry. South; M.A., University of Dallas. JULIE BRUCH (2002), Professor of English; B.A., Western Michigan The Business Department also offers the Bachelor of Business University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas, Lawrence. Administration with a concentration in energy management/ landman. ROBIN CALLAND (2009), Assistant Professor of English; B.A., University of Colorado, Denver; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado contact information Boulder. Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, Carol Christ, Instructor of English; B.A., Mesa State College; 970.248.1778. M.F.A., Colorado State University. FACULTY RHONDA CLARIDGE, Instructor of English; B.A., New York CLINT CRIPE (2013), Assistant Professor of Business; B.S., Utah State University; M.A., University of Colorado. University; M.A., Minnesota State University; J.S., Oklahoma City University. BRYAN DOUGLAS COX, Instructor of English; B.A., California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo; M.F.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., Florida State University.

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Barbara Geiger, Instructor of English; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Texas Tech M. Jason Reddoch (2011), Assistant Professor of English; B.A., Millsaps College; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. University. WILLIAM WRIGHT (1998), Professor of English; B.A., Linfield College; t j gerlach (2005), Associate Professor of English; B.A., M.F.A., M.A., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., University of Arizona. University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Denver. KURTIS HAAS (1999), Professor of English; B.A., M.A., Truman State University; Ph.D., University of Nebraska. environmental KRISTEN HAGUE (2001), Associate Professor of English and Director science and technology of Honors Program; B.A., Providence College; M.A., Ph.D., University PROGRAMS OFFERED of New Mexico. Bachelor of Science JENNIFER HANCOCK (2010), Assistant Professor of English; B.A., Environmental Science and Technology – Environmental Science Oklahoma State University; M.F. A., Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D.; Pollution Monitoring and Control (option) Oklahoma State University. Ecosystem Restoration (option) Minor Michele Hanson, Instructor of English and French; B.A., Environmental Science and Technology University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., University of New Hampshire; M.L.S., University of Arizona. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The goal of the environmental science and technology program is BARRY LAGA (1997), Professor of English and Department Head of to educate students in the science, protection and restoration of our Languages, Literature and Mass Communication; B.A., M.A., Brigham natural resources—air, water, land and ecosystems. Students develop Young University; Ph.D., Purdue University. a solid foundation in biology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics and Ann Leadbetter, Instructor of English; B.A., University of Utah; communication skills, then apply this knowledge to the study and M.A., University of New Mexico. solution of environmental problems. Theory is balanced with hands- on practice and includes considerable work outdoors in the local Gabriele Mayer-Hunke, Instructor of English and German; B.S., environment. Individual and group projects are a key component M.S., B.A., M.A., University of Wuerzburg (Germany). of courses and students participate in work performed through Allison Morris, Instructor of English; B.A., M.A., Texas A&M partnerships with agencies such as the Colorado National Monument University. and the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. Students must choose either the pollution monitoring and control MAUREEN NEAL (1995), Professor of English; B.A., University of option, which focuses on pollution prevention as well as investigation Denver; M.A., Western State College; Ph.D., Texas A&M University. and cleanup, or the ecosystem restoration option, which focuses on strategies for managing natural resources. John Nizalowski, Instructor of English; B.A., Binghamton University; M.A., University of Delaware. The environmental science and technology minor is an invaluable RANDY PHILLIS (1993), Professor of English; B.A., M.F.A., Wichita asset to students who are majoring in biology, chemistry or geology State University; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. and planning to work in an environmental profession.

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FACULTY deborah kenNard (2005), Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Technology; B.A., Trinity University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida. TAMERA MINNICK (2002), Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Technology; B.S., University of Nebraska; Ph.D., Colorado State University. RUSSELL WALKER (1993), Professor of Environmental Science and Technology and Department Head of Physical and Environmental Sciences; A.B., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Iowa State University.

EXERCISE SCIENCE

Programs Offered Bachelor of Science Exercise Science

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION study of how organic matter decays). An osteological analysis of a Students enrolled in this major should have a strong interest in the skeleton assesses the age, sex, ancestry, stature, and unique features sciences as this program applies science to human function. The of an individual from the skeleton. The study of taphonomy helps to student will begin studies with science courses such as physics, determine a post-mortem interval and what happened to a body general chemistry and human anatomy and physiology. Continued from the time of death to the time of discovery. studies will include courses such as: exercise physiology, anatomical kinesiology, biomechanics, physical activity and aging, medical FACULTY conditions and pharmacology and sports nutrition, among other melissa connor (2011), Associate Professor of Forensic subject areas. This major is designed to prepare students for graduate Anthropology, Director–Forensic Investigation Research Station; Ph.D., programs such as: physical therapy, physician’s assistant, occupational University of Nebraska, Lincoln; M.A.,B.A., University of Wisconsin. therapy and exercise physiology. Colorado Mesa University students frequently continue their study for graduate or professional degrees at universities widely recognized as top programs in exercise physiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physical education forensics and public health. PROGRAMS OFFERED Minor For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Forensics faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics.

PROGRAM description Contact Information Forensic science is a growing professional field throughout the Department of Kinesiology, Maverick Center 237, 970.248.1635. United States. Forensic science is the interface between analytical science and the law. Students with a minor in forensic science can Faculty seek employment with CBI and other employers conducting forensic JILL CORDOVA (1992), Professor of Kinesiology and Department investigations, or they may continue their education by seeking Head of Kinesiology; B.A., M.A., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., a master’s degree in forensic science at another institution. The University of New Mexico. minor is best suited for students majoring in biology or chemistry. KEITH FRITZ (1997), Associate Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., Oregon The minor will enhance students’ skills in the molecular biology, State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of New Mexico. analytical chemistry and criminalistic techniques used in forensic investigations. KRISTIN HEUMANN (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; B.A., Northwestern College; M.S., Ph.D., Arizona State University. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. GUY LEADBETTER (1993), Professor of Kinesiology and Head CONTACT INFORMATION Coach, Women’s Cross Country; B.A., Bowdoin College; M.S., Department of Biological Sciences, Wubben Science 232, University of Montana; Ph.D., University of New Mexico. 970.248.1993. STEVEN ROSS MURRAY (1998), Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., University of North Alabama; M.S., D.A., Middle Tennessee State geographic information University. science & technology ELIZABETH SHARP (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., M.Ed., Arkansas Tech University; Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State PROGRAMS OFFERED University. Professional Certificate Geographic Information Science and Technology GERALD SMITH (2012), Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Minor Director Monfort Family Human Performance Laboratory; B.S., Walla Geographic Information Science and Technology Walla College; M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University. PROGRAM description Colorado Mesa University offers a certificate and a minor in geographic information science and technology. The courses are open to all students interested in broadening their knowledge FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY and enhancing job-related skills in a rapidly expanding market of computer-based technology. The multidisciplinary nature of PROGRAMS OFFERED geographic information science and technology allows students from Minor a wide variety of fields to participate in this exciting program. Forensic Anthropology There is a strong demand for people who are trained in geographic PROGRAM description information science and technology and this certificate assists Forensic anthropology is the use of anthropological techniques to students in securing jobs in this rapidly growing field. GIS/GPS can assist law enforcement, with the focus on the study of the human be used for cartography, business, biology, geology, environmental skeleton. Generally, physical anthropologists concentrate on the science, history, archeology and criminal justice. recovery and identification of human remains, most often where the victim’s remains are in advanced stages of decomposition. There are For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a two main foci—osteology (the study of bones) and taphonomy (the faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics.

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CONTACT INFORMATION the biology department), GPS units, short-period and long-period Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Wubben Science seismometers and a magnetometer. Computer facilities include 232, 970.248.1993. modern PC systems with software basics for communications, database management, word-processing, geographic information systems (GIS) and geostatistics. GEOSCIENCES Geology–Secondary Education PROGRAMS OFFERED The geology secondary education licensure concentration is Associate of Science structured for graduates to pursue teaching careers at the middle or Geology Emphasis high school level. The basic curriculum includes all of the major topics Bachelor of Science within a traditional geology program while also incorporating teacher Geosciences – Environmental Geology education courses required for licensure by the state of Colorado. Geosciences– Geology Geosciences – Geology - Secondary Education A minimum of 75 credit hours of general education and content area Minors coursework must be completed with a minimum GPA of 2.80 before Geology a candidate may apply to the Center for Teacher Education secondary Physics licensure program. Please contact the Center for Teacher Education Watershed Science for further information on admissions criteria.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The geology minor is designed for students who wish to take additional basic geology courses in support of their degree Environmental Geology aspirations in other areas. A total of 21 geology credit hours are The environmental geology concentration is designed for students required. Most classes have a strong field component so that students who (1) desire a strong liberal arts education with emphasis on can enjoy the diverse geological setting of the Grand Junction area. environmental issues within the earth sciences, (2) wish to pursue a graduate degree in environmental geology, or (3) desire a professional Watershed Science or technical career. The environmental geology concentration has The watershed science minor is an interdisciplinary program the same basic framework as the geology concentration, but has a designed to serve the regional need for scientists with a strong stronger emphasis on geologic hazards, ground-water and surface- background in water-related issues. It is a useful complement to water hydrology, low-temperature geochemistry, biological systems environmental, physical and biological science majors, providing and environmental science. Recent graduates are attending graduate students in these fields with certification of focused coursework. programs at major universities or have entered the work force as Combined with the relevant BS, plus additional calculus and physics geological technicians or professional geologists. courses, the minor satisfies the federal government’s requirements for qualification as a hydrologist. The proximity of Colorado Mesa Most classes have a strong field component so that students University to the Colorado, Gunnison and Green Rivers, the drainages experience the diverse geological setting of the Grand Junction of the Colorado National Monument and the high arroyos create an area. Equipment available includes a computer-assisted X-ray ideal location for the study of watershed science. diffractometer, research petrographic microscopes, binocular microscopes, scanning-electron microscopes (available through CONTACT INFORMATION the biology department), GPS units, short-period and long-period Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Wubben Science seismometers and a magnetometer. Computer facilities include 232, 970.248.1993. modern PC systems with software basics for communications, FACULTY database management, word-processing, geographic information ANDRES ASLAN (1999), Professor of Geology; B.S., Brown systems (GIS) and geostatistics. University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Colorado. Geology REX COLE (1995), Professor of Geology; B.S., Colorado State The geology concentration is designed for students who (1) desire University; Ph.D., University of Utah. a strong liberal arts education with emphasis on the earth sciences, (2) wish to pursue a graduate degree in geology, or (3) desire a JONATHAN COOLEY; Instructor of Geology; B.A., University of professional or technical geoscience career. Recent graduates are Colorado; M.S., Montana State University. attending graduate programs at major universities or have entered harold hase, Instructor of Geology; B.S., University of Wisconsin- the work force as geological technicians or professional geologists. Milwaukee; M.S., Michigan Tech University. Instruction takes place in a state-of-the art science complex, VERNER JOHNSON (1989), Professor of Geology; B.A., M.S., which houses several instructional laboratories, a projects room, Southern Illinois University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. a computer applications laboratory, a class preparation room, a RICHARD LIVACCARI (1997), Professor of Geology; B.S., University petrology-mineralogy laboratory, rock-storage facilities and a sample of New Mexico; M.S., State University of New York-Albany; Ph.D., preparation room. University of New Mexico. Most classes have a strong field component so that students DONN LORHAMMER, Instructor of Geology; B.S., University of experience the diverse geological setting of the Grand Junction Utah; M.S., Naval Postgraduate School. area. Equipment available includes a computer-assisted X-ray diffractometer, research petrographic microscopes, binocular GIGI RICHARD (2002), Associate Professor of Geology; B.S., microscopes, scanning-electron microscopes (available through Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University. Learn more about the programs of study listed here, and find program sheets detailing exact and complete requirements for majors and concentrations, online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. Programs of study 75 gr aphic design HEALTH INFORMATION PROGRAMS OFFERED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design – Animation and Motion Graphics PROGRAMS OFFERED Graphic Design – Visual Design Professional Certificate Minors Graduate Certificate Graphic Design PROGRAM DESCRIPTION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION This multi-disciplinary certificate prepares students in foundations/ The animation and motion graphics concentration in graphic design introduction to healthcare informatics, database management focuses on animation as an art form by means of creating images systems, and information systems security and privacy. Offered that come alive in two- and three-dimensional applications. The at the undergraduate and gradute level, the certificate combines curriculum encompasses both traditional and digital animation skills, coursework in business, health sciences, and nursing. as well as storytelling, storyboarding, character design, illustration and web design. Graduates are prepared to seek entry-level employment CONTACT INFORMATION as animator, storyboard artist, character designer, modeler, digital Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, animator, computer artist, layout artist and web designer. 970.248.1778 or Department of Health Sciences, Maverick Center 167, 970.248.1398. The graphic design visual design concentration focuses on established industry standards in print design, web design and applied illustration. The graphic design Mac Lab is furnished with history Macintosh computers and the latest graphic design application software. Majors are strongly advised to purchase a Macintosh PROGRAMS OFFERED computer and corresponding software in order to become more Bachelor of Arts individually proficient and productive, after successful admitance History into the graphic design program following the sophomore review. History–Secondary Education All graphic design courses have prerequisites. Entering students Minor are encouraged to pay close attention to course sequencing and History consult their advisor in order to complete the degree in four years. In addition, graphic design majors are required to complete an off- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION campus graphic design internship as a means of gaining applied The study of history prepares the student for understanding present experience in the profession. The successful degree candidate is society and culture through a study of the past. The history program prepared to enter professions within graphic design including familiarizes students with the great historical civilizations and issues advertising design, web design, corporate design, package design, that have shaped our present world. History teaches students how illustration and a myriad of related fields. to critically analyze information and make a compelling argument; skills that everyone needs to be successful in all their endeavors. The graphic design minor acquaints students with some of the core Internships are available through museums, historical societies and elements related to the study and profession of graphic design. public agencies. History graduates pursue careers in teaching and Courses will consist of both academic lecture and practical studio. public history, as well as private employment and have also been very This minor provides students an opportunity to integrate personal successful in gaining entrance to graduate study and law school. creativity with any specified major degree. A background in graphic design can promote a variety of professional opportunities including The Center for Teacher Education offers a comprehensive program areas of applied design, public relations, business graphics, product of study that leads to licensure in Colorado. Faculty offer one- design, marketing and advertising. on-one guidance for course selection, field placements, student teaching and employment. Students accumulate over 200 hours of For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a classroom experience before beginning student teaching. School faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. districts throughout western Colorado provide opportunities to gain experience with children of all ages and backgrounds in a variety of CONTACT INFORMATION school settings.The secondary licensure program provides teacher Department of Art, Fine Arts 200, 970.248.1833. education candidates with broad content knowledge in history and prepares them as teachers for grades 7 through 12. A minimum of 75 FACULTY credit hours of general education and content area coursework must Suzie GARNER (1995), Professor of Art and Department Head of Art; be completed with a minimum GPA of 2.80 before a candidate may B.F.A., M.A., Stephen F. Austin State University; M.F.A., West Texas A&M. apply for admission to the Center for Teacher Education secondary licensure program. Please see the Teacher Education Admission Eli Marco Hall (2012), Assistant Professor of Art-Graphic Design; Packet for further information on admissions criteria. EDUC 211, M.F.A., Colorado State University; B.F.A., Missouri State University; Foundations of Education, must be taken before applying to the M.A., Lindenwood University. program. CAROLYN QUINN-HENSLEY (2000), Professor of Art; B.F.A., M.F.A., For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a University of Hawaii. faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics.

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CONTACT INFORMATION employment as they move into supervision/management positions. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, The business department also offers the Bachelor of Business 970.248.1696. Administration with a concentration in hospitality management. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a FACULTY faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Erika Jackson (2010), Assistant Professor of History; B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., Loyola University; Ph.D., CONTACT INFORMATION Michigan State University. Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, 970.248.1778. Justin Liles, Instructor of History; B.A., M.A., University of North Texas; Ph.D., University of South Carolina. FACULTY DOUGLAS O’ROARK (1994), Professor of History; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., britt mathwich (2011), Assistant Professor of Business; B.A., The Ohio State University. University of New Mexico; M.A., Eastern New Mexico University. vincent patarino, Jr. (2011), Assistant Professor of History; B.A., B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder. humanities Adam Rosenbaum (2011), Assistant Professor of History; B.A., Virginia Wesleyan College; M.A., Old Dominion University; PROGRAMS OFFERED Ph.D., Emory University. Associate of Arts Humanities Emphasis STEVEN SCHULTE (1989), Professor of History; B.A. University of Wisconsin-River Falls; M.A., Colorado State University; Ph.D., PROGRAM DESCRIPTION University of Wyoming. The Associate of Arts (AA) degree can: 1) function as a terminal degree; and 2) function as a pathway into a baccalaureate degree in SARAH SWEDBERG (1999), Associate Professor of History; the humanities. A student who is granted this degree can transfer to B.A., State University of New York - Plattsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., any institution in Colorado and graduate in a baccalaureate degree Northeastern University. program by taking no more than 60 hours from that institution. The same applies for students who decide to move from the AA program into any Colorado Mesa University BA program.. By choosing the hospitality management humanities emphasis, students can build a course of study that focuses on their area of interest in the following disciplines: creative programs offered writing, fine and performing arts, foreign languages, literature, mass Associate of Applied Science communication, philosophy and/or speech. Hospitality Management Bachelor of Applied Science For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Hospitality Management faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Bachelor of Business Administration CONTACT INFORMATION Hospitality Management Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication; Lowell Heiny Hall 445, 970.248.1687. program description Upon completion of the Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Hospitality Management, students will be prepared for an entry-level Insurance position in the broad and expanding hospitality industry, as well as prepared to pursue the Bachelor of Applied Science in Hospitality PROGRAMS OFFERED Management. The field of hospitality management combines the Professional Certificate technical skills and business proficiency necessary for success in this Insurance challenging industry. Business courses to be taken include courses Program description in marketing, promotion, management, accounting, finance, small The certificate in insurance is designed to certify students who business management and entrepreneurship. possess the knowledge and skills needed to engage in insurance agent activities in the workplace. The certificate will provide The Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Hospitality Management students with a foundation for further study toward an insurance combines the technical skills and business proficiency necessary for concentration in the BBA, which more fully prepares a person for a success. A unique program, the BAS degree allows students who career as an insurance agent. have already earned an AAS degree to build upon their technical specialties with general education courses and junior and senior The Business Department also offers a Bachelor of Business level business courses. This allows associate degree holders to gain Administration with a concentration in insurance. a 4-year degree in approximately four additional full-time semesters, depending upon prior coursework. Upon completion of the For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a program, students will be technically and academically prepared for faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. leadership positions in their chosen industries. Prospective students not holding an associate of applied science degree can begin their CONTACT INFORMATION university career at CMU in a chosen field of study with a 2-year Department of Business, Academic Classroom Building 309, degree and then progress to a 4-year degree using the BAS. This 970.248.1778. degree will provide students with upward mobility in their area of

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and exercise leaders in corporate wellness programs; nutritionist;* international studies occupational therapist;* and personal trainer. PROGRAMS OFFERED (*Career requires additional post-baccalaureate studies.) Minor International Studies The K-12 teaching concentration prepares students to teach elementary, middle and high school physical education. The degree PROGRAM DESCRIPTION plan includes coursework covering human anatomy and physiology, The international studies minor recognizes the complex team and individual sports, exercise science and teaching methods interconnections between academic disciplines, peoples in cultural courses. Students will gradually accumulate over 200 hours of contexts and opportunities for social and economic advancement classroom experience before beginning student teaching. School for our graduates. Students from a wide variety of disciplines can districts throughout western Colorado provide opportunities to gain supplement their major in business, social sciences, natural sciences experience with children of all ages and backgrounds in a variety of or humanities with an international focus through this minor. school settings. Students choose from a menu of options drawn from disciplines across the campus. The interdisciplinary nature of the international Before being admitted into the teacher education program, the studies minor is essential for preparing students to enter the following courses must be completed with a grade of B or better: new global marketplace of ideas and goods. Students taking ENGL 111, ENGL 112, SPCH 102, PSYC 233 and EDUC 211. A grade of the international studies minor are encouraged to enhance their C or better is required for MATH 110. Also, a minimum cumulative experience by participating in a variety of study abroad opportunities GPA of 2.8 (including transfer and CMU coursework) is required of all available while attending CMU. students for admission into the program.

For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a Students enrolled in the personal training minor should have a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. strong interest in fitness, health promotion and personal training. Students will engage in practical experiences that will help them with CONTACT INFORMATION the possibility of a future career in personal training. Students will Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, explore subject areas that include: anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, 970.248.1696. applications of physical fitness and exercise physiology.

FACULTY CONTACT INFORMATION TIM CASEY Department of Kinesiology; Maverick Center 237, 970.248.1635.

FACULTY RICHARD BELL, Instructor of Kinesiology; B.S., Clemson University; kinesiology M.A., The Citadel; J.D., University of South Carolina; Ed.D., United States Sports Academy. PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Arts JILL CORDOVA (1992), Professor of Kinesiology and Department Kinesiology – Adapted Physical Education Head of Kinesiology; B.A., M.A., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., Kinesiology – Fitness & Health Promotion University of New Mexico. Kinesiology – K-12 Teaching Minor KEITH FRITZ (1997), Associate Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., Oregon Personal Training State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Certificate Personal Training KRISTIN HEUMANN (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; B.A., Northwestern College; M.S., Ph.D., Arizona State PROGRAM DESCRIPTION University. Students concentrating in adapted physical education will learn to adapt or modify the physical education curriculum and/or instruction GUY LEADBETTER (1993), Professor of Kinesiology and Head to address specific abilities of individuals. Students will learn to Coach, Women’s Cross Country; B.A., Bowdoin College; M.S., develop activities that are appropriate and effective for persons with University of Montana; Ph.D., University of New Mexico. disabilities. Career opportunities include: adapted physical education teacher (K-12), which requires completing the K-12 concentration STEVEN ROSS MURRAY (1998), Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., coursework; activity director at an assisted living center or University of North Alabama; M.S., D.A., Middle Tennessee State rehabilitation facility; physical therapist;* and occupational therapist.* University.

Students enrolled in the fitness and health promotion concentration ELIZABETH SHARP (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; should have a strong interest in the sciences as this program B.S., M.Ed., Arkansas Tech University; Ph.D., Middle Tennessee applies science to human function. The student will explore exercise State University. physiology, anatomical kinesiology, community health, physical activity and aging, worksite health promotion and sports nutrition, among other subject areas. Career opportunities include: sports and wellness program instructors and directors; strength coaches for college, university and professional sports* programs; managers

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See Energy Management/Landman section for more information. liberal artS (interdisCiplinary major)

PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Arts Liberal Arts Non-Education Option Elementary Education Option

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION While Colorado Mesa University provides a wide range of programs, the university may not offer a standard bachelor’s degree program that serves a student’s particular need. A liberal arts degree, however, is designed to offer students the opportunity to craft a plan of study to suit their individual career and academic aspirations. Under the direction of an advisor, a liberal arts major will design a coherent program by choosing appropriate courses that focus on a very specific field of study. supervisor of employees in a manufacturing setting. The program targets existing supervisors, as well as prospective supervisors who The Center for Teacher Education offers a comprehensive program are working in a manufacturing setting. The content of this certificate of study that leads to licensure in Colorado. Our professors are was determined through an independent study commissioned experienced, knowledgeable, accessible and dedicated to the by Colorado Mesa University-Montrose Campus, the Montrose improvement of public education. Faculty offer one-on-one Economic Development Corporation and an association of over guidance for course selection, field placements, student teaching and 30 manufacturing firms in western Colorado. Students enrolled in employment. The elementary licensure program provides teacher the certificate program learn techniques to become more effective education candidates with a broad content knowledge and prepares communicators; expand their knowledge of general business them as teachers for grades kindergarten through six. Please see principles and manufacturing practices; further develop their critical the Teacher Education Admission Packet for further information on thinking abilities related to manufacturing and supervision; and admissions criteria. assure their ability to understand the language of manufacturing as it relates to blueprints and geometric tolerances. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION Education Option: Montrose Campus, 234 South Cascade, Montrose, 970.249.7009. Center for Teacher Education, Academic Classroom Building 109, 970.248.1786. –or– Non-Education Option: Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication, Avenue, 970.255.2670. Lowell Heiny Hall 445, 970.248.1687, –or– Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Houston Hall 212G, manufacturing 970.248.1696. technology PROGRAMS OFFERED manufacturing Technical Certificate Manufacturing Technology – Computer-Aided Design supervision Technology Manufacturing Technology – Machine & Manufacturing Trades PROGRAMS OFFERED Manufacturing Technology – Welding Technology Technical Certificate Associate of Applied Science Manufacturing Supervision Manufacturing Technology – Computer-Aided Design Manufacturing Technology – Machining Technology PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Manufacturing Technology – Welding Technology The objective of the manufacturing supervision certificate is to provide education and training necessary to become an effective

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Computer Aided Design Technology Physical requirements on the job include the ability to lift up to 50 Through the use of freehand sketching and computer-aided design pounds regularly and to stand for long periods of time while doing (CAD), the student learns the techniques of basic drafting principles machine work. Average hearing and eyesight, natural or corrected, and methods used in today’s engineering fields in the computer- is desirable. aided design technology program. Drafting concepts and the processes of orthographic projection, pictorial drawing, dimensioning Certificate programs are designed to be employment directed and geometric construction. The majority of a student’s work is for beginning level jobs. Students should check with a welding completed on the computer and a project in the area of his/her instructor/advisor about options for specialized employment training interest ties the course to real world concepts. Career options include requiring a shorter period of training. architectural drafter, mechanical drafter and civil drafter. The Associate of Applied Science degree program includes many of Machine & Manufacturing Trades the same technical courses as the technical certificate. Also included The machining and manufacturing trades specialization offers are mathematics and management courses that are essential for job classroom instruction and related lab work with hands-on activities advancement to more technical levels after employment. in the use of tools and the operation of equipment found in manufacturing. Students work in the area of blueprint reading, Courses are designed to give students an adequate knowledge computer numerical control (CNC), machining, general machining of metals, layout work and welding processes, along with an and maintenance, CAD and related mathematics. The program is opportunity to gain manipulative skills and the related information designed to meet competency-based standards set by the industry. needed to enter and progress in various welding occupations. Attitude and quality of workmanship are stressed. Career options Instruction and shop practice is offered in SMAW, GMAW, FCAW include entry level machinist, computer-numerical control operator, and GTAW of mild steel in all positions as well as pipe and specialty numerical tool and process technician, manufacturing engineering welding. Various cutting and fabrication methods are included. technician and manufacturing inspection technician. Students can arrange work experience as an elective part of the regular program after completing two semesters or more. Machining Technology The Associate of Applied Science with the manufacturing technology CONTACT INFORMATION major offers classroom instruction and related lab work with hands- Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann on activities in the use of tools and the operation of equipment Avenue, 970.255.2670. found in manufacturing. In the machining technology emphasis FACULTY students learn to apply industrial knowledge and skills to plan MICHAEL CARLTON (2012), Technical Instructor of Manufacturing and implement designs, operate manual mills and lathes, operate Technology - Machining; A.A., Mesa Community College. computer-aided machinery with CAD/CAM software and computer- numerical controlled (CNC) machines. Students also develop the skills kevin kern (2002), Technical Instructor of Manufacturing that enable them to read blueprints, apply appropriate mathematical Technology-Welding. concepts and understand the properties of metal and polymers. This william mccracken, Jr. (2002), Assistant Technical Professor of course of study is designed to meet competency-based standards Manufacturing Technology-Machining; A.A.S., Mesa State College. set by the manufacturing industry. With this degree, students will be qualified for the following employment opportunities: entry-level jason sinclair (2010), Technical Instructor of Manufacturing machinist, computer-numerical control operator, numerical tool Technology-Welding. B.A., University of Montana. and process technician, manufacturing engineering technician and manufacturing inspection technician. denis thibodeau (1999), Technical Instructor of Manufacturing Technology-CAD; A.A.S., Rogue Community College. Welding Technology The welding technology program is designed to provide training and opportunity to become proficient at SMAW, GWAW, GTAW, FCAW, Mass communication OAW, OAC, PAC, CAC-A on plate and SMAW on pipe. This program offers classroom lecture and related lab work. Students study welding, PROGRAMS OFFERED cutting, layout, fabrication and technical math. Safety, attitude and Bachelor of Arts quality of workmanship are stressed throughout this course. The Mass Communication – Media Strategies & Applications welding certificate prepares students for entry-level placement in a Minor wide range of jobs in the welding industry and is designed to meet Mass Communication competency based standards set by the American Welding Society. This program trains students to become certified AWS, API, ASME PROGRAM DESCRIPTION welders in the welding industry. The Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication provides students The welding technology AAS degree prepares students for advanced with a concentration in media strategies and applications. The level placement in a wide range of jobs in the welding industry and is primary goal in the program is to offer students an opportunity to designed to meet competency based standards set by the American develop the knowledge, theory and skills that will assist them in Welding Society. securing employment in the ever-changing, broad field of mass communication. Graduates of Colorado Mesa University’s mass For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a communication program find successful careers across the country faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. in traditional mass media (magazines, newspapers, radio and TV stations, public relations and advertising), as well as in non-traditional settings such as the Internet, non-profits and government agencies.

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For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a of the nature of proof, a broad general understanding of mathematics faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. and a deep understanding of at least one area of mathematics. Math majors also develop independent learning skills and oral and written SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS mathematical communication skills. Mathematics majors get jobs in a Continuation in the program after the sophomore year will be wide variety of areas. Our graduates have worked for local businesses, contingent upon the student’s satisfying the following requirements: have run their own businesses and have worked for scientific companies. Other graduates have continued their educations by 1. Completion of the English Composition sequence with at least a attending graduate school (in mathematics, computer science and 3.0 GPA (no grade below “B”). engineering), law school, medical school and veterinary school. 2. Completion of the two introductory courses (MASS 110 and MASS 213) in Mass Communication, with at least a 2.5 GPA and The major in mathematics with a concentration in secondary no grade of “D” or “F”. education will prepare students to teach in both middle schools 3. Maintenance of at least a 2.5 GPA in MASS courses, in addition to and in high schools. While completing this degree, students develop at least a 2.0 GPA overall, is necessary for Mass Communication problem-solving and critical thinking skills and are introduced majors to proceed to graduation. to the logical and historical development of mathematical ideas. Students also learn the professional skills in teaching methods and CONTACT INFORMATION content necessary for secondary mathematics teachers. Nationally Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication; Fine recommended curriculum guidelines are followed in order to ensure Arts Building, 970.248.1833. that graduates have the mathematical content and conceptual understanding necessary for all high school mathematics courses. FACULTY Graduates from this program are in demand both locally and ADAM COCHRAN, Instructor of Mass Communication; M.A., statewide with the scarcity of mathematics teachers. University of Memphis; B.A. Mesa State College. Daniel flenniken (2005), Associate Professor of Mass With a major in mathematics with a concentration in statistics, Communication; B.A., M.A., University of Colorado. students develop problem-solving, logical and critical thinking skills. While completing the required coursework, students gain an Gregory Mikolai, Instructor of Mass Communication; B.A., understanding of the nature of proof, a general understanding of College of Saint Thomas. mathematics and an understanding of statistical reasoning, necessary assumptions and the correct use of statistical analysis procedures. Eric Sandstrom (2011), Assistant Professor of Mass Math and statistics majors also develop statistical software skills and Communication; B.A., M.A. Miami (Ohio)University. oral and written mathematical communication skills. The statistics NANCY RUSPIL, Instructor of Mass Communication; M.S., University concentration in mathematics prepares students for graduate work of Oregon; B.A., Whitman College. in statistics or to enter the job force. With some additional job- specific training, students entering the job market could function as REGIS TUCCI (1999), Assistant Professor of Mass Communication; applied statisticians working in areas such as actuarial science, wildlife B.A., M.A., Marshall University. management, marketing, quality control and epidemiology to name a few. mathematics A minor in mathematics is a natural enhancement to many majors outside mathematics where an understanding of mathematics is PROGRAMS OFFERED needed (e.g. physics, computer science, chemistry, biology, geology). A Associate of Science minor in mathematics enables non-mathematics majors to complete a Mathematics Emphasis focused course of study in mathematics on a smaller scale. Bachelor of Science Mathematics A minor in statistics is a natural enhancement to many majors outside Mathematics - Secondary Education mathematics where an understanding of statistical analysis of data is Statistics needed (e.g. biology, business, psychology, sociology, history, human Minors performance and wellness, political science). A minor in statistics Mathematics enables non-mathematics majors to complete a focused course of Statistics study in statistics on a smaller scale.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a An Associate of Science (AS) in Mathematics provides students with a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. reasonable exposure to foundational college-level mathematics. This degree program includes the Colorado Statewide General Education SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Core and meets the lower division general education requirements Additional expenses: A graphing calculator is recommended for at most public institutions in Colorado. By completing this degree, several mathematics and statistics courses. See department for students should be able to matriculate into a baccalaureate degree in recommended models. mathematics with only 60 additional hours of coursework. CONTACT INFORMATION With a baccalaureate major in mathematics, students develop Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, powerful problem-solving, logical and critical thinking skills. By Wubben Science 132, 970.248.1407. completing the required coursework, students gain an understanding

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FACULTY CHRIS AQUINTO, Instructor of Mathematics; B.S., Colorado Mesa University; M.S., University of Colorado. CATHERINE BONAN-HAMADA (1996), Professor of Mathematics; B.S., M.S., Colorado State University; Ph.D., University of Colorado. EDWARD BONAN-HAMADA (1997), Associate Professor of Mathematics; B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D., University of Colorado. Lisa Driskell (2010), Assistant Professor of Mathematics; B.S., Central Michigan University; Ph.D., Purdue University. MARCus FISCHER Instructor of Mathematics; B.S., Mesa State College; M.S., Ruhr Universitaet Bochum. Tracii FRIEDMAN (2002), Professor of Mathematics; B.S., Saint Joseph’s University-Philadelphia; M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University. PHILIP GUSTAFSON (1998), Professor of Mathematics; B.S., State University of New York-Oneonta; M.S., Ph.D., Washington State University. JAMES LAPP, Instructor of Mathematics; B.A., M.S., Humboldt State University. bradley Kahrs Instructor of Mathematics Education; B.S., Grand Valley State University; M.A., Western Michigan University; Ed.D., Walden University. mechanical engineering PHILIP KAVANAGH (1994), Associate Professor of Mathematics; PROGRAMS OFFERED B.Sc., M. Sc., University College Dublin, National University of Ireland; Bachelor of Science Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Mechanical Engineering Max L. McFarland, Instructor of Mathematics; A.S., Colorado (degree awarded by the University of Colorado Boulder) Mesa University; B.S., Mesa State College; M.S., University of Colorado. Colorado Mesa University and the University of Colorado Boulder have created a partnership to deliver a mechanical engineering RICHARD OTT (2006), Associate Professor of Statistics; B.S., St. program in its entirety in Grand Junction. The CMU/CU-Boulder Mary’s University; M.S., University of Missouri-Rolla; Ph.D., Rice Mechanical Engineering Partnership Program prepares students for University. careers in a wide range of industries through the rigorous study of mechanical engineering. Students completing the program will be ERIK PACKARD (1996), Associate Professor of Mathematics; B.S., awarded a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree M.S., Ph.D., Texas Tech University. from CU-Boulder. LORI PAYNE (1996), Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department Head of Computer Science, Mathematics General Engineering and Statistics; B.A., Mesa College; M.S., New Mexico Institute of Students who are ready to begin the engineering curriculum Mining & Technology; Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado. (i.e., ready for Calculus 1), but do not yet meet CU-Boulder’s admission/transfer criteria listed below may begin the engineering MARKUS REITENBACH (2006), Associate Professor of Mathematics; coursework in the general engineering track. Students in the general M.S., University of Ulm; Ph.D., Syracuse University. engineering track may progress in the mechanical engineering Shawn Robinson (2011), Assistant Professor of Mathematics; B.S., curriculum until their junior year, at which time they must meet CU’s admissions criteria or transfer to another CMU degree program. M.S., Emory University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pre-Engineering DANIEL SCHULTZ-ELA (2006), Associate Professor of Mathematics Students who are interested in pursuing a major in engineering but Education; B.A., Carleton College; M.S., Brown University; Ph.D., who are not yet ready to begin the engineering coursework may take University of Minnesota. preparatory classes while enrolled in the pre-engineering track. Once a student is ready for Calculus 1, the student can shift into the general Wayn Kaui Ward, Instructor of Mathematics; B.S., Mesa State engineering track. College; M.S., University of Nevada, Las Vegas. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS ZHONG WU (1989), Professor of Mathematics; B.S., China University First-Time Students of Science and Technology; Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Applicants who meet both Colorado Mesa University’s general admission requirements and CU-Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science Minimum Academic Preparation Standards (MAPS) and Guaranteed Admission Requirements for Colorado Freshmen can be admitted to the program at the outset.

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If an interested first-time student does not meet the admissions criteria, the student may be admitted to CMU’s pre-engineering or Mechanical general engineering and subsequently apply to transfer in to the Engineering Technology CMU/CU-Boulder, Mechanical Engineering Partnership Program when the following are achieved: PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Science • 2.9 GPA for all courses at Colorado Mesa University; Mechanical Engineering Technology • Complete 2 course sequence in calculus with a grade of B or Associate of Applied Science higher; and Mechanical Engineering Technology • Complete 2 physical science courses (calculus-based physics and/ or college chemistry) with a grade of ‘B’ or higher. Program Description Admission at this point could occur at the end of the first year. The objective of the mechanical engineering technology program is to provide the knowledge necessary to apply state-of-the-art Transfer Students techniques to design and build products and systems to meet the Students also may apply to transfer into the program prior to current and future needs of society. The mechanical engineering beginning their junior year if they have earned a 2.9 cumulative GPA technology major is designed for a student who is a doer or and completed all required lower-division coursework. implementer--one who is able to apply mathematics, the natural and Interested students can learn more about the program and admission engineering sciences, engineering principles and current engineering options at coloradomesa.edu/engineering. practices to the solution of design problems and to the operation and testing of mechanical systems. CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Laboratory courses are an integral component of the mechanical Wubben Hall 222, 970.248.1993. engineering technology program and are designed to develop -or- student competence to apply experimental design methods, as well Archuleta Engineering Center, 2510 Foresight Circle, Grand Junction, as provide a “hands-on” approach to designing and building products CO, 81505, 970.248.1551 and systems to meet the current and future needs of society.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR The Associate of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering TIMOTHY BROWER (2009), Director, CMU/CU-Boulder Mechanical Technology provides graduates the skills and knowledge for a Engineering Partnership Program; B.S., Idaho State University; M.S., successful transition to either a career as a mechanical engineering Montana State University; Ph.D., Colorado State University. technician or to continue in the Bachelor of Science program in FACULTY mechanical engineering technology. Scott bevill (2010), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering; B.S., University of Denver; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty University. advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. B. Scott Kessler (2011), Assistant Professor of Mechanical CONTACT INFORMATION Engineering Technology; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Missouri. Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Farzad Taghaddosi (2012), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Wubben Hall 222, 970.248.1993. Engineering, ; B.Sc., University of Tabriz, M.A.Sc., Concordia -or- University, M.Sc., Wichita State University, Ph.D., McGill University. Archuleta Engineering Center, 2510 Foresight Circle, Grand Junction, CO, 81505, 970.248.1551

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faculty PROGRAM DIRECTOR Tracy Matthews (2010), MS, MLS, (ASCP) CM; MLT Program TIMOTHY BROWER (2009), Director, CMU/CU-Boulder Mechanical Director; B.S. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; M.S. Engineering Partnership Program; B.S., Idaho State University; M.S., University of North Dakota Montana State University; Ph.D., Colorado State University. FACULTY Scott bevill (2010), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Medical Office Assistant Engineering; B.S., University of Denver; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford programs Offered University. Technical Certificate B. Scott Kessler (2011), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Medical Office Assistant Engineering Technology; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Missouri. Associate of Applied Science Medical Office Assistant  Farzad Taghaddosi (2012), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, ; B.Sc., University of Tabriz, M.A.Sc., Concordia PROGRAM DESCRIPTION University, M.Sc., Wichita State University, Ph.D., McGill University. This program prepares individuals to perform routine clinical and administrative functions in health care facilities, primarily medical clinics or physician’s offices. Students who successfully complete this program will be able to perform the administrative tasks of a MEDICAL LABORATORY medical receptionist and work in the clinical areas by providing assistance with physical examinations, diagnostic tests and treatment TECHNICIAN procedures. All students who successfully complete the program are eligible to take the national certification examination offered by programs offered the American Medical Technologists, a national certifying agency, to Associate of Applied Studies, Medical Laboratory Technician become a registered medical assistant. program description CONTACT INFORMATION The Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) Program at Colorado Mesa Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann University is five semesters in length. General education requirements Avenue, 970.255.2670. and foundation courses are taken the first year and summer, the second year consists mainly of MLT program courses, followed by one Faculty semester of clinical internship at an affiliated site in western Colorado. Cathy hartt (2012), Director of Medical Office Assistant; A.A.S., A.S., B.S., Mesa State College; M.S., University of Utah.. The majority of MLT courses are delivered in a hybrid format. Lecture is delivered online with lab sessions held on campus. Lab sessions are two days in length and are held five times a semester. All MLT courses music are taken concurrently for each semester offered and in sequence starting in the fall. PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Arts The student will receive an Associate of Applied Science degree upon Elective Studies in Business successful completion of the program. The graduate is then eligible Music Performance to take the Medical Laboratory Technician national certification Instrumental exam through the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP). Keyboard A passing score on the ASCP exam will allow the student to use the Vocal credentials of MLT (ASCP) CM after their name. Music Education -- K-12 Education Music Liberal Arts Phlebotomy courses are also offered to non-degree seeking students Minor on a permission and space available basis; see the health sciences Music (Instrumental or Vocal) department for additional information. Program Description For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Music with a concentration in elective advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. studies in business is designed for students who desire a career within the music industry. The comprehensive core curriculum Special Requirements in music includes courses in theory, history, literature, music Admission into the University does not guarantee admission into the technology, improvisation, applied study on the major instrument medical laboratory technology program which requires a separate or voice and ensemble performance. Also included are specialized application submitted the semester prior to internship. Students courses in music industry and marketing and advanced music planning on enrolling in medical laboratory technology courses must technology. Required business courses include the areas of submit additional requirements. See the health sciences department marketing, management, accounting, economics and the legal for additional information. environment of business. This degree will also result in completion of the requirements for a minor in business administration. Finally, contact information an internship component provides the opportunity for students to Department of Health Sciences, Maverick Center 167, 970.248.1398. gain real world experience in the music industry areas of their choice. Professional success in the musical arts requires a comprehensive understanding of the new business models at work in our digital

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minor includes three years of ensembles and lessons on an applied instrument; academic courses in music theory, appreciation and literature; as well as an upper division elective.

The vocal music minor provides training and performance opportunities for students seeking music development in voice as their secondary area of study. Fundamental studies in piano, music reading and theory, two years of voice lessons, three years of performing in choral ensembles, studies in diction and conducting and performance training in opera scenes comprise this minor. Audition for acceptance into the vocal minor is required.

For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Students seeking admittance as a music major must pass a performance audition, a music theory placement exam and a piano proficiency assessment. Admission to Colorado Mesa University does not guarantee admission into a music degree program. Prospective music majors should consult the music department website or contact the music department for information about audition material and scheduling an audition with the faculty in their area of interest. Following the audition, students will be notified by letter regarding world. Our program seeks to provide this up-to- date information to audition results. Students admitted as new music majors will be enhance success for the student at every level. assigned an advisor and should plan to attend an orientation, registration and advising session. If the advisor is unavailable, students The BA in Music with a concentration in music performance is should contact the Department Head of Music. designed for those students who desire a performance-focused career. A strong core curriculum of musicianship courses include music theory, CONTACT INFORMATION history, literature, pedagogy, ensemble performance and applied Department of Music, Moss Performing Arts Center 113, 970.248.1233. study. These courses develop the student’s abilities and prepare them FACULTY to perform in a plethora of venues and genres such as symphony MONTE ATKINSON (1985), Professor of Music; A.S., Snow College- orchestras, chamber ensembles, armed forces ensembles, musical Utah; B.F.A., Utah State University; M.M., D.M.A., University of Illinois. theaters, opera and countless entertainment venues. This degree also prepares students to pursue graduate study or teach privately. MARY-LINDSEY BAILEY, Instructor of Music; D.M.A, M.M., University of Cincinnati; B.M., University of South Carolina. The music education concentration provides students with the JACK DELMORE (1992), Professor of Music; B.M., University of knowledge, skills and musicianship to become a successful music Massachusetts-Lowell; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music; educator. Studies in music theory, history, literature, ensemble D.M.A., University of Arizona. performance and applied study give the student a strong foundation on which to build a successful teaching career. Classes in conducting, SEAN FLANIGAN (2006), Associate Professor of Music; B.S., M.M., instrumental, choral and elementary techniques as well as music University of Illinois; D.M.A., University of North Texas. education philosophy develop the skills and knowledge needed for JONATHAN HINKLE (2012), Assistant Professor of Music; B.M.E., a rewarding career as a K-12 educator. These skills and knowledge M.M.E., Ph.D., Florida State University. are applied during field experiences as well as during the student teaching internship. Please see the Teacher Education Admission CALVIN HOFER (1998), Professor of Music and Department Head Packet for further information on admissions criteria. of Music; B.A., South Dakota State University; M.M.E., University of Wisconsin; D.M.A., University of North Texas. The BA in Music with a concentration in liberal arts is designed to meet the needs of students seeking extended training in music but who are ARTHUR HOULE (2006), Professor of Music; B.M., University of not interested in pursuing preparation for a career in performance or Massachusetts-Lowell; M.M. New England Conservatory; D.M.A., public/private school music teaching. This degree includes a strong University of Iowa. but flexible composite of music studies and additional studies in the Darin Kamstra (2004), Associate Professor of Music; B.A., B.M., related arts as well as the flexibility to pursue other academic areas of Eastern Washington University; M.M., University of Northern interest. Music majors admitted to this liberal arts concentration will be Colorado; D.M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. strong in music and academics and along with their music training will achieve both broad and specific learning in other academic areas of STEPHEN PAGE (2012), Assistant Professor of Music; B.M., University interest. They will be prepared to pursue graduate studies in music and of Minnesota; M.M., Indiana University; D.M.A., University of Iowa. careers in many areas of music and the arts. KATHLEEN RUHLEDER Instructor of Voice; B.M., California State The minor in instrumental music offers students in other majors University - Northridge; M.M., D.M.A., Arizona State University. the opportunity to stay involved with music in college, gaining experience and skills in music lessons, ensembles and academics. The

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KRISTEN YEON-JI YUN (2012), Assistant Professor of Music; B.M., up greater employment opportunities, increased compensation and M.M., Seoul (Korea) National University; D.M.A., Indiana University. more job security. The AAS in Nursing program has full approval by the Colorado State Board of Nursing. The AAS program offers a balance between general college and nursing education and prepares students nurse aide to be a direct care giver in hospitals, long-term facilities and ambulatory care-clinic settings. This program has selective admission requirements PROGRAMS OFFERED and requirements may change from year to year. It is the student’s Technical Certificate responsibility to obtain the current admission requirements. Admission Nurse Aide to the University does not guarantee admission to the program; a PROGRAM DESCRIPTION separate admission application to the program is required. The nurse aide certificate provides the student with entry-level skills required for employment as an aide in a long-term care facility, an The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program and the Registered acute care facility, or a home health care agency. Special needs of Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs have full approval the geriatric population are emphasized. Students who successfully by the Colorado State Board of Nursing and are accredited by the complete this certificate qualify to take the State Certification Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The programs Examination. Instruction includes basic nursing assistant procedures, are designed for high school graduates, associate and diploma RNs and skills, restorative services, general household activities, patient care, PNs. The four-year program provides educational experiences which safety and emergency care. Students gain an understanding of the prepare a professional nurse generalist to practice in a variety of health responsibilities involved in working with patients of all ages, in both care settings. The program integrates nursing theory, practice and wellness and illness, and issues of mental health, patient rights and science with a broad liberal arts education. It has been developed to patient/family interactions. A minimum of 107 hours of training is prepare a highly competent professional with the education necessary required. to meet the increasing need for quality health care in society today and provides students with the foundation for graduate study in nursing. Students admitted to nursing programs must undergo a background Admission to the University does not guarantee admission to the check and maintain current CPR certification and professional liability program; a separate admission application to the program is required. insurance. The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program is designed for For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a students already possessing a baccalaureate degree in nursing and faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. adds the first graduate step on the nursing career ladder. The MSN degree will provide graduates with a foundation for practice as a CONTACT INFORMATION leader and educator in health care systems or academic settings. The Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann MSN program is a hybrid format, providing flexibility for students to Avenue, 970.255.2670. remain in their current work positions and home communities in western Colorado using online course delivery methods; this format provides opportunities for personal interaction with faculty and peers nursing in focused intensive sessions at selected points during each semester. MSN graduates will be prepared to advance to higher levels of PROGRAMS OFFERED nursing education including Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) or Technical Certificate Doctoral of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) programs. Admission to the Practical Nurse University does not guarantee admission to the program; a separate Associate of Applied Science, Nursing admission application to the program is required. RN-BSN Bachelor of Science, Nursing Bachelor of Science, Nursing The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree is designed for those Master of Science, Nursing nurses who are interested in assuming an advance practice nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice role as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). DNP graduates are prepared

as clinical experts in the delivery of primary care, with a focus on PROGRAM DESCRIPTION critical thinking, leadership, and political policy skills needed to The practical nurse (PN) program is designed for students interested advocate and create changes in healthcare practice at all levels. The in an entry-level position in the nursing career ladder program. The program is a hybrid format, providing flexibility for students to remain PN program has full approval by the Colorado State Board of Nursing. in their current work positions and home communities in western Completion of the PN certificate allows students to progress to the Colorado using online course delivery methods. Opportunities for second year of the Associate of Applied Science in Nursing or apply personal interaction are included with faculty and peers in focused for advanced placement in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. intensive sessions at selected points during each semester. Admission The PN program prepares the student to be a direct care giver in to the University does not guarantee admission to the program; a hospitals, long-term facilities and ambulatory care-clinic settings. separate admission application to the program is required. The potential student must demonstrate college-level proficiency in reading and writing in order to be admitted to this program. This For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a program has selective admission requirements and requirements may faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. change from year to year. It is the student’s responsibility to obtain the current admission requirements. Admission to the University SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS does not guarantee admission to the program; a separate admission Admission to Colorado Mesa University does not guarantee application to the program is required. admission into the nursing program, which requires a separate application. Please contact the Health Sciences Department for The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) program is designed for additional information. practical nurses who are seeking to obtain an RN degree which opens

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Progression requirements: All nursing courses must be completed in FACULTY sequence. All required 200 level courses must be completed before DEBRA BAILEY, R.N. (2006), Associate Professor of Nursing and 300 level nursing courses may be taken. All required 300 level courses Director of Health Sciences; A.S., B.S.N., Mesa State College; M.S., must be completed before 400 level nursing courses may be taken. University of Colorado; M.S.F.N.P., University of Colorado; Ph.D. Students must complete all 200 level nursing courses or be an (RN) (Candidate), University of Colorado. advanced placement student to enroll in the nursing elective courses. DIANA BAILEY, R.N. (2010), Assistant Professor of Nursing; A.S., Students transferring in credit for human anatomy and physiology B.S.N., Mesa State College; M.S., Walden University. taken at out-of-state accredited colleges/universities must provide evidence that these courses had separate laboratory components TONYA CHAPIN, R.N. (2008), Assistant Professor of Nursing and PN before the course can be accepted to fulfill program requirements. Program Director; B.S.N., Mesa State College; M.S.N., University of This will not necessarily appear on the transcript. Northern Colorado. KELLY COFFIN, R.N. (2009), Assistant Professor of Nursing; A.S., Any RN or LPN who desires to enroll in a nursing course for personal B.S.N., Washburn University; M.S., Walden University. enrichment only must secure permission from the course instructor. CATHY FELLER, R.N. (2011), Assistant Professor of Nursing, B.S.N., The MSN is the fourth rung of the career ladder at Colorado Mesa University of Maine; M.S.N., Walden University. University. Admission requires a Bachelor of Nursing degree from a SANDY FORREST, R.N. (1980), Professor of Nursing and Graduate nationally accredited institution. Prior learning experiences will be Program Director; B.S.N, Florida International University; M.S.N., evaluated on an individual basis. University of Miami; Ph.D., University of Texas. The DNP program is the final step on the nursing career ladder SUSAN GOEBEL, R.N. (1998), Associate Professor of Nursing and at Colorado Mesa University. MSN/Advanced Practice prepared BSN Program Director; B.S.N., M.S., University of North Dakota. registered nurses must submit a separate application for the DNP program. Prior learning experiences will be evaluated on an individual beverly lyne, R.N. (2011), Assistant Professor of Nursing; B.S., basis. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing; M.S.N., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of High school courses in biology, chemistry and algebra are Nursing. recommended. All non-nursing college courses must be completed before a student can be admitted to the nursing programs. An BRIDGET MARSHALL, Assistant Professor of Nursing; DNP, admission committee selects students from applicants who best University of Utah College of Nursing; BS & MS, University of meet requirements. All admission materials must be on file in the Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing. Department of Health Sciences office prior to deadlines established SUSAN MATHEWS, Clinical Education Center Coordinator; B.A. for each program: Otterbein College; B.S. Adams State College, EMT-B, Trinidad State LPN Program: March 1 for fall entrance Junior College; EMT-P, Pueblo Community College; RN, A.S.N., AAS Program: October 1 for spring entrance Excelsior College. BSN Program: October 1 for spring entrance, or March 1 for fall entrance. KRISTINE REUSS, R.N. (1990), Professor of Nursing; B.S.N., M.S.N., MSN Program: November 1 for spring entrance, April 1 for Ph.D., University of Colorado. summer/fall entrance GENELL STITES, R.N. (2008), Assistant Professor of Nursing and DNP Program: November 1 for spring entrance, April 1 for LPN-AAS Program Director; B.S.N., University of Northern Colorado; summer/fall entrance M.S.N., Regis University. Students admitted to nursing programs must undergo a background KAREN URBAN (2012), Assistant Professor of Nursing; B.S.N., M.S.N., check and maintain current CPR certification and professional liability University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. insurance. JUDY WILLIAMS, R.N. (2010), Assistant Professor of Nursing, B.S.N., Undergraduate students must have a 2.0 (“C”) on a 4.0 scale or higher Mesa State College, M.S.N., Walden University. grade for all courses required for completion of the undergraduate nursing programs (PN, AAS, BSN, RN-BSN). This policy applies regardless of when the course was taken. peace officer standards

Graduate students must have a 3.0 (“B”) on a 4.0 scale or higher and training (pOST) grade for all courses required for completion of the graduate nursing PROGRAMS OFFERED programs (MSN, DNP). This policy applies regardless of when the Technical Certificate course was taken. A “C” grade or lower in any required course will Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) not count toward graduation requirements . See Graduate Programs section of this catalog for complete degree requirements. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION This police academy certificate program exceeds the Colorado Peace CONTACT INFORMATION Officers Standards Training (POST) requirements for peace officer Department of Health Sciences, Maverick Center 167, 970.248.1398. entry level training. The individual training requirements for arrest control, law enforcement driving and firearms are included in the program. Students enrolled in the program will earn 37 credit hours

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For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a CONTACT INFORMATION faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication; Lowell Heiny Hall 445, 970.248.1687. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS This is a 16-week program that requires full time participation during FACULTY the weeks of enrollment. The program is not an open enrollment and les miller (2005), Associate Professor of Philosophy; B.A., Mesa requires a separate application to the academy. See the academy State College; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University. director for details. CONTACT INFORMATION physics Director, Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann Avenue, 970.255.2670. PROGRAMS OFFERED FACULTY Associate of Science jane quimby (2012) Director of Department of Public Safety; B.S., Physics Emphasis University of Utah; J.D., Denver University Bachelor of Science Physics Minors pohil sophy Physics PROGRAM DESCRIPTION PROGRAMS OFFERED The physics concentration serves as a foundation for a wide array of Minor careers. Physics is the study of the universe: what it’s made of and Philosophy how it works, ranging from stars and galaxies to atoms and nuclei and everything in between. Physics forms the foundation of many PROGRAM DESCRIPTION technical fields including electronics and optics and also features Philosophy explores fundamental questions: What is real? What prominently in many of the hottest areas of current research and is beauty? How should we behave? How do we know what we innovation, such as the multidisciplinary fields of nanotechnology know? The answers to these questions apply to all other disciplines, and biophysics. Physics majors have gone on to graduate programs problems and life endeavors. While a career in philosophy usually in physics, materials sciences, aerospace engineering and electrical means teaching philosophy, many professionals--writers, journalists, psychologists, doctors, lawyers, scientists, among others--have

Learn more about the programs of study listed here, and find program sheets detailing exact and complete requirements for majors and concentrations, online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. 88 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog engineering and to medical school. They have also gone directly into science are prepared for careers in government, law, criminal justice jobs in engineering, business and research. and non-governmental organizations. Many graduates are currently employed as congressional staff members, gubernatorial staff, state Physics forms the foundation of many technical and scientific fields. agency officials, hold elective office or have successfully graduated A physics minor is a good complement to a mathematics, chemistry, from law school. geology, environmental science or biology major. One attractive aspect of the program is the opportunity to intern in a variety of settings in Washington, D.C., Denver and Grand Junction. CONTACT INFORMATION These internships allow students a chance to acquire practical Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Wubben Science experience while increasing the opportunity to network. Many of our 232, 970.248.1993. student interns are now working in jobs they obtained directly as a result of their intern experience. CMU political science graduates have FACULTY also been successful in gaining entrance to graduate and law schools. David Collins (2006), Associate Professor of Physics; B.S., Rhodes The political science program supports a political science club, a University; Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin. local chapter of the national honor society Pi Sigma Alpha and the Chad Middleton (2006), Associate Professor of Physics; B.S., International Relations Club. Eastern Illinois University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A minor in political science is a great complement for students ANWAR SHIEKH, Lecturer of Physics; B.S., Ph.D., Imperial College, majoring in many other fields, particularly mass communications and London University. criminal justice. The degree provides a thorough understanding of WILLIAM TIERNAN (1999), Professor of Physics; B.A., Colby College; politics and government organizations which is helpful to anyone Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. working in a career that is either regulated by government, has government as a customer, or needs to lobby government to protect Jared Workman (2011), Assistant Professor of Physics; B.S., its interests. Temple University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Colorado. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. CONTACT INFORMATION political science Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1696. PROGRAMS OFFERED Bachelor of Arts FACULTY Political Science TIMOTHY CASEY (1998), Professor of Political Science; B.S., Minors Northern Arizona University; M.A., University of San Francisco; Ph.D., Political Science Arizona State University.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION JUSTIN GOLLOB (2008), Assistant Professor of Political Science; B.S., The political science program provides students with a working Idaho State University; M.A., Ph.D., Temple University. knowledge of the concepts, theories, approaches and practical JOHN REDIFER (1994) Professor of Political Science; B.A., University applications to political and governmental systems within the state, of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., Colorado State University. national and international arenas. Students majoring in political

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provides a strong foundation for graduate study in psychology and p rocess systems related disciplines. technology The psychology program sponsors the Psychology Club and a local PROGRAMS OFFERED chapter of the national honor society in psychology, Psi Chi. Through Associate of Applied Science active membership in these organizations, students are encouraged Process Systems Technology to become involved in community service and to attend and present their research at regional and national conferences. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The process systems technology program prepares students for A minor in psychology requires the student to acquire working entry-level employment as process operators or technicians. A knowledge of the methods and findings of modern psychology. To process operator/technician is a key member of a team of people earn the minor, a student must take the research methods course, responsible for planning, analyzing and controlling the production along with several topical courses in psychology. A student with this of products from the acquisition of raw materials through the minor will have a deeper understanding of the processes that shape production and distribution of products to customers in a variety of behavior, which can then be applied to a wide variety of areas. process industries. This program provides an understanding of process equipment and For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a its principles of operation and control. The graduate will understand faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. the technical aspects of the work, the responsibilities of the work and the importance of safety in this vitally important, shift-oriented CONTACT INFORMATION position. Industries interested in the graduates from the program Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, include, but are not limited to, oil exploration and production, mining 970.248.1696. and mineral processing, petroleum product manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, food and beverage, FACULTY electric power generation, drinking water treatment and wastewater SUSAN BECKER (1996), Professor of Psychology; B.A., Reed College; treatment. M.A., University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Ph.D., University of Arizona. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. KAREN FORD (1984), Professor of Psychology; B.A., Mississippi College; M.A., Northeast Louisiana; Ph.D., University of Mississippi. CONTACT INFORMATION Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann MYRA HEINRICH (1983), Professor of Psychology; B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Avenue, 970.255.2670. University of North Dakota. FACULTY JESSICA Herrick (1995), Professor of Psychology and Department carolyn ferreira-lillo (2009), Assistant Technical Professor of Head of Social and Behavioral Sciences; B.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Technology Integration; BSSE, The City College of New York; M.S., Wyoming. Stony Brook University. Jake Jones (2011), Assistant Professor of Psychology; B.S., Bluefield john sluder (1998), Assistant Technical Professor of Technology College; M.S., Radford University; Ph.D., Indiana State University. Integration. Kristen N. Jones (2011), Assistant Professor of Psychology; B.A., Emory & Henry College; M.S., Radford University; Ph.D., Ball State psychology University. BRIAN PARRY (2008), Assistant Professor of Psychology; B.A., PROGRAMS OFFERED University of Utah, M.S., Ph.D., Brigham Young University. Bachelor of Arts Psychology Jenny Peil, Instructor of Psychology; B.S, Colorado State University, Psychology – Counseling Psychology M.S., Psy.D., Florida Institute of Technology. Minor Psychology p ublic administration/ PROGRAM DESCRIPTION public safety The psychology program provides students with a working knowledge of the methods and findings of modern psychology. PROGRAMS OFFERED Students may pursue the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology or the Bachelor of Applied Science BA in Psychology with a concentration in counseling psychology. Public Administration/Public Safety All majors are required to complete some laboratory coursework in which they conduct psychological science research. Internships PROGRAM DESCRIPTION are required for counseling students and are available at nearby The Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Public Administration/ human service agencies and treatment centers. Students majoring Public Safety combines the technical skills required of first responders in psychology are prepared to work in a wide variety of settings, with the management training necessary for success in areas related including human services (counseling and social work), public to public safety. A unique program, the BAS allows students who affairs, business, sales, criminal justice and (following graduate study) have already earned an Associate of Applied Science degree or psychotherapy, teaching and research. The psychology program have completed a federal or state certified training program in law

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For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a FACULTY faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. jane quimby (2012) Director of Department of Public Safety; B.S., University of Utah; J.D., Denver University CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1696. radiologic technology FACULTY PROGRAMS OFFERED JOHN REECE (2006), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice; B.A., Associate of Applied Science Mesa State College; M.P.A., University of Colorado-Denver; Ph.D., Radiologic Technology Northcentral University. Bachelor of Applied Science Radiologic Technology

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION p ublic safety diving The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Radiologic Technology is two years in length and includes classroom studies and clinical PROGRAMS OFFERED experience. Most of the classroom studies are during the fall and Technical Certificate spring semesters of the first year of the program. Completing general Public Safety Diving education or required support courses before beginning the program does not decrease the length of the program. However, it does PROGRAM DESCRIPTION considerably decrease the semester credit hour load that will be This certificate provides entry-level skills required for public safety necessary to graduate as proposed. diving. Instruction includes basic open water scuba skills, dry suit and full face mask skills, line tending, drowning investigations, operational All classroom studies are conducted on the Colorado Mesa University duties, safety and responsible diving practices. Students gain valuable campus. Clinical experience includes rotations at several clinical skills for searching, collecting, preserving and processing underwater facilities throughout western Colorado. The structure of the radiologic crime scene evidence. Students will be required to work in low technology program requires the student to attend the eight week visibility and potentially high entanglement environments. Career

Learn more about the programs of study listed here, and find program sheets detailing exact and complete requirements for majors and concentrations, online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. Programs of study 91 summer session between the first and second year of study. In real estate broker addition, sometime during the second year, an eight week rotation in Delta, Montrose, Rifle, Glenwood Springs or Rangely is required. PROGRAMS OFFERED Technical Certificate Following successful completion of the AAS in Radiologic Technology, Real Estate Broker and ethics and examination requirements, the graduate is eligible to sit for the national registry examination administered by the PROGRAM DESCRIPTION American Registry of Radiologic Technologists. A passing score on This certificate program is designed for students who wish to this examination results in the granting of a certificate of registration complete the hours of education requirements of the Colorado Real that allows the privilege to use the title “Registered Technologist” and Estate Commission for Broker Licensing. Students who successfully to use the abbreviation R.T. following the graduate’s name. complete this course of study will be awarded an REC 33 Certificate, which enables them to sit for the State Broker Licensing examination. The Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Radiologic Technology Upon successful completion of the state exam, students can pursue combines the technical skills and patient care skills necessary for employment as residential/commercial real estate agents or business success in today’s health care arena. The BAS allows students who brokerage agents. have already earned an AAS to build upon their technical specialties with general education courses and junior and senior level radiologic For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a science courses. This allows associate degree holders to gain a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. baccalaureate degree in approximately four additional full-time semesters, depending upon prior coursework. Courses to be taken CONTACT INFORMATION include advanced patient care, quality management, informatics in Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann radiology, research and areas of specialization such as CT, MR and Avenue, 970.255.2670. mammography. Upon completion of the program, students will be technically and academically prepared for leadership positions in their chosen specialties. SOCIAL WORK

Prospective students not holding an AAS degree can begin their PROGRAMS OFFERED university career at CMU in a chosen field of study with a 2-year Minor degree and then progress to a 4-year degree using the BAS. This Social Work degree will provide students upward mobility in their area of employment as they move into specialty areas as well as supervision/ PROGRAM DESCRIPTION management positions. The practice of social work requires knowledge of human development and behavior, of social, economic, and cultural For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a institutions, and of the interaction of all these factors as well as skills faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. in developing relationships, assessing needs and services while facilitating change. Social workers seek to strengthen relationships SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS among people to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the Students applying to the radiologic technology program must submit well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and additional material. Students applying for admission into the program communities. must be admitted into the general University. Admission to Colorado Mesa University does not guarantee admission into the radiologic For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty technology program, which requires a separate application. Please advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. contact the health sciences department for additional information. NOTE: HSCI 101 may be used as an applied studies general education contact Information elective for this program. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1696. CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Health Sciences, Maverick Center 167 970.248.1398. FACULTY KYMBERLY OWENS (2011), Assistant Professor of Social Work; M.A., FACULTY Walla Walla University; B.A., University of Montana LAJUANA EHLERS, M.S., RT(R), (M), (2008), Assistant Professor of Radiologic Technology; B.S. Northern Arizona State University; M.E. Colorado State University. social science BETTE SCHANS (1994), Professor of Radiologic Technology; B.S., Metropolitan State College; M.S., University of Colorado; Ph.D., PROGRAMS OFFERED Colorado State University. Associate of Arts Social Science Emphasis Patti WARD, Ph.D., RT (R), (1998), Professor of Radiologic Sciences and Program Director; B.S., Colorado Christian University, M.Ed. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Lesley University; Ph.D. Colorado State University. The Associate of Arts (AA) degree is designed for students who intend to continue their education and obtain a baccalaureate degree. The AA with an emphasis in social science is the appropriate choice for students who will take upper division coursework in the arts, humanities, or social and behavioral sciences. The degree program

Learn more about the programs of study listed here, and find program sheets detailing exact and complete requirements for majors and concentrations, online at coloradomesa.edu/academics. 92 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog includes the Colorado Statewide General Education Core and meets CONTACT INFORMATION the lower division general education requirements at institutions Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Lowell Heiny Hall 413, in Colorado. The social science emphasis provides students with 970.248.1696. the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the various disciplines which traditionally constitute the social sciences: FACULTY anthropology, history, political science, sociology, psychology, ADELE CUMMINGS (1996), Professor of Sociology; B.A., M.S., Florida economics and geography. State University; Ph.D., Duke University. ABIGAIL RICHARDSON (2008), Assistant Professor of Sociology; B.A., For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty Tulane University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Georgia. advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. BRENDA WILHELM (2000), Professor of Sociology; B.A., University of CONTACT INFORMATION Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1696. spanish FACULTY PROGRAMS OFFERED james curtsinger, Instructor of Geography; B.A., M.A., Colorado Bachelor of Arts State University. Spanish – Applied Professional Spanish Spanish – Literature and Language sociology Spanish – Secondary Education Minors PROGRAMS OFFERED Spanish Bachelor of Arts Sociology PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Minors The study of Spanish involves developing skills in speaking and Sociology writing Spanish clearly, understanding spoken and written Spanish and interpreting cultural characteristics found in Spanish-speaking PROGRAM DESCRIPTION countries. Sociology is the study of society, including social action, social organization, and social change. Sociologists seek to understand Spanish majors at Colorado Mesa choose from one of three tracks: causes and consequences of human interaction and behavior. applied professional, secondary education licensure and literature Because all human behavior is social, the subject matter of Sociology and language. Students learn to communicate in Spanish and explore ranges widely – from forms of inequality, to social institutions like Spanish-speaking cultures and communities. the family and religion, to human lives and bodies. Sociology encompasses a variety of theoretical perspectives and research Applied professional majors strengthen their skills in the professional methodologies to study social patterns and problems. Sociological environment including translation, (judicial) interpreting, business studies inform journalists, policymakers, and social service agencies. Spanish and Spanish for medical and social services. They also gain experience through internships in a variety of professional settings, Sociology majors gain important skills in critical thinking, research including the sheriff’s department, the county courthouse and methods, and responsible citizenship. Sociology students are various medical offices. prepared for future graduate work in sociology and related disciplines, as well as for a wide variety of careers in sectors such as business, the Secondary education majors study all aspects of the language health professions, the criminal justice system, social services, human and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, including linguistics, resources, and government. phonetics and phonology, foreign language teaching methods and the literatures of Spain and Latin America. The Center for Teacher The degree program in Sociology is flexible, and allows students to Education offers a comprehensive program of study that leads to complete the requirements for many minors, including a new minor licensure in Colorado. Please see the Teacher Education Admission in Social Work, within the 120 credit hours required to earn a Bachelor Packet for further information on admissions criteria. of Arts degree. In addition, all Sociology students can do a 4-credit hour internship, offered through the new Social Work program, which Majors in the Spanish Literature and Language track gain theoretical gives students the opportunity to put their knowledge to work, to and applied insights into Spanish language, linguistics and literature. perform useful community service, and to develop contacts which Students examine specific genres (poetry, prose, theatre and film) as often lead to full-time employment. well as certain periods, regions and trends. Study of theoretical and applied linguistics contributes to a well-rounded education. A minor in Sociology enhances virtually any academic or professional major. Students who minor in Sociology develop knowledge of For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty human interactions and the social world, along with important critical advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. thinking and communication skills. CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication; For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty Lowell Heiny Hall 413, 970.248.1687. advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics.

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FACULTY PROGRAM DESCRIPTION THOMAS ACKER (1999), Professor of Spanish; B.S., Kutztown The Associate of Science (AS) in Sport Management is designed University; M.A., Ph.D., Temple University. for students who intend to continue their education and obtain a baccalaureate degree. The degree program includes the Colorado TYLER ANDERSON (2006), Associate Professor of Spanish; Statewide General Education Core and meets the lower-division A.A., Ricks College; B.A., M.A., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., general education requirements at most public institutions in Pennsylvania State University. Colorado. Graduates of this program may obtain entry-level positions Blake Crossley, Instructor of Spanish; B.A., M.A., Brigham Young in sport management or continue to pursue their bachelor-level University. education to obtain eventual higher-level positions related to sport management, business, or kinesiology. Albino Gonzales, Instructor of Spanish; B.A., Adams State College; M.A., Arizona State University; Ed.D., Arizona State The Bachelor of Science in Sport Management prepares students University. to enter the world of sport business or pursue a graduate degree. LUIS SILVA-VILLAR (2000), Professor of Spanish; M.A., Real The sport management degree provides an overview of the history Conservatorio Superior De Musica de Madrid; M.A., Ph.D., University and role of sport in society and covers topics such as leadership and of California - Los Angeles. ethics, governance and communication and legal considerations in sport operations. Students will also obtain business administration MAYELA VALLEJOS-RAMIREZ (2003), Professor of Spanish; B.A., skills through courses in accounting, marketing, economics and Universidad de Costa Rica; M.A., West Virginia University; Ph.D., business information technology. University of Nebraska. Opportunities for college graduates with sport management education and experience are very diverse and challenging. As sport has evolved speech into an integral part of the American culture, the operations of sports programs have become more sophisticated and complex. With an PROGRAMS OFFERED understanding of the intricacies of sport activities and knowledge of Minor effective business practices, graduates will be prepared to oversee Speech sport programs and facilities. Sport management positions are found in a variety of settings including schools, colleges and universities, public PROGRAM DESCRIPTION and private agencies, government and the military. The speech minor offers a broad range of courses focusing on human communication behaviors and is designed to complement The minor in sport management provides a strong platform for any major. In a survey of 480 companies and public organizations, students to combine their interests in business with the business of communication skills ranked first among the personal qualities of sports. Students will explore subject areas which include: principles college graduates sought by employers. The coursework is designed of management, organization/administration/legal considerations, to improve oral message sending and relational communication skills. marketing, governance and communication, sport law and risk You will study presentation skills, conflict resolution, leadership and management, leadership and ethics. This minor could complement nonverbal and intercultural communication, important skills in our business or mass communications majors. global society. CONTACT INFORMATION For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty Department of Kinesiology; Maverick Center 237, 970.248.1635. advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. FACULTY CONTACT INFORMATION Richard bell, Instructor of Kinesiology; B.S., Clemson University; Department of Theatre and Speech, Moss Performing Arts Center 113, M.A., The Citadel; J.D., University of South Carolina; Ed.D., United 970.248.1233. States Sports Academy. FACULTY JILL CORDOVA (1992), Professor of Kinesiology and Department paula casey, Instructor of Speech; B.S., M.A., Northern Arizona Head of Kinesiology; B.A., M.A., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., University. University of New Mexico. RICK MORITZ Instructor of Speech; B.A., Metropolitan State College STEVEN ROSS MURRAY (1998), Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., of Denver; M.A., University of Colorado, Denver. University of North Alabama; M.S., D.A., Middle Tennessee State University. sandra woodworth, Instructor of Speech; B.A., M.S., Fort Hays State University; Ph.D., Belmont University. ELIZABETH SHARP (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., M.Ed., Arkansas Tech University; Ph.D., Middle Tennessee sport management State University. PROGRAMS OFFERED Associate of Science Sport Management Bachelor of Science Sport Management Minor Sport Management

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SuStainability Practices contact information Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann programs offered Avenue, 970.255.2670. Technical Certificate Sustainability Practices FACULTY BENJAMIN KEEFER (1991) Assistant Technical Professor; B.S., program description M.Ed., Ph.D., Colorado State University. “Sustainability” is a way of living that meets the needs of the present JOHN SLUDER (1998), Assistant Technical Professor without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In order to achieve sustainability, we must examine our approach to energy, food, shelter, transportation and other aspects of everyday life. Can we continue our current approach indefinitely? Teacher education What changes need to occur to make our approach sustainable? see education What can we do to make those changes? Through the certificate in sustainability practices, students learn the technology Integration principles of sustainability along with specific ways to implement them. Anyone seeking to understand and practice this approach will PROGRAMS OFFERED benefit from completion of the program. For some, the program can Technical Certificate serve as a first step toward a more in-depth knowledge that may lead Technology Integration -- Network Technician to a career. This certificate could help professionals to distinguish their Technology Integration -- Telecommunication Technician business practices, community leaders to better understand future Associate of Applied Science trends in community planning and any student, educator or citizen Technology Integration -- Network/Telecommunication who wants to make a positive difference in the environment. Technician contact information PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Wubben Science Students enrolled in technology integration learn a multitude of 232, 970.248.1993. skills to help prepare them to enter a variety of careers related to computer systems, computer system administration and networking, electronics and telecommunications engineering. Students begin SUstainable Agriculture the program studying basic core classes including communications, basic electronics, information technology (IT) hardware and software and Cisco Systems Network training. The technology integration programs offered coursework is aligned with national and international certifications Associate of Applied Science including Cisco, Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) & Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), A+/N+, security and program description Convergent Technology Professional (CTP). Program content has Sustainable agriculture is a holistic approach, which is integrated been structured to give a basic education to all graduates entering throughout each course, addressing how to enhance environmental this field. Emphasis has been placed on providing a common quality of food production while also taking into account the core of training for all students due to the convergence of the economic viability of farm and ranch operations. Sustainable communication and information industries. agriculture is the practice of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. At the certificate level, students select an area of specialization It has been defined as “an integrated system of plant and animal from two choices – network technician or telecommunications production practices having a site-specific application that will last VoIP technician. Network technician coursework teaches students over the long term. valuable Internet technology skills, including networking, IT essentials, cabling, Linux and UNIX. The curriculum covers a broad range of In this Associate of Applied Science degree, the student will have a topics from basics on how to build a network and more complex detailed understanding about the food, fiber, and natural resource IT concepts such as applying advanced troubleshooting tools. systems of western region agriculture; learn through leadership Telecommunications Technician coursework includes networking and service to serve all people and groups equally and without fundamentals, telephony networking, installing and troubleshooting discrimination within the workplace, amplify and expand the “whole analog and digital phone lines and fundamental concepts, standards person” concept of education, including leadership, personal, and practices that combine telephony and data networks into and interpersonal skills. Students will develop an understanding convergence networks. This program is designed to help prepare of marketing and economics that continually and systematically students to work in technical positions in communication fields. responds to the marketplace; be exposed to the concepts that foster At the associate level, students select an area of emphasis from three the spirit of free enterprise and develop creative entrepreneurship choices – telecommunications engineering, network technician, or and innovation. Through an integrated approach, students will certified electronics technician. The coursework in this Associate of learn the concepts of Sustainable Agriculture through classroom Applied Science degree is aligned with national and international and laboratory instruction, supervised experiences, and student certifications including Cisco, CCENT & CCNA, A+/N+, and Convergent organizations. Technology Professional (CTP) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). 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CONTACT INFORMATION Through the theatre minor, students may choose courses from Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann a broad range of theatrical endeavor including: acting, scenery, Avenue, 970.255.2670. costumes, theatre history, the teaching of theatre, arts management and dramatic literature. Students will also have the opportunity to FACULTY gain hands-on experience in the creation of two mainstage shows john sluder (1998), Assistant Technical Professor of Technology during the CMU theatre season. Training afforded by the study Integration. of theatre is also attractive to many other professions, including teaching, human resources, the ministry and law. Jack Yon (2003), Assistant Technical Professor of Technology Integration; A.A.S., Mesa State College. For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. theatre SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Programs Offered Students seeking admission as theatre majors must successfully Bachelor of Arts audition for acceptance into the acting/directing, dance and Theatre Arts music theatre concentrations. Admission to the University does Theatre – Acting/Directing not guarantee admission into one of these programs. Prospective Theatre – Dance theatre majors should consult the department’s website or contact Theatre – Design/Technology the department directly for information regarding audition dates Theatre – Music Theatre and requirements. Prospective students interested in departmental Minors scholarships must audition no later than March 1 of the year they Dance seek admission. Speech Theatre Acting/Directing and Musical Theatre majors are also required to take SPCH 112 (Voice and Diction) as their General Education Applied PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Studies requirement. The theatre program is constructed to help students meet the rigorous demands of a professional career in theatre and dance Musical Theatre students deficient in piano skills will be required to to provide a strong artistic foundation and practical experience. complete MUSA 130, Class Piano I and MUSA 131, Class Piano II as Beginning with the first semester, students enroll in courses taught by lower division elective courses. academically and professionally experienced faculty. Contact Information The acting/directing concentration is designed to give students a Department of Theatre and Speech, Moss Performing Arts Center 141, depth and breadth of acting skills and beginning directing skills 970-.248.1233. including voice, movement, period styles and Shakespeare. Acting Faculty opportunities in all of the department’s productions are open to DAVID COX (1981), Professor of Theatre; B.A., Mesa State College; motivated and talented first-year students. Students are involved M.F.A., University of Utah. in numerous shows and this production work allows for a controlled, supervised experience. JERRY DITTER, Instructor of Theatre; M.A., University of Nebraska - Omaha; B.A. Central Missouri State University. The music theatre concentration represents one of the most unique programs offered in Colorado, stressing strong technical foundations Jeremy Franklin , Instructor of Music Theatre; B.A., Ouachita in music, theatre and dance. This approach creates “triple threats” Baptist University. and enhances a young performer’s potential for a career in musical jeanine howe (2006), Associate Professor of Theatre; B.F.A., theatre. To complement technique courses, students also participate Otterbein College; M.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University. in a wide variety of performance-related assignments. MAURICE LAMEE (2012), Assistant Professor of Theatre; B.A. Loretto The dance concentration offers an array of dance styles, performance Heights College; M.F.A National Theatre Conservatory. opportunities and travel. Modern, jazz, ballet and tap are offered from melonie buchanan Murray (2005), Associate Professor of beginning to professional levels. Other courses include composition, Dance; B.F.A., Friends University; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine. improvisation, pedagogy, history, music analysis, healthy dancer and repertory performance. timothy pinnow (2010), Professor of Theatre and Department Head of Theatre; B.A., Luther College; M.F.A., University of Florida. The design/technology theatre concentration exposes students to multiple areas of the visual and technical aspects of theatre, HEATHER WAGGONER (1998), Professor of Theatre; A.A., B.A., including costume design, scenography, lighting design and Indiana State University; M.F.A., Illinois State University. theatre technology. The first year centers on courses that develop aesthetic sensitivity and technical proficiency. Subsequent years transportation services are devoted to specialized studio work in the student’s chosen area of concentration. This foundation is supported by a series of skill PROGRAMS OFFERED related courses in drafting, drawing and rendering techniques, model Technical Certificate making, projection aesthetics, lighting console operation and related Transportation Services – Automotive Service technologies. Costume skills courses include costume construction Transportation Services – Diesel Mechanics and fitting, fabric painting and fabric dyeing.

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Associate of Applied Science FACULTY Transportation Services – Automotive Technology Michael Carsten (2010), Technical Instructor of Transportation Transportation Services – Diesel Technology Services; Certificate, Southwest Texas Junior College.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION James Goetz (1999), Technical Instructor of Transportation The transportation services program covers the fundamentals of Services; A.A.S., Mesa State College. electronics, starters, ignition and charging systems; air conditioning, GARY LOOFT (1985), Technical Instructor of Transportation Services. cooling and heating systems; safety; technical math; use of technical manuals; basic management skills; written and oral communication KEITH WRIGHT (2006), Assistant Technical Professor of skills; and leadership. Advanced coursework includes an in-depth Transportation Services; A.A.S., Oklahoma State University, Institute study of internal combustion engine disassembly, repair, reassembly, of Technology. diagnosis and troubleshooting; suspension systems; and alignment and wheel balance. Students may choose from either an automotive technology emphasis or a diesel technology emphasis. The diesel visual communications technology emphasis concentrates on on-road trucks and light duty PROGRAMS OFFERED diesel-powered vehicles. Technical Certificate Visual Communications -- Animation Technology By successfully completing a technical certificate or an Associate of Associate of Applied Science Applied Science in Transportation Services, students will be prepared Visual Communications -- Animation Technology Emphasis for careers as automotive/diesel technicians, parts and service distributors, industrial sales representatives, service managers and PROGRAM DESCRIPTION business owners in the transportation services industry. The animation technology coursework prepares students to work in digital 3-D animation modeling environments. 3D Digital Animation For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty is all about the art of visual storytelling. Animation technology advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. combines traditional artistic skills such as drawing, design and sculpture, with video, lighting and special effects training. This SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS program covers the in-depth fundamentals of classical animation Automotive technology covers general service and repair of based on the 12 principles of animation, as well as character vehicles in today’s society. Courses will cover theory, applications, development and rigging. Students gain experience using industry maintenance, repair and diagnosis of vehicle systems using hand, standard software such as 3DS Max, Photoshop, Illustrator and After power and specialty tools and equipment. Diagnostics and computer Effects to produce animations and portfolios. Students will gain systems receive special emphasis. WCCC is a satellite training center expertise in object modeling and computer generated animation for Ford, Chrysler, Toyota and Subaru. techniques to produce complex 3-D animation projects, as well as study life drawing, layout and design, computer illustration, CONTACT INFORMATION storytelling and storyboarding. Graduates of this program will be Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann prepared for entry-level jobs in the fields of movie animation, gaming Avenue, 970.255.2670. animation and animation for commercials and presentations.

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For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty CONTACT INFORMATION advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann Avenue, 970.255.2670. CONTACT INFORMATION Office of Student Services, WCCC, Bishop B102, 2508 Blichmann Avenue, 970.255.2670. WOMEN’S AND GENDER FACULTY john sluder (1998), Assistant Technical Professor of Technology STUDIES Integration. PROGRAMS OFFERED melanie snyder (2003), Technical Instructor of Visual Minor Communications; A.A.S., Mesa State College. Women’s Studies

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Watershed science The Women’s and Gender Studies Minor rrecognizes the centrality PROGRAMS OFFERED of gender to a variety of disciplines, professions and personal Minor experiences and world views. Students will take coursework in Watershed Science History, Literature, Psychology and Sociology with an aim toward developing an interdisciplinary understanding of issues related to PROGRAM DESCRIPTION women and gender in both contemporary and historical contexts. The watershed science minor is an interdisciplinary program designed to serve the regional need for scientists with a strong background By augmenting students’ chosen majors, the Women’s and Gender in water-related issues. It is a useful complement to environmental, Studies minor prepares students looking for strong interdisciplinary physical and biological science majors, providing students in these perspectives along their path to careers and/or further studies fields with certification of focused coursework. Combined with in social work, counseling, law, education, business, and the arts, the relevant bachelor of science degree, plus additional calculus among others. and physics courses, the minor satisfies the federal government’s requirements for qualification as a hydrologist. The proximity of CONTACT iNFORMATION Colorado Mesa University to the Colorado, Gunnison and Green Rivers, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lowell Heiny Hall the drainages of the Colorado National Monument and the high 413, 970.248.1696. arroyos create an ideal location for the study of watershed science. FACULTY For a program sheet that describes the requirements, see a faculty BRENDA WILHELM (2000), Professor of Sociology; B.A., University advisor or go to coloradomesa.edu/academics. of Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona. Erika Jackson (2010), Assistant Professor of History; B.A., CONTACT INFORMATION Michigan State University; M.A., Loyola University; Ph.D., Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Wubben Science Michigan State University. 232, 970.248.1993. JENNIFER HANCOCK (2010), Assistant Professor of English; B.A., Oklahoma State University; M.F. A., Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D.; Wa ter Quality Oklahoma State University. ManAgement PROGRAMS OFFERED Associate of Applied Science Water Quality Management

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The water quality management program prepares students for entry- level employment as technicians in the water processing industry. Water quality technicians work in teams to operate drinking water treatment systems and wastewater treatment systems. The workers plan, test for quality and operate complex equipment to acquire and deliver high quality drinking water or process waste water for return to the environment. This program provides an understanding of the regulatory expectations, the science involved in meeting regulatory expectations, the equipment used to process water and the systems management skills necessary to be a successful employee in the water processing industry. The industries interested in hiring graduates of this program are the public drinking water utilities and the wastewater treatment systems.

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Center for Teacher Education (Licensure)

Contact: Center for Teacher Education, Colorado Mesa University, Academic Classroom Building, Suite 109, 970.248.1786

The Center for Teacher Education offers licensure programs in Elementary, Secondary, K-12 Education, and a Master of Arts in Education. Licensure to teach in public schools in the State of Colorado requires each teacher candidate to complete a baccalaureate degree including a sequence of professional education courses that include extensive field experience classroom placements. Teaching licensure coursework and experiences are taken through the Center for Teacher Education, while the content degree coursework is completed meeting the requirements of the discipline area, with both departments coordinating to assist teacher candidates to complete the program. Formal admission to the Center for Teacher Education is required of all students expecting to obtain a Colorado Educator License in any teaching field.

In order to complete all licensure requirements in a timely manner it Elementary Licensure Courses Credit Field is important that students contact Hours Hours the Center as soon as possible after enrolling at Colorado Mesa University. EDUC 211: Foundations of Education* 2 20 For information on the M.A. program, EDUC 341: Pedagogy and Assessment - Elementary 3 20 see the Graduate Programs section. EDUC 343: Teaching to Diversity 3 20 EDUC 374: Exceptional and ELL 3 Elementary EDUC 378: Technology for K-12 Educators 1 Education EDUC 441: Methods of Teaching Language and Literacy 6 EDUC 451: Methods of Teaching Mathematics 3 180 Licensure EDUC 461: Methods of Teaching Science & Social Studies 3 (Colorado Teacher Licensure and EDUC 471: Educational Assessment 1 Elementary Education Endorsement, EDUC 475: Classroom Management 1 Grades K through 6.) EDUC 499C: Teaching Internship and Colloquia 12 600 Students should meet with a Center for Total Hours Required 32 840 Teacher Education advisor as soon as *Can be taken before formal acceptance into CTE possible in order to obtain information specific to the elementary education licensure program. The components of the Colorado Mesa University elementary licensure program are as follows:

1. Academic Major: All elementary licensure students must complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies). 2. Formal admission to the Center for Teacher Education. 3. P rofessional Education Sequence for Elementary Teacher Licensure. (Coursework must be taken in the prescribed sequence; see table.) Center for teacher education (licensure) 99

Secondary K-12 Education field hours) in addition to the sequence below. Students seeking licensure in Education Licensure Licensure music are not required to take EDUC 343. (Colorado Teacher Licensure and (Colorado Teacher Licensure and K-12 All teacher licensure programs Secondary Education Endorsement, Endorsement, Kindergarten through Grades 7 through 12) require passing the PLACE or PRAXIS 12th Grade for endorsement in Art, II professional licensure exams prior Students should meet with a Center for Music or Kinesiology) to beginning the student teaching Teacher Education advisor as soon as Students should meet with a Center for semester. possible in order to obtain information Teacher Education advisor as soon as specific to the secondary education possible in order to obtain information Master of Arts licensure program. Following are specific to the K-12 Education licensure the components of the Colorado program. Following are the components in Education Mesa University secondary licensure of the Colorado Mesa University K-12 See the Graduate Programs section program: teacher licensure program. of this Catalog for details.

1. Academic Major: All secondary 1. Academic Major: K-12 licensure licensure students must complete the students must complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts requirements for the Bachelor of Arts or Science in one of the following in Kinesiology or Music, or a Bachelor academic disciplines: Biology, of Fine Arts in Art. English, History, Mathematics, 2. Formal admission to the Center for Physical Science (Geology), or Teacher Education. Spanish. 3. Professional Education Sequence 2. Formal admission to the Center for for K-12 Teacher Licensure.** Teacher Education. (Coursework must be taken in the 3. Professional Education Sequence prescribed sequence; see table.) for Secondary Teacher Licensure. **Students seeking licensure in art must (Coursework must be taken in the take EDUC 442 (4 credit hours and 60 prescribed sequence; see table.)

Secondary Licensure Courses Credit Field Hours Hours

EDUC 211: Foundations of Education* 2 20 EDUC 342: Pedagogy and Assessment - Secondary 3 20 EDUC 343: Teaching to Diversity 3 20 EDUC 442: Integrating Literacy Across the Curriculum - Secondary 4 60 EDUC 497 Content Methodology Practicum 3 80 EDUC 497a-e Methods of Teaching Secondary Discipline 2 EDUC 499G: Teaching Internship and Colloquia 12 600 Total Hours Required 29 800 *Can be taken before formal acceptance into CTE

K-12 Licensure Courses Credit Field Art, Music, Kinesiology Hours Hours

EDUC 211: Foundations of Education* 2 20 EDUC 342: Pedagogy and Assessment - Secondary 3 20 EDUC 343: Teaching to Diversity 3 20 Content Area Methods Courses Varies 140 EDUC 499d: Teaching Internship and Colloquia - Elementary 6 300 EDUC 499h: Teaching Internship and Colloquia - Secondary 6 300 Total Hours Required Varies 800 *Can be taken before formal acceptance into CTE 100 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

University-wide Academic Offerings

Academic An honors thesis emphasizes to introduce students to the resources independent thought and creativity of the University and to enhance their Honors Program and encourages mastery of research study skills in order to be better prepared Contact Information methods. It prepares students for the for the expectations of college-level Dr. Kristen Hague, Director of Honors rigors of postgraduate or professional work. SUPP 101 is also offered during the Program, LHH 453, 970.248.1385 study and is completed under the fall and spring semesters. Program Description supervision of faculty advisors. As a member of the National Completed theses are catalogued in the Maverick Collegiate Honors Council, Colorado Colorado Mesa University Tomlinson Mesa University’s Honors Program Library Special Collections. Provisional offers highly-motivated students Program (MVP) opportunities for enhanced intellectual In addition to being part of a stimulation and increased personal community of like-minded learners Contact Information scholarship. and extracurricular opportunities, Admissions Office, Welcome Center Honors students have access to the 970.248.1458 or The Academic Honors Program is open Honors house and receive priority Office of Student Success, Albers Hall to any currently-enrolled Colorado registration for classes each semester. 970.248.1340 The “Honors” course designation on a Mesa University student with a grade Program Description student’s transcript signifies that the point average of 3.00 or above. Transfer Colorado Mesa University offers first- course is among the university’s more students with a GPA of 3.00 or above year Provisional Baccalaureate (PB) challenging courses. from their previous educational freshman an opportunity to participate institutions also are invited to apply. in a program designed specifically to Students who earn an average of “B” or assist students in making a successful higher in 18 hours of honors program To be considered for admission, transition to college by learning coursework (six of which must be from students must submit a letter of strategies and skills they will need to upper-division courses) and students application to the program director, successfully navigate their first semester. who produce a thesis are recognized describing how they will benefit from This program, Maverick Provisional at graduation and on their transcripts participation in the Program as well Program (MVP), is offered to new PB for achieving Academic Honors. All as the unique qualities they will bring freshmen prior to the start of each fall program graduates earn medals to wear to it. Two letters of recommendation semester. For more information, visit at graduation. must be sent to the director; one coloradomesa.edu/mvp. must be from a faculty member while the other may come either from a Freshman Year The MVP program includes completion peer or another teacher. Exceptions Initiative (FYI) of the SUPP 100 (Higher Education to these requirements are made on Success Skills) course. This is a one-credit a case-by-case basis by the program Program course designed to help PB students director. Once accepted into the Contact Information successfully transition to college life by Program, students are required to take Admissions Office, Welcome Center introducing them to campus resources a minimum of one honors course per 970.248.1458 -or- and teaching them study skills that will academic year and maintain a GPA of Academic Affairs Office, LHH 209, aid them in their transition. SUPP 100 3.00 or above to continue. 970.248.1881 is also offered during the fall and spring semesters. There are two ways to participate Program Description in the Academic Honors Program. Colorado Mesa University offers first-year Students can choose to take 18 credits freshmen an opportunity to participate Sophomore Year of honors program courses or to write in a program designed specifically to Experience enhance their first-year experience and an honors thesis. Honors students may Contact Information choose to pursue one or both avenues. ease the transition from high school to college. This program, Freshman Year Academic Affairs Office, LHH 209 Honors courses provide challenging 970.248.1881 curricula, as they are small in size to Initiative (FYI), is offered to new freshmen facilitate active learning. The classes take prior to the start of each fall semester. Program Description advantage of the special interests and For more information visit coloradmesa. Colorado Mesa University offers a expertise of faculty members. Lower- edu/fyi. The University’s academic course for sophomore-level students division honors courses often fulfill success course, SUPP 101, Introduction (who have completed 31-60 semester general education requirements while to Higher Education, is the primary credit hours) to assist them in refining upper-division honors courses are often focus of the FYI Program. SUPP 101 is their academic effort toward a specific interdisciplinary and open to all majors. a two-credit elective course designed major and career goal that best fits university-wide Academic offerings 101 their interests and abilities. This course exchange program allows students to level and include MATC 090 and 091, aids students in making this critical pay Colorado Mesa University tuition, and ENGC 090. In addition, studios decision early to promote selection of housing and fees, which are often (ENGC 092 or READ 092) are available academic choices before enrolling in much more affordable than those of the depending on placement level for upper division courses. The Sophomore host university. ISEP students are fully extra support in ENGL 111 or ENGC Year Experience course (SUPP 202) is a immersed in an intercultural experience 090. These courses are designed for two-credit hour elective course offered at their host institution and are able to students needing to strengthen their during the January term and introduces explore the global opportunities of their skills before entering college-level students to career options, academic chosen academic field. See ISEP section classes or to provide extra support majors, résumé development, workplace in Academic & Student Services, Offices while taking entry level classes. skills, and self discovery through and Activities section of the catalog for Research indicates that students who readings, class activities and off-campus more information. need and take these courses do better opportunities such as community in their college-level courses than they service projects and/or job shadowing. would have without them. They are Undergraduate not intended for transfer purposes, and International Developmental will not fulfill degree requirements. Courses Students are encouraged to consult Student Exchange with their advisors about the need to Contact Information register into these classes. Programs (ISEP) WCCC Office of Developmental Contact Information Instruction, Academic Affairs Office, LHH 209, Bishop B185, 970.255.2613 970.248.1881 Program Description Program Description In order to maximize student success, International Student Exchange Colorado Mesa University provides Programs are a network of over 300 placement testing and college prep colleges and universities in 50 countries courses so that students can be cooperating to provide university-level assured they are prepared to do the reciprocal exchanges.ISEP is dedicated college-level work in their course of to offering access to international study. Students enroll in college prep education opportunities for a diverse courses in mathematics and English. student population. ISEP’s reciprocal Preparatory courses are below the 100 102 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

Graduate Programs

General Admissions An individual without a baccalaureate of students who previously attended degree may be admitted to a master’s CMU shall be obtained from the Policies & degree program only if he or she is Registrar’s Office and shall not require Procedures admitted to a combined program at a student request. CMU, such as the BS/MBA program. Admission Criteria 3. Scores, if required by the program, from either the Educational Testing Faculty in each degree program establish Admission Procedures admission standards for the graduate Services for the Graduate Record To begin a graduate program at CMU, Examination (GRE) or the Graduate programs, which often exceed the a student must possess a baccalaureate minimum standards set by Colorado Management Admission Test degree from an accredited institution. (GMAT), or from the Psychological Mesa University’s Graduate Studies The undergraduate GPA requirement Advisory Committee. Applicants should Corporation for the Miller Analogies may differ based on individual program Test (MAT) must be provided. consult the academic department head admission criteria. The following items or faculty in the program(s) of interest for Students must request the scores must be submitted to the Admissions be sent to the Admissions Office. any additional admission requirements. Office: Each academic department that offers a See the specific degree program for required examination. graduate program shall utilize the same 1. A completed Application for minimum criteria for admission to the Admission to Graduate Programs 4. Score from an English language program. and a $50 application fee. The proficiency test (Test of English fee is non-refundable and is not as a Foreign Language/TOEFL) for Students wishing to take graduate applicable toward tuition. An students whose native language courses not associated with a graduate application form may be obtained is not English must be sent to the program must still gain admission by contacting the appropriate Admissions Office. A minimum score to CMU as a non-degree seeking department. of 550 is required. See International graduate student. Each applicant must 2. Official transcripts of all college and Student Admission section. possess a baccalaureate degree from university work must be sent directly 5. Additional Requirements an accredited college or university, or to the Admissions Office by each A cademic departments offering equivalent certification. Faculty can institution attended. Transcripts graduate programs may admit a make recommendations for admission received directly from students student based upon supplemental/ of non-degree seeking students who cannot be accepted except for alternate criteria that have do not meet the criteria to the Assistant advisement purposes. The transcripts been established by the major Vice President for Academic Affairs. Graduate Programs 103

department. If someone is the Admissions Office must confirm that Financial Aid recommended for admission the student has the necessary English Students should consult the Financial who does not meet the graduate language proficiency, spoken and Aid Office for eligibility requirements of program standards, a rationale written, official evidence of satisfactory undergraduate & graduate certificates. must be provided stating the financial sponsorship, and payment factors which were considered of the first semester of health and Admission Appeals in recommending the student: repatriation insurance. International An applicant who has been denied GPA in the discipline; letters of applicants must satisfy all requirements admission to a graduate program recommendation; samples of the for admission that apply to U.S. or who has received Conditional student’s work; GRE, MAT or GMAT citizens, as set forth above. In addition, Admission may request reconsideration scores; or other compelling factors. international applicants are required to: by writing to the Graduate Program The Assistant Vice President for Department Head within 30 days of Academic Affairs shall review all • Provide a professional transcript the date of denial or notification of recommendations for admission evaluation of all courses taken at conditional admission status. Requests below the standard. a college/university outside the should include the reasons for United States requesting reconsideration, along with Applicants should check with individual • Furnish evidence of proficiency supporting materials and information programs regarding specific application in English. A student is expected that was not submitted with the original and admission deadlines. After the to have sufficient competency in application. The Department Head will program faculty make a final decision English usage and speech skills consult with the program faculty to on admission, the program Department that enable the student to progress resolve the appeal. The Department Head will notify the student of the satisfactorily in his or her program of Head will act as final authority on the outcome. study. Consequently, a student may appeal process. be required to enroll in English and/ Admission Expiration or speech courses for remediation. Academic Advisor Admission to any graduate program • Complete the Certification of Financial Each student shall be assigned an shall remain valid for one semester Responsibility form, provide evidence academic advisor upon acceptance into excluding summer terms, following of sufficient financial resources and a graduate program by the appropriate notification of acceptance into a the exact amount expected from department. The chief responsibility of program. If a student does not begin each source of income as required for the academic advisor is the planning, coursework during this period, the students who need a student visa. filing, and overseeing of the student’s student shall be required to submit a • Submit a Health Form to the CMU degree plan. The academic advisor also new application with the appropriate Office of Graduate Studies attesting is responsible for assisting students with processing fee and satisfy all admission to the good health and current questions regarding their academic requirements. immunizations of the applicant, with programs such as expectations for proof of major medical insurance comprehensive examinations, thesis, Conditional Admission coverage. and/or practicum, as specified by CMU, Conditional admission refers to as well as professional advising and applicants admitted pending the receipt International students on F-1 or J-1 visas guidance for academic and professional of application requirements specified are not eligible to enroll as non-degree endeavors. Any advisor-approved by either the Admissions Office and/or seeking students. Students on F-1 visas deviations from published program the academic department. Applicants are required to register for a full-time requirements or degree plans must for admission may be accepted into a course load. be communicated to the Assistant graduate program or with the provision Vice President for Academic Affairs, in that they complete deficiencies as Enrollment Prior to Admission writing, by the student in conjunction noted in and by the dates specified Students who have applied for with the academic advisor. in their acceptance letter. No student admission to a graduate program at shall be permitted to register for an CMU are not permitted to enroll for Note: The importance of the academic additional semester or receive financial more than nine credit hours in that advisor cannot be overstated. aid unless the specified requirements graduate program as a non-degree Advisement includes all aspects of are met during the first semester of the seeking student. A hold shall be placed students’ present and future academic student’s program. on the student’s registration, and the and professional planning. It is often the student cannot continue to enroll academic advisor who is able to help International Student Admission until an admission decision has been students conceptualize their academic Students who are not United States reached. A student’s application must program within the context of their citizens or permanent residents are be complete, and the program faculty own professional goals and aspirations. considered international students. The must recommend either a regular CMU Admissions Office is responsible admission or must deny admission by Degree Plan for issuing certificates of eligibility to the end of the first semester, or nine After acceptance into a graduate attend CMU graduate school. To issue semester hours, whichever is later. program, each student shall meet the appropriate certificate of eligibility, with his or her academic advisor and determine a degree plan that, when 104 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog completed, shall lead to the attainment • Transfer credit cannot be used to of the graduate degree. The degree make up “C,” “D,” “F,” or “U” grades Students seeking transfer credit may plan shall be constructed before the received in required courses. also be asked to provide the published student completes one semester • Only courses graded by “letter” course description, and learning or nine credit hours of coursework grades are transferable. Courses objectives, course requirements, following the guidelines of CMU and graded “S/U” or “P/F” are not including assignments and grading the department. The respective degree transferable. criteria, information on the course plan shall list all courses, including syllabus, textbook, etc. to the program those needed for any remediation • All program requirements, including advisor for consideration. and/or weaknesses deemed by the transfer work, must be completed academic advisor, and practicum, within the time limits of the degree Degree thesis, and research requirements program. (See the section on necessary to complete the specific Program Time Limits.) Requirements degree. The degree plan shall have • Transfer courses must be numbered Course Level Requirements the signature of the student, the as graduate level according to the Graduate courses are numbered 500 academic advisor, and the department course numbering system at the and above, and are used to satisfy the head. Upon completion of the degree originating institution. requirements of graduate programs. plan and all requirements, and upon Master’s degree programs must have the recommendation of the Faculty, • Transfer courses must be from a minimum of 30 semester hours of the student shall be awarded the accredited institutions of higher courses numbered at 500 and above. respective graduate degree. education that offer equivalent level degrees. Doctoral programs require a minimum of 60 semester hours. Programs may Note: An addendum can be submitted • Graduate internship credit require additional hours, some of which to the degree plan provided the transferred from another institution may include 400-level courses, included signatures of the student, the will be considered for transfer credit. on the degree plan. academic advisor, the department Requirements may vary by academic head, and the Assistant Vice President departments. Up to nine credit hours of course work for Academic Affairs are secured • Thesis credit, or credit for a master’s completed as a non-degree student approving the changes. project, does not receive transfer may be credited subsequently to a credit unless the thesis or research degree program with the approval Residency Requirement project is collaborative or joint of the graduate program faculty A minimum of 21 semester hours of effort between CMU and another in consultation with the student’s coursework must be in residence for accredited institution offering graduate advisor. the master’s degree and 42 semester graduate programs and degrees. hours for the doctoral degree at CMU. Note: Upon prior written permission Requirements, however, may vary • Students wishing to take one or of the instructor, the academic advisor, by academic department but the more courses at another institution and the department head, a currently minimum is 70% of the total required for graduate credit after beginning enrolled undergraduate student may semester hours. their graduate program of study at CMU must first consult their program take 500-level courses. Transfer Credit graduate advisor. Permission may All graduate programs require a Students can transfer up to nine be granted following the procedure culminating activity in the form of credit hours from another accredited for transferring the credits earned at a thesis, practicum, research project institution into their degree plan for a other institution as described above. or capstone experience. In addition, graduate degree provided they meet • Non-credit courses, including some programs require a qualifying the general transfer policies of CMU and lifetime learning seminars and examination for advancement to are approved by the academic advisor, programs, or courses taken for candidacy approximately midway the department head, and the Assistant continuing education will not through the program and may require Vice President for Academic Affairs. receive transfer credit. an oral defense at the termination of the program. Refer to the academic • Transfer work is not used in the Students who wish to transfer credit calculation of the graduate GPA. department for specific culminating must provide the Registrar’s Office with degree requirements or if a qualifying • Transfer credit shall not be accepted complete documentation showing the examination is necessary. Information if the work was used to obtain a course(s) to be transferred. The student on research activities is presented degree or is included as part of then must present the complete below. another degree at any institution. transcript to the program advisor for approval or disapproval. Any transfer • Transfer work must be approved by Dual-listed Courses credits must be included on the degree the department and must be “A” or Upon approval by the Graduate plan. Courses requested for transfer “B” work. Curriculum Committee, courses must meet all criteria for credit transfer numbered 400-599 may be dual-listed • Transfer credit cannot be used to (see general transfer policies) to be allowing undergraduate and graduate meet any residency requirement. approved by the department. students to enroll simultaneously. All dual-listed courses may be offered Graduate Programs 105 independently at either the graduate or GPA Requirement Termination Appeal undergraduate level. Graduate students may repeat a A student may appeal termination maximum of six hours of graduate from a program with a written petition Note: At least 70 percent of a student’s credit. No course may be repeated more to his/her program department head, master’s degree program must be in than once. When a course is repeated, within six weeks of official notification of courses that are at the 500 level and not the last grade earned is computed termination. dual listed. All courses in the doctoral into the student’s GPA. The previously program must be at the 500 level or attempted courses and grades remain Plagiarism above. in the academic record but are not The following is the approved definition computed in the overall average. of plagiarism: Grades Transcripts will contain a statement Plagiarism is the act of appropriating the Grades of “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” and “F” are used indicating the grade point average has written, artistic, or musical composition and are computed in the GPA. Other been re-computed and stating the basis of another, or portions thereof; or the marks used are “I,” incomplete; “W,” for re-computation. ideas, language, or symbols of same and withdrawn; “NC,” no credit; “P,” passing. passing them off as the product of one’s At the discretion of programs, “Pass/ To remain in good graduate standing, a graduate student must maintain a own mind. Plagiarism includes not only Fail” (“P/F”) grades may be allowed the exact duplication of another’s work for research, practicum, and thesis GPA of 3.00 or better. If the cumulative graduate GPA falls below 3.00, a but also the lifting of a substantial or courses. “I,” “W,” “NC,” and “P” grades are essential portion thereof. not counted in determining the GPA. graduate student shall be placed on Additionally, “P” grades for graduate probation. Students have one semester Regarding written work in particular, level in-service courses are not to show progress toward good direct quotations, statements which applicable toward degree completion. standing. are a result of paraphrasing or summarizing the work of another, Courses for which “C,” “D,” “F,” “I,” “W,” or Students may not apply coursework with “NC” grades are awarded shall not and other information which is not a grade lower than a “B” toward graduation considered common knowledge, must count in graduate degree programs requirements. and shall not satisfy program deficiency be cited or acknowledged, usually in requirements. Student Termination the form of a footnote. A student’s degree program may be Incomplete (“I”) grades are temporary As long as a student adequately terminated for one or more of the acknowledges his or her sources grades given to a student only in an following reasons: emergency case and at the discretion of and as long as there is no reason the instructor. • The student’s cumulative GPA falls to believe that the student has below 2.50 attempted to pose as the originator, At the end of the semester following the student shall not be charged the one in which an “I” is given, the “I” • The student is placed on probation a with plagiarism even though the becomes the grade that is submitted by second time. form of the acknowledgement the instructor to the Registrar’s Office. • The student fails to maintain the may be unacceptable. However, If the instructor does not submit a cumulative 3.0 GPA standard. students should be aware that most grade by the deadline for that semester, • The student fails the written and/or professors require certain forms of the grade becomes an “F.” A grade oral comprehensive examination or acknowledgment and some may of “I” given spring semester must be its approved equivalent. evaluate a project on the basis of form. addressed by the end of the following fall term. • The student submits an Graduation unsatisfactory thesis, or other Extension of the time to complete culminating requirement. Checklist work may be made in exceptional All graduate students must apply for circumstances at the discretion of • The time limit established for the graduation no later than February 15 the instructor. A student with an “I” degree program expires before the for Fall graduates and September 15 for grade, however, may not change the degree requirements are completed. Spring graduates. The student has the “I” by enrolling in the same course responsibility for completing an Intent to another semester. Program Time Limits The maximum time allowed for the Graduate form with the Registrar’s Office. Grades can be changed, using the completion of the master’s degree is six Special Grade Report, within the first calendar years beginning with the first If the student does not complete all two weeks of the semester following semester of enrollment after admission requirements for the degree, and, the receipt of the original grade by the has been granted. The student may therefore, does not graduate at the Registrar’s Office. However, students request an extension of time by written end of the proposed semester, the wishing to appeal an assigned grade request to the student’s advisor, then application shall be placed in the must follow the academic appeals to the student’s graduate committee. deferred file. The student must give procedure and must initiate the appeals Some programs may have shorter time written notice to the Registrar’s Office process within the semester following limits. when he or she wishes to appear again receipt of the contested grade. on the tentative list of graduates. 106 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

Graduation requirements are checked university sources, contract and Policy, research misconduct includes in accordance with one specific CMU grant award review and negotiation, fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism catalog. The catalog used to meet administration of award funds, and in proposing or performing research; graduation requirements is normally the policy and procedure initiation and abuse of confidentiality or other one published for the academic year implementation. practices that seriously deviate from during which the student first enrolls those commonly accepted within the after admission to CMU. The student Human Subjects academic community for proposing, must specify the catalog under which and Animal Research conducting, and reporting on he or she wishes to be evaluated and All research conducted by faculty, research; and plagiarism or abuse of must meet all requirements in that staff, or students that involves human confidentiality in reviewing proposals catalog. The student may select any subjects must be reviewed and for a funding agency. The definition of subsequent catalog up to and including approved by the Human Subjects research misconduct does not include the current one, provided the student Committee (also known as the honest error or differences of opinion was in attendance at CMU during that Institutional Review Board or IRB). All or interpretations or judgments of academic year. However, a student may research conducted by faculty, staff, data. The definition contained in this not choose to meet some requirements or students that involves animals policy is not intended to override in one catalog and other requirements must be reviewed and approved by or contradict provisions of other in another catalog. the Institutional Animal Care and Use regulations or policies, in particular Committee (IACUC). Graduate student those policies governing human CMU reserves the right to modify or research to fulfill course, thesis, or research subjects and animal welfare. change catalog provisions from time dissertation requirements is also subject A finding of substantive violation to time in order to fulfill the CMU to this regulation. of specific policies in these areas Role and Mission or to accommodate will also be considered misconduct circumstances beyond its control. Any The Office of Sponsored Programs under this policy. A copy of this policy such changes or modifications may encourages all students to meet may be found at coloradomesa.edu/ with their advisor if they intend to be implemented as applicable to all or sponsoredprograms/policies.html. some students without prior notices, do research with humans or animals. Human subject research can include without obligation, and unless specified Master of Business otherwise, are effective when made. something as simple as an interview CMU reserves the right to terminate or or survey. Failure to obtain approval Administration modify program requirements, content, by the IRB or IACUC before beginning Colorado Mesa University began offering and the sequence of program offerings a research project can be grounds for the first of its graduate level programs— from time to time for educational or rejecting a thesis or dissertation and the Master of Business Administration financial reasons that it deems sufficient constitutes a serious breach of academic (MBA)—in 1997-98. The MBA program at to warrant such actions. research ethics and federal law. Colorado Mesa University is administered The policy, procedure, and forms by the Department of Business. The Research Activities required for human subject or department is guided on academic policy animal research are available on the matters by the Office of Graduate Studies. Research is an important component Sponsored Programs website at: of graduate studies. Specific research coloradomesa.edu/faculty/sponsored The Colorado Mesa University MBA is requirements and activities are defined programs. In addition, students may a challenging program designed to by each degree program specifically. contact the Office of Sponsored prepare graduates for the changing Programs. business world. The degree is awarded Sponsored Programs after successful completion of 36 The Office of Sponsored Programs Research Misconduct semester hours of rigorous study. The mission is to provide support to faculty In accordance with federal regulations, program is designed to provide the and other University personnel in the University has in place a Misconduct student with a broad background in obtaining and administering external in Research Policy. This policy applies business while allowing the student funds for research and other scholarly to the conduct of research and/or to focus on a specified area of study, if activities. Research at Colorado Mesa related activities, whether the research desired. To this end, students acquire University includes explorations that is funded or not and regardless of: knowledge of management operations; lead to the discovery and dissemination the field of study; presentation and/ an appreciation of the interrelationships of new knowledge, the development of or publication of results; process of of the functional areas of business; new applications of existing knowledge, applying for funds; expenditure of an understanding of the economic, the development of new paradigms project funds; and fiscal reporting political and social environment for teaching and learning, and/or the on the use of project funds. This in which businesses function; and related creative activities in the fine arts. policy applies to all faculty, students, behavioral skills that are essential in the The Office of Sponsored Programs is administrators, and staff on all Colorado manager’s role in the implementation responsible for protecting university Mesa University campuses. of business decisions. The MBA program interests through the review of endeavors to provide an atmosphere sponsored project proposals to non- As defined in the Colorado Mesa University Misconduct in Research Graduate Programs 107 conducive to the development of each BUGB 510 Global Business FINA 301 Managerial Finance student’s ability to think in a creative BUGB 520 Seminar in Current Business MANG 201 Principles of Management manner. The program makes extensive Topics use of lectures, seminars, group projects, CISB 500 Management of Information MARK 231 Principles of Marketing case studies and independent research. Systems STAT 200 Probability and Statistics CISB 505 Advanced Project The Colorado Mesa University MBA Management General Policies has two basic components: a 24 hour CISB 560 Electronic Commerce Up to nine credit hours may be taken core and a 12 hour general elective Systems in a “non-degree seeking student” requirement, which includes a research ECON 505 Advanced Econometrics status and later applied to the program component. The program is open to ECON 530 Managerial Economics requirements. Up to nine credit hours all baccalaureate holding applicants KINE 500 Facility and Equipment of applicable courses, with a grade of who can demonstrate through Management in Sport “B” or higher, may be transferred from a academics an appropriate background and Fitness regionally accredited institution into the in the core requirements that include KINE 510 Event and Program program. Additional information may be work in statistics, computer literacy, Management in Sport found in the Transfer Credit section. management, finance, marketing, and Fitness and accounting regardless of MANG 520 Human Resource the undergraduate field of study. Management Master of Arts Students without this background or MANG 540 Advanced Quantitative in Education adequate depth in this background Methods The degree is designed using will be required to complete leveling MANG 550 Entrepreneurship the cohort model with a group requirements. If the seminar topics are different, of participants completing all BUGB 520 may be taken for credit up requirements in a three-semester Electives include such courses as global to three times. cycle. The current cognate areas business, entrepreneurship, managerial are Educational Leadership (EDLD), economics and management Research Courses: English for Speakers of Other information systems. Electives BUGB 530 Research Design Languages (ESOL), Teacher Leader also provide the student with the BUGB 590 Thesis (6 hours) or (EDTL), Exceptional Learner (EDSE) opportunity to develop and present an BUGB 595 Research Practicum and Initial Teaching Endorsement (ITE) original research project or practicum. (Elementary; Secondary). Students are required to meet with their Admission to the MBA Program advisor and submit information by the The Master of Arts in Education is See Department specific requirements. appropriate deadlines. designed as a dynamic program to meet Candidates not meeting all of the above the needs of people already holding All graduate courses for the MBA requirements may be admitted under a degree to earn teacher licensures or are listed in the Course Descriptions conditional status. current teachers to gain expertise in section of this catalog in the prefix additional state endorsement areas. areas of Accounting (ACCT), Business MBA for Those The degree is awarded after successful Administration (BUGB), Computer Without a Business Degree completion of 30-36 semester hours Information Systems in Business The opportunity for study is available of college courses work aligned with (CISB), Economics (ECON), Finance for the non-business degree holder. site based internship experiences. (FINA), Kinesiology (formerly Human For these students, a series of leveling The program is designed to provide Performance and Wellness) (KINE), courses will be identified. the student with eleven hours of core Management (MANG), and Marketing knowledge in educational design, (MARK). Program of Study theory, assessment, technology and research. The additional hours allow Required Courses: Leveling Courses the student to focus on a particular ACCT 500 Managerial Accounting If the prospective MBA student does endorsement area. BUGB 500 Advanced Business Law not have an undergraduate business and Ethics degree, the student may need to Admission to the program follows the FINA 500 Financial Strategy complete the following Colorado guidelines for graduate admission MANG 500 Advanced Management Mesa University courses or equivalent. procedures indicated in this catalog. Theory Equivalent courses are determined by The application packet (available MANG 501 Operations Management the applicant’s graduate committee. online (coloradomesa.edu/teachered/ MANG 510 Organizational Theory ACCT 201 Principles of Financial masters.html) lists additional and Behavior admissions materials to be supplied. MANG 590 Business Strategy Accounting MARK 500 Marketing Strategy CISB 101 Business Information Capstone Technology Elective Courses: The Master of Arts in Education ACCT 505 Advanced Fraud and requires the successful completion of Forensic Accounting 108 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog the capstone competency: either a EDUC 555 Multicultural Narratives EDTL 517 Assessment Literacy capstone presentation or competency EDUC 556 Assessment in English EDTL 518 Div ersity and Differentiated examination. See individual program as a Second Language Instruction information for details. EDLD 504 Best Practices in Curriculum, EDTL 525 Internship I Assessment, Instruction EDTL 526 Internship II Graduate Certificates-Education EDLD 504 Best Practices in Curriculum, Each cognate group can also be EDLD Cognate Courses: Assessment, Instruction completed as a graduate certificate for EDLD 505 R eform and Organizational EDLD 515 Dynamic School Leadership candidates not wishing to complete a Change in Education in a Democratic Society: full master’s degree program. The same EDLD 515 D ynamic School Leadership Introduction to School graduate admissions process applies to in a Democratic Society: Administration graduate certificates. Introduction to School EDLD 540 School Improvement and Administration Accountability Master’s Core Courses: EDLD 520 Principalship I & II EDLD 542 Instructional Supervision and EDUC 500 Culture and Pedagogy EDLD 530 L egal Aspects of School Management/HR EDUC 501 Educational Technology Administration: Educational EDLD 544 Strategies in School EDUC 502 Theory, Design, and Policy and the Law Improvement Assessment of Curriculum EDLD 531 School Finance & Budgeting EDUC 503 Introduction to Educational EDLD 535 Internship in EDLD: K-6 EDSE Cognate Courses: Research EDLD 545 Internship in EDLD: 7-12 EDSE 500 F oundations of Special EDLD 540 S chool Improvement and Education ESOL Cognate Courses: Accountability EDSE 501 I nstructional Strategies in EDUC 504 Methods of Teaching EDLD 542 I nstructional Supervision and Special Education English as a Second Management/HR EDSE 502 Beha vioral Interventions for Language EDLD 544 Strat egies in School the Special Needs EDUC 510 Strategies in the Content Improvement EDSE 503 M ethods of Teaching Area Students with Mild EDUC 535  Internship in ESOL: K-6 EDTL Cognate Courses: Disabilities Reading and ENGL 543 Linguistic Diversity EDTL 510 Teacher Leadership I Math and Multicultural Literacies EDTL 511 Teacher Leadership II EDSE 506 E ducating Students with EDUC 545 Internship in ESOL: 7-12 EDTL 512 Facilitation and Presentation Low Incidence Disabilities in EDUC 554 Theories of Second EDTL 513 Information Based Inclusive Environments Language Acquisition Educational Practices Graduate Programs 109

EDSE 510 The Twice Exceptional The Master’s in Arts in Education organizations. This role functions to Learner Including Gifted and core content follows in the second provide comprehensive management Talented year; these courses are shown in the of health care information and its EDSE 515 Internship K-6 Elementary Graduate Education programs section. secure exchange between health care Practicum in Special consumers and providers. Completion Education Please contact the Center for Teacher of the Graduate Certificate requires EDSE 520 Internship 6-12 Secondary Education at 970-248-1786 for more 16 semester credit hours of study. The Practicum in Special information or see the program website certified specialist works within the Education at: www.coloradomesa.edu/teachered/ health care environment interacting pbl.htm with both health care professionals ESOL Cognate Courses: and Information Technology experts. EDUC 591  Foundations of Curriculum, ITE Courses: The following subject areas are Instruction, & Assessment EDUC 591 Foundations of Curriculum offered in the certificate program: EDUC 586 A/B Accommodations for Instruction & Assessment Introduction to Healthcare Informatics; Diverse & Exceptional Needs EDUC 586A A ccommodating Diverse & Database Management Systems; Elementary Licensure: Exceptional Needs, K-6 Information Systems Security and EDUC 485 Modes of Inquiry EDUC 485 Modes of Inquiry Privacy; Information Systems Life Cycle; EDUC 487 Literacy Education K-6 EDUC 487 Literacy Education, K-6 Semantic Representation. Training and EDUC 488 Math Education K-6 EDUC 488 Math Education, K-6 coursework towards the certificate EDUC 492A Directed Teaching-Elem EDUC 492A Dir ected Teaching, maintains a broad perspective of health EDUC 599A Directed Teaching-Elem Elementary care informatics while providing an in- Secondary Licensure: EDUC 599A Dir ected Teaching, depth knowledge of nursing informatics. EDUC 442 Integrated Literacy Elementary The same graduate admission process EDUC 497 Content Methodology applies to the Graduate Certificate Practicum Secondary ITE: Program. EDUC 497x Secondary Methods EDUC 591 Foundations of Curriculum EDUC 492 Directed Teaching-Sec. Instruction & Assessment Program of Study: EDUC 599B Directed Teaching-Sec. EDUC 586B Accommodating Diverse & Exceptional Needs, 7-12 CISB 500 Management of Information Initial Teaching EDUC 442 Integrated Literacy Systems (3) EDUC 497 Content Methodology CISB 505 Advanced Project Endorsement Practicum Management (3) Students already holding a Bachelor’s EDUC 497 a-d Secondary Methods HSCI 501 Advanced Health Informatics I: degree may pursue initial teacher EDUC 492B Directed Teaching, Data Analysis (2) licensure at CMU through multiple Secondary HSCI 506 Advanced Health Informatics pathways. Any of the options is EDUC 599B Directed Teaching, II: Project Design and available for elementary, Secondary Secondary Implementation (2) (Biology, History, English, Mathematics, NURS 502 Health Information Systems Geology, Spanish), or K-12 Art, Music, Up to nine credit hours may be taken (3) and Kinesiology licensure to teach in in a non-degree seeking student NURS 505 Quality Assessment and K-12 public schools. status and later applied to program Improvement in Health Care requirements. Up to nine credit hours Settings (3) To pursue coursework and preparation of applicable courses, with a grade of that leads solely to professional B or higher, may be transferred from a Master of Science licensure to teach, the Center for regionally accredited institution into the Teacher Education offers an intensive master’s degree program. Applicable in Nursing post-baccalaureate preparation program courses for transfer must be approved The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) that is completed in 12 months. The by the CTE Graduate Committee to program is designed for students same coursework is also available in a meet program requirements. already possessing a baccalaureate 3 semester sequence at a somewhat degree in nursing and adds the first slower pace. Either of these options graduate step on the nursing career lead to a recommendation for licensure Graduate ladder. The MSN degree provides with successful program completion. Certificate in graduates with a foundation for practice Health Information as a leader and educator in health care The same initial teacher preparation systems or academic settings. The MSN coursework is incorporated in our M.A., Technology systems The Graduate Certificate in Health program is a hybrid format, providing Education degree, allowing a student Information Technology Systems flexibility for students to remain in to complete teacher licensure and a prepares health care professionals to their current work positions and home master’s degree in five semesters. The support the collection, management, communities in western Colorado coursework begins with all the post- retrieval, exchange, and/or analysis using online course delivery methods; baccalaureate initial teacher licensure of information in electronic form, this format provides opportunities for content and internship experiences. in health care and public health 110 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog personal interaction with faculty and Program of Study The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) peers in focused intensive sessions at degree is designed for those nurses who selected points during each semester. Required Core Courses: are interested in assuming an advance MSN graduates will be prepared to NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations practice nursing role as a Family Nurse advance to higher levels of nursing NURS 501 Nursing Research Methods Practitioner (FNP). DNP graduates education including the Doctor of NURS 502 Health Information Systems are prepared as clinical experts in the Nursing Practice (DNP) or doctoral NURS 503 Organizational Leadership delivery of primary care, with a focus programs at other institutions. NURS 504 Health Policy on critical thinking, leadership, and Admission to the University does not NURS 505 Quality Improvement political policy skills needed to advocate guarantee admission to the program; and create changes in healthcare a separate admission application to Advanced Nursing Practice Cognate: practice at all levels. The program is a the program is required. The MSN NURS 525 Pathophysiologic Concepts hybrid format, providing flexibility for program at Colorado Mesa University NURS 526 Pharmacology for ANP students to remain in their current work is administered by the Department of NURS 527 Health Assessment for ANP positions and home communities in Health Sciences. The department is NURS 530 Chronic Illness Management western Colorado using online course guided on academic policy matters by NURS 535 Health Promotion and delivery methods. Opportunities for the Office of Graduate Studies. Disease Prevention personal interaction are included with faculty and peers in focused intensive The MSN program contains 18 credit Nursing Education Cognate: sessions at selected points during each hours of core knowledge essential NURS 525 Pathophysiologic Concepts semester. Clinical coursework and for practice as a leader including NURS 526 Pharmacology for ANP immersion experiences will be arranged coursework in nursing theory and NURS 527 Health Assessment for ANP in primary care settings across western research, health information systems, NURS 540 Teaching Strategies for Nurse Colorado. Students will likely complete organization leadership, health policy Educator most clinical requirements in their and quality improvement and three NURS 545 Curriculum Design and home community, but may need to credit hours for a final capstone or thesis Evaluation travel for specialized clinical experiences project. There are two 15-credit hour including rural health care settings. cognates to choose from, Advanced Capstone Admission to the University does not Nursing Practice Cognate or Nursing NURS 575 Capstone Practice Project guarantee admission to the program; Education Cognate. Graduates of OR a separate admission application to master’s degree programs in nursing are NURS 580 Thesis the program is required.The DNP prepared with additional knowledge program at Colorado Mesa University and clinical expertise building on Other Requirements: is administered by the Department of baccalaureate nursing practice. The MSN Completion of Oral Comprehensive Exam: Health Sciences. The department is program at Colorado Mesa University Comprehensive Exams will be guided on academic policy matters by is based on the “Essentials of Masters scheduled during the exam week the Office of Graduate Studies. Education for Advanced Nursing that the students’ scholarly project is Practice” identified by the American scheduled. The DNP program includes 27 credit Association of Colleges of Nursing. The hours of core knowledge essential ten AACN Essentials include scientific Students are required to meet with their for practice as a leader including background for practice, organizational advisor and submit information by the coursework in nursing theory and and systems leadership, quality appropriate deadlines. research, health information systems, improvement and safety, translational organization leadership, health policy, scholarship for evidence-based practice, All graduate courses for the MSN are quality improvement, statistics, and information and healthcare technology listed in the Course Descriptions areas of evidence-based practice; 38 credit hours for transformation of microsystems, Nursing (NURS). of advance practice nursing cognate healthcare policy for advocacy in health courses that develop family nurse care, inter-professional collaboration General Policies practitioner‘s knowledge and skills so for improving patient and population Up to nine credit hours may be taken they are prepared to care for individuals health outcomes, clinical prevention in a “non-degree seeking student” across the lifespan. Content includes key and population health for improving status and later applied to the program health issues facing our nation related health, advancing professionalism and requirements. Up to nine credit hours to chronic illness management, health professional values, and master’s level of applicable courses, with a grade of promotion and disease prevention nursing practice. “B” or higher, may be transferred from a strategies; three credit hours of elective regionally accredited institution into the coursework; and six credit hours for a Admission to the MSN Program program. Additional information may be final DNP scholarly capstone project. See Department specific requirements. found in the Transfer Credit section. The program includes over 1000 hours of immersion in clinical practice to build Candidates not meeting all of the above Doctor of Nursing and assimilate knowledge for advanced requirements may be admitted under practice at a high level of complexity. conditional status. Practice These experiences also provide the Graduate Programs 111 context within which the final DNP in nursing. The curriculum will be NURS 650 Family Nurse Practitioner scholarly project is completed. individualized for students based on Preceptorship their prior education and experience. NURS 660 Transition into Advance The DNP curriculum at Colorado A candidate with a baccalaureate Nursing Practice Mesa University is based on the degree would take all courses “Essentials of Doctoral Education in the program; someone who Capstone/Thesis for Advanced Nursing Practice” already possesses a master’s degree NURS 750 Capstone: Application of identified by the American would take coursework to achieve EBP I Association of Colleges of Nursing, competencies not previously attained. NURS 760 Capstone: Application of the National Organization of Nurse Both MSN and DNP students will take EBP II Practitioner Faculty’s Independent similar core content courses in the Practice Competencies and beginning and diverge onto different Other Requirements: Primary Care Competencies for educational tracks over time. Some Completion of Written/Oral FNP. The ten AACN Essentials students may choose to complete Comprehensive Exam: include scientific underpinnings a MSN in their progress to the DNP; Comprehensive Exams will be for practice, organizational and others will focus entirely on the DNP scheduled during the exam week systems leadership for quality curricula. The DNP is the final step on that the students’ scholarly project improvement and safety, clinical the nursing career ladder at Colorado is scheduled. scholarship and analytical methods Mesa University. for evidence-based practice, Students are required to meet information systems/technology Admission to the DNP Program with their advisor and submit and patient care technology for the See Department specific requirements. information by the appropriate improvement and transformation deadlines. of health care, healthcare policy Candidates not meeting all of the for advocacy in health care, inter- above requirements may be admitted All graduate courses for the DNP professional collaboration for under conditional status. are listed in the Course Descriptions improving patient and population areas of Nursing (NURS). health outcomes, clinical Program of Study prevention and population health General Policies for improving health, advance Required Core Courses: Up to nine credit hours may be nursing practice, and specialty- NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations taken in a “non-degree seeking focused competencies to prepare NURS 501 Nursing Research Methods student” status and later applied graduates for national specialty NURS 502 Health Information Systems to the program requirements. Up certification as an advance practice NURS 503 Organizational Leadership to nine credit hours of applicable nurse. Graduates prepared for an NURS 504 Health Policy courses, with a grade of “B” or advance practice role as a Family NURS 505 Quality Improvement higher, may be transferred from a Nurse Practitioner will demonstrate NURS 625 Statistics for Health regionally accredited institution practice expertise, specialized Sciences into the program. Additional knowledge, and expanded NURS 626 Epidemiology information may be found in the responsibility and accountability NURS 700 Evidence-based Practice Transfer Credit section. in the care and management of individuals and families. Advanced Nursing Practice Cognate: NURS 525 Pathophysiologic Concepts The DNP program includes six NURS 526 Pharmacology for ANP credit hours of elective coursework NURS 527 Health Assessment for ANP giving students an opportunity NURS 530 Chronic Illness to focus learning in an area of Management interest depending on their NURS 535 Health Promotion and clinical practice setting. Some Disease Prevention graduates may choose to focus on NURS 600 Family Nurse Practitioner building leadership and practice Issues management skills; others may NURS 601 Primary Care of the Child/ choose elective coursework that Adolescent prepares them for roles in public NURS 602 Primary Care of the Adult health, nursing education or NURS 603 Primary Care of the Elderly community-based practice settings. NURS 610 Clinical Practicum – Child & Adolescent The DNP degree is built upon the NURS 620 Clinical Practicum – Adult generalist foundation acquired NURS 630 Clinical Practicum – Elderly through a baccalaureate or NURS 640 Clinical Practicum – Rural advanced generalist master’s Health Care 112 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG

Course Descriptions

The course descriptions in this catalog indicate the content of the course and prerequisites when applicable. Courses are listed in alphabetical order with a four-letter prefix code, followed by number and title. The number in parentheses at the end of the course title indicates the credit granted, in terms of semester hours, for each course. Generally, the number of semester hours is the number of times a class will meet each week. Exceptions are noted in individual course descriptions and , in most cases, prerequisites and/or corequisites stated. The course number after the prefix indicates the college year in which the courses should ordinarily be taken. 100-199...... Freshman year 200-299...... Sophomore year 300-399...... Junior year 400-499...... Senior year Courses numbered 01-099 are preparatory in nature, not intended for transfer purposes, and will not usually fulfill degree requirements. For course equivalencies between the Colorado Community College System and Colorado Mesa University/WCCC classes, check the Common Course Crosswalk listed on the current program sheet. Colorado Mesa University reserves the right to withdraw any program or course which is not justified due to lack of enrollment or availability of instructor. Other courses may be added if there is sufficient demand. Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and check the two-year course matrix on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics.

ACCOUNTING (ACCT) ACCT 322 Intermediate Accounting II (4) ACCT 392 A ccounting Information Continuation of ACCT 321. Prerequisite: Systems (3) ACCT 201 P rinciples of Financial ACCT 321. A study of the concepts and design Accounting (3) of the Accounting Information A basic course that introduces the ACCT 331 Cost Accounting (3) System with emphasis on the internal concepts of bookkeeping, generally Costs and their relationship to planning, control structures, requirements, and accepted accounting principles, and controlling, inventory valuation, and professional standards. Prerequisites: financial statements.. decision making. Prerequisite: ACCT 202, ACCT 322; CISB 205. CISB 205. ACCT 202 P rinciples of Managerial ACCT 393 Cooperative Education (3-12) Accounting (3) ACCT 350 E thics for Accounting Cooperative Education provides students A basic course that introduces the use Professionals (3) an opportunity to put their education of accounting information in managerial The field of ethics as applied to the to practical use in the workplace under decision making, control, and planning. accounting and finance professions. the joint supervision of an employer Prerequisites: ACCT 201, and CISB 101 or Ethical standards of the profession, participating in the Cooperative CISB 205. accounting and finance scandals in Education program and a faculty recent history, and methods to overcome member designated by the institution. ACCT 311 A dvanced Managerial ethical dilemmas encountered as (See “Cooperative Education” in this Accounting (3) professionals. Prerequisite: ACCT 321. catalog). An advanced course primarily for Corequisite: ACCT 322. non-accounting majors that provides ACCT 395 Independent Study (1-3) in-depth coverage on the applications ACCT 360 Professional Preparation I (1) of accounting information in decision- Professional preparation of resumes and ACCT 396 Topics (1-3) making, organization, control and job interviewing skills through mock planning. Prerequisites: ACCT 202, and interviews performed by community ACCT 401 Governmental Accounting (3) CISB 101 or CISB 205. professionals using the media studio to Accounting principles as they apply videotape and critique the interviewee to governmental and non-profit units. ACCT 321 Intermediate Accounting I (5) and review of the resume as it applies to Prerequisite: ACCT 322. Development of a foundational the accounting industry. Prerequisites: understanding of Generally Accepted ACCT 301, ACCT 202, and ACCT 321. ACCT 402 Advanced Accounting (3) Accounting Principles and their Consolidated financial statements, application to external financial partnership accounting, bankruptcy, and statements. Prerequisite: ACCT 201. international operations. Prerequisite: ACCT 322.

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 113

ACCT 411 Auditing I (3) ACCT 493 Cooperative Education (3-12) ADAP 380 Pharmacology and Addictions (3) Scope and purposes of the attestation See description of ACCT 393. Provides an overview of pharmacology and work of a certified public accountant infectious diseases associated with the field focusing on generally accepted auditing ACCT 495 Independent Study (1-3) of addictions. Prerequisite: ADAP 301. standards (GAAS). Includes theory of auditing, professional ethics, legal liability ACCT 496 Topics (1-3) ADAP 401 Sp ecial Populations and of the auditor, and internal control. Addictions (3) ACCT 500 Managerial Accounting (3) Outlines the unique treatment needs Prerequisites: ACCT 322, and STAT 200 or Provides students with an understanding of CISB 241, and senior standing. of special addiction populations and management information systems which the promising new practices within the ACCT 412 Auditing II (3) are used in the decision-making process. addictions field. Prerequisite: ADAP 301. Continuation of ACCT 411. This course The class is designed with a “hands-on” provides coverage of the application of approach. It will encourage student ADAP 420 A ddiction Counseling auditing theory to financial statements, participation and interaction through the Approaches (3) including examination of the audit use of computer projects, case studies, Outlines the different evidence-based programs, procedures, and work and classroom discussion. Topics covered treatment approaches in the addictions papers used in each phase of an audit. include basic cost accounting concepts field. Prerequisites: ADAP 301 and ADAP 350. Prerequisite: ACCT 411. and terminology, product costing and pricing, planning and controlling a business ADAP 499 Internship (3) ACCT 441 Individual Income Tax (4) operation through budgets and variance Professional practice with individuals, Federal Income Tax Law in-depth as it relates analysis, and managerial decision-making groups, and communities in various to individual taxpayers. Introduction to using such techniques as cost-volume-profit sites under professional supervision. various tax reference resources. Prerequisite: analysis and variable costing. Prerequisites: ADAP 301, ADAP 350, and ACCT 322, senior standing. ADAP 420. ACCT 505 A dvanced Fraud and Forensic ACCT 442 A dvanced Tax and Tax Accounting (3) AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE Research (5) Exploration of investigative techniques, (AGRS) Federal Income Tax Law for corporations, interviewing techniques, and reporting processes at different levels of judicial partnerships, estates, trusts, and gifts. AGRS 100 Practical Crop Production (3) In-depth experience with tax research and prosecutorial environments. Specific Production and adaptation of cultivated resources, research methods and related skills in detecting and investigating crops. Emphasis on crops grown in the projects. Required participation in the Tax fraud developed and various reporting western region of the United States. Assistance Program to acquire practical methodologies explored. Includes Growth, development, production and use experience in communication with presentations and speakers from fraud covered. taxpayers and preparation of tax returns. investigative environments. Demonstration Prerequisite: ACCT 441. of mastery of material through graduate AGRS 100L Practical Crop Production Lab level projects, writing, and presentations. (1) ACCT 460 Professional Preparation II (1) Prerequisites: ACCT 201, ACCT 322, and Laboratory experiences supporting This course is a concentrated review of permission of instructor. instruction in the production and adaptation accounting subjects in preparation for of cultivated crops. Emphasis on crops the CPA exam using self-study techniques ADDICTIONS grown in the western region of the United and professor-led discussions and review. COUNSELING States. Growth, development, production Prerequisites: ACCT 201, ACCT 202, ACCT and use covered. 321, ACCT 322, ACCT 360, ACCT 401, and ADAP 301 F oundations of Addictions ACCT 441. Counseling (3) AGRS 102 Agriculture Economics (4) Provides a foundation for the theoretical, Focus on economic principles applied to ACCT 470 F raud and Forensic practical, and applied addictions counseling agriculture through price discovery with Accounting (3) producer supply and consumer demand, Exploration of investigative techniques, skills necessary for individuals wanting to governmental policies, rural development, interviewing techniques, and reporting work in the addictions field. Prerequisite: and resource management. processes at different levels of judicial and PSYC 233. prosecutorial environments. Specific skills in ADAP 350 C ultural and Ethical Issues in AGRS 103 I ntroduction to Entomology detecting and investigating fraud developed Addictions Treatment (3) (2) and various reporting methodologies Provides an overview of ethical, cultural, and Covers insect identification and explored. Includes presentations legal considerations associated with the field classification, introduces integrated pest and speakers from fraud investigative of addictions. Prerequisite: ADAP 301. management concepts, and an in-depth environments. Prerequisite: ACCT 201. study of selected insects of agricultural economic importance.

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 114 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG

AGRS 103L Introduction to Entomology AGRS 224 Integrated Ranch AGRS 250L Live Animal and Carcass Lab (1) Management (3) Evaluation Lab (2) Covers insect identification and Management pertaining to the economics Explores meat carcass evaluation and the classification, introduces integrated pest of a ranching enterprise. Includes principles related yield and quality grading system. management concepts, and an in-depth of system management, resource inventory Emphasizes selection of breeding stock study of selected insects of agricultural and management, ranch decision making, based on performance data. Covers economic importance. nutrition, selection, record keeping, financial comparative selection, grading, and judging management, and marketing. of market and breeding classes of livestock AGRS 105 Animal Science (3) based on knowledge of phenotype, Fundamentals of livestock production. AGRS 225 Feeds and Feeding (3) performance, information, and/or carcass Principles of breeding, genetics, nutrition, Basic nutrients, common feeds and feed merit. health, and physiology of beef, sheep, additives, anatomy of digestive systems, swine, dairy, and horses. Focus on the and basic feeding practices for beef, sheep, AGRS 260 Plant Propagation (3) animal science industry in general and each and dairy. Lab devoted to calculating Theory, biology, and practical applications species industry in regard to history, current and balancing rations to fulfill nutrient of plant propagation technologies. situation, and future. requirement of farm animals for growth, Propagation by seed, cuttings, budding, finishing, reproduction, lactation, work, and grafting, layering and tissue culture. AGRS 110 Integrated Pest Management (3) wool production. Explores least cost ratio Propagation environment, techniques Identification and control of economically balancing. of stock plant management and seed important weeds, insects and diseases handling. through systems approach management AGRS 230 F arm Animal Anatomy and concepts including cultivation, chemical Physiology (3) AGRS 288 Livestock Practicum (1) and biological control mechanisms. Introduces students to the basic concepts Provides experiential learning with beef cattle, of farm animal anatomy and physiology dairy cattle, swine and sheep. AGRS 118 Farm Structures and Green with emphasis on concepts relating to Houses (3) nutrition, reproduction, Immunology, and AGRS 288L Livestock Practicum Lab (1) Safety, hand and power tool use, farm growth of the basic farm species. Anatomy Provides experiential learning with beef cattle, building planning and site location, and Physiology is taught in the context of dairy cattle, swine and sheep. concrete, farm building design and applying basic principles to production construction and materials of construction. practices in the industry including AGRS 293 Cooperative Experience (5) Greenhouse design, systems, management, reproductive management, livestock Employment in an agricultural production and major greenhouse crops and their nutrition management, and animal health setting. Work experience in all facets of the cultural needs. practices. operation. Guidance and supervision is the responsibility of the supervising employer AGRS 125 Agricultural Machinery (3) AGRS 240 Introduction to Soil Science (3) and Coordinator of Production Agriculture. Emphasizes the safe operation, construction, Formation, physical properties, chemical Emphasis on records, managerial decisions, purpose, maintenance and adjustment of properties and management of soils and production agriculture skills. farm machinery. emphasizing conditions affecting plant growth. ANTHROPOLOGY AGRS 205 F arm and Ranch Management (3) AGRS 240L Introduction to Soil Science (ANTH) Provide students with practical experience in Lab (1) applying principles of economics, business, ANTH 202 Introduction to Anthropology (3) Formation, physical properties, chemical Human nature and behavior from the marketing and finance to the management properties and management of soils of a farm/ranch operation. broad perspective of contemporary emphasizing conditions affecting plant anthropology. Four primary subfields growth in the lab environment. AGRS 208 Agricultural Finance (3) of anthropology, biology, cultural, linguistics, and archaeology discussed to Emphasizes principles of finance and their AGRS 250 Live Animal and Carcass application to agriculture and agribusiness, Evaluation (1) integrate various aspects of the human including the time value of money, net Explores meat carcass evaluation and the condition. present value analysis, interest, credit related yield and quality grading system. lending institutions, financial statements Emphasizes selection of breeding stock ANTH 296 Topics (1-3) and financial ratios. based on performance data. Covers ANTH 395 Independent Study (1-3) comparative selection, grading, and judging AGRS 210 Agricultural Marketing (3) of market and breeding classes of livestock ANTH 396 Topics (1-3) Applied study of the agricultural marketing based on knowledge of phenotype, system. Methods of marketing crops and performance, information, and/or carcass ANTH 495 Independent Study (1-4) livestock. Emphasis on hedging with futures merit. and options. ANTH 496 Topics (1-3)

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ARCHAEOLOGY (ARKE) ART: ü ARTE 102 Three-Dimensional ART EDUCATION (ARTD) Design-GTAH1 (3) ARKE 225 I ntroduction to North The principles of form and function in American Archaeology (3) ARTD 196 Topics: (1-3) three-dimensional design with emphasis Survey of archaeology in North America, on color theory and use. Two hours of highlighting the Mississippi Mound ARTD 296 Topics: (1-3) lecture and two hours of studio per week. builders, eastern cultures, Aztecs, and Maya. Development of archaeological ARTD 395 Independent Study (1-3) ü ARTE 115 Art Appreciation-GTAH1 theory and its application to the study of (3) prehistoric sites in North America. Work ARTD 396 Topics: (1-3) Some of the hows, whys, and whos of with archaeological material curated at painting, sculpture, and functional design the Museum of Western Colorado. ARTD 410 Elementary Art Education in selected periods and places. This Methods (3) course is intended for non-art majors. Art ARKE 325 Geoarchaeology (3) Explorations of theory, methods and majors should take ARTE 118 instead. Introduction of aspects of geological materials for teaching art, kindergarten science used to solve archaeological through sixth grade. Required for K-6 ü ARTE 118 History of Art, Prehistory problems. Survey of the sub-fields of elementary teachers and K-12 Art to Renaissance-GTAH1 geology pertinent to archaeological Education majors. Studio applications, (3) data recovery, site formation processes, aesthetics, creative problem solving, art Survey of the development of art from and site interpretation in the Mountain history, lesson and unit plans explored. Prehistory up to the emergence of the west. Includes aspects of physiography, Prerequisites: EDUC 211, EDUC 343, and Renaissance. Course focus will be the geomorphology, Quaternary stratigraphy, EDUC 341 or 342, all with a grade of “B” study of major monuments to gain an geochemistry and mineralogy, and lithic or higher. understanding of the important factors materials identification. Prerequisites: that defined the artistic production of GEOL 111 and GEOL 111L. ARTD 410L Field/Studio Experience in each civilization and historic period. Elementary Art Education Methods (1) ARKE 350 Southwest Archaeology (3) ü ARTE 119 History of Art, Prehistory and cultural background Required for K-12 art education majors Renaissance to Present- of the southwestern United States. only. Forty field hours in local public GTAH1 (3) Archaeological sites of Colorado, Utah, schools. Co-requisite to ARTD 410. Survey of the development of art from Arizona and New Mexico highlighted. Prerequisites: EDUC 211, EDUC 342, and the Renaissance to the late 20th century. Introduction to cultures inhabiting EDUC 343. Course focus will be the study of major these areas for the last 5,000 years with monuments to gain an understanding ARTD 412 Secondary Art Education of the important factors that defined the emphasis on the Anasazi, Fremont, Methods (4) Uto-Aztecan and Athabaskan groups. artistic production of different historic Seminar that covers theory, methods periods. Prerequisite: ARKE 225. and materials for teaching art in middle and high schools, grades 7-12. Applies ARTE 196 Topics: (1-3) ARKE 396 Topics: (1-3) options in teaching through embedded ARKE 410  Field Methods in field hours. Development of a year-long ARTE 294 Sophomore Seminar (3) Archaeology (3) art curriculum. Required for K-12 Art Development of intended personal ARKE 410L  Field Methods in Archaeology Education majors. Prerequisites: EDUC direction for creative activity and Laboratory (2) 211, EDUC 342, and EDUC 343, all with a scholarly work in upper division studio Overview of contemporary methods of grade of “B” or higher. and art history courses. Honing creative archaeological survey, site recordation, and critical thinking skills through formal excavation techniques. Artifact collection, ARTD 495 Independent Study (1-3) analysis of artwork; art critiques; basic interpretation, and analysis presented as art theory and contemporary art is record keeping, artifact conservation, ARTD 496 Topics: (1-3) concepts; developing the annual juried and curation. Topics include maps and ARTD 596 Topics: (0.5-3) student art exhibition; fundamentals of mapping, geographic information systems matting, framing, basing, and portfolio (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), development; woodshop safety; field and specimen photography, recovery ART: exposure to local and regional art scene; and analysis of supplemental materials GENERAL (ARTE) and exploring career options in art. (macrobotanical, pollen, chronometric, Prerequisite: ARTH 220. etc.). Prerequisites: ARKE 225 and ARKE 350. ü ARTE 101 Two-Dimensional Design-GTAH1 (3) ARTE 296 Topics (1-3) ARKE 496 Topics: (1-3) The principles of form and function in two-dimensional design with emphasis ARTE 395 Independent Study (1-3) on color theory and use. Two hours of lecture and two hours of studio per week. ARTE 396 Topics (1-3)

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ARTE 396A Topics (1-3) based software for print, video, web and ARTG 320  Letterforms and other multi-media applications. Typography (3) ARTE 396S Topics (1-3) Study of letterforms and typography ARTG 203 Adobe InDesign (2) including terminology, type style ARTE 494 Senior Seminar and Portfolio (3) Techniques for using the program identification and design, use of type Examination of the current state of the explored. Exercises to learn the within a design, composition, copyfitting, studio arts and various career options application and features as used by and basic principles of pattern and spatial through research, discussion, and graphic designers and professional design. Prerequisite: ARTG 215 and ARTG practical application in the coordination publishers. 221. of a required studio art exhibition. Includes development and presentation ARTG 215 Graphic Design I (3) ARTG 321 Advanced Typography (3) of a professional portfolio package Basic use and operation of graphics Explore traditional and contemporary including artist statement, resume, computer, exclusively Macintosh, forms of typography and compositions and web presence. Must enroll in the with focus on terminology, hardware, through letterpress and hand rendering course during the spring semester in peripheral devices, system management, approaches. Prerequisite: ARTG 320. which the senior exhibition is presented. and software (systems and applications). Each student must be working directly Including establishment of operation ARTG 324 Animation I Two-Dimensional with a full time faculty member in their files, job information files, information Animation (3) discipline to select work for their senior capture and placement, and maintenance. Exploration of 2D computer animation exhibition. Prerequisite: ARTE 294 with Prerequisites: ARTE 101 and 102, and ARTS software, techniques and production, grade of “B” or higher. 151. Corequisite: ARTG 221. development of storylines, storyboards, and animation production processes. ARTE 495 Independent Study (1-3) ARTG 221 Graphic Design II (3) Continued development of traditional Principles of design and layout drawing skills. Prerequisite: ARTG 224 ARTE 496 Topics (1-3) techniques, including thumbnail, rough, and ARTG 225. and comprehensive layouts: work ARTE 498 S tudio Assistant and planning and preparation of artwork with ARTG 325 Animation II Three- Teaching Aid (3) focus on computer and hand generated Dimensional Animation (3) Designed for the senior level artist. Gain images. Prerequisites: ARTE 101, ARTE Exploration of 3D computer animation experience in teaching by preparing 102, ARTS 151. Corequisite: ARTG 215. software, techniques and production demonstrations and performing processes. Emphasis on character in-studio maintenance of studio ARTG 224 Introduction to Motion modeling and development, motion, equipment. Taught in conjunction with Graphics (3) timing and traditional drawing skills. 200-level classes and requires instructor Exploration of motion graphics as time- Prerequisite: ARTG 224 and ARTG 225. permission. Prerequisite: Consent of based graphic design. Includes history of instructor. motion graphics, application of motion ARTG 326 Motion Graphics (3) graphics as visual communication in Advanced motion graphics techniques. ARTE 499 Internship (3) animation, film, typography, illustration, Manipulation of related audio, Placement in a gallery, art center, and the environment. Current trends graphics, animation, typography and or museum setting. The student is in design media and technologies. visual effects. Focus on movement, expected to complete 135 clock hours. Prerequisites: ARTG 215 and ARTG 221. cutting, shot selection, timing, Prerequisite: permission of instructor. rhythm, matching action, story arc, ARTG 225 Introduction to Animation (3) typography, choreography, light, and ARTE 596 Topics (1-3) Survey of animation history, current color. Historical progression of editing trends, principles, practice, tools, techiques. Production includes output ART: techniques, software and hardware. to various web, mobile or digital devices. GRAPHIC DESIGN (ARTG) Additional focus on story development, Prerequisite: ARTG 224. storyboarding, traditional drawing ARTG 196 Topics: (1-3) skills, and creation of basic animations. ARTG 337 Illustration and Prerequisite: ARTG 215 and ARTG221. Storyboard (3) ARTG 201 Adobe Illustrator (2) Traditional drawing skills used in Introduction. Techniques for using ARTG 296 Topics: (1-3) illustration and storyboarding to vector-based drawing program explored communicate ideas with visual through exercises to learn the application ARTG 301 Computer Illustration (3) images. Emphasis on applying and features as used by graphic designers Advanced creation of digital imagery effective composition, design, color for print and electronic media. focusing on visual content and and conceptualization to creative and composition in print and multi-media expressive imagery. Particular focus on ARTG 202 Adobe Photoshop (2) applications. Prerequisites: ARTG 215 and the production storyboard as art form, Introduction. Techniques for using raster- ARTG 221. demonstrating aesthetic and style.

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Prerequisites: ARTS 152, ARTG 215, and ARTG 425 Animation Studio II Advanced the major movements and civilizations, ARTG 221. Animation (3) methods of analysis, historical and Exploration of advanced animation and cultural context. Prerequisites: ARTE 101, ARTG 338 Advertising Design I (3) motion graphics. Includes complex ARTE 102, ARTE 118, and ARTE 119. Exploration of the various graphic character development and modeling, communication applications common rendering techniques, distribution, ARTH 296 Topics: (1-3) to the promotion of products and copyright and publishing issues, post- services, including brochures, posters, production, and animation portfolio ARTH 315 Nineteenth-Century Art (3) mailers, package design, and other items development. Prerequisite: ARTG 424. Comprehensive survey of the major designed for print. Emphasis will be art movements of the nineteenth placed on design processes, prepress ARTG 437 Illustration and century: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, print production and the history of Storyboard II (3) Academic Art, the invention of advertising. Prerequisite: ARTG 301 and Advanced illustration and storyboarding photography, Realism, Impressionism, ARTG 320. development focusing on concept, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art content, materials and techniques. Nouveau. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and ARTG 339 Advertising Design (3) Emphasis on individual artistic style ARTE 119. Advanced exploration of the various and personal visual communication graphic communication applications perception. Prerequisite: ARTG 337 and ARTH 316 20th Century Art to 1950 (3) common to the promotion of products instructor permission. Foundations of modernism from Post- and services, including brochures, Impressionism through Surrealism posters, mailers, package design, and ARTG 450 Identity Design (3) through the study of major artists and other items designed for print. Emphasis Exploration of visual communication art works and related manifestations will be placed on design processes, designed for public and private business including important theories of modern prepress print production and the history and organization identity. Emphasis art, the modernist transformation of of advertising. Prerequisites: ARTG 301, will be placed on the process of design design aesthetics, and social and political 320, and 338. and approaches to image generation reactions to modern art. Prerequisites: for identity systems and standards. ARTE 118 and ARTE 119. ARTG 395 Independent Study (1-3) Prerequisites: ARTG 301 and ARTG 320. ARTH 317 American Art History (3) ARTG 396 Topics: (1-3) ARTG 493 Portfolio Development (3) Examination of art and artists of America Development of a portfolio package from colonial times up to the present ARTG 405 Web Site Design (3) to be used as employment material. with attention to the role of the artist Creation and development of well- Emphasis placed on personal identity, and the visual arts in American social designed and functional Web pages/sites resume development, and on an online experiment. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and to accommodate clients’ promotional and print-based portfolio presentation. ARTE 119. and business needs. Topics covered Prerequisite: ARTG 405. include software, creation of graphics, ARTH 318 De velopment of publishing, design theory for the Web, ARTG 495 Independent Study (1-3) Contemporary Art (3) typography and promotion. Prerequisites: Examination of art produced within ARTG 301 and ARTG 320. ARTG 496 Topics: (1-3) the past 40 years with attention to the plurality of successful styles and subjects ARTG 406  Advanced Web Site Design (3) ARTG 499 Internship (3) pursued by artists, the increasingly Investigation, analysis and application Placement in an agency or corporate important role of the art critic and of emerging Web Site design trends. department to provide an enhanced the contemporary art museum in Prerequisites: ARTG 405. transition from the classroom to the work interpreting trends, the impact of the setting through first-hand experience. commercial art market on the production ARTG 424 Animation Studio I Motion The student is expected to complete 135 and dissemination of contemporary Graphics (3) clock hours. Prerequisite: ARTG 450. art, and various experimental art forms Exploration of advanced motion graphics developed by artists to counteract the to the creation and production of ART: influence of critics, institutions and animation and video. Course will focus ART HISTORY (ARTH) commercial interests. Prerequisites: ARTE on effects applied to and the integration 118 and ARTE 119. of typography, graphic images, and ARTH 196 Topics: (1-3) audio to be applied to final rendering ARTH 319 Art of the American West (3) of individual time-based projects. ARTH 220 History of Modern Art (3) Examination of the artist’s encounter Prerequisites: ARTG 324, ARTG 325, and A general survey class of Western and with the West as both real and ARTG 326. non-Western art from 1750 to the 21st imagined experience from the works of Century. The emphasis of this survey is on expeditionary artists of the early 19th

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 118 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG century to recent large scale “earthworks” Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and ARTE 119, of art within the Maya culture. Focus that transform the Western landscape. and ARTH 315 and ARTH 316. on symbolism of Maya religion in Emphasis on the works of the major architecture and ceramics. Prerequisites: 19th century protagonists of the heroic ARTH 324 History of Graphic Design (3) ARTE 118 and ARTE 119. Western image as well as the important Exploration of the history of graphic role of Santa Fe and other Western design from the advent of writing ARTH 330 M aya Architecture and locations in the development of a through the digital revolution, focusing Ceramics Field Study and Western art tradition. Prerequisites: ARTE on development of design techniques Community Service Project (2) 118 and ARTE 119. and styles. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and On-site exploration of Maya archeological ARTE 119. ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. ARTH 320 S ymbolism to Surrealism: Art Experiential learning of Maya art and & the Subconscious (3) ARTH 325 I talian Renaissance Art archeology and the historic Maya culture Examination of artistic fascination with History (3) through field study. Compilation of symbolic meaning and suggestive Explores origins, development, and end visual and personal accounts of site visits content as a vehicle to explore myth of Italian Renaissance. Late thirteenth through documentation. Community and the subconscious from the late 19th to mid-sixteenth century. Emphasis service presentation of ceramic art and century through the 20th century. Focus on major works of sculpture, painting, technique to Dual Immersion Academy on how symbolic meaning is conveyed architecture, and the artists responsible students. through visual content and theories for their creation. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 about the role of myth and subconscious and ARTE 119. ARTH 395 Independent Study (1-3) imagery in artistic experience. Prerequisites: ARTE 118, ARTE 119, and ARTH 326 M edieval Art: Early Christian ARTH 396 Topics: (1-3) ARTH 315. to the Romanesque (3) Explorations of Christian art through time ARTH 400 C riticism and Research: ARTH 321 G othic and Northern and geographic regions. Emphasizes Theory and Method (3) Renaissance Art and major works including sculpture, Introduction to the development of Architecture (3) manuscripts, and architecture as well as art history as a discipline and how art Architectural accomplishments of Gothic the forces which shaped their creation historians evaluate and interpret complex style and the revival and development of and determined their meaning and issues of style, form, content and theory painting and sculpture from the Gothic significance. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and in visual art. Structured discussion of period through the Renaissance in the ARTE 119. historical art works studied in other upper North. Includes invention of oil painting, division art history courses. Readings growth of realism and direct observation ARTH 327 H istory of Western of seminal art historical theories and of the real world in art, and effects of the Architecture (3) interpretive methodologies. Hands- Protestant Reformation on artistic styles Explores beginnings of architecture on practice with library research tools. and content. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and in prehistory and traces development Completion of a fully researched term ARTE 119. through time and geographic paper. Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and ARTE regions through the end of the Italian 119, ARTH 315 or ARTH 316 or permission ARTH 322 Expr essionism in 20th Century Renaissance. Emphasizes major works of instructor. Art (3) of architecture with discussions of form, Expressionism in Germany during the function, and relation to other works of ARTH 495 Independent Study (1-3) early 20th century and its recurrence architecture. Prerequisties: ARTE 118 and in the latter half of the 20th century. ARTE 119. ARTH 496 Topics: (1-3) Visual language of expressionism as a ARTH 499 Internship (1-12) distinctive style and the artistic goals ARTH 328 H istory of World Ceramics (3) of Expressionism that define a specific Comprehensive survey of historical role for the artist in society. Prerequisites: ceramic production across the globe. ART: STUDIO ART (ARTS) ARTE 118, ARTE 119, and ARTH 316. Examination of the role ceramics has ARTS 151 Foundation Drawing (3) played in relation to art and culture ARTH 323 H istory of Modern Introduction to drawing with an of the world. Focus on typology and emphasis on perceptual drawing. Architecture (3) identification of ceramic objects from Modern architecture as a form of applied Perspective, light, shadow, form, volume, prehistory through the modern era. and mark-making strategies are explored, artistic expression. Examination of major Prerequisites: ARTE 118 and ARTE 119. stylistic developments in architecture as well as an introduction to composition using a variety of media. Preparation for and applied design from 19th century ARTH 329 Maya Architecture & historically-inspired styles through 20th Ceramics (2) more advanced art classes. century innovations that transformed Comprehensive survey of major Maya traditions of architectural design and the archaeological sites, Maya ceramics, ARTS 152 Foundation Drawing II (3) Continuation of ARTS 151. Further role of the architect in modern society. and the social and political context development of drawing tecnniques,

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 119 including objective and subjective Includes non-acide and acid intaglio production. Application of slip casting drawing, using calligraphic line, gesture, techniques such as drypoint, hard technique. Prerequisite: ARTS 241 or ARTS and caged volume. Introduction to ground/line etch, soft ground, aquatint, 242, or permission of instructor. color in drawings. Introduction to multiple plate printing, a la poupee contemporary drawing strategies. wiping, and chine-colle. Relief processes ARTS 342 Workshop III: Intermediate Prerequisite: ARTS 151. include linoleum cut and woodcut. Throwing (3) Prerequisite: ARTS 151. A continuation of the throwing process ARTS 196 Topics (1-3) involving more complex vessels and ARTS 284  Ceramic Sculpture techniques using lids, spouts, and ARTS 221 Metalsmithing (3) Workshop I (3) pedestals. Assignment to firing teams Prerequisite: ARTE 102 or consent of Introduction to water-based clay for studio production for high fire clay. instructor. as a sculptural material fired for Prerequisite: ARTS 242. permanence. Basic processes include ARTS 231 Fibers Workshop I (3) coil, slab, and thrown constructions. ARTS 344  Workshop IV: Introduction to fiber and fabric art forms, Glaze development with sculptural clay Clay Alteration (3) including creation of original weaving, includes cone 10, 5, 06, and 019. Some Alteration of thrown vessels using several felt and fabric collage, batik and other figurative work on slabs and 3D explored. techniques, including wet shaping, applications. Prerequisites: ARTE 101 and Prerequisite: ARTS 241. leatherhard shaping, marks, incising, and ARTS 151. stamping. Creating larger vessels using a ARTS 291 Beginning Acrylic Painting (3) two-piece technique. Kiln teams assigned ARTS 241 Workshop I: Hand Building (3) Introduction to the language of painting for high firings. Prerequisite: ARTS 342. Introduction to the ceramic process through studio practice. Fundamental using traditional materials and methods skills of color mixing and practical ARTS 345 Noborigama Wood Fire for hand formed ceramics objects. applications of painting and how they Ceramics I (3) Involvement in clay from raw material relate to perceptual problem solving. A comprehensive study of wood fire through the glazing and firing process. Focus on light and color and how it ceramics that includes research on the Studio emphasis on technique and translates into the pictorial space through development of clays, glaze, and firing creative process. use of acrylic paint. Prerequisites: ARTE techniques for wood fire. Historical 101 and ARTS 151. background, vocabulary, studio ARTS 242 Workshop II: Beginning involvement, and firing at the kiln site Throwing (3) ARTS 292 Beginning Oil Painting (3) required. Prerequisites: ARTS 242 and Beginning throwing processes. Creating Introduction to the language of painting ARTS 342. vessels while learning the technique through studio practice. Fundamental of shaping clay by throwing. Form and skills of color mixing and practical ARTS 346 Workshop V: Low Fire function explored. Initial firing process applications of painting and how they Technique (3) All low fire processes and terra sigillatta, for bisque fire taught. Development of relate to perceptual problem solving. raku, low fire salt bisque, barrel firing and under-glaze and glaze techniques. Focus on light and color and how it Maria dung firings. Prerequisite: ARTS 342. translates into the pictorial space through ARTS 251 Life Drawing (3) Introduction to drawing the human use of oil of paint. Prerequisites: ARTE 101 ARTS 351 Drawing Workshop I (3) figure. Issues of form, structure, volume, and ARTS 151. Traditional and contemporary drawing processes and advanced compositional movement, composition, and expressive ARTS 296 Topics: (1-3) possibilities are explored and practiced. strategies. Perceptual, abstract, and Prerequisites: ARTE 101 and ARTS 152. ARTS 321 Metalsmithing (3) conceptual ideas explored within the Prerequisites: ARTS 151 and ARTS 221. context of strengthening the artist’s ARTS 252 Mixed Media Drawing (3) formal skills and idea development. Artistic exploration of experimental ARTS 331 Fibers Workshop II (3) Matting and framing works on paper. media, dry and wet, and alternative Intermediate examination of several fiber Individual and group critiques ongoing. media alone or combined on varied or fabric applications. Prerequisite: ARTS Prerequisite: ARTS 152. drawing surfaces to give dimension, 231. texture and vitality to a drawing. Figure ARTS 352 Drawing Workshop II (3) and still life are main subject matter for ARTS 341 Mold Making and Ceramic Formal mastery of the visual language observational approach. Prerequisite: Design I (3) and development of a personal artistic ARTS 251. Designing ceramic objects for mass direction. Critical thinking skills about production utilizing slip casting individual artistic influences explored. ARTS 274 P rintmaking: Intaglio and techniques. Transformation of sketches Individual and group critiques ongoing. Relief (3) and drawings into scale plans for Digital portfolio developed. Prerequisite: Introduces concepts and techniques of standardized production. Making of ARTS 351. intaglio and relief printmaking processes. bisque molds and plaster molds for mass

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ARTS 353  Visual/Conceptual encouraged through use of oil or the Lincoln Memorial, the Tomb of the Thinking (3) acrylic. Individual and group critiques. Unknown Soldier and other projects. A Learning meaningful questioning. Prerequisites: ARTS 251, and ARTS 291 or fee for the summer institute is in addition Engaging in creative problem solving. ARTS 292. to Colorado Mesa University tuition and Assumptions about art questioned. fees. Prerequisite: ARTT 270. Media selection is not limited; problems ARTS 365 Mixed Media Painting I (3) posed may be solved with 2D or 3D Bridge between 2D and 3D mediums. ARTS 387 Bronze Commissions: media. Prerequisite: ARTS 251. Artistic exploration of experimental Workshop I (3) techniques and mediums including Special bronze commissions and projects ARTS 354  Figure Drawing & collage, graphite, ink, encaustic, acrylic, as a liaison project with schools or Modeling (3) oil, found objects. Focus on manipulating the community. Direct experience at Human figure as a critical component. varied materials to give textural vitality to creating art from inception to mounted Combines 3-D modeling methods with painting. Investigation of conceptual and sculpture. Presentations to respective classical drawing approaches developing technical direction. Prerequisite: ARTS clients, budgets, armatures, sculpting, a deeper understanding of the subtleties 291 or ARTS 292. molds, wax, investing, and finishing of of human anatomy. Group and the bronze. Basing of the sculptures individual critiques are ongoing. Digital ARTS 370 Printmaking: Lithography (3) complete the process. Prerequisite: ARTS documentation of work for portfolios. Introduces concepts and techniques of 281. Prerequisites: ARTE 102 and ARTS 251. fine art lithography, including traditional stone lithography, aluminum plate ARTS 388  Ceramic Sculpture ARTS 360 Sketchbook (3) lithography, and positive plate photo Workshop III (3) The sketchbook as a primary medium lithography. Black and white, multiple Thematic concepts for the development for developing creativity and the artist’s color, hybrid or combination prints, and of a BFA exhibit in clay explored. thought processes. Exploring exercises chine-colle. Prerequisite: ARTS 152. Student/mentor consultation of utmost and field assignments for building an importance as the theme is developed. approach to keeping a sketchbook as a ARTS 371 Printmaking Workshop I (3) Independent work via student/professor place for ideas and recording the artist’s Develop skills with intaglio, relief, and contract. Artwork based for professional visual experience. Prerequisites: ARTE 101 lithograph. Exploration of advanced presentation. Prerequisite: ARTS 384. and ARTS 152, or consent of instructor. techniques. May include multiple color printing processes, engraving, and ARTS 391 Painting Workshop I (3) ARTS 362A Artists’ Books (1) collagraph. Work created will be matted. Skills developed in painting media of Introduction to the art of making visual Prerequisites: ARTS 274 and ARTS 370. choice. Exploring advanced techniques books, including book structure, binding to develop individual artistic expression. techniques, and strategies for developing ARTS 372 Printmaking Workshop II (3) Discussions of personal influences and sequential imagery. Prerequisites: Exploration of printmaking media. historical context ongoing. Prerequisite: ARTE 101 and ARTS 152, or instructor Investigation of a printmaker of choice ARTS 291 or ARTS 292. permission. to develop critical thinking about personal artistic skills. Artwork created ARTS 392 Painting Workshop II (3) ARTS 362B Artists’ Books (1) will be matted, shown in a public space, Further investigation of techniques and Continuation of the art of making visual and documented digitally. Prerequisite: material in individual painting medium. books, including book structure, binding ARTS 371. Personal artistic influences identified as techniques, and strategies for developing tools to aid individual artistic direction. sequential imagery. Prerequisites: ARTS 384  Ceramic Sculpture Individual and group critiques are ongoing. ARTE 101 and ARTS 152, or instructor Workshop II (3) End of semester artwork presented in permission. Creating in clay using various techniques public space and documented digitally. and processes. Explorations with Prerequisite: ARTS 391. ARTS 362C Artists’ Books (1) clay includes elements of the figure, Further exploration of the art of making representational and abstract, as well ARTS 395 Independent Study (1-3) visual books, including book structure, as 3D forms as pure sculpture. Artwork binding techniques, and strategies based and finished for professional ARTS 396 Topics: (1-3) for developing sequential imagery. exhibition. Independent work via ARTS 421 Metalsmithing (3) Prerequisites: ARTE 101 and ARTS 152, or student/professor contract. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: ARTS 321 instructor permission. ARTS 284. ARTS 431 Fibers Workshop III (3) ARTS 364 Figure Painting I (3) ARTS 385 Summer Institute in Marble, Creating of advanced fiber and fabric Exploration of proportion, perspective Colorado (3) artwork; examination of historical Summer symposium at Marble/Marble and volume through painting from precedents. Prerequisite: ARTS 331. a model. Investigation of various Carving Symposium. Carve Colorado Yule techniques and conceptual development Marble from the same quarries used in

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ARTS 441 Glaze Calculation (3) fire salt bisque, barrel firing, and Maria ARTS 471  Printmaking Workshop III (3) Ceramics majors. Theory and practice of dung firings. Prerequisite: ARTS 346. Research a printmaking technique that formulation of glazes utilizing minerals has not been introduced. Create a print and oxides. Development of glazes ARTS 451 Drawing Workshop III (3) and present the method. Develop a includes empirical formula to a batch, Senior level drawing. Develop professional portfolio of artwork for senior batch to an empirical formula, and drawings used in senior exhibitions exhibition and professional shows. Artwork limit formulas. Basic chemistry of the and professional purposes. Exploration created will be matted and documented molecular composition of raw materials. and analysis of what historical context digitally. Prerequisite: ARTS 372. Background in ceramics required. fits artist’s style. Individual and group Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. critiques ongoing. Digital portfolio ARTS 472 Printmaking Workshop IV (3) developed. Prerequisite: ARTE 352. Technical refinement and conceptual ARTS 442 Kiln Construction (3) development. Refining a personal Ceramics majors. Develops skills in kiln ARTS 452 Drawing Workshop IV (3) direction for the artist’s imagery. Artwork theory, design, and construction. Raku, Subject matter, content, and form are created will be matted and documented wood, high and low fire kilns explored, determined by the student under the digitally. Prerequisite: ARTS 471. utilizing traditional brick configurations guidance of the instructor. Ability to and ceramic fiber and castable speak and write articulately about created ARTS 473 Printmaking Workshop V (3) refractories. Construction using tools and artwork developed. Digital portfolio Creation of a mature and cohesive series equipment to fabricate steel frameworks developed. Prerequisite: ARTS 451. of prints that demonstrate a solution and the laying of brick utilizing or solutions to a creative problem mortars. One kiln will be designed and ARTS 453 Visual and Conceptual posed by the individual. Artwork will constructed in class. Prerequisite: Consent Thinking (3) demonstrate technical mastery and of instructor. Advanced. Continuation of ARTS 353. conceptual sophistication; student will Prerequisite: ARTS 353. provide a mature written artist statement ARTS 443 Workshop VIII: Production and high-quality photo documentation. Throwing (3) ARTS 460 Sketchbook II (3) Individualized, professional visual and Oral critique where the artist verbalizes Using the potter’s wheel to develop the context of their artwork within the a production style involvement in conceptual documentation for the fine artist and designer. Advanced contemporary art world. Prerequisite: the throwing process. Discussion of ARTS 472. marketing and establishing a studio to students identify personal goals, explore create clay art. Develop skills to create sketchbook styles, develop compositional ARTS 484 Ceramic Sculpture thrown multiples in clay. Prerequisite: approaches, and research media and Workshop IV (3) ARTS 342. subject matter (including color) in Thematic concepts for the development recording visual experiences. Prerequisite: of a BFA exhibit in clay continued. ARTS 444  Workshop VI: ARTS 360. Independent work via student/professor Clay Alteration (3) contract. Artwork based for professional ARTS 464 Figure Painting II (3) Alteration of thrown vessels using several presentation. Prerequisite: ARTS 384. techniques, including wet shaping, Advanced level exploration of the human leatherhard shaping, marks, incising, figure in relation to conceptually based ARTS 487 Bronze Commissions and stamping. Creating larger vessels narrative paintings. Variety of media Workshop II (3) using a two-piece technique developed. is encouraged. Students will use the Special bronze commissions and projects Kiln teams assigned for high firings. model to develop a consistent body of as a liaison project with schools or Prerequisite: ARTS 344. work towards their BFA show. Individual the community. Direct experience at and group critiques ongoing as well as creating art from inception to mounted ARTS 445 Noborigama Wood Fire discussion about individual concepts and sculpture. Presentations to respective Ceramics II (3) direction. Prerequisite: ARTS 364. clients, budgets, armatures, sculpting, A comprehensive study of wood fire molds, wax, investing, and finishing of ceramics that includes research on the ARTS 465 Mixed Media Painting II (3) the bronze. Basing of the sculptures development of clays, glaze, and firing Advanced level bridge between 2D and complete the process. Continuation techniques for wood fire. Historical 3D mediums. Focus on manipulation of of a year-long project at the 400 level. background, vocabulary, studio various materials to give textural vitality Prerequisite: ARTS 387. involvement, and firing at the kiln site to a conceptually based body of work required. Prerequisites: ARTS 242, ARTS leading toward the BFA show. Individual ARTS 491 Painting Workshop III (3) 342, and ARTS 345. and group critiques ongoing as well as Workshop III continues development discussion of individual concepts and of professional portfolios of artwork ARTS 446 Workshop VII: Low Fire direction. Prerequisite: ARTS 365. used for senior exhibitions and Techniques (3) other professional shows. Artistic Continuation of all low fire processes. influences explored. Oral and written Involvement with terra sigillatta, raku, low communication skills developed in

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 122 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG preparation for professional interaction. ARTT 380 Bronze/Casting I (3) ARTT 483 Bronze Workshop I (3) End of semester artwork documented Bronze casting using the lost wax process Continued focus on a student’s digitally. Prerequisite: ARTS 392. and ceramic shell. Includes history, individual BFA direction. Independent terminology, equipment, and procedure. work via student/professor contract. ARTS 492 Painting Workshop IV (3) Includes working in wax, sprueing the Prerequisite: ARTT 481. Technical refinement and conceptual art, ceramic shell investment, technical- development emphasized. Refinement ARTT 484 Bronze Workshop II (3) pouring procedures, devesting the Emphasis placed on finishing sculpture of the artist’s imagery. Ability to speak shelled patina. Studio emphasis on and write about work developed. End of representative of the student’s BFA technique and creative process ending direction. Sculpture will be focused and semester artwork documented digitally. in finished bronze sculpture. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: ARTS 491. finished for professional presentation. ARTT 270. Independent work via student/professor ARTS 495 Independent Study (1-3) ARTT 381 Bronze/Casting II (3) contract. Prerequisite: ARTT 483. Creating in wax using various BIOLOGY (BIOL) ARTS 496 Topics: (1-3) techniques. Explorations in wax using representational and abstract ARTS 497 Senior Exhibition (3) ü BIOL 101 G eneral Human Biology- forms. Advanced finishes and patinas Choose to participate in a senior GTSC1 (3) introduced. Prerequisite: ARTT 380. exhibition in the Art Gallery. Submission ü BIOL 101L G eneral Human Biology Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) of portfolio required. Must receive a ARTT 471  Sculpture/Construction III (3) recommendation by the studio art Scientific method, ecology, pollution, Sculpting in steel, wood and multimedia. drugs, reproduction, cancer, heart disease, faculty. Must enroll in the course during Introduction to forge work. Direction the semester in which the exhibition nutrition, and selected body structure and chosen based on interests in materials function relationships. Labs will include is presented. Prerequisites: ARTE 300, and processes taught in previous permission of faculty. required field trips. Can be taken for sculpture/construction courses. graduation or general education credit by Independent work via professor contract. biology majors who have completed no ART: Prerequisite: ARTE 371. more than 10 hours in BIOL. Three lectures SCULPTURE/STUDIO and one two-hour laboratory per week. ARTT 472  Sculpture/Construction IV (3) (ARTT) Thematic concepts for development of a ü BIOL 102 Plan t and Animal ARTT 270 Sculpture I (3) BFA exhibit explored. Independent work via Biodiversity-GTSC1 (3) Introduction of technique and processes professor contract. Prerequisite: ARTE 471. ü BIOL 102L Plan t and Animal Biodiversity Laboratory- practiced in advanced sculpture ARTT 475 Sculpture Workshop I (3) courses. Basic welding, mold making, GTSC1 (1) Continued focus on a student’s individual Selected body structure and function bronze casting and fabrication/ BFA direction. Independent work via construction using multimedia explored. relationships, genetic engineering, animal student/professor contract. Prerequisite: phylum relationships, evolution, plant Development of aesthetic concepts ARTT 472. stressed and their successful applications. growth and development. Labs will include dissections and some required Projects conclude with group critiques. ARTT 476 Sculpture Workshop II (3) Prerequisite: ARTS 102. Emphasis placed on finishing sculpture field trips. Can be taken for graduation representative of BFA direction. Sculpture or general education credit by biology ARTT 371 Sculpture/Construction I (3) focused and finished for professional majors who have completed no more Exploration of MIG welding, beginning presentation, independent work via than 10 hours in BIOL. Three lectures and metal fabrication techniques, student/professor contact. Prerequisite: one two hour laboratory per week. woodworking and multimedia. Historical ARTT 475. contexts. Aesthetic concepts stressed and ü BIOL 105 A ttributes of Living Systems-GTSC1 (3) projects conclude with group critiques. ARTT 480 Bronze/Casting III (3) ü Prerequisite: ARTT 270. Creating in wax using various techniques BIOL 105L A ttributes of Living Systems Laboratory- including advanced mold making. Focus GTSC1 (1) ARTT 372 Sculpture/Construction II (3) on history and dynamics of furnace Introduction of advanced fabrication Cell structure and function, cell building and foundry equipment energetics, biochemistry and genetics. techniques and tools in steel, wood manufacture. Prerequisite: ARTT 381. and multimedia. Advanced finishes and Three lectures and one two-hour lab per week. High school chemistry finishing techniques also introduced. ARTT 481 Bronze/Casting IV (3) Continued focus on historical contexts. Thematic concepts for development of a recommended. Prerequisite: ARTT 371. BFA exhibit explored. Independent work via professor contract. Prerequisite: ARTT 480.

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BIOL 106 P rinciples of Animal nursing, human health, and biology. BIOL 296 Topics (1-3) Biology (3) A background in general biology is BIOL 106L P rinciples of Animal Biology recommended. Three lectures and two BIOL 301 Principles of Genetics (3) Laboratory (1) one and one-half hour laboratories per BIOL 301L P rinciples of Genetics Broad morphological, physiological, and week. Laboratory (1) ecological features of principal phyla Principles of genetics at the organismal, of animals and relationships between BIOL 210 Human Anatomy and cellular, and molecular level dealing them. Three lectures and one two-hour Physiology II (3) with the genetics of prokaryotic and laboratory per week. Prerequisite: BIOL BIOL 210L Human Anatomy and eukaryotic organisms and viruses. Three 105 or consent of instructor. Physiology II Laboratory (1) lectures and one three-hour laboratory Continuation of Human Anatomy and per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 105 and BIOL 107 Principles of Plant Biology (3) Physiology, which covers additional MATH 113; BIOL 302 recommended. BIOL 107L P rinciples of Plant Biology body systems and disease processes. For Laboratory (1) students with an interest in pre-med, BIOL 302 Cellular Biology (3) Reproductive biology, anatomy, nursing, human health, and biology. Form, function, and bioenergetics of physiology, phylogeny and ecology of Three one-hour lectures and two one the cell. Prerequisites: BIOL 106, 107, or the major groups of plants. Three lectures and one-half hour laboratories per week. consent of instructor. and one two-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 209 and BIOL 209L. Prerequisite: BIOL 105 or consent of BIOL 310 Developmental Biology (3) instructor. BIOL 211 Ecosystem Biology (4) BIOL 310L De velopmental Biology BIOL 211L E cosystem Biology Laboratory (2) BIOL 113 Outdoor Survival (3) Laboratory (1) Embryonic growth and development of Learning skills necessary for biologists Ecological studies utilizing the concepts plants and animals. Also errors in normal working in the field, including wilderness of population biology: energetics, development, cancer, aging, and related survival, wilderness medicine, camping/ dynamics, distribution, and sociology. topics. Three lectures and two two-hour climbing skills, edible/poisonous plants, Overnight and/or weekend field trips laboratories per week. urban survival skills, and epidemiological/ may be required. Four lectures and one radiation/chemical threats. Three one- three-hour laboratory per week. BIOL 315 Epidemiology (3) hour lectures per week. Characteristic patterns of communicable BIOL 217 Forensic Entomology (2) disease occurrence as related to BIOL 196 Topics (1-3) BIOL 217L F orensic Entomology individuals, geographic location, and Laboratory (1) time; factors affecting disease occurrence, BIOL 203 Human Nutrition (3) Basic procedure and considerations in the nature of vital statistics, sampling Introduction to the science of the effects using insect evidence in crime scene procedures, and study design. An of food on the body and the body’s need investigations and the determination independent project is required. for and utilization of essential nutrients. of post mortem interval using insects. Two-hour lecture and one two-hour lab BIOL 320 Plant Systematics (3) BIOL 208 F undamentals of Ecology and per week. Systematic botany encompassing Evolution (3) principles of classification, nomenclature, BIOL 208L F undamentals of Ecology and BIOL 241 Pathophysiology (4) and evaluation of current classifications Evolution Laboratory (1) Function of the human body with of angiosperms. BIOL 105, BIOL 107, and Introduction to current theory and emphasis on interpretation of those BIOL 208. experimental work on biology of functions in relation to disease processes. populations, species interactions, Prerequisite: BIOL 209 or 341. BIOL 321 Taxonomy of Grasses (2) community structure, organismal and BIOL 321L T axonomy of Grasses molecular evolution, genetic structure of BIOL 250 I ntroduction to Microbiology Laboratory (2) populations, and natural selection. Lab (3) A study of the grass family and grass- field trips and laboratory-based learning BIOL 250L Introduction to Microbiology like plants (sedges and rushes) dealing experiences in ecology and evolution. Laboratory (2) with the evolution, classification, and Prerequisites: BIOL 105, and BIOL 106 or Major types of microorganisms with identification of these plants. Two BIOL 107 (may be taken concurrently), or an emphasis on bacteria. Microbial lectures and two two-hour laboratories consent of instructor. taxonomy, structure, metabolism, per week. Prerequisite: BIOL 107 or genetics, and aspects of infectious consent of instructor. BIOL 209 Human Anatomy and disease and the immune host response. Physiology (3) Three lectures and two two-hour BIOL 322 Plant Identification (2) BIOL 209L Human Anatomy and laboratories per week. BIOL 322L Plant Identification Lab (2) Physiology Laboratory (1) Identification of the local flora. Basic Study of the form and function of several plant anatomy and morphology. major systems of the human body. For Includes evolutionary relationships students with an interest in pre-med,

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 124 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG of major plant groups as well as and study. Prerequisites: BIOL 105/105L hour laboratories per week. Prerequisites: environmental, ecological, and historical and CHEM 131/131L. BIOL 301 and CHEM 132 or consent of constraints on plant distribution. instructor. Prerequisites: BIOL 107/107L. BIOL 341 General Physiology (3) BIOL 341L  General Physiology BIOL 385 Na ture and Philosophy of BIOL 331 Insect Biology (3) Laboratory (1) Science (3) BIOL 331L I nsect Biology Laboratory (2) Function of the circulatory, nervous, Central concepts on the nature Insect taxonomy, evolution, ecology, and respiratory, digestive, urinary, of scientific knowledge including physiology. Insect collection required. Three reproductive, and endocrine systems philosophical tenets that distinguish lectures and two two-hour laboratories per of the human body. Three lectures and science from technology as well as week. Prerequisites: BIOL 106. one two-hour laboratory per week. distinguish science from pseudoscience. Prerequisite: BIOL 106 or consent of May not be used in the Additional BIOL 332 Introduction to Geographic instructor. Biology Courses categories for the Information Systems (2) Biology Concentration. BIOL 332L I ntroduction to Geographic BIOL 342 Histology (2) Information Systems BIOL 342L Histology Laboratory (2) BIOL 387 Structured Research (1-3) Laboratory (1) Microscopic study of tissues and Independent research beyond the scope Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of organs. Two lectures and two two-hour of the published curriculum. Designed GIS with regard to theoretical, technical, laboratories per week. Prerequisites: BIOL for advanced sophomore and junior and application issues. Prerequisites: 106 or BIOL 107 and consent of instructor. level students to participate in research GEOL 305 or GEOG 131. activities under the direction of a specific BIOL 343 Immunology (3) faculty member. May be repeated BIOL 333 Marine Biology (3) Immune system of animals with for up to 6 credit hours. Prerequisites: Study of the principles that govern emphasis on human immune response. sophomore or junior standing, or consent biological systems in the ocean with an Includes the immune organs and both of instructor. emphasis on the natural history, ecology, cellular and humoral responses. An and evolution of marine organisms. Three independent research project is required. BIOL 395 Independent Study (1-3) one-hour lectures per week. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: BIOL 302, or BIOL 301 and BIOL 106 and BIOL 107, or consent of BIOL 301L. BIOL 396 Topics (1-3) instructor. BIOL 344  Forensic Molecular Biology (3) BIOL 396A Topics (1-3) BIOL 335 Invertebrate Zoology (3) BIOL 344L F orensic Molecular Biology BIOL 335L I nvertebrate Zoology Laboratory (1) BIOL 403 Evolution (3) Laboratory (1) Molecular biology and genetics used Organismal and molecular evolution Study of the evolution, morphology, in forensic investigations, including the emphasizing its importance as the life history, ecology and classification genetic basis of diversity and DNA typing unifying theory in biology. Evolution of of invertebrates with a focus on non- techniques. Prerequisites: BIOL 105/105L natural selection on genetic structure insect invertebrates. Three one-hour and CHEM 131/131L. of populations. Prerequisites: BIOL 106, lectures and one two-hour lab per week. BIOL 107, BIOL 208, BIOL 301, and senior Prerequisites: BIOL 106, or consent of BIOL 350 Microbiology (3) standing. instructor. BIOL 350L Microbiology Laboratory (1) Growth, morphology, metabolism, BIOL 405  Advanced Ecological BIOL 336 Fish Biology (3) genetics and ecology of microorganisms. Methods (3) Study of the anatomy and physiology of Includes aspects of industrial BIOL 405L A dvanced Ecological Methods fish. Topics include ecology, fish diseases, microbiology, clinical microbiology, and Laboratory (2) and marine and freshwater fishery genetic engineering. Three lectures and Examination of quantitative methods in techniques. Field trips may be offered. one three-hour laboratory per week. population, community, and ecosystems Prerequisite: BIOL 106 or consent of Prerequisites: BIOL 105, and CHEM ecology. Extensive writing, computer instructor. 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L. work and field trips are required. Three lectures and two two-hour laboratories BIOL 337 Criminalistics (3) BIOL 371L L aboratory Investigations per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 105, 106, BIOL 337L  Criminalistics Laboratory (1) in Cellular and Molecular 107; STAT 311 is recommended. Offers a broad view of forensic Biology (3) techniques and subjects. Case studies of Laboratory exercises and experiments BIOL 406 Plant-Animal Interactions (3) crimes and subsequent investigations that highlight important topics in cellular Ecological, evolutionary, and applied discussed along with methodologies and molecular biology. The mechanics of approaches to the studies of herbivory, in evidence collection and analysis in laboratory science are introduced with ant-plant interactions, pollination, and modern crime laboratories as well as an emphasis on modern techniques, seed dispersal. Prerequisites: BIOL 105, the limitations of such. Students use this hypothesis development, data analysis 106, 107, 208; BIOL 331 is recommended. course to narrow their field of interest and scientific communication. Two three-

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BIOL 407 Tropical Field Biology (5) BIOL 412 Ornithology (3) hour field trip per week. Prerequisite: Field research techniques, ecology and BIOL 412L Ornithology Laboratory (1) Upper division standing or consent of natural history in lowland and montane Classification and life history of birds, instructor. Corequisite: BIOL 418 tropical rainforests of Ecuador. Ten nine- including field identification. Overnight hour labs and fifteen two-hour lectures and/or weekend field trips may be BIOL 421 Plant Physiology (3) conducted at biological field stations in required. Three lectures and one two- BIOL 421L  Plant Physiology Ecuador. Prerequisite: BIOL 105, 106, 107, hour laboratory or three-hour field trip Laboratory (1) or consent of instructor. per week. Prerequisite: upper division Plant-water relationships, plant mineral standing or permission of instructor. nutrition, photosynthesis, plant growth BIOL 408 Desert Ecology (3) and development at the molecular and Overview of desert ecology in the BIOL 413 Herpetology (3) cellular level to account for plant growth surrounding area and in the United BIOL 413L Herpetology Laboratory (1) at the organismal level. Three lectures States. Covers ecology of U.S. deserts Classification, evolution, morphology and one two-hour laboratory per week. including specific plant, animal, and and ecology of amphibians and reptiles. Prerequisites: BIOL 107, CHEM 121 and human adaptations. Discussion on Overnight or weekend field trips may be also recommended CHEM 122. world deserts. Field trips may be offered. required. Three lectures and one two- Prerequisites: BIOL 208, and upper hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 423 Plant Anatomy (3) division standing or consent of instructor. upper division standing or consent of BIOL 423L  Plant Anatomy Laboratory (2) instructor. Form, variability, and structure of the BIOL 409 G ross and Developmental tissues comprising the body of the higher Human Anatomy (2) BIOL 414 Aquatic Biology (3) plant. Three lectures and two two-hour BIOL 409L G ross and Developmental BIOL 414L  Aquatic Biology laboratories per week. Prerequisites: BIOL Human Anatomy Laboratory (1) 107, 107L. Laboratory (2) Classification, life history, and ecology Gross anatomy, embryology, radiological of aquatic animals. Overnight and/or BIOL 425 Molecular Genetics (3) and cross-sectional anatomy of the weekend field trips may be required. Nature and expression of genetic human body as taught by lectures, Three lectures and one two-hour information at the molecular level in demonstrations, and dissections of the laboratory or three-hour field trip per prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. human cadaver. Emphasis on thorax, week. Prerequisite: upper division Prerequisite: BIOL 301. abdomen, and extremities. Two lectures standing or permission of instructor. and one four-hour laboratory per week. BIOL 426 I ntroduction to Electron Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L and consent BIOL 415 Tropical Ecosystems (2) Microscopy (2) of instructor. Ecology of rainforests, grasslands, BIOL 426L I ntroduction to Electron and desert ecosystems of the world. Microscopy Laboratory (2) BIOL 410 Human Osteology (3) Prerequisites: one year of biological History, theory and techniques of BIOL 410L Human Osteology Laboratory sciences or consent of instructor. Electron Microscopy science. Some (1) detailed knowledge of biology, histology, Study of the human skeleton, including BIOL 416 Ethology (3) chemistry and physics is required to osteology and bone detail, biological BIOL 416L Ethology Laboratory (1) thoroughly and competently investigate variation, animal skeletal comparisons, Mechanisms and evolution of behavior selected specimens. Special attention pathology, forensics, and proper handling utilizing captive animals and field trips. will be paid to the operation of the of human skeletal material. Laboratory Overnight field trips may be required. microscope at Colorado Mesa University. emphasizes analysis and identification of Three lectures and one two-hour Prerequisites: restricted to juniors and human skeletal material. Three lectures laboratory per week and several field seniors with instructor approval. and one two-hour laboratory per week. trips, possibly overnight. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: BIOL 209 and BIOL 209L. BIOL 106, 107, and consent of instructor. BIOL 431 Animal Parasitology (3) BIOL 431L A nimal Parasitology BIOL 411 Mammalogy (3) BIOL 418 Wildlife Management (3) Laboratory (1) BIOL 411L Mammalogy Laboratory (1) Examination of wildlife biology and Common and important parasites of Classification, life histories, and ecology management. Topics covered include domestic animals and man. Ecology, of mammals. Overnight and/or weekend managing habitat, mammals, birds, fish, epidemiology, diagnosis, and control field trips may be required. Two lectures and other small animals. Three one-hour are discussed with examples from the and one two-hour laboratory or three- lectures per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 105 Protozoa, Trematoda, Cestoda, Nematoda, hour field trip per week. Prerequisites: and BIOL 106 or BIOL 107, and BIOL 208. and Arthropoda. An independent research upper division standing or consent of Corequisite: BIOL 418L. project is required. Three lectures and one instructor. two-hour laboratory per week. BIOL 418L Wildlife Field Techniques (2) Methods for using equipment in the field of wildlife and fisheries management. One one-hour laboratory and one three

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BIOL 433 M arine Invertebrate BIOL 487 Advanced Research (1-3) intertidal and subtidal habitats. Design Communities (3) Provides students with an individualized and execution of a research project Techniques of collection and laboratory research experience on a topic and a written paper are required. Seven examination of marine invertebrates from approved and directed by a specific eight-hour labs and seven two-hour intertidal and subtidal habitats. Seven faculty member. A detailed report in lectures will be conducted at a marine eight-hour labs and seven two-hour the form of a scientific journal article biological research station. Prerequisites: lectures will be conducted at a marine must be provided to the instructor. Undergraduate degree in biology or a biological research station. Prerequisites: May be repeated for up to 6 credit related field and instructor permission. BIOL 106, or consent of instructor. hours. Prerequisites: BIOL 482 or consent of instructor; BIOL 387 is highly BIOL 596 Topics: (1-5) BIOL 441 Endocrinology (3) recommended. Anatomy and physiology of the BUSINESS (BUGB) endocrine system of vertebrates. BIOL 493 Lab Teaching Practicum (1) Prerequisite: BIOL 106 or consent of Assist in laboratory teaching to support BUGB 101 Introduction to Business (3) instructor. instruction and enhance student American business system operations in learning. Prerequisite: Junior/senior the economy, business functions, and BIOL 442 Pharmacology (3) standing or consent of instructor. Must interrelations between the businessman Principles underlying absorption, have taken the course to be supported and his environment. Prerequisites: Can distribution, metabolism, and excretion or have sufficient experience in other be taken for credit only by students who of drugs with emphasis on mechanisms related courses. Prerequisites: Junior/ have completed fewer than 15 credit of action and physiological responses. Senior status and consent of instructor. hours of BUGB, ACCT, MANG, MARK, Prerequisite: BIOL 209 and 209L, one OFAD, HMGT, CISB, or FINA courses. year of chemistry, and junior or senior BIOL 494 Seminar (1) standing. Current problems, topics, and research BUGB 101A Introduction to Business: Part procedures in biological sciences and 1 of 3 (1) BIOL 450 Mycology (2) medicine. Topics announced each Introduction to management, BIOL 450L Mycology Laboratory (2) semester. Prerequisites: sophomore supervision, motivation, supervision and Fungi, with emphasis on comparative standing and consent of instructor. the processes of recruiting personnel in morphology and development, the workplace. classification, physiology, genetics, BIOL 495 Independent Study (1-3) and ecological relationships. Emphasis BUGB 101B Introduction to Business: Part will also be placed on the importance BIOL 496 Topics (1-3) 2 of 3 (1) of fungi in industry, agriculture, and Introduction to marketing, pricing, quality medicine. Two lectures and two two-hour BIOL 499 Internship (1-10) customer service, social responsibility and laboratories per week. Prerequisites: BIOL Work experience obtained on a job ethics in the workplace. 107 or consent of instructor. where assignments are primarily biological projects. The amount of credit BUGB 101C Introduction to Business: Part BIOL 482 Senior Research (2) awarded is determined by the school 3 of 3 (1) Designed to introduce students to based on the nature of the assignment. Introduction to financial statements, appropriate procedures for conducting Prerequisites: biology major, senior financial management, and budgeting in literature reviews, designing experiments, standing with either a 2.80 GPA in major the workplace. collecting and analyzing data, and courses, completion of BIOL 482, or preparing written and oral presentations of consent of instructor. BUGB 105  Freshman Business such experiments. Two lectures per week Seminar (2) or equivalent. Prerequisites: senior standing, BIOL 507 Tropical Field Biology (5) Overview of Colorado Mesa University 2.80 GPA, and consent of instructor. Field research techniques, ecology and Business Department for prospective natural history in lowland and montane majors. Operational strategies and BIOL 483 Senior Thesis (2) tropical rainforests of Ecuador. Ten nine- teamwork are developed via cases and Students prepare an in-depth thesis hour labs and fifteen two-hour lectures projects. Students will gain exposure elaborating on a major conceptual conducted at biological field stations in to all functional business areas through issue(s) in biology. The purpose of the Ecuador. Prerequisites: Undergraduate readings, discussions, and presentations. thesis is to ascertain the student’s ability degree in biology or undergraduate Cannot be taken for credit by students to collect a broad array of information degree in another field with primary who have completed more than 15 credit and integrate this into a logical or secondary teaching experience in hours of business courses. conceptual framework that traverses science, and instructor consent. organizational levels of living systems. BUGB 141 Business Mathematics (3) The thesis topic must be approved by the BIOL 533 M arine Invertebrate Fundamental review of whole numbers, instructor. Prerequisites: senior standing Communities (3) decimals, and fractions. Emphasis is and consent of instructor. Techniques of collection and laboratory placed on percentage applications examination of marine invertebrates from

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Not for students with an breach); commercial paper (instruments accounting emphasis. used as a monetary substitute, such as BUGB 211  Business Communications (3) checks, drafts, and promissory notes); Development of a non-defensive, BUGB 249 P ersonal Finance: The credit (security interests in real and supportive, communication system Business of Life (3) personal property); and real property. effectively applied to interpersonal and Development of financial and economic Prerequisite: BUGB 351 or consent of written transactions within the business literacy to improve personal decision instructor. organization. Prerequisite: ENGL 111. making in the areas of: personal budgeting; developing a personal BUGB 393 Cooperative Education (3-9) BUGB 211A  Business financial plan including consumer credit, Cooperative Education internships Communications: Part 1 taxes and purchasing a home; money provide non-business students an of 3 (1) and interest rates; the market economy; opportunity to put their education to Introduction to business free enterprise and competition; and the practical use in the workplace under communications, planning and writing consequences of externalities, public the joint supervision of an organization- messages and reports. goods and increasing costs in the service based supervisor and a Colorado Mesa sector. University faculty coordinator. Written BUGB 211B Business Communications: Part 2 consent of coordinator required prior to BUGB 293 Cooperative Education (3-6) registration. of 3 (1) Practical workplace experience under the Introduction to effective communications joint supervision of the employer and the BUGB 395 Independent Study (1-3) in business, including presentations internship coordinator. Designed for non- and routine, negative and persuasive business majors working in the business BUGB 396 Topics (1-3) messages. environment. BUGB 401 International Business (3) BUGB 211C Business BUGB 340 A pplied Financial Current international topics in the Communications: Part 3 Management for Emerging disciplines of finance, management, and of 3 (1) Businesses (3) marketing. Concepts, analytical tools, Introduction to the roles of personal Overview of basic accounting and and models are introduced to help styles, cultures and teams in business finance concepts for non-business majors explain the diversity and complexity of communications. owning or employed by small business/ the international business environment. BUGB 221 Insurance (3) entrepreneurial ventures. Prerequisites: senior standing. Common types of protection offered BUGB 349 L egal Environment of by insurance, including fire, theft, BUGB 405 Big Questions in Business (3) Business (3) Application of the requisite business skill comprehensive, life, automobile, Legal framework of business including accident, and health. Emphasis on of critical thinking as it pertains to major foundations of the American legal issues application of insurance to individuals system, anti-trust law, property law, and small business firms. contracts and sales, negotiable BUGB 435 Emerging Markets (3) instruments, agency relationships, torts, BUGB 231 Survey of Business Law (3) Traditional challenges to global product labor law, international business law Application of law as it applies to development and marketing in the world’s and the social environment of business. employees and individuals not dealing emerging economies. Commonalities of Prerequisites: junior or senior standing or with legal matters of organizations. Topics differing regions and economic systems. consent of instructor. include contracts, agency law, personal Cultural and economic differences. A property, business organizations and macro look at emerging economies. Micro BUGB 351 Business Law I (3) applications of new emerging world form, and commercial paper. Especially Contracts (formation, requirements, suited for non-business majors. Students markets. Prerequisites: ACCT 201, ACCT interpretation, discharge, and 202, BUGB 105, BUGB 211, CISB 101 or CISB contemplating or enrolled in a four enforcement), agency law, and other year degree program should take BUGB 205, CISB 241 or STAT 200, ECON 201, and contracting parties. Includes analysis of ECON 202. 349. No credit allowed if credit already the concept of personal property and an established in BUGB 351. introduction to the partnership form of BUGB 440 Business Ethics (3) ownership. Prerequisites: junior or senior Examination of the nature and role of standing or consent of instructor. ethics in the business environment.

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BUGB 493 Cooperative Education (3-12) CHEMISTRY (CHEM) theory, gas laws, stoichiometry, phase See description of BUGB 393. relationships, solutions, oxidation- ü CHEM 100  Chemistry and Society- reduction, electrochemistry, and BUGB 495 Independent Study (1-3) GTSC1 (3) equilibrium. Four lectures and one three- Introduction to selected topics in hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: BUGB 496 Topics (1-3) chemistry. Nonmathematical approach One year of high school chemistry, BUGB 500 A dvanced Business Law and with frequent lecture demonstrations mastery of algebra, and a passing score Ethics (3) and particular attention to chemical on the chemistry assessment exam. Emphasizes the regulations, statutes and technology and its impact on society. CHEM 131 and 131L are prerequisites for cases that impact business on a daily CHEM 132 and 132L. ü basis. Topics covered include contract CHEM 121  Principles of Chemistry- GTSC1 (4) CHEM 132 G eneral Chemistry-GTSC1 (4) law, negotiations, labor law, the Uniform ü CHEM 121L P rinciples of Chemistry CHEM 132L G eneral Chemistry Commercial Code, and the law of Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) business organizations to include limited Introduction to fundamental principles Fundamental principles of chemistry. liability companies. of chemistry. Designed for students Designed for students planning a major in science. Topics include atomic BUGB 510 Global Business (3) planning a major in science as well as structure, bonding, periodic law, kinetic Explores international management students with a non-science major. theory, gas laws, stoichiometry, phase concepts and procedures and their Topics include atomic structure, relationships, solutions, oxidation- importance to modern managers. bonding, periodic table, gas laws, mass reduction, electrochemistry, and Operating in multi-national, multi-cultural relationships, solution theory, oxidation- equilibrium. Four lectures and one three- managerial environment, the modern reduction, electrochemistry, and ionic hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: manager must understand business and equilibrium. Four lectures and one three- one year of high school chemistry and management from a global perspective. hour lab per week. Prerequisite: mastery mastery of high school algebra. CHEM Emphasis is placed on comparing and of high school algebra. 131 and 131L are prerequisites for CHEM contrasting management practices in ü CHEM 122 P rinciples of Organic 132 and 132L. different nation-states and how this Chemistry-GTSC1 (4) might affect decisions concerning ü CHEM 122L P rinciples of Organic CHEM 151 Engineering Chemistry (4) risk, investment, human resources, Chemistry Laboratory- CHEM 151L Engineering Chemistry finances, operations, manufacturing and GTSC1 (1) Laboratory (1) production in a multi-national business. Introduction to the chemical and Selected fundamentals of inorganic physical properties of selected classes of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, BUGB 520 S eminar in Current Business organic compounds. Four lectures and gas laws, phase relations, solutions, Topics (1-3) one three-hour laboratory per week. electrochemistry, and equilibrium. Develops topics of current interest in Prerequisite: CHEM 121 or 131 or one year Designed for students of physics the business world. Areas included are of high school chemistry and consent of and engineering (except chemical effective communication strategies, instructor. engineering). Four lectures and one ethics, and the global dimension of three-hour laboratory per week. business. CHEM 123 Introduction to Environmental Prerequisites: high school chemistry and Chemistry (4) BUGB 530 Research Design (3) satisfactory entrance examination scores Application of basic chemistry principles or CHEM 121; MATH 113 or higher. Examines the design of research to the environment. Topics include projects. Topics will include selection aquatic and atmospheric chemistry, CHEM 196 Topics (1-3) of the problem, secondary data, biogeochemical cycling of the elements historical research, descriptive research, required for life and structural organic CHEM 296 Topics (1-3) experimental research, the tools of chemistry as it applies to the physical and research, and interpretation of data. biological properties of persistent organic CHEM 300  Environmental Chemistry (4) Aquatic and atmospheric chemistry. BUGB 590 Thesis (6) pollutants. Four lectures per week. Prerequisites: CHEM 121 and 121L. Basic chemical, physical and biological Prerequisite: BUGB 530 and permission of properties of organic pollutants. Topics MBA Director. ü CHEM 131 G eneral Chemistry- include smog formation, stratospheric GTSC1 (4) ozone depletion, greenhouse gases, acid BUGB 595 Research Practicum (3) ü mine waste formation, biogeochemistry, Application of classroom theory and CHEM 131L G eneral Chemistry Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) and bioaccumulation of halogenated research methods to on-the-job Fundamental principles of chemistry. organics. Prerequisites: CHEM 122 or 132. experiences. Prerequisites: BUGB 530 and Designed for students planning a permission of the MBA Director. major in science. Topics include atomic structure, bonding, periodic law, kinetic

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CHEM 301 Analytical Chemistry (3) statistical mechanics for study of time- CHEM 396 Topics (1-3) CHEM 301L Analytical Chemistry dependent processes. Prerequisites: Laboratory (1) CHEM 132 and MATH 152, and either CHEM 397 Structured Research (1-3) Classical and instrumental methods of PHYS 112 or PHYS 132. Chemical research under the direct quantitative chemical analysis. Includes guidance of a faculty member. Designed statistical treatment of experimental data, CHEM 322 Physical Chemistry II (3) for sophomore through senior level method characterization and validation, Application of methods of physics students. Prerequisite: Permission of equilibrium, titrations, electrochemistry, to chemistry. Study of equilibrium instructor. spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and properties of bulk matter, quantum chromatography. Prerequisite: CHEM 132. theory with applications to molecular CHEM 421  Advanced Organic structure. Statistical mechanics used to Chemistry I (3) CHEM 311 Organic Chemistry (4) understand the microscopic origin of Selected topics in organic chemistry are CHEM 311L O rganic Chemistry thermodynamic laws. Calculations of discussed in detail. Prerequisites: CHEM Laboratory (1) macroscopic thermodynamic properties 312, 322. Chemical and physical properties of the made from molecular properties. major classes of organic compounds. CHEM 422  Advanced Organic Connection made in kinetics between Three lectures and two three-hour Chemistry II (3) thermodynamics, quantum theory and laboratories per week. Prerequisite: CHEM Similar in content to CHEM 421, but statistical mechanics for study of time- 132 or consent of instructor. without overlap in topics. CHEM 421 is dependent processes. Prerequisites: not a prerequisite for 422. Prerequisites: CHEM 312 Organic Chemistry (4) CHEM 132 and MATH 152, and either CHEM 312, 322. CHEM 312L O rganic Chemistry PHYS 112 or PHYS 132. Laboratory (1) CHEM 431 Instrumental Analysis (3) Chemical and physical properties of the CHEM 341 Advanced Laboratory I (2) CHEM 431L Instrumental Analysis major classes of organic compounds. Experiments from analytical, inorganic, Laboratory (1) Three lectures and two three-hour organic, physical, and biological Modern instrumental methods of laboratories per week. Prerequisite: CHEM chemistry designed to show the analysis. Topics include signals and 132 or consent of instructor. application of theory to chemical noise, atomic spectroscopy, molecular problems. In addition to a list of spectroscopy, electroanalytical chemistry CHEM 315 Biochemistry (3) possible core experiments, each student and chromatographic separation CHEM 315L Biochemistry Laboratory (1) chooses other experiments according methods. Three lectures and one 3-hour Classical biochemistry concerned to individual interests. Two three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: CHEM with the control of metabolism, the laboratories per week. Prerequisites: 301/301L. production of energy, the relationship CHEM 301/301L; 312/312L; and 321. of structure to function, carbohydrates, Corequisite: CHEM 442 CHEM 442 C ommunicating in the World lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Three of Chemistry (1) lectures and one three-hour laboratory CHEM 351 Inorganic Chemistry I (3) Study and application of communication per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 312/312L. Study of periodic trends and bonding skills necessary for careers in chemistry- throughout the periodic table. Includes related fields. Includes laboratory CHEM 316 Biochemistry II (3) periodic properties, advanced electron- notebooks, chemical publications, In-depth examination of fundamental dot diagrams, VSEPR, symmetry, cover letters, resumes, and formal oral biological processes including DNA group theory, molecular orbital presentations. Corequisite: CHEM 341. replication, transcription, and protein diagrams, electron counting, and basic synthesis. Skills for comparative nomenclature. Prerequisite: CHEM 312 CHEM 487 Formal Research (1-3) genomics, protein visualization and (may be taken concurrently). Chemical research under the direct sequence alignment developed. guidance of a faculty member. The results Prerequisites: CHEM 312 and CHEM 315. CHEM 352 Inorganic Chemistry II (3) will be presented as a formal scientific Application of periodic trends and high paper in a format suitable for publication. CHEM 321 Physical Chemistry I (3) level bonding concepts to main group, Topics include laboratory notebooks, Application of methods of physics solid state, organometallic, and advanced independent research, and formal to chemistry. Study of equilibrium coordination chemistries. Includes reporting of research. properties of bulk matter, quantum acid-base chemistry, donor-acceptor theory with applications to molecular chemistry, crystalline solids, ligand field CHEM 494 Seminar (1) structure. Statistical mechanics used to stabilization energy, Jahn-Teller Effects, Student, faculty, and other speakers understand the microscopic origin of pi-bonding ligands, reaction pathways present a variety of topics in chemistry thermodynamic laws. Calculations of at transition metal centers, and catalysts. and related fields. Prerequisites: macroscopic thermodynamic properties Prerequisite: CHEM 351. Chemistry major with senior standing or made from molecular properties. consent of instructor. Connection made in kinetics between CHEM 395 Independent Study (1-3) thermodynamics, quantum theory and CHEM 495 Independent Study (1-3)

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CHEM 496 Topics (3) one and one-half hour laboratories per design and take him/her through to week. Prerequisite: CADT 108. construction documents. Construction CHEM 497 Structured Research (1-3) documents will include: site plan, floor Chemical research under the direct CADT 110 CAD Application (4) plan, exterior elevations, foundation guidance of a faculty member. Designed This course offers the student an plan, floor framing plan, roof framing for senior level students. Prerequisite: opportunity to apply skills and plan, building section, and a variety Permission of instructor. knowledge gained in earlier courses. of construction details. One one-hour The student will work on computer lecture and two one and one-half hour CHEM 596 Topics: (1-3) aided drawings relating to their career laboratories per week. Corequisites: CADT field of interest and advice of faculty. 140 and 141. Prerequisites: CADT 107 or COMPUTER- Internship or cooperative education may CADT 109. AIDED DRAFTING be substituted with approval of advisor. TECHNOLOGY (CADT) Two one-hour lectures and two one and CADT 143  CAD-Commercial one-half hour laboratories per week. Architecture (3) CADT 101 Introduction to Computers (1) Prerequisites: CADT 107 and CADT 109. Commercial Architectural CAD will Introduction to hardware and software emphasize the creation of commercial CADT 130 CAD-Civil (3) including operating systems, word project plans that will begin with Civil drafting will explore the aspects of processing, spreadsheets, desktop schematic design and continue through current day mapping and topography, publishing and presentation software. to construction documents. Construction instruments, conventions and practices, documents will include site plan, CADT 105 P rint Reading - Residential, contours, traverses, profiles, surveying, foundation floor slab plan, roof framing Commercial, Industrial (3) and photogrammetry through CAD plan, building section and a variety of Reading and interpreting blueprints for drawings. Students will be introduced to construction details. One one-hour residential, commercial, and industrial GIS, graphical interface systems. One one- lecture and two one and one-half hour construction, including site plans. How hour lecture and two one and one-half laboratories per week. Prerequisites: CADT to do a project take-off and project site hour laboratories per week. Prerequisites: 107, and/or CADT 109, and CADT 140. layout. CADT 107 or CADT 109. CADT 150 A dvanced Images - CADT 106 Computer Aided Design (3) CADT 135 CAD Civil II (3) Introduction to Animation (4) Basic principles of computer aided design Exploration of advanced aspects of Advanced work in computer aided through the development of practical current day mapping and topography. drafting principles including 3-D drawing problems using a computer. One An in-depth instruction on road plan renderings and animation techniques. one-hour lecture and two one and one- and profiles, cut and fill techniques and One one-hour lecture and two one and half laboratories per week. Corequisites: further instruction using skills from CADT one-half hour laboratories per week. MAMT 105 and MAMT 106. 130. Prerequisite: CADT 130. Prerequisite: CADT 120.

CADT 107 A dvanced Computer Aided CADT 140  CAD - Architectural Theory (2) CADT 195 Independent Study (1-3) Design (3) Architectural theory will introduce Advanced work in computer aided the student to three major areas of CADT 196 Topics (1-3) drafting principles including 2-D, 3-D, architecture: basic structures and their CADT 210 Project (3) shading, etc. One one-hour lecture and design, building codes and career Exploration of advanced aspects of two one and one-half hour laboratories opportunities. Corequisites: CADT 141 Computer Aided Design. Selected field per week. Prerequisites: CADT 106, or and 142 . project to develop more proficient consent of instructor. CADT 141 Structural Materials (3) understanding in 3-dimensional design. CADT 108 CAD - Mechanical (3) This course will identify the properties Final set of plans approved by and Offers the student basic principles of and applications of the materials of developed with faculty. Prerequisites: computer aided drafting through the industry. Codes, standards and testing CADT 106, 107, and 108. development of practical drawing will be emphasized in the fields of problems using CAD software on the architecture. There will be an introduction CADT 296 Topics (1-3) computer. One one-hour lecture and two to mechanical, electrical, plumbing and one and one-half laboratories per week. systems requirement. Corequisites: CADT COMPUTER 140 and 142. INFORMATION SYSTEMS CADT 109  CAD-Mechanical Advanced (3) Advanced work in computer aided drafting CADT 142  CAD - Residential (CISB) principles including 2-D and 3-D shading, Architecture (3) Residential Architectural CAD will provide CISB 101 Business Information solid based modeling and parametric Technology (3) modeling. One one-hour lecture and two the student with a realistic residential Introduction to computing and software, project that will begin with schematic including computing systems in a

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 131 business environment and applicable support utilizing spreadsheet tools emphasis on hypothesis testing, analysis software. covered by hands-on cases, book of variance, regression/correlation, time tutorials and lecture materials. Structured series, and introduction to operations CISB 205  Advanced Business problems, semi-structured problems and research and linear programming. Software (3) what-if scenarios explored. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 113 or higher, and Use of electronic spreadsheets and CISB 101 or CISB 205 or instructor STAT 200 or CISB 241. database management software. permission. Lectures, demonstrations, and hands- CISB 392 I nformation Systems Theory on projects. Developing customized CISB 306 S olving Problems Using and Practice (3) applications with macros in spreadsheets. Databases (3) Exploration and application of Creating tables, reports, forms, and For students who have minimal Information System theory for queries to creating appropriate background in databases. Assists in organizational success. Examination of relationships and developing customized understanding the importance of data managerial, user, and IS professional roles database software applications. management in organizations through within information systems. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: CISB 101 or permission of hands-on experience in solving business CISB 210. instructor. problems using relational database management software. Prerequisites: CISB 393 Cooperative Education (3-12) CISB 206 Business Database CISB 101 or CISB 210, or permission of Application Programming (3) instructor. CISB 395 Independent Study (1-3) Continuation of CISB 205. Emphasis on CISB 396 Topics (1-3) solving problems through application CISB 310 Enterprise Architecture (3) programming in a relational database Enterprise IT solutions, applications, management system. Prerequisite: CISB 205. CISB 400 Da ta Communications and infrastructure and fit within business Network Management (3) organizations. Prerequisite: CISB 210. CISB 210 F undamentals of Information Exploration of modern telecommunication and networking Systems (3) CISB 315 I nformation Systems Exploration of information systems in a technologies. Issues related to network Infrastructure (3) media, including cost, design and business environment. Use of information Information systems infrastructure, management of LANs and WANs systems to improve business processes computer architecture and addressed. How networks and and organizational goals. Introduction communications networks in an networking provide and enhance to hardware, software, ethical issues, organizational context. Prerequisite: CISB business communications. Networking career opportunities, and organizational 210. uses of information systems. Prerequisite: standards, standards organizations, CISB 101 or CISB 205, or permission of CISB 331 A dvanced Business security, privacy, installation and instructor. Programming (3) configuration issues will be in classroom Procedural and object-oriented software discussions with hands-on assignments. CISB 241 I ntroduction to Business engineering methodologies using Prerequisite: CISB 260 or TECI 260. Analysis (3) modern business languages. Emphasis Introduction to descriptive, predictive on data definition and measurement, CISB 410 Project Management (3) and inferential analysis techniques, data record and file processing, report Processes, techniques and tools of project interpretation, business research skills, generation and other traditional business management. Evaluating, initiating, and techniques for analysis and modeling information systems applications planning, staffing, executing, controlling, of business problems in the workplace. using modern methods of top-down, and closing projects using project Prerequisite: MATH 113 or higher, and structured design. Other concepts management software. Prerequisite: CISB CISB 101, CISB 205 or CISB 305. include developing screen editors, 210. abstract data types, and data structures CISB 442  Systems Analysis and CISB 260 I nformation System including sequential, random and Architecture (3) Design (3) Principles and applications of information indexed files. Prerequisite: CISB 206 or Analysis and logical design of information systems hardware and systems CSCI 110. systems. Practice in project management during team-oriented analysis and software. Theoretical underpinnings, CISB 341  Quantitative Decision installation, configuration, and operation Making (3) design of a departmental level system. emphasized. Prerequisite: CISB 210. Application of inferential statistics to Prerequisite: CISB 210, and CISB 206 or realistic business situations; use of CSCI 110. CISB 295 Independent Study (1-3) quantitative tools to enhance business CISB 451 Database Administration (3) CISB 305 Solving Problems Using decision-making ability. Descriptive Continuation of CISB 442 Systems Spreadsheets (3) statistics for data summarization, Analysis and Design. Covers development Critical analysis and problem solving probability theory, distributions, and implementation of conceptual and using tools in spreadsheets. Decision estimation, and index numbers with detailed physical system design using

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Prerequisite: Graduate electronic commerce, how it is the CIS instructor to determine a topic status at Colorado Mesa University. conducted and managed, and its and a method for reporting. For each opportunities, limitations, issues and risks. credit hour registered, the student will COMPUTER Coverage of technological infrastructure read and report on at least 200 pages that supports e-commerce systems, of scholarly readings. Prerequisites: SCIENCE (CSCI) plus the implications of such systems CIS major, junior or senior status, and CSCI 100  Computers In Our Society (3) in the business environment. Exercises permission of instructor. The impact of computers on society and include exploration of e-commerce individuals; purpose and use of software web sites and features, plus discussion CISB 493 Cooperative Education (3-12) integrated systems. Intended for students and demonstration of state-of-the art in disciplines outside the natural sciences e-commerce tools. Prerequisite: CISB 210 CISB 495 Independent Study (1-3) and mathematics. or permission of instructor. CISB 496 Topics (1-3) CSCI 106 Web Page Design I (3) CISB 470 M anagement of Information CISB 500 M anagement of Information Systems (3) Aspects of Web page design such as Systems (3) Reviews the development of analyzing HTML, Web servers, Web graphics/sound/ Reviews the development of an overall information use by organizations video, and programs that automate the framework for analyzing the use of with different types of information design of Web sites and scripts. Students information by organizations along systems. The conceptual foundations will progressively develop their own sites with examples of different types of of information systems and the throughout the term using software tools information systems. The conceptual development, operation, management, and concepts presented in the class. foundations of information systems uses, parties, control, structure, and Prerequisites: Familiarity with Windows. and the development, operation, impact of these systems will be management, uses, parties, control, CSCI 110 Beginning Programming (3) addressed. Analysis and design of structure, and impact of these systems Introduction to computer programming. information systems is stressed through will be addressed. The analysis and Includes syntax and semantics for case study projects, emphasizing the role design of information systems is stressed sequential, selection, and repetition of computing in information systems through case study and projects, structures, program design and and design of computer-based systems, emphasizing the role of computing modularization simple and structured expert systems, decision support systems in information systems and design of data types, and file I/O. Designed for and executive information systems. computer-based systems, expert systems, majors outside the scientific disciplines. Prerequisites: Junior or senior status. decision support systems and executive “Subtitle” indicates language of CISB 471 A dvanced Information information systems. implementation. Prerequisites: MATH Systems (3) 110 OR MATH 113 (either may be taken Capstone course for the BS in CIS. CISB 505 A dvanced Project concurrently) or consent of instructor. Integrates management information Management (3) needs, decision-making criteria, and Processes, techniques and tools of project CSCI 110L B eginning Programming management. Evaluating, initiating, Laboratory (1) design of interactive user interfaces. An optional laboratory course to be taken Design and development of planning, staffing, executing, controlling, and closing projects using project as a co-requisite to CSCI 110. This lab is computerized management control intended for those students currently systems for major functional modules management software. Projects, writing, and presentation to demonstrate mastery enrolled in CSCI 110 who have little or of an organization investigated, utilizing no previous programming/computer database management systems, at the graduate level. Prerequisite: CISB 210 and permission of instructor. experience. The student taking this distributed processing and structured course will complete several computer systems development. Prerequisites: CISB 560  Electronic Commerce assignments designed to increase the CISB 331, CISB 392, CISB 400, CISB 442, Systems (3) student’s knowledge of programming, CISB 451 and CISB 460, or consent of A comprehensive examination of debugging, and program design. “Subtitle” instructor. the modern paradigm of electronic indicates language of implementation. commerce, how it is conducted and Prerequisites: MATH 113 or consent of managed, and its major opportunities, instructor. Corequisite: CSCI 110. limitations, issues, and risks. Coverage of technological infrastructures that

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CSCI 111 CS1: Foundations of mapped input-output, peripherals and electronics, embedded digital Computer Science (4) interfacing. Prerequisite: CSCI 112. communications, and embedded Introduction to problem solving software design. Prerequisite: CSCI 321. techniques with emphasis on modularity, CSCI 250 CS3: Introduction to abstraction, analysis, and correctness of Algorithms (3) CSCI 330 Programming Languages (3) algorithm design. Using C/C++ language Complexity analysis and program Principles and concepts which as a tool, topics covered include data performance; abstract data types such characterize various classes of high-level, types, control structures, I/O, and as lists, trees, stacks and queues; sorting; computer programming languages functions. Prerequisite: MATH 113 (may searching and hashing. Prerequisite: CSCI are covered. Topics will include syntax be taken concurrently) or consent of 112. and semantic issues, data types/classes, instructor. control structures, binding, and storage CSCI 296 Topics (1-3) allocation. Prerequisites: CSCI 250. CSCI 112 CS2: Data Structures (4) Continuation of CSCI 111 with emphasis CSCI 305 Technology for Mathematics CSCI 333 UNIX Operating Systems (3) on algorithm design and analysis, Educators (3) Introduction to systems programming procedural abstraction, data abstraction, Project- and activity-based introduction with UNIX. Topics covered include and quality programming style. Topics to technology resources appropriate elementary and advanced user covered include distinction between for use by elementary mathematics commands, file handling, process dynamic and static variables; various educators. Focus will be on control, library routines, device drivers, implementations of elementary stacks, spreadsheets--programming, modeling, shell programming, and UNIX utilities. queues, trees and lists; comparison and data manipulation--supplemented Prerequisites: CSCI 112 or knowledge of of recursive and iterative algorithms; with topics chosen from interactive C++/C. program correctness; and hierarchical geometry software, interactive applets, design principles. Programming exercises simple webpage design, educational CSCI 337 User Interface Design (3) will focus on modularity of design and simulations and games, and other Examination of user interface design data abstraction. Prerequisites: CSCI 111. mathematical technology tools. (UID) principles. They include rules Prerequisites: MATH 113 and MATH 301. of perception, systems analysis, user CSCI 130 I ntroduction to Engineering analysis, good design principles, and Computer Science (3) CSCI 306 Web Page Design III (3) testing and evaluation of designs. Introduces the use of computers in Continuation of CSCI 206. Students Using an appropriate Rapid Application engineering problem solving and will consider web site management Development tool, students will design a elementary numerical methods. Learn issues, server-side scripting, security, and major project emphasizing UID concepts. programming fundamentals, including database interactions. Prerequisite: CSCI Prerequisite: CSCI 250. data and algorithm structure, and 206 or consent of instructor. modular programming. Numerical CSCI 345 Video Game Design (3) methods learned include solving CSCI 310  Advanced Programming: Exploration of game engine and (1-3) single, nonlinear equations, fixed-point development theory. Emphasis is on Exploration of a higher level iteration, Gaussian elimination, and linear rendering, physics simulation, artificial programming language for CSCI/CISB regression. Prerequisite: MATH 151 (may intelligence, and optimization techniques majors. Specifics will vary with the be taken concurrently). used in the modern game construction. language covered. Prerequisite: CSCI 111 Students will develop at least three CSCI 196 Topics (1-3) or CSCI 110. games during the semester. Prerequisite: CSCI 112. CSCI 206 Web Page Design II (3) CSCI 321 A ssembly Language Programming (3) A continuation of CSCI 106. Students will CSCI 370 Computer Security (3) learn a scripting language and how to Introduction to assembler, creating and Networked-computer security, suitable incorporate scripts in web page design. executing assembly language program, for both CS and CIS majors. Topics Prerequisites: CSCI 106 or permission of organization of machine under study, include security framework, access instructor. data definition, addressing techniques, control and site security, firewalls, attack data movement instruction, branching methods, elements of cryptography CSCI 241 C omputer Architecture and instructions, flag and PSW registers, and cryptographic systems, incidence Assembly Language (4) arithmetic instructions, macros and their response, security in e-commerce and Architecture of a representative processor implementation, hardware and software e-mail, management and policy decisions and its assembly language, introduction interrupts, storing instructions, typical for security. Prerequisites: CSCI 250 or to hardware description language, applications. Prerequisites: CSCI 241. CISB 400. register transfers and sequence control, realization of fetch, address, branch and CSCI 322 Embedded Systems (3) execute cycles, start, stop and reset Introduction to design of embedded the computer, interrupt and memory systems. Topics include: basic computer

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CSCI 375 O bject Oriented of design and normalization, SQL, language such as Lisp or Prolog. Programming (3) integrity, and security will be discussed. Prerequisite: CSCI 250. Advanced programming techniques Prerequisite: CSCI 250. using the object-oriented paradigm, CSCI 490 Software Engineering (3) with emphasis on abstractness of CSCI 470  Operating Systems Design (3) Exploration of the philosophy of software design, encapsulation, inheritance, and Aspects of computer operating system engineering. Software project planning, polymorphism. Additional topics include design and implementation including requirement analysis, software system design tools and methodologies for memory management, processor design and strategies, software design determining classes, responsibilities, management, device management, tools, program and system testing, collaborations, and hierarchies. information management and system maintenance, and economics are Prerequisites: CSCI 250. performance evaluation methods. Some examined. Prerequisites: CSCI 250 and knowledge of C is required. Prerequisite: CSCI 330. CSCI 380 Operations Research (3) CSCI 250, 241. Methods of linear and dynamic CSCI 494 Seminar (1-3) programming, inventory and CSCI 480 Theory of Algorithms (3) Discussions of specialized topics by replacement models, queuing theory, Techniques for analyzing time and space students, faculty, or visiting professors. game theory, PERT, CPM, and simulation. requirements of computer algorithms. One or two one-hour meetings per week. Prerequisites: MATH 152, STAT 200, CSCI Models are set up for analysis and 111. techniques are applied to algorithms CSCI 495 Independent Study (1-3) related to sorting and searching, pattern- CSCI 393 Internship (1-3) matching, graph problems and other CSCI 496 Topics (1-3) The internship course provides the selected problems. The notion of NP-hard student with the opportunity to problems is introduced and related CONSTRUCTION apply classroom theory to on-the-job problems are discussed. Prerequisites: MANAGEMENT (CONM) experiences. During the internship MATH 152, CSCI 250. course, the student will work at approved CONM 181  Principles of Construction professional positions related to the CSCI 482 Theory of Computation (3) Management (3) computer science field. The student will Computability and automata theory Construction industry practice be required to write and fulfill course introduced. Regular expressions, emphasizing business organization objectives with the approval of the finite and pushdown automata, and management techniques. internship coordinator. Prerequisites: Turing machines, grammars and their Includes principles of management, Junior standing, written consent of relationship to automata, Church- organizational environments, decision- internship coordinator. Turing hypothesis, incomputable and making, design, technology, leadership, undecidable functions and equivalence and basic construction management CSCI 395 Independent Study (1-3) of computability models are covered. with terminology, estimating and Prerequisites: MATH 369, CSCI 250. scheduling. This course replaces MANG CSCI 396 Topics (1-3) 201 requirements for Construction CSCI 484 Computer Networks (3) Management majors only. It does not CSCI 445 Computer Graphics (3) Topics include: hardware technology substitute for MANG 201 in any other Introduction to the use of the computer for local and long haul networks, circuit way. Prerequisite: CONC 101. to produce images: two and three and packet switching, interface between dimensional graphics, algorithms and computer and network hardware, CONM 264 Mechanical/Industrial data structures for hidden lines and network architectures and protocols, Systems (3) surfaces, shading, and reflections. routing, congestion and flow problems, Analysis and design understanding Prerequisites: MATH 152 and CSCI 250. queuing theory, and reliability issues. of specialty mechanical and industrial Instructors may choose to implement processes. Includes fundamentals CSCI 450 Compiler Structure (3) a sample network in which case the of thermodynamics, fluids, control Structures and techniques used in contents may be particularized to that interface issues, system testing compiler writing are discussed with network. Prerequisite: STAT 200. and commissioning. Emphasis on emphasis on scanners, symbol tables, fundamental theory followed by proof of parsers and code generation. The front CSCI 486 Artificial Intelligence (3) concepts through practicum. Lecture, lab end of a recursive descent parser is Introduction to artificial intelligence and field exercises. Prerequisites: MATH written for the semester project. Error programming with study of topics such 113, CONC 101, and CONM 181. analysis and code optimization are as knowledge representation, expert discussed as time permits. Prerequisites: systems, solution space search, non- CONM 316  Construction Materials and CSCI 321. Corequisite: CSCI 330. deterministic algorithms (neural nets, Methods (3) genetic algorithms), etc. Programs will Materials and methods utilized in CSCI 460 Database Design (3) be written in a selected AI programming design and construction of vertical and Design and implementation of relational horizontal projects. Course addresses databases. Approaches and methods

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 135 proper construction methods and CONM 401  Construction Financial deliverables. Prerequisites: BUGB 349, governing trade association standards. Management (3) CONM 340, CONM 401, CONM 472, Sustainability and ethics relating to Contract methods for recognizing CONM 480, senior status, and permission specification, ordering, and installation revenue and its impact on financial of instructor. of construction materials incorporated. statements. Analysis of financial Prerequisites: CONC 104, CONC 208, and statements and their use in developing CONM 496 Topics: (1-3) CONC 251. budgets, projecting cash needs, pricing construction projects and forecasting CONM 499  Construction Internship (1-6) CONM 340  Construction Estimating (3) impact of business decisions on profit University/construction industry Application of industry-recognized addressed. Prerequisite: FINA 301. partnership to provide real-life working methods of construction estimating to experiences. The internship program’s compile conceptual systems and detailed CONM 462  Soil and Foundation primary purpose is to prepare the estimates. Emphasis on students’ ability to Construction (3) construction management student communicate estimate results in written Properties of subsurface materials and with leadership responsibilities in and oral presentations. Prerequisites: principles of subsurface construction. a technologically oriented, diverse, CADT 105, CONC 208, CONC 228, CONC Topics include soil classification and dynamic and global construction 264, and CONM 316. testing, soil mechanics, earthmoving environment. Prerequisites: Senior status operations and foundation systems from and consent of instructor. CONM 361  Advanced Building a contractor’s perspective. Techniques Systems (3) of subsurface investigations and CONSTRUCTION Electrical, heating, ventilation, air subsequent interpretation of soil reports conditioning, plumbing, and fire studied to understand foundation TECHNOLOGY (CONC) suppression. Emphasis on design, construction methods and related field CONC 100 Introduction to the Trades (1) operation, and interaction. Principles of problems. Prerequisite: CONM 362. Introduction to construction work for codes, design, methods and materials as all crafts. Reviews history of the trade, CONM 472  Planning and Scheduling (3) applicable to the construction industry describes apprentice programs, identifies Planning, scheduling and controlling included. Building system controls for career opportunities for construction construction operations. Emphasis on smart buildings integrated in each workers, and addresses the attributes and the planning phase of construction component. Prerequisite: CONC 161. characteristics workers should possess. projects, logic diagrams, network- CONM 362  Structure Analysis - Statics/ based scheduling techniques, and CONC 101 C onstruction Safety and Materials Strength (3) computer-assisted scheduling. Regulations (3) Behavior of structural components Application of industry-recognized Construction safety and its effect on and systems plus a broad overview of scheduling methodology to construction productivity and employee morale. structural engineering analysis/design projects. Emphasis on communicating Application of basic principles of accident process. Principles of statics and strength project schedules in written and oral prevention. Complying with the various of materials including properties of presentations. Prerequisite: CONM 264 federal, state, and local laws governing materials, forces, equilibrium, stresses and CONC 265. safety (OSHA), hazardous chemicals, and and strains studied. Emphasis on drugs in the work place. understanding behavior of structural CONM 480 Project Management (3) components associated with construction Exploration of professional practice as a CONC 102 Electrical Safety (1) processes. Prerequisites: STAT 200, MATH constructor requiring understanding of Introduction to safety rules and 141, PHYS 112, and PHYS 112L. working and contractual relationships regulations for trainees entering among all participants in any project the construction trades. Necessary CONM 370  Managing Safety and the process. Required participation in precautions for various electrical hazards Regulatory Environment (3) construction simulation involving initial found on the job. OSHA mandated lock/ Impact of safety on the construction planning to project completion (includes tag out procedures. industry, in-depth discussions concerning budgets, estimating, scheduling, application of O.S.H.A. Safety and Health financing and creating contracts, and CONC 103 Rigging Safety Basic (1) Standards for the Construction Industry. other construction forms as necessary). Introduction to the safe use of slings, Course emphasis on safety management Prerequisites: CONM 264, CONM 340 and hardware, hoists, and hitches used in training for jobsite supervisory CONM 401. rigging operations. Also highlights personnel. Additionally, various critical safety issues and accepted rigging regulatory requirements encountered CONM 485  Construction Management techniques and practices. in construction addressed. Prerequisite: Issues (3) Junior status. Issues facing the professional constructor. CONC 104 A rchitectural/Civil Print Integration of project management Reading (2) includes field study, research, case Reading and hand-drafting prints as readings, problem solving, and project used in industry, application of that

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 136 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG information to various architectural and CONC 131 Exterior Trim (1) CONC 203 Concrete Placing & civil industries. Cornice and rake construction, corners, Finishing (2) windows, and door trim. Installation Tools, equipment, and procedures CONC 116 Building Materials (3) of soffits, fascia and similar trim items required for handling, placement, and Introduction to building materials and and the estimating and selection of finishing of concrete at the job site. methods commonly used today. Includes proper materials. Prerequisite: Instructor Safety procedures for handling, placing, interior and exterior materials from permission. and finishing concrete are emphasized. foundations to roof systems. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. CONC 140 Stair Construction/Layout (2) CONC 117 Building Materials Testing (3) Wooden stairs used in residential and CONC 205 Job Site Layout & Introduction to the properties and testing commercial construction and procedures Measuring (2) of materials used in today’s construction for laying out stairs, cutting out stringers Job-site layout as outlined on a set of projects. This includes wood products, and installing and finishing stairs. blueprints for a given construction site. metal, soil, aggregates, concrete, and Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Includes complex plot plans and multi- asphalt. Prerequisites: CONC 116 or unit site layouts. Prerequisite: Instructor Instructor permission. CONC 147 General Interior Finishes/ permission. Trim (2) CONC 120 General Construction An overview of interior finishes including CONC 208 Construction Equipment (3) Framing (2) general painting and wall coverings. Basic understanding of general Basic framing methods and materials Installation and finishing of drywall and equipment and methods employed utilizing a hands-on framing lab. The suspended ceilings. Material choices in different sectors of the construction basics of wood and metal framing. and installation techniques of various industry. Areas covered are factors Other methods of construction such as interior trim, including doors, baseboard, affecting the selection of equipment, Masonry, EIFS, and Stucco construction and casement. Prerequisite: Instructor rental versus ownership of equipment, also covered. permission. estimating earthwork quantities, figuring equipment production, equipment CONC 121 Floor Framing (2) CONC 161 Building Mechanical/ management, and quality control of Cover framing basics as well as Electrical (3) projects. the procedures for laying out and Introduction to basic electrical, plumbing, constructing a wood floor using heating, ventilation, and air conditioning CONC 215 Form and Foundation common lumber as well as engineered systems found in residential and Systems (2) building materials. Prerequisite: commercial building. Basic theory and Construction of forms for continuous, Instructor permission. design concepts included. Prerequisite: stepped continuous, pier, and concrete Instructor permission. foundations. Also covered are edge CONC 122 Wall and Ceiling Framing (2) forms used for on-grade concrete slabs Focus on the procedures for laying out CONC 196 Topics (1-3) and similar structures. Forming terms, and framing walls and ceilings, including parts of forms, and the procedures roughing-in door and window openings, CONC 201 Building Permits, Codes, for construction of basic footing and construction corners and partition T’s, Ethics (1) edge forms are included. Prerequisite: bracing walls and ceilings, and applying Introduction to the basic concepts of Instructor permission. sheathing. Prerequisite: Instructor code enforcement and governmental permission. regulations concerning building and the CONC 218 Surveying (3) process through which these regulations The fundamentals of modern plane CONC 125 Ro of Framing Materials and are enforced. Also aspects of the trade surveying techniques and basic Methods (2) and how to assure an ethical approach surveying instruments. Emphasis on Introduction to the application when dealing with owners/customers, construction-related aspects of surveying techniques and estimation of asphalt and contractors, and suppliers in meeting and the development of skills in using wood roofing products and accessories industry-building standards. surveying field information. Prerequisites: including gutters and flashing. UTEC 107 or MATH 113 Prerequisite: Instructor permission. CONC 202 I ntroduction to Concrete Materials (1) CONC 228 Estimating and Cost CONC 130 Windows & Exterior Doors (2) Describes the properties, characteristics, Control (3) Identification of various types of and uses of various types of cement, The estimation process, the role of windows, skylights, and exterior doors. aggregates, and other materials that, the estimator, types of estimation, CSI Provides instructions for installation. when mixed together, form different Divisions, bid/contract documents, Instruction for installing weather- types of concrete. Procedures for change order pricing, value engineering, stripping and locksets. Prerequisite: concrete volume estimates and testing of design build projects, and estimate Instructor permission. freshly mixed concrete are covered. compilation and cost controls. Prerequisites: CADT 105, CONC 116,

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CONC 161, CONC 208 or instructor CONC 270 Practical Applications (4) CRMJ 315 Resear ch Methods in Criminal permission. Supplemental coursework with practical Justice (3) work experience related to educational Research methods and their application CONC 234 Commercial/Industrial program. Students will work under the to Criminal Justice. Prerequisite: CRMJ Plans (2) immediate supervision of experienced 201, and STAT 200 or STAT 215. Introduction to the commercial/industrial personnel at the business location. construction industry. Processes, Students will work on construction CRMJ 320 Corrections (3) practices, and materials typically used in sites or projects related to their career The role of corrections in the criminal commercial/industrial construction will field of interest with advice of faculty. justice system: history, guiding be studied. Prerequisite: instructor permission. philosophies and theories, treatment approaches, custody issues, and CONC 235 T hermal and Moisture CONC 296 Topics (1-3) supervision of offenders on probation Methods and Materials (1) and parole. Prerequisite: CRMJ 201 or Selection and installation of various CRIMINAL consent of instructor. types of insulating materials in walls, floors, and attics. Covers the uses and JUSTICE (CRMJ) CRMJ 321 F orensic Science for Criminal installation practices for vapor barriers Justice (3) and waterproofing materials. CRMJ 201 I ntroduction to Criminal Advanced overview of current issues, Justice (3) techniques, practices, and investigative Philosophy, history and development CONC 245 Project Management (3) strategies related to criminal forensics. of the American criminal justice system. Principles of project planning, scheduling, Specific skills used in crime scene Survey of the role of law enforcement estimation and management. Emphasis processing and analysis, medico-legal agencies, the courts, jails, prisons, on the basic skills required to supervise examination, and courtroom testimony probation and parole in both juvenile personnel including oral communication, developed. Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. problem identification, problem solving and adult systems. and decision-making. The course will also CRMJ 325 Juvenile Justice (3) CRMJ 296 Topics (1-3) cover how to control productivity on Philosophy, history, and current state of the project. Prerequisites: CONC 228 or CRMJ 301 Criminal Procedure (3) juvenile justice and law with emphasis on instructor permission. Analysis of landmark U.S. Supreme Court juvenile trends, juvenile policing, juvenile cases and their impact on operating court, and juvenile post conviction CONC 251 C onstruction Prep: Codes, strategies. Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. Permits (3) procedures of law enforcement and the Legal aspects including liens, contracts, courts. Focuses on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. CRMJ 328 American Court Systems (3) bids, specifications, building permits and The American court system; local, state, Prerequisites: CRMJ 201 or POLS 101 or licensing, inspections and the Uniform and national, including consideration consent of instructor. Building Code. Introduces intra-trade of the impact of prosecutors, defense coordination, remodeling and additions, CRMJ 302 Ethics in Criminal Justice (3) personnel, judges, and other factors on construction practices, construction Examination of ethics in the criminal court decisions and the criminal justice management and supervision. justice system from investigation, arrest, system. Prerequisites: CRMJ 201 or POLS 101. CONC 253 Cabinets & Countertops (3) prosecution, defense, and corrections. Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. Selection, installation, and terminology CRMJ 330 Domestic Violence (3) of factory built cabinets and countertops. CRMJ 310 The Police Process (3) Exploration of intimate and domestic Includes various types and design, and Basic features of policing in the United violence through a life-course examines estimation of cost of cabinets States. Police work, police organizations, perspective. Child abuse and neglect, and installation. Prerequisites: instructor police officers, and the critical problems intimate partner violence, and elder permission. facing policing today are examined in abuse and neglect considered. Criminal social and political context. Prerequisite: justice responses and prevention efforts CONC 265 Planning and Scheduling for critically examined. Prerequisite: CRMJ the Construction CRMJ 201. Supervisor (3) 201. Planning the sequence, duration and CRMJ 311 Victimology (3) relationship of activities for a construction Study of crime victims, their numbers, CRMJ 340 Community Corrections (3) process. Communicate the plan to common characteristics, and roles they Applied and practical approach to contractual parties and to use the plan play in their own victimization. Legal, community corrections. Assessment, as reference point for examining project psychological, and social perspectives supervision, reintegration, and changes. Includes planning for safety, explored. Various theoretical explanations community partnerships emphasized. organization, manpower, problem regarding both first-time and repeat Special needs populations, unique issues solving, and site layout. Prerequisites: victimizations discussed. Prerequisite: and challenges, and insights into day-to- instructor permission. CRMJ 201. day experiences of various community

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 138 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG corrections practitioners examined. and interactive experiences involves the interpretation of statutory laws and Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. students in the investigative process by analysis of relevant case law to formulate utilizing field exercises such as evidence sound, persuasive argument throughout CRMJ 350 Serial Perpetrators (3) collection and preservation, simulations the adversarial process. Considers trial Exploration of the phenomenon of serial related to crime scenes, surveillance procedure and the law of evidence. perpetrators, their culture, biological, activities, victim/suspect interviews Prerequisites: CRMJ 201; CRMJ 301 or and psychological development, and and interrogations, and sound case CRMJ 420 is recommended before taking the social construction of serial crime. preparation. Prerequisite: CRMJ 310. this course. Case studies of known serial perpetrators examined and investigative techniques CRMJ 412 Constitutional Law (3) CRMJ 426 Mock Trial (1) for identifying and apprehending An analysis of American constitutional Taken in conjunction with participation suspects developed. Prerequisite: CRMJ theory as articulated by the U. S. Supreme in collegiate mock trial competition. 201. Court. Specific topics include the nature Examination of procedure of trial of judicial review, the powers of the adversarial process, and participation CRMJ 370 Criminology (3) President and Congress, federalism, in mock trial competition. Prerequisites: Major paradigms in the field of the regulation of commerce and the None. Recommended: CRMJ 425. criminology and major contributions to development of substantive due process. the field in the U.S. and abroad. Emphasis Prerequisite: POLS 101, CRMJ 201 or CRMJ 430 Organized Crime (3) on socio-historical development and consent of instructor. History of organized crime. Transnational philosophical movements that shaped and global nature of organized crime criminological theory and its implications CRMJ 415 C ounter-Terrorism and Law groups. Current strategies employed to for criminal justice. Prerequisites: CRMJ Enforcement (3) combat the phenomenon. Specific types 201 or SOCO 260. Emergence of modern terrorism and of criminal enterprises explored and efforts to combat it. Strategies and various theoretical explanations regarding CRMJ 395 Independent Study (1-3) systems involved in protecting against their formation and maintenance offered. and responding to threats. Survey of Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. CRMJ 396 Topics (1-3) major policies, practices, concepts, and challenges confronting practitioners in CRMJ 470 Restorative Justice (3) CRMJ 400 Dea th Investigations and the complex field of counterterrorism Exploration of an emerging paradigm in Forensic Pathology (3) and homeland security. Exploration of the field of criminal justice. Challenges Explorations of types of death various issues facing law enforcement notions of both crime and justice. investigations. Focus on crime scene agencies in counterterrorism efforts. Explorations of alternative notions documentation, impact of emergent Prerequisite: CRMJ 310. to these issues which question the technology on the investigative process, dominant paradigm and a justice system collection of evidence, and the role of CRMJ 420 Criminal Law (3) based upon retribution. Examination the investigator in a criminal prosecution. Philosophy, history and current state of of the foundation of restorative justice, Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. criminal law with emphasis on analysis the principles which guide restorative and application of Colorado Statutes and practices, and gain a critical perspective CRMJ 405 C ivil Liability for Law the American Law Institute Model Penal Enforcement and Corrections of this emerging paradigm. Awareness (3) Code. Prerequisite: CRMJ 201, or POLS created of the various approaches to Overview of civil liability of law 101, or consent of instructor. crime and justice other than the one enforcement and correctional officers. institutionalized within our American CRMJ 421 Cybercrime (3) Torts and civil rights remedies, the criminal justice system. Prerequisite: CRMJ Examination of the convergence of 201 or SOCO 260. doctrine of respondeat superior, and computer technology and the need chain of liability. Specific issues of use to protect data and information across of force, failure to protect, searches and CRMJ 494 Senior Seminar in Criminal a broad range of fields from national Justice (3) segregation, inadequate medical care, security, to criminal justice, to private Arranged tutorials and seminars with and negligence examined. Prerequisite: security, and corporate sectors. Specific Criminal Justice faculty and students, CRMJ 201. attention to cyber attacks, the methods design and execution of a research CRMJ 410 Criminal Investigations (3) used, the social impact, and the bodies project and submission of a senior thesis. Analysis of the investigative process and of laws pertaining to computer crime Prerequisites: CRMJ 201, CRMJ 315, STAT techniques employed in a contemporary covered. Prerequisite: CRMJ 201. 215 and senior status. criminal investigation. Considers CRMJ 425 T rial, Evidence and Legal CRMJ 495 Independent Study (1-3) theory and methodology of criminal Advocacy (3) investigation, and legal dynamics Development of written and oral CRMJ 496 Topics (1-3) relative to achieving the major goals advocacy skills through critical of an investigation. Use of practical examination of legal issues, focusing on

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CRMJ 499 Internship (1-15) abilities required for operation of a fields, and the interrelations between the Opportunities to apply theoretical law enforcement vehicle. Emphasizes student and his environment. principles in a structured organizational defensive driving. Enables students to or work environment. Prior instructor demonstrate skills by driving a vehicle CUAR 101 Food Safety & Sanitation (2) and site approval required at least one under simulated conditions. Prerequisite: Exploration of the basic rules of semester in advance. Required clock Permission of Academy Director. sanitation, food-borne illnesses, safe food hours dependent upon credit hours. temperatures, and safe food handling Prerequisites: Junior or senior status in CRJW 108 Firearms (3) techniques. Criminal Justice, CRMJ 201, and consent Discusses the skills, knowledge and of instructor. abilities necessary to safely use police CUAR 120 Wine and Spirits (2) firearms. Students will demonstrate skills Examination of types of beverages and CRIMINAL JUSTICE: by firing weapons on a firing range. The equipment including wines, beers, and student will demonstrate basic safety spirits. Profitability, marketing, federal P.O.S.T. (CRJW) techniques and will explain the firearms and local laws, and service will be discussed. The history of making and CRJW 101 Basic Police Academy (6) role within the continuum of force. processing wines, spirits and beers will be Conforms to POST standards and state Prerequisite: Permission of Academy studied. certification requirements as well as the Director. basic skills and knowledge necessary to CRJW 270 H omicidal Drowning CUAR 121 I ntroduction to Food perform the entry level duties of a peace Investigations (2) Production (1) officer. Emphasis will be on simulating Homicidal Drowning Investigations - Fundamental principles of commercial actual situations utilizing a lecture and The approaches to water related death kitchen operations. laboratory mode of learning. Prerequisite: investigations. Exploration of the crime Permission of Academy Director. scene. Prerequisites: POST association, CUAR 122 Introduction to Hot Foods (1) Fundamental principles of stocks, soups, CRJW 102 Basic Police Academy II (12) or Criminal Justice Major, or Law Enforcement, or Forensic study, or Fire sauces, gravies, and products in the Conforms to POST standards and state kitchen. certification requirements as well Service, or Emergency Medical Services, or instructor’s permission. as the basic skills and knowledge to CUAR 123 Introduction to perform the entry level duties of a peace Garde Manger (1) CRJW 280 P ublic Safety Diving Phase Fundamental principles of cold foods and officer. Emphasis will be on simulating 1 (4) actual situations utilizing a lecture and Public safety diving environments. The non-alcoholic beverage preparation. laboratory mode of learning. Prerequisite: formation of responsible scuba diving Permission of Academy Director. CUAR 124 Food Production practices. Includes Basic Open Water Applications (1) CRJW 105 Basic Law (8) Scuba Certification and protection from Basic cooking principles and practices in Conforms to POST standards and state contaminated working environments. the production of stocks, soups, sauces certification requirements as well as the Prerequisites: POST association, or and gravies, and vegetables, starches, basic skills and knowledge necessary to Criminal Justice major, or Fire Service or fruits, salads, and dressing. perform the entry level duties of a peace medical evaluation, or physically fit or officer. Emphasis will be on United States instructor’s permission. CUAR 125 Introduction to Foods (4) Constitution, arrest, search and seizure, Exploration of fundamental principles CRJW 290 Underwater CSI (2) interrogation and confessions, rules and practices of a commercial kitchen, Underwater crime scene investigations. of evidence, Colorado Criminal Code, including the organization of work, and Operational development of underwater Colorado Traffic Code, Colorado Children’s basic cooking methods. Corequisite: crime scene investigations. Operational Code, Liquor Code and controlled CUAR 101 or permission of instructor. protocol with public safety diving substances. Prerequisite: Permission of hazards. Proper evidence mapping CUAR 129 Center of the Plate (4) Academy Director. and securing underwater crime scenes. Provides the basic methods for CRJW 106 Arrest Control (3) Prerequisites: CRJW 280, medical preparation and cooking of a variety of Covers the skills, knowledge and abilities evaluation, physically fit, or instructor’s complete meals in a commercial kitchen. necessary to effectively maintain control permission. Corequisite: CUAR 125 and CUAR 101 or of a suspect when making an arrest. permission of instructor. Emphasizes the continuum of force CULINARY ARTS (CUAR) CUAR 131 V egetables, Starches, Pastas, and de-escalation of force. Prerequisite: Breakfast and Short Order Permission of Academy Director. CUAR 100 C ulinary Program Fundamentals (3) Cookery (1) Preparation of vegetables, starches, CRJW 107 Law Enforcement Driving (3) Introduction to the basic fundamentals breakfast and grilled items. Covers the skills, knowledge and of the culinary, baking, and hospitality

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CUAR 132 Center of the Plate: Meat (1) and production techniques. Prerequisite: Asia, India, China, and Japan will be Preparation of a variety of meat dishes. CUAR 145. introduced. Prerequisites: CUAR 101, CUAR 125, and CUAR 129. CUAR 133 C enter of the Plate: Poultry, CUAR 152 I ndividual Fancy Desserts Fish (1) Production (3) CUAR 251 Advanced Garde Manger and Preparation of a variety of seafood and Preparation and decoration of individual Hors D’Oeuvres (3) poultry dishes. dessert items using production Introduces the student to a broad array techniques and equipment used in of both hot and cold hors d’oeuvres and CUAR 134 Food Production commercial bakeries to craft traditional appetizers. Students learn to prepare Applications (1) various ethnic hors d’oeuvres including and modern pastries, tarts, petite fours tapas, antipasta, sushi, classical and Practical application of food production and cookies. Prerequisite: CUAR 145. techniques related to courses CUAR contemporary canapes as well as show 121, CUAR 122, CUAR 123, CUAR 134, mirrors and platters. Prerequisites: CUAR CUAR 153 C onfectionaries and Petit 101 and CUAR 125. CUAR 131, CUAR 132, and CUAR 133. Fours (3) Prerequisite: CUAR 124.. Introduces the art of advanced pastry CUAR 255 Sup ervision in the Hospitality skills utilized to craft specialty items such Industry (3) CUAR 141 B asic Baking Principles and as chocolates, candies and confections, Ingredients (1) Skills necessary for creating a goal- marzipan and pastillage sculpture, and Fundamentals of baking terminology, oriented environment utilizing petit fours. Prerequisite: CUAR 145. principles of baking, and the management principles in the hospitality industry. characteristics and functions of the main CUAR 156 Nutrition for the Hospitality ingredients used in bakery production. Professional (3) CUAR 261 Cost Controls (3) Fundamentals of nutrition as they apply Explores the costs usually found in the CUAR 142 B asic Yeast-Raised Products to the food service industry. food service industry and the techniques and Quick Breads (1) used to control them. Application of basic yeast-raised baking CUAR 163 Advanced Cake Decorating (3) principles. Introduction to advanced cake CUAR 262 P urchasing for the Hospitality production techniques, and the Industry (3) CUAR 143 C akes, Pies and Pastry, Explores the purchasing, selection, and Cookies (1) equipment used in the modern bakery to craft wedding and specialty cakes. procurement of food and supplies in the Application of basic cake, pie, pastry, and hospitality industry. cookie production. Prerequisite: CUAR 145. CUAR 269 Dietary Baking (3) CUAR 144 Baking Applications (1) CUAR 190 Dining Room Management (4) Examines techniques and equipment Application of basic baking principles Explores service related skills common to used to produce high quality bakery and production. the “front of the house” through hands- on training in a restaurant dining room. products that address the issue of CUAR 145 Introduction to Baking (4) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. common food allergens and intolerances. Exploration of basic baking principles, Prerequisites: CUAR 145 and CUAR 156. the characteristics and functions of CUAR 196 Topics: (1-3) CUAR 271 Techniques of Culinary ingredients, and production techniques CUAR 233 A dvanced Line Prep and Competition - Hot Food (3) for a variety of baked goods in a Cookery (4) Fundamental principles and technical commercial kitchen. Corequisites: CUAR Preparation of complete meals to order. skills, required to engage in hot food 125 and CUAR 129. Emphasizes cooking “center of the culinary competition. Precision in the plate” items such as meat, fish, seafood, areas of knife skills, mise en place, recipe CUAR 150 B aking: Decorating and Presentation (3) and poultry in a commercial kitchen. development, perfect execution of Introduction to techniques and Prerequisites: CUAR 125, CUAR 129, and culinary technique, and exploration of equipment used in the modern bakery to CUAR 145, or permission of instructor. in-depth organizational processes. produce, decorate and present pastries CUAR 236 Advanced Baking (3) CUAR 272 Techniques of Culinary and desserts using a variety of products. Refinement of skills in the creation of Competition - Cold Food (3) Prerequisite: CUAR 145. breads and pastries, dessert garnishes Fundamental principles and technical and accompanying sauces, and specialty skills required to engage in cold food CUAR 151 I ntermediate Bread culinary competition. Expose students to Preparation (3) dessert products. Prerequisite: CUAR 145. theories and principles of cold food show Examines techniques and equipment CUAR 245 International Cuisine (3) platters, elementary glazing techniques, used in the modern bakery to craft Introduces full meal preparation of hot food shown cold and other cold food traditional and artisanal yeast breads a variety of international cuisines. competition concepts. using a variety of commercial and pre- Ethnic ingredients and meals from the ferment/wild yeast leavening methods Mediterranean, Latin America, Southeast

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CUAR 281 Internship (2-6) DANC 177 Beginning Tap Dance (1) DANC 236 Tap IIA (2) Places students in an actual work Including terminology, theory, history Intermediate tap dance technique. situation where they participate in the & critical analysis of the Art Form. Prerequisite: DANC 177 and 177L, or operation of a foodservice establishment. Corequisite: DANC 177L. consent of instructor.

CUAR 296 Topics: (1-3) DANC 177L Beginning Tap Dance DANC 237 Tap IIB (2) Laboratory (1) Intermediate tap dance technique. DANCE (DANC) Including alignment, balance, endurance, Prerequisite: DANC 236 or consent of flexibility and strength in elementary instructor. ü DANC 115 Dance Appreciation- technical proficiency. Corequisite: DANC GTAH1 (3) 177. This course fulfills one KINA activity DANC 250 Dance Improvisation (2) Exploration of the roots and trends of credit. Introduction to and application of basic the art of dance from the primitive to the theories of dance improvisation. contemporary. Introduction of esthetic DANC 180 Beginning Hip Hop Dance (1) guidelines for looking at dance as it Fundamentals of Hip Hop, including DANC 255 Choreography (3) relates to America and the world. alignment, balance, endurance, flexibility, Introduction to and application of basic and strength, in elementary technical theories of choreography, including DANC 156 Dance Performance (1) proficiency. principles of critical analysis. Prerequisite: Student participation in the production DANC 250 or consent of instructor. of a dance supervised by faculty or DANC 196 Topics (1-3) guest artist. Students must audition. DANC 256 Dance Performance (1) Corequisite: one technique class. DANC 219 Ballroom Dance (2) Student participation in the production of a dance supervised by faculty or DANC 225 The Healthy Dancer (3) DANC 160 Beginning Ballet (1) guest artist. Students must audition. Including terminology, theory, history Exploration into conditioning, nutrition, Corequisite: one technique class. & critical analysis of the Art Form. injury prevention, basic anatomy and Corequisite: DANC 160L. motivational techniques unique to the DANC 280 Hip Hop II (1) dance student. Intermediate theory and practice of Hip DANC 160L Beginning Ballet Hop. Prerequisite: DANC 180 or consent Laboratory (1) DANC 230 Modern IIA (2) of instructor. Including alignment, balance, endurance, Intermediate modern dance technique. flexibility, and strength, in elementary Prerequisite: DANC 169 and 169L, or DANC 290 Choreography Practicum I (1) technical proficiency. Corequisite: DANC consent of instructor. Student practice in choreography and 160. This course fulfills one KINA activity producing an original dancework. May be DANC 231 Modern IIB (2) repeated once for credit. credit. Intermediate modern dance technique. DANC 169 Beginning Modern Dance (1) Prerequisite: DANC 230 or consent of DANC 296 Topics (1-3) Including terminology, theory, history instructor. & critical analysis of the Art Form. DANC 310 Dance Pedagogy (3) DANC 232 Jazz IIA (2) Theory and application of methods of Corequisite: DANC 169L. Intermediate jazz dance technique. teaching dance techniques. Prerequisite: DANC 169L Beginning Modern Dance Prerequisite: DANC 174 and 174L, or 4 semester hours of dance technique Laboratory (1) consent of instructor. (ballet, jazz, modern and/or tap). Alignment, balance, endurance, flexibility, and strength, in elementary technical DANC 233 Jazz IIB (2) DANC 315 History and Philosophy of Intermediate jazz dance technique. Dance I (3) proficiency. Corequisite: DANC 169. This Prerequisite: DANC 232 or consent of Cultural and historical exploration of course fulfills one KINA activity credit. instructor. dance, from its primitive roots to the 20th DANC 174 Beginning Jazz Dance (1) Century. Prerequisite: ENGL 112. Including terminology, theory, history DANC 234 Ballet IIA (2) Intermediate ballet technique. DANC 316 History and Philosophy of & critical analysis of the Art Form. Prerequisite: DANC 160 and 160L, or Dance II (3) Corequisite: DANC 174L. consent of instructor. Cultural, historic, and aesthetic DANC 174L Beginning Jazz Dance exploration of dance in the 20th Century. Laboratory (1) DANC 235 Ballet IIB (2) Prerequisite: DANC 315. Including alignment, balance, endurance, Intermediate ballet technique. flexibility and strength in elementary Prerequisite: DANC 234 or consent of DANC 328 Music Analysis for Dance (3) Exploration of rhythmic structure technical proficiency. Corequisite: DANC instructor. inherent in dance, including music 174. This course fulfills one KINA activity notation, rhythmic coordination as it requirement.

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 142 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG relates to dance and musicality of the be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: DANC 496 Topics (1-3) body. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. DANC 290 or consent of instructor. ECONOMICS (ECON) DANC 330 Modern IIIA (2) DANC 396 Topics: (1-3) Intermediate to advanced modern dance ü ECON 201 P rinciples of technique. Prerequisite: Consent of DANC 430 Modern IVA (2) Macroeconomics-GTSS1 instructor. Intermediate/advanced modern dance (3) technique. Prerequisite: Consent of ü ECON 202 P rinciples of DANC 331 Modern IIIB (2) instructor. Microeconomics-GTSS1 Intermediate to advanced modern dance (3) technique. Prerequisite: DANC 330 or DANC 431 Modern IVB (2) Basic concepts of economics. Courses consent of instructor. Advanced modern dance technique. must be taken in sequence and are not Prerequisite: consent of instructor. open to freshmen. DANC 332 Jazz IIIA (2) Intermediate to advanced jazz dance DANC 432 Jazz IVA (2) ECON 301 Labor-Management technique. Prerequisite: consent of Advanced jazz dance technique. Relations (3) instructor. Prerequisite: instructor consent. Organized labor movement, employer labor policies, collective bargaining, DANC 333 Jazz IIIB (2) DANC 433 Jazz IVB (2) wages and wage regulation, social Intermediate to advanced jazz dance Intermediate to advanced jazz dance insurance, and public labor policy. technique. Prerequisite: consent of technique. Prerequisite: Consent of Counts as management course for BBA instructor. instructor. candidates. Prerequisites: ECON 201, 202, or equivalent. DANC 334 Ballet IIIA (2) DANC 434 Ballet IVA (2) Intermediate to advanced ballet Intermediate to advanced ballet ECON 310 Money and Banking (3) technique. Prerequisite: consent of technique. Prerequisite: Consent of Monetary, credit, and banking systems instructor. instructor. in the United States. Counts as management course for BBA candidates. DANC 435 Ballet IVB (2) DANC 335 Ballet IIIB (2) Prerequisites: ECON 201, 202, or Advanced ballet technique. Prerequisite: Intermediate to advanced ballet equivalent. technique. Prerequisite: Consent of consent of instructor. instructor. ECON 312 E conomic History of the DANC 436 Tap IVA (2) United States (3) DANC 336 Tap IIIA (2) Intermediate to advanced tap dance Economic development of the United Intermediate to advanced tap dance technique. Prerequisite: Consent of States and the nation’s economic technique. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. institutions from the colonial period to instructor. DANC 437 Tap IVB (2) the present. Prerequisites: ECON 201, 202 or HIST 131, 132, or consent of instructor. DANC 337 Tap IIIB (2) Advanced tap dance technique. Intermediate to advanced tap dance Prerequisite: consent of instructor. ECON 320 History of Economic Ideas (3) technique. Prerequisite: consent of Development of economic analysis, instructor. DANC 456 Dance Performance (1) Student participation in the production thought, theories, and doctrines from the ancient world to recent times. DANC 355 Advanced Choreography (3) of a dance work supervised by faculty or guest artist. Prerequisite: by audition, Prerequisites: ECON 201, 202, or Advanced investigation and application equivalent. of theories of choreography, including DANC 356, or consent of instructor. critical analysis of the art form. Corequisite: one technique class. ECON 342 I ntermediate Macroeconomic Prerequisite: DANC 255 or consent of Theory (3) instructor. DANC 490 Choreography Practicum III (1) Factors determining the level and rate Student practice in choreography and of growth of GDP, the inflation rate, and producing an original dance work. May DANC 356 Dance Performance (1) the employment rate. Policies that have be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: Student participation in the production been (or may be) used to influence these DANC 390 or consent of instructor. of a dance work supervised by faculty variables, and empirical evidences on the or guest artist. Prerequisites: by audition, DANC 494 Senior Dance Capstone (3) relationships among variables are also DANC 256, or consent of instructor. studied. Prerequisites: ECON 201, 202, or Corequisite: one technique class. Exploration of and preparation for dance professions/careers for upper division equivalent, or consent of instructor. DANC 390 Choreography Practicum II (1) dance students. Student practice in choreography and producing an original dance work. May DANC 495 Independent Study (1-3)

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ECON 343 I ntermediate Microeconomic ECON 495 Independent Study (1-3) an analysis of the efficiency with which Theory (3) one’s employing school district funds, Problems of resource scarcity in a market ECON 496 Topics (1-3) operates and assesses CTE programs. economy. Emphasis is placed on an analysis of resource allocation under ECON 505 Advanced Econometrics (3) EDUT 260 Adult Learning and different forms of competition. Covers Application of advanced statistical Teaching (3) theory of the firm, theories of market methods to economic and business Examines the philosophy of community structure, efficiency, equity, and the problems. Includes multiple regression colleges and/or secondary schools and application of public policy. Prerequisites: analysis. Sophisticated cross sectional the roles and responsibilities of the ECON 201, 202, or equivalent, or consent models such as instrumental variable, faculty member within the college/ of instructor. probit, and tobit. Time series topics such school community. Introduces basic as forecasting, autoregressive models, instructional theories and applications, ECON 395 Independent Study (1-3) vector autoregressions, cointegration, with particular emphasis on adult and some panel methods. Demonstration learners. Includes syllabus development, ECON 396 Topics (1-3) of mastery of material through graduate learning goals and outcomes, and lesson level projects, writing, and presentations. plans. Emphasizes teaching to a diverse ECON 401 E conomic Organization and Prerequisites: CISB 241 or STAT 200, Public Policy (3) student body, classroom management, MANG 341 or CISB 341, ECON 201, and assessment and instructional technology. Political economy of economic permission of instructor. organization and public policy including EDUT 288 Practicum II (1) analysis of the structure/conduct ECON 530 Managerial Economics (3) Provides students with the opportunity dimensions of industry and government The focus of this course is the application to supplement coursework with institutions and their effects on resource of economic theory and its tools to practical work experience related to their allocation, income distribution, and everyday business activities. Topics to be educational program. Students work economic performance. Antitrust, covered include the analytical tools of under the immediate supervision of regulation, and other policies are treated economics, macro and micro economic experienced personnel at the education concurrently. Counts as a management theory, and factors that influence facility and with the direct guidance of course for BBA candidates. Prerequisites: demand. the instructor. ECON 201, 202 or equivalent.

ECON 410 Public Sector Economics (3) EDUCATION: CAREER/ EDUT 289 Capstone (1) Political economy of government finance TECHNICAL (EDUT) Focuses on a demonstrated culmination including analysis of the effects of of learning within a given program of government revenue and expenditure EDUT 250 Career and Technical study. policies on resource allocation, income Education in Colorado (1) distribution, and economic performance. Explores common elements of Career EDUCATION: EARLY Counts as a management course for BBA and Technical Education philosophy and CHILDHOOD current practices. It details the philosophy candidates. Prerequisites: ECON 201, 202, EDUCATION (EDEC) or equivalent. of Career and Technical Education (CTE), the federal Carl D. Perkins legislation EDEC 101 I ntroduction to Early ECON 415 Econometrics (3) and related guidelines for CTE, the Childhood (3) Application of advanced statistical Colorado Technical Act, national and An overview of history, philosophy, methods to economic and business state regulatory agencies, the CCCS current and legal issues, licensing problems. Includes multiple regression program approval process, enrollment and health regulations, facilities, and analysis. Sophisticated cross sectional management and advising strategies, programming for young children. models such as instrumental variable, relevant local and national issues, and Provides prospective teachers probit, and tobit. Time series topics such quality assurance principles. opportunity to assess roles played in as forecasting, autoregressive models, dealing with children of diverse ethnic, vector autoregressions, cointegration, EDUT 251 Secondary CTE Capstone (3) cultural, and economic backgrounds. and some panel methods. Prerequisites: This capstone course in the secondary Field experience includes observation CISB 241 or MATH 200, and MANG 341 or CTE credentialing sequence offers an and participation in school settings three CISB 341, and ECON 201. in-depth analysis of secondary career hours per week. and technical student organizations and ECON 420 International Economics (3) competitions, the Colorado Technical EDEC 102 I ntroduction to Early International trade theory and policy Act, working with exceptional students, Childhood Professions Lab such as balance of payments analysis, creating and effectively deploying Experiences (3) international investment flows, and the program advisory committees, and an Hands-on field experience for the position of the dollar in foreign exchange overview of educational and political student, who will demonstrate transactions. Prerequisites: ECON 201, systems in Colorado. The final project is knowledge of child growth and 202, or equivalent. ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 144 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG development, guidance techniques, EDEC 237 T heories and Techniques of childhood teacher. Includes research planning and implementation of Social and Emotional Growth about the language and literacy of young curriculum, assessment techniques, (3) children. Explores how learners develop and application of laws and standards. Incorporates student specific techniques the ability to communicate and interact Prerequisite: EDEC 101. and strategies for guiding and enhancing from birth to age 8. Prerequisites: EDEC social and emotional growth in children 101. EDEC 103 Guidance Strategies (3) 0-8 years. Introduces and compares the Techniques to enhance guidance theories underlying quality interactions EDEC 296 Topics (1-3) strategies through positive social and patterns of social and emotional skills, violence prevention, and anger progression. EDEC 297 Practicum (1-2) management. The importance of family Supervised experience working with and community resources will also be EDEC 238 Ear ly Childhood Development children and families in early care and addressed. 0-8 Years (3) education settings. Accepted by the State Theories, current research and Department of Child Care Services for EDEC 113 I nfant and Toddler Theory and developmental ages and stages of licensing purposes. Scheduling is flexible. Practice (3) children, conception to 8 years. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Presents an overview of theories, applications (including observations) and EDEC 240 C urriculum and Development: EDEC 299 S tudent Teaching in Early issues pertinent to infant and toddler Early Childhood (3) Education (3) development in group and/or family Methods of creating and implementing Full time supervised teaching experience settings. Includes state requirements for curriculum based on their understanding which allows the student teacher the licensing, health, safety and nutrition of developmentally appropriate practice opportunity to apply developmentally issues. for children, birth to age 8. Application appropriate, standards-based practice, of the teaching/learning process, and theories, and philosophies acquired EDEC 114 I ntroduction to Infant/Toddler of managing the learning environment, in coursework. Provides incremental Lab Techniques (3) will draw from research and practical responsibility for teaching, supervision, Includes a classroom seminar and application. Prerequisites: EDEC 101. and management of young children placement in an infant and/or toddler birth to 6 years. A seminar is an integral setting. The supervised placement EDEC 241 Ear ly Childhood part of the experience requirement. provides the student with the Administration: Human Prerequisites: EDEC 101 and instructor Relations (3) opportunity to observe, to practice permission. appropriate interactions and to develop The roles and relationships among children, families, early childhood effective guidance and nurturing EDUCATION: TEACHER techniques with infants and/or toddlers. professionals and community resources. Addresses ages prenatal through age 2. Consideration will be given to family LICENSURE (EDUC) structures, communication skills, roles EDUC 100 Introduction to Libraries (3) EDEC 195 Independent Study (1-3) of support organizations, team building, evaluation tools and advocacy. Provides a general overview of libraries EDEC 196 Topics (1-3) and their roles in schools and the EDEC 250 Ex ceptionalities in Early community. The evolving role of libraries EDEC 205 Nutrition, Health, Safety (3) Education (3) will be explored in the context of Focuses on nutrition, health, and safety Exploration of disabilities, assessment professional/school settings, different as a key factor for optimal growth activities, and learning environments for types of libraries, and the evolution of and development of young children. children with diverse needs in the early information, access, and distribution in a Includes nutrient knowledge, menu years (birth-age 8). Prerequisite: EDEC 101. digital age. planning, food program participation, health practices, management and EDEC 264 A dministration in Early EDUC 101 Information Literacy (3) safety, appropriate activities and Education (3) A theoretical approach to the flow of communication with families. Addresses Overview of management concepts information and a practical introduction ages from prenatal through age 8. applicable in a variety of early education to the skills necessary to navigate settings. Course content focuses on information systems. Print and electronic EDEC 230 C urriculum and Development: management of programs and personnel, resources; legal, economic, social and Infant/Toddler (3) program and staff development, fiscal public aspects of information resources; Curriculum for the age group administration, and evaluation. strategies for critical evaluation of birth-2 years. Content emphasis information resources; library services is on maintaining healthful, safe, EDEC 290 Ear ly Literacy for the Young and resources. environmental activities to stimulate Child (2) language, social emotional, cognitive, In-depth view of early literacy and physical development. development in a changing, diverse society intended for the prospective early

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EDUC 150 A merican Education: Past, and formal assessments, planning Education Program and EDUC 211; may Present, and Future (3) strategies, and classroom management be taken concurrently with EDUC 451. An honors course that includes an techniques. Includes a minimum of 20 historical view of public and private hours of field experience. Prerequisites: EDUC 441 M ethods of Teaching education; current challenges; EDUC 211 and admission to the Teacher Language and Literacy: demographic, sociological, technological, Education Program. Corequisite: EDUC 343 Elementary (6) and economic trends and their effects Exploration of student literacy on education; educational reform; EDUC 343 Teaching to Diversity (3) development in multiple literacies, comparative education systems; and Study of differences in student with a focus in emergent and content future directions for public and private development and approaches to area literacy. Study and application of schooling in America. learning. Addresses ethnic, linguistic, instructional strategies for the reading/ gender, sexuality, socioeconomic, ability/ writing process, phonemic awareness, EDUC 196 Topics (1-3) disability, and community diversity. vocabulary, comprehension strategies, Includes a minimum of 20 hours of field reading and writing workshops, literacy EDUC 211 Foundations of Education (2) experience. Prerequisites: EDUC 211 assessment, and integration of literacy Overview of the teacher education and admission to the Teacher Education across the curriculum, particularly in the program and profession. Introduction Program. Corequisites: EDUC 341 or social sciences. Field placements will be to social, legal, historical, political, EDUC 342. in a lab school environment for three theoretical, and philosophical mornings of school per week. Includes a foundations of education. Course time EDUC 374 Ex ceptional and English minimum of 120 hours field experience. will include school and educational Language Learners in the Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher services visitations. Prerequisites: ENGL Inclusive Classroom (3) Education Program and EDUC 211, EDUC 111, ENGL 112, SPCH 102, PSYC 233, Study of exceptionalities and English 340 and/or 341 and 343. Corequisite: all with a B or higher, MATH 105 for Language Learner (ELL) characteristics. The EDUC 471. Elementary Education students or use of strategies for identifying, adapting, MATH 110 for Secondary/K12 Education accommodating, and/or modifying the EDUC 442 I ntegrating Literacy Across students, declaration of a major in one learning environment to meet the various the Curriculum: Secondary of the approved courses of study at needs. Includes intellectually challenged, and K-12 Art (4) Colorado Mesa University to licensure. learning disabled, social/emotional Exploration of multiple forms of student disorders, physically disabled, gifted, and literacies. Study and application of EDUC 340 P edagogical and Assessment English language learners. Prerequisites: instructional strategies for various Knowledge for Teachers: Early EDUC 211, EDUC 341 or EDUC 342, and literary genres across the middle school Childhood, Birth - 8 years (3) EDUC 343. and high school curriculum with a Exploration of age/grade level teaching focus in philosophical and theoretical strategies, motivation principles, informal EDUC 378 Technology for K-12 perspectives from multicultural texts. and formal assessments, planning Educators (1) Candidates develop a fully integrated unit strategies, and classroom management Digital technology’s role in the teaching/ to implement in field study. Includes a techniques. Includes a minimum of 20 learning process. Engaging technology minimum of 60 hours of field experience. hours of field experience. Prerequisites: in the classroom. Topics include New Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Admission to the Teacher Education Literacies, Web 2.0 tools, e-books, Education Program and EDUC 211, EDUC Program or permission of the instructor, interactive presentation tools, et al. 342, EDUC 343; Corequisite: EDUC 497. EDUC 211. May be taken concurrently Prerequisites: EDUC 211, EDUC 341 or with EDUC 341 and EDUC 343. EDUC 342, and EDUC 343. EDUC 451 M ethods of Teaching Mathematics: Early EDUC 341 P edagogy and Assessment: EDUC 395 Independent Study (1-3) Childhood/Elementary (3) K-6/Elementary (3) Prepares students to teach mathematics Exploration of age/grade level teaching EDUC 396 Topics (1-3) to elementary age students. Focus strategies, motivation principles, informal on major concepts, procedures, and and formal assessments, planning EDUC 440 M ethods of Teaching reasoning processes that define strategies, and classroom management Language and Literacy: EC (4) number systems and number sense, techniques. Includes a minimum of 20 Survey of current research in early/ geometry, measurement, statistics and hours of field experience. Prerequisite: emergent language and literacy, probability, and algebra. Theoretical and EDUC 211 and admission to the Teacher including language development and practical approaches support learning Education Program. Corequisite: EDUC acquisition, family and community about standards, content, delivery, and 343. roles, teaching and learning strategies, assessment. Field placements will be literature in the curriculum, and ongoing in a lab school environment for three EDUC 342 P edagogy and Assessment: assessment in instruction. Includes a afternoons of school per week. Includes a Secondary and K-12 (3) minimum of 50 hours of field experience. minimum of 60 hours of field experience. Exploration of age/grade level teaching Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher strategies, motivation principles, informal

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Education Program, EDUC 211, EDUC 340 based instruction as guided and Corequisites: EDUC 492A, EDUC 485 and and/or 341, 343, MATH 105, MATH 205, exploratory interdisciplinary inquiries. EDUC 487. and MATH 301. Corequisite: EDUC 471. Integrating seven interdisciplinary compulsories across the curriculum. EDUC 492A PBL 2: Directed Teaching - EDUC 461 M ethods of Teaching Science Field based with online and classroom Elementary Education (9) and Social Studies: Early components. This course involves a Full-time mentored August-December Childhood/Elementary (3) minimum of five hours of preparation/ placement to develop accuracy, Study and application of content online interaction per week and fluency and complexity in the design, standards in science, health, civics, participation in six (Sept/Oct/Nov) three- implementation and assessment of geography, history, and economics hour classroom seminars. Prerequisites: instruction through observing, assisting, for elementary age students. EDUC 591 and EDUC 586A. Co-requisites: teaming (80%) and solo teaching. Develops teaching proficiency and an EDUC 487, EDUC 488, and EDUC 492A. Prerequisites: EDUC 586A and EDUC 591. understanding of integration of these Corequisites: EDUC 485, EDUC 487 and subjects across the content areas. Field EDUC 486A Accommodating Diverse and EDUC 488. experiences are incorporated into the Exceptional Needs K-6 (3) math/literacy block during three school Designing, developing, implementing EDUC 492B PBL 2: Directed Teaching - days per week. Prerequisites: Admission and assessing the effectiveness of Secondary Education (9) to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC instruction differentiated for relevant Full-time mentored August-December 211, EDUC 340 and/or EDUC 341, EDUC student diversity and exceptionalities; placement to develop accuracy, 343. Corequisite: EDUC 471. teaming with specialists; current state fluency and complexity in the design, and federal guidelines and mandates. implementation and assessment of EDUC 471 E ducational Assessment for Field-based with online and classroom instruction through observing, assisting, the K-12 Educator (1) components. This course involves a teaming (80%) and solo teaching. Current principles of assessment in minimum of five hours of preparation/ Prerequisites: EDUC 591 and EDUC 586A. the K-12 classroom. Includes selecting, online interaction per week and Corequisites: EDUC 442, EDUC 497, and developing, and evaluating a variety participation in three (May/June/July) EDUC 487A, B, C, D, or E. of assessment methods/types in the six-hour classroom seminars. Corequisite: various content areas. Discuss how to EDUC 491. EDUC 495 I ndependent Study (1-3) analyze, interpret, and communicate EDUC 496 Topics (1-3) assessment results with administrators, EDUC 487 Lit eracy Education K-6 (3) families, and students for the purposes of Designing, developing, implementing making instruction/curricular decisions. EDUC 497 C ontent Methodology and assessing well-aligned, well- Practicum (3) Prerequisites: EDUC 211, EDUC 341 or differentiated, discipline-specific Theory and practice of differentiated EDUC 342, and EDUC 343. Corequisites: curriculum, instruction, assessments instruction, lesson study design and EDUC 441, 451, 461, or consent of and accommodations unique to K-6 implementation, and basic concepts of instructor. Literacy Education. Field based with Understanding by Design. Introduction online and classroom components. This EDUC 475 C lassroom Management for to comprehensive school reform and course involves a minimum of five hours curriculum design, as well as a focus K-12 Educators (1) of preparation/online interaction per Effective classroom management. on the improvement of teaching week and participation in six (Sept/Oct/ Establish productive classroom climate. methodology across the curriculum. Nov) three-hour classroom seminars. Applications of management techniques Includes a minimum of 80 hours of field Prerequisites: EDUC 586A and EDUC 591. to help students become responsible experience. Prerequisites: Admission Corequisites: EDUC 492A, EDUC 485 and for their behaviors and choices. Student to the Teacher Education Program and EDUC 488. motivation, positive student-teacher EDUC 211, EDUC 342 and 343, and relationships, effective partnerships completion of all content area courses. EDUC 488 Math Education K-6 (3) Corequisites: EDUC 442 and EDUC 497A, between parents and school. Includes Designing, developing, implementing B, C, D, or E as required by degree. strategies to minimize and prevent and assessing well-aligned, well- classroom and behavior management differentiated, discipline-specific problems as well as time management EDUC 497A Methods of Teaching curriculum, instruction, assessments and Secondary English (2) techniques. Prerequisites: EDUC 211, accommodations unique to K-6 Math Theory and practice of teaching English EDUC 341, EDUC 343, EDUC 441, EDUC Education. Field based with online and language arts in middle and high schools. 451, and EDUC 461, or consent of classroom components. This course Current strategies, programs, materials, instructor. involves a minimum of five hours of and media for the development of preparation/online interaction per curriculum in reading comprehension, EDUC 485 M odes of Inquiry (3) week and participation in six (Sept/Oct/ Science, social studies and the arts as language, linguistics, comprehension, Nov) three-hour classroom seminars. modes of inquiry. Designing standards and rhetoric. Lesson preparation and Prerequisites: EDUC 586A and EDUC 591. presentation required. Prerequisites:

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Admission to Teacher Education Program EDUC 497E Methods of Teaching start date. Prerequisites: Formal admission and EDUC 211. Corequisites: EDUC 442 Secondary Spanish (2) to the Teacher Education Program; and EDUC 497, or EDUC 342 and EDUC Theory and practice of teaching Spanish EDUC 211, 341, 343, 441, 451, 461 and all 343. Note: This course is only offered in in middle and high schools. Current other course work for bachelor’s degree the fall semester. strategies, programs, materials, and completed; as well as 2.8 GPA in major media for the development of curriculum and 2.8 GPA in EDUC classes. EDUC 497B Methods of Teaching in: interpretive listening, structure of the Secondary Social Sciences (2) language and grammatical accuracy, EDUC 499D Teaching Internship and Theory and practice of teaching history interpretive reading, and cultural Colloquia: Elementary for and the social sciences in middle perspectives. Lesson preparation and K-12 (6) and high schools. Current strategies, presentation required. Prerequisites: Full-time (40 hrs min/week) supervised programs, materials, and media for the Admission to Teacher Education Program teaching experience designed to development of curriculum in United and EDUC 211. Corequisites: EDUC 442 allow the intern the opportunity to States history, world history, government, and EDUC 497, or EDUC 342 and EDUC apply standards-based education and civics, political science, geography, 343. Note: This course is only offered in theories and philosophies acquired in economics, and behavioral science. the fall semester. professional education coursework. Lesson preparation and presentation Required colloquia on Thursday required. Prerequisites: Admission to EDUC 499A Teaching Internship and evenings are included during this Teacher Education Program and EDUC Colloquia: K-2 (6) eight-week experience. Prerequisites: 211. Corequisites: EDUC 442 and EDUC Available for students who are pursuing Formal admission to the Teacher 497, or EDUC 342 and EDUC 343. Note: ECE/ELED licensure and standards-based Education Program; EDUC 211, 342, This course is only offered in the fall education: an eight-week experience. 343, 441 (except Music and Kinesiology semester. Colloquiums are included and required. majors); appropriate content area Prerequisites: Formal admission to the methods course/s; all other coursework EDUC 497C Methods of Teaching Teacher Education Program; EDUC 211, for bachelor’s degree completed; 2.8 Secondary Mathematics (2) 340 and/or 341, 343, 440 and/or 441, cumulative GPA as well as 2.8 GPA in Theory and practice of teaching 451, 452, 453; all other coursework for major and 2.8 GPA in EDUC classes. mathematics in middle and high schools. bachelor’s degree completed; 2.75 Corequisite: EDUC 499H. Current strategies, programs, materials, cumulative GPA as well as 2.75 GPA in and media for the development of major and 2.75 in EDUC classes. EDUC 499G Teaching Internship and curriculum in arithmetic, basic algebra, Colloquia: Secondary (12) functions, graphing, probability, statistics, EDUC 499B Teaching Internship and Full-time (40 hours min/week) supervised and integrated math. Lesson preparation Colloquia: 3-6 (6) teaching experience designed to allow and presentation required. Prerequisites: Available for students who are pursuing the intern the opportunity to apply Admission to the Teacher Education ECE/ELED licensure and standards-based standards-based education and theories Program and EDUC 211. Corequisites: education: an eight-week experience. and philosophies acquired in professional EDUC 442 and EDUC 497, or EDUC 342 Colloquiums are included and required. education coursework. Three required and EDUC 343. Note: This course is only Prerequisites: Formal admission to the colloquia on Thursday evenings are offered in the fall semester. Teacher Education Program; EDUC 211, included during this 15-week experience. 340 and/or 341, 343, 440 and/or 441, Students must begin internship a EDUC 497D Methods of Teaching 451, 452, 453; all other course work minimum of one week prior to the Secondary Science (2) for bachelor’s degree completed; 2.75 beginning of the district school semester, Theory and practice of teaching science cumulative GPA as well as 2.75 GPA in regardless of the Colorado Mesa in middle and high schools. Current major and 2.75 GPA in EDUC classes. University start date. Prerequisites: Formal strategies, programs, materials, and admission to the Teacher Education media for the development of curriculum EDUC 499C Teaching Internship and Program; EDUC 211, 342, 343, 442, 497, in: scientific methodology, techniques, Colloquia: Elementary (12) and 497A, B, C, D, or E as appropriate and history; physical, life, and earth Full-time (40 hrs min/week) supervised for content area major; all other course sciences; and science and technology. teaching experience designed to work for bachelor’s degree completed; Lesson preparation and presentation allow the intern the opportunity to 2.8 cumulative GPA, as well as 2.8 GPA in required. Prerequisites: Admission to apply standards-based education and major and in 2.8 GPA in EDUC classes. Teacher Education Program and EDUC theories and philosophies acquired in 211. Corequisites: EDUC 442 and EDUC professional education coursework. EDUC 499H Teaching Internship and 497, or EDUC 342 and EDUC 343. Note: Three required colloquia on Thursday Colloquia: Secondary for This course is only offered in the fall evenings are included during this 15- K-12 (6) semester. week experience. Students must begin Supervised teaching experience at the internship a minimum of one week prior secondary level for students who are to the beginning of the district school pursuing K-12 licensure and standards- semester, regardless of the Mesa State

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Several colloquia are EDUC 595 Topics in Teaching (0.5-3) EDUC 502 T heory, Design & Assessment included in the eight-week experience. of Curriculum (3) Prerequisites: Formal admission to the EDUC 596 T opics in the Content Areas Introduction to instructional design; Teacher Education Program; EDUC (0.5-4) production and evaluation of computer- 211, 342, 343, 442 (except Music and based instructional materials and EDUC 599A PBL 3: Directed Teaching: Kinesiology majors); appropriate content software; selection, evaluation, and use of Elementary Education (12) instructional media. area methods course/s; all other course Continued full-time mentored January- work for bachelor’s degree completed; May placement to develop solo EDUC 503 I ntroduction to Educational 2.75 cumulative GPA as well as 2.75 GPA professional competence in instructional in major and 2.75 GPA in EDUC classes. Research and Design (3) design, implementation and assessment; An analysis of differing orientations to EDUC 586A Accommodating Diverse and and document having had a positive evaluation and research. Emphasis on Exceptional Needs K-6 (3) effect on student learning, across fifteen assumptions, attitudes, and expectation Designing, developing, implementing weeks of full-time solo teaching. A of what constitutes scientific knowledge and assessing the effectiveness of colloquium is an integral part of the and explanation; relationship of instruction differentiated for relevant experience requirement. Prerequisites: research orientation, methods of inquiry student diversity and exceptionalities; EDUC 485, EDUC 487, EDUC 488, EDUC theory, and practice in both qualitative teaming with specialists; current 492A, EDUC 586A, and EDUC 591. and quantitative research strategies. state and federal guidelines and Prerequisites: Current teaching certificate, mandates. Field-based with online and EDUC 599B PBL 3: Directed Teaching: acceptance into M.A. program, GRE. Secondary Education (12) classroom components. This course Continued full-time mentored January- involves a minimum of twelve hours of May to develop solo professional EDUCATION: preparation/online interaction per week competence in instructional design, EDUCATIONAL and participation in four (May/June/ implementation and assessment; and July) eight-hour classroom seminars. LEADERSHIP COGNATE document having had a positive effect Corerequisite: EDUC 591. (EDLD) on student learning, across fifteen weeks EDUC 586B Accommodating Diverse and of full-time solo teaching. A colloquium EDLD 504 Best Practices in Curriculum, Exceptional Needs 6-12 (3) is an integral part of the experience Assessment, Instruction (3) Designing, developing, implementing requirement. Prerequisites: EDUC 442, This class will focus on the best practices and assessing the effectiveness of EDUC 492B, EDUC 497, EDUC 497 A, B, C, effective schools use in the areas of instruction differentiated for relevant or D, EDUC 586B, and EDUC 591. curriculum, assessment, and instruction. student diversity and exceptionalities; The alignment of these three areas teaming with specialists; current EDUCATION: MASTER OF is critical to the development and state and federal guidelines and ARTS ACADEMIC CORE sustainability of an effective standards- mandates. Field-based with online and based educational system that is classroom components. This course EDUC 500 Culture and Pedagogy (3) equitable for all learners. Major topics involves a minimum of twelve hours of This course centers on Pedagogy that include curriculum mapping, assessment preparation/online interaction per week explores the relationships between for and of learning, quality assessment and participation in four (May/June/ culture and learning as well as teacher techniques, instructional strategies July) eight-hour classroom seminars. ideology and belief systems. Examines aligned to curriculum taught and Corerequisite: EDUC 591. critical pedagogy, pedagogies of monitored, and effective interventions resistance, and teaching for social justice. and differentiated instructional practices. EDUC 591 PBL 1: Foundations of Prerequisites: Current teaching certificate, Prerequisites: Current teaching certificate, Curriculum, Instruction, and acceptance into M.A. program, GRE. acceptance into M.A. program, GRE. Assessment (9) Designing cycles of instruction that EDUC 501 Educational Technology (2) EDLD 505 Ref orm and Organizational are well-aligned (with standards and Historical and conceptual analyses of Change in Education (2) assessments); well-differentiated (for ways to design, organize, and integrate Social and political assumptions content, the learner and the situation): curricula across subject areas. Review underlying current efforts towards and support the development of self- of various instructional design models curriculum and instructional reform in directed learning. Course has online and and fundamental design principles that elementary and secondary schools. Study classroom components. This May/June/ guide the development of instructional of planning and evaluation in schools July course involves a minimum of six materials. Students will create multimedia and school districts including strategic hours of preparation/online interaction materials for incorporation into a final planning, effectiveness and curriculum per day and participation in ten eight- product. Critique of curriculum discourse, audits, facility planning, and program hour classroom seminars. Prerequisite: process, and product. Teachers’ roles planning and evaluation. Prerequisites: Admission to the (cohort) PBL program. in site-based curriculum and staff Current teaching certificate, acceptance Corequisite: EDUC 586A or EDUC 586B. development. into M.A. program, GRE.

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EDLD 515 D ynamic School Leadership inter-governmental relations, power EDLD 540 S chool Improvement and in a Democratic Society: and conflict, and policy development Accountability (2) Introduction to School regarding equity, quality and efficiency. Construction, administration and Administration (3) While statutory and case law serve interpretation of educational assessments Study of the nature of educational as the reference points for study and for the systematic analysis of student leadership, administration, and discussion, the primary objective is to learning and teaching practice. Emphasis management with reference to current gain an understanding of the relationship on the use and understanding of data practice at the school building level. between the legal issues of education analysis to improve teaching and learning Attention will be given to administrative and the implications for administrative in the classroom. Statistical analysis theory and practice, philosophy, and leadership. Prerequisites: Current relating to education leadership decision- organizational development. Through the teaching certificate, acceptance into M.A. making applications. Prerequisites: examination of leadership, organizational program, GRE. Current teaching certificate, acceptance and change models, students will learn into M.A. program, and GRE. how to analyze their school or district EDLD 531 School Finance and using political, structural, human resources Budgeting (1) EDLD 542 I nstructional Supervision and and cultural frames. Prerequisites: Current This course focuses on the role of leaders Management/HR (3) teaching certificate, acceptance into M.A. as orchestrators of business operations of Study of effective human resources program, GRE. the school and the guardian of business management, including recruitment, decisions that maximize instructional selection, induction, staff development, EDLD 520A Principalship I (2) effectiveness and achievement of employee assistance, evaluation, This introductory course will engage organizational goals. Advanced study contract negotiation and personnel students in developing a comprehensive of the financial structure of public management. The skills of conflict understanding of the role of the principal schools, including equity issues, taxation, resolution and collaboration will be as instructional leader and change agent revenue generation (grants) and budget explored as well as ways to assess in today’s PK-12 schools. Students will be development. Prerequisites: Current the learning organization needs. introduced to the skill set needed to be teaching certificate, acceptance into M.A. Prerequisites: Current teaching an effective instructional leader and the program, GRE. certificate, acceptance into M.A. knowledge base outlined in the Colorado program, GRE. Standards for the licensure of school EDLD 535A Internship in EDLD: K-6 (1) principals. The historical role of the school This practicum applies theory and EDLD 544 S trategies in School principal will be compared and contrasted research to the analysis and synthesis Improvement (2) with the current demands of the modern of field experiences in leadership. This course focuses on strategies that lead school principal. Prerequisites: Current This practicum will be integrated into to school improvement, and ultimately teaching certificate, acceptance into M.A. a concluding research project that continuous student success. High program, GRE. structures students’ reflections about Performing Schools use strategies that are their growth and vision as a leader. intentional and well designed. They operate EDLD 520B Principalship II (1) Through exploration of research and in a learning culture that is dedicated to This introductory course will engage practicum methodology students will learning for all. This course will enable the students in developing a comprehensive frame their capstone project proposals student to analyze the culture of high understanding of the role of the principal leading to final analysis and presentation performing schools and engage in problem as instructional leader and change agent following the course. Prerequisites: solving protocols related to improvement in today’s PK-12 schools. Students will Current teaching certificate, acceptance in their own settings. Prerequisites: Current be introduced to the skill set need to into M.A. program, GRE. teaching certificate, acceptance into M.A. be an effective instructional leader and program, GRE. the knowledge base outlined in the EDLD 535B Internship in EDLD: K-6 (2) Colorado Standards for the licensure of This practicum applies theory and EDLD 545A Internship in EDLD: 7-12 (1) school principals. The historical role of research to the analysis and synthesis This practicum applies theory and the school principal will be compared of field experiences in leadership. research to the analysis and synthesis and contrasted with the current This practicum will be integrated into of field experiences in leadership. demands of the modern school principal. a concluding research project that This practicum will be integrated into Prerequisites: Current teaching certificate, structures students’ reflections about a concluding research project that acceptance into M.A. program, GRE. their growth and vision as a leader. structures students’ reflections about Through exploration of research and their growth and vision as a leader. EDLD 530 L egal Aspects of School practicum methodology students will Through exploration of research and Administration: Educational frame their capstone project proposals practicum methodology students will Policy and the Law (2) leading to final analysis and presentation frame their capstone project proposals Study of the relationship between following the course. Prerequisites: leading to final analysis and presentation politics, policy and governance of Current teaching certificate, acceptance following the course. Prerequisites: schools, including political systems, into M.A. program, GRE.

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Current teaching certificate, acceptance EDUC 541 Exceptional Learners (3) EDUCATION: SPECIAL into M.A. program, GRE. Study of exceptionality and special EDUCATION (EDSE) education, legislation, individualized EDLD 545B Internship in EDLD: 7-12 (2) education programs (IEP), planning EDSE 496 Topics: (1-3) This practicum applies theory and and delivering services, multicultural research to the analysis and synthesis and bilingual aspects of special EDSE 500 Foundation of Special of field experiences in leadership. education, classifications (impairments), Education Including Law (3) This practicum will be integrated into exceptionality and the family. 20-hour Knowledge and skills needed in special a concluding research project that field experience required. education. An evolving discipline structures student’ reflections about their based on philosophies, evidence-based growth and vision as a leader. Through EDUC 543 Inclusion Methods/ principles and theories, relevant laws and exploration of research and practicum Strategies (3) policies, diverse and historical viewpoints, methodology students will frame their Collaboration, community and families, and societal influences on the education capstone project proposals leading to legal aspects of placement, classroom and treatment of individuals with final analysis and presentation following management, and methods and exceptional needs. the course. Prerequisites: Current strategies used in inclusive classrooms. teaching certificate, acceptance into M.A. Each student is required to complete a EDSE 501 Instructional Strategies in program, GRE. minimum of 20 field experience hours. Special Education (3) Overview of methodologies used EDLD 595 Independent Study (1-3) EDUC 545 Internship in ESOL: 7-12 (3) in the instruction of students with This practicum applies theory and special learning needs. Explores the research to the analysis and synthesis of EDUCATION: ENGLISH purpose of an Individualized Education field experiences in ESOL. The practicum Program and its use as a guide in the FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER will be integrated into a concluding development of a learning plan based LANGUAGES COGNATE research project that structures students’ on the student’s learning characteristics reflections about their growth and (EDUC) including strengths, needs, and the vision as a leader. Through exploration impact of disability on his/her learning EDUC 504 M ethods of Teaching English of research and practicum methodology in the general education classroom. as a Second Language (3) students will frame their capstone project Prerequisite: EDSE 500. Theory and practice of teaching English proposals leading to final analysis and as a second language; techniques for presentation following. Prerequisites: EDSE 502 Behavioral Interventions for teaching pronunciation, reading and Current teaching certificate, acceptance the Special Needs Learner (3) writing in the context of communicative into M.A. program, GRE. Focuses on research-based assessment competence; analysis of resources and intervention strategies for working EDUC 554 T heories of Second Language available for ESL. with students who present challenging Acquisition (3) behavior in the classroom. Prerequisites: EDUC 510 ESL Strategies/Content Research on second language EDSE 500 and EDSE 501. Areas (3) acquisition, differences between first and Strategies for assessing and teaching second language acquisition, application EDSE 503  M ethods of Teaching linguistically-diverse students in the of theories to classroom practice. Students with Mild content areas. Topics include role-playing, Disabilities Reading and EDUC 555 Multicultural Narratives/ Math (3) language dynamics, measurement, K-12 (3) relevant research, and classroom practice. Provides an understanding of the Survey of multicultural literature nature of reading and arithmetic EDUC 535 Internship in ESOL: K-6 (3) suitable for the K-12 classroom. Cultural and of challenges faced by children This practicum applies theory and awareness, diversity, developmentally- and adolescents with a wide array of research to the analysis and synthesis of appropriate materials, book and media exceptionalities. Major approaches to field experiences in ESOL. The practicum selection for bilingual and English- teaching and learning in reading and will be integrated into a concluding language learners in grades K-12. math. Development of diagnostic- research project that structures students’ prescriptive approaches. Prerequisites: EDUC 556 A ssessment in English as a EDSE 500 and EDSE 501. reflections about their growth and Second Language (3) vision as a leader. Through exploration Assessment of linguistically-diverse of research and practicum methodology EDSE 506 Educating Students with students, developing instructional Low Incidence Disabilities in students will frame their capstone project plans for linguistically-diverse students, Inclusive Environments (3) proposals leading to final analysis and measurement, relevant research, Examines types of low-incidence presentation following. Prerequisites: classroom practice, legal and social disabilities, including mental retardation, Current teaching certificate, acceptance responsibilities. autism, physical disabilities, traumatic into M.A. program, GRE. brain injury, deafness, blindness,

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 151 multiple disabilities, and other health and facilitation skills. Prerequisite: EDTL and district level initiatives. Includes impairments, that affect academic and 510. Corequisite: EDTL 526. experiences that increasingly require full job performance. Current methods for management of a project. Prerequisites: teaching individuals with low-incidence EDTL 512 Facilitation and Presentation EDTL 510, EDTL 512, EDTL 513, and EDTL disabilities. Prerequisites: EDSE 500 and (2) 525. EDSE 501. Teacher Leaders working with teachers to improve student achievement. Explores ELECTRIC EDSE 510 The Twice Exceptional facilitation of groups, from small teacher Learner, Including Gifted and teams to the entire school community. LINEWORKER (ELCL) Talented (3) Emphasis on equipping leaders with Provides tools to identify twice a variety of presentation skills to lead ELCL 120 Fundamentals of Electricity (4) Generation, transmission, and distribution exceptional students and selection school change. appropriate strategies so that gifted of electricity beginning with the electron students with disabilities can learn at EDTL 513 Information Based and its function of transporting electric appropriate levels. Prerequisites: EDSE Educational Practice (2) power to homes and industry. 500 and EDSE 501. Focus on standards-based educational practice. Analysis and interpretation of ELCL 125 Job Training and Safety (2) Covers first aid, CDL, basic use and care EDSE 515 Internship K-6 Elementary data as they inform educational practice. Practicum in Special Data Driven Dialogues implemented of personal protective equipment use Education (3) as catalysts for educational change. and care of climbing equipment, daily Provides support in teaching and Development of skills necessary to inspection and basic use of motorized learning of elementary students. observe, analyze, and evaluate data equipment. Integrated field supervision to achieve from a multiple measures perspective. professional competencies. Prerequisites: ELCL 131 Electrical Distribution Foundational uses of technology Theory I (4) EDSE 500, EDSE 501, EDSE 502, EDSE 503, examined. Corequisite: EDTL 526. Pole setting techniques, framing methods EDSE 506, and EDSE 510. and specifications, climbing, sagging and EDTL 517 Assessment Literacy (1) EDSE 520 Internship 6-12 Secondary Construction, administration and splicing of conductors, energizing and Practicum in Special interpretation of formative and de-energizing of lines, and installation of Education (3) summative educational assessments protective grounds. Provides support in teaching and for the systematic analysis of student learning of secondary students. ELCL 131L Electrical Distribution Lab (4) learning and teaching practice. Validity, Examination of the National Electric Integrated field supervision to achieve reliability and basic statistical analysis, professional competencies. Prerequisites: Safety Code, equipment operation, as well as design of rubrics and material records, knot tying, installation EDSE 500, EDSE 501, EDSE 502, EDSE 503, other scoring approaches included. EDSE 506, and EDSE 510. of protective grounds, pole climbing, Corequisite: EDTL 526. replace insulators, replacing crossarms, conductor ties, and overhead line EDUCATION: TEACHER EDTL 518 D iversity and Differentiated Instruction (2) construction. LEADERSHIP COGNATE Differentiated curriculum, assessment, (EDTL) ELCL 132 Electrical Distribution and instruction, the latest brain research, Theory II (4) and a mindset of diversity as a strength. ELCL 132L E lectrical Distribution Theory EDTL 510 Teacher Leadership I (2) Focuses on different learning populations II Laboratory (2) Development of an understanding including, but not limited to, Special Installation and operation of protective of the role of instructional leader and Education, ESL, Gifted and Talented, equipment, transformer hookups, change agent in today’s PK-12 schools. Children of Poverty. voltage regulation, hotstick maintenance, Development of instructional leader skills troubleshooting, and gloving from the and effective instructional knowledge EDTL 525 Internship I (1) pole. Four hours lecture, three hours base outlined in the Teacher Leader Application of theory and research to the laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ELCL Model Content Standards. Includes analysis and synthesis of field experiences 131. mentoring, coaching, frameworks for in leadership. Structured on building effective teaching, engaging students, and district level initiatives. Includes ELCL 137 A dvanced Electrical collegial conversations, constructive experiences that increasingly require full Distribution (2) feedback systems, Professional Learning management of a project. Prerequisites: ELCL 137L A dvanced Electrical Communities. EDTL 510 and EDTL 512. Distribution Laboratory (4) Meter safety, connector installation, street EDTL 511 Teacher Leadership II (2) EDTL 526 Internship II (2) lighting, rubber cover up, and public Analysis of typical teaching problems. Application of theory and research to the relations. Two hours lecture, eight hours Examines best practices, action research, analysis and synthesis of field experiences laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ELCL in leadership. Structured on building 136L.

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ELCL 140 Underground Procedures (4) EMGT 350 Energy Development, EMERGENCY MEDICAL ELCL 140L Under ground Procedures Transportation, and Laboratory (2) Markets (3) TECHNICIAN (EMTS) Safety practices, terminology, fault Overview of the energy industry domestic EMTS 101 Emer gency Medical finding, cable locating, switching and worldwide. Basic energy industry Technician - Basic I (3) procedure, installation of terminal drilling and production terminology, Policies, rules and regulations of devices, splicing, and transformer concepts and terms introduced and emergency medical services. Basic application. Five hours lecture, four hours utilized throughout the course. Issues anatomy and physiology. Initial and laboratory per week. surrounding business models, upstream, focused assessment of patient in the field. midstream and downstream discussed in Corequisites: EMTS 102 and EMTS 103. ELCL 145 Hot Line Procedures (1) detail. Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L, and ELCL 145L H ot Line Procedures FINA 301. EMTS 102 Emer gency Medical Laboratory (2) Technician - Basic II (3) Two weeks of training by outside EMGT 360 Real Property, Oil and Gas Management of respiratory, cardiac, CNS, specialists covering current hotline Law (3) endocrine, behavioral, drug, alcohol, maintenance and underground The body of case law surrounding oil allergy and anaphylaxis emergencies. installation methods. Eight hours lecture, and gas leases and leasehold interests, Airway management, CPR, AED and basic twenty-four hours laboratory per week. mineral titles, concurrent ownership pharmacology. Corequisites: EMTS 101 and split estates, and governmental and EMTS 103. ELCL 195 Independent Study (1,2) regulation of mineral development, including pooling and unitization of oil EMTS 103 Emer gency Medical ELCL 196 Topics (1,2) and gas leases. Prerequisite: EMGT 340. Technician - Basic III (4) Management of MOI, head, spinal, ELCL 199 Internship (6) EMGT 410 Energy Regulation and abdominal, chest and extremity Opportunity for an individual to be Compliance (3) trauma. Basic management of pediatric, employed for training by a utility The body of law surrounding gynecologic, and geriatric emergencies. company while maintaining his/her governmental regulation of mineral EMT safety, environmental emergencies, status as a Colorado Mesa University development, including environmental hazmat, triage, and incident command. student. Provides excellent on-the- liability, diligent and prudent operations, Preparation for national registry written job training benefits. Students usually contractual risk allocation, and regulatory and practical examination. Corequisites: selected for this course by formal case studies. Prerequisite: EMGT 340. EMTS 101 and EMTS 102. interview. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Eighteen hours per week, two EMGT 440 Energy Land Practices I (3) EMTS 115 Emer gency Medical semesters after completion of regular Overview of the supply and demand Responder (3) program. for energy. The physical path of energy This course covers the knowledge and from source to user, transportation issues skills to provide emergency care for ENERGY pertaining to energy, energy pricing most medical emergencies. Emergency MANAGEMENT (EMGT) methodologies, energy markets, and risk Medical Responders provide immediate control through the use of derivatives in care as part of the EMS system while EMGT 196 Topics: (1-3) the energy industry. Prerequisites: EMGT awaiting additional EMS response and 340 and FINA 301. transportation. This course meets the EMGT 296 Topics: (1-3) requirements to become nationally EMGT 450 Energy Land Practices II (3) certified as an NREMR - National EMGT 340 Energy Industry Imparts mastery of the fundamental Registered Emergency Medical Fundamentals (3) concepts and terminology related to real Responder. Provides energy literacy through a survey property law. Application of concepts of the sources, distribution and uses to situations occurring in the energy EMTS 130 Emer gency Medical of energy, including the evolution of environment as land is found, purchased Technician - Basic IV energy from wood fires to coal to oil to and developed for use. Prerequisite: Therapy (2) the current mix of coal, oil, natural gas, EMGT 340. Focuses on cognitive and skill practice nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, as required by Colorado Prehospital Care biomass, solar and ocean currents and EMGT 494 Energy Senior Seminar (3) program for EMT-Basic level IV approval. tides. Future energy policy, sources, Legal, economic, environmental, and Examines criteria, procedures and uses and case studies will be discussed national security issues surrounding techniques for IV therapy, discusses fluid as well as alternative energy sources. the energy industry. Alternative energy and electrolyte balance and principles Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L, and CHEM sources and other current issues in energy and treatment for shock. 121/121L. management. Prerequisite: EMGT 340.

EMGT 496 Topics (1-3)

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 153

EMTS 190 Emer gency Medical Corequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS 226, EMTS EMTS 280 P aramedic Internship I (6) Technician - Basic EKG 229, EMTS 230, and EMTS 232. The preceptor/internship program for Interpretation (2) paramedic students. Prerequisite: EMTS Interpretation of EKG strips, anatomy and EMTS 231 Paramedic Cardiology (5) 237. physiology of the heart, using three-lead Cardiology topics as presented in monitoring as a guide. Introduction to the National Standard Curriculum for EMTS 281 Paramedic Internship II (6) twelve-lead EKG. paramedics. Prerequisites: EMTS 130, and Continuation of EMTS 280, preceptor EMTS 190. Corequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS program for paramedic students. EMTS 196 Topics: (1-3) 226, ETMS 229, EMTS 230, and EMTS 232. Prerequisite: EMTS 280. The following Paramedic courses are inactive for the 2013-14 academic year. EMTS 232 P aramedic Cardiology ENGINEERING (ENGR) Laboratory (1) EMTS 225 F undamentals of Paramedic Incorporates hands-on application of ENGR 101 Introduction to Engineering Practice (3) principles of cardiac care in hospital and (2) First course of the National Standard pre-hospital environment. Prerequisites: Introduces facets of engineering Paramedic Curriculum as approved by EMTS 130 and EMTS 190. Corequisites: including history of the profession, the Colorado State Department of Health EMTS 225, EMTS 226, EMTS 229, EMTS mechanical engineering and mechanical and Environment. Prerequisites: EMTS 230, EMTS 231. technology curriculum, industries 130 and EMTS 190. Corequisites: EMTS in which engineers practice, and 226, EMTS 229, EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and EMTS 233 P aramedic Medical expectations and tools for academic EMTS 232. Emergencies (4) success. Students are introduced to A comprehensive study of adult medical engineering tools that will be used in EMTS 226 F undamentals of Paramedic emergencies. Prerequisites: EMTS 225, Practice Laboratory (2) later courses. Students participate in EMTS 226, EMTS 229, EMTS 230, EMTS hands-on experiences, visit industry, The lab experience to coincide with EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. Corequisites: EMTS 225. Prerequisites: EMTS 130 and EMTS make oral presentations, meet faculty 227, EMTS 228, EMTS 234, EMTS 235, and and practicing professionals. 190. Corequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS 229, EMTS 236. EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. ENGR 105 Basic Engineering Drawing (3) EMTS 234 P aramedic Medical Fundamentals of computer-aided EMTS 227 P aramedic Special Emergencies Laboratory (1) drafting and design. This is a foundation Considerations (3) The lab for EMTS 233. Clinical study of course for engineering-oriented Focuses on a comprehensive study adult and pediatric medical emergencies. students. Current engineering practice of Advanced Life Support Practice. Prerequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS 226, EMTS is emphasized, and computers are Prerequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS 226, EMTS 229, EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. introduced as a tool for modern 229, EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. Corequisites: EMTS 227, EMTS 228, EMTS engineering design and drawing. Corequisites: EMTS 228, EMTS 233, EMTS 233, EMTS 235, and EMTS 236. 234, EMTS 235, and EMTS 236. ENGR 111 Engineering Graphics and EMTS 235 Paramedic Trauma EMTS 228 P aramedic Special Design (3) Emergencies (4) Basic problem-solving techniques used Considerations Laboratory (2) A comprehensive study of adult in engineering and the sciences. Topics The lab for EMTS 227. Prerequisites: EMTS and pediatric trauma emergencies. include graphics, modeling, experimental 225, EMTS 226, EMTS 229, EMTS 230, Prerequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS 226, EMTS methods, data analysis, value judgments, EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. Corequisites: 229, EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. design processes, and decision making EMTS 227, EMTS 233, EMTS 234, EMTS Corequisites: EMTS 227, EMTS 228, EMTS in realistic engineering situations. 235, and EMTS 236. 233, EMTS 234, and EMTS 236. Prerequisites: MATH 130 and ENGR 105 or EMTS 229 Paramedic Pharmacology (3) EMTS 236 Paramedic Trauma equivalents. Focuses on a comprehensive study Emergencies Laboratory (1) of emergency pharmacology and Lab presenting various acute trauma ENGR 125 C omputer-Aided Design and Fabrication (3) medications used to treat common scenarios. Prerequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS Introduces engineering design graphics. illnesses. Prerequisites: EMTS 130 and 226, EMTS 229, EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and Includes learning a contemporary EMTS 190. Corequisites: EMTS 225, EMTS EMTS 232. Corequisites: EMTS 227, EMTS computer-aided design (CAD) software 226, EMTS 230, EMTS 231, and EMTS 232. 228, EMTS 233, EMTS 234, and EMTS 235. application and relevant engineering EMTS 230 P aramedic Pharmacology EMTS 237 P aramedic Internship graphics concepts, such as orthographic Laboratory (2) Preparation (2) projection, sections, engineering drawing Required pharmacology lab course Reviews concepts and techniques used practices, geometric dimensioning and in the paramedic education program. in the prehospital setting. Prerequisites: tolerancing, and an introduction to Prerequisites: EMTS 130 and EMTS 190. EMTS 231, EMTS 232, EMTS 233, EMTS manufacturing methods. Entails a final 234, EMTS 235, and EMTS 236. design project using rapid prototyping.

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ENGR 140 First-Year Engineering ENGR 261 Statics and Structures (3) ENGR 325 Component Design (3) Project (3) Covers statics of particles, equivalent Knowledge and skills developed in Provides first-year engineering force systems, rigid bodies, equilibrium preceding courses are extended and students with the opportunity to apply of rigid bodies in two and three applied to design and selection of mathematic and scientific skills in dimensions, analysis of truss and frame machine elements and machines. interdisciplinary engineering projects. structures, uniaxially-loaded members, Attention is given to functional Students work in teams to design deformation and stress, distributed force requirements, methods of manufacture, and build engineering projects under systems, friction. Lectures and homework choice of materials and economic factors. the guidance of engineering faculty. assignments involve computer work and Prerequisites: ENGR 224 and ENGR 263. Prototype projects are exhibited at hands-on laboratory work documented an end-of-semester design expo. by written reports. Prerequisites: MATH ENGR 343 Dynamics (3) Prerequisite: MATH 119 or higher, and 136 or MATH 152, and PHYS 111/111L or Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. MAMT 102 or MAMT 155 (may be taken PHYS 131/131L. Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies in concurrently). plane motion, including Newton’s second ENGR 263 Mechanics of Solids (3) law, work and energy, impulse and ENGR 196 Topics: (1-3) Covers shear force and bending momentum. Prerequisites: ENGR 261. moment, torsion, stresses in beams, ENGR 224 Materials Science (2) deflection of beams, matrix analysis of ENGR 395 Independent Study (1-3) ENGR 224L M aterials Science Laboratory frame structures, analysis of stress and (1) strain in 2-D and 3-D (field equations, ENGR 396 Topics (1-3) Structure, properties, and processing transformations), energy methods, stress of metallic, polymeric, ceramic, and ENGR 426 M anufacturing Processes and concentrations, and columns. Lectures composite materials. Perfect and Systems (3) and homework assignments involve imperfect solids; phase equilibria; A senior level course that examines computer work and hands-on laboratory transformation kinetics; mechanical widely used manufacturing processes for work documented by written reports. behavior; material degradation. Approach metals, polymers, microelectronics and Prerequisite: ENGR 261. incorporates both materials science and also exposes students to principles and practices of world class manufacturing. materials engineering components. ENGR 312 T hermodynamics and Heat Prerequisites: CHEM 121/121L or CHEM Transfer (3) Lecture topics include material 131/131L, and PHYS 111/111L or PHYS An introductory course in properties; engineering materials; 131/131L. thermodynamics, the science of casting, molding and related processes; heat energy conversion. Develops metal forming and sheet metal working; ENGR 251 Circuit Analysis I (3) understanding of energy, heat, work, material removal processes; joining ENGR 251L Circuit Analysis I efficiency, and ideal thermodynamic and assembly processes; electronics Laboratory (1) manufacturing technology; and Circuit analysis and modern electronics cycles. Teaches first and second laws of thermodynamics and perfect gas law. principles and practices of world class practice. Fundamental principles are manufacturing. Manufacturing economic applied to linear, time-invariant, lumped- Prerequisites: MATH 136 or MATH 152, and PHYS 111/111L or PHYS 131/131L. considerations. Influence of product parameter circuits. Electromechanical, design on process selection. Prerequisite: thermal, and optical sensors are used ENGR 317 F undamentals of Circuits and ENGR 224 and STAT 200. with operational amplifiers in a variety Electronics (3) of signal processing and wave-shaping Resistive circuits, operational amplifiers, ENGR 435 Industrial Controls (3) applications. Four lectures and one two- capacitors, inductors, transient analysis, Fundamentals of control of hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: sine waves, AC circuit analysis, resonance, manufacturing processes. Applications PHYS 132, 132L. Corequisite: MATH 253. transformers. Not for Electronics of relay logic, input/output devices, Engineering Technology and Computer and programmable logic controllers ENGR 252 Circuit Analysis II (3) Engineering Technology students. (PLC). Design of complete control ENGR 252L Circuit Analysis II circuits, selection of components, and Laboratory (1) Prerequisites: MATH 136 or MATH 152, and PHYS 111/111L or PHYS 131/131L. cost estimation. PLC programming for RL, RC, and RLC networks is first discrete event control and for analog examined, with particular attention ENGR 321 Fluid Mechanics (3) applications. Prerequisite: ENGR 317. given to their natural and step responses. Covers fluid properties, laws of fluid Mutual inductance and transformers are statics and fluid dynamics, measurement ENGR 436 F luid & Electric Power studied. Finally, the Laplace transform of flow, viscous flow, laminar and Systems (3) is used in circuit analysis, along with turbulent flow, flow in ducts, forces due A mechanical approach to industrial frequency domain techniques for to fluid motion, and fluid machinery. power systems. Applications emphasize networks. Three lectures and one two- Prerequisites: MATH 152 or MATH 136, the selection and function of hardware hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: and PHYS 111/111L or PHYS 131/131L, and interfacing of hydraulic, pneumatic ENGR 251, 251L. and ENGL 112. and electric systems with mechanical,

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 155 fluidic and electrical/electronic controls. students to take college level general ü ENGL 150 I ntroduction to Topics covered include transformers, education courses in conjunction with a Literature-GTAH2 (3) motors, generators, motor controls, and co-requisite reading/writing studio (READ Study of major genres of literature. protective devices. Prerequisites: ENGR 092/ENGC 092). 321 and ENGR 435. ENGL 196 Topics (1-3) ENGC 092 Writing Studio (1) ENGR 445 MET Design Project I (3) This course is designed to offer ENGL 219 I ntroduction to Professional The first of a two-course comprehensive supplemental support for students in Writing (3) group capstone design experience, ENGL 111 and writing intensive courses Study of technical writing, public focusing on the design proposal. This across the disciplines. This is a corequisite information and public relations writing, sequence applies material from prior with ENGL 111 or social science 100 and free-lance nonfiction writing. course work, along with concepts of discipline strands for students with Prerequisite: ENGL 112 or ENGL 129. project management, problem definition; Accuplacer scores less than 70. ü determining design requirements, design ENGL 222 Mythology-GTAH2 (3) Basic myths of the Greeks and Romans, optimization, engineering analysis, proof- ENGLISH (ENGL) of-concept prototype, CAD drawings. the cultures that produced them and/ or the Northern and Medieval myths of Students make several oral design ü ENGL 111 English Composition- reviews, a final design presentation, and Europe, their backgrounds in classical GTCO1 (3) culture and native folklore. prepare a written report. Prerequisites: Introduction to writing as a process with ENGR 140, ENGR 312, ENGR 321, ENGR an emphasis on achieving rhetorical ü ENGL 231 Non-Western World 325, SPCH 102, MAMT 115, and ENGL 425. purpose. Prerequisite: Students who Literature I-GTAH2 (3) do not meet placement criteria will be Literature from cultures outside the ENGR 485 MET Design Project II (3) assigned to ENGL 090 and must pass that Second part of a two-course capstone Western tradition, from antiquity to class with a “C” or higher to enroll in ENGL approximately 1800. Texts, chosen by design experience. Refinement of 111. prototype, design optimization, instructor, may include works from China, Japan, India, the Middle East, etc. fabrication, testing and evaluation. ü ENGL 112 English Composition- Students orally present the final design, GTCO2 (3) ü ENGL 232 Non-Western World prepare a written report and operation The practice of academic writing that Literature II-GTAH2 (3) manual for the product. Prerequisite: extends one’s own thinking in response Nineteenth and twentieth century ENGR 445. to the ideas of others. Prerequisite: ENGL literature from Eastern, Indian, African, 111 with a grade of “C” or higher to fulfill Asian and Latin American tradition. ENGR 495 Independent Study (1-3) English Competency requirement under General Education. ENGL 240 Children’s Literature (3) ENGR 496 Topics (1-3) Survey of literature for children from birth ü ENGL 129 H onors English-GTCO2 ENGR 497 Structured Research (1-3) to age 12, focusing on ways of reading (3) texts. Engineering research under the direct Examination of readings and creation guidance of a faculty member. Designed of persuasive essays, research papers, ENGL 245 Imaginative Writing (3) for junior and senior level students. and critical analyses. This course fulfills Prerequisite: instructor permission. Introduction to the theory and practice the composition requirements (ENGL of imaginative writing for young people. 111 and ENGL 112) for baccalaureate Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or ENGL 129. ENGLISH: students whose ACT or SAT scores are DEVELOPMENTAL (ENGC) high and whose writing skills are strong. ENGL 250 I ntroduction to Creative Permission to enroll is required. Students Writing (3) ENGC 090 C ollege Preparatory Reading must pass ENGL 129 with a grade of “C” An introduction to the theory and and Composition (3) or higher to fulfill English competency practice of producing original works of This course uses whole language to requirement under General Education. poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose. develop proficiency in reading and Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or ENGL 129. writing for college. Emphasis is placed on ü ENGL 131 Western World applying analytic and critical reading skills Literature I-GTAH2 (3) ü ENGL 254 Sur vey of English in a variety of texts and on introducing Works from the Classical, Medieval, and Literature I-GTAH2 (3) the writing process. Upon completion, Renaissance periods. English literature from its beginnings students should be able to recognize and through the Enlightenment. use various patterns of text organization ü ENGL 132 W estern World Literature and compose effective paragraphs and II-GTAH2 (3) ü ENGL 255 Sur vey of English essays. This course integrates ENGL Works from the late Renaissance, Literature II-GTAH2 (3) 060/090 and READ 060/090. Successful Neoclassic, Romantic, and Modern English literature from the Romantics to completion of this course will prepare periods. the present day.

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ü ENGL 261 Sur vey of American ENGL 320 Report and Proposal ENGL 382 C reative Writing: Crafting Literature I-GTAH2 (3) Writing (3) Fiction (3) American literature from the beginnings Introduction to the theory and practice In-depth focus on a specialized aspect of to the late 19th Century. of preparing and analyzing reports fiction writing. and proposals intended for businesses, ü ENGL 262 Sur vey of American governmental agencies, and private and ENGL 383 Creative Writing: Poetry (3) Literature II-GTAH2 (3) corporate foundations. Theory and practice of producing original American literature from the late 19th works of poetry. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 Century to the present. ENGL 330 W omen in World Thought and or consent of instructor. Literature (3) ENGL 296 Topics (1-3) Readings in world literature by and about ENGL 384 T he Art of the Essay (3) women; interdisciplinary study of feminist Theory and practice of objective ENGL 301 C lassical Greek and Latin theories and women’s contributions to non-fiction, including expository and Literature (3) world thought. persuasive writing. Emphasis on style, Readings in English of Greek and Roman structure, and audience. authors and major classical genres. ENGL 335 The Bible as Literature (3) A survey of Biblical literature in literary ENGL 385 T echnical and Professional ENGL 311 English Medieval and historical contexts. Includes the Writing (3) Literature (3) Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Practice in writing and editing of Major works of Old and Middle English Testament, and non-canonical Biblical workplace documents, including literature. literature. correspondence, reports and proposals. ENGL 313 English Renaissance ENGL 343 L anguage Systems and ENGL 386 Roots of Modern Rhetoric (3) Literature (3) Linguistic Diversity (3) A survey of the history of rhetoric from Major works of the 16th and 17th Introduction to the nature of language, classical Greece to the present with Centuries, including the Metaphysical first and second language acquisition, emphasis on the Greco-Roman tradition. and Caroline poets and John Milton. and issues relevant to linguistic diversity ENGL 387 Lit erary Editing and ENGL 314 American Literature and multicultural literacies. Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or ENGL 129. Publishing (3) to 1830 (3) Practical experience in literary editing An in-depth study of various significant and publishing one of Colorado Mesa texts of the period, as well as other ENGL 355 Shakespeare (3) Early and mature plays, including genres University’s journals. Prerequisite: ENGL relevant texts. Texts and authors are 250 or consent of instructor. chosen by the instructor to provide a of comedy, history, tragedy, and romance, emphasizing close textual reading in thorough study of selected important ENGL 388 C reative Writing: Crafting historical, philosophical and literary conjunction with cultural and intellectual contexts. Poetry (3) aspects of the period. In-depth focus on a specialized aspect of ENGL 365 Literature for Young Adults (3) poetry writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 250 or ENGL 315 A merican Literature 1830- consent of instructor. 1870 (3) Advanced study of major works for youth An in-depth study of various significant and adolescents throughout history, with an emphasis on contemporary authors. ENGL 390 Introduction to Film texts of the period, as well as other Studies (3) relevant texts. Texts and authors are ENGL 370 Major Author (3) Introduction to film narrative, chosen by the instructor to provide a In-depth study of one or two important cinematography, and theory. thorough study of selected important writers, with attention to the writer’s historical, philosophical and literary ENGL 394 T echnical and Professional distinctive style and subject matter, aspects of the period. Writing Topics (3) the range of the writer’s career, and the Topics at the discretion of the instructor, ENGL 316 A merican Literature 1870- influence of the writer’s work. or to meet the needs of the department. 1900 (3) Topics may include: grant writing for An in-depth study of various significant ENGL 380 Creative Writing: Non-Fiction (3) industry; professional editing; desktop texts of the period, as well as other Theory and practice of the memoir and publishing for professional writing; relevant texts. Texts and authors are the personal essay. Emphasis on narrative writing for online presentation; individual chosen by the instructor to provide a craft, experiential expression, research, and team writing. thorough study of selected important and interviewing. Prerequisite: ENGL 250. historical, philosophical and literary ENGL 395 Independent Study (1-3) aspects of the period. ENGL 381 Creative Writing: Fiction (3) ENGL 396 Topics (1-3) Theory and practice of producing original works of fiction. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 397 Practicum (3) ENGL 436 A merican Literature historical context, contemporary theory, Experience in a Basic Writing classroom 1945-Present (3) and current pedagogy in the field of helping the instructor with all phases An in-depth study of various significant composition studies. Prerequisites: senior of writing instruction. Prerequisite: texts of the period, as well as other standing in teacher certification program permission of department head. relevant texts. Texts and authors are or consent of instructor. chosen by the instructor to provide a ENGL 398 P racticum in Editing and thorough study of selected important ENGL 492 Seminar in Writing (3) Publishing (1-3) historical, philosophical and literary Capstone course focusing on genre Experience in editing and publishing one aspects of the period. choice (novel, short story, poetry, of Colorado Mesa University’s journals. memoir, creative non-fiction, screenplay, Credit hours contracted through advising ENGL 438 E thnic Experiences in U.S. playwriting). Research into professional instructor. Prerequisite: Consent of Literature (3) and publishing considerations. instructor. Survey of literary works written Development of a creative portfolio. throughout United States history by Prerequisite: ENGL 250. ENGL 415 American Folklore (3) African-American, Hispanic-American, American folklore with an emphasis Native American and Asian American ENGL 494 Seminar in Literature (3) on collecting Colorado and especially authors, as well as by authors from other Analysis of an important literary Western Colorado lore. under-represented cultural communities. work or works, requiring students to interpret, criticize, and present research. ENGL 421 I ntroduction to Literary ENGL 440 H istory of the English Prerequisite: Senior standing or consent Theory and Criticism (3) Language (3) of instructor. Development and theory of literary Historical development of the English criticism. language; its internal formation as ENGL 495 Independent Study (1-3) shaped by external political, social, and ENGL 423 Genre Studies (3) intellectual forces. Prerequisite: Junior or ENGL 496 Topics (1-3) History and development of an individual senior status or consent of instructor. literary genre. ENGL 497 I nternship in Business, ENGL 451 S tructure of the English Technical, and Professional ENGL 425 Scientific Writing (3) Language (3) Communication (3) Theoretical and practical studies of Study of modern English through the use An opportunity to write, edit, and design writing in the sciences (science, medicine, of structural techniques and linguistic business and technical documents in a and environmental writing). Addresses principles. Prerequisites: Junior or senior professional setting. Projects may include writing for both popular and professional standing or consent of the instructor. reports, proposals, grants, manuals, audiences. Coverage of both print and brochures and newsletters. online instructional materials. Safety, ENGL 470 18th Century British ethical and liability issues. Literature (3) ENGL 543 L anguage Systems and Conceptual framework of the Linguistic Diversity (3) ENGL 427 Writing for Industry (3) Enlightenment in England’s Advanced study in the nature of Theoretical and practical studies of representative writers. language, first and second language writing for industrial fields. Addresses acquisition, and issues relevant to writing for both popular and professional ENGL 471 British Romanticism (3) linguistic diversity and multicultural audiences. Covers both print and online Representative works of writers literacies. Discussions will focus on instructional materials. Safety, ethical, and attempting to discover a higher reality education within and across home, liability issues. than that offered by materialism or community, and school contexts, rationalism. including a focus on home-school- ENGL 435 A merican Literature 1900- community relationships. 1945 (3) ENGL 475 Victorian Literature (3) An in-depth study of various significant Representative works of post-Romantic ENGL 596 Topics (1-3) texts of the period, as well as other British literature. relevant texts. Texts and authors are ENVIRONMENTAL chosen by the instructor to provide a ENGL 478 20th Century British thorough study of selected important Literature (3) SCIENCE AND historical, philosophical and literary Major works from 20th Century British TECHNOLOGY (ENVS) aspects of the period. Prerequisites: ENGL writers. 131, 132, 150, 222, 231, 232, 254, 255, 261, ü ENVS 101 I ntroduction to or 262. ENGL 491 C omposition Theory and Environmental Science- Practice (3) GTSC2 (3) Theory and practice of composing Impact of resource use and pollution as it applies to teaching English in on the earth’s environment and the junior and senior high schools; biota. Scientific approach to solving

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 158 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG environmental problems and the impacts ENVS 204 I ntroduction to Ecosystem ENVS 296 Topics (1-3) of values upon global environmental Management (3) decisions examined. General ENVS 204L I ntroduction to Ecosystem ENVS 301 En vironmental Project environmental awareness and literacy Management Laboratory (1) Management (2) emphasized. Students may take either Scientific management of natural Basic practices of effective project ENVS 101 or ENVS 103/103L for general resources in a changing environment. management, including proposal education natural science credit, but not Problem solving emphasized in a preparation, planning, scheduling, cost both. case study approach to ecosystem estimating, cost and progress tracking, management. Theories of ecology, and team building. Prerequisites: any one ü ENVS 103 F ield-Based Introduction economics, fisheries and wildlife of the following: ENVS 204, ENVS 221, to Environmental management, biology, and sociology ENVS 331, ENVS 340. Science-GTSC1 (3) to solve problems using realistic ü ENVS 103L F ield-Based Introduction and complex landscape scenarios. ENVS 312 Soil Science and to Environmental Science Prerequisite: ENVS 104 or consent of Sustainability (3) Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) instructor. ENVS 312L S oil Science and Sustainability Examination of the effects of resource Laboratory (1) use and pollution on the earth’s ENVS 212 En vironmental Health and Physical, chemical and biological environment and biota. Integration Safety (2) properties of soils. Function of soils of lecture with field and lab exercises ENVS 212L En vironmental Health and emphasized. Application of soil science to demonstrate scientific approach Safety Laboratory (1) to sustainable use of soils in natural and to solving environmental problems. Examination of environmental health agricultural settings. Prerequisites: CHEM Emphasis on environmental awareness and safety issues associated with 121 or higher and ENVS 204/204L, or and critical thinking. Students may take hazardous materials. Includes basic consent of instructor. either ENVS 101 or ENVS 103/103L for toxicology, threat assessment, and ENVS 315 Mined Land Rehabilitation (2) general education natural science credit, control strategies. Meets 40-hour OSHA Principles and practices of mined land but not both. training requirement for hazardous waste operations. Prerequisite: ENVS 221 or reclamation. Topics include mining ENVS 104 En vironmental Science: Global consent of instructor. techniques, disturbances caused by Sustainability (3) mining, regulations, closure of mine Examination of local to global ENVS 221 S cience and Technology of features, soil preparation, revegetation, environmental issues. Includes human Pollution Control (3) and monitoring. Prerequisites: ENVS population dynamics and impact ENVS 221L S cience and Technology of 455 or ENVS 312/312L (may be taken Pollution Control concurrently). of agriculture on the environment, Laboratory (1) ecosystem function, energy use and Introduction to scientific, engineering, sustainable development, air, water ENVS 321 En vironmental Risk and technical elements of pollution Analysis (3) and soil pollution, climate change and control. Includes pollutant characteristics, Assessment, management, and environmental policy. Critical evaluation investigation and cleanup of control of risk from toxic substances of readings from historical and modern contaminated sites, waste treatment in the environment. Topics include environmental topics supplement (air emissions, wastewater discharges, basic elements of toxicity testing and lectures. Prerequisite: Declared ENVS hazardous waste), waste minimization, life epidemiology, chemical fate in the major or minor or consent of instructor. cycle analysis, and industrial ecology. Lab environment, exposure assessment, Will not count as credit to the major if focuses on site investigation skills, design uncertainty in risk estimates, approaches credit has already been received for ENVS and operation of selected treatment to risk management, and risk 101 or ENVS 103. technologies, and waste minimization communication. Prerequisites: ENVS 221, ENVS 105 Readings in Environmental audits. Prerequisites: ENVS 104; mastery ENVS 221L, and MATH 113. Science (1) of high school algebra; CHEM 121 or 131 Critical readings in environmental recommended. ENVS 331 Water Quality (3) ENVS 331L Water Quality Lab (1) science. Majors in Environmental Science ENVS 278 Permaculture Design (2) Physical, chemical, and biological and Technology only. ENVS 101 and 105 ENVS 278L P ermaculture Design properties of aquatic systems. Includes together are a substitute for ENVS 104. Laboratory (2) movement of water in the watershed, Prerequisite: ENVS 101. Practical application of ecology to design stream classification and stability, lake sustainable human and agricultural ENVS 196 Topics (1-3) circulation, aquatic ecology, chemistry systems. Topics include permaculture and biology of natural and polluted principles, design strategies, sustainable waters, water quality monitoring, agriculture, natural building, cooperative regulation and protection of surface economics, and neighborhood design. water, and watershed assessment Students work in teams to complete a and management. Lab focuses on design project for a local site. practical skills and field measurements

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 159 culminating in an assessment of a local ENVS 370 Renewable Energy (3) and migration of chemicals in the watershed. Prerequisites: CHEM 121 or An introduction to renewable energy environment. Includes consideration 132, and STAT 200. resources from a technical perspective of air, surface water, soil, and ground with an emphasis on sustainability. Topics water. Emphasis on quantitative problem ENVS 332 I ntroduction to Geographic include an introduction to the concepts solving. Prerequisites: CHEM 121 or 132; Information Systems (2) of energy and power, units of measure, and MATH 119, 146, or 151. ENVS 332L I ntroduction to Geographic sources and forms of energy, uses of Information Systems energy, energy efficiency, electricity, solar ENVS 420 P ollution Investigation & Laboratory (1) thermal and photovoltaics, bioenergy, Monitoring (3) Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of hydropower, tidal power, wave power, Survey of field sampling and analytical GIS with regard to theoretical, technical, wind power, geothermal, hydrogen, methods for study of environmental and application issues. Prerequisites: efficient building design and integration systems. Topics include sampling design, GEOL 305 or GEOG 131. of renewables with current energy regulatory issues, quality assurance, supplies. quality control, data interpretation, and ENVS 340 Applied Atmospheric reporting. Three one-hour lectures and Science (3) Examination of the atmosphere and ENVS 374 Sustainable Building (3) one three-hour laboratory per week. air pollution. Includes physical and Principles and practices of “green” Prerequisites: CHEM 122 or 132, STAT 200 chemical properties of the atmosphere, building. Topics include philosophy of or consent of instructor. meteorology, air pollutant sources and sustainable design, site development, passive heating and cooling, innovative ENVS 420L P ollution Investigation & effects, monitoring, pollutant dispersion, Monitoring Laboratory (1) emission inventory, management of structural systems and materials, energy supply and conservation, water and Examination of strategies and techniques emissions, and regulation of air quality. for investigating contaminated sites and Prerequisite: CHEM 121 or 132. waste water management, indoor air quality, and case studies. monitoring environmental pollutants. Topics include Phase I assessments, ENVS 350 E cology and Management of development and implementation of Shrublands and Grasslands (3) ENVS 394 Natural Resources of the ENVS 350L E cology and Management of West (1) sampling and monitoring plans, quality Shrublands and Grasslands Seminars covering topics related to assurance, methods of analysis, and Laboratory (1) natural resources including water, soil, data interpretation and presentation. Examination of ecological principles land, mineral and energy resources in the Prerequisites: CHEM 121 or CHEM 131, in determining the structure, function, western United States. Guest speakers are and STAT 200, ENVS 221, and ENVS 221L. and management of North American invited from the academic community, grasslands and shrublands. Three one- industry or government agencies to give ENVS 431 W ater and Wastewater hour lectures and one three-hour lab formal oral presentations followed by Treatment (3) Examination of water and wastewater per week. Two Saturday labs may be informal discussion with students and treatment processes including physical, required. Prerequisite: STAT 200 and ENVS faculty. The course may be repeated for chemical, and biological treatment 204/204L. a maximum of four semester hours of credit. technologies. Emphasis on unit process ENVS 360 Fire Ecology (3) design and modeling. Prerequisite: ENVS Examination of the ecological effects of ENVS 395 Independent Study (1-3) 331. fire on forests, shrublands, and grasslands. Includes fire effects on plants, animals, ENVS 396 Topics (1-3) ENVS 433 Rest oration of Aquatic Systems (3) soil, and water, as well as using fire as a ENVS 410 En vironmental Regulatory Principles and practices of restoring restoration tool. Prerequisites: STAT 200 and Compliance (3) the functions and values of streams, ENVS 204/204L. Corequisite: ENVS 360L. Examination of regulatory requirements ponds, and wetlands. Addresses physical, ENVS 360L Fire Ecology Laboratory (1) pertaining to air pollution, water chemical, and biological aspects of these Field experience examining the ecological pollution, hazardous materials, and aquatic systems. Prerequisites: ENVS 331 effects of fire on forests, shrublands, radioactive materials. Additional topics and ENVS 331L. and grasslands of the Colorado Plateau. include enforcement, compliance ENVS 455 Restoration Ecology (3) Includes field and lab studies that test management systems, compliance auditing, and innovative approaches to ENVS 455L Rest oration Ecology the effects of fire on plants, animals, soil, Laboratory (1) and water. One 3-hour lab per week. May regulation. Prerequisites: ENVS 221, and junior or senior standing. Examination of principles and require 2 Saturday labs. Prerequisites: STAT techniques for restoration of community 200 and ENVS 204/204L. Corequisite: ENVS ENVS 413 En vironmental Fate and characteristics and ecosystem functions 360. Transport of Contaminants (3) to disturbed lands. Lecture and lab Physical, chemical, and biological emphasize practical application of factors influencing the persistence ecological principles to restoration

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 160 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG culminating in an independent project of level students. Prerequisite: permission of FINA 412 Lif e and Health Insurance designing a restoration project for a local instructor. Licensure and Financial area. Prerequisites: ENVS 312, and ENVS Planning (3) 350 or ENVS 360; or consent of instructor. ENVS 499 Internship (1-4) Analysis of personal and business life Work experience for a non-academic and health insurance policies. Focus ENVS 460 Fire Management (3) organization on environmental projects. includes coverage need determination, Examination of principles and current Requires 45 contact hours per credit underwriting, marketing, financial, topics in fire management, including hour, a final report, and oral presentation. ratemaking, reserving and other fire behavior, prescribed fire/smoke Available as an elective for Environmental insurance considerations. Prerequisite: management, fuels/fuels management, Science & Technology majors. Consent of instructor. wildfire control, fire in the wildland-urban Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing in interface, and fire policy. Prerequisites: the Environmental Science & Technology FINA 415 P roperty and Liability ENVS 360/360L, STAT 200, one semester program or consent of instructor. Insurance Licensure (3) of biology. Corequisite: ENVS 460L. Analysis of personal and business ENVS 596 Topics (1-3) property and liability insurance ENVS 460L Fire Management policies. Focus includes coverage need Laboratory (1) FINANCE (FINA) determination, underwriting, marketing, Field, lab, and computer modeling financial, ratemaking, reserving and other experience in predicting fire behavior, FINA 301 Managerial Finance (3) insurance considerations. Prerequisite: planning prescribed burns, managing Acquisition, allocation, and management Consent of instructor. hazardous fuels, and assessing wildfire of funds within the business enterprise. risk in the wildland-urban interface. Financial goals, funds flow, valuation, FINA 420 S ecurity Analysis and Prerequisites: ENVS 360/360L, STAT 200, capital budgeting, and financing strategies. Portfolio Management (3) one semester of biology. Corequisite: Prerequisite: ACCT 201, and STAT 200 or Extension of the theory and practices of ENVS 460. CISB 241. investment valuation and management. Topics include risk and return, market ENVS 475 Exp erimental Design and FINA 310 Risk Management (3) efficiency, economic and industry Statistical Analysis in Identification of risk, risk analysis, risk analysis, fundamental and technical Environmental Science (3) evaluation and methods of resolving analysis, bond analysis and management Examination of principles and techniques risk issues in a business environment. strategies, portfolio management for designing experiments and analyzing Insurance as a risk management tool and performance evaluation, and the data in environmental sciences. Emphasis discussed. Prerequisite: Consent of characteristics and uses of options, on practical application of analysis instructor. rights, warrants, convertibles, and futures. techniques using environmental data Prerequisites: FINA 301 and FINA 320. with computer applications. Prerequisites: FINA 320 Fundamentals of ENVS 204 or ENVS 221, STAT 200, and Investments (3) FINA 431 I nternational Financial 6 upper division credits; or consent of Introduction to the theory and Management (3) instructor. practices of investment valuation The theory and practices of financial and management. Topics include risk management in an international ENVS 492 C apstone in Environmental and return, investor objectives and product and capital marketplace. Topics Science and Technology (2) strategies, the types and characteristics include the international flow of funds, Small-group environmental projects of investment instruments, the process of exchange rate determinants and risk for outside organizations. Prepare buying and selling securities, investment hedging, international arbitrage and project proposals, plan and implement valuation and yields, and portfolio interest rate parity, purchasing power projects, write project reports, and give management. Prerequisite: FINA 301. parity and the international Fisher oral presentations to clients. Exit exams effect, instruments of international for the Environmental Science and FINA 395 Independent Study (1-3) trade financing, multinational capital Technology major are administered as budgeting, multinational costs of capital, part of this course. Prerequisite: Senior FINA 396 Topics (1-3) and multinational capital structure. standing or consent of instructor. Prerequisite: FINA 301. FINA 401 Entrepreneurial Finance (3) ENVS 495 Independent Study (1-3) The theory and practices of financing FINA 451 F inancial Management: for the entrepreneur. Topics include cash Theory and Applications (3) ENVS 496 Topics (1-3) forecasting and financial planning, cash Extension of the theory and practices collection and disbursements, short- of financial management using a case ENVS 497 Structured Research (1-3) term investing and financing, inventory analysis approach. Topics include Research in environmental science management, accounts receivable financial statement analysis, financial under the direct guidance of a faculty management, credit and collections planning and forecasting, risk and return, member. Designed for junior and senior policy, and payables and accruals capital budgeting, lease financing, cost of management. Prerequisite: FINA 301.

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 161 capital, capital structure, dividend policy, FLAF 211 Second-Year French I (3) LATIN and risk management. Prerequisites: FLAF 212 Second-Year French II (3) FINA 301; senior standing or consent of Grammar review, vocabulary distinction, FLLT 111 Introductory Latin 1 (3) instructor. and readings in the French language. FLLT 112 Introductory Latin 2 (3) Prerequisites: two years of high school Introduction to reading classical Latin. FINA 495 Independent Study (1-3) French, FLAF 111 and 112, or consent of Emphasizes basic vocabulary and instructor. grammar. Explores aspects of Latin FINA 496 Topics (1-3) literature and Roman culture. Provides a FLAF 290 Special Studies In foundation for the study of ancient Rome. FINA 500 Financial Strategy (3) French (1-3) Develops a practical understanding of Introduction and development of analysis Study beyond the scope of the existing English. of the financial aspects of a corporation curriculum. using both theory and application. Topics SPANISH include capital markets, global economic GERMAN factors that affect the corporation, capital FLAS 111 First-Year Spanish I (3) asset pricing model, portfolio analysis FLAG 111 First-Year German I (3) Basic Spanish language skills. and capital structure policy. FLAG 112 First-Year German II (3) Introduction to greetings, classroom and Introduction to the German language. family vocabularies in the present and FINE ARTS (FINE) FLAG 211 Second-Year German I (3) present progressive tenses. Hispanic cultural and social interactions. ü FINE 101 The Living Arts-GTAH1 (3) FLAG 212 Second-Year German II (3) Grammar review, vocabulary distinction, An interdisciplinary survey of human FLAS 112 First-Year Spanish II (3) and readings in the German language. creative efforts as they relate to each Continuation of basic Spanish language Prerequisites: two years of high school other. Art, drama, and music are skills. Introduction of specialized German, FLAG 111 and 112, or consent of compared with similarities stressed. vocabularies and past tenses (preterit instructor. vs. imperfect). Continuation of Hispanic FINE 395 Independent Study (1-3) FLAG 290 Special Studies In cultural and social interactions. Prerequisite: FLAS 111 or consent of FINE 396 Topics (1-3) German (1-3) Study beyond the scope of the existing instructor. FINE 495 Independent Study (1-3) curriculum. FLAS 114 Conversational Spanish I (3) FINE 496 Topics (1-3) FLAS 115 Conversational Spanish II (3) GREEK A beginning level class for adult students FINE 499 Internship (8,15) who wish to develop a basic vocabulary FLGK 111 Introductory Greek I (3) for speaking and understanding Spanish Part or full-time work in various aspects FLGK 112 Introductory Greek II (3) socially, on the job or south of the border. of arts management. Sites may include An introduction to the fundamentals galleries, musical, theatrical or other of reading ancient Greek. Emphasizes FLAS 118 Career Spanish (3) performing organizations, arts centers, or basic vocabulary and grammar. Explores other situations that meet the instructor’s For students with a background in FLAS aspects of Greek literature and culture. 111 and 112 [First Year Spanish I & II] or approval. Half-time equals eight semester Provides a foundation for the study of hours credit; full-time equals 15 semester their equivalent who wish to perfect ancient Greece. Develops a practical command of the language in a variety hours credit. Prerequisite: junior standing understanding of English. in visual or performing arts. May also of workplaces and professional areas of interest. Prerequisites FLAS 111, FLAS 112 require selected courses in business, JAPANESE social science, etc. as appropriate to the [or their equivalent]. internship sought. FLAJ 111 Beginning Japanese I (3) FLAS 211 Second-Year Spanish I (3) Basic competency in understanding, End of basic Spanish language skills. FOREIGN LANGUAGES speaking, reading, and writing Japanese. Introduces subjunctive mood, future (FLAF, FLAG,FLAJ, FLAS, Beginning familiarity with Japanese and conditionals and other language FLAV, FLSL) culture. constructions. Prerequisite: FLAS 112 or consent of instructor. FLAJ 112 Beginning Japanese II (3) FRENCH Continued work on basic competency FLAS 212 Second-Year Spanish II (3) in understanding, speaking, reading, and Review of Spanish grammar. Practice FLAF 111 First-Year French I (3) writing Japanese. Increasing familiarity FLAF 112 First-Year French II (3) in writing, speaking, listening with Japanese culture. Introduction to the French language and comprehension and reading. culture. Prerequisites: FLAS 211, or consent of instructor.

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FLAS 290 Special Studies in twenty-first century. Includes excerpts 301, FLAS 302, FLAS 303, and FLAS 341, or Spanish (1-3) from major works in poetry, narrative, consent of instructor. and theater. Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 295 Independent Study (1-3) FLAS 302, and FLAS 303, or consent of FLAS 433 Business Spanish (3) instructor. Exploration of linguistic and cultural FLAS 301 Advanced Spanish aspects of business in a Hispanic Grammar (3) FLAS 322 I ntroduction to the Literature context. Developing skills necessary Level of instruction that assumes a of Latin America (3) for professional correspondence. previous formal contact with Spanish. Introduction to the literature of Latin Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, It is not only devoted to increase America from Columbus through the FLAS 303, and FLAS 341, or consent of awareness of grammatical accuracy but twenty-first century. Includes indigenous instructor. also develops the form and structure traditions and excerpts from major of language, always oriented towards a works in poetry, narrative, and theater. FLAS 434 Translation (3) practical use of Spanish. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, and Fundamentals of translation. Insights FLAS 212 or consent of instructor. FLAS 303, or consent of instructor. into and practice in the art of translation from its Biblical inception to the latest in FLAS 302 A dvanced Spanish FLAS 341 Spanish and the Nature of machine-generated translation. Particular Composition (3) Language (3) focus on the Spanish-English language pair. Writing of well-structured and clearly- Introduction to human language. Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, FLAS 303, planned compositions of varying length. Spanish is the primary source for and FLAS 341, or consent of instructor. Provides the opportunity for students description and analysis. Phonetics & to do research in Spanish and prepares Phonology, Morphology, Language FLAS 435 Interpreting (3) them for the writing of regular term and Society, Language Acquisition, and Fundamentals of interpreting. Exploration papers in Spanish. Prerequisite: FLAS 301. Language Contact. Prerequisites: FLAS and enhancement of linguistic and cross- 301, FLAS 302, and FLAS 303, or consent cultural skills in the various venues and FLAS 303 A dvanced Spanish Conversation (3) of instructor. modes of Spanish-English interpreting. Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, Conversational practice in Spanish FLAS 396 Topics (1-3) over a wide range of topics. Strategies FLAS 303, and FLAS 341, or consent of instructor. in organization of oral discourse, and FLAS 421 Hispanic Poetry (3) improvisation with special attention to Exploration of peninsular and/or Latin- FLAS 441 Spanish Phonetics and advanced expression, grammaticality, American poetry, poets, and poetic forms. Phonology (3) and specific characteristics of spoken May include poetry written by Hispanic Theory and practice of Spanish phonetics language. Prerequisites: FLAS 301 and authors in the United States. Prerequisites: and phonology. Focus on variation in the FLAS 302. FLAS 301, FLAS 302, FLAS 303, and FLAS Hispanic world. Spanish and English in 342, or consent of instructor. contrast. Improvement in pronunciation. FLAS 311 History and Culture of Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, Spain (3) FLAS 422 Hispanic Prose (3) History and culture of Spain. Early FLAS 303, and FLAS 341, or consent of Exploration of peninsular and/or Latin- instructor. inhabitants through the twenty-first American prose, including the novel, century. Written and oral reports in short story, and/or essay. May include FLAS 442 M ethodology of Teaching Spanish. Emphasizes development of prose written by Hispanic authors in the Foreign Languages (3) cultural awareness and language skills. United States. Prerequisites: FLAS 301, Examination of current trends, methods, Prerequisite: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, and FLAS 302, FLAS 303, and FLAS 341. and techniques in foreign language FLAS 303, or consent of instructor. pedagogy. Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS FLAS 423 Hispanic Drama and Film (3) 302, FLAS 303, FLAS 341, and FLAS 441, or FLAS 312 H istory and Culture of Latin Exploration of peninsular and/or Latin consent of instructor. America (3) American dramatic texts and/or cinema. History and culture of Latin America from May include plays and films by Hispanic FLAS 444 U sing Technology, Literature early inhabitants through the twenty- authors in the United States. Prerequisites: and Culture in the Spanish first century. Written and oral reports in FLAS 301, FLAS 302, FLAS 303, and FLAS Language Classroom (3) Spanish. Emphasizes development of 341, or consent of instructor. Examination of current trends and cultural awareness and language skills. techniques in the use of literature, Prerequisites: FLAS 301, FLAS 302, and FLAS 431 Spanish for Medical and Social technology and culture for teaching FLAS 303, or consent of instructor. Services (3) Spanish. Prerequisites: FLAS 311, FLAS Provides for acquisition and refinement 312, FLAS 321, FLAS 322, and FLAS 341, or FLAS 321 I ntroduction to the Literature of superior linguistic and cross-cultural consent of instructor. of Spain (3) Spanish/English skills used in health care Introduction to the literature of Spain and social services. Prerequisites: FLAS from the Middle Ages through the

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FLAS 498 Spanish Senior Practicum (3) signing modes. Includes approximately FOAN 499 Internship (1-6) Faculty-coordinated internship 800 vocabulary terms; classifiers; numeral Opportunities to apply theoretical consisting of work-oriented instruction incorporation; fingerspelling, loan principles in a structured research or in Spanish involving classroom or signs, directional verbs; body and facial organizational environment. Required laboratory experiences and/or research. language. Prerequisite: FLSL 111. clock hours dependent upon credit Prerequisites: FLAS 212, 301, 302, 311, hours. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior 312, 321, and 322, plus at least nine credit status, BIOL 410, consent of instructor, hours completed in any one of the three FORENSIC Hepatitis B vaccinations, and a TB skin Spanish major concentrations. ANTHROPOLOGY (FOAN) test before and after class. Course may be repeated for a maximum of six credit OTHER LANGUAGES FOAN 180 Sur vey of Physical hours. Anthropology (3) FLAV 196 Topics: (1-3) FOAN 180L Survey of Physical GEOGRAPHY (GEOG) Anthropology Laboratory (1) FLAV 290 Special Studies in Foreign Exploration of biological evolution GEOG 102 Human Geography (3) Languages (1-6) and variation in humans, mankind’s Introduction to spatial dimensions of These courses are currently offered place in nature, origin, and antiquity as the human world. Demography, human through Outreach: Ancient Greek, Latin, represented in the fossil record; recent settlements and land use, political and Advanced French, German, Spanish and studies of non-human primates; the economic systems, ethnicity, religion, other Classical and Modern Languages beginnings of culture; application of and language examined from a spatial as permitted by interest and instructor physical anthropology in forensic science. perspective. availability. Corequisite: FOAN 180. ü GEOG 103 World Regional FLAV 295 Independent Study (1-3) FOAN 232 Survey of Forensic Science (3) Geography-GTSS2 (3) Exploration of the relationship between Survey of world geography by major FLAV 296 Topics (1-3) science and society by noting the history world regions including an analysis of FLAV 390 Special Studies in Foreign and nature of the forensic scientist in the physical elements, the inhabitants, Languages (1-3) aiding to resolve various legal issues and and human occupancy patterns and an These courses are currently offered the role of the expert witness. Includes evaluation of the potential of each region through Outreach: Ancient Greek, Latin, an overview of death investigation, for sustaining human populations. Advanced French, German, Spanish and scene investigation, and current forensic other Classical and Modern Languages techniques. GEOG 131 Introduction to Cartography (3) as permitted by interest and instructor FOAN 396 Topics (1-3) Introduction to maps as tools for availability. communication and analysis of FOAN 450 Forensic Taphonomy (3) FLAV 395 Independent Study (1-3) locationally related information, Exploration of human decomposition including an introduction to concepts FLAV 396 Topics (1-3) as it relates to medico-legal cases in the in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) estimate of post-mortem interval and and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). FLAV 495 Independent Study (1-3) the reconstruction of what happened to the remains at and around the time GEOG 196 Topics (1-3) FLAV 496 Topics (1-3) of death and between death and the discovery of wounds, coverings, burnings GEOG 296 Topics: (1-3) AMERICAN SIGN and submersion on decomposition. LANGUAGE (FLSL) Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing, GEOLOGY (GEOL) and BIOL 410. FLSL 111 American Sign Language I (3) ü GEOL 100 Sur vey of Earth Science- Basic receptive and expressive skill FOAN 475 Human Remains Detection GTSC2 (3) and Recovery for Medico- Physical makeup of the earth, its history, acquisition in American Sign Language Legal Investigations (3) and geology. One field trip is required. (ASL) and other signing modes. Includes Archaeological techniques applied to Intended for students with majors other approximately 400 vocabulary items; detection and recovery of recent human than one of the sciences. the manual alphanumeric system; remains. Includes practical experience of interrogatives; subject, object, possessive approximately 6 hours on an announced ü GEOL 103 W eather and Climate- pronouns; simple present, past, and date. Prerequisites: BIOL 410, FOAN 450, future verb tense formation. GTSC2 (3) or experience in law enforcement or a Non-mathematical introduction to FLSL 112 American Sign Language II (3) coroner’s office and permission of the elements of local and global weather: Receptive and expressive skill practice in instructor. the atmosphere, cloud formation, American Sign Language (ASL) and other precipitation, seasons, optical

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 164 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG phenomena and violent storms. Students ü GEOL 112 P rinciples of Historical 200 (recommended but not required) or practice making 24-hour weather Geology-GTSC1 (3) consent of instructor. forecasts. ü GEOL 112L P rinciples of Historical Geology Laboratory- GEOL 250 Environmental Geology (3) ü GEOL 104 Oceanography-GT-SC-2 GTSC1 (1) Geologic aspects of environmental (3) Origin of the earth and life, changes problems involving natural processes Non-mathematical introduction to the recorded in rocks and fossils using the and anthropogenic activities. Studies scientific study of the ocean. While the geologic time scale and techniques include landslides, earthquakes, flooding, course focuses on the hydrosphere of dating to place events in sequence. coastal erosion, and land subsidence as subsystem of the Earth System, the Laboratory: topographic and geologic well as environmental impacts of mineral atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere maps, hand samples of rocks, resource extraction, soil erosion, fossil and biosphere interrelationship with the reconstruction exercises, and fossils to fuel consumption, and climate change. hydrosphere are also examined. interpret regional and general geologic Prerequisites: GEOL 100 or 104 or 105 or history. One all-day field trip is required. 111 or 113. ü GEOL 105 G eology of Colorado- Four lectures and one two-hour GTSC2 (3) laboratory per week. Prerequisite: GEOL GEOL 296 Topics (1-3) Introduction to minerals, rocks, geologic 111/111L or GEOL 113/113L or consent time scale and basic geologic terms, of instructor. GEOL 301 Structural Geology (3) followed by geology of Colorado taught GEOL 301L S tructural Geology with the aid of movies and slides. A one- ü GEOL 113 F ield-Based Introduction Laboratory (1) day field trip is required. to Physical Geology- Stress and strain in rock bodies. GTSC1 (3) Description and occurrence of both ü GEOL 106 I ntroduction to ü GEOL 113L F ield-Based Introduction brittle and ductile rock structures. Dinosaurs-GT-SC2 (3) to Physical Geology Laboratory: stereographic and graphical Introduction to the study of dinosaurs, Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) solution of structural problems, the study from geological, biological and historical Introduction to minerals, rocks, Earth of maps and cross sections, and some perspectives. Intended for students structures, mountain building processes, field problems. Three lectures and one interested in how different areas of and other elements of physical geology two-hour laboratory per week. Four one- science can be applied to a subject of for science and non-science majors. A day field trips are taken. Prerequisites: strong human interest. Includes two full- majority of class time will be spent in the GEOL 202, 204, and 111/111L or day field trips to local dinosaur quarries field (including one Saturday) observing 113/113L, and MATH 130. and museums. and mapping geological features of Western Colorado. There will be some GEOL 305 Cartography for GIS (1) ü GEOL 107 Na tural Hazards and indoor lectures and laboratory work. This Introduction to maps as tools for Environmental Geology- course is recommended for prospective communication and analysis of GTSC2 (3) K-12 teachers. locationally-related information. Introduction to geologic aspects of our environment. Includes studies of natural GEOL 196 Topics (1-3) GEOL 321 I ntroduction to Remote hazards, global climate change, geologic Sensing (2) resources and emphasizes human GEOL 202 Introduction to Field GEOL 321L I ntroduction to Remote Sensing Laboratory (1) interactions with the environment. Studies (3) Mapping of several small areas using GPS, Remote sensing systems and applications; characteristics of ü GEOL 111 P rinciples of Physical transit, and pace and compass methods. Geology-GTSC1 (3) Profiles, cross-sections, and maps are photographs, scanner and radar imagery ü GEOL 111L P rinciples of Physical prepared. Some unscheduled time is interpretation. Two one-hour lectures Geology Laboratory- required to do mapping projects. and one two-hour laboratory per week. GTSC1 (1) Prerequisites: GEOL 332/332L, BIOL Materials that make up the earth and GEOL 204 C omputer Applications in 332/332L, or ENVS 332/332L. surface and interior processes that Geology (3) interact to produce the present features Quantitative methods of geologic data GEOL 325 I ntroduction to Engineering of the earth. Laboratory: minerals, rocks, analysis with the data manipulated on Geology (3) Geologic principles applied to topographic maps, earth quakes, and the computer. Methodical approach with construction problems; case histories landforms. Three lectures and one two- limited theoretical emphasis; statistical of major projects. Field trips and term hour laboratory per week. concepts; special programs for graphical presentation and analysis. Three lectures project required. Prerequisite: GEOL per week and computer laboratory 111/111L or GEOL 113/113L or consent time to complete exercises are required. of instructor. 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GEOL 331 C rystallography and hydrologic modeling, problem solving, GEOL 393 C o-operative Education (3-12) Mineralogy (3) and monitoring techniques as well as GEOL 331L C rystallography and water resource management issues at GEOL 394 Natural Resources of the Mineralogy Laboratory (1) both local and global scales. Prerequisite: West (1) Morphology and classification of crystals; MATH 113, or MATH 151 or consent of Seminars covering topics related to chemistry and genesis of minerals. instructor. natural resources including water, soil, Laboratory: identification of crystal land, mineral and energy resources in the systems and class, hand specimen GEOL 359 Survey of Energy-Related western United States. Guest speakers are identification of minerals, some X-ray Natural Resources (3) invited from the academic community, diffraction work. Three lectures and Origin, location, and economics of non- industry or government agencies to give one two-hour laboratory per week. metallic geologic commodities, including formal oral presentations followed by Prerequisite: GEOL 202, 204, and CHEM phosphates, evaporites, oil, gas, coal, and informal discussion with students and 131 or consent of instructor. sedimentary uranium deposits. Students faculty. The course may be repeated for give oral and written reports on two a maximum of four semester hours of GEOL 332 I ntroduction to Geographic localities. Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L credit. Information Systems (2) or GEOL 113/113L; CHEM 131/131L, or GEOL 332L I ntroduction to Geographic consent of instructor. GEOL 395 Independent Study (1-3) Information Systems Laboratory (1) GEOL 361 Survey of Mineral-Related GEOL 396 Topics (1-3) Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of Natural Resources (3) GIS with regard to theoretical, technical, The genesis, description, and exploitation GEOL 402 A pplications of and application issues. Prerequisites: of metallic and non-metallic natural Geomorphology (3) GEOL 305 or GEOG 131. GEOL 402L A pplications of resources consumed by modern society, Geomorphology such as base-metals, precious metals GEOL 333 G eology of the Canyon Laboratory (1) Country (1) and gems, aggregates and construction Knowledge of landform genesis and Three two-hour evening lectures with materials, fertilizers, and chemical- shaping processes is applied to solve films and slides used to preview geology industrial commodities. Environmental, modern problems with emphasis on local of the Colorado Plateau. A five-day field economic, and socio-political issues soils, slopes, rivers, erosional surfaces, trip to the selected sites is conducted associated with utilization of these and structural framework. Laboratory during spring break. Prerequisites: GEOL resources will also be addressed. At and field studies used to explore frost, 100, 105 or 112. least one field trip to a local resource running water, slope movement, ground area will be arranged. Three lectures per water, wind, and glaciers which have GEOL 340 Igneous and Metamorphic week. Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L or affected the local environment. Practical Petrology (3) GEOL 113/113L, and CHEM 131, 131L, or techniques of measurement and GEOL 340L Igneous and Metamorphic consent of instructor. interpretation, including statistical and Petrology Laboratory (1) computer techniques, used to produce GEOL 370 Renewable Energy (3) Origin, composition and classification models of landscape development. An introduction to renewable energy of igneous and metamorphic rocks. A term project must be completed. resources from a technical perspective Laboratory: identification of igneous and Two major field trips are required. Four with an emphasis on sustainability. Topics metamorphic rocks in hand specimens. lectures and one two-hour laboratory per include an introduction to the concepts Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory week. Prerequisite: GEOL 202 and GEOL of energy and power, units of measure, per week. Prerequisite: GEOL 331. 204 and consent of instructor. sources and forms of energy, uses of GEOL 351 Applied Geochemistry (3) energy, energy efficiency, electricity, solar GEOL 404 Geophysics (3) Geochemistry and its relationship to thermal and photovoltaics, bioenergy, GEOL 404L Geophysics Laboratory (1) weathering and soils, geochemical hydropower, tidal power, wave power, Exploration for mineral and petroleum surveys and prospecting techniques, wind power, geothermal, hydrogen, and preliminary investigation of sites reactions of contaminants with earth efficient building design and integration for engineering and environmental materials, and methods of reducing of renewables with current energy projects with emphasis on refraction environmental degradation. Prerequisites: supplies. and reflection seismic, gravity, magnetic, CHEM 121/121L, CHEM 122/122L, and electrical, electromagnetic ground- GEOL 111/111L or GEOL 113/113L. GEOL 375 G lobal Positioning Systems penetrating radar and radioactive for GIS (2) GEOL 375L G lobal Positioning Systems methods. Laboratory: interpretation of GEOL 355 Basic Hydrology (3) data, computer applications, and field Introduction to physical hydrologic for GIS Laboratory (1) trips. Four lectures and one two-hour processes including precipitation, GPS techniques and applications as they laboratory per week. Prerequisites: GEOL evapotranspiration, infiltration, runoff relate to GIS data collection. Prerequisites: 202 and GEOL 204, GEOL 111/111L or and subsurface flow. Examination of GEOL 332 and 332L, or BIOL 332 and 332L, or ENVS 332 and 332L. GEOL 113/113L, and GEOL 112/112L, and

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PHYS 112, (calculus is recommended but GEOL 444 S edimentology and of Spring Semester. Students should not not required) or consent of instructor. Stratigraphy (3) expect to have weekends or holidays GEOL 444L S edimentology and off. Students will also be camping out at GEOL 405 Solid Earth Geophysics (3) Stratigraphy Laboratory (1) least half the time or more during this Classical physics applied to the study of Physical, chemical, and biological course. Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L or the earth with emphasis on the origin of characteristics of sedimentary rocks, GEOL 113/113L, GEOL 112/112L, GEOL the earth, its gravitational, geomagnetic, with emphasis on depositional 301/301L. GEOL 444/444L recommended. and geothermal characteristics, processes and environments, diagenesis, seismicity, the dynamics of the earth’s stratigraphic sequences, and correlation. GEOL 490 Seminar (3) crust, plate tectonics, and continental Laboratory emphasis is on description Well logging techniques and drift. One field trip required. Prerequisites: and classification of sedimentary rocks, characteristics of well logs; recent GEOL 404 or consent of instructor. analysis of depositional environments, developments, concepts, and theories and stratigraphic problems. One relating to petroleum, mineral deposits, GEOL 411 Paleontology (3) weekend field trip is required. tectonics; and other topics of current GEOL 411L Paleontology Laboratory (1) Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L or interest are discussed by students in a Taxonomy, morphology, ecology, and GEOL113/113L, GEOL 112/112L, GEOL seminar setting. Prerequisites: upper geologic range of most groups of 202, GEOL 204, GEOL 331/331L, and division standing and consent of invertebrate fossils. Laboratory: field CHEM 131/131L. instructor. identifications of guide fossils. A one- day field trip is required. Two lectures GEOL 445 G eospatial Database and GEOL 493 Co-operative Education (3-12) and one two-hour laboratory per week. Design (2) Prerequisite: beginning Biology course or GEOL 445L G eospatial Database and GEOL 495 Independent Study (1-3) consent of instructor. Design Laboratory (1) Creating, editing, and managing GEOL 496 Topics (1-3) GEOL 415 Introduction to Ground geodatabases and working with Water (3) topology for implementation with GIS. GEOL 497 Structured Research (1-3) GEOL 415L I ntroduction to Ground Water Term project is required. Two lectures and Geological research under the direct Laboratory (1) one two-hour lab per week. Prerequisite: guidance of a faculty member. Designed Relationships of ground water to other GEOL 432/432L. for junior and senior level students. water sources, hydrologic cycle, water Prerequisite: permission of instructor. balance, hydrologic characteristics GEOL 455 River Dynamics (3) of rocks, hydraulics and equations GEOL 455L River Dynamics Laboratory (1) HEALTH CARE (HSCI) defining flow, ground water quality, Introduction to river forms and and contamination, exploration and processes, including basic open-channel HSCI 101 I ntroduction to Health Care measurement techniques (including hydraulics, sediment transport, fluvial Professions (3) geophysical procedures), state and geomorphology and human interactions Explores the nature of services provided, federal regulations, and computer with river systems. Lab covers field, lab, opportunities within selected fields, modeling. Laboratory: Acquisition, and computer techniques to understand and relationships of fields within health analysis, and interpretation of ground and model river forms and processes, sciences. Concepts include: medical water data. Prerequisites: GEOL 111/111L including human interactions with terminology, safety and accident or GEOL 113/113L, and MATH 151, and at river systems. Prerequisite: GEOL 355 or prevention, professionalism, legal aspects, least high school level biology, chemistry consent of instructor. safety, communication and math skills, and physics. Three lectures and one two- and infection control. hour laboratory per week. GEOL 480 Summer Field Camp (6) This course involves basic training in HSCI 401 H ealth Informatics I - Data GEOL 432 A dvanced Geographic field geology. Students will perform a Analysis (2) Information Systems (2) variety of geologic mapping exercises Reviews statistical analysis, HIPAA, GEOL 432L A dvanced Geographic using topographic maps and air photos. confidentiality, and terminology Information Systems Students will gain an appreciation of pertinent to health informatics. Laboratory (1) geologic maps - how they are made, Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Emphasis on the set of analytical the uncertainties and unknowns in operations provided by this technology mapping, and how mappers deal with HSCI 406 H ealth Informatics II: Project and the specific conditions, requirements, them. Most mapping exercises are Design & Implementation (2) and processing considerations in deformed sedimentary strata and Explores application of knowledge and surrounding effective GIS modeling and Quaternary surficial deposits. Some skills to selected health informatics decision making. Prerequisites: GEOL 332 field exercises will involve collection project. Prerequisite: permission of and 332L, or BIOL 332 and 332L, or ENVS and interpretation of hydrological data. instructor. 332 and 332L, or GEOL 375 and 375L, or The course is a six full weeks in duration, ENVS 375 and 375L. GEOL 321 and 321L beginning immediately after conclusion recommended.

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HSCI 501 A dvanced Health Informatics heritage. Prerequisite: HIST 101. cultures and ecological factors that have I - Data Analysis (2) defined the region. Prerequisites: HIST Reviews statistical analysis, HIPAA, HIST 301 History of Modern Britain (3) 131, 132, or consent of instructor. confidentiality, and terminology Examines the political, social, and pertinent to health informatics at the cultural history of Great Britain from the HIST 330 H istory of 19th Century graduate level. Prerequisite: permission of Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to Europe (3) instructor. the modern era. Political, social, intellectual, and diplomatic forces operating in Europe HSCI 506 A dvanced Health Informatics HIST 302 History of Modern France (3) between the French Revolution and II: Project Design and France from the Revolution of 1789 to the World War I. Prerequisites: HIST 101, 102. Implementation (2) present. Prerequisite: HIST 102 or consent Explores application of knowledge and of instructor. HIST 331 The 20th Century (3) skills to selected health informatics Investigation of the development of our projects at the graduate level. HIST 303 History of Modern modern world since World War I with Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Germany (3) emphasis on Europe and its role in that Origins and development of the modern process. Prerequisites: HIST 101, 102 or HISTORY (HIST) Germany nation-state from 1860 to the consent of the instructor. present. Prerequisite: HIST 102 or consent ü HIST 101 W estern Civilizations- of instructor. HIST 332 History of Modern Warfare (3) GTHI1 (3) War, its causes, consequences, and ü HIST 102 W estern Civilizations- HIST 305 The Old South (3) impact on history from the 18th century GTHI1 (3) The uniqueness of the Antebellum South, to the present. Prerequisites: HIST 101, Political, social, economic, and cultural the growth of Southern nationalism, and 102. history of Western mankind from ancient the politics of the Late National period. times to modern times. Prerequisite: HIST 131. HIST 333 T he International History of the Cold War (3) ü HIST 131 Unit ed States History- HIST 306 H istory of South and Exploration of the international GTHI1 (3) Southeast Asia (3) ramifications of the Cold War, from the ü HIST 132 Unit ed States History- History of those areas of Asia within end of World War II to the collapse of the GTHI1 (3) the influence of Indic Civilization, with Soviet Union. Prerequisites: HIST 102 and History of the United States from Colonial emphasis on the roles of Hindu, Buddhist, HIST 132. period to modern times. and Muslim religions. Prerequisites: HIST 101, 102. HIST 334 H istory of the British Empire HIST 137 Latinos in the United (3) States (3) HIST 310 Latin American Civilization (3) Explores the origins, development, and Survey of historical issues affecting Historical development of Latin America decline of the British Empire from 1550 people of Latino heritage in the United from pre-Columbian times to the to 2000, with particular attention on the States. present. Prerequisite: HIST 102 or consent effects of empire on native peoples and of the instructor. the consequences of empire for Great HIST 202 I ntroduction to Historical Britain. Prerequisite: HIST 102. Research (3) HIST 315 American Indian History (3) An introduction to the methods and American Indian history from pre- HIST 340 History Of the Middle East (3) areas of historical research, with the Columbian America to the present History of the Middle East and North intent of preparing students for research with an emphasis on federal Indian Africa from the period of pre-Islamic requirements of upper-division history policy. Case studies will also address the Arabia through modern times, including courses. Prerequisites: 6 hours selected adaptation of Indian people to changing the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Ottoman from HIST 101, 102, 131, and 132. social and economic conditions. empires. Prerequisites: HIST 101 and HIST Prerequisites: HIST 131 and 132. 102. HIST 225 History of Colorado (3) History of the state from pre-historic to HIST 316 American Slavery (3) HIST 342 The Early American modern times. Exploration of the development of race Republic (3) slavery and an examination of slave The social, cultural, intellectual and HIST 296 Topics (1-3) life in colonial North America and the political developments in America from United States from Colonization through 1783-1850. Prerequisites: HIST 131, 132, or HIST 300 History of England to 1660 (3) reconstruction. Prerequisite: HIST 131. consent of instructor. Examines the political, social, and cultural developments of England from the HIST 320 The American West (3) HIST 344 T he Age of Industry in ancient period to the end of the English The American West from pre-Columbian America (3) Civil Wars, with particular attention to times through the Twentieth Century The social, intellectual, and political England’s contributions to the Western with special emphasis on the diverse events in the United States from the end

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 168 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG of the Civil War to the beginning of the HIST 396E Topics (1-3) HIST 416 The American Revolution (3) Great Depression. Prerequisites: HIST 131, An overview of and perspectives on the 132, or consent of instructor. HIST 400 T he Soviet Union and Eastern causes and outcomes of the American Europe (3) Revolution. Prerequisite: HIST 131. HIST 346 T he United States in the Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and 1950’s and 1960’s (3) Eastern Europe from 1900 to the present. HIST 420 Civil War (3) The social, intellectual, and political Prerequisite: HIST 101, 102 or consent of The causes and outcomes of the events in the U.S. from the end of WWII instructor. American Civil War. Prerequisites: HIST through the 1960s. Prerequisites: HIST 131, or consent of instructor. 131, 132, or consent of instructor. HIST 403 East Asia and the Modern World (3) HIST 425 History of Sexuality (3) HIST 347 Global America: 1970-2000 (3) China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam since Historical discussions on sexuality from The political and social implications of 1840. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. the New World to present. Analysis of America as the dominant global power, Prerequisites: HIST 101, 102. gender, race, ethnicity, class, and region from 1970 to the present. Prerequisite: in historical context. Prerequisite: HIST HIST 132. HIST 404 S enior Seminar in Historical 132. Research (3) HIST 350 Renaissance and History-specific research with emphasis HIST 430 T he Ancient Mediterranean Reformation (3) on utilization of primary documents World (3) Examines the political and social context and practice in conducting research The Mediterranean world from pre- of the Renaissance and Reformation. and reporting results. Prerequisites: HIST classical times to the fall of the Roman Prerequisites: HIST 101. 202 and twelve hours of upper division Empire. Prerequisites: HIST 101, 102, or History or consent of instructor. consent of instructor. HIST 355 Ancient and Medieval Cities (3) HIST 405 Introduction to Public HIST 435 Classical Archaeology (3) The development (physical, social, History (3) Examines the archaeological evidence political) of cities in the ancient and Exploration of non-academic historical for some of the ancient Mediterranean medieval periods and their role in early skills employed in museum work, civilizations and how the historian uses western civilization. Prerequisite: HIST archival management, and positions archaeology to better understand the 101. with historical societies and historic ancient world. Prerequisite: HIST 101. preservation agencies. Career HIST 360 Medieval Europe (3) opportunities will be examined. HIST 440 Ear ly and Medieval Examines the political, social, and Prerequisites: HIST 131, 132, or consent of Christianity (3) religious institutions of Medieval Europe instructor. Examines the historical development (300-1475). Prerequisites: HIST 101, 102. of Christianity through the middle HIST 406 H istory of the African ages, focusing on the social (marriage HIST 370 Ear ly United States Women’s Continent (3) and family) and political (kingship) History (3) The development of African cultures consequences of Christianity. Historical survey of cultural, economic, from the ancient to modern periods, Prerequisites: HIST 101. and political contributions of with particular attention to interaction American women from colonization to with non-African cultures. Prerequisites: HIST 445 The Holocaust (3) Reconstruction. Prerequisites: HIST 131, HIST 101 and HIST 102, or consent of Exploration of the origins, 132. instructor. implementation, and cultural representations of Nazi Germany’s “Final HIST 371 20th Century United States HIST 410 En vironmental History of the Solution.” Prerequisite: HIST 102. Women’s History (3) United States (3) Historical survey of cultural, economic, The evolution of public attitudes and HIST 450 European History and Film (3) and political contributions of American governmental policies and practices Examines the medium of film and how women from Reconstruction to the relative to the wilderness, natural it shapes perceptions of European present. Prerequisites: HIST 131, 132. resource development, and the natural history. Focuses on the treatment of film environment from colonial times to the as historical text. Postulates whether HIST 375 American Sport History (3) present. Prerequisites: HIST 131, 132, or filmmakers are historians. Prerequisites: An examination of American society from consent of instructor. HIST 101 and HIST 102. the Colonial era to the present through the lens of sport. Prerequisite: HIST 131 or HIST 415 Colonial America (3) HIST 495 Independent Study (1-3) 132. Both courses are recommended. Examines the development of colonial society in North America and the HIST 496 Topics (1-3) HIST 395 Independent Study (1-3) tensions that arose between Native American, European, and African people HIST 496E Topics (1-3) HIST 396 Topics (1-3) and cultures. Prerequisite: HIST 131.

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HIST 499 History Internship (1-3) baccalaureate students. Prerequisite: HMGT 299 Internship (12) Experience with historical work HMGT 101 or consent of instructor. Classroom studies combined with in settings outside the university salaried work in an experience which community, including museums, HMGT 199 Employment Concepts (1) relates to the student’s career goal. archives, and local, state, and federal Introduction of the concepts of Only for, and required of, Hospitality agencies. Instructor permission required employment in conjunction with the Management students. Credit not and internship must be arranged during internship experience. It will provide available through competency or the semester prior to the field experience. students with an opportunity to share challenge. Prerequisite: HMGT 102, GPA of Prerequisites: Nine upper division hours their concerns with the instructor and 2.00 or higher, or consent of instructor. in history and junior status. other students, allow employers to discuss the internship with students and HMGT 310 T ravel and Tourism Marketing HONORS (HNRS) assist the student in developing his or her Techniques (3) career goals. The student will enroll in this Interpretation of marketing problems, HNRS 196 Topics: (1-3) course the spring semester immediately strategies, and techniques of industries preceding the summer they intend to do engaged in serving the traveler. Study will HNRS 396 Topics (1-3) their HMGT 299 Internship. Prerequisites: include advanced methods of identifying HMGT 101. potential markets, preferences and likely HNRS 496 Topics: (1-3) responses to promotional programs HMGT 201 M anagement in the Travel of private and public travel entities. HNRS 498 Honors Thesis (3) Industry I (3) Required of all Hospitality Management An opportunity to explore operating majors. Prerequisites: HMGT 101, MARK HOSPITALITY techniques and problems of the major 231 or consent of instructor. MANAGEMENT (HMGT) industries involved in tourism, travel, and hospitality through the eyes of the HMGT 350 P rivate and Commercial HMGT 101 Travel Industry I (3) operating manager. Specific skills used Recreation Systems (3) Introduction to tourism and its within various industries are developed. Profit-based recreation industry, including relationship to the business world, an Prerequisite: HMGT 102 or consent of managing the recreation enterprise, overview of all sectors of business and instructor. economic feasibility studies, small the components of the travel, tourism, business entrepreneurship, market and hospitality industry. Travel methods, HMGT 211 Travel Destinations (3) characteristics, professional opportunities, destination resorts, and other businesses For the individual who plans to work, and trade association research and which serve the traveler are evaluated. study, or travel internationally including publications. Prerequisites: HMGT 101, A requirement for all Hospitality the professional who is, or plans to be, MANG 201. Management students. part of the travel industry. Life styles and current local aspects in foreign HMGT 351 Community Tourism HMGT 102 Travel Industry II (3) destinations are considered and guest Systems (3) Evaluation of job opportunities in the lecturers are included. Open to all Community as a tourist destination area travel, recreation, and hospitality fields. students but strongly recommended for with concentration on identification of Travel trends, feasibility studies, and Hospitality Management students. linkages between tourism industries marketing techniques are analyzed. and local economies, and the process Students are provided an opportunity HMGT 215 Computerized of developing and managing park and to make preparations and acquire skill Reservations (3) recreation resources to serve the tourist. instructions for work in the student’s An introductory course providing an Prerequisites: HMGT 101, HMGT 102, career objective. Field trips and visiting overview of operation of a computerized MANG 201. lecturers are included. Prerequisite: HMGT reservations system. Prerequisites: HGMT 101 and 102. HMGT 352 Public Recreation Systems (3) 101 or consent of instructor. National and state outdoor recreation HMGT 103 T ravel and Tourism Marketing HMGT 217 Hotel Operations (3) resource management systems Techniques (3) Introductory course providing an including a variety of administrative tools Interpretation of marketing problems, overview of the operation of a hotel applicable to operation and maintenance strategies, and techniques of industries front office. This will include the use of as well as comprehensive discussion engaged in serving the traveler, methods the personal computer and state-of-the- of legislation, land use policy, forest of identifying potential markets, art software for reservations, check-in, recreation planning, and governmental preferences, and likely responses to check-out and creating the daily report. designation programs. Prerequisites: promotional programs of private Prerequisite: HMGT 101. HMGT 101, HMGT 102, MANG 201. and governmental travel entities. HMGT 295 Independent Study (1-3) Required of all Hospitality Management students. MARK 231 recommended for HMGT 296 Topics (1-3)

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HMGT 400 H ospitality Security and technologies and various social, cultural, KINA 109 Kayaking (1) Safety (3) and economic influences. Prerequisites: KINA 110 River Rafting (1) Individualized security programs. Security Junior or senior status, or consent of KINA 111 Rock Climbing (1) and safety equipment and procedures. instructor. KINA 112 Hiking (1) Guest protection, asset protection, risk KINA 113 Beginning Bowling (1) management, loss prevention, and HUMA 301 Field Studies in KINA 114 Intermediate Bowling (1) OSHA regulations for lodging properties. Humanities (1-3) KINA 115 Beginning Golf (1) Prerequisite: junior or above standing. KINA 116 Intermediate Golf (1) Prerequisite: BUGB 349. KINA 117 Badminton (1) KINA 118 Karate (1) HUMA 395 Independent Study (1-3) HMGT 410 H ospitality Facilities KINA 119 Archery (1) Management (3) KINA 120 Backpacking (1) HUMA 396 Topics (1-3) Hotel or restaurant physical plant KINA 121 Beginning Tennis (1) management. Interface with engineering KINA 122 Intermediate Tennis (1) HUMA 495 Independent Study (1-3) and maintenance departments. KINA 123 Racquetball (1) KINA 124 Intermediate Prerequisite: CUAR 262 or consent of HUMA 496 Topics (1-3) instructor. Racquetball (1) KINA 125 Handball (1) HUMA 499 Internship (8) KINA 126 Fitness Walking (1) HMGT 450 S trategic Hospitality See faculty advisor for details. Marketing (3) KINA 127 Physical Conditioning (1) Strategic and operating marketing KINA 128 Intermediate Weight plans for hospitality properties. Includes INTERNATIONAL Training (1) design and delivery of guest services. STUDIES (INTS) KINA 129 Weight Training (1) Prerequisite: MARK 231 or consent of KINA 130 Fitness (1) KINA 131 Low-Impact Aerobics (1) instructor. INTS 101 I ntroduction to International Studies (3) KINA 132 High-Impact Aerobics (1) KINA 133 Downhill Skiing (1) HMGT 470 H ospitality Management Introduction to concepts, paradigms and theories used to describe and explain KINA 134 Snowboarding (1) Strategies (3) KINA 135 Telemark Skiing (1) Comprehensive overview of major International Studies. Attention given to the interdisciplinary nature of academic disciplines, KINA 136 Body Shaping (1) hospitality industry managment peoples in cultural context, environments, KINA 137 Fencing (1) segments. Includes management education systems, world resources, social and KINA 138 Step Aerobics (1) strategies adapting to the rapidly economic institutions. KINA 139 In-Line Skating (1) changing hospitality industry KINA 140 Snowshoeing (1) environment. Prerequisites: HMGT 101, INTS 396 Topics (1-3) KINA 141 Mountain Biking (1) HMGT 102, HMGT 410, HMGT 450, or KINA 142 Self-Defense (1) instructor permission. KINA 143 Orienteering (1) KINESIOLOGY: KINA 144 Pilates (1) ACTIVITY (KINA) KINA 145 Wrestling (1) HMGT 495 Independent Study (1-3) KINA 146 Indoor Cycling (1) The following courses meet the physical KINA 147 Track and Field (1) HMGT 496 Topics: (1-3) activity requirement for graduation. All KINA 148 Gymnastics (1) students seeking a baccalaureate degree KINA 149 Broomball (1) HUMANITIES (HUMA) KINA 150 Adaptive Aquatics (1) must take KINE 100 plus two courses KINA 151 Adaptive Physical from the activity list. Each activity course HUMA 196 Topics (1-3) Activity (1) is scheduled for an eight-week module KINA 152 Softball (1) HUMA 201 Field Studies in and includes lectures on the history, KINA 153 Adaptive Aquatics II (1) Humanities (1-3) rules, and techniques of the activity and KINA 154 Beginning Ice Hockey (1) Study/travel tours of varying lengths in proficiency in the activity. In addition to KINA 155 Beginning Ice Skating (1) the United States and foreign countries the required, up to six (6) KINA activity KINA 156 Soccer (1) to acquaint students in some depth courses may be used as electives towards KINA 157 Adaptive Physical Activity II (1) with particular aspects of world culture a bachelor’s degree and three (3) towards an associate’s degree. KINA 158 Speedball (1) (language, the arts, literature, etc.) both KINA 159 Aikido (1) contemporary and historical. KINA 160A Nordic Skiing (1) KINA 101 Beginning Swimming (1) KINA 161 Two-Person KINA 102 Advanced Swimming (1) HUMA 296 Topics (1-3) Outdoor Volleyball (1) KINA 103 Diving (1) KINA 162 Volleyball (1) KINA 104 Water Polo (1) HUMA 300 H istory and Development of KINA 163 Intermediate Volleyball (1) KINA 105 Water Aerobics (1) Books (3) KINA 164 Beginning Basketball (1) KINA 106 Beginning Scuba (1) History and development of the book KINA 165 Intermediate Basketball (1) KINA 107 Advanced Scuba (1) KINA 166 Flag Football (1) from the development of the alphabet KINA 108 Canoeing (1) to the present in the context of changing KINA 167 Tai Chi (1)

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KINA 168 Hatha Yoga & KINE 200 H istory and Philosophy of KINE 240 I ntroduction to Clinical Relaxation I (1) Sport and Physical Athletic Training (2) KINA 169 Hatha Yoga & Education (3) Introduction to fundamental athletic Relaxation II (1) Discusses the breadth, scope, and training skills, policies and procedures. KINA 170 Latin Rhythms (1) nature of the profession. Orientation Required for admission into the Athletic KINA 171 Adaptive Skiing/ to the history and philosophy of Training Program. Prerequisite: KINE 234, Snowboarding (1) human performance and the factors may be taken concurrently. KINA 174 Social Dance (1) that influence its evolution. Special KINA 175 Snorkeling/Free Diving (1) KINE 250 Lifeguard Training (3) KINA 176 Horseback Riding (1) consideration is given to the history of sport from antiquity to the present, An American Red Cross course leading to Prerequisites for all “intermediate” or Part particularly the Olympic Games. certification of qualified students. II courses; the corresponding course or KINE 251 W ater Safety Instructor consent of the instructor. KINE 205 I ntroduction to Sport Management (3) Course (3) An American Red Cross course leading to KINA 180A Varsity Men’s Football (1) Survey and introduction to the field of KINA 180B Varsity Men’s Basketball (1) sport management. certification of qualified students. KINA 180C Varsity Men’s Baseball (1) KINA 180D Varsity Men’s Swimming (1) KINE 211 M ethods of Lifetime, KINE 252 P rinciples of Evaluation and KINA 180E Varsity Men’s Tennis (1) Individual, and Dual Assessment (3) KINA 180H Varsity Men’s Soccer (1) Activities (3) Introduction to the principles and KINA 180J Varsity Men’s Golf (1) Instructional content (scope and process of evaluation and assessment. KINA 180K Varsity Men’s Track and Field (1) sequence) and teaching methodology Techniques for general evaluations, and KINA 180M Varsity Men’s Wrestling (1) related to various individual, dual and head injuries. Prerequisite: KINE 234 or KINA 180N Varsity Men’s Lacrosse (1) lifetime activities appropriate for K-12 consent of instructor. KINA 180P Varsity Men’s Cross Country (1) physical education. KINA 180Q Varsity Men’s Hockey (1) KINE 253 F undamentals of Clinical KINA 181B Varsity Women’s Basketball (1) KINE 213 A pplications of Physical Athletic Training (2) KINA 181D Varsity Women’s Swimming (1) Fitness and Exercise Fundamental athletic training skills with KINA 181E Varsity Women’s Tennis (1) Prescription (3) concentration on injury prevention, acute KINA 181F Varsity Women’s Volleyball (1) Exercise program design and prescription KINA 181G Varsity Women’s Softball (1) injury management, and modalities. to meet individual needs, assess existing Prerequisite: Admission into the Athletic KINA 181H Varsity Women’s Soccer (1) exercise programs, and evaluation of KINA 181J Varsity Women’s Golf (1) Training Program. KINA 181K Varsity Women’s Track & Field (1) the effectiveness. Major components of KINA 181N Varsity Women’s Lacrosse (1) cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular KINE 256 Creative Play and Literacy (3) KINA 181P Varsity Women’s Cross Country (1) strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, Acquaints students with instructional KINA 182A Varsity Coed Cheerleading (1) and body composition discussed in detail. content, including proper content, KINA 182B Varsity Coed Cycling (1) progression, and literary integration that KINA 182C Varsity Coed Rodeo (1) KINE 214 Methods of Team Activities (3) is appropriate for elementary physical KINA 182D Varsity Coed Alpine Skiing (1) Instructional content (scope and education. Prerequisite: KINE 211. KINA 182E Varsity Coed Nordic Skiing (1) sequence) and teaching methodology related to various team activities KINE 260 School Health Education (3) Only one varsity sport activity course at appropriate for K-12 physical education. School health issues. Emphasis on the 100-level may be used to meet the Prerequisite: KINE 211 or consent of development of proper health attitudes Wellness activity requirement. instructor. and practices, teaching methodology, and application of health knowledge Varsity athletics may not be used as KINE 220 M ethods of Dance and and practice in school and public health elective credit. Gymnastics (3) situations. Prerequisite: KINE 100. Instructional content (scope and KINESIOLOGY: sequence) and teaching methodology KINE 265 F irst Aid and CPR for the ACADEMIC (KINE) related to types of dance and gymnastics. Professional Rescuer (3) Includes folk, line, square and social dance, Knowledge and skills required to meet KINE 100 Health and Wellness (1) and education, Olympic, and rhythmic the needs of first aid and CPR situations The presentation of information gymnastics. Prerequisite: KINE 211. that lead to obtaining valid First Aid and concerning the benefits, positive effects, CPR for the Professional Rescuer cards. KINE 234 P revention and Care of assessment, and implementation of Athletic Injuries (3) KINE 296 Topics: (1-3) healthy life styles. Procedures and techniques involved in preventing and treating common injuries KINE 297 Practicum (1-2) associated with competitive athletics. Work-oriented instruction involving the implementation of classroom or

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 172 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG laboratory experience under the direct KINE 340 Sport Operations (3) KINE 373 Upp er Body Injury supervision of a faculty member. Theoretical background and practical Assessment (3) applications designed to provide a Evaluation techniques and care of athletic KINE 301 T ests and Measurements in framework for the management of injuries to the head, face and upper Sport and Physical Education resources associated with the planning, extremities. Integration of anatomical (3) implementation and evaluation of structures, physiology principles, and Health and fitness testing and evaluation festivals and special events. evaluative techniques to provide a basis for children, athletes, and adults of all for critical decision-making in an injury ages and abilities. Statistical techniques KINE 342 Sp ort Law and Risk management environment. Prerequisite: for exercise testing analyses. Prerequisite: Management (3) KINE 234. KINE 213. Legal duties, responsibilities, rights, duties and risk management techniques KINE 374 Lower Body Injury KINE 303 Physiology of Exercise (3) involved in sport. Assessment (3) KINE 303L Ph ysiology of Exercise Evaluation techniques and care of Laboratory (1) KINE 345 Sur vey of Economics and athletic injuries to the trunk and lower The effects of various types of exercise Finance in Sport (3) extremities. Integration of anatomical upon human body structure and function. The economic, financial, and managerial structures, physiology principles, and Three one-hour lectures and one two accounting concepts for sport. evaluative techniques to provide a basis hour laboratory per week. Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 201. for critical decision-making in an injury KINE 213 and BIOL 209, 209L. management environment. Prerequisite: KINE 350 Leadership and Ethics in KINE 234. KINE 307 Philosoph y and Psychology of Sport (3) Coaching (3) This course is designed to give individuals KINE 378 C linical Experiences in Athletic Fundamental philosophical and an understanding of the various aspects Training II (2) psychological principles related to of leadership as well as a survey course Athletic training clinical experiences. coaching competitive athletic teams. of the development and application Concentration on injury rehabilitation, of moral and ethical values in sport nutrition, and psychology. Prerequisite: KINE 309 Anatomical Kinesiology (3) administration settings. KINE 368. Analysis of joint movement and muscular involvement during physical activity. KINE 360 Motor Learning (3) KINE 395 Independent Study (1-3) Corequisite: KINE 309L. Prerequisites: BIOL Foundations of motor learning and the 209, 209L, KINE 200. relation of motor performance to other KINE 396 Topics (1-3) aspects of behavior. Prerequisite: KINE 200. KINE 320 M ethods of Teaching Physical KINE 401 Organization/Administration/ Education in Elementary KINE 367 F ield Experiences in Athletic Legal Considerations in Schools (3) Training I (2) Physical Education and Exploration of the physical education Athletic training field experiences. Sports (3) content and teaching methods Concentration on Pre-Participation Organizational structures, administrative appropriate for elementary school Considerations and Acute Injury techniques, and legal considerations in education. Prerequisite: KINE 211. Management. Prerequisite: Admission physical education and sports. into the Athletic Training Program. KINE 321 Ph ysical Activity and Health in KINE 402 Sport Marketing (3) the Classroom (3) KINE 368 C linical Experiences in Athletic The application of the principles of Integration of health and physical activity Training I (2) promotion and marketing to the sport concepts in the gym and classroom. For Athletic training clinical experiences. and fitness industry including the areas education majors. Concentration on injury care and of professional sports, corporate fitness, prevention. Prerequisite: KINE 367 and college/high school athletics, clubs and KINE 333 Community Health (3) admission into the Athletic Training resorts, and others. Prerequisite: MARK 231. Introduction to the areas of Program. epidemiology, disease prevention and KINE 403 A dvanced Strength and control, environmental health, health KINE 370 Biomechanics (3) Conditioning (3) care, injury prevention, and safety KINE 370L Biomechanics Lab (1) Emphasis on strength and conditioning education. Application of mechanical principles program design and considerations and anatomical structure to human based on activity and sport type. KINE 335 Sport in Society (3) movement using quantitative analysis Prerequisites: KINA 128 or KINA 180-193, The sociology of sport, covering the methods. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L and KINE 303/303L. cultural traditions, social values, and and KINE 309. psychosocial experiences of sport from antiquity to today. Prerequisite: KINE 200.

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KINE 404 C linical Exercise Physiology psychological, and social well-being of KINE 494A Sport Management Senior and Advanced Exercise older adults. Prerequisites: KINE 303, 303L. Seminar (1) Prescription (3) Discussion and research of current issues Emphasis on clinical risk stratification for KINE 420 Therapeutic Modalities (3) in sport management. conducting health and fitness assessments Review of the theoretical and scientific and exercise program design for healthy basis for, and the practical use of, KINE 495 Independent Study (1-3) individuals and individuals with medically contemporary therapeutic modalities controlled disease. Prerequisites: KINE 303 and techniques utilized in the treatment KINE 496 Topics (1-3) and 303L.. of acute and chronic musculoskeletal KINE 497 P re-Internship in Physical injuries. Prerequisite: KINE 234. KINE 405 Sports Nutrition (3) Education (3) In-depth study of macronutrient KINE 430 M edical Conditions and K-12 physical education majors study metabolism as it relates to sport. Practical Pharmacology in Sports (3) teaching and standard-based education consideration in the use or non-use of An overview of the effects on physical in a physical education setting. One carbohydrate supplements, vitamins, activity resulting from the pre-existence hundred twenty laboratory hours and/or other ergogenic aids. Three one- of selected medical conditions and the required. Prerequisite: KINE 320, 408, hour lectures per week. Prerequisites: use of pharmacological agents. senior standing. KINE 303, KINE 303L. KINE 467 F ield Experiences in Athletic KINE 499 Internship (3-12) KINE 406 G overnance and Training II (2) Work experience obtained on a job Communication in Sport (3) Athletic training field experiences. where assignments are related to The laws and rules governing various Concentration on Injury Prevention, the student’s specific concentration sport organizations from interscholastic Acute Injury Management and Health area within the Kinesiology degree. to professional sport as well as the major Care Administration. Prerequisite: KINE Prerequisites: Kinesiology major, senior means of sport communication. 378 and admission into the Athletic standing. Training Program. KINE 408 M ethods of Teaching Physical KINE 500 F acility and Equipment Education in Secondary KINE 468 C linical Experiences in Athletic Management in Sport and Schools (3) Training III (2) Fitness (3) Instructional strategies on a practical Athletic training clinical experiences. Provides an in-depth study of the facilities application level for prospective Concentration on injury and illness and equipment used in a variety of secondary physical education teachers evaluation. Prerequisites: KINE 467. sport and fitness settings, from public preparatory to entry into student to private organizations, educational teaching. Field experiences are required KINE 478 C linical Experiences in Athletic settings, athletics (interscholastic, to supplement lectures and discussions. Training IV (2) intercollegiate, and professional sports) Prerequisites: completion of at least half Athletic training clinical experiences. as well as commercial and corporate of all physical education course-work Concentrations on administration and fitness centers. The focus is on designing, required for certification, and KINE 211. professional development. Capstone planning, funding, and maintaining course for the Athletic Training Education a facility as well as the equipment KINE 410 Rehabilitative Exercises (3) Program. Prerequisite: KINE 468. necessary for its successful operation. Review of the theoretical and scientific basis for, and the practical use of, KINE 480 Inclusive Physical Activity (3) KINE 510 E vent and Program traditional and recently emerging Study of physical activities, modifications, Management in Sport and rehabilitative techniques utilized in and adaptations for individuals with Fitness (3) Duties and responsibilities of sport the rehabilitation of acute, post acute, disabilities. and fitness managers in creating and chronic musculoskeletal injuries. policies, conducting events, and Prerequisite: KINE 234. KINE 487 Structured Research (1-3) Capstone research experience with a developing programs for sport or KINE 411 Worksite Health Promotion (3) formal manuscript and presentation. fitness organizations. Includes extensive Covers worksite health promotion: its Topic, methods, and writing are to examination of the topics and issues description, planning, implementation, be guided and approved by a faculty involved in the planning, funding, marketing, and evaluation. Prerequisite: member. Prerequisite: KINE 303, Senior promotion, implementation, and KINE 213. standing, and consent of instructor. evaluation of events and programs. KINE 494 Kinesiology Senior Seminar (1) KINE 415 Physical Activity and Aging (3) Discussion and research of current issues KINE 520 M anagement Policies and The study of the dynamic relationship in kinesiology and exercise physiology. Regulations in Sport and between physical activity and the aging Prerequisite: Senior status. Fitness (3) Study of managerial policies and process. Course focuses on the impact regulations to specific sport and fitness of physical activity on the physiological, organizations to include educational,

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 174 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG athletic, commercial and corporate MAMT 110 Gauging and Measuring laboratory per week. Prerequisite: MAMT entities. Topics will include the following: Tools (1) 130 or consent of instructor. human resource management; labor Uses and techniques of inspection relations; policy issues; sponsorship; including micrometers, Vernier scales, MAMT 145 Machine Maintenance (2) budgeting; federal, state, and local instruments, hole gauges in surface Maintaining, lubricating, and repairing statues; CHSAA and NCAA rules and plate work, finish of parts and overall machinery including making gib guidelines; and professional organization inspection techniques. Prerequisite: adjustments, selecting and using policies. Specific attention will be given MAMT 106 or consent of instructor. proper lubricants and selecting or to compliance strategies. manufacturing parts of making repairs MAMT 115 Introduction to Machine with emphasis on workmanship and KINE 530 A dvanced Coaching for Shop (3) inspection. One hour lecture, one and Basketball (1) Safety procedures: using bench tools, one-half hours laboratory per week. Examination of the trends, techniques, layout tools, power saws, and taps; Prerequisite: consent of instructor. methods and philosophies in coaching sharpening general purpose drills, basketball at skilled levels. Specific grinding lathe bits; and identifying and MAMT 148 CNC Applications (3) attention is given to video analysis and operating basic machines such as the Introduction to Computer Numerical game management. bench grinder, drill press, band saw, and Control programming basics, CAM others. One hour lecture and three hours software and tooling used in today’s KINE 534 A dvanced Injury Management laboratory per week. manufacturing CNC Milling machines for Coaches (1) and CNC lathes. Specialized procedures and techniques MAMT 120 Machine Technology I (4) involved in the prevention and Operation of engine lathes, milling MAMT 150 I ntroduction to Numerical management of common athletic machines and surface grinders. One hour Control (1) injuries. lecture and five hours laboratory per Numerical control/computerized week. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. numerical control machining, its MACHINE AND advantages and how it operates. The MAMT 125 Machine Technology II (4) course is designed as an informational MANUFACTURING Further development of skills acquired unit for customized pre-employment TRADES (MAMT) in MAMT 120. Emphasis will be placed training. on technical aspects of tooling and MAMT 101 I ntroduction to machining tolerances. One hour lecture MAMT 151 Numerical Control Manufacturing (2) and five hours laboratory per week. Machining I (3) The course is designed to give the Computerized and numerical control student a broad overview of the world MAMT 130 Machine Technology III (4) machining operations, including control of manufacturing. The course will Advanced machine operations including of functions, programming format, include people, materials, machines, O.D. grinding, cutter tool grinding, gear machine setup, and operation. Two hours design, organization, waste, quality, and cutting, indexing, and rotary table work lecture and three hours laboratory per other subjects which effect society and with emphasis on accuracy, inspection, week. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. production of a product. and workmanship. One hour lecture and five hours laboratory per week. MAMT 155 Numerical Control MAMT 102 Machining Fundamentals (1) Machining II (3) Concentrated unit dealing with speeds MAMT 135 Job Shop Machining I (3) Further development of concepts and feeds of machines, materials, tooling, Production of machined parts from a introduced in MAMT 151 with emphasis tapping, boring, and manufacturing shop blueprint, writing process sheets, on setup and operation of N.C./C.N.C. processes. and estimating machine time. Machining machines. Two hours lecture and three of parts may involve one or more hours laboratory per week. Prerequisite: MAMT 105 Print Reading and machine operations. Machine time, consent of instructor. Sketching (2) paperwork, inspection, and accuracy Reading of blueprints and process sheets will be emphasized. One hour lecture MAMT 160 Properties of Materials (2) as used in industry, application of that and three hours laboratory per week. Descriptions of smelting and refining information to various manufacturing Prerequisite: consent of instructor. various types of metals. Discussions and processes. demonstrations on various methods MAMT 140 Job Shop Machining II (3) of heat treating, hardness testing, and MAMT 106 Geometric Tolerancing (1) Further development of writing process cutting chip theory. One one-hour Identification, interpretation, and sheets, estimating machine time, lecture and one one-and-one-half hour application of the blueprint symbols performing final inspection of finished laboratory per week. (referred to as Geometric Tolerancing parts and using all machines in the symbols) in machining and inspection shop including the numerical control operations. Corequisite: MAMT 105 or machines. One hour lecture, three hours consent of instructor.

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MAMT 170 Practical Applications (3) MANG 201B P rinciples of Management: research and linear programming. Students will gain a working knowledge Part 2 of 3 (1) Prerequisites: MATH 113 or higher, and in manufacturing through Co-op, Introduction to management planning, STAT 200 or CISB 241. internship, work experience or required goal setting, organizing, human lab work in industrial study if outside resources, teams, and organizational MANG 343 E valuating Entrepreneur work cannot be acquired. Prerequisite: behavior. Opportunities (3) Instructor permission. Introduction to Entrepreneurship MANG 201C P rinciples of Management: including development of business ideas, MAMT 196 Topics (1-3) Part 3 of 3 (1) business model creation and business Introduction to management control, feasibility analysis. Prerequisite: BUGB 340. MAMT 207 I ntroduction to Statistical quality, the role of information Process Control (2) technology, and electronic business. MANG 371 Human Resource Introduction to the philosophical and Management (3) economic bases for statistical process MANG 221 Sup ervisory Concepts Principles and applications of basic control and its use; mathematical and and Practices (3) human resource management nonmathematical SPC techniques with For practicing or potential supervisors (HRM). Survey of the HRM functions emphasis on application. and managers who hold or will hold in organizations. Topics include first-line to middle-level management staffing, training and development, MAMT 250 Process Systems positions. Focuses on the management compensation, safety and health, Technology (2) functions of planning, organizing, employee and labor relations, and MAMT 250L Process Systems Technology staffing, directing, and controlling and employee performance management. Laboratory (2) their relation to the daily job of the Prerequisites: MANG 201, junior or senior Advanced concepts of the philosophical supervisor. standing, or consent of instructor. and economic bases for statistical process control and its uses; mathematical and MANG 299 Internship (3-6) MANG 372 Employment Assessment (3) non-mathematical SPC techniques with Practical workplace experience under the Knowledge and skills necessary emphasis of application. joint supervision of the employer and to effectively analyze and forecast the internship coordinator. Designed for organizational staffing requirements, MAMT 295 Independent Study (1-3) business majors working in the business assess, recruit and select candidates, and environment. Prerequisites: ACCT 201, MAMT 296 Topics (1-3) effectively retain employees in today’s BUGB 101, BUGB 211, and CISB 101. complex organizations. Legal aspects of staffing process emphasized. Prerequisite: MANAGEMENT (MANG) MANG 300 Small Business MANG 371. Management (3) MANG 121 Human Relations In Aspects of management uniquely MANG 373 Human Resource Business (3) important to small business firms; the Management, Leadership, Human side of organizations: morale, economic and social environment in Ethics, and Social motivation, human needs, minorities which they function. Prerequisite: MANG Responsibility (3) as working partners, leadership styles, 201 or consent of instructor. Review of literature related to Human organizational environment, and other Resource Management (HRM) and human forces having an impact on MANG 301 Organizational Behavior (3) leadership, ethics, and corporate social business structures. Human behavior, its causes and effects responsibility. Review articles and books in organizational settings. Description of related to the responsibility of HRM MANG 201 Principles of Management (3) and development of an understanding leaders and their significant influence Management as the process of achieving of human behavior in such settings. on organizational practices, leadership, organizational goals or objectives by and Prerequisite: MANG 201 or consent of ethical behavior and corporate social through others. Emphasizes functions instructor. responsibility. Prerequisite: MANG 371 or performed by managers and how they consent of instructor. are influenced by forces both within and MANG 341 Quantitative Decision outside the organization. Managers’ use Making (3) MANG 395 Independent Study (1-3) of resources will be investigated. Application of inferential statistics to realistic business situations; use of MANG 396 Topics (1-3) MANG 201A P rinciples of Management : quantitative tools to enhance business Part 1 of 3 (1) decision-making ability. Descriptive MANG 401 Small Business Consulting (3) Introduction to the activities of statistics for data summarization, Students are placed in the role of management and decision making in the probability theory, distributions, consultant for an area business furnishing global environment, with an emphasis estimation, and index numbers with management assistance to the small on leadership and managing change and emphasis on hypothesis testing, analysis business community. Businesses innovation. of variance, regression/correlation, time benefit from the insight of student series, and introduction to operations recommendations. Provides students

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 176 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG practical training, supplementing MANG 471 Operations Management (3) through exposure to an actual business academic theory by handling problems The use of resources in producing goods or agency environment. Observation and in a real business environment. and services; concepts of planning, participation in management activities Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. scheduling, and controlling productive enable students to relate classroom activities and physical resources. theory to on-the-job experiences. MANG 402 A dvanced Problems in Small Prerequisites: FINA 301, Senior standing. Prerequisites: BBA major, second Business Operations II (6) semester junior or senior, written consent Continuation of MANG 401. Prerequisites: MANG 475 C ompensation and Reward of instructor prior to registration. MANG 302 and/or consent of instructor. Systems (3) (Not necessary to complete MANG 401 Designing strategic compensation MANG 500 Advanced Management before 402.) systems. Seniority, merit, incentive pay, Theory (3) person-focused pay. Job evaluation, Designed to advance the student’s MANG 410 Effective Workplace internal and external equity. Benefits understanding of management theories Communication (3) administration. International, and the application of these theories to Application of communication methods executive, and flexible workforce the business world. Contemporary issues including: personal selling, negotiation, compensation systems. Diversity and will be discussed. interviewing, and individual and group ethical considerations. Prerequisites: presentations. Emphasis placed upon MANG 371, and MANG 372 (may be MANG 501 O perations Management (3) application of effective practices used taken concurrently with instructor’s Competitive strategies and strategic in communicating in today’s business permission). impact of the transformation process world. Prerequisites: Junior/Senior in a global economy. Operations standing, or permission of the instructor. MANG 478 A dvanced Human Resource management issues including quality, Management (3) inventory management, management MANG 421 C redit and Collection Capstone course for HRM concentration. of technology, manufacturing planning Management (3) Expanded examinations of human and control, just-in-time manufacturing Consumer and commercial credit in resource topics such as performance and optimized production technology. relationship to the management of appraisal, sexual harassment, religion Impact of business system on credit by business firms, legal aspects of and spirituality in the workplace, productivity and profits. credit extension and current legislation. compensation, and labor relations. Information on credit operations Reviews current topics in HRM providing MANG 510 O rganizational Theory and of business for both students of a practical application of topics covered Behavior (3) business and practicing businessmen. in other HRM courses as well as current Designed to encourage the application Prerequisites: ACCT 202, MANG 201 or issues. Prerequisites: MANG 371, MANG of diverse conceptual and theoretical consent of instructor. 373, MANG 475 and senior status. perspectives to the analysis and control of behavior in organizations. Practice in MANG 450 Entrepreneurship (3) MANG 491 Business Strategy (3) diagnosing organizational problems is Analysis of managerial problems of Duties and responsibilities of decision gained by combining the use of theories, small business, preparing a business makers in analyzing the organization, texts, readings, cases and exercise. The plan, case studies, and individual reports its operating environment and the course focuses on problems related of local small business enterprises. subsequent development of objectives, to perception, motivation, leadership, Understanding of elementary policies, and long term planning for cultural diversity, interpersonal and group accounting, finance, and business law organizations. Includes complex cases conflict, stress, work-family conflict, required. Prerequisites: ACCT 201, MANG taken from actual experiences in influence, decision-making, ethics, 201, MARK 231, FINA 301, and students situations involving analysis, planning, international management issues and choose either MARK 350, MANG 341, or and decision making. Required of all BBA change. CISB 341, or consent of instructor. and BS Accounting students. To be taken last semester of program. Prerequisites: MANG 520 Human Resource MANG 451 C areer Research and ACCT 201, ACCT 202, BUGB 105, BUGB Management (3) Development (3) 349, CISB 101, FINA 301, MANG 201, Provides an in-depth study of the Principles and techniques involved in a MARK 231, or permission of the instructor. effective use and adaptation to the job search with emphasis on conducting human resources of an organization career research, identification of goals, MANG 495 Independent Study (1-3) through the management of people- preparing a job campaign, and elements related activities. The focus is on the of a job interview. Preparation of a job kit MANG 496 Topics (1-3) core responsibilities and activities of the including a prospect list, resume, cover HR manager. Also included is a detailed letter, advertisements, prospect letters, MANG 499 Internship (3-9) review of current statutes and regulations and sales and follow-up letters which Provides BBA students with an affecting the HR field. can be used in a job search. Prerequisite: opportunity to learn more about senior standing or consent of instructor. management functions and activities

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MANG 540 A dvanced Quantitative through advertising, public relations, and Development of marketing strategy to Methods (3) publicity. Prerequisite: MARK 231. allow the firm to progress toward its Analytical models to support corporate objectives. Prerequisites: MARK decision making. Topics include linear MARK 335 Sales and Sales 231, 350. optimization, sensitivity analysis, linear Management (3) regression, decision making under The salesperson as a counselor whose MARK 495 Independent Study (1-3) uncertainty, decision making under risk, role is to help buyers make better project management, transportation and decisions. Professional salesmanship MARK 496 Topics (1-3) assignment methods, and forecasting. is recognized as an integral function in modern society, with basic sales MARK 500 Marketing Strategy (3) MANG 550 Entrepreneurship (3) techniques studies and practiced in sales Examines the state-of-the-art in Takes the student through activities that presentations. The course is taught from marketing strategy from both a an entrepreneur would encounter in the a management perspective. Prerequisite: practical and theoretical perspective. small business start-up process. Topics MARK 231. Focusing on integrating a broad range will center around marketing, managerial, of marketing concepts, the emphasis legal, financial and informational needs MARK 340 Creating Marketing is on setting realistic marketing of the new venture. The use of cases, real Materials (3) objectives, understanding marketing life projects and Internet resources will be Overview and process development research concepts, demographic market used extensively during the course. for creating marketing materials for all segmentation, and current marketing supply chain stakeholders. Development topics. MANG 590 Business Strategy (3) and analysis of multi-faceted levels of The capstone course in the MBA business marketing. Prerequisites: MARK MASS COMMUNICATION program. The purpose of this course is to 231, MARK 332, and MARK 325. (MASS) develop an understanding of strategic MARK 350 Marketing Research (3) management and the “how” and “why” ü Marketing research theory and MASS 110 M ass Media: Impact and of strategic decisions. Emphasis is also History-GTAH2 (3) placed on how the manager goes about techniques designed to educate the Role played by media in everyday life and translating strategy into action and student in the use of the scientific media’s social, economic, and historical achieves integration in the organization. method, develop analytical ability, influence on society. Integration involves the functional areas present basic marketing research tools, of management and how to balance and develop proficiency in the art of MASS 140 M edia Theory Introduction (3) the trade-offs from the perspective of writing research reports. Cases and Introduction to theories of Mass strategic decision making at the top actual research projects will be utilized. Communication. Exploration of theory management level. Prerequisites: STAT 200 and MARK 231. constructs, audience research, effects of emerging media and technologies, and MARK 360 Services Marketing (3) message content. Prerequisite: MASS 110 MARKETING (MARK) Application of marketing concepts and or consent of instructor. MARK 231 Principles of Marketing (3) strategies for addressing marketing Use and development of marketing problems and opportunities in the MASS 142 Media Software strategy and the effects of buyer service sector (Finance, Hospitality, and Application (3) motivation. Major functions of marketing, Healthcare). Prerequisite: MARK 231, Orientation and experience in using buying, selling, distribution, pricing, MARK 350 or permission of the instructor. software specifically employed in media advertising, and storage are studied. Course will utilize case problems and an message creation. Addresses technology A contrast is made between the two actual research project. used in the Mass Communication program at CMU. Prerequisites: MASS 110 marketing institutions: wholesaling and MARK 395 Independent Study (1-3) retailing. or consent of instructor. MARK 396 Topics (1-3) MARK 325 Consumer Behavior (3) MASS 144 Multimedia Storytelling (3) Journalism-based techniques and Overview of the processes involved when MARK 402 Sport Marketing (3) individuals or groups select, purchase, The application of the principles of methods for modern storytelling of use or dispose of products and services promotion and marketing to the sport accurately written information through to satisfy needs and desires. Prerequisite: and fitness industry including the areas the use of the internet, video, and audio. MARK 231. of professional sports, corporate fitness, Focus on storytelling that can be posted college/high school athletics, clubs and quickly through the use of flip cameras MARK 332 Promotion (3) resorts, and others. Prerequisite: MARK 231. and inexpensive editing software. Overview of the many ways in which Prerequisites: MASS 110 or consent of goods, services, and ideas can be MARK 432 Advanced Marketing (3) instructor. promoted to consumers and businesses In-depth complex marketing problems confronting modern business. MASS 196 Topics (1-3)

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MASS 213 Introduction to Media Fairness Doctrine, Cameras in Courtroom, history and ethics of photojournalism, Writing and Reporting (3) Obscenity, Censorship, and Sunshine uses of software in image acquisition and Fundamentals of news gathering and Laws considered. Prerequisite: MASS 213 use, and development of esthetic values. reporting through a variety of media. or consent of instructor. Prerequisite: MASS 213 or consent of Exploration of ethical and legal aspects of instructor. journalistic endeavors. Submitted stories MASS 313 Br oadcast Journalism may be published. Prerequisites: MASS Reporting (3) MASS 343 Social Media (3) 140, MASS 142, and MASS 144, or consent Introduction to broadcast writing styles Provides hands-on experience with of instructor. and history. Specific applications for social media as they relate to specific radio, television, and internet. Emphasis disciplines within and beyond Mass MASS 251 M ass Media: Advertising and on format, newsgathering, interviewing, Communication. Exploration of social Promotions (3) research, and the creation of a portfolio media history and current trends. Principles of media advertising and of writing samples. Prerequisite: MASS Production of blogs, podcasts, and videos promotions. Considers research, analysis, 213 or consent of instructor. required. Prerequisite: MASS 213 or strategy, advertising barriers, design, consent of instructor. and perspective. Production for media. MASS 315A Specialized Writing for Media: Prerequisites: MASS 140, MASS 142, and Science (3) MASS 350 Public Relations Concepts (3) MASS 144, or consent of instructor. Speciality writing about Science for Historical and theoretical approach to various media platforms. Prerequisite: contemporary public relations with MASS 261 A udio Announcing and MASS 213. emphasis on the persuasion process Production (4) and ethics, propaganda, and advertising Exploration of the art and science MASS 315B Specialized Writing for Media: techniques in the mass media. of announcing for media and the Sports (3) Prerequisite: MASS 213 or consent of Specialized writing about Sports for importance and use of the spoken word instructor. in persuasive messages. Creation and various media platforms. Prerequisite: execution of programs and formats for MASS 213. MASS 352 Design and Editing for audio source distribution both traditional Print (3) and emerging. Prerequisites: MASS 140, MASS 315C Specialized Writing for Media: Examinations and evaluations of articles, MASS 142, and MASS 144, or consent of Health (3) copy editing, writing headlines and titles, Specialty writing about Health for various instructor. page design for newspapers, magazines, media platforms. Prerequisite: MASS 213. brochures, and the duties of a publication MASS 271 Video Production I (3) editor. Prerequisite: MASS 213 or consent Fundamentals of in-studio production MASS 315D Specialized Writing for Media: Crime (3) of instructor. with hands-on experience with Specialty writing about Crime for various broadcast-quality cameras, video media platforms. Prerequisite: MASS 213. MASS 372 Video Production II (3) switchers, and audio equipment. Creation Combination of in-studio and field- and execution of productions requires MASS 317 Writing Opinion for Impact (3) shot productions via production team editing, scripting, and talent/crew Persuasive and insightful writing. Subjects approach. Includes script writing, location management. Prerequisites: MASS 140, include public issues, supporting beliefs, management, location scheduling, MASS 142, and MASS 144, or consent of analysis, and documentation for targeted time management in field and editing instructor. audiences through broadcast, print, and culminating in broadcast-quality internet/web. Practical applications in programming. Prerequisites: MASS 213 MASS 296 Topics (1-3) researching, interviewing, and writing and MASS 271 or consent of instructor. editorials and commentaries. Prerequisite: MASS 297 Practicum (1) MASS 395 Independent Study (1-3) Practical experience with student media MASS 213 or consent of instructor. outlets under faculty advisor supervision MASS 396 Topics (1-3) MASS 319 Commercial Copy (3) or with CMU Sports Information. Creation of copy. Conceive and bring to Practicum coordinator must be consulted MASS 397 Practicum (1) fruition writing exercises, create copy for in first week of term. Prerequisite: consent Practical experience with student media traditional outlets and interactive social of instructor. outlets under faculty advisor supervision outlets, understand the motivations and or with MSC Sports Information. MASS 310 Media Law and Ethics (3) appeals found in copy, and provide the Practicum coordinator must be consulted Ethical principles and laws affecting opportunities to be creative on demand. in first week of term. Prerequisites: MASS media. Includes study and application Prerequisite: MASS 213 or consent of 140, MASS 142, and MASS 144 or consent of ethics and laws involved in print, instructor. of instructor. broadcasting, and emerging media. MASS 342 Photojournalism I (3) Freedom of Press, Fair Trial, Privacy, Fundamentals of camera techniques, Right to Know, Freedom of Information, qualities of print and digital images,

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MASS 415 A dvanced Media Writing and consent of instructor. MATC 091 Intermediate Algebra (4) Reporting (3) Further study in topics of algebra. Development of abilities to interview, MASS 494 Seminar, Theory and Includes properties of real and complex research public records, report facts fairly, Research (4) numbers; laws of exponents and radicals; and to write under deadline pressure. Capstone course. Examination and factoring polynomials; solving linear and Critical attention paid to law and ethics. exploration of mass communication quadratic equations and inequalities; Prerequisite: MASS 213 or consent of theories in light of history and rational expressions and complex instructor. development of media messages and fractions; introduction to functions and the channels through which they travel. relations; applications. Prerequisites: MASS 417 W riting for Public Relations Focus on research and its importance MATC 090 or equivalent, or appropriate and Advertising (3) to media disciplines and industries. Accuplacer score. Emphasizes copywriting function in Prerequisite: MASS 213 or consent of public relations and advertising for instructor. organizations and agencies. Prerequisite: MATHEMATICS (MATH) MASS 213 or consent of instructor. MASS 495 Independent Study (1-3) Graphic calculator is recommended or required for several mathematics MASS 496 Topics (1-3) MASS 441 Emerging Media (3) courses. See department for Experimentation via tools, techniques, recommended models. In order to and concepts of social and new media MASS 497 Practicum (1) take any of the following mathematics resulting in the creation of an online Practical experience with student media courses, each listed prerequisite (or an newspaper. Prerequisite: MASS 213 or outlets under faculty advisor supervision equivalent course) must be completed consent of instructor. or with CMU Sports Information. Practicum coordinator must be consulted with a grade of “C” or better. The MASS 442 Photojournalism II (3) in first week of term. Prerequisite: MASS instructor may waive the prerequisite. Considers advanced skills necessary 397 or consent of instructor. MATH 105 Elements of Mathematics I (3) to capture and edit images to high MASS 498 Senior Project Portfolio (1) Mathematics for the prospective esthetic values, professionalism, news elementary teacher with an emphasis photography, photo illustration, creation Identification and preparation of off- campus projects that highlight Mass on understanding mathematical of image portfolios for public display or reasoning and processes. Topics include potential employers, and use of image Communication skills, abilities, talents, and applications. Supervision and problem solving, set theory, number management software. Prerequisite: theory, numeration systems, the integers MASS 342 or consent of instructor. guidance provided by a faculty member. Works created will be formally presented and rational numbers. Prerequisites: MASS 450 Public Relations to a review board. Prerequisites: MASS Appropriate mathematics placement Campaigns (3) 213 and MASS 397 or consent of test score and interview, and consent of Campaigns and case histories presenting instructor. instructor. the scope of PR, research methodology, and audience targeting. Practical MASS 499 Internship (5-12) MATH 107 Career Math (3) Covers material designed for career application of PR theory. Prerequisite: Work in newspapers, radio, television, technical or general studies students who MASS 350 or consent of instructor. advertising or public relations positions, or other situations that meet instructor’s need to study particular mathematical MASS 452 Desktop Publishing (3) approval. Prerequisite: At least junior topics. Topics include measurement, Publishing attractive and effective standing with at least half of major algebra, geometry, trigonometry, graphs, communication via software used by requirements completed; MASS 213, and/or finance. These are presented on media professionals. Includes designing MASS 310. an introductory level and the emphasis is print materials such as company on applications. Prerequisite: MATH 030 (Grade of C or better) or assessment. newsletters, logos, brochures, magazines, MATHEMATICS: as well as electronic publishing. Prerequisite: MASS 352 or consent of DEVELOPMENTAL (MATC) MATH 108 Technical Mathematics (4) Covers material designed for career instructor. MATC 090 Introductory Algebra (4) technical or general studies students who MASS 471 Video Production III (3) Introduction to algebra with a review need to study particular mathematical Emphasis on esthetic values and financial of basic arithmetic. Includes decimals, topics. Topics may include measurement, costs of commercial productions. Builds fractions, percentage, ratio, proportion, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, graphs, upon concepts and skills acquired in signed numbers, algebraic expressions, and/or finance. These are presented on MASS 271 and MASS 372 to create and factoring, exponents and radicals, an introductory level and the emphasis is execute video commercials for air and/or linear equations, functions and graphs. on applications. Prerequisite: MATH 060. web use. Client relations an integral part Prerequisite: Accuplacer score of 45-60 of experience. Prerequisite: MASS 372 or

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ü MATH 110 C ollege Mathematics- MATH 127 Mathematics of Finance (3) MATH 146 C alculus for Biological GTMA1 (3) Simple interest, simple discount, Sciences (5) Essential mathematical concepts for compound interest, continuously An introduction to calculus with an B.A. students. Topics include logic, compounded interest, annuities, emphasis on applications to biology. set theory, solving equations, basic perpetuities, capitalization, determining Topics include functions, properties inequalities, combinatorics, probability, payment size, determining outstanding and graphs of polynomials, rational descriptive statistics, geometry, consumer principal, and constructing amortization functions, the trigonometric, inverse, mathematics and the appropriate use schedules, including the derivation of exponential and logarithmic functions, of calculators. Prerequisites: two years mathematical formulae and the methods limits, continuity, differentiation, related of high school math at the algebra level for solving many financial problems. rates, min-max problems, integration or higher, or MATH 091 or equivalent or Prerequisites: MATH 113 or consent of and applications of biology. Prerequisite: appropriate mathematics placement test instructor. MATH 113 or consent of instructor. score. MATH 130 Trigonometry (3) MATH 147 I ntroduction to Computer ü MATH 113 C ollege Algebra-GTMA1 A college-level treatment of Algebra Systems (1) (4) trigonometry. Topics include the Introduction to computer algebra using A college-level treatment of algebra. Cartesian plane, functions, inverse an appropriate computer algebra system Topics include algebraic properties of functions, the circular function, (CAS) such as Maple, Mathematica, the integers, rationals, real and complex trigonometric functions, graphs of Derive, etc. Topics will include the syntax numbers; techniques for manipulation of trigonometric functions, trigonometric and simple programming of the CAS expressions; techniques for solving linear, identities, solving trigonometric used. Assignments and projects will non-linear, absolute value equations, equations, inverse trigonometric emphasize applications in Calculus. and inequalities; techniques for solving functions, triangle solution techniques Prerequisite: MATH 119. Corequisite: systems of equations; the Cartesian and vectors. Prerequisite: MATH 113 or MATH 151. plane, relations and functions; properties equivalent, or appropriate mathematics and graphs of polynomial, rational, placement test score. ü MATH 149 Honors Mathematics- exponential, logarithmic and inverse GTMA1 (3) functions; conic sections. Prerequisite: MATH 135 Engineering Calculus I (4) An in-depth exploration of mathematical MATH 091 or equivalent, or appropriate Introduction to differentiation and concepts, with an emphasis on the mathematics placement test score. integration of functions of a single process of mathematical discovery. Topics variable. Emphasis on computational are left to the discretion of the instructor, ü MATH 119 Precalculus aspects. Includes functions, limits, and typically include an introduction to Mathematics-GTMA1 (5) continuity, differentiation, related rates, more advanced topics such as group An in-depth treatment of the optimization problems, graphing, theory or graph theory. This course fulfills mathematics essential to Calculus. integration and applications. Prerequisite: the general education requirement Topics include the Cartesian plane, MATH 119, or appropriate mathematics for students in the Honors Program. functions; polynomial, rational, placement score. Prerequisite: Permission to enroll is exponential, logarithmic, inverse, circular required. and trigonometric functions; solving MATH 136 Engineering Calculus II (4) inequalities and systems of equations Continuation of MATH 135 Engineering ü MATH 151 Calculus I-GT-MA1 (5) Additional topics may include matrices, Calculus I. Includes techniques of An introduction to differentiation and determinants and vectors. Prerequisite: integration, trigonometric and hyperbolic integration of functions of a single MATH 113 or equivalent, or appropriate functions, inverse, logarithmic and variable. Topics include functions, limits, mathematics placement test score. exponential functions, sequences, series, continuity, differentiation, related rates, conic sections, polar coordinates and min-max problems, graphing, integration MATH 121 Calculus for Business (3) parametric equations. Prerequisite: MATH and applications. Prerequisite: MATH 119, An introduction to calculus with an 135 or MATH 151. or appropriate mathematics placement emphasis on applications to business test score. and economics. Topics include linear and MATH 141 Analytical Geometry (3) quadratic functions, limits, continuity, A college-level treatment of analytic MATH 152 Calculus II (5) differentiation, integration, the geometry. Topics include Cartesian A continuation of MATH 151 Calculus I. logarithmic and exponential functions, coordinate systems, distance, parallel and Topics include techniques of integration, and applications. Computer algebra perpendicular lines and planes, the locus trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, systems will be used where applicable. of a condition, generalizations of lines, inverse, logarithmic and exponential Current college algebra skills and graphic planes and parabolas, polar coordinates functions, sequences, series, conic calculator are required. Prerequisite: and vectors in two and three dimensions. sections, polar coordinates and parametric MATH 113 or equivalent, or appropriate Prerequisites: MATH 130 or consent of equations. Prerequisite: MATH 151. mathematics placement test score. instructor. MATH 196 Topics (1-3)

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ü MATH 205 E lements of Mathematics methods. Prerequisite: MATH 152 or scientists and engineers. Topics include II-GT-MA1 (3) MATH 136. vector analysis, partial differential Decimal numbers, probability, statistics, equations and transform techniques. geometry, and the metric system. A MATH 296 Topics (1-3) Applications are stressed. Prerequisite: continuation of MATH 105 designed MATH 253, and MATH 236 or MATH 260. for the prospective elementary teacher. MATH 301 M athematics for Elementary Prerequisite: MATH 105 or consent of Teachers (3) MATH 361 Numerical Analysis (4) instructor. A selection of mathematics topics Elementary numerical analysis using the addressing content and standards for hand-held programmable calculator MATH 225 Computational Linear elementary education. Strong emphasis including Taylor’s theorem, truncating Algebra (3) on written and oral communication. errors, iteration processes, least squares A computational approach to matrices, Prerequisite: MATH 205 and formal methods, numerical solution of algebraic determinates, systems of equations, acceptance into the Teacher Education and transcendental equations, systems vector spaces, linear transformations, Program, or consent of instructor. of equations, ordinary and partial eigenvectors and eigenvalues, as well differential equations, integral equations, as their applications. Computational MATH 305 Euclidean Geometry (3) interpolation, finite differences, Development of Euclidean Geometry. methods will be used to explore and eigenvalue problems, relaxation Topics include basic concepts of logic, investigate the traditional subjects of techniques, approximations, and error axiomatic proofs, inductive reasoning, linear algebra. Prerequisite: MATH 253. analysis. Prerequisites: MATH 152 or MATH analytic geometry, applications of 136. MATH 236 D ifferential Equations and technology, and van Hiele levels Linear Algebra (4) of learning. Intended for students MATH 362 Fourier Analysis (3) Introduction to ordinary differential seeking elementary teacher licensure. Introduction to continuous and discrete equations and linear algebra. Topics Prerequisites: MATH 301, and MATH 151 Fourier analysis. Topics include signals covered include ordinary differential or MATH 146. as vectors, matrices, and functions; equations, systems of linear equations, orthogonality and correlation; expansions matrices, determinants, vector spaces, MATH 310 Number Theory (3) and transforms; Fourier series and Classical number theory including the linear transformations, and systems of frequency analysis; filtering, thresholding fundamental theorem of arithmetic, linear differential equations. Prerequisite: and compression; analysis of accuracy, congruences, and linear diophantine MATH 152 or 136. including aliasing and convergence; equations. Prerequisite: MATH 240. Fourier and inverse Fourier transforms; MATH 240 I ntroduction to Advanced discrete and inverse discrete Fourier Mathematics (4) MATH 325 Linear Algebra I (3) transforms. Prerequisite: MATH 152 or An introduction to writing mathematical Matrices, solving systems of equations, MATH 136. proofs. This course is designed to determinants, vectors, vector spaces, linear transformations and eigenvalues. provide students with a transition from MATH 365 Mathematical Modeling (3) computationally-based lower level Prerequisite: MATH 240 or MATH 369 or A bridge between calculus and the classes to proof-based upper level consent of instructor. application of mathematics. Investigation classes. The primary goal of the course MATH 340 Ethnomathematics (3) of meaningful and practical problems is to train students to construct and chosen from experiences, encompassing analyze rigorous mathematical proofs. Study of mathematics within cultures, especially small-scale indigenous cultures. the disciplines of mathematical sciences, Topics include introductory logic, set operations research, engineering, theory, relations, functions, induction, Through the lens of culture, students can compare/contrast mathematics systems, management sciences and life sciences. equivalence relations, partitions and Prerequisites: STAT 200, MATH 152 or combinatorics. Prerequisites: MATH 152. their logical structures, and their modes of expression. Prerequisite: MATH 240 or MATH 136, and one of the following: MATH 236, 240, 253, 260, 325, or consent MATH 253 Calculus III (4) MATH 301 or permission of instructor. of instructor. Vectors in three-dimensional space, vector functions, partial derivatives, MATH 352 Advanced Calculus (3) A rigorous and thorough treatment of MATH 369 Discrete Structures I (3) directional derivative and multiple Elementary logic, induction, recursion, integrals. Prerequisite: MATH 152. differential and integral Calculus of one real variable. Topics include construction recurrence relations, sets, combinatorics, relations, functions, graphs, trees, MATH 260 Differential Equations (3) of the real numbers, limits, continuity, and elementary abstract structures. Techniques of solving differential derivatives, integration, and series. Prerequisites: MATH 152 or MATH 136, equations of order one, linear differential Prerequisite: MATH 240. and CSCI 111. equations, linear equations with constant coefficients, non-homogeneous MATH 360 M ethods of Applied Mathematics (3) MATH 370 Discrete Structures II (3) equations, variation of parameter Applications of logic, Boolean algebra techniques, and Laplace transform Selection of techniques in applied mathematics of particular use to and computer logic, abstract structures,

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 182 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG coding theory, finite-state machines, and MATH 420 Introduction to Topology (3) point set topology; open and closed computability. Prerequisites: MATH 369 or Important as preparation for graduate sets, metric spaces, completeness, both MATH 240 and CSCI 111. work in many areas of mathematics compactness and connected sets; and theoretical physics. Introduction sequences, series, limits, continuity, MATH 380 History of Mathematics (3) to general topology, topics normally differentiation, integration; sequences History of mathematics from antiquity covered include: metric spaces, and series of functions, and Euclidean to the present with emphasis upon the connectedness, compactness, the spaces. Prerequisite: MATH 452. development of mathematics concepts separation axioms and the Tychonoff and the people involved. Prerequisite: theorem. Intended for mathematically MATH 460 Linear Algebra II (3) MATH 152. mature students. Prerequisite: MATH 325 Characteristics and minimal polynomial, or consent of instructor. Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, invariant MATH 386 Geometries (4) subspaces, bilinear forms, primary A study of Euclidean and non-Euclidean MATH 425 C omputational Abstract decomposition theorem, dual vector geometries. This course examines the Algebra (3) spaces. Prerequisite: MATH 325. differences in their axiom systems Introduction to abstract algebra, typically and their models, and how notions in groups and rings, from a computational MATH 484 Senior Seminar I (2) Euclidean geometry are interpreted in perspective. Computation will be used to An introduction to conducting non-Euclidean systems. Prerequisite: help explore and verify the properties of mathematical research with discussion of MATH 240. some algebraic structures. Prerequisites: various research topics, including how to MATH 253, MATH 225 or 325. read and analyze articles in mathematics. MATH 389 Explor ations in Mathematics Presentations and papers will be required. for Elementary Educators (1) MATH 430 Mathematical Logic (3) Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Broadening of future elementary Introduction to the classical areas of educators’ exposure to, and mathematical logic (model theory, proof MATH 490 Abstract Algebra I (3) understanding of, diverse fields of theory, the theory of computation, An introduction to the theory of mathematics through directed readings, complexity theory and set theory), the algebraic structures. Topics include analysis, and discussion. Prerequisites: relationships these sub-disciplines have groups, subgroups, cyclic groups, groups MATH 301 and consent of instructor. with each other and their relationships of permutations, homomorphisms, to the foundations of mathematics, isomorphisms, the order of group MATH 394 Mathematics Colloquium (1) computational science, computer science elements, cosets, quotient structures, A weekly series of talks on a wide and the philosophy of mathematics. isomorphism theorems and an range of contemporary mathematics Prerequisite: MATH 240 or 369. introduction to rings and fields. will be given by local faculty and Prerequisite: MATH 240, and one of the others. Students must provide written MATH 450 Complex Variables (3) following: MATH 310, MATH 325, or MATH commentary on these talks. Prerequisite: Algebra of complex numbers, analyticity, 352. Permission to enroll is required. differentiation and integration of complex functions, Cauchy’s integral MATH 491 Abstract Algebra II (3) MATH 395 Independent Study (1-3) formulae, and series. Prerequisite: MATH A continuation of MATH 490 Abstract 240. Algebra I. Topics include properties of MATH 396 Topics (1-3) rings, subrings, ideals, quotient structures; MATH 452 Intro to Real Analysis I (3) ring homomorphisms and isomorphisms, MATH 397 Structured Research (1-4) An in-depth and rigorous treatment Mathematical research under the direct integral domains, polynomial rings, of the theory of calculus, with an properties of fields, subfields, field guidance of a faculty member. Designed introduction to real analysis. Topics for junior and senior level students. May extensions, finite fields and Galois Theory. for MATH 452 and MATH 453 include Prerequisites: MATH 490. be repeated for up to 12 credit hours. number systems, cardinality, point set Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. topology; open and closed sets, metric MATH 494 Senior Seminar II (2) spaces, completeness, compactness and Capstone course, with discussion MATH 415 A bstract Algebra for of specialized topics and analysis of Secondary Education(3) connected sets; sequences, series, limits, In-depth study of the algebra underlying continuity, differentiation, integration, mathematical results, requiring students the secondary school mathematics. sequences and series of functions, and to interpret and present research. Subject Particular focus on: elementary number Euclidean spaces. Prerequisites: MATH matter will vary. Presentations and/or theory, modular arithmetic, integral 240, 253, and one of the following: MATH written research papers will be required. domains, theory of polynomials, fields, 310, MATH 325, or MATH 352. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. and groups. Prerequisites: MATH 240 and MATH 453 Intro to Real Analysis II (3) MATH 495 Independent Study (1-3) one of the following: MATH 310, MATH A continuation of MATH 452. Topics 325, or MATH 352. include number systems, cardinality, MATH 496 Topics (1-3) MATH 596 Topics (1-3)

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MEDICAL LAB Correlation of test results with normal 209/209l, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L TECHNICIAN (MLTP) results, blood cell disorders and clotting or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, abnormalities emphasized. Laboratory MLTP 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP 101 Phlebotomy (3) techniques, instrumentation, and quality MLTP 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 141L, Orientation to the clinical lab areas and assurance in the hematology/hemostasis MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 232/232L, MLTP workflow. Emphasis on venipuncture lab. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 242/242L, and MLTP 275. and dermal collections. Skills necessary 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or CHEM for limiting pre-analytic errors with 131/131L, MLTP 101, and MLTP 102. MLTP 141L C linical Immunohematology Lab (1) sample collections and processing. Corequisites: MLTP 132, MLTP 141/141L, Theoretical principles and procedures in Knowledge of POC testing, patient MLTP 232/232L, MLTP 242/242L, and immunohematology and application in collection instructions, send out testing MLTP 275. the medical laboratory. Blood banking and informatics. Review of regulatory, procedures and potential problems in ethical and legal issues, healthcare MLTP 138 Clinical Immunology (2) blood bank testing relative to antibody delivery system, certification and Fundamentals and procedures of identification, compatibility testing, licensure, organ systems, basic medical the immune defenses as it relates to transfusion reactions and maternal/ terminology, infection prevention, and medical laboratory testing; innate and neonatal screening for hemolytic disease professionalism. Corequisite: MLTP 102. adaptive immune responses, deficiencies, autoimmunity, hypersensitivity and tissue of the newborn. Prerequisites: BIOL MLTP 102 Applied Phlebotomy (2) transplantation. Exploration of serologic 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L Clinical laboratory experience at an techniques and instrumentation in or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, affiliated site. Application of knowledge the detection and diagnoses of viral MLTP 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and and skills to venipuncture and dermal illness, immune related diseases and its MLTP 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 141, collections, sample processing, POC applications in immunohematology. MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 232/232L, MLTP testing, patient collection instructions, Introduction to theories and principles of 242/242L, and MLTP 275. send-out testing, informatics, molecular testing methods. Prerequisites: MLTP 142 Clinical Microscopy (2) OSHA practices and phlebotomist BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM Introduction to microscopy in the professionalism are included. Corequisite: 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, medical laboratory. Emphasis on MLTP 101. and MLTP 102. Corequisites: MLTP 138L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP 231/231L. kidney function and urine formation: MLTP 132 C linical Hematology and examination of the physical, chemical Coagulation (3) MLTP 138L Clinical Immunology Lab (1) and microscopic components of urine. Introduction to the theory and practical Fundamentals and procedures of Body fluid analysis of feces, seminal, application of hematology and the immune defenses as it relates to vaginal, amniotic, cerebrospinal, serous, hemostasis as it relates to the medical medical laboratory testing; innate and and synovial fluids. Critical analysis laboratory. Bone marrow, blood cell adaptive immune responses, deficiencies, and problem solving with regards to formation, hemoglobin structure and autoimmunity, hypersensitivity and tissue pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic synthesis, cell function and morphology, transplantation. Exploration of serologic variables in sample testing. Prerequisites: and coagulation are explored. techniques and instrumentation in BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM Correlation of test results with normal the detection and diagnoses of viral 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP results, blood cell disorders and clotting illness, immune related diseases and its 101, and MLTP 102. Corequisites: abnormalities emphasized. Laboratory applications in immunohematology. MLTP 138/138L, MLTP 142L, and MLTP techniques, instrumentation, and quality Introduction to theories and principles of 231/231L. assurance in the hematology/hemostasis molecular testing methods. Prerequisites: lab. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, BIOL BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM MLTP 142L Clinical Microscopy Lab (1) 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or CHEM 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, Introduction to microscopy in the 131/131L, MLTP 101, and MLTP 102. and MLTP 102. Corequisites: MLTP 138, medical laboratory. Emphasis on Corequisites: MLTP 132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP 231/231L. kidney function and urine formation: MLTP 232/232L, MLTP 242/242L, and examination of the physical, chemical MLTP 275. MLTP 141 C linical Immunohematology and microscopic components of urine. (2) Body fluid analysis of feces, seminal, MLTP 132L Clinical Hematology and Theoretical principles and procedures in vaginal, amniotic, cerebrospinal, serous, Coagulation Lab (1) immunohematology and application in and synovial fluids. Critical analysis Introduction to the theory and practical the medical laboratory. Blood banking and problem solving with regards to application of hematology and procedures and potential problems in pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic hemostasis systems as it relates to the blood bank testing relative to antibody variables in sample testing. Prerequisites: medical laboratory. Bone marrow, blood identification, compatibility testing, BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM cell formation, hemoglobin structure and transfusion reactions and maternal/ 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP synthesis, cell function and morphology, neonatal screening for hemolytic disease 101, and MLTP 102. Corequisites: MLTP and coagulation are explored. of the newborn. Prerequisites: BIOL 138/138L, MLTP 142, and MLTP 231/231L.

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MLTP 180 A pplied Immunohematology MLTP 231L C linical Microbiology I Lab endocrine, malignancy, and exogenous (3) (1) substances. Exploration of measurement Clinical laboratory experience in Study of normal flora and pathogenic methodologies, instrumentation, the principles and procedures of microorganisms. Methods for recovery, reagents and reactions, standards and immunohematology at an affiliated identification of pathogens, culture control usage in quality assurance. site. It is an online supported, off- techniques, procedures, antibiotic testing, Critical analysis and problem solving campus clinical laboratory experience automation and interpretation of clinical with regards to pre-analytic, analytic taught by clinical faculty. Emphasis data. Emphasis on clinical specimens, and post-analytic variables in sample is on the application of knowledge testing algorithms and data correlation testing. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, and technical skills to clinical testing, including diagnostics, public health, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or methodology, instrumentation, quality safety and quality control. Prerequisites: CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, control, correlation of laboratory BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM MLTP 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, MLTP data with pathophysiology, OSHA 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 242L, practices and medical laboratory 101, and MLTP 102. Corequisites: MLTP MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP technician professionalism are included. 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP 231. 232/232L, and MLTP 275. Prerequisites: MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP 232/232L, MLTP MLTP 232 Clinical Microbiology II (2) MLTP 242L Clinical Chemistry Lab (1) 242/242L, and MLTP 275, Corequisites: Introduction to basic laboratory Application of human pathophysiology MLTP 182, MLTP 250, MLTP 252, and MLTP identification and classification and how it relates to laboratory 253. of medically significant isolates in testing. Cardiovascular disease, kidney mycology, parasitology and virology. function, acid-base metabolism, MLTP 182 A pplied Hematology and Laboratory safety, specimen selection liver, bone, carbohydrate disorders, Body Fluids (4) and processing, isolation methods, endocrine, malignancy, and exogenous Clinical laboratory experience in immunologic diagnosis and treatment. substances. Exploration of measurement the principles and procedures of Epidemiology and pathogenesis of methodologies: instrumentation, hematology, hemostasis, urinalysis and mycosis, parasitic and viral infections are reagents and reactions, standards and body fluids at an affiliated site. It is an explored. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, control usage in quality assurance. on-line supported, off-campus clinical BIOL 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or CHEM Critical analysis and problem solving laboratory experience taught by clinical 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, MLTP with regards to pre-analytic, analytic faculty. Emphasis is on the application of 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP and post-analytic variables in sample knowledge and technical skills to clinical 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 232L, testing. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, testing, methodology, instrumentation, MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP BIOL 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or quality control, correlation of laboratory 242/242L, and MLTP 275. CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, data with pathophysiology, OSHA MLTP 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and practices and medical laboratory MLTP 232L C linical Microbiology II Lab MLTP 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 242, technician professionalism are included. (1) MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP Prerequisites: MLTP 132/132L, MLTP Introduction to basic laboratory 232/232L, and MLTP 275. 141/141L, MLTP 232/232L, MLTP identification and classification 242/242L, and MLTP 275. Corequisites: of medically significant isolates in MLTP 250 A pplied Chemistry and MLTP 180, MLTP 250, MLTP 252, and MLTP mycology, parasitology and virology. Serology (2) 253. Laboratory safety, specimen selection Clinical laboratory experience in the and processing, isolation methods, principles and procedures of chemistry MLTP 231 Clinical Microbiology I (3) immunologic diagnosis and treatment. and serology at an affiliated site. It is an Study of normal flora and pathogenic Epidemiology and pathogenesis of on-line supported, off-campus clinical microorganisms. Methods for recovery, mycosis, parasitic and viral infections are laboratory experience taught by clinical identification of pathogens, culture explored. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, faculty. Emphasis is on the application of techniques, procedures, antibiotic testing, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or knowledge and technical skills to clinical automation and interpretation of clinical CHEM 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, testing, methodology, instrumentation, data. Emphasis on clinical specimens, MLTP 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and quality control, correlation of laboratory testing algorithms and data correlation MLTP 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 232, data with pathophysiology, OSHA including diagnostics, public health, MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP practices and medical laboratory safety and quality control. Prerequisites: 242/242L, and MLTP 275. technician professionalism are included. BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, CHEM Prerequisites: MLTP 132/132L, MLTP 121/121L or CHEM 131/131L, MLTP MLTP 242 Clinical Chemistry (3) 141/141L, MLTP 232/232L, MLTP 101, and MLTP 102. Corequisites: MLTP Application of human pathophysiology 242/242L, and MLTP 275. Corequisites: 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP and how it relates to laboratory MLTP 180, MLTP 182, MLTP 252, MLTP 253. 231L. testing. Cardiovascular disease, kidney function, acid-base metabolism, liver, bone, carbohydrate disorders,

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MLTP 252 Applied Microbiology (4) and pathophysiology of integumentary, and commonly prescribed drugs in the Clinical laboratory experience in the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, blood, medical office is provided. Prerequisite: principles and procedures of clinical lymphatic and immune, and respiratory. MOAP 111. microbiology at an affiliated site. It is an Health problems, illnesses, diagnostic on-line supported, off-campus clinical tests, drug therapy and treatment MOAP 183 Medical Assistant laboratory experience taught by clinical common in the ambulatory patient care Internship (5) faculty. Emphasis is on the application of setting. Supervised placement in contracted knowledge and technical skills to clinical facility for guided experience in testing, methodology, instrumentation, MOAP 135 Basic Medical Sciences II (4) application of knowledge and skill quality control, correlation of laboratory Organization and function of urinary, acquired in the classroom. Business and data with pathophysiology, OSHA male and female reproductive systems, clinical procedures. Positions are non- practices and medical laboratory musculoskeletal, and eyes, ears, nose paid due to accreditation requirements. technician professionalism are included. and throat. Implications in pediatrics, Permission of program coordinator Prerequisites: MLTP 132/132L, MLTP geriatrics and nutrition are reviewed. required to begin internship. 141/141L, MLTP 232/232L, MLTP Health problems, illnesses, diagnostic 242/242L, and MLTP 275. Corequisites: tests, drug therapy and treatment MOAP 189 Re view for Medical Assistant National Exam (1) MLTP 180, MLTP 182, MLTP 250, and MLTP common in the ambulatory patient care Preparation and practice for a national 253. setting. registration examination. Prerequisite: MLTP 253 Certification Exam Review (1) MOAP 136 Introduction to Clinical Program Director permission. Review of key principles and content Skills (2) in preparation for national certification Principles and procedures. Collection MULTIMEDIA examination. Prerequisites: MLTP of patient history and data, vital signs, ANIMATION (MGDA) 132/132L, MLTP 141/141L, MLTP height, weight, and appropriate 232/232L, MLTP 242/242L, and MLTP 275. documentation. Methods of assisting MGDA 106 Creativity & Visual Corequisites: MLTP 180, MLTP 182, MLTP clinicians with physical examinations, Thinking (3) 250, MLTP 252. procedures, and treatments in the Introduction to visual and oral skills medical office. Infection control and necessary to analyze works of art and MLTP 275 Capstone Seminar (1) medical asepsis. Prerequisite: MOAP 111. design, articulate complex ideas, and Preparation for clinical internships. then present solutions cogently in 2-D Conflict resolution, communication skills, MOAP 138 M edical Assisting Laboratory and 3-D projects and presentations. professional behavior in the workplace, Skills (4) resume writing and interview skills. Laboratory skills and techniques for MGDA 111 Adobe Photoshop I (3) Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, BIOL collection, handling, examination and Concentrates on high-end capabilities 210/210L, CHEM 121/121L or CHEM testing of laboratory specimens often of raster photo-editing software as an 131/131L, MLTP 101, MLTP 102, MLTP encountered in the ambulatory care illustration, design and photo retouching 138/138L, MLTP 142/142L, and MLTP setting. Emphasizes hands-on experience. tool. Explores a wide range of selection 231/231L. Corequisites: MLTP 132/132L, Prerequisites: MOAP 111 and MOAP 136. and manipulation techniques applied to MLTP 141/141L, MLTP 232/232L, and photos, graphics and videos. MOAP 140 M edical Assisting Clinical MLTP 242/242L. Skills (4) MGDA 112 Adobe Illustrator I (3) Principles and procedures. Methods MEDICAL OFFICE Introduces the processes of a vector of assisting clinicians with specialty drawing program. Tools used to create ASSISTANT (MOAP) physical examinations, diagnostic testing, digital artwork used in web design, print procedures, treatments, and minor media and digital screen design. MOAP 111 I ntroduction to Medical surgical procedures in the medical office. Assisting (3) Principles of medication administration MGDA 129 History of Animation (3) Description and career opportunities. with an emphasis on oral and parenteral Presents students with a descriptive Professionalism and effective routes of drug administration. overview of the advent and evolution communication. Overview of health Prerequisites: MOAP 111 and MOAP 136. of cinema animation from its earliest care, types of organizations and health origins through the present day. care team. Legal considerations in the MOAP 150 Pharmac ology for Medical Students examine important individuals medical office, patient rights and the Assistants (3) and studios in the animation field. Health Information Portability and Overview of pharmacology. Drug action Students view, analyze and peer critique Accountability Act (HIPAA), and principles and uses, names, classifications, effects, animation examples in film and media. of law and ethics in health care. interactions, regulation and safety. Social, cultural, artistic movements, and Vaccine and immunization schedules and influences on contemporary animation MOAP 133 Basic Medical Sciences I (4) administration. Information regarding the styles and animation technique are Organization and function of the human measurement of medications, dosage examined. body. Introductory anatomy, physiology, calculations, routes of administration,

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MGDA 149 Animation Drawing/Design (3) will understand working with joints, The course will include an overview of Students learn the foundational skills forward kinematic (FK) and inverse the three basic music applications for necessary to create characters for use kinematic (IK) blending and adding computers: notation software, Computer in computer based animation courses. controls. Students create spines using Assisted Instruction (CAI) software, and Students learn to draw human and nested constraints and expressions to sequencing software (including digital animal forms using pencil and paper. subdivide vertebra poses (Isner Spines). audio). Corequisite: MUSA 114. Character development, anatomy, dynamic movement and action, and MGDA 253 3D Animation II (3) MUSA 113 Fundamentals of Theory (3) scenery are emphasized. Advanced aspects of creating 3D Required theory course for music minor characters on a computer. Examination and music theatre students. Harmonic MGDA 152 A nimatics and Storyboarding of facial animation, lip synchronization, principles of music, including scales, (3) scene design and lighting set-ups. intervals, triads, and chords. Concurrent Introduces steps used by professional enrollment in MUSA 130 or prior animators and game designers MGDA 257 Animation Production (3) knowledge of the keyboard required. for producing media in a digital Examines development of 3D animation environment. Foundational skills of from a production standpoint. Process MUSA 114 Theory I-Introduction (3) planning, organizing, storyboarding and of transforming conceptual designs into Harmonic principles of the “common- pre-visualization techniques necessary actual projects explored. Management practice” period including scales, intervals, to create animated stories emphasized. function of tasks associated with the triads and 7th chords. Introduction Study of the history of animation and business end of development studied. A to part writing and voice leading. game design. 3D animation project will be produced. Prerequisite: satisfactory score on theory placement examination; concurrent MGDA 153 3D Animation I (3) MGDA 270 3D Animation III (3) enrollment in MUSA 116; concurrent Encompasses all major aspects of Addresses advanced concepts of 3D enrollment in MUSA 130 or prior creating 3D characters using animation animation including: workflow, lighting, knowledge of the keyboard. software. Use of developed characters to cameras, keyframing, textures, and learn how to animate for personality. rendering. Focusing on elaborate scene MUSA 115 Theory II-Diatonic design, texturing, and lighting set-up. Concepts (3) MGDA 163 Sound Design I (3) In-depth concepts on curve editor, Continuation of MUSA 114, extending Use of sound in multimedia production dope sheet, rendering techniques, and to all types of diatonic 7th chords, and and audio storytelling. Examination of advanced material development and their usages. Includes advanced rules of the principles of recording. Focus on usage. tonal harmonization. Prerequisite: MUSA enhanced interactive productions and 114 or consent of instructor; concurrent improved computer presentations. Using MGDA 292 Capstone (3) enrollment in MUSA 117. Concurrent a computer for full audio editing studio. Demonstrated culmination of learning enrollment in MUSA 131 or prior within given program of study. Taking knowledge of the keyboard is required. MGDA 164 Digital Video Editing I (3) an animation from beginning concept, Introduction to digital editing. Capturing, storyboard to end of production. MUSA 116 Ear Training and compressing, editing, and manipulating Sightsinging I (2) video images. Techniques including MGDA 296 Topics (1-3) Skills developed in reading rhythms, media management, editing tools, titles, sightsinging, and listening. Emphasis and motion control, transitions and filters, MUSIC: on beginning melodic, harmonic, and special effects explored. and rhythmic dictation. To be taken ACADEMIC (MUSA) concurrently with MUSA 114. MGDA 165 After Effects I (3) Provides the fundamental techniques for MUSA 101 Concert Attendance (0) MUSA 117 Ear Training and creating digital motion graphics such as Required attendance at concerts to Sightsinging II (2) 2D animations, animated logos, video gain an appreciation for music and Further development of skills in graphics, etc. Classes cover relevant music performance. Majors must meet sightsinging, rhythmic recognition, tools and techniques as well as industry attendance requirements at approved advanced listening abilities, including standards, delivery methods and output. music concerts and Recital Hour for eight dictation of melodic and harmonic semesters as a graduation requirement. intervals, chord progressions, and two, MGDA 196 Topics: (1-3) three, and four-part chorales. To be taken MUSA 111 Music Technology (1) concurrently with MUSA 115. Prerequisite: Introduction to computer applications MGDA 220 Advanced Character MUSA 116. Rigging (3) in music. The course begins with a Explores advanced character rigging focus on basic computer operation and MUSA 120 Class Piano for Non Majors (2) features of a specific 3D modeling and the installation of the various software MUSA 121 Class Piano for Non Majors (2) animation software in depth. Students programs that will be used in the course. Open to all students (no prerequisites or corequisites), but recommended

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 187 specifically for students who have ü MUSA 220 Music Appreciation- the marching band, orchestra, and stage little or no training in piano and are GTAH1 (3) band. not music (or music theatre) majors or Masterpieces of music, composers, and minors. Introductory piano proficiency performers useful for the music student MUSA 240 I ntroduction to Music (rudimentary note reading, music who has a weak background in the Education (2) vocabulary, technique, aural skills, theory, Masters. Includes historical survey of the and creative application of musical skills). profession. Observation of effective MUSA 228 Workshop In Music (1-3) music teachers to determine successful MUSA 128 Workshop In Music (1-3) Consists of specialized workshops in classroom management systems Consists of specialized workshops in various aspects of music made possible and methods of instruction. 20 field various aspects of music made possible by visiting artists and/or lecturers. experience hours integrated as a lab. by visiting artists and/or lecturers. Development of personal philosophies MUSA 230 Class Piano III (2) of music education following a study of MUSA 130 Class Piano I (2) A concentrated study of repertoire in philosophical trends in music education. Recommended for music majors, music preparation for the piano proficiency Prerequisites: MUSA 115, 117. minors and music theatre majors who exam. Maximum keyboard time will are deficient in the piano proficiency develop coordination and flexibility. MUSA 250 B eginning Conducting (2) skills that are required by their programs Prerequisites: MUSA 130, 131, or consent Basic concepts and techniques of study. Application of scales, chords, of instructor. necessary to conduct music. Students transposition, harmonization, sight- will be expected to master patterns, reading and development of repertory at MUSA 231 Class Piano IV (2) fermatas, dynamics, etc. Observation the keyboard. A continuation of the concepts of other conductors and score study introduced in MUSA 230. Reinforcement is included. Required of all music MUSA 131 Class Piano II (2) and new concepts of keyboard skills majors. Prerequisites: MUSA 214, 217. The student gains further expertise at including minor scales and arpeggios, Corequisites: MUSA 215, 218. the keyboard. Prerequisite: MUSA 130 or triad inversions, cadence progressions, consent of instructor. harmonization, transposition, repertoire ü MUSA 266 H istory of Popular Music- pieces to develop technical facility and GTAH1 (3) MUSA 137 Class Voice (1) knowledge of musical style. Prerequisites: Differences in style, musical elements, Fundamentals of singing, interpretation, MUSA 230 or consent of the instructor. lyrical content, and outstanding phonetics, language (diction for singers), artists/writers in the areas of popular, and solo repertoire for beginning voice MUSA 232 S tring Pedagogy and rock, Country Western, and jazz students. Materials (2) idioms. Evolutionary aspects and Study of violin, viola, cello, and string social significance are introduced as MUSA 214 T heory III - Chromatic bass in a class situation. Emphasis is on background references. Guest lectures, Concepts (3) fundamentals of playing techniques at an class listening sessions, film strips, The full use of chromaticism through elementary level. and music video augment the lecture secondary dominants, altered chords, sessions. Open to all students. Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords, MUSA 233 W oodwind Pedagogy and and modulation techniques. Continues Materials (2) MUSA 268 Beginning Jazz into 20th Century including the use Study of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, Improvisation (1) of advanced chromaticism, serialism, and saxophone in a class situation. Materials and techniques for and atonality. Includes advanced Emphasis is on fundamentals of playing improvisation, including chord and development of ear training and techniques at an elementary level. scale construction, modality, harmonic sightsinging. Emphasis on harmonic patterns, linear concepts, with emphasis and rhythmic dictation. Continuation of MUSA 234 Br ass Pedagogy and Materials on technique, style and idiomatic usage. (2) MUSA 115 and 117. Prerequisites: MUSA Prerequisites: MUSA 115 or consent of A concentrated course to develop a 115 and 117. instructor. Corequisites: MUSA 214 or knowledge of the brass instruments and consent of instructor. MUSA 215 T heory IV - Twentieth Century to acquire sufficient skill to demonstrate Form and Analysis (3) good tone, technique, and breath MUSA 296 Topics (1-3) Study of various compositional control. approaches and techniques of the MUSA 302 Keyboard Literature I (3) 20th Century, correlated with the study MUSA 235 P ercussion Pedagogy and Survey of keyboard literature from of musical form. Includes advanced Materials (2) Elizabethan music through Mendelssohn. development of ear training and sight The study of methods and materials Prerequisites: MUSA 230 or consent of singing. Emphasis on harmonic and for teaching beginning percussion in instructor, MUSL 230. rhythmic dictation. Continuation of the public school. Includes practical MUSA 214. Prerequisite: MUSA 214. instruction on the instruments utilized in

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MUSA 303 Symphonic Literature (3) MUSA 326 Music History and rehearsal techniques. Required of all Survey of music from early instrumental Literature I (3) music education majors. Prerequisites: to present-day compositions. Emphasis Literature and styles of the master MUSA 250. on composers’ styles, orchestras, composers of music through the Ancient, conductors; chamber orchestra music Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque MUSA 363 Music Industry and also included. Prerequisites: MUSA 215. periods. Course work is designed for Marketing (3) the music major, utilizing a lecture and Exploration of business aspects of the MUSA 304 Keyboard Literature II (3) listening laboratory format and one music industry, with an emphasis on Survey of keyboard literature from scholarly research paper of the student’s careers and music marketing. Chopin to the present day. Prerequisites: choice. Prerequisite: MUSA 114. MUSA 231, MUSL 230, or consent of MUSA 368 Advanced Jazz instructor. MUSA 327 Music History and Improvisation (2) Literature II (3) Advanced Improvisation is the MUSA 310 Accompanying Techniques (2) Literature and styles of the master continuation of Beginning Improvisation. Development of accompanying composers of music through the classic, Advanced theoretical concepts will proficiency, including listening skills, romantic, and modern ages. Coursework be addressed with expansion of form, and analysis of the music to be is designed primarily for the music major, repertoire and improvisational patterns. performed; rehearsing techniques; utilizing a lecture and listening laboratory Prerequisites: MUSA 268, MUSA 215, Class accompanying repertoire for vocal; format and one scholarly research paper Piano IV/piano proficiency, or permission instrumental; and ensemble playing. of the student’s choice. Prerequisite: of instructor. Prerequisites: MUSA 214, 216 or consent MUSA 114. of instructor. MUSA 395 Independent Study (1-3) MUSA 328 Workshop In Music (1-3) MUSA 311 Advanced Music Consists of specialized workshops in MUSA 396 Topics (1-3) Technology (1) various aspects of music made possible MUSA 410 Vocal Pedagogy (3) Application of advanced technological by visiting artists and/or lecturers. tools in music recording, editing, The physiology of the human vocal composition, and production, including MUSA 337 Diction For Singers (2) mechanism, various teaching styles, vocal audio components and connections; Pronunciation of Italian, German, and problems related to various age groups, digital audio multi-track recording, French as applied to the performance of and vocal repertoire pertinent to all synthesis, sequencing, sampling, and vocal literature. age groups and levels of development. editing; and microphone techniques. Prerequisites: MUSA 137 or previous or Prerequisite: MUSA 111. MUSA 340 T eaching Elementary and concurrent enrollment in private vocal General Music: Methods, studies. MUSA 317 Orchestration (2) Principles, and Materials (3) Choral and instrumental arranging; For Music Education Majors: The course is MUSA 411 Piano Pedagogy (3) instrumentation, scoring, and analysis of designed for standards-based curriculum Introduction to the field of piano harmonic styles of various composers. for elementary and general music classes. teaching and learning/teaching theories Students are required to compose and Weekly laboratory experiences focus on with application to piano teaching. arrange original works. Prerequisite: course content dealing with teaching Survey of methods and literature. MUSA 215. competencies in elementary and general Instructional techniques for group and music. Also addresses how to teach individual lesson settings. Prerequisites: MUSA 318 Vocal Literature (3) literacy in the music classroom. Includes MUSA 231, MUSL 230 or consent of Follows the changing patterns, styles, 30 hours of field experience. Prerequisites: instructor. and fashions of the secular art-song from MUSA 215, 218, 240, 250. medieval Europe to Europe and America MUSA 426 The Music of World Cultures (2) of the day. Prerequisites: MUSA 137 or MUSA 350A Advanced Conducting: An exploration of music outside the previous enrollment in private vocal Choral (2) Western Classical music tradition. Musical studies. More difficult techniques such as advanced meters, advanced score study, traditions include music of the Orient, MUSA 319 Choral Literature (3) interpretive conducting and ensemble Africa, India, and North and South Historical, analytical, and interpretive rehearsal techniques. Required of all American ethnic music. The course will study of choral literature spanning the music education majors. Prerequisites: also examine ethnic music from other Renaissance through the 20th Century. MUSA 250. world cultures such as Afro Cuban Important course for those planning to and Brazilian as well as blues and jazz direct choirs. Prerequisite: previous or MUSA 350B A dvanced Conducting: music developed in the United States. concurrent enrollment in a Colorado Instrumental (2) Prerequisite: MUSA 215, MUSA 231 or More difficult techniques such as Mesa University choir or consent of the piano proficiency, or permission of the advanced meters, advanced score study, instructor. instructor. interpretive conducting and ensemble

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MUSA 428 Workshop In Music (1-3) MUSIC: APPLIED MUSIC (Section E) Instrumental Ensemble – Consists of specialized workshops in LESSONS (MUSL) Guitar (1) various aspects of music made possible (Section F) Instrumental Ensemble – by visiting artists and/or lecturers. Piano (1) MUSL 130, 230, 330, 430 Groups organized upon the talents and Piano (1,2) MUSA 440 Teaching Vocal Music K-12: MUSL 131, 231, 331, 431 interests of the members. Specified Methods, Principles, and Guitar (1,2) ensembles may be offered from time Materials (3) MUSL 132, 232, 332, 432 to time in the format of String Quartets, Standards-based instruction of Strings (1,2) Woodwind, and Brass Choirs, etc. A elementary and general music classes MUSL 133, 233, 333, 433 minimum of one public performance for Music Education majors. Training in Woodwinds (1,2) per each term of enrollment is required. concepts, methodology, and materials MUSL 134, 234, 334, 434 Prerequisite: MUSP 145, 245, 345, 445 necessary to teach standards-based vocal Brass (1,2) require audition by the band director. music in public/private schools. Includes MUSL 135, 235, 335, 435 30 hours of field experience. Prerequisites: Percussion (1,2) MUSP 146, 246, 346, 446 MUSA 137, MUSL 137, or MUSP 150, MUSL 136, 236, 336, 436 Community Performance Organizations (1) Electronic Instruments (1,2) MUSA 350A or 350B. Opportunity for students and other MUSL 137, 237, 337, 437 musicians in the community to Voice (1,2) MUSA 441 T eaching Instrumental Music MUSL 138, 238, 338, 438 participate in various community musical K-12: Methods, Principles and Composition (1,2) groups, such as the Grand Junction Materials (3) MUSL 350, 450 Symphony. Audition with conductor is Designed for standards-based music Conducting (1,2) required. curriculum for teaching instrumental music in the public schools. Activity will MUSIC: MUSP 147, 247, 347, 447 be centered on developing teaching Marching Band (0,1) competencies, administration of the PERFORMING (MUSP) Rehearsal and presentation of musical music program, and methods, materials, and physical performance proficiencies. equipment and technology needed for MUSP 140, 240, 340, 440 Specific skills associated with self- Wind Symphony (1) the instrumental music program. Includes discipline, leadership, and individual and A symphony comprised of serious wind 30 hours field experience. Prerequisites: ensemble performance are developed. and percussion students, including MUSA 350A or 350B. Advanced practice in physical alignment, music majors and non-music majors, balance, endurance, flexibility, and who perform a wide variety of standard MUSA 442A Teaching Special Ensembles: strength in technical competency. and current literature. Audition with Choral (2) Available to all university students. conductor required. MUSA 442B Teaching Special Ensembles: Offered every fall semester. Monday/ Instrumental (2) Wednesday/Friday 6:00-8:00 p.m., football Practical knowledge and methodology in MUSP 141, 241, 341, 441 practice field. Audition or consent of the teaching of (A) Show/Jazz Choirs and Symphony Orchestra (1) instructor required. Previous band (B) Marching/Jazz Bands. Students will Ensemble designed to rehearse and experience highly recommended. Only learn the skills necessary to direct these perform symphonic literature as well as MUSP 147 counts as a KINA activity credit. ensembles. Includes 30 hours of field choral, opera and concerto repertoire. Audition required. experience. Prerequisites: MUSA 215, 218, MUSP 148, 248, 348, 448 240 and 250. Corequisites: MUSA 350A or MUSP 144, 244, 344, 444 Chamber Orchestra (1) 350B if not completed. Jazz Ensemble (1) Ensemble designed to rehearse and perform chamber orchestra works. This MUSA 495 Independent Study (1-3) A group utilizing stage band instrumentation and performing many ensemble will involve strings as well as woodwind and brass instruments. MUSA 496 Topics (1-3) local and required concert engagements. By audition; preference given to Audition required. MUSA 499 Internship (1-4) members of Symphonic Band. Work experience obtained on a job MUSP 150, 250, 350, 450 Concert Choir (1) in the music industry. Prerequisites: MUSP 145, 245, 345, 445 (Section A) Instrumental Ensemble - The major large choir, open to all Senior status, MUSA 363, and consent of students and staff who enjoy singing, instructor. Woodwinds (1) (Section B) Instrumental Ensemble – with final membership approved by the Brass (1) MUSA 596 Topics: (1-3) director. Concert Choir performs great (Section C) Instrumental Ensemble – choral literature of all types representing Strings (1) Colorado Mesa University in formal (Section D) Instrumental Ensemble – concerts both on and off campus Percussion (1) including concert tours, performing large-scale masterworks with orchestra.

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MUSP 156, 256, 356, 456 MUSP 395 Independent Study (1-3) principles of mental health, patient/ Chamber Choir (1) resident rights addressed. An advanced smaller choral ensemble MUSP 396 Topics (1-3) which performs vocal literature from NURA 170 Nurse Aide Clinical Renaissance to Contemporary art music MUSP 420 S enior Recital/Presentation Experience (1) including jazz. Chamber Choir performs (1,2) Applies knowledge and skill gained in on and off campus, on concert tours, Preparation and successful completion NURA 101 to patient care. Independent and at the annual Madrigal Dinners. Staff of senior-level recital/presentation in functioning within the nurse aide scope and students are eligible by audition; the student’s concentration. Recital/ of practice in applying knowledge and membership in Concert Choir generally a presentation must be approved by skills gained in Nurse Aide Healthcare prerequisite. the music faculty and given during Skills. Enhanced communication, the semester in which the student is cultural competency, end of life care, MUSP 157, 257, 357, 457 registered for this course. A music recital critical thinking and organizational skills Male Choir (1) is required for Performance and Music emphasized. Prerequisite: NURA 101 Campus-wide chorus open to all Education majors and must include interested students and faculty. Performs scholarly program notes (required all types of music written for combined for the official printed senior recital NURSING (NURS) men’s voices. Concertizes in conjunction program) covering historical aspects, NURS 101 Pharmacology Calculations (1) with other university choral ensembles analytical issues, and/or performance Course introduces the concepts and and in separate performances on-off considerations of the recital repertory. techniques of dosage calculations and campus. Prerequisites: Taken in sequence. Students in the Liberal Arts or Elective medication administration by a variety Members must perform a brief audition Studies in Business programs may or routes. Application of basic math with instructor. likewise present recital or, alternatively, may elect to give a faculty-approved concepts to complex conversion of MUSP 158, 258, 358, 458 “capstone presentation” (e.g. lecture/ dosages between and among various Women’s Chorus (1) recital; lecture/demonstration; or systems of weights and volumes, and Performances include the complete other presentation of creative work application of critical thinking skills to range of music written for combined such as video, original compositions, the calculation and administration of women’s voices, both on and off- arrangements, etc.). Performance majors medications by oral and parenteral campus, and in conjunction with the take this course for two credits; all other (including intravenous) routes of other university choral ensembles music majors take this course for one administration. Prerequisites: BIOL in Music Department concerts. credit. 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, ENGL 111, Prerequisites: consent of director. ENGL 112, PSYC 233. MUSP 465 Opera Scenes (1) MUSP 159, 259, 359, 459 Continuation of artistic and technical NURS 106 F undamental Medical Surgical Vocal Jazz Ensemble (1) Concepts I (3) skills introduced in MUSP 365. Focus on NURS 106L Fundamental Medical Surgical Exploration of wide range of vocal operatic production of staged, public literature. Performances given, both on Concepts I Laboratory (2) performance of either selected opera Course introduces the role of the nurse and off campus. Prerequisites: consent of scenes or a one or two-act opera. instructor. in assessing and meeting the medical Prerequisites: Completion of Sophomore and surgical needs of adults across Review or instructor approval. the lifespan in various health care MUSP 162, 262, 362, 462 Combo (1) Corequisites: MUSL 437 or instructor Interested students team up with settings. Knowledge from foundations approval. a rhythm section in learning tunes of nursing, the sciences, pharmacology, and nutrition provide foundations for and “head” charts, improving skills MUSP 495 Independent Study (1-3) and making practical application of nursing care for medical/surgical clients. improvisation. MUSP 496 Topics (1-3) Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, ENGL 111, ENGL 112, PSYC 233. MUSP 365 Opera Workshop (1) Development of vocal performance NURSE AIDE NURS 107 Foundations of Nursing (3) operatic skills for majors and minors TRAINING (NURA) NURS 107L Foundations of Nursing within a musical and theatrical workshop. Laboratory (2) Operatic repertoire selected for class NURA 101 Nurse Aide Healthcare Skills (4) Course introduces the applications of study. Stage movement, character Fundamental skills of the nurse aide. critical thinking and the nursing process study, audition techniques, resume Basic nursing skills, communication skills, to clients in a variety of community and construction and mock auditions restorative services, personal care skills, acute care settings. Emphasis is in holistic incorporated. Prerequisite: Completion safety and emergency care covered. health care wellness - illness continuum. of Sophomore Review. Corequisite: MUSL Includes knowledge and/or principles Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, BIOL 337. of asepsis, OSHA and HIPAA regulations. 210/210L, ENGL 111, ENGL 112, PSYC 233. Ethical behaviors, cultural sensitivity,

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NURS 108 Foundations of Nursing II (3) Nurse Practice Act. Job seeking skills are NURS 201 Nursing Fundamentals (4) NURS 108L Foundations of Nursing II discussed. Prerequisites: Must be eligible NURS 201L Nursing Fundamentals Laboratory (1) for graduation during semester in which Laboratory (3) This is the companion lab to NURS NURS 156 is taken - completion of NURS Introduction to the theoretical 108. Provides opportunity to practice 101, NURS 106/106L, NURS 107/107L, foundations of nursing in the areas of more complex nursing skills required to NURS 112. Corequisites: NURS 117/117L, communication, assessment and critical meet the needs of clients in a variety of NURS 118/118L, and NURS 172/172L. thinking. Economic issues influencing settings. Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, the professional nurse are examined BIOL 210/210L, ENGL 111, ENGL 112, and NURS 172 F undamental Medical- and important interpersonal and PSYC 233. Corequisite: NURS 108. Surgical Concepts II (3) psychomotor skills are developed. Three Continues to introduce the student to one-hour lectures and three three-hour NURS 112 B asic Concepts of advancing medical-surgical nursing laboratories per week. Prerequisite: Pharmacology (2) concepts. Integrates knowledge from acceptance into BSN program. Course introduces the basic concepts foundational nursing, the sciences, Corequisites: NURS 202/202L, 203, 204. of pharmacology related to actions, pharmacology, and nutrition along with therapeutic and adverse effects, the integration of mental health and NURS 202 H ealth Assessment and interactions of drugs, drug classification cultural concepts. Provides foundations Promotion (3) and the basic pharmacology of for nursing care planning for medical and NURS 202L Health Assessment and commonly used medications. Emphasis surgical clients. Prerequisites: NURS 101, Promotion Laboratory (1) is placed on nursing considerations and NURS 106/106L, NURS 107/107L, NURS Development of knowledge necessary client education. Prerequisites: BIOL 108/108L, and NURS 112. Corequisites: for completing an adult health 209/209L, BIOL 210/210L, ENGL 111, NURS 117/117L, NURS 118/118L, and assessment. History taking and physical ENGL 112, PSYC 233. NURS 156. assessment skills utilized to develop appropriate interventions designed to NURS 117 Nursing Care of the NURS 172L Fundamental Medical-Surgical assist patients with health promotion and Childbearing Family (2) Concepts II Laboratory (3) lifestyle changes. Explores principles of NURS 117L Nursing Care of the Course offers the clinical practicum health promotion through the life span Childbearing Family to apply the related nursing theory in a variety of settings. Prerequisites: Laboratory (1) in medical surgical nursing using the acceptance into BSN program. Fundamental course in the nursing nursing process to assist clients with Corequisites: NURS 201/201L, 203, 204. care of the childbearing family. Focus more complex health care needs. on normal pregnancy, physiologic and Prerequisites: NURS 101, NURS 106/106L, NURS 203 Pharmacology I (2) psychological changes experienced, NURS 107/107L, and NURS 112. Introduction to drug therapy with and care of the normal newborn. Corequisites: NURS 117/117L, NURS the study of specific classifications, Prerequisites: NURS 101, NURS 106/106L, 118/118L, and NURS 156. terminology, theories and techniques NURS 107/NURS107L, NURS 112. of safe administration. Using the NURS 200 LPN to RN Role Transition (1) nursing process, the toxicity of major NURS 118 Nursing Care of Children (2) Prepares the advanced placement drug classifications is investigated, as NURS 118L Nursing Care of Children well as principles of pharmacokinetics, Laboratory (1) student to enter the Nursing Program Course introduces the role of the nurse through orientation to the program, pharmacodynamics, and in meeting the individual needs of the review of the nursing process and pharmacotherapeutics. Prerequisites: child from infancy through adolescence exploration of the role change from acceptance into BSN program. in health and illness. Beginning practical to professional nursing. Corequisites: NURS 201/201L, 202/202L, assessment and use of the nursing Introduction to selected concepts related 204. to the role of the Associate Degree nurse process, basic growth and development, NURS 204 Nursing Theory/ pathophysiology, nutrition, and relevant as a provider of care, teacher, manager, client advocate and member of the Foundations (1) emotional, cultural, and family concepts Examination of the history of professional are integrated throughout. Prerequisites: profession. Emphasis placed on critical thinking in providing and managing nursing as a scientific discipline. Critical NURS 101, NURS 106/106L, NURS thinking and reasoning are utilized to 107/107L, and NURS 112. Corequisites: comprehensive care in a variety of health care settings with clients across evaluate selected nursing theories. The NURS 117/117L, NURS 118L, NURS 156, language and process of nursing research and NURS 172L. the lifespan. Course is designed to assist the Licensed Practical Nurse with the are introduced as a framework for making transition into the practice of professional sound clinical judgments. Professional NURS 156 S ocialization into Practical networking and legal/ethical issues will Nursing (1) nursing. Prerequisites: All general Introductory concepts for first time education and program prerequisites. be examined. Prerequisites: acceptance management. Examines legal and in BSN program. Corequisites: NURS ethical responsibilities of the practical 201/201L, 202/202L, 203. nurse. Emphasis is given to the Colorado

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NURS 206 A dvanced Concepts of are integrated throughout the course. Prerequisites: All general education and Medical-Surgical Nursing I (3) Theoretical content is applied in acute prerequisites, NURS 206, NURS 288, and NURS 206L Advanced Concepts of care and community clinical settings. NURS 200. Corequisite: NURS 216L Medical-Surgical Nursing Prerequisites: NURS 200, NURS 206/206L, Laboratory (2) NURS 211/211L, NURS 286, and NURS NURS 216L Advanced Concepts of Role of the registered professional nurse 288. Corequisites: NURS 210, NURS Medical Surgical Nursing II as care provider, teacher, manager, 216/216L, and NURS 289. Laboratory (3) professional and advocate in meeting Continues to focus on the role of the the nursing care needs of adults across NURS 211 Nursing Care of the Psychiatric registered professional nurse as care the life span experiencing illness to Client (3) provider, teacher, manager, professional, wellness. The clinical lab provides Develops concepts of psychosocial and advocate in meeting the complex opportunity for the student to utilize the integrity and emphasizes the function medical and surgical health care needs nursing process and integrate previous and responsibility of nursing in of adult clients. Utilizing the nursing learning to assist the patient and family promoting and maintaining mental process, the student is expected to in achieving optimal functioning in the health of individuals and families. This integrate previous learning to assist the various health care settings. Corequisites: course emphasizes communication and patient and family in achieving optimal NURS 206 and NURS 288. caring through the application of the functioning in various complex health therapeutic relationship and nursing care situations and settings. In addition NURS 210 Nursing Care of Complex process in the care and treatment of to inpatient acute care patient units the Obstetrical and Pediatric common clinical conditions/disorders. student will rotate through the critical Clients (3) In the clinical lab students will develop care areas of the health care facility. [AAS Program only] Prepares the proficiency in working with psychiatric Prerequisites: NURS 200, NURS 206/206L, professional nurse to comprehend clients in various settings in the NURS 211/211L, NURS 217, NURS 286, and apply advanced concepts in community. Prerequisites: NURS 200 and and NURS 288. Corequisites: NURS care of the high-risk child bearing NURS 288. Corequisite: NURS 211. 210/210L, NURS 216, and NURS 289. family and for children with complex health problems from birth through NURS 211L Nursing Care of the Psychiatric NURS 217 L eadership for Professional adolescence. Emphasizes special needs Client Laboratory (1) Nursing Practice (2) and complications during the perinatal Develops concepts of psychosocial [AAS Program only] Socializes experience and altered functioning, integrity and emphasizes the function the student into the graduate special needs, and disease processes and responsibility of nursing in registered nurse role. The focus is manifested in children. The nursing promoting and maintaining mental on the exploration and analysis of process is used as a framework to attain health of individuals and families. This contemporary nursing practice, current optimal levels of maternal-newborn and course emphasizes communication and trends and issues impacting nursing pediatric health and wellness. Legal and caring through the application of the care delivery. Advanced leadership and ethical accountability are integrated therapeutic relationship and nursing management concepts are discussed as throughout the course. Critical process in the care and treatment of part of the nursing role. Prerequisites: All thinking skills are utilized throughout. common clinical conditions/disorders. general education and prerequisites, and Prerequisites: All general education and In the clinical lab students will develop NURS 200. prerequisites, NURS 288 and NURS 200. proficiency in working with psychiatric Corequisite: NURS 210L. clients in various settings in the NURS 286 A dvanced Pharmacology for community. Prerequisites: NURS 200, Nurses (2) NURS 210L Nursing Care of Complex NURS 206, NURS 206L, NURS 286, and Focuses on advanced concepts of Obstetrical and Pediatric NURS 288. Corequisites: NURS 211 and pharmacology within nursing with Clients Laboratory (1) NURS 217. an emphasis on nursing process, Prepares the professional nurse to drug doses, calculations and relevant comprehend and apply advanced NURS 216 A dvanced Concepts of assessments and patient teaching. concepts in care of the high-risk child Medical Surgical Nursing II (2) Prerequisites: BIOL 209/209L, BIOL bearing family and for children with [AAS Program only] Continues to focus 210/210L, BIOL 241, and PSYC 233. complex health problems from birth on the role of the registered professional Corequisites: NURS 200, 206/206L, and through adolescence. Emphasizes nurse as care provider, teacher, manager, 289. special needs and complications during professional, and advocate in meeting the prenatal experience and altered the complex medical and surgical health NURS 288 H ealth and Physical functioning, special needs, and disease care needs of adult clients. Utilizing the Assessment for Nursing (2) process manifested in children. The nursing process, the student is expected [AAS Program only] Development of the nursing process is used as a framework to integrate previous learning to assist knowledge necessary for completing to attain optimal levels of maternal- the patient and family in achieving health assessment across the life span. newborn and pediatric health and optimal functioning in various complex History taking, physical assessment wellness. Legal and ethical accountability health care situations and settings. skills, and principles of health promotion

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 193 are utilized to develop appropriate with families from diverse backgrounds. NURS 314 The Childbearing Family (3) interventions designed to assist clients Selected learning experiences provide NURS 314L The Childbearing Family with health promotion and life style opportunities for the student to develop Laboratory (2) changes. Prerequisites: All general cognitive, psychomotor and affective Study of the competencies needed to education and prerequisites. Corequisite: competencies essential to the care care for the diverse childbearing family NURS 206 and 200. of both healthy and high-risk families through the trimesters of pregnancy. through the lifespan. Three one-hour High risk and complications of pregnancy NURS 289 C apstone: Comprehensive lectures and one three-hour laboratory are addressed as well as critical issues of Nursing Internship (1) per week. Prerequisites: NURS 201/201L, women’s health care. Theoretical content Facilitates transition from student to 202/202L, 203, 204. Corequisites: NURS is applied in acute care and community graduate nurse through application of 301/301L, 303. settings. Two one-hour lectures and nursing principles and skills in an area two three-hour laboratories per week. of health care delivery. Critical thinking, NURS 303 Professional Development (2) Prerequisites: NURS 301/301L, 302, life-long learning, nursing process, caring, Introduction to basic knowledge and 303, 304. Corequisites: NURS 313/313L, collaboration, and health teaching and skills related to organizational structure, 315/315L. promotion are emphasized. Prerequisites: systems of patient care delivery and All prerequisites for the AAS program, communication within the health care NURS 315 Pediatrics (2) NURS 200, NURS 206/206L, NURS team. Principles of time management, NURS 315L Pediatrics Laboratory (1) 211/211L, NURS 286, NURS 288, NURS teaching-learning theories, and the Emphasis on use of the nursing process 217. Corequisites: NURS 210/210L and role of the professional in nursing are in the care of children and adolescents NURS 216/216L. explored. Clinical experience will be experiencing alterations in wellness. The incorporated into the medical-surgical clinical component provides experience NURS 300 P rofessional Transitions and clinical lab. Awareness of the patient with clients in acute care and community Development (3) care environment, as well as the settings. Two one-hour lectures and Introduction to selected concepts organization of health care delivery, will one three-hour laboratory per week. related to care of the adult client, the be documented through journaling. Prerequisites: NURS 301/301L, 302, childbearing and childbearing families. Prerequisites: NURS 201/201L, 202/202L, 303, 304. Corequisites: NURS 313/313L, Designed to facilitate the transition 203, 204. Corequisites: NURS 301/301L, 314/314L. of the diploma and associate degree 302, 304. graduate to the professional practice of NURS 395 Independent Study (1-3) nursing at the baccalaureate level. Credit NURS 304 Pharmacology II (2) NURS 396 Topics (1-3) for previous completed nursing courses Continuation of Pharmacology I covering (with grades of C or better) will be held the nursing process, principles of NURS 403 Community Health Nursing (4) in escrow until this course has been pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, NURS 403L Community Health Nursing successfully completed. pharmacotherapeutics and toxicity of Laboratory (2) major drug classifications. Prerequisites: Theoretical basis for the practice of public NURS 301 Medical Surgical Process (4) NURS 201/201L, 202/202L, 203, 204. health nursing. Students investigate the NURS 301L Medical Surgical Process Corequisites: NURS 301/301L, 302, 303. Laboratory (4) principles and practice of public health nursing including epidemiological Application of nursing process. Care of NURS 313 Mental Health (3) individuals and families experiencing investigation, environmental health NURS 313L Mental Health Lab (2) issues, methods of community health deviations from usual levels of Development of a knowledge base of wellness from onset to resolution. assessment, and interventions with mental health and illness, emphasizing selected population groups. Application Pathophysiological problems of the development of interpersonal skills moderate intensity and relative stability of course content is demonstrated in the in the use of the therapeutic relationship. concurrent clinical course. One one-hour explored. Nursing process used to Specific learning experiences provide support the coping mechanisms of lecture and two three-hour laboratories per opportunities for the student to develop week. Prerequisites: NURS 312, 313/313L, individuals and families to assist in the proficiency in the practice of psychiatric regaining and maintaining of optimal 314/314L, 315/315L. Corequisites: NURS mental health nursing with diverse 406/406L and NURS 407. wellness. Prerequisites: NURS 201/201L, populations. Two one-hour lectures 202/202L, 203, 204. Corequisites: NURS and two three-hour laboratories per NURS 406 Advanced Medical/Surgical (3) 302, 303, 304. week. Prerequisites: NURS 301/301L, 302, NURS 406L Advanced Medical/Surgical 303, 304. Corequisites: NURS 314/314L, Laboratory (3) NURS 302 F amily Nursing Through the 315/315L. Lifespan (3) Advanced medical-surgical concepts Theory of family-centered practice in essential for nursing care of adults nursing. Utilizing the nursing process, requiring intervention in relation students gather and analyze data to to complex multi system illness or formulate and evaluate interventions injury. The clinical practicum provides opportunity for application of nursing

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 194 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG care in institutional and community agent in shaping health care for the violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, gang settings. Three one-hour lectures and future is explored. Two hours of lecture behavior, death investigation, victims’ three three-hour laboratories per week. per week and 45 hours of clinical advocacy and courtroom dynamics Prerequisites: NURS 312, 313/313L, experiences. Prerequisites: NURS are included. Students will experience 314/314L, 315/315L. Corequisites: NURS 403/403L, 406/406L, 407. Corequisite: forensic investigation in clinical areas. 403/403L, 407, 415. NURS 412L. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the B.S.N. program, or consent of instructor. NURS 407 Nursing Research (3) NURS 412L Senior Specialty Research with an emphasis on the Laboratory (4) NURS 420 Global Health (3) assessment of the outcomes of health Development of specialty-focused This is a multidimensional course for promotion and health care interventions. knowledge and skills in a specified area of nursing students who want to broaden Research questions relevant to clinical interest. Knowledge and skills from basic their understanding of health care in the practice are developed, with projects and upper-division general education global community The course involves being completed the following semester. and nursing disciplines are integrated pre-trip seminars, travel to a country of Prerequisite: STAT 200. Corequisites: when implementing increasingly focus and post-trip sessions. Attendance NURS 403/403L, NURS 406/406L, NURS complex roles to deliver quality nursing is required at all sessions. Level Two 415. care to individuals and groups in a nursing preparation recommended. focused clinical area. Prerequisites: NURS The pre-trip seminars are conducted NURS 408 Health Information Systems (3) 403/403L, 406/406L, 407. Corequisites: by the lead faculty and guest speakers. Explores the use of information systems NURS 411/411L, 415, 416. Students will prepare and present on in health care and nursing practice. topics during the seminars and will have Examines current trends and issues in NURS 415 Business of Health Care (2) opportunities to develop leadership skills. using, designing, and implementing Appraisal of socio-economical factors Within the focus country, students will health care information systems, as they challenge the health care travel as a group, meeting local health healthcare information management, professional’s ability to provide quality care professionals, student nurses, and decision support and knowledge care. Prerequisites: NURS 403/403L, nursing faculty. Students will volunteer management applications in the 406/406L, 407. alongside local providers, delivering care context of challenges facing healthcare within their scope of practice and the organizations today. Explores legal NURS 416 T ransition to Professional boundaries delineated by the Ministry of and ethical issues as related to the Nursing (2) This course will provide the student with Health. Opportunities to develop critical protection of the privacy, confidentiality, thinking skills, the nursing process and and security of information in health an exploration of core competencies for a BSN. These four core competencies culturally sensitive care will be part of the care environments, utility of wide pre-trip and in-country experiences. A array of personal health information are: Communication, Assessment, Technical Skills, and Critical Thinking. The post-trip seminar and a presentation to management and social networking the community are also mandatory. tools in communicating health-related competencies will be examined from the information. Prerequisite: permission of perspective of a graduating nurse about NURS 450 I ntensive Care Areas Specialty instructor. to transition into the professional world Practice Preparedness (3) of nursing. Overview of the dynamics of the NURS 409 Q uality Assessment and collaborative and independent nature Improvement in Health Care NURS 417 F orensic Science: The Human of nursing practice within critical care, Interface (2) Settings (3) perioperative, and emergency nursing. Review of outcomes-based quality Introduces the principles of forensic science as they relate to care of Commonalities of practice areas will assessment and improvement methods. be explored within the context of the Focuses on techniques of measuring individuals experiencing events which require intervention from both the legal nursing process. Includes recognizing quality of care, customer satisfaction, and analyzing pertinent diagnostic and safety. Implementation of quality and health care systems. Integrates concepts from health care, psychology, data and physical and psychosocial management programs, and creating a assessment data; identifying common culture supporting adherence to best sociology, criminology used to clinically investigate crimes against humans. patient health problems and practices and standards. Prerequisite: interventions; and determining patient permission of instructor. Focuses on the unique knowledge and attributes that health care professionals outcomes. Prerequisite to the in-depth specialty practice courses. NURS 411 Nursing Leadership (2) contribute to multidisciplinary forensic NURS 411L Nursing Leadership investigation. Addresses various aspects NURS 480 B asic Concepts in Palliative Laboratory (1) of forensic investigation including role Care (3) Leadership and management theory of the forensic scientist in working Provides basic theory about the practice are utilized in the development of the with the victim and the perpetrator, of hospice and palliative care with focus characteristics of a nurse leader. The role wound identification and collection of on the consequences of progressive, of the professional nurse as a change evidence. Specific areas of domestic predictable disease, providing attention

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 195 to the whole person and family, and tools in communicating health-related pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, using scientific practice in developing information. Prerequisite: Bachelor of contraindications and precautions, treatment for pain and symptoms. Science in Nursing. adverse effects, and drug interactions) Explores assessment, advanced presented. Patient variables (health communication skills, responses to NURS 503 Organizational Leadership (3) status, lifespan and gender, lifestyle, loss, advance care planning, symptom Utilizes leadership and management diet, and habits, environment, and management, and cultural and ethical theory and application to develop skills or culture) and their use in accurate issues. the understanding and implementation of patient assessment in drug therapy change. Components of the course include presented. Emphasizes importance NURS 495 Independent Study (1-4) leadership theory and models, change of nursing management in drug theory and models, project management therapy (maximizing therapeutic effect, NURS 496 Topics (1-3) and systems theory, financial management, minimizing adverse effects, and patient organizational culture, and continuous and family education). Foundation NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations (3) process improvement. Focuses on the critical components knowledge of basic pharmacology of contemporary nursing knowledge, necessary for advanced prescriptive NURS 504 Health Policy (3) authority in the State of Colorado. including concepts, statements, Prepares students to analyze policy metaparadigms, philosophies, conceptual Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science in issues, enhance their political knowledge Nursing. models, and theories. Evaluates the and skills, and prepare for leadership variety of ways to organize nursing roles in health policy-making. Cultivates NURS 527 A dvanced Health Assessment knowledge and explore the implications understanding of political and economic (3) of their application. Through the clinical forces related to nursing and health care Focused and comprehensive health application of the course content, delivery. Develops skills in influencing assessment of clients across the lifespan. students examine the use of theory policy decisions related to health care, Includes diverse populations, biological, and nursing knowledge in professional strategic partnerships, lobbying, use of psychological, sociological, spiritual, and environments. media, and working with communities cultural aspects. Diagnostic reasoning in today’s changing health care emphasized as the primary means of NURS 501 Nursing Research Methods (3) environment. Prerequisite: Bachelor of collecting and analyzing data from Provides an introduction to advanced Science in Nursing. client history, physical examination, and research concepts and methodologies. diagnostic procedures. Prerequisite: It will explore the application of research NURS 505 Quality Assessment and Bachelor of Science in Nursing. to evidence-based practice as well as a Improvement in Health Care broader scope of application to a variety Settings (3) NURS 530 Chronic Illness of nursing research projects. Application Review of outcomes-based quality Management (3) of statistical concepts in data analysis assessment and improvement methods. Provides a framework for competency in and use of PASW computerized data Focuses on techniques of measuring chronic illness and disease which now analysis will assist the student to evaluate quality of care, customer satisfaction, accounts for a large percentage of the research findings and application to and safety. Implementation of quality nation’s health care costs. Introduction nursing practice. Prerequisite: Bachelor of management programs, and creating a to the prevalence of chronic disease Science in Nursing. culture supporting adherence to best and its impact on the individual, family, practices and standards. community, and society is explored. NURS 502 H ealth Information Systems Explores nursing’s role in prevention (3) NURS 525 P athophysiologic Concepts and intervention of specific medical Explores the use of information systems (3) diseases, and psychosocial aspects of in health care and nursing practice. Advanced concepts in chronic illness and disability. Prerequisite: Examines current trends and issues in pathophysiological process and disease/ Bachelor of Science in Nursing. using, designing, and implementing disorder management. For the advanced heath care information systems, practice nurse. Includes evidenced- NURS 535 H ealth Promotion and Disease healthcare information management, based practice in assessment, disease Prevention (3) decision support and knowledge management, diagnostic testing and Concentrates on the theories and management applications in the treatment of selected body systems and principles involved in the planning and context of challenges facing healthcare disease processes across the lifespan. implementation of nursing interventions organizations today. Explores legal appropriate for health promotion and ethical issues as related to the NURS 526 Pharmac ology for Advanced and disease prevention with diverse protection of the privacy, confidentiality, Nurse Practitioners (3) populations across the life span. Focus is Major drug classifications and the and security of information in health on wellness in children, adults and elderly nursing management required care environments, utility of wide emphasizing family-centered care that for drug therapy. Core drug array of personal health information incorporates screening, teaching, and knowledge (pharmacotherapeutics, management and social networking health counseling with strong health

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 196 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG promotion focus across settings. Health NURS 595 Independent Study (1-3) NURS 603 Primary Care of the Elderly (2) promotion and disease prevention Primary care of older adults with complex strategies to reduce health disparities NURS 600 F amily Nurse Practitioner geriatric conditions and issues impacting with an emphasis on national health Issues (2) care across a variety of settings. goals will be addressed. Prerequisite: Roles and responsibilities of the nurse Preparations to meet the medical, bio- Bachelor of Science in Nursing. practitioner in augmenting client health psychosocial and functional needs for and health services. Examines the history the aging person with acute and chronic NURS 540 Teaching Strategies for the of nurse practitioners, client relations illness through appropriate assessment, Nurse Educator (3) and legal and ethical considerations. diagnostic and management activities. Theories, principles, and application Interdisciplinary teams, health policy Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science in of evidence-based teaching strategies formation and political strategies Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing that promote proficiency in teaching considered. Professional involvement and or completion of 500-level coursework. and learning. Learning environment practice, leadership, collaboration and Corequisite: NURS 630. development that supports nursing teamwork in various settings examined. student success across a variety of Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science in NURS 610 C linical Practicum – Child and settings from clinical to classroom. Nursing, or completion of 500-level Adolescent (2) Integration of didactic learning with an coursework. Application of theoretical concepts educational practicum. Prerequisite: of primary care in care of children Bachelor of Science in Nursing. NURS 601 P rimary Care of the Child/ and adolescents. Integration of Adolescent (3) health assessment, pathophysiology, NURS 545 Curriculum Design/Evaluation Focuses on primary care of the child pharmacology, health promotion and (3) and adolescent, beginning with the disease prevention, chronic and acute Functional approaches to curriculum newborn. Growth, nutrition, well client illness management in clinical practice as design and educational programs in care and guidance, assessment, diagnosis an advanced practice nurse. Prerequisite: nursing. Philosophical foundations and management of acute and chronic Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of nursing education and curriculum conditions in the client population. of Science in Nursing or completion of development. Models for curriculum Culture and ethnic considerations, child 500-level coursework. Corequisite: NURS design and development of educational development, family, environment 601. program models with the context of theories and concepts integrated organizational mission and philosophy, throughout the didactic and clinical NURS 620 Clinical Practicum – Adult (2) philosophical or theoretical frameworks, components. Prerequisite: Bachelor of Application of theoretical concepts of and desired learning outcomes and Science in Nursing, Master of Science primary care in care of adults. Integration competencies. Prerequisite: Bachelor of in Nursing or completion of 500-level of health assessment, pathophysiology, Science in Nursing degree. coursework. corequisite: NURS 610. pharmacology, health promotion and disease prevention, chronic and acute NURS 575 Capstone Project (3) NURS 602  Primary Care of the Adult (3) illness management in clinical practice. Development of capstone project Principles and issues relevant to Advance Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science in demonstrates synthesis of graduate work Practice Nursing in Primary Care. Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and establishes groundwork for future Emphasis on health care management or completion of 500-level coursework. scholarship. Capstone project reflects the of adult patient with stable chronic Corequisite: NURS 602. student’s clinical practice setting with a and/or multiple complex problems selected population group. Culminates utilizing clinical relevant research and NURS 625 S tatistics for Health Sciences in a formal paper and presentation in an guidelines. Primary health care, including (3) academic setting. Prerequisite: Bachelor wellness counseling of healthy adults, Basic knowledge and skills to effectively of Science in Nursing degree. management of acute and chronic use biostatistics in different research conditions of adults, referral of conditions design and data analysis, and to NURS 580 Thesis (3) requiring management by other understand articles in related professional Development of thesis. Synthesis of health professionals, and community journals. Includes choosing correct graduate work. Establishes groundwork implications related to the health of statistical methods and study designs for future scholarship. Topic chosen adults explored. Examines evidenced- in nursing research and practice; for thesis should reflect the student’s based trends and issues in the health descriptive statistics; probability and nursing practice setting with a selected of adults. Explores health promotion probability distributions; estimation population group. Thesis project research. Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science and hypothesis testing, simple linear involves original research. Culminates in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing regression, introduction to analysis of in dissemination of findings in a formal or completion of 500-level coursework. variance and an introduction to statistical paper to be submitted for publication. Corequisite: NURS 620. software packages. Prerequisite: Bachelor Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science in of Science in Nursing, Master of Science Nursing degree. in Nursing or completion of 500-level coursework.

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NURS 626 Epidemiology (3) NURS: 650 F amily Nurse Practitioner setting with a selected population Explores epidemiological concepts and Preceptorship (4) group. Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science biostatistics as applied to public health Focuses in-depth on the role of an in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing problems. Advanced clinical nursing FNP in the client-care setting with or completion of 500-level coursework; practice. Emphasizes principles and selected populations. Experience NURS 650, NURS 700. methods of epidemiologic investigation, designed to integrate and synthesize appropriate summaries and displays preceding clinical and didactic course NURS 760 C apstone: EBP II (3) of data. Use of classical statistical knowledge and skills, development of Culmination of scholarly project includes approaches in measuring health of the clinical management, leadership and translation of research into practice and population. Explores understanding interdisciplinary collaborative practice the dissemination and integration of the causes of poor health, screening, skills at an advanced competency level. new knowledge into clinical practice as developing interventions for disease The role of an advanced practice nurse an advanced practice nurse. Evidence prevention and control. Improving with an approved preceptor/mentor is generated through a practice setting health and reducing health disparities. is practiced. Prerequisite: Bachelor of to guide improvements in practice and Translating evidence into practice and Science in Nursing, Master of Science outcomes of care. Prerequisite: Bachelor evaluating the impact of policies and in Nursing or completion of 500-level of Science in Nursing, Master of Science programs. Includes dynamic behavior coursework; NURS 601, NURS 602, NURS in Nursing or completion of 500-level of disease, usage of rates, ratios and 603, NURS 610, NURS 620, NURS 630, coursework; NURS 750. proportions, epidemiologic study NURS 640. designs for investigating associations OFFICE TECHNOLOGY: NURS 660 T ransition into Advance Nurse between risk factors and disease ADMINISTRATIVE (OFAD) outcomes. Criteria for causal inferences, Practice (2) Focuses on concepts of scope of practice, legal and ethical issues. Application OFAD 101 Office Bookkeeping (3) professional growth, role development, of epidemiology in health services, Keeping records in a professional office theory guided and evidenced based screening, genetics, and environment or bookkeeping in a small retail firm. practice for the advanced practice nurse. policy presented. Prerequisite: Bachelor Fundamental bookkeeping principles Professional involvement and practice, of Science in Nursing, Master of Science including a strong basic knowledge leadership, teamwork, collaboration, in Nursing or completion of 500-level of terms, concepts, and procedures. legal, ethical, reimbursement, and role coursework. Includes opening through closing acquisition issues for advanced practice a set of books for both service and nurses. Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science NURS 630 Clinical Practicum – Elderly (2) merchandising industries. Application of theoretical concepts in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing of primary care in care of elderly. or completion of 500-level coursework; OFAD 103 Keyboarding (1) Integration of health assessment, NURS 650. For students who have minimal (less pathophysiology, pharmacology, health than 30 wpm) or no keyboarding promotion and disease prevention, NURS 700 Evidence-Based Practice (3) skills. Introduces the touch method chronic and acute illness management Preparations to discover, examine, and of keyboarding Emphasizes learning in clinical practice. Prerequisite: Bachelor evaluate knowledge, theories, and the alpha numeric keyboard, proper of Science in Nursing, Master of Science creative approaches to health care. technique, and speed control. in Nursing or completion of 500-level Skills to: a) identify research questions coursework. in practice; b) critically evaluate existing OFAD 105 Ten Key (2) practice in the light of research findings; Introduction to numeric input in the NURS 640 C linical Practicum – Rural and c) develop strategies to incorporate fields of data entry, bookkeeping, Health Care (1) research findings into the clinical setting. accounting, administrative assisting, Application of theoretical concepts of Prerequisite: Bachelor of Science in insurance, banking, finance, and other primary care in care of rural population Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing areas. Teaches the numeric keyboard groups. Integration of health assessment, or completion of 500-level coursework; while focusing on touch control. pathophysiology, pharmacology, health NURS 650. Emphasizes the development of speed promotion and disease prevention, and accuracy using proper technique. chronic and acute illness management in NURS 750 C apstone: EBP I (3) clinical practice. Explores unique aspects Focuses on initial development OFAD 118 I ntroduction to PC of advanced practice nursing role in of scholarly project proposal that Applications (3) rural health care. Prerequisite: Bachelor demonstrates synthesis of doctoral Introduces basic computer terminology, of Science in Nursing, Master of Science work and lays the groundwork for file management, and PC system in Nursing or completion of 500-level future scholarship. Emphasis on use of components. Provides an overview of coursework; NURS 601, NURS 602, NURS evidence to improve either practice or office application software including 603, NURS 610, NURS 620, NURS 630. patient outcomes. Scholarly project word processing, spreadsheets, reflects clinical immersion in a practice databases, and presentation graphics.

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Includes the use of a web browser to office management. Emphasizes OFAD 221 V oice Recognition and access the internet. decision making and application of Business Editing (3) office administration skills. Includes Voice recognition technology in office OFAD 120 Internet and Social personnel problems, costs, control and simulations. Provides proofreading Networking (3) management of office work, methods of techniques and reviews spelling, Enhance knowledge of the Internet recognizing and solving communication punctuation, grammar, and word and its resources. Individuals learn problems, ethics, human relations, time processing formats on various types terminology in dealing with the Internet. management, conflict management, and of business documents. Creation of Including data mining, search strings, multitasking techniques. business documents using appropriate privacy and copyright issues with business vocabulary. information retrieved from the Internet. OFAD 202 Records Management (3) Explores searching the Internet and Lecture/lab designed to provide OFAD 244 Legal Office Procedures (3) credibility of information obtained with instruction, principles, organization and Procedures found in legal offices searches. Emphasis on the impact, tools, procedures for alphabetic, numeric, either in the private or public sectors. trends, issues and dangers of social subject, and geographic records Fundamental office procedures found in networking for business. Covers the management systems. Covers both both general and specialized law offices. most popular social networks. Develop manual and computerized methods for Simulates a typical legal office with the plans, procedures, and processes for classifying, indexing, coding, storing, and tasks and responsibilities performed in a using social networking effectively and retrieving records. Emphasizes hands-on legal office environment and shows how efficiently in business. Helps students records management through the use of these tasks relate to the court system. understand social media and social simulations. business innovation. OFAD 248 Coding and Insurance OFAD 206 Computerized Billing (3) OFAD 125 Multimedia and Web Editing Bookkeeping (3) Introduces coding with an ultimate goal (3) Essential coverage of computerized to present a clear picture of medical Equipment and technical considerations bookkeeping using current software procedures and services performed used in multimedia productions and applications. Introduction to software (CPT codes), correlating the diagnosis, the multimedia professions. Focuses and basic accounting principles are symptom, complaint or condition (ICD-9 on scanners, printers, digital cameras, included along with vendor and codes), thus establishing the medical and computers. Experiences in how customer transactions. Online banking necessity required for third-party technology is utilized for input and features, creation of customer files from reimbursement. Covers how to abstract output in production and design inception, physical inventory, payroll, information from medical records and projects. Overview of software and and sales tax are covered. Management code for insurance billing purposes. basic design principles will be explored. of other current assets and long-term Focuses on health insurance claim form Provides tools used for designing and liabilities; preparation of estimates, use CMS-1500 insurance billing requirements building web pages. Use of images, time tracking features, and classification/ for private insurance and managed forms, frames, tables, templates, and organization of data. General journal care, Medicaid, Medicare, and Worker’s layers will be covered. entries as well as report and template Compensation. Includes credit and customization are covered. Prerequisite: collection practices as well as tracking OFAD 147 Medical Terminology (4) OFAD 101 or instructor approval. reimbursement. Basic medical terminology as applied to major systems of the body and related OFAD 208 Spreadsheets (3) OFAD 249 Medical Office Procedures (3) diseases. Includes special applications Introduction to skills required to create Introduction to office administration related to medical practice with emphasis and use effective and professional duties specifically used in medical offices. on spelling. looking spreadsheets in a business Ethical issues related to a medical office environment using a spreadsheet setting, interpersonal communications, OFAD 153 Word Processing I (3) application. Topics include fundamentals appointment scheduling, patient Lecture/Lab. Preparation of business of spreadsheet design, application reception and registration, health documents. Processing software. toolbars, creating and saving worksheets information and management, medical Increased document preparation and workbooks, entering and using billing, health insurance, financial proficiency includes beginning to formulas and functions, formatting management, and human resource advanced word processing techniques. and printing, working with multiple management. Prerequisites: OFAD 153 Prerequisite: ability to keyboard at a workbooks, creating charts, managing and OFAD 253, sophomore standing, or minimum of 30 wpm or OFAD 103. lists (spreadsheet databases), creating consent of instructor. and using templates, an introduction OFAD 201 Office Procedures (3) to simple macros, security, importing OFAD 253 Word Processing II (3) Developments, technology, procedures, and exporting, and sharing spreadsheet Lecture/lab provides instruction organization, and contemporary information. in intermediate to advanced word terminology used in effective processing techniques. 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OFAD 153 and provides more hands-on OFAD 293 Cooperative Education (3-12) include the concept of God, arguments experience with the more advanced Practical uses of educational training for the existence of God, the relationship features of word processing. Reviews and through the joint supervision of a between faith and reason, the validity of expands word processing knowledge participating employer and a designated religious experience, pluralism in world to increase proficiency and includes faculty member. Provides the opportunity religions, etc. merging, sorting, tables, forms, outlines, to supplement course work with practical tables of contents, graphics, charts, work experience related to educational PHIL 150 Philosophical Forum (3) newsletters, document enhancements, program and occupational objectives. Engagement with, and confrontation reports, styles, macros, templates, and Prerequisite: sophomore standing. of, issues that challenge the community wizards. Prerequisite: OFAD 153. of Grand Junction and the Western OFAD 295 Independent Study (1-3) Slope. Forum for speakers with varying OFAD 267 P resentation, Publishing, positions and perspectives on economic, and Desk Top Management OFAD 296 Topics (1-3) environmental, legal, social and cultural Software (3) controversies. The deeper philosophical Focuses on delivery and integration of PHILOSOPHY (PHIL) implications will remain in the forefront presentation software. Introduces the of the discussion. development of presentation graphics ü PHIL 105 Critical Thinking-GTAH3 materials including graphs, charts, (3) PHIL 275 Introduction To Logic (3) illustrations, and diagrams. Emphasizes An introduction to the basic skill of critical Forms of reasoning, valid versus effective communication through reading, writing, and thinking needed for fallacious inferences, strong versus weak computerized presentations. Covers the intelligent, responsible, and ethical arguments. Designed to increase the features of software and effective construction of one’s worldview, conduct ability to reason clearly and correctly presentation techniques. Concepts and of one’s life, and execution of one’s and follow and critically evaluate the applications for desktop publishing civic duties. Topics include: argument reasoning of others. emphasizing page layout and design identification, analysis, and construction; PHIL 296 Topics (1-3) with techniques for incorporating text avoidance of common fallacies of and graphics and final production of reasoning; common deceptive and PHIL 340 The Examined Life (3) printed documents. Introduces the manipulative uses of language; writing functions used in desktop management Introduction to practical philosophy. The clear and convincing argumentative application of philosophy to one’s life in software including e-mail, calendaring, essays. contacts, tasks, journals, and notes. order to work toward the Socratic goal of living well. Topics covered include: ü PHIL 110 I ntroduction to Socratic thought, wisdom, Epicureanism, OFAD 269 Database Management (3) Philosophy-GTAH3 (3) Stoicism, mindfulness, limiting beliefs, Introduction to skills required to Includes an orientation to the discipline’s acceptance of reality, the self, creativity. create and use effective databases in a concerns, branches, major schools of business environment using a database thought, and its relationship to other PHIL 350 The Roots of Western application. Topics include definition of disciplines; a selection of readings from databases, basics of relational database Thought (3) philosophers of all historical periods Examination of the development of design, designing a relational database, concerning major philosophical issues; Western philosophical thought from and using a database application to practice in the process of philosophical its inception with the ancient Hellenes, implement a database. reasoning, the critical analysis of through the Hellenistic and Medieval philosophical writings, and the most periods. Philosophical methods and OFAD 291 Service Learning (3-12) basic rules of logic. Practical use of educational training problems will be discussed, including (but not limited to): ontology, through joint supervision of a PHIL 120 Ethics (3) participating business organization and metaphysics, political and social thought, Introduction to theoretical and applied death and the afterlife, the influence of a designated faculty member. Provides Ethics. Major moral philosophers and opportunity to supplement course philosophy on Christianity, the nature moral theories surveyed. A general of the universe, human nature, the work with practical work experience approach to moral reasoning developed. either on a paid or volunteer basis. development of science and logic. Development applied to discussion Philosophers covered will include: The Work experience must be related to of recent writings on such issues as educational program/occupational Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, euthanasia, abortion, war, capital Augustine, Aquinas, and others. objectives and requires designated punishment, affirmative action, etc. faculty member approval. Provides PHIL 395 Independent Study (1-3) opportunity of service to the community PHIL 130 Philosophy of Religion (3) utilizing knowledge and skills acquired. Exploration of fundamental issues PHIL 396 Topics (1-3) Prerequisite: final semester or sophomore regarding religion and examination of the standing. principles of inquiry involved in dealing with such issues philosophically. Issues

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PHIL 410 Major Thinker (3) Minimal use of elementary mathematics momentum and energy conservation. In-depth study of one or two important such as basic arithmetic, fractions, square The mathematics of calculus and vectors philosophers. Attention paid to their roots and powers. The course is designed is used throughout. For majors in the historical, cultural, scientific, and for students in all majors. sciences and engineering. Prerequisite: philosophical contexts. Examination of MATH 151 or MATH 135 (either may be relevant portions of the philosophers’ ü PHYS 105 Ph ysics by Inquiry-GTSC1 taken concurrently). works, arguments, objections, and (2) responses. Additional emphasis on ü PHYS 105L Ph ysics by Inquiry ü PHYS 132 E lectromagnetism and the place of the thinkers in the “great Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) Optics-GTSC1 (4) conversation” that is philosophy via Laboratory-based introduction to physics ü PHYS 132L E lectromagnetism and related primary and secondary texts. and the physical sciences. Starting Optics Laboratory-GTSC1 from their own observations, students (1) PHIL 420 Major Works (3) develop basic physical concepts, Calculus-based introduction to classical In-depth study of the major and classic use and interpret different forms of electromagnetism and optics. Detailed philosophical works of a philosopher scientific representations, and construct coverage of electrostatics, electric circuits, or philosophical school. Emphasis on explanatory models with predictive magnetism, electromagnetic waves, the historical, cultural, scientific, and capabilities. Topics include properties of geometrical optics and wave optics. The philosophic contexts of the works. matter, heat and temperature, magnets, mathematics of calculus and vectors Examination of texts as they are electric circuits, motion, and astronomy. is used throughout. For majors in the situated in the philosopher’s or school’s Recommended for prospective K-12 sciences and engineering. Requires a opus, along with important influential teachers. mastery of the foundations of classical writings preceding and following works mechanics as covered in PHYS 131. influenced by these texts. ü PHYS 111 G eneral Physics-GTSC1 Prerequisites: PHYS 131/131L, and MATH (4) 152 or MATH 136 (either may be taken PHIL 430 Major Issues (3) ü PHYS 111L G eneral Physics concurrently). In-depth study of major and classic Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) philosophical issues, with attention Algebra-based introduction to classical PHYS 196 Topics (1-3) to their historical development, mechanics and thermodynamics. major contributors, and seminal texts. Includes mechanics, energy PHYS 230 Intermediate Dynamics (3) Exploration of the important works and momentum conservation, Intermediate treatment of the dynamics surrounding the issue and important thermodynamics and statistical of physical systems not covered in objections and responses, with a view to mechanics. Extensive use of high school Fundamental Mechanics sequence. developing individual positions. level algebra and trigonometry, mastery Includes fluid dynamics, classical waves of these subjects required. PHYS 111, and vibrations, thermodynamics, and PHIL 495 Independent Study (1-3) 111L is a prerequisite for PHYS 112, relativistic kinematics and dynamics. 112L. Four lectures and one two-hour Prerequisites: PHYS 132, 132L, and MATH PHIL 496 Topics (1-3) laboratory per week. 253 (may be taken concurrently). PHYS 231 Modern Physics (3) PHYSICS (PHYS) ü PHYS 112 G eneral Physics-GTSC1 (4) Quantum theory in the examination of blackbody radiation, the photoelectric ü ü PHYS 112L G eneral Physics PHYS 100 C oncepts of Physics- effect, and energy quantization of atoms. GTSC2 (3) Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) The Schrodinger wave equation used Introduction to physics. Emphasis on Algebra-based introduction to to analyze simple quantum systems. basic conceptual aspects described classical electromagnetism, optics and Applications drawn from atomic and in everyday language. Elementary modern physics. Detailed coverage of molecular physics, solid-state physics, mathematics introduced when necessary. electrostatics, electric circuits, magnetism, nuclear and high-energy physics, and Survey of topics such as Newtonian electromagnetic waves, geometrical astrophysics. Prerequisites: PHYS 132, mechanics, heat and energy, electricity optics and wave optics. Topics from 132L, and MATH 253 (may be taken and magnetism, light, relativity and modern and atomic physics. Extensive concurrently). quantum theory. The course is designed use of algebra and trigonometry. Prerequisites: PHYS 111, 111L. for majors outside of the sciences. PHYS 251 Electronics for Scientists (3) This laboratory-based course is an ü PHYS 131 Fundamental Mechanics (4) PHYS 101 E lementary Astronomy- introduction to electric circuits and GTSC2 (3) ü PHYS 131L F undamental Mechanics Laboratory-GTSC1 (1) electronic instrumentation for scientists. Introduction to astronomy. Survey of Calculus-based introduction to classical The course will emphasize a practical topics such as observational astronomy, mechanics. Detailed coverage of the approach, with students learning about the solar system, stellar astronomy, kinematics and dynamics of linear and electronic devices and how they work by galaxies and cosmology. Emphasis on rotational motion using Newton’s Laws, building working circuits. Topics explored basic conceptual aspects of astronomy.

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 201 include passive circuits with resistors time evolution using Dirac formalism PHYS 422 Quantum Theory II (3) and capacitors, including applications for discrete and continuous systems. Continuation of PHYS 321. Central in electric filtering; diodes; transistors; Connection between Dirac formalism forces, complete derivation of op-amps; timing circuits; feedback and wave mechanics established and hydrogen atom energy levels and and amplification; and digital circuits. Schrodinger equation solved in various eigenstates. Perturbation theory and Prerequisites: PHYS 132 or PHYS 112. context. Includes particles in piecewise other approximately techniques. square potentials, tunneling, the harmonic Other selected topics include: multiple PHYS 252 Intermediate Laboratory (2) oscillator, angular momentum, and the quantum systems, scattering, quantum Students will perform experiments in hydrogen atom. Introduces linear algebra foundations. Prerequisite: PHYS 321. optics, acoustics, and modern physics. for describing quantum physics and Experiments will include measuring the uses techniques for solving differential PHYS 432 Nuclear and High-Energy speed of light, measuring the wavelength equations. Prerequisite: PHYS 231, and Physics (3) of atomic discharge lines, X-ray MATH 260 or MATH 236. An introduction to the structure and diffraction, and measuring h/e among interactions of nuclear and subnuclear others. Emphasis will be on experimental PHYS 331 Advanced Laboratory I (2) particles. Topics include a survey of the design, use of modern instrumentation, A course in experiment design and intrinsic properties of nuclei, descriptions preparation of lab reports, and data technique. Laboratory investigations of various nuclear models, studies of analysis. Prerequisite: PHYS 231 (may be provide experience in instrumental radioactivity and nuclear reactions, and taken concurrently). methods, planning of laboratory an overview of the technologies of high- experiments, data analysis, preparation energy accelerators and detectors. The PHYS 296 Topics (1-3) of reports according to professional course concludes with an introduction standards, and training in the use to the properties and structures of PHYS 301 Introduction to Space of computers for data acquisition elementary particles and discussions of Science (3) and processing. The experiments current developments in unified theories The history and technology of space and to be performed are selected from of force. Prerequisite: PHYS 322. space exploration. Designed for all non- electromagnetism, atomic, nuclear, and science majors, particularly prospective solid-state physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 252. PHYS 441 Solid State Physics (3) K-12 teachers. Topics include: the solar The structure and properties of solids. system, space environments, space travel, PHYS 342 Advanced Dynamics (3) This course is a study of the crystalline satellite communication and design. In-depth survey of classical mechanics. state of matter, including crystal Prerequisites: junior or senior status, or Includes advanced treatment of classifications, vibrational specific heats, consent of instructor. Newtonian dynamics, conservation laws, electronic structures and conductivities, gravitation, and the Lagrangian and cohesive energies, magnetic PHYS 311 Electromagnetic Theory I (3) Hamiltonian formulations of dynamics. susceptibility, and optical properties. A mature study of electromagnetic Topics may include central force Prerequisite: PHYS 321. fields. Electrostatics and magnetostatics motion, systems of particles, non-inertial presented. Special techniques, including reference frames, rigid bodies, oscillating PHYS 471 Computational Physics I (3) multipole expansion of fields, analyzed. systems, couple oscillations, and waves Foundation covering application of Electrodynamics introduced leading to on a string. Prerequisites: PHYS 230, and computational techniques to solving Maxwell’s equations. Prerequisites: PHYS MATH 260 or MATH 236. physical problems. Numerical integration, 132/132L, and MATH 260 or MATH 236. differentiation, and matrix methods PHYS 362 S tatistical and Thermal covered. Techniques of solving various PHYS 312 Electromagnetic Theory II (3) Physics (3) regular and partial differential equations A continuation of PHYS 311. Study of the physics of bulk matter. studied. Application of discretizing Electromagnetic waves were studied. Fundamental principles of quantum numerical solutions for physical problems Wave propagation in conducting and mechanics, statistical methods stressed. Turning analytic problems nonconducting media is examined, along employed to explain macroscopic into solvable computational schemes. with dispersion phenomena. Waveguides laws of thermodynamics to make Data analysis and visualization covered. are examined. Electromagnetic field detailed predictions about the large- Familiarity with any programming radiation is studied, both for point scale behavior of solids, liquids, and language is required. For any Science, charges and for arbitrary charge gases. Applications: specific heat of Engineering or Mathematics major. distributions. The course concludes with solids, thermal radiation, magnetic Prerequisites: MATH 260 or MATH 236, a reformulation of electromagnetism susceptibilities, stellar equilibrium, and and PHYS 311 or PHYS 321 or PHYS 342 in the language of special relativity. chemical reactions. Prerequisites: PHYS or instructor permission. Prerequisite: PHYS 311. 230, PHYS 231, and MATH 260. PHYS 472 Computational Physics II (3) PHYS 321 Quantum Theory I (3) PHYS 395 Independent Study (1-3) A continuation of PHYS 471. Advanced Quantum physics foundation. Includes topics in solving partial differential quantum states, measurements, and PHYS 396 Topics (1-3) equations and simulating physical

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 202 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG systems using modern parallel computing POLITICAL the modern chief executive and a brief covered. MPI, Open MP, and their SCIENCE (POLS) comparison with the executive officer of applications to physical phenomenon on other national states. Linux workstations covered. Introduction ü POLS 101 American Government- to translating analytical problems GTSS1 (3) POLS 328 The American Court System (3) to parallel computational problems. Structures and functions of the American The American court system; local, state, Prerequisites: PHYS 471. political system and the constitutional and national, including consideration development of federalism and of the impact of prosecutors, defense PHYS 473 Modern Optics (3) separation of powers. Also, citizen personnel, judges, and other factors Modern principles and applications of participation and influence in politics, the on court decisions and the criminal optics. Optical models including ray congress, presidency and the supreme justice system. Prerequisites: POLS 101 and wave optics presented. Laws of court, and public policy including civil or CRMJ 201. reflection and refraction studied within rights and liberties. the context of both ray and wave optics. POLS 342 Public Administration (3) Reflectivity and transmissivity analyzed. POLS 196 Topics: (1-3) Superposition and wave interference Historical development of public discussed. Diffraction theory used in a POLS 201 Introduction to Politics (3) administration including organizational number of applications. Concludes with Introduction to major questions and structure and theory, management, an introduction to lasers and quantum tools of investigation in the study of personnel administration, fiscal optics. Prerequisite: PHYS 311. politics. Examination of classical political administration, and administrative theorists and modern scientific methods. responsibility. PHYS 482 Senior Research (1) Additional emphasis on tracing the POLS 351 P ublic and Elite Political An individual research project, supervised evolution of the discipline. Prerequisite: by a faculty advisor. The project may be Behavior (3) POLS 101, must be taken within first 60 Behavior of elected officials and the selected from experimental or theoretical credit hours. topics. The research concludes with a public in American politics. Achievement formal report written in accordance with POLS 236 State and Local of power and how actions are evaluated The American Institute of Physics Style Government (3) via public opinion and voting. Role of Manual. This course is normally taken Theories of state formation and media in American politics explored. twice in the senior year. constitutional development, city Prerequisite: POLS 101. charters, county government, and POLS 352 Religion and Politics (3) PHYS 487 Structured Research (1-3) intergovernmental relations with The interactions of religion and politics Physics research under the direct emphasis on Colorado. guidance of a faculty member. Designed in the United States, several liberal for advanced junior and senior level ü POLS 261 C omparative Politics- democracies and within international students. Prerequisite: permission of GTSS1 (3) relations. instructor. Introduction to conceptual models and POLS 365 E uropean Government and approaches utilized in the comparative Politics (3) PHYS 494 Seminar (1) study of nations and their politics. Study of the political systems of Great A forum for topical physics. In this Application of these theories to selected seminar, faculty and students of physics Britain, France, Federal Republic of democratic, communist, and developing Germany, Russia and other European participate in both informal discussions political systems. and formal oral presentations of selected nations. Emphasized political development, the sources, processes topics of scientific interest, including POLS 324 The Legislative Process (3) significant current advances and crucial A study of the legislative process and evaluation of policy making, and historical developments. The course emphasizing the U.S. Congress. Attention contemporary challenges facing these may be repeated for a maximum of four will be given to the development of countries. Prerequisites: POLS 261 or semester hours of credit. Prerequisite: legislative systems, the operation of HIST 102. upper division standing and consent of legislatures, the election of legislators, POLS 370 World Politics (3) instructor. and a comparison with legislatures in Introduction to the structures, processes, other national states. Prerequisites: POLS and behaviors shaping the world political PHYS 495 Independent Study (1-3) 101 or consent of instructor. configuration. Emphasis on states and PHYS 496 Topics (1-3) POLS 325 The American Presidency (3) their interactions as well as non-state A study of the American chief executive, actors and the cultural, economic PHYS 596 Topics: (1-3) emphasizing the historical development and environmental forces, issues, and of the office, the various functions of resources influencing an emerging world community.

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POLS 396 Topics (1-3) POLS 499 Internship (1-15) test instruments in troubleshooting, May be performed in areas relating to working on real-world projects. Lecture/ POLS 412 Constitutional Law (3) Political Science, such as civic, political, lab format. Prerequisite: PROS 117. An analysis of American constitutional or legal. Internships will be conducted in theory as articulated by the U. S. Supreme Mesa County, the Denver legislature, or in PROS 120 Process Technology I: Court. Specific topics include the nature Washington, D.C. Prerequisites: junior or Equipment (4) of judicial review, the powers of the senior standing. Provides an overview or introduction President and Congress, federalism, into the field of equipment within the regulation of commerce and the PROCESS the process industry. This course will development of substantive due process. introduce many process industry-related Prerequisite: POLS 101 or consent of TECHNOLOGY (PROS) equipment concepts including purpose, instructor. components, operation, and the Process PROS 100 Introduction to Process Technician’s role for operating and Technology (3) POLS 452 P olitical Theory: Classical and troubleshooting the equipment. Medieval (3) Provides an overview or introduction into POLS 453 Political Theory: Modern (3) the field of Process Operations within PROS 130 Instrumentation (3) Study of the development of political the process industry. The course will Provides an introduction to the field theory in the Western tradition. introduce the roles and responsibilities of of instrumentation and covers process Emphasizes the teaching of main process technicians, the environment in variables and the various instruments thinkers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, which they work, and the equipment and used to sense, measure, transmit and Augustine, Aquinas, More, Machiavelli, systems in which they operate. control these variables. This course Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx. also introduces control loops and the PROS 110 Safety, Health, and Develops ideas in relation to historical elements that are found in different and cultural contexts, textual consistency, Environment (3) Provides an introduction to the field types of loops, such as controllers, and the evolving tradition of political regulators and final control elements. discourse in Western civilization. of safety, health, and environmental concerns within the process industry. The course concludes with a study of instrumentation drawings and POLS 475 A merican Foreign and Within this course, you will be introduced National Security Policy (3) to various types of plant hazards, diagrams and a unit on troubleshooting American foreign and national security safety and environmental systems and instrumentation. policy with emphasis on 1945 to the equipment, and the regulations under PROS 196 Topics: (1-3) present and beyond. Foreign and which processing plants are governed. domestic factors shaping policy, the PROS 210 Process Technology II: PROS 117 Electronics I (3) mechanisms and dynamics of policy Systems (4) making, the role of perception and Fundamentals of practical and theoretical Studies the interrelationship of process motives underlying decision and action, DC and AC circuits. Application of basic equipment and process systems: and case studies of historical crises and entry skills and analysis/verification arranging process equipment into basic contemporary debates are examined. of theoretical results. Introduces the systems; describing the purpose and basic skills required by many careers in function of specific process systems; POLS 488 En vironmental Politics and electronics and related fields. Operations Policy (3) explaining how factors affecting process and applications of basic DC and AC systems are controlled under normal An introduction to the political issues circuits consisting of resistors, capacitors, and problems associated with patterns conditions; and recognizing abnormal inductors, transformers and diodes, process conditions. In addition, it of socio-economic growth and its and introducing basic digital concepts. environmental impact at both domestic introduces the concept of system and Emphasis on common test instruments plant economics. and global levels of analysis. in troubleshooting, working on real- world and applicable projects. Lecture/ PROS 220 Process Technology III: POLS 490 S enior Seminar for Political lab format. Science (3) Operations (4) Provides an introduction to the field of Arranged tutorials and seminars with PROS 118 Electronics 2 (3) political science faculty and students, operations within the process industry. Advanced DC, AC and digital circuitry. Students will use existing knowledge of design and execution of a research Analysis and verification of theoretical project, and submission of a senior equipment, systems, and instrumentation results with practical applications. Builds to understand the operation of an entire thesis. Prerequisites: POLS 201 and senior on PROS 117 Electronics 1 and covers standing. unit. Students study concepts related advanced concepts of DC and AC circuits. to commissioning, normal startup, Includes expanded treatment of power POLS 495 Independent Study (1-3) normal operations, normal shutdown, supplies, dual-supply rectifier circuits, and turnarounds, and abnormal situations, POLS 496 Topics (1-3) Zener diode, voltage regulators. Includes as well as the Process Technician’s role digital concepts. Emphasis on common

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 204 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG in performing the tasks associated with PSYC 233 Human Growth and areas of interest will be included, e.g., these concepts within an operating unit. Development-GTSS3 (3) communication, work related issues, Developmental principles, ages and relationships. Prerequisites: PSYC 150. PROS 230 Quality in Process stages of the life span, and adjustment Technology (3) techniques. Not intended for behavioral PSYC 340 Abnormal Psychology (3) Provides an introduction to the field science majors. Concepts related to psychopathology of Quality within the Process Industry. and personality disorders including This course will introduce many process PSYC 296 Topics (1-3) functional causation, general industry-related quality concepts psychological theory, and behavior including operating consistency, PSYC 300 Health Psychology (3) deviation patterns. Prerequisite: PSYC 150, continuous improvement, plant Health and psychology are intertwined in or consent of instructor. economics, team skills and statistical a variety of ways. This course examines process control (SPC). what it means to be healthy and look PSYC 350 Psychology Of Adulthood (3) at the connection between behavior Study of principles of human PROS 292 Capstone (4) and both physical health and illness and development (biological, cognitive, Knowledge to articulate the tactical mental health and illness. Prerequisite: and social/emotional) from the latter planning functions performed within PSYC 150 or PSYC 233. part of young adulthood through late field projects. Access and apply the adulthood. Prerequisite: PSYC 150. various tactical planning tools and data PSYC 308 A pplied Ethics in Mental Health and Counseling (1) elements to supporting documentation PSYC 370 Cross-Cultural Psychology (3) Application of professional ethical including troubleshooting. Economic Survey of theory and methods in cross- principles and codes to mental health principles in costing, value, capital cultural psychology. Prerequisite: PSYC and health service settings. investment, profitability and inventory. 150. PSYC 310 Child Psychology (3) PSYC 380 Comparative Psychology (3) PSYCHOLOGY (PSYC) A study of the principles of human Study of animal behavior. Topics will development and psychology from include communication, learning, ü PSYC 150 G eneral Psychology- conception to puberty. Prerequisites: memory, intelligence and social GTSS3 (3) PSYC 150. behavior in various animal populations. Examines the fundamental principles of Prerequisite: PSYC 150. psychology. PSYC 314 Psychology Of Learning (3) Classic and modern explanations of the PSYC 395 Independent Study (1-3) PSYC 201 O rientation to the Psychology phenomena of learning in both lower Major (3) animals and humans. Classical and PSYC 396 Topics (1-3) Foundations for further study in operant conditioning covered in detail. psychology. Education and career Prerequisites: Junior or senior status; PSYC 400 Psychological Testing (3) planning. Basic information competence PSYC 201; STAT 215, PSYC 216/216L Theory, problems, methods, and and writing skills, including APA writing recommended. content of psychological measurement, format. Basic descriptive statistics, data including concepts of the purpose of reporting and graphic representation. PSYC 320 Social Psychology (3) testing, test administration and scoring, Importance of research. Applying to Social influences upon behavior with standardization, reliability, validity graduate school. Prerequisites: Declared consideration given to topics such as: test evaluation, and a survey of the psychology major or minor, PSYC 150 and social perception, attitude formation and major tests used in educational and ENGL 112. change, communication, and leadership. psychological testing. Prerequisites: PSYC Prerequisites: PSYC 150. 150 and STAT 215. PSYC 216 Resear ch Methods in Psychology (3) PSYC 330 P sychology of Adolescents PSYC 401 Sport Psychology (3) PSYC 216L Research Methods and Emerging Adulthood (3) Introduction to theories and research in Laboratory (1) Study of principles of human Sport Psychology. Includes aggression Designing, conducting, and reporting development (biological, cognitive, and and violence in sport, psychological psychological investigations. social/emotional) from puberty through characteristics of participants, sexual Experimental, non-experimental, and emerging adulthood. identity and motivation. Prerequisites: quasi-experimental methods examined. PSYC 150 and one other upper division Research project and presentation of PSYC 335 Psychology of Women (3) psychology course. results in APA style. Prerequisites: PSYC A brief account of the role of women in 150, STAT 215, and PSYC 201. mythology and history will be followed PSYC 410 Drugs and Human by coverage of women’s heritage in Behavior (3) psychology. Then gender specific aspects Study of pharmacological effects and of physical, psychological and social behavioral consequences of self- development will be covered. Current administered depressants, stimulants, and

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 205 euphoriants, of marijuana, alcohol and information. Prerequisites: PSYC 150, or PSYP 322 Multicultur al Service Learning tobacco, and of medicines. Prevention consent of instructor. (3) of drug-related problems is considered Exploration of multiculturalism through briefly. Prerequisite: PSYC 150. PSYC 425 Forensic Psychology (3) ethnography and community service Introduction to the production and field work. Prerequisite: PSYC 201. PSYC 411 Human Sexuality (3) application of psychological knowledge Study of the biological, psychological, to the civil and criminal justice systems. PSYP 324 Career Counseling (3) and social bases and manifestations of Prerequisite: PSYC 150, or consent of Types and sources of career information human sexual behavior. Includes theory, instructor. and its various uses in career counseling research and diversity in sexuality, the with special emphasis on decision biology of sex, gender development, PSYC 430 Biopsychology (3) making theories and processes. sexual diseases, deviancy and coercion. The biological bases of the behaviors of Prerequisites: PSYC 150 or consent of Prerequisites: PSYC 150, STAT 215, and the organism, emphasizing the structure instructor. PSYC 216/216L. and function of the nervous system. The role of biological factors in such PSYP 396 Topics (1-3) PSYC 412 I ndustrial and Organizational behaviors as sleep, sexual behavior, drug Psychology (3) addiction, emotion, etc. will be examined. PSYP 410 I ntroduction to Marriage and Psychological principles applied to Prerequisites: Junior or senior status, PSYC Family Counseling (3) formal, productive organizations such as 150. Key theories and approaches for diverse businesses, governments, and schools. problem areas in Marriage and Family Personnel selection, placement, training, PSYC 435 A dvanced Social Psychology Counseling, including domestic violence evaluation, motivation to work, job (3) and substance abuse. Explore career satisfaction, and morale are examined. Survey of theories and research in options and training for counselors. Counts as a management course for BBA social psychology. Advanced topics Prerequisite: PSYC 150 or SOCO 144. candidates. Prerequisites: PSYC 150, or in social psychology through readings and discussion on historical and current PSYP 420 C ounseling Processes and consent of instructor. Techniques (3) perspectives. May include self, person Counseling principles and practices PSYC 414 History of Psychology (3) perception, attitudes, attributions, close which facilitate interpersonal Systems and theories of modern relationships, social influence, and group communication and effective personal psychology and the development conflict. Prerequisites: PSYC 150 and and social development. Counseling skills of scientific psychology since 1879. PSYC 320. Prerequisites: PSYC 150, and good in attending behavior, listening, problem standing as a junior or above psychology PSYC 495 Independent Study (1-3) exploration, responding, understanding, major or permission of instructor. and modes of action are examined, PSYC 496 Topics (1-3) discussed and applied in classroom PSYC 416 Memory And Cognition (3) counseling situations. Prerequisites: PSYC Study of the mental processes that PSYCHOLOGY: 150 or 340; or consent of instructor. underlie our abilities to recognize COUNSELING (PSYP) stimuli, think, remember, learn PSYP 422 Psychological Interviewing (3) language, and solve problems. Current Psychological interviewing techniques, PSYP 306 A pplied Ethics in Mental methods, and interpretation will be research in each of these areas will be Health & Counseling (1) examined using the DSM-V. Interview discussed. Includes a research paper Application of professional ethical types will include counseling, intake, written in APA style. Prerequisite: PSYC principles and codes to mental health assessment, and diagnosis. Prerequisites: 150. and health service settings. PSYC 150, 340 and 400. PSYC 420 Personality (3) PSYP 424 Group Processes (3) Examination of personality psychology PSYP 320 Career Development (3) from the time of Freud through Theories of, and factors influencing, Dynamics, procedures and processes the present. Theories and various career development such as assessment, of the group. Focus will be on approaches to understanding the career maturity, decision making, understanding self and learning how to development and functioning of problem solving, and planning. Current help others develop self-understanding both the general and the unique in developments in adult career and life as well as personal and social skill. personality are emphasized. Prerequisite: development will be discussed including Prerequisites: PSYP 420. PSYC 150, recommend PSYC 400. life stages, transitions, midlife crisis, stress, PSYP 496 Topics (1-3) and adjustments necessary for career PSYC 422 Sensation and Perception (3) development effectiveness. Prerequisites: PSYP 497 Practicum I (4) Study of the human senses, especially PSYC 201or consent of instructor. Interpersonal training and counseling vision and hearing, and of people’s practice under professional supervision. meaningful organization of sensory A typed paper/journal must be

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 206 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG submitted for approval and course credit. PADM 446 Public Personnel RTEC 122 P rinciples of Radiographic Prerequisite: senior status and consent of Management (3) Exposure (2) instructor. Practicum must be arranged Examination of the major issues and RTEC 122L P rinciples of Radiographic for the semester prior to enrollment. components of public personnel systems. Exposure Laboratory (1) Special focus will be placed on the role Fundamental factors which govern PSYP 499 Practicum II (4) of the first line government supervisor or and influence the radiographic image Counseling experience in external field middle manager in all facets of personnel including equipment, accessory devices, locations according to needs and career administration. exposure mathematics, and processing. goals of the student. A typed paper/ Technical and prime exposure factors are journal must be submitted for approval RADIOLOGIC discussed and applied in the energized laboratory. Corequisites: RTEC 114, 120, and course credit. Prerequisite: consent of TECHNOLOGY (RTEC) instructor. Internship must be arranged 121, 121L, and 123. Prerequisites: BIOL 209, 209L, acceptance into the Radiologic for the semester prior to enrollment. RTEC 114 R adiographic Clinical Experience I (2) Technology program. Introduces the clinical education PUBLIC RTEC 123 Digital Imaging (2) ADMINISTRATION experience in both the laboratory and Explore components, principles, and (PADM) at the clinical education center. This operation of digital imaging systems course is divided into two eight-week found in diagnostic radiology. Factors PADM 314 Public Organization Theory (3) sessions. The first portion will be spent affecting image acquisition, display, Examination of the historical in the Autotutorial Laboratory on archiving, and retrieval discussed. development of organizational campus and the second portion will be Prerequisites: Admission to the Program theory. Focuses on various theoretical spent at an assigned clinical education and BIOL 209/209L. Corequisites: RTEC approaches to the study of organizational site. Corequisites: RTEC 121, 121L, 122, 114, 120, 121, 121L, 122, and 122L. structure and human behavior in public 122L, 120, 123. Prerequisites: BIOL 209, sector organizations. 209L, acceptance into the Radiologic RTEC 124 R adiographic Clinical Technology Program. Experience II (4) PADM 315 Public Management (3) Continues clinical education and Exploration of the concepts and skills RTEC 120 I ntroduction to Radiologic introduces additional concepts essential to successful management Technology and Patient correlating skills with academic courses. Care (3) in public organizations. Focuses on Introduction to radiologic technology Includes one hour a week of film critique the management functions critical for with emphasis on the education provided by the clinical instructor. success of the organization and how program, the profession, and the health- Corequisites: RTEC 131, 131L, 133, 133L, these functions are affected by operating care delivery system. Fundamentals of 135. Prerequisite: RTEC 114 or consent of in the public sector. patient care including ethics, professional the instructor. PADM 350 Ethics in Public Administration conduct, communication, radiation RTEC 131 R adiographic Anatomy and (3) protection and patient management. Positioning II (2) Philosophical and practical issues related Study of medical terminology is included. RTEC 131L R adiographic Anatomy and to ethical decision making in the public Corequisites: RTEC 114, 121, 121L, 122, Positioning II Laboratory (1) sector. Emphasis on the analysis of 122L, and 123. Prerequisites: BIOL 209, Continuation of RTEC 121 with ethical problems and the development of 209L, acceptance into the Radiologic instruction in every phase of radiography analytical skills and values framework to Technology program. of the axial skeleton, digestive system, act ethically in public service roles. urinary system, cranium, spinal column RTEC 121 R adiographic Anatomy and and facial bones. Corequisites: RTEC 124, Positioning I (2) PADM 396 Topics: (1-3) 133, 133L and 135. Prerequisites: RTEC RTEC 121L R adiographic Anatomy and 120, 121, 121L, 122, 122L, and 123. Positioning I Laboratory (1) PADM 442 Public Budgeting (3) Instruction in every phase of RTEC 133 Imaging Equipment (2) Examines the principles and practices radiography in an integrated coverage of resource allocation and the role of RTEC 133L Imaging Equipment Lab (1) of appendicular skeletal system, Study of radiographic, fluoroscopic, the budget in policy development and abdomen, thoracic viscera and body implementation focusing primarily on mobile, and tomographic equipment systems. Radiographic anatomy and requirements and design. Applied state and local government. Focuses on positioning are discussed and applied in the relationship of the budget to strategic practice of equipment maintenance and the energized laboratory. Corequisites: quality control and testing performed in planning, policy implementation and RTEC 114, 120, 122, 122L, and 123. performance measures. lab. Prerequisites: RTEC 120, 121, 121L, Prerequisites: BIOL 209, 209L, acceptance 122, 122L, and 123. Corequisites: RTEC into the Radiologic Technology program. 124, 131, 131L, 133, 135.

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 207

RTEC 135 R adiation Biology and all RTEC 100 level courses, RTEC 214 or RTEC 450 Specialization: Protection (2) consent of instructor. Mammography I (2) Principles of radiation interaction in cells Study of mammography pertaining and the effect and factors affecting cell RTEC 261 Radiographic Review (3) to diagnostic imaging. Topics include response to radiation, acute and chronic Departmental administrations, principles, physics, image reconstruction, effects or radiation, dose equivalent radiologic records and job seeking skills equipment, and image quality. limits, and regulatory involvement. are discussed. The major portion of Responsibility by the radiographer to this course is devoted to compiling a RTEC 452 Sp ecialization: C/V patients, personnel, the public and self portfolio of radiographic fundamentals in Interventional are also discussed. Corequisites: RTEC 124, all aspects of the program; and reviewing Technology I (2) 131, 131L, 133, 133L. Prerequisites: RTEC in preparation for the national registry Study of cardiac or vascular interventional 120, 121,121L, 122, 122L, 123. examination. Corequisite: RTEC 234, 265. technology pertaining to diagnostic Prerequisites: All RTEC 100 level courses imaging. Topics include principles, RTEC 214 R adiographic Clinical and RTEC 224, 251 and 255. physics, image reconstruction, Experience III (6) equipment, image quality. Continues clinical education and RTEC 265 Radiographic introduces additional concepts Assessment II (1) RTEC 454 Sp ecialization: Computed correlating skills with academic courses. Continuation of RTEC 255. Radiographic Tomography I (2) Includes film critique provided by film quality critique and patient care Study of computed tomography the clinical instructor. Prerequisite: assessment. Corequisites: RTEC 234, 261. pertaining to diagnostic imaging. completion of all 100 level radiologic Prerequisites: RTEC 214, 224, 251, 255 or Topics include principles, physics, image technology courses or permission of the consent of instructor. reconstruction, equipment and image instructor. quality. RTEC 320 I nformatics in Radiologic RTEC 224 R adiographic Clinical Science (2) RTEC 456 Sp ecialization: Magnetic Experience IV (8) Technical, organizational, and cost- Resonance I (2) Continues clinical education and benefit issues related to health care Study of magnetic resonance imaging introduces additional concepts information systems. Includes decision pertaining to diagnostic imaging. correlating skills with academic courses. making in radiology, integrated Topics include principles, physics, image Corequisites: RTEC 251, 255. Prerequisite: networking and distributed computing reconstruction, equipment and image RTEC 214 or consent of the instructor. technologies. Confidentiality issues with quality. patient records discussed. RTEC 234 R adiographic Clinical RTEC 460 Q uality Management and Health Care Law (3) Experience V (8) RTEC 325 Cross-Sectional Anatomy I (2) Continues clinical education and Critical ability to locate and identify Expansion of the QM skills of introduces additional concepts structures in the axial (transverse), technologists to include digital imaging correlating skills with academic courses. sagittal, coronal and orthogonal (oblique) systems and the application of QM Corequisites: RTEC 261, 265. Prerequisites: planes. Volumetric data sets and three- principles in an imaging department. RTEC 224, 251, 255 or consent of dimensional reconstruction of body Legal and compliance issues affecting instructor. structures. This section will focus on the employees and employers directly head, neck, chest, and thorax. regarding accreditation and compliance RTEC 251 R adiographic Pathology (3) issues studied. Guidance on risk Radiographic and advanced modality RTEC 327 Cross Sectional Anatomy II (2) management techniques including equipment, radiographic anatomy and Continuation of RTEC 325. Includes reporting that can help mitigate non- pathology involved in specialized and study of the abdomen, extremities and compliance included. Prerequisite: RTEC highly technical procedures. Contrast joints, pelvis and whole body imaging. 320. media, pharmacology and venipuncture Prerequisite: RTEC 325. are also covered. Corequisites: RTEC RTEC 470 Specialization: 224, 255. Prerequisite: All RTEC 100 level RTEC 365 Advanced Patient Care (3) Mammography II (3) Continuation of RTEC 450. Topics include courses. Skills required to handle patients with acute and chronic disabilities in the radiation dose, specialized techniques, RTEC 255 Radiographic Assessment I (1) advanced technology areas. Includes an diagnostic applications and patient care. Radiographic film quality critique understanding of multiskilled areas such Prerequisite: RTEC 450. and patient care assessment. Utilizes as EKG, pharmacology, venipuncture previous knowledge of film quality RTEC 472 Sp ecialization: C/V and phlebotomy. Medical and legal Interventional factors and patient care techniques as implications as well as patient well being Technology II (3) well as an understanding of pathology discussed. Sterile technique related to Study of cardiac or vascular interventional demonstrated on radiographs. cardiovascular procedures and biopsy technology pertaining to diagnostic Corequisites: RTEC 224, 251. Prerequisite: also studied. imaging. Topics include materials,

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 208 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG patient care, specialized procedures and will follow with individual assistance modern history. Emphasizes impacts diagnostic applications. Prerequisite: with discipline-specific vocabulary from of technology within a social, political, RTEC 452 college texts. This is a corequisite with economic, and environmental context. social science 100 discipline strands for RTEC 474 Sp ecialization: Computed students with Accuplacer scores of 62-79. SOCI 121 A mericorps Field Tomography II (3) Placement I (3) Continuation of RTEC 454. Topics include READ 096 Topics: (1-3) Exploration of the practice and theory radiation dose, specialized techniques, of community service. Prerequisites: diagnostic applications, pathology and REAL ESTATE enrollment in a national Service Program, patient care. Prerequisite: RTEC 454. BROKER (REEB) approval of AmeriCorps Directors. RTEC 476 Sp ecialization: Magnetic SOCI 122 A mericorps Field Placement Resonance II (3) REEB 201 Real Estate Broker I (6) II (3) Continuation of RTEC 456. Topics include Taught in conjunction with REEB In-depth analysis, strategic planning, specialized techniques, diagnostic 202 - Real Estate Brokers II, to meet implementation and evaluation of applications, pathology and patient care. the educational requirements of the community projects. This class shall give Prerequisite: RTEC 456. Colorado Real Estate Commission for the students an opportunity to examine a Colorado Real Estate Broker’s license. real issues in the community and RTEC 480 Clinical Specialization I (3) Includes Real Estate Law and Practice, become a part of the problem-solving Demonstration of clinical competency practical applications, and Current Legal process. Prerequisite: SOCI 121. in Radiologic Technology specialty Issues. areas. Practical experience gained and SOCI 136 T he African-American demonstrations of competency in REEB 202 Real Estate Broker II (6) Experience (3) positioning, machine control, patient care Taught in conjunction with REEB An introduction to the experience of and image quality in chosen specialty. 201 - Real Estate Broker I, to meet the African-Americans from the perspective Prerequisites: RTEC 450, 452, 454, and educational requirements of the Colorado of the Social Science disciplines. 456. Real Estate Commission for a Colorado Real Estate Broker’s License. Includes SOCI 196 Topics (1-6) RTEC 490 Clinical Specialization II (3) Colorado Contracts and Regulations, Demonstration of clinical competency Closings, and Recordkeeping and Trust SOCI 296 Topics (1-3) in the Radiologic Science specialty Accounts. Prerequisite: REEB 201. areas. Practical experience gained and SOCI 340 M ethods of Teaching Social Studies: Secondary Schools (4) demonstrations of competency in the SOCIAL SCIENCE (SOCI) Examination and comparison of the areas of positioning, machine control, social studies, exploring both new and patient care and image quality in the SOCI 110 sim Thinking: Modeling the Social and Natural World (6) traditional curricula, philosophies, and specialty area chosen. Prerequisite: RTEC teaching methods. 75 hours of field work 450, RTEC 452, RTEC 454, or RTEC 456. Students study the uses of modeling as a foundational part of all sciences. required. Prerequisites: upper division RTEC 494 C apstone in Radiologic simThinking is organized around the status and 21 semester hours of social Science (3) course’s guiding principle of using sciences. Mastery of a specialization area with models to understand the fundamentals proof of competency and preparation of complex adaptive systems in the social, SOCI 351 H istory of Ideas: Ancient and Medieval Periods (3) for national certification examinations natural, and physical world. Using the The major ideas of man and society in in the specialization included. Study tools of agent-based modeling, students ancient Greece and Rome with attention and practical application of research examine systems “from the bottom up” to social conditions influencing their knowledge base is included. Prerequisite: by identifying the component parts of development and transmission into the All B.A.S. Radiologic Technology courses. a system and discovering the rules of social thought of Medieval Europe. interaction between component parts RTEC 495 Independent Study (1-3) (agents) and their emergent properties. SOCI 395 Independent Study (1-3) The class is interdisciplinary, team-taught, READING (READ) and technologically-enriched. Students SOCI 396 Topics (1-3) learn academic content through a series READ 092 College Reading Studio (1) of projects, and develop strong critical SOCI 410 Dea th, Dying & Bereavement This course is designed to offer thinking and teamwork skills. (3) supplemental support for students Provides an in-depth overview of in reading intensive courses across ü SOCI 120 Technology and Society - the issues surrounding death, dying the disciplines. Daily mini-lessons will GTSS3 (3) and bereavement. The social and be provided based on Ten Steps to Overview of technological innovations psychological processes of death Advanced College Reading Skills, and and human societies throughout using interdisciplinary readings from

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 209 psychology, sociology, anthropology, present in case management service social bases of power, ideology, and the history, medicine and philosophy. systems. Prerequisite: SOWK 150. media. Prerequisite: SOCO 260, or POLS 101 or consent of instructor. SOCI 495 Independent Study (1-3) SOWK 350 L egal Aspects of Social Work (3) SOCO 303 S ociological Research SOCI 496 Topics (1-3) Exploration of the roles of the social Methods (3) worker in the legal field. Legal terms, Sociology specific. Emphasis on survey SOCI 497 Structured Research (1-3) procedures, state and federal court research, comparative/historical research, Social or behavioral science research systems studied. The legal aspects of content analysis, and program evaluation. under the directed guidance of a faculty protective services for children and Prerequisites: SOCO 202 and STAT 215. member. Designed for junior and senior adults, the child support laws and level students. the juvenile justice system examined. SOCO 305 Environmental Sociology (3) Prerequisite: SOWK 150. An overview of the interrelations among SOCIAL WORK (SOWK) the physical environment, population, SOWK 396 Topics: (1-3) and technology; the origin and basis SOWK 150 Introduction to Social Work of environmental social movement (3) SOWK 499 Internship (3) organizations; the social construction of Introduction to the profession of social Professional practice with individuals, environmental issues. Prerequisites: SOCO work and its historical development; groups, and communities in various 260 or consent of the instructor. overview of the knowledge, values, skills, social work sites under professional practice settings and groups served by supervision. Prerequisite: SOWK 150. SOCO 310 Sociology of Religion (3) social workers. Sociological aspects of religion, including SOCIOLOGY (SOCO) the social function of religion, religious SOWK 296 Topics: (1-3) traditions in the global village, and ü SOCO 144 M arriage and Families- the rise of new religious movements. SOWK 310 American Social Welfare (3) GTSS3 (3) Prerequisite: SOCO 260 or consent of Nature and development of American Marriage and families in social, historic, instructor. social policy. Includes history of current institutional, theoretical, and gendered structures of social welfare services, the contexts. Includes family formation, SOCO 312 Social Movements (3) role of policy in service delivery and family problems, and alternative intimate Sociological study of historical and analyses of current social policy issues relationships. contemporary social movements. including family policy, health care policy, Overview of the literature on social drug policy, tax policy and other topical SOCO 202 Introduction to Sociological movement development, organization, issues. Prerequisite: SOWK 150. Inquiry (3) participation and outcomes. Prerequisite: Methods and areas of sociology. SOCO 260 or consent of instructor. SOWK 320 S ocial Work Practices in Preparation for writing and research Mental Health (3) requirements of upper-division sociology SOCO 314 Population (3) Practice models and methods of courses. Prerequisite: SOCO 260 or SOCO Basic concepts of population studies intervention for effective social work 264. in international context. Demographic practice in mental health care. Includes trends including fertility, mortality the promotion of mental health, the ü SOCO 260 G eneral Sociology-GTSS3 and migration, as well as the causes prevention of mental illnesses, and (3) and consequences of those trends. delivery of psychosocial treatment and An overview of sociological concepts, Prerequisites: SOCO 260 or consent of rehabilitation services. Prerequisite: terminology, basic principles, and instructor. SOWK 150. important theories; introduction to substantive areas of the field. SOCO 316 Social Inequality (3) SOWK 330 S ocial Work for Diverse Causes and effects of inequality, Populations (3) ü SOCO 264 S ocial Problems-GTSS3 especially social class, with consideration Knowledge and skills necessary for social (3) of race and gender. Prerequisites: SOCO work practice with diverse populations. Major contemporary social problems 260, or SOCO 264 or consent of instructor. including crime, race relations, war, SOWK 340 Case Management (3) educational systems, unequal distribution SOCO 318 S ociology of Health & Illness Defines the role of case management in of wealth, and political apathy. (3) the context of mental health and human Exploration of the sociological services delivery systems. Attention SOCO 296 Topics (1-3) perspectives relating to the definitions paid to the ways in which social workers and experiences of health and illness identify and use social work values, ethics SOCO 300 Political Sociology (3) including the social distribution of illness and practice models within the context The interactions and interrelationships in the population, stigmas of bodily of the diverse and competing needs between social and political forces. Topics and mental illness, health behaviors, covered include state and society, the

ü This course is approved by the Colorado Department of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. For more information please see page 53. 210 COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY| 2013-2014 CATALOG comparison of health care delivery SPEECH (SPCH) individuals from other countries, with systems, and the medical professions. individuals from sub-cultures within Prerequisite: SOCO 260 or SOCO 264. SPCH 101 Interpersonal our culture, and with individuals of the Communications (3) opposite sex. Prerequisite: SPCH 101. SOCO 320 Life Course Sociology (3) Language, listening, response, Investigation of the social factors defense of statement, and nonverbal SPCH 306 C ommunication and influencing human lives, emphasizing the communication between two or more Leadership (3) connection between individual lives and people. Study of communication styles of great social change. Prerequisites: SOCO 144 or leaders from every field of endeavor to SOCO 260 or consent of instructor. SPCH 102 Speechmaking (3) determine the sources of their influence The preparation, organization, and over the behaviors, thoughts, and SOCO 325 Racial and Ethnic Relations (3) delivery of a speech. feelings of their followers. Included will Sociological perspectives on racial and be study of the historical environments ethnic relations in the United States. SPCH 112 Voice and Diction (3) that gave rise to each leader’s style. Prerequisites: SOCO 260 or consent of The use of the speaking voice Prerequisite: SPCH 101. instructor. emphasizing voice placement, speech sounds, breath control, projection, and SPCH 308 Argumentation and SOCO 331 Sociology of Aging (3) the phonetic alphabet. Recommended Debate (3) Exploration of the sociological for theatre majors, teachers, prelaw, Research and development of various perspectives relating to the definitions ministers and business majors. types of debate such as student congress, and experiences of aging, including mock trial, value debate, etc., using demographics of the aging population, SPCH 196 Topics (1-3) national and international topics of family life and social support, physical current interest. Prerequisites: SPCH 102 and mental challenges, Medicare and SPCH 203 Persuasion (3) or SPCH 203 or consent of instructor. Social Security, and social problems Open discussions on the ethics, process, and experienced by the elderly. Prerequisite: application of everyday use of persuasion; SPCH 395 Independent Study (1-3) SOCO 260 or SOCO 264. how it applies to our advertisements, politics, and friendships; preparation for SPCH 396 Topics (1-3) SOCO 340 Sex and Gender (3) debate. Prerequisite: SPCH 102. Perspectives on the social organization of SPCH 495 Independent Study (1-3) sex and gender. Prerequisites: SOCO 260; SPCH 241 Oral Interpretation (3) SPCH 496 Topics (1-3) or consent of instructor. The reading aloud of prose, poetry, and essays with the intention of conveying SOCO 395 Independent Study (1-3) the author’s ideas to a listening audience. STATISTICS (STAT)

SOCO 396 Topics (1-3) SPCH 296 Topics (1-3) ü STAT 200 P robability and Statistics- GTMA1 (3) SOCO 400 Classical Social Theory (3) SPCH 303 Nonverbal Communication (3) Descriptive statistical methods, The development of social theory The opportunity to observe, record and elementary probability, sample from the Enlightenment through early interpret the nonverbal dimensions distribution, binomial, normal, t, and twentieth century, with emphasis on of communication behavior and the F distributions, parameter estimation, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Prerequisite: opportunity to enhance awareness one and two sample tests of hypothesis, SOCO 260 or consent of instructor. and skill in nonverbal communication simple correlation and regression behavior in mass media, law, theatre, analysis, one-way analysis of variance, SOCO 410 Contemporary Social group dynamics, etc. nonparametric inference, time Theory (3) permitting. Introduction to statistical Twentieth century sociological theories SPCH 304 Communication and software. Prerequisites: MATH 110 or 113 and their historical links to classical Conflict (3) or consent of instructor. thought. Prerequisite: SOCO 400. The nature of conflict, conflict structure, conflict styles, and the use of power STAT 215 S tatistics for Social and SOCO 420 Field Studies (6) in conflicts. Application of theories to Behavioral Sciences (4) analyze and set goals to plan strategies Descriptive and inferential statistical SOCO 495 Independent Study (1-3) and tactics. Study of intervention techniques within the Social and principles and practices. Prerequisites: Behavioral Science realm. Topics include: SOCO 496 Topics (1-3) upper division standing. Types of Random Variables, Studies, and SOCO 499 Internship (4) Sampling Methods; Plots and Descriptive SPCH 305 C ommunication: Culture, Statistics; Correlation and Regression; Diversity and Gender (3) Probability Theory; Hypothesis Testing Research and practical application to & Inference including one and two facilitate constructive relationships with

Certain courses are only offered during the fall or spring semesters, or may be available only in alternating years. It is the student’s responsibility to meet with their advisor and/or check the two-year course planning calendar on the Colorado Mesa University website for course availability. Learn more at coloradomesa.edu/academics. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 211 sample t-tests, Chi-Squared Test for STAT 412 Correlation and Regression (3) resources, goal setting, relationship of Independence, One and Two Factor Graphical, numerical, and theoretical academic planning to career goals, career ANOVA, t-test for Linear Regression least-squares analysis for simple and ü exploration and other topics. Co-variates. SPSS will be used for data multiple regression and correlation, analysis. Prerequisites: MATH 110 or including inference methods, diagnostics SUPP 105 C ompetency Portfolio higher, and PSYC 150 or SOCO 260 or and remedial measures, simultaneous Development (1) CRMJ 201 or POLS 101. inference methods, the matrix approach Required preparation of learning portfolio to regression and correlation analysis, for assessment of academic credit. Will STAT 311 Statistical Methods (3) stepwise regression procedures. Use of aid in organization and completion of Power of statistical tests, categorical data statistical software. Prerequisites: STAT portfolio for prior learning experiences; techniques, inference about population 311, and MATH 121 or MATH 135 or MATH workshop credit is unrelated to final means and variances, nonparametric 146 or MATH 151. approval of portfolio for specific course methods, simple and multiple linear credit. regression and correlation, analysis STAT 425 Design and Analysis of of variance, multiple comparisons, Experiments (3) SUPP 201 T heory and Practice of College introduction to some experimental Design and analysis of single and Peer Tutoring (3) designs. Use of statistical software. multiple factor experiments, fixed, mixed General and specific training for college Prerequisites: STAT 200. and random effects designs including level peer tutoring. Readings, discussion, multiple comparison procedures, experiential exercises expose students to STAT 313 Sampling Techniques (3) transformations, fixed, mixed and random contemporary learning theories, learning Methodology of simple random effects designs, completely randomized enhancement techniques, and effective sampling, stratified, systematic cluster, designs, randomized block designs, Latin applications to group and individual and two-stage sampling is developed. square designs, and nested designs. learning situations. Supervised tutoring Estimation of sample size determination, Prerequisite: STAT 412. practicum applies theories and concepts and minimized costs of sampling are to actual tutoring sessions. Prerequisite: discussed. Use of resampling statistical STAT 494 Seminar (1) permission of instructor; 2.5 GPA; software. Prerequisite: STAT 200. Discussions of specialized topics by recommendation by instructor in subject students, faculty, or visiting professors. area. STAT 350 Mathematical Statistics I (3) One-hour meeting per week. Calculus based mathematical SUPP 202 Sophomore Year development of discrete and continuous STAT 495 Independent Study (1-3) Experience (2) random variables. Topics include Exploration of career and academic probability axioms and rules, Bayes’ STAT 496 Topics (1-3) interests. Emphasis on self-discovery, Theorem, discrete and continuous resume building, making connections distributions, expectation, variance, SUPPLEMENTAL with faculty and community members, moment generating functions, marginal COURSES (SUPP) and solidification of academic plans. and conditional distributions, bivariate Includes a follow-up opportunity to distributions, transformations, sampling SUPP 096 Gearing Up for College (1-3) job shadow and participate in service distributions and the central limit learning. Prerequisites: Sophomore level theorem. Prerequisites: STAT 311 and SUPP 100 H igher Education Success standing, permission of instructor. MATH 253 (may be taken concurrently). Skills (1) Introduction to fundamental learning SUPP 296 Topics: (1-3) STAT 351 Mathematical Statistics II (3) skills, first semester management This course is a continuation of STAT 350 strategies and campus resources specific TECHNOLOGY Mathematical Statistics I. This course is to the higher education environment. INTEGRATION (TECI) a calculus-based theoretical study of Emphasizes development of basic point estimators by method of moments practical competencies necessary for TECI 110 Applied Physics (3) and maximum likelihood, confidence successful completion of entry level Instruction and application of physics in intervals, hypothesis testing, simple university courses. relation to technical education. One hour linear regression, analysis of variance, lecture and laboratory objectives. and nonparametric methods. Additional SUPP 101 I ntroduction to Higher topics may include experimental design, Education (1-3) TECI 118 AC Passive Circuits (3) quality control, multiple linear regression, Assistance and guidance for students in TECI 118L AC Passive Circuits and survival analysis. Prerequisite: STAT maximizing their potential for success Laboratory (1) 350. in college by promoting their academic Analysis of AC circuits including resistors, growth. Emphasizes test taking, reading capacitors, inductors, and use of STAT 395 Independent Study (1-3) techniques, note taking, and memory standard test equipment. Three one-hour as well as the following: critical thinking, lectures and one one-and-one-half hour STAT 396 Topics (1-3) stress management, utilization of campus laboratory per week.

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TECI 132 I ntroduction to IT Hardware IPX/SPX; with concepts applied through TECI 292 C apstone in Technical and System Software (3) design of a Threaded Case Study (TCS). Engineering Planning and Basic hardware and software study Prerequisites: TECI 180 and 185. Economics (4) of stand-alone or local/wide-area Knowledge to articulate the tactical computers. Hands-on experience using TECI 235 Cisco Networking IV (4) planning functions performed within 5x or above architecture. The fourth of four semester courses in capacity provisioning. Access and Cisco’s Networking Academy curriculum. apply the various tactical planning TECI 170 I ntroduction to Concepts covered are: WANs, SANs tools and data elements to supporting Communications (3) design; PPP; ISDN; Frame relay; Master documentation. Economic principles Overview of communication systems that documentation skills; with concepts in costing, value, capital investment, include both central office based and applied through design of a Threaded profitability and inventory. premise based platforms. The switching Case Study (TCS). Prerequisites: TECI 180, and service components of RBOC 185, and 230. THEATRE (THEA) and inter-exchange providers will be examined and discussed. Characteristics, TECI 240 VoIP Fundamentals (3) *At least one course at each level must be taken advantages, and disadvantages of Covers the components of engineering in sequence. the various systems will be compared the telephone outside plant, and contrasted. Architecture and fundamentals of transmission, resistance THEA 114 Summer Theatre (3) design of switching infrastructures and design, and distribution cable design in THEA 214 Summer Theatre (3) components will also be covered. serving a customer area. THEA 314 Summer Theatre (3) THEA 414 Summer Theatre (3) TECI 180 Cisco Networking I (3) TECI 251 Leadership (2) Professional summer theatre experience. The first of four semester courses Personal and professional leadership skills The student is expected to participate in Cisco’s Networking Academy used to aid in the transition from worker, in all phases of the theatre operation curriculum. Concepts covered are: OSI to a supervisory position. including acting, technical work, model, internetworking devices, IP directing, box office management, etc. addressing, LAN media & topologies, TECI 260 Information Technology It is advisable for a student enrolled in structured cabling, electronics. CCNA Hardware and System summer theatre not to enroll in any other certified individual can perform the Software (3) class. Five plays are presented in a seven- following tasks: -Install and configure Use of an internal systems approach to week period. Cisco Switches and routers in multi- building and maintaining stand-alone protocol internetworks using LAN or local/wide area computers utilized in THEA 116 Music Theatre Workshop (1) and WAN interfaces. -Provide Level networking. Hands on experience using A performance-based ensemble that 1 troubleshooting service -Improve 5x or above architecture. combines musical theatre singing, acting, network performance and security and dancing into a unified performance. TECI 265 A dvanced IT Hardware and Through focus on the works of specific -Perform entry-level tasks in the planning, System Software (2) design, installation, operation, and composers and/or stylistic eras, students Windows Domain Management and will produce and perform a musical troubleshooting of Ethernet and TCP/IP Windows Deployment. Introduces networks. revue for a public audience. Intended for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to Music Theatre majors, but students from TECI 185 Cisco Networking II (4) accelerate and automate deployments of other disciplines are invited to enroll. The second of four semester courses Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Window Prerequisites: THEA 153, MUSL 137, or in Cisco’s Networking Academy 7, Office 2010, and Windows Server 2008 consent of instructor. curriculum. Concepts covered are: Safety; R2. MDT provides a common console with Networking; Network terminology and comprehensive tools and guidance for THEA 117, 118 Play Production (1) protocols; Network standards; LANs, every organizational role. Recommended THEA 217, 218 Play Production (1) MANs, SANs, WANS; OSI model; Ethernet; process and toolset to automate large- THEA 317, 318 Play Production (1) THEA 417, 418 Play Production (1) Token ring; FDDI; TCP/IP addressing scale desktop and server deployments. Prerequisite: TECI 260. A practical course in stagecraft protocol; Dynamic routing; the Network concerned with the production of Administrator’s role and function. TECI 290 Certification: (2) plays. The student works in all phases Prerequisite: TECI 180. A capstone certification preparation of production. Students will work TECI 196 Topics: (1-3) course specifically addressing three hours per week unless other each emphasis and the associated arrangements are made with the TECI 230 Cisco Networking III (4) certifications. instructor. Prerequisites: Courses must The third of four semester courses in be taken in sequence or by consent of Cisco’s Networking Academy curriculum. instructor. Concepts covered are: LAN switching; VLANs; LAN design; IGRP; Access lists;

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THEA 119, 120 Technical Performance (1) THEA 150 Fundamentals of Acting (3) THEA 253 Acting III: Stage Movement (3) THEA 219, 220 Technical Performance (1) This course will introduce non-theatre Basic techniques of gesture, movement THEA 319, 320 Technical Performance (1) majors to the basic components of the styles, and combat. Developing an THEA 419, 420 Technical Performance (1) acting process, including scene work, awareness of the use of the body as Direct participation in the technical improvisation, and audition techniques. a means of expression is emphasized. aspects of various productions. Grade Prerequisites: THEA 156 or consent of will depend upon the preparatory work THEA 153 Acting I: Beginning Acting (3) instructor. involved and upon the final technical Fundamentals of Acting via improvisation production. Students must work a and scene study. Students perform THEA 255 Musical Theatre minimum of two productions in order to in solo, duo and/or group scenes. Techniques (3) receive credit. Prerequisite: Theatre Arts major or minor Exploration of solo song interpretation. in good standing. Emphasis on basic mechanical, analytical, THEA 128, 129 Theatre Forums (1) and physical skills needed to perform THEA 228, 229 Theatre Forums (1) THEA 156 A cting II: Contemporary musical theatre. Building on an acting THEA 328, 329 Theatre Forums (1) Scenework (3) foundation, issues of range and vocal THEA 428, 429 Theatre Forums (1) Further development in the application support as well as style and repertory will Specialized workshops in various aspects of Stanislavski-based theory studied in be emphasized. Prerequisites: THEA 150 of theatre made possible by visiting Acting I. Includes substantial scene and or THEA 153; MUSA 137, or one semester artists and/or lecturers or by attending monologue work in addition to beat of private vocal study, or by consent of seminars or workshops. Papers and analysis. Continued investigation into instructor. discussions are used for evaluation. the depth and breadth of the actor’s art. Prerequisite: THEA 153 or consent of THEA 256 Acting IV: Auditions (3) THEA 130 Script Analysis (3) instructor. Resume writing. Choice and preparation Introduction to practical analysis for of effective audition pieces. Prerequisite: enhancing the move from script to THEA 196 Topics (1-3) THEA 253 or consent of instructor. performance. Familiarizes students with script analysis techniques useful to the THEA 213 Creative Play Activities- THEA 260 Costume Construction I (3) collaborative theatrical team. Drama (2) Introduction to sewing skills, commercial Creative dramatics in a learning situation. patterns, distressing garments, and ü THEA 141 T heatre Appreciation- Includes subject matter of interest to creative problem solving. Prerequisite: GTAH1 (3) anyone in early childhood education, THEA 143. Examination of basic presentation general education, social work, religious techniques and history of theatre. education, and/or recreation. THEA 296 Topics (1-3)

THEA 142 Make-up (3) THEA 216 Music Theatre Workshop (1) THEA 300 A dvanced Acting: Stage All types of make-up for the stage. A performance-based ensemble that Combat (2) Students examine straight and character combines musical theatre singing, acting, This course is designed to introduce make-up techniques and learn the use of and dancing into a unified performance. the actor to advanced study in various crepe hair, prosthetics, and other material. Through focus on the works of specific theatrical fighting styles including: composers and/or stylistic eras, students unarmed, rapier and dagger, sword THEA 143 Costuming (3) will produce and perform a musical and shield, smallsword, broadsword, Costume design and the history of revue for a public audience. Intended for knife, single sword, and quarterstaff. costume. Music Theatre majors, but students from The student will learn stage combat other disciplines are invited to enroll. techniques adapted from actual historical ü THEA 145 I ntroduction to Dramatic Prerequisites: THEA 153, MUSL 137, or fighting techniques and use those Literature-GTAH1 (3) Dramatic literature from classical Greeks consent of instructor. techniques in scenework. Prerequisite: THEA 253. to modern dramatists. THEA 243 T heatre Practice: Scene Construction, Painting, and THEA 316 Music Theatre Workshop (1) THEA 147, 148 Drama Performance (1-2) Design (3) A performance-based ensemble that THEA 247, 248 Drama Performance (1-2) Techniques of construction; painting of THEA 347, 348 Drama Performance (1-2) combines musical theatre singing, acting, THEA 447, 448 Drama Performance (1-2) scenery; properties for the theatre and and dancing into a unified performance. Requires a student to appear in a major basic principles of scene design. Through focus on the works of specific production on campus. The grade will composers and/or stylistic eras, students THEA 244 T heatre Practice: Beginning depend upon the preparatory work on will produce and perform a musical Lighting (3) revue for a public audience. Intended for the play’s character and upon the final A basic course in the use of light Music Theatre majors, but students from performance. Prerequisite: consent of and instrumentation in various stage other disciplines are invited to enroll. instructor. productions, including plays, dance concerts, and music programs.

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Prerequisites: THEA 153, MUSL 137, or THEA 354 A dvanced Acting: The Meisner THEA 381 Directing I (3) consent of instructor. Approach (3) The fundamentals of directing An examination of the Meisner culminating in the direction of a THEA 322 Stage Management (3) Approach, the “film industry standard” scene or short play for public viewing. Theory and principles of human technique that actors use to explore the Prerequisites: Junior or senior level resources management, theatre Realistic/Naturalistic genre of plays and Acting/Directing major, or consent of technical production and actual stage screenplays. Prerequisites: THEA 256 or instructor. management situations. Prerequisites: consent of instructor. THEA 153 or THEA 243 or THEA 244 or THEA 382 Directing II (3) consent of instructor. THEA 355 Music Theatre Repertoire (3) Advanced directing techniques and Further development of song production of a one-act play for public THEA 331 T heatre History I: 400 B.C. to interpretation through scene study and viewing. Prerequisite: THEA 381 or 1642 (3) ensemble performance. Emphasis on consent of instructor. History of theatre as an institution and its creating performances unified both relationship to the other arts and to the dramatically and musically through show THEA 395 Independent Study (1-3) social and economic environment, from research and script analysis to develop 400 B.C. to 1642 A.D. characterization. Prerequisites: THEA 255; THEA 396 Topics (1-3) DANC 174 and 174L; DANC 177 and 177L; THEA 332 T heatre History II: From 1642 or consent of instructor. THEA 400 Sound Design for Theatre (3) to the Present (3) Incorporates theory and practice Major world theatre events from 1642 to THEA 356 Advanced Acting: Dialects (3) of conceptual sound design for live the present day. Introduces students to the fundamentals theatre, with extensive work in QLab of acting while using common stage software. This course will apply extensive THEA 341 Music al Theatre History and knowledge and use of sound recording Literature (3) dialects. Prerequisites: SPCH 112 and THEA 256, or consent of instructor. devices, mixing software, sound effects In-depth study of the literature and styles libraries, and playback methods. of the master composers of music theatre THEA 360 Costume Construction II (3) from its beginnings through the present An introduction to developing period THEA 401 Career Preparation (3) day. Course work is designed for the patterning, interpreting a rendering into An introduction to the administrative and Musical Theatre major, utilizing lecture finished garment, investigating ethnic business aspects of the performing arts. and listening lab format and a research styles and refining creative problem- Prerequisites: Senior standing or consent paper on a subject of the student’s solving skills. Prerequisite: THEA 260. of instructor. choice. THEA 369 Improvisation (2) THEA 403 M ethods of Teaching Drama THEA 343 Scene Design (3) Introduction to basic improvisational and Speech (3) Teaching communication, speechmaking, Experience in the designing of acting techniques, utilizing guided debate and discussion, creative drama, scenery and props for various types of lectures and exercises and illustrating oral interpretation, play selection productions with emphasis on research, the role of non-script work in the and direction in the public schools. acquisition, drafting, perspective, and development of the student actor. Prerequisites: junior standing in English rendering techniques. Prerequisite: THEA Students will create characters, scenes, education or speech/theatre programs. 243 or consent of instructor. and short original works. Prerequisites: THEA 344 Advanced Stage Lighting (3) THEA 256 or consent of instructor. THEA 411 American Drama (3) The study of American drama and theatre Advanced training in the design and THEA 376 World’s Greatest Films (3) execution of lighting for the stage. Aesthetics and elements that qualify film trends from the first American playwright Prerequisite: THEA 244 or consent of as an important art form as seen through to the current trends of today. instructor. the major contributors from three THEA 412 Contemporary Drama (3) THEA 345 World Drama (3) important culturally diverse areas of the A study of contemporary drama from the Students will examine the richness and world: Europe, Asia and America. advent of Realism to the present day. diversity of contemporary world theatre THEA 380 Playwriting I (3) and drama from a global context. THEA 416 Music Theatre Workshop (1) Fundamentals of playwriting through a A performance-based ensemble that THEA 353 A dvanced Acting: Styles in systematic, textual approach, the proper combines musical theatre singing, acting, Acting (3) format of scriptwriting, and the writing of and dancing into a unified performance. Various styles of acting used for the short scripts based on common thematic Through focus on the works of specific Classical, Elizabethan, Romantic, 19th elements. composers and/or stylistic eras, students century Melodrama and Realistic periods. will produce and perform a musical Prerequisites: THEA 256 or consent of revue for a public audience. Intended for instructor.

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Music Theatre majors, but students from TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION other disciplines are invited to enroll. SERVICES CLUSTER: SERVICES CLUSTER: Prerequisites: THEA 153, MUSL 137, or consent of instructor. AUTOMOTIVE (TSTA) CORE (TSTC)

THEA 445 S enior Tech/Design Capstone TSTA 245 Manual Drive Trains (4) TSTC 100 I ntroduction to (3) Standard repair practices for drive Transportation Services (1) Work experience in various aspects of train components to include: clutch, Introduction to procedures, tool usage, theatre tech/design. Prerequisites: Senior transmission, transaxle, drive axle, basic shop safety, and equipment. standing or consent of instructor. driveline, c-v and R & R procedures. TSTC 101 Vehicle Service and THEA 446 S enior Tech/Design Capstone TSTA 247 Automatic Drive Train Inspection (2) (3) Service (4) Introduction to vehicle systems, Work experience in various aspects of Standard repair practices for automatic maintenance, and inspection. Service theatre tech/design. Prerequisites: Senior drive trains to include: diagnosis, testing, of the vehicle stems with emphasis on standing or consent of instructor. R & R, and servicing of transaxles/rear inspection and observation. wheel drive transmissions. Prerequisites: THEA 453 A dvanced Acting: Acting for TSTC 100, 101, 140. TSTC 110 Engine Fundamentals (1) the Camera (3) Introduction to Internal Combustion The transition from stage acting TSTA 265 Engine Control Services (2) Engine theory, systems diagnosis, techniques to camera acting techniques. Repair and diagnosis of engine control fundamentals and evaluation. Students will have the opportunity to systems with an emphasis on scan tool work on camera with simplified sets and diagnosis and live hands on repair of TSTC 130 Electrical Fundamentals (2) properties. Prerequisites: THEA 256 or systems. Introduction to electrical theory, circuits, consent of instructor. components, testing and use of test TSTA 267 Body and Chassis Controls (2) equipment. THEA 454 A dvanced Acting: Elizabethan Theory, repair, and diagnosis of body Acting Techniques (3) accessories including air bags, electronic TSTC 140 Drive Train Fundamentals (1) An in-depth exploration of acting monitors, power seats, windows and Introduction to drive train components, approaches to the verse drama of wipers. diagnosis, light repair, and adjustment. Shakespeare. Prerequisites: THEA 256 or TSTC 160 Electronic Control Systems (2) consent of instructor. TSTA 275 A lignment and Suspension Service (3) Study of electronic control systems THEA 459 A dvanced Acting: Chekhov Repair of suspension systems to include: applied to today’s modern vehicles. Technique (3) alignment (2 and 4 wheels), R & R Emphasis on sensors, actuators, and Introduction and exploration of the component parts, and pre-alignment diagnostic techniques. Michael Chekhov Acting technique. inspections. Prerequisites: THEA 256 or consent of TSTC 170 Chassis Fundamentals (1) instructor. TSTA 287 Engine Performance and Theory and operation of front and rear Emissions (2) suspension systems, including steering THEA 494 P erformance Seminar: Acting/ Diagnosis and repair of engine front end geometry and component Directing and Musical Theatre performance and emissions-related nomenclature. Capstone (3) failures. Emphasis on strategy based Exploration of theories of audition, diagnostics through the use of exhaust TSTC 171 Brake System rehearsal and performance for upper gas analysis. Fundamentals (2) division performance majors. Theory, components, general repair TSTA 289 Alternative Fueled Vehicles (2) practices and diagnosis of current brake THEA 495 Independent Study (1-3) Introduction to the operational theory systems. and principles, safety and repair of THEA 496 Topics (1-3) hybrid, fuel cell and hydrocarbon and TSTC 180 Fuel System Fundamentals (1) alcohol-based alternative fueled vehicles. Theory of gas and diesel injection, THEA 499 Internship (3-9) Emphasis on industry standard safety and combustion process, delivery systems Work in acting/directing, design/tech, repair practices. Prerequisites: TSTC 130 and general service techniques. music theatre and theatre management, and TSTC 160. or other situations that meet the TSTC 190 Climate Control instructor’s approval. Prerequisites: senior Fundamentals (1) standing and consent of the instructors. Theory of operation, nomenclature, identification, safety and environmental impact factors of air conditioning. Also covers heating and ventilation systems.

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TRANSPORTATION to-know, record keeping, and worker role performed in house, when internships SERVICES CLUSTER: in safety. or co-op opportunities are not available. Prerequisite: TSTG 140. DIESEL (TSTD) TSTG 135 Electrical Component Repair (2) TSTG 270 A dvanced Practical TSTD 177 A ir Systems Repair and Electrical component repair to include: Applications (4) Service (2) alternators, starters, wiring, and other Designed to increase student This course studies the air systems electrical components. Prerequisites: TSTC competency through the use of on the heavy duty truck. The brakes, 100, 101, 130. internships or co-op training and real-life transmission shift, seats, and rear axle shop experiences in their chosen area shift will be covered, to include, service TSTG 140 Job Shop (4) specialty. Prerequisite: TSTG 170. and repair of components and systems. Designed to obtain a working knowledge Repair of foundation brakes will also be of the industry job standards, through TSTG 296 Topics (1,2) included. use of lab work projects performed in house, when internships or co-op cannot UTEC TSTD 215 Diesel Engine be found. Prerequisites: TSTC core courses Reconditioning (5) and second year status. UTEC 150 Fluid Power (3) Industry standard rebuild practices for Principles of hydraulics and pneumatic diesel engines. R & R of engine, complete TSTG 150 Fluid Power (3) system including the construction, disassembly, assembly and running of Principles of hydraulics and pneumatic application, repair, maintenance and engine is covered. Tune-up and fuel system including the construction, troubleshooting of components and system adjustment are covered. application, repair, maintenance and systems. troubleshooting of components and TSTD 265 Diesel Engine Controls (3) systems. UTEC 220 I ndustry Employment Repair and diagnosis of engine control Practices (3) systems with an emphasis on scan tool TSTG 170 Practical Applications (4) Employment skills encompassing diagnosis and live hands-on repair of Designed to gain a working knowledge leadership, goal setting, personal systems. of a particular field of study through traits, conflict resolution, quality, time co-op, internships, work experience or management, life-long learning, written TSTD 275 Heavy Duty Suspension (2) related lab work in industry. Prerequisites: and oral communication, and customer Types of on-road suspensions, tires, TSTC core courses and second year status. relations. repair of components, diagnosis, measurements, and adjustments to front TSTG 175 Hydraulic Brake Service (2) WATER QUALITY and rear suspensions. Repair of brake systems to include: shoes, pads, cylinder reconditioning, machining MANAGEMENT (WQMS) TSTD 285 Diesel Fuel Injection (2) rotors and drums, diagnosis, bleeding, R Theory, diagnosis, and repair of diesel & R components, parking brakes and anti- WQMS 100 Introduction to Water Quality (3) fuel injection systems. Emphasis on the lock systems. adjustment and repair of injectors, filters, Introduction to the water and wastewater governors, blowers and turbos. Electronic TSTG 195 Climate Control Service (2) treatment field and the various applied systems, pump timing and pump Repair, diagnosis, R & R of components, science concepts that are used to replacement will also be covered. charging, recycling and testing of heating operate, maintain and monitor water and air conditioning systems of over the quality; includes the hydrological cycle, TRANSPORTATION road vehicles. water sources, hydraulics, ecosystems, pollution, water chemistry, water SERVICES CLUSTER: TSTG 220 I ndustry Employment calculations, microbiological aspects of GENERAL (TSTG) Practices (3) water and water quality control. Employment skills encompassing TSTG 115 Gas Engine Reconditioning (4) leadership, goal setting, personal WQMS 105 Sp ecific Calculations for Industry standard rebuild practices for traits, conflict resolution, quality, time Water Quality gas engines. R & R of engine, complete management, life-long learning, written Management (4) An in-depth study of the calculations disassembly, assembly and running of and oral communication, and customer associated with water and wastewater engine is covered. Prerequisites: TSTC 100, relations. 101, 110. treatment; includes dimensional analysis, TSTG 240 Advanced Job Shop (4) manipulation of conversation factors, TSTG 120 Industrial Safety Practices (3) Application of workplace skills in a geometric figures, velocities, detention Overview of current OSHA and EPA controlled shop environment, through time, surface loading, filtration and general industry regulations with an the use of real-life lab work projects, backwash rates, porosity, weir overflow emphasis on hazardous materials, right- rates, efficiencies, weight of dry solids,

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sludge pumping, settleable solids, a laboratory; includes laboratory and carbon steel plate in most positions. volatile solids, mean cell residence times, equipment and instrumentation- Carbon Arc Cutting and Gouging settleability, disinfection and chemical identification, set-up and calibration, (CAC-A) may be included. dosage as relating to trickling filters, safety, sample collection and ponds, RBC, and activated sludge. preservation, written reports and WELD 133 Metal Fabrication laboratory tests. Laboratory testing Methods (3) WQMS 106 Mechanical/Physical includes hardness, alkalinity, dissolved Study and skill development of Treatment (3) oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, metal fabrication methods. Lecture Introduction to wastewater treatment; chlorine residual, pH, phosphorus, and laboratory. Measuring tools and includes the technician and their dissolved solids, total solids, suspended techniques, welding shop mathematics, responsibility, effects of waste discharges, solids, turbidity, Langlier index, fluoride blueprint reading, welding symbols, natural cycles, solids in waste discharges, and biomonitoring. sheet metal and steel plate fabrication natural cycles, solids in wastewater, project layout methods applied. NPDES permits, collection systems, WQMS 212 Drinking Water Basic blacksmithing techniques and pretreatment, primary treatment, Regulations (4) ornamental iron layout included. secondary treatment, advanced Knowledge and skills to establish Structural and pipe connection layout treatment, flow measuring, solids a compliance program for a water methods introduced. handling and disposal. treatment facility using ground water, surface water, or ground water influenced WELD 144 Welding Business WQMS 109 Water Distribution (3) by surface water sources. The student Operations (3) Purpose, selection and location of water will learn all regulatory requirements Strategies of owning a welding business. storage facilities and the operation and for microbiological and chemical Business plan, business name and maintenance of related equipment; contamination (organic, inorganic, and legal structure, start up costs, welding includes storage facilities and capabilities, radio) for monitoring and reporting project costs, project welding codes, and booster pumps, water mains and operations. specifications contacts explored. appurtenances, joints, pipe protection and installation, valves, fittings, hydrants, WQMS 227 Utility Management (3) WELD 151 Introduction to Welding (3) quality standards, contaminants and Fundamental business practices that Introductory welding course. Lecture degradation inspection and monitoring, are utilized in managing a water or and laboratory. Safe practices, theory, system troubleshooting, surveillance, wastewater utility. Topics include the principles, and use of welding and cross connections, pressure main breaks, functions of a manager, planning, cutting equipment. Oxy/Fuel, Plasma corrosion control, disinfection and organizing, staffing, public relations, Arc Cutting, Shielded Metal Arc Welding, emergency planning. financial management, regulatory Gas Metal Arc Welding, Flux Cored Arc compliance, safety, and operations Welding with sheet metal and carbon WQMS 116 C onventional Surface Water and maintenance from a management steel plate in most positions. Gas Treatment (3) perspective. Tungsten Arc Welding may be included. Coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, WELD 211 Gas Metal Arc Welding/Flex filtering, corrosion and taste and WELDING (WELD) odors; includes descriptions, operating Core Arc Welding (3) procedures, associated calculations, Study and skill development of Gas WELD 110 SMAW (3) Metal Arc Welding (GMAW/MIG) and Flux start-up and shut down procedures, Study and skill development of Cored Arc Welding (FCAW/Flux Core). laboratory tests, troubleshooting, Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW/ Lecture and laboratory. Safe practices, maintenance, safety and records. Stick). Lecture and laboratory. Safe use, theory, principles, and use of GMAW and theory, principles and practices of SMAW FCAW equipment. GMAW and FCAW WQMS 118 W astewater Collection equipment in structural applications. Systems (3) sheet metal and carbon steel plate SMAW with carbon steel plate in most Purpose, components and design of in most positions. A.W.S. welding test positions. A.W.S. welding test coupons collection systems; including safety coupons. GMAW with aluminum alloys and guided bend test. procedures, inspection and testing, may be included. pipeline cleaning and maintenance, WELD 117 O xy-Fuel and Plasma Arc WELD 230 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (3) underground repair, lift stations and Cutting (3) sewer rehabilitation. Study and skill development of Oxy/Fuel Study and skill development of Gas and Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC). Lecture Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW/TIG). WQMS 119 Basic Water Quality and laboratory. Safety practices, theory, Lecture and laboratory. Safe practices, Analysis (4) principles and practice of Oxy/Fuel and theory, principles, and use of GTAW Relation of laboratory control tests to equipment. GTAW with sheet metal and the chemistry of water and wastewater PAC equipment. Oxy/Fuel welding, Oxy/ Fuel and PAC cutting with sheet metal carbon steel plate in most positions. Also, treatment. Students gain the skills GTAW stainless steel and aluminum sheet and techniques to operate within metal in most positions. A.W.S. testing.

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WELD 235 Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc WILDLAND FIRE FSWM 141 I ntroduction to Incident Welding (3) Information (2) (Elective for Welding degree students MANAGEMENT (FSWM) Cognitive material and skills needed only) Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc FSWM 100 I ntroduction to Wildland Fire to become type 3 information officers Welding (GTAW/TIG). Lecture and Basic Fire Guard School (4) (IOF3). The course covers all aspects of laboratory. Safe practices, theory, Instruction in the primary environmental establishing and maintaining an incident principles and use of GTAW equipment. factors that affect the start and spread information operation, communicating GTAW with aluminum, low alloy steel, of wildfire and recognition of potentially with internal and external audiences high alloy steel (stainless) plate and pipe hazardous situations. This course consists to handling special situations. This in most positions. Prerequisite: WELD 230 of the curriculum and activities included course consists of the curriculum and and consent of instructor. in the National Wildfire Coordinating activities included in the National Wildfire Group Firefighting Training classes: S-110, Coordinating Group Firefighting Training WELD 240 Pipe Welding (3) S-130, S-190, I-100, L-180. program class S-203. Study and skill development of pipe FSWM 102 Firefighter Type I Training (1) welding. Lecture and laboratory. Safe FSWM 142 Portable Pumps and practices, theory, principles, use of Introduces the training needs of the Water Use (1) pipe cutting/beveling and welding Firefighter Type 1. It contains several Introduction to the three areas of supply, equipment. Shielded metal arc welding tactical decision modules designed to delivery, and application of water. with carbon steel pipe. API and ASME facilitate learning the objectives and Students will be required to demonstrate Code electrode directions in most pipe class discussion. This course is designed their knowledge of correct water use, welding positions. Oxy/Fuel, GTAW, to be interactive in nature. Topics basic hydraulics, and equipment care. GMAW, FCAW, and STT pipe welding may include fireline reference materials, Modules support required set up, be included. API and ASME test coupons. communications, and tactical decision operation, and maintenance of pump Prerequisites: WELD 110 and 117, or making. It also includes Standards for equipment. This course consists of the instructor consent. Survival and Look Up, Look Down, Look curriculum and activities included in the Around techniques. This course consists National Wildfire Coordinating Group WELD 261 Testing and Inspection (3) of the curriculum and activities included Firefighting Training classes: S-211. Advanced classroom course on testing in the National Wildfire Coordinating and weld inspection. Destructive and Group Firefighting Training classes: S-131. FSWM 143 Wildfire Chain Saws (2) non-destructive weld testing methods FSWM 103 Expanded Dispatch Introduction to the function, applied. AWS bridge and structural Recorder (1) maintenance and use of internal codes, API cross country pipe welding The structure of an expanded dispatch combustion, engine-powered chain codes, ASME pressure vessel and organization and how to effectively saws and their tactical wildland fire pressure piping codes. (On demand) perform within that organization. application. Modules support entry-level Students will develop a working training for firefighters with little or no WELD 270 Practical Applications (3) knowledge of the purpose and process of previous experience in operating a chain (Required for Welding degree only: completing the resource order and other saw and provides hands-on cutting in Capstone Course) Welding project dispatch forms and learn established surroundings similar to fireline situations. course. Discussions and directions with dispatch procedures. This course consists This course consists of the curriculum laboratory objectives. Application of of the curriculum and activities included and activities included in the National techniques and knowledge gained in in the National Wildfire Group Firefighting Wildfire Coordinating Group Firefighting previous welding courses. Guidance Training classes: D-110. Training classes: S-212. and advice of the instructor applied to welding projects. Prerequisites: WELD FSWM 140 I nitial Attack Incident FSWM 144 F ire Operations in the 110, WELD 117, WELD 133 and WELD 144 Commander (1) Wildland/Urban Interface (2) or instructor consent. Meets the training needs of the ICT4. Emphasizes the tactical decisions made It is presented in a lecture/discussion by structure and wildland firefighters WELD 295 Independent Study (1,2) format and supplemented with group when confronting fire that threatens exercises. The six instructional units cover: life, property, and improvements in the WELD 296 Topics (1-3) Readiness and Mobilization; Size-up, wildland/urban interface. Instructional Planning, and Ordering; Deployment units include interface awareness, WELD 299 Internship (1-14) and Containment; Administrative size up, initial strategy and incident Requirements, and Post-Fire Evaluation. action plan, structure triage, structure This course consists of the curriculum protection tactics, incident action plan and activities in the National Wildfire assessment and update, follow up and Coordinating Group Firefighting Training public relations, and firefighter safety in classes: S-200. the interface. This course consists of the curriculum and activities included in the

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National Wildfire Coordinating Group Coordinating Group Firefighting Training FSWM 153 I ntermediate Wildland Fire Firefighting Training class: S-215. Program class S-248. Behavior (2) Prepares the prospective supervisor FSWM 145 Crew and Dozer Boss (2) FSWM 149 I nteragency Incident to undertake safe and effective fire Addresses student proficiency in the Business Operations (1) management operations. This course performance of duties associated with Covers the general training needs of all consists of the curriculum and activities the single-resource boss position from positions for which an understanding included in the National Wildfire initial dispatch through demobilization to of interagency incident business Coordinating Group Firefighting Training the home unit. Topics include operational management is required. The Interagency class: S-290. leadership, preparation and mobilization, Incident Business Management assignment preparation, risk management, Handbook, PMS 902, is used as the FSWM 154 W ildland Fire Origin & Cause entrapment avoidance, safety and primary job aid to supplement this Determination (2) tactics, offline duties, demobilization course. It provides the basic policy Knowledge and skill bases for the and post-incident responsibilities. This and direction for incident business Wildland Fire Origin and Cause course consists of the curriculum and management. This course consists of the Determination Investigator (INVF). The activities included in the National Wildfire curriculum and activities included in the concepts taught in this course will help Coordinating Group Firefighting Training National Wildfire Coordinating Group an INVF perform at an acceptable level classes: S-230 and S-232. Firefighting Training class: S-260. on a national basis without regard to geographic boundaries. The course FSWM 146 Engine Boss (1) FSWM 150 A pplied Interagency Incident is presented by lecture, electronic Performance proficiency of the duties Business Management (1) presentations, field exercises, and class associated with engine boss, single Familiarizes the student with the discussion. This course consists of the resource (ENGB). Topics include engine application of standard agency business curriculum and activities included in the crew capabilities and limitations, practices in an interagency environment. National Wildfire Coordinating Group information sources, fire size up This course consists of the curriculum Firefighting Training program class FI-210. considerations, tactics and wildland- and activities included in the National urban interface. This course consists of Wildfire Coordinating Group Firefighting FSWM 155 Basic Incident Command the curriculum and activities included in Training Program class S-261. Systems and Facilitative Instructor (2) the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Provides the entry level Wildland Firefighting Training classes: S-231. FSWM 151 Basic Air Operations (1) Firefighter with the essential Covers aircraft types and capabilities, understanding of the Incident Command FSWM 147 Ignition Operations (2) aviation management and safety for System organizational chart, functions Training in the functional roles and flying in and working with agency aircraft, and responsibilities. This course responsibilities connected with firing tactical and logistical uses of aircraft, and combines the curriculum of the National operations. The course covers planning, requirements for helicopter take-off and Wildfire Coordinating Group Firefighter ignition procedures and techniques, and landing areas. This course consists of the Training of the ICS I 200 and I 300 levels. equipment applicable to wildland and curriculum and activities included in the prescribed fire. This course also addresses National Wildfire Coordinating Group FSWM 156 Fellowship/Leadership (1) the role of the ignition specialist or Firefighting Training class: S-270. Prepares individuals to step into a firing boss as the organization manages leadership role. Topics include: leadership escalation from a non-complex to a FSWM 152 Helicopter Crew Member (2) values and principles, transition complex situation. This course consists of Proficiency in all areas of the tactical challenges for new leaders, situational the curriculum and activities included in and logistical use of helicopters to leadership, team cohesion factors, and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group achieve efficiency and standardization. ethical decision making. This course Firefighting Training class: S-234. Topics include: aviation safety, aircraft consists of the curriculum and activities capabilities and limitations, aviation included in the National Wildfire FSWM 148 Status/Check-In Recorder (1) life support equipment, aviation Coordinating Group Firefighting Training Introduces students to the tools and mishap reporting, pre-flight checklist classes: L-280. techniques used to perform duties of and briefing/debriefing, aviation status check-in recorder (SCKN). The transportation of hazardous materials, FSWM 158 Driving for the Fire Service (2) course provides an overview of what a crash survival, helicopter operations, Familiarizes the students with the student can expect if dispatched to an helicopter field exercise. This course safety and regulations governing the incident. Each student will need access consists of the curriculum and activities driving practices and vehicle operations to a computer that has the most current included in the National Wildfire expectations in wildfire situations. This incident automation software. This Coordinating Group Firefighting Training course consists of the curriculum and course consists of the curriculum and program class S-271. activities included in the National Wildfire activities included in the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Firefighting Training program class S-216.

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FSWM 160 Field Observer (1) FSWM 203 Division/Group Supervisor (1) jurisdictional incident responses. Covers the information and skills needed Prepares the students to perform in Presented in an intense participative to serve as a field observer and/or a the role of division/group supervisor. It classroom environment, this course prescribed fire effects monitor (FEMO) will provide instruction in the support focuses on area command and staff during an interagency field activity. This of the specific tasks of division/group issues, as well as the planning, logistical course consists of the curriculum and supervisor. This course consists of the and fiscal considerations associated with activities included in the National Wildfire curriculum and activities included in the complex incident management and Coordinating Group Firefighting Training National Wildfire Coordinating Group interagency coordination. This course program class S-244. Firefighting Training program class S-339. comprises four of the 17 instructional modules making up the ICS curriculum. FSWM 162 A dvanced Firefighter Position FSWM 204 Medical Unit Leader (1) These include Command and General Task Book (3) Covers the skills and information needed Staff (Module 12), Unified Command Documentation processes for the to perform in the role of medical unit (Module 13), Major Incident Management recording of routine and special activities leader (MEDL). This course consists of the (Module 14), Area Command (Module in the field. This course consists of the curriculum and activities included in the 15). This course consists of the curriculum curriculum and activities included in the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and activities included in the National National Wildfire Coordinating Group Firefighting Training program class S-359. Wildfire Coordinating Group Firefighting Firefighting Training program to include Training program class I-400. not less than 135 hours of documented FSWM 205 I ntroduction to Wildland Fire activities. Behavior Calculations (2) FSWM 242 Multi- Agency Coordinating Covers the information and skills required Group (1) FSWM 196 Topics (1-3) for effective fire behavior prediction. Training and orientation to potential This course introduces fire behavior Multi-Agency Coordinating (MAC) FSWM 200 Ex tended Attack Incident calculations by manual methods, using Commander (1) Group members and MAC Group nomograms. The student gains an Coordinators. It provides the students Covers the training needs of the understanding of the determinants of incident commander type 3 (CT3). The with a working knowledge of the Multi- fire behavior through studying input Agency Coordination System and the six instructional units cover Information (wind, slope, fuels, and fuel moisture). Gathering, Planning, Supporting organization that helps support MAC Students also learn how to interpret Group activities. This course consists of Organization, Operations, Transitioning, fire behavior output. Local and regional and Demobilization/Administrative the curriculum and activities included environment differences are stressed. This in the National Wildfire Coordinating Requirement. This course consists of the course consists of the curriculum and curriculum and activities included in the Group Firefighting Training program class activities included in the National Wildfire M-480. National Wildfire Coordinating Group Coordinating Group Firefighting Training Firefighting Training program class S-300. program class S-390. FSWM 278 Supervised Work Experience (3) FSWM 201 T ask Force/Strike Team FSWM 240 Planning Section Chief (1) Commander (2) Leads toward becoming a planning FSWM 296 Topics (1-3) Covers the training requirements section chief type 2 (PSC2). Topics outlined in the Wildland Fire Qualification include information gathering, strategies FSWM 299 Internship (3-8) System Guide and the Positions Task and briefings, incident action plan Books (PTB) developed for the positions (IAP), interactions, forms, documents, of Task Force Leaders and Strike Team supplies, demobilization, and an Leader. This course consists of the optional technology section. In the curriculum and activities included in the final module, the students observe a National Wildfire Coordinating Group simulated planning meeting and use Firefighting Training program class S-330. the information derived to find errors FSWM 202 T actical Decision Making in in an incident action plan (IAP). This Wildland Fire (2) course consists of the curriculum and Covers the training requirements in activities included in the National Wildfire the Operations Section of the Incident Coordinating Group Firefighting Training Command System. This course consists of program class S-440. the curriculum and activities included in the National Wildfire Coordinating Group FSWM 241 A dvanced Incident Command Systems (1) Firefighting Training program class S-336. Directs the student toward an operation understanding of large single-agency and complex multi-agency/multi-

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Colorado Mesa CANDACE ABRAMS (2012), Softball Head SONIA BRANDON (2004), Director, Coach; B.S., University of Arizona; M.S., Barry Institutional Research and Assessment; University University. B.A., M.A., University of Colorado-Colorado Board of Trustees Springs; Ph.D., University of Colorado, Denver. (Date indicates year term expires.) Carrie Acree (2012), Veteran’s Education Benefits and Services Coordinator; B.S. Sam ASHLEY BRENNER (2011), Assistant Houston State University. Coordinator of Testing Services; B.A., DAN ROBINSON (2013), University of California Irvine; M.A., Emory Chair; Grand Junction CODY ADAMS (2013), Academic Success University. Coach; A.A., Front Range Community BETTY BECHTEL (2015), Grand Junction College, B.B.A., Regis University. KEVIN BRENZEL (2011), Area Coordinator KATHLEEN ECK (2014), Vail for Orchard Avenue Apartments, Tolman and RICK ADLEMAN (2001), Director, Alumni Pinon Halls; B.S., State University of New York Cecil Hernandez (2013), Aspen Relations; B.B.A., M.B.A., Mesa State College. at Portland. PAULA HERZMARK (2015), Denver KURTIS ARMSTRONG (2011), Director, TRACY BRODRICK (2004), Bookstore Community Education Center, Western JOSE D.L. Marquez (2014), Manager; B.A., Chadron State College. Colorado Community College; B.A., M.A., Englewood University of Northern Colorado. PATRICK BROOKS (2011), Graduation MARGOT PINTO (2016), Englewood Specialist; B.S., University of Wyoming. TODD AUER (2012), Assistant Football Coach; DOUG PRICE (2016), Denver B.S., Western Illinois University. JEREMY BROWN (1998), Executive Director, Information and Communication SKIP BANKS (2012), Student Conduct; B.A., DOUGLAS QUIMBY (2016), Colorado Technology; B.S., Mesa State College. Springs Mesa State College. Naomi BROWN (2013), Assistant Athletic DIANA BARNETT (2012), Assistant JOAN RINGEL (2015), Denver Trainer; B.S., Colorado Mesa University; M.Ed., Coordinator of Career Services; B.A., M.Ed., Midwestern State University. GAYLA SLAUSON (2015), Faculty Trustee University of Montana. PAUL BROWN (2012), Head Men’s Golf ROBERT WILSON (2013), Grand Junction JESSICA BARNETT (2009), Special Projects Coach. Coordinator, Academic Affairs; B.A., Colorado Mesa University of Massachusetts-Boston. COURTNEY BRUCH (2013), Instruction and Reference Librarian; B.A., University of University kevin bates (2005), Information Missouri-Kansas City; M.L.S., University of Technology Administrator; B.S.E.E., Utah State Administrators Missouri-Columbia. University. TIMOTHY FOSTER (2004), President; B.A., MARLENE BRUNET (2012), Outreach Center Kenyon College; J.D., University of Denver. TERESE BATES (2005), Associate Registrar; Manager; B.B.A., Mesa State College. B.S., M.A., Colorado Christian University. PATRICK DOYLE (2004), Vice President, LINDSAY BYERS (2011), Acting Program Finance and Administrative Services; B.S., ROBYN BILLINGS (2013), Admissions Coordinator; B.A., Colorado State University. University of Detroit; M.A., Eastern Michigan Processing Manager; B.S., Brigham Young University. University; M.B.A., Utah State University. ROBERT CACKLER (2011), Records Manager; A.A., B.A., Colorado Mesa University. CAROL FUTHEY (2004), Vice President, ANNE KNIPE BLEDSOE (2004), Reference Academic Affairs; B.S.Ed., Slippery Rock State Librarian; B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., APRIL CACKLER (2006), Academic Advisor; College; M.A., Southern Illinois University - University of Wisconsin. B.A., Mesa State College. Edwardsville; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Joey Montoya BOESE (2005), Director, Ashlee Caddy (2008), Financial Aid JOHN MARSHALL (2007), Vice President, Montrose Center; B.S., Adams State College; Counselor-Processing; B.A., Adams State Student Services; B.A., Mesa State College; M.S., Colorado State University. College; M.P.A., Capella University. M.P.A., University of Colorado-Denver. BARBARA BORST (1981), Library Instruction Paige Cadman (2009), Senior Admissions BRIGITTE SUNDERMANN (2001), Vice Coordinator; B.A., Sterling College; M.L.S., Counselor - Program Coordinator; B.A., Mesa President, Community College Affairs Indiana University. State College. and Assistant Technical Professor of Manufacturing Technology; B.S., Colorado Laura Bradley (2010), Communications MELISSA CALHOON (2012), Director State University; M.B.A., University of Phoenix. Coordinator and Box Office Manager; B.A., of Student Support Services (TRiO); B.S., Mesa State College. Slippery Rock University; M.S., Baypath ______College. 222 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

ANNETTE CALLAWAY (1999), Professional Ryan Dutch (2011), Assistant Director of KATHRYN HARRIS (2013), Admissions Staff Assistant to the Vice President for Outdoor Program, B.S. Physics, Mesa State Counselor, Processing; B.A., Mesa State Academic Affairs; B.S., M.Ed., Colorado State College. College. University. SUZANNE ELLINWOOD (2000), Purchasing Shannon Hattervig (2011), Assistant KRIS CALVIN (2008), Center for Teacher Manager; B.S., University of Colorado- Athletic Trainer; B.S., South Dakota State Education Undergraduate Coordinator; B.A., Boulder. University; M.S., South Dakota State Concordia University. University. HEATHER EXBY (2003), Director, Student MATT CANTERBURY (2007), Head Men’s Services, Western Colorado Community JIM HEAPS (1991), Assistant Athletic Director Track & Field Coach; B.A., M.A., Cal State- College; B.A., Colorado College; M.Ed., - Student Success; B.S., Mesa State College; Chico. Harvard University. M.S., Southern Illinois University. PATTI CARLSON (2011), Instructional Sue Fante (2005), Professional Staff AMANDA HOLMAN (2010), Assistant Designer-Media Specialist; B.S., Purdue Assistant to the President. Coordinator, Testing Services; B.A.S., Mesa University; M.S., Indiana University. State College. DAVID FLEMING (2005), Head Coach, NICHELLE cHANDLER (2013), Admissions Women’s Volleyball; B.A., Denison University; NICOLE HOLTON (2013), Admissions Counselor; B.A., Colorado Mesa University. M.S., University of Michigan. Counselor, Processing; B.A., Mesa State College. James CIha (2008), Customer Service SEAN FLOHR (2011), Enrollment Marketing Coordinator, Financial Aid; B.S., University of Analyst; B.B.A., M.B.A., Colorado Mesa AMY HOWARD (2008), Assistant Director, Wisconsin. University. Residence Life; B.A., Keene State College; M.A.Ed., Naropa University. NANCY CONKLIN, (2002) Coordinator, ALISHA FLORIAN (2013), Assistant Educational Access Services; B.A., M.P.A., Coordinator of Testing Services; B.A., Mesa GAIL HOWE (2012), Program Coordinator, University of Colorado. State College. Office of Development; B.A., University of Colorado-Boulder. BARBARA CRANE (2011), Special Projects BELINDA Flynn (2006), Associate Director Coordinator; B.S., University of Wyoming; of Information Systems; B.S., Mesa State Liz Howell (2012), Professional Staff M.B.A., University of Phoenix. College. Assistant to the Vice President for Student Services; B.A.S., University of Wyoming. SARAH CRON (2011), Library Director; B.A., Chris Freije (2010), Assistant Coach, M.L.S., University of Iowa; Ph.D., Indiana Wrestling; B.A., Western State College of MICHAEL HUGHES (2009), Interim Manager, University. Colorado. Intramural and Club Sports; B.A., M.B.A., Mesa State College. BRYAN DAVIS (2008), Assistant Controller; JOSH FULLMER (2006), Head Athletic B.B.A., Western Michigan University. Trainer; A.S., College of Eastern Utah; B.S., KATHY HURSHMAN (1989), Assistant Weber State University; M.S., University of Controller; A.A.S., B.B.A., Colorado Mesa RYAN DEAN (2013), Assistant Athletic Trainer; Utah. University. B.S., University of Wyoming; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Syndee Garland (2007), Academic ROBYN HUSS (2011), Transfer Manager; Advisor; B.A., University of California- B.B.A., Colorado Mesa University. DARELL DIEDRICH (2011), Coordinator of Riverside; M.A., Adams State College. Tutorial Services; B.A., Mesa State College; DAVID JAHNKE (2008), Sports Information; M.A., Northern Arizona University. JOANNA GARZA (2013), Academic Success B.S., Mesa State College. Coach; B.A., Colorado Mesa University. Patty Diekman (2008), Financial Aid JOANNA JEFFERS (2013), Grants Specialist; Counselor; A.S., SUNY Agricultural & Technical William GIlmer (2007), Student Financial B.S., Milligan College. College; B.S., Colorado State University. Advisor; A.A., B.B.A., Mesa State College. DONNA JUSTIN (2009), Professional KELLIE DIPPEL (2013), Registration Manager; Annie Gingerich (2010), Coordinator of Staff Assistant, Montrose Campus; B.S., M. Ed., University of Hawaii. International Education; B.A., Central College; Colorado State University. M.A. English, M.A. Spanish, Colorado State MICHAEL DOMINGUEZ (2013), Assistant MIKE KANSGEN (2013), Director of University. Men’s Basketball Coach; B.A., Mesa State Computing and Network Systems. College. Candace Graus (2006), Purchasing MITCHELL KARSTENS (2012), Director of Coordinator; B.S., University of Colorado. JEFFERY DOYLE (2006), Foundation CFO/ Student Life; B.S., M.A. University of Colorado- Scholarship Coordinator; B.B.A., Western DANIELLE GREINER (2012), Academic Colorado Springs. Michigan University. Advisor; B.A., Simpson College; M.A., ANDREA Keck (2008), Digital Louisiana State University. LINDA DU (1995), Associate Director, Banner Communications Manager; B.B.A., Mesa State Systems; B.A., Beijing College of Economics; CHRIS HANKS (1993), Head Coach, Baseball; College. M.B.A., State University of New York-Buffalo. B.S., Mesa State College; M.A., University of Kylie Kegans (2011), Manager of Wellness Northern Colorado. LYNN DUNCAN, R.N. (2012), CEC Assistant and Fitness; B.S., Mesa State College. Coordinator; B.S.N., South Dakota State Scott Hansen (2010), Head Women’s Golf APRIL KENT (2010), Assistant Coordinator, University. Coach; B.S., University of Colorado-Colorado Tutorial Services; B.A., University of Northern Springs. Colorado. Administration and faculty 223

BARBARA CASE KING (2005), Director, CURT MARTIN (1995), Director, Financial ERIN NIX (2012), Advisor, Student Support Human Resources; B.S., University of Aid; B.A., University of Nebraska; M.B.A., Mesa Services (TRiO); B.A., Mesa State College. Wyoming; J.D., University of Wyoming. State College. Dana Nunn (2005), Director, Media MIKAELA KING (2012), Admissions RUSS MARTIN (2012), Head Football Coach; Relations. Counselor, Denver; B.A., Colorado State B.S., M.S., Chadron State College. KELLY O’CoNNELL (2006), Institutional University; M.A., Hult International Business PAUL MASCARENAS (2012), Reference & Research Analyst; B.S., Mesa State College. School. Distance Services Librarian; B.A., Adams JOHN PARADIS (2012), Assistant Director, CHRISTINA KLEESPIES (2011), Assistant State; M.L.S., Emporia State University. Admissions; B.A., University of Wyoming. Director, University Center; B.S., Arizona State Heather MCKim (2008), Senior Research University. RENAE PHILLIPS (2008), Professional Analyst; B.S., Wichita State University. Staff Assistant to the Director of Health JILL KNUCKLES (2006), Benefits and SEAN McKINNEY (2008), Assistant Baseball Sciences; B.S., Mesa State College; M.S., Compensation Manager; B.B.A., Mesa State Coach; B.A., Mesa State College. Western Illinois University. College. KATHRYN MCMILLAN (2010), Coordinator of Charles pipher (2006), Head Coach DIANE KULL (2006), Coordinator of Career University Center Operations; B.A., University Wrestling; B.S., Colorado State University- Services; B.A., Eastern New Mexico University. of Puget Sound. Pueblo. conrad laga (2013), Videographer & GILLIAN MCKNIGHT-TUTEIN (2013), JOSHUA PITTMAN (2007), Head Media Asset Coordinator; B.S., Dixie State Assistant Vice President, Academic Affairs/ Coach, Men’s Soccer; B.B.A., University College. Director, Distance Education; A.A., College of Massachusetts-Amherst; M.Ed., East PEGGY LAMM (2012), Director of of Boca Raton; B.A., Florida International Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. Development; B.S. Ed., Emporia State University; M.S., Barry University; Ph.D., Nova Sylvia Rael (2006), Head of Public Services, University. Southeastern University. Tomlinson Library; B.A., Washington State CAROL LAWRENCE (2005), Loan MIKE MEENS (2006), Senior Systems University; M.L.I.S., Louisiana State University. Coordinator; B.S., M.A., University of North Administrator; B.S., Mesa State College. THOMAS RAMLER (2010), Environmental & Dakota. BREanne MEIER (2005), Assistant Director, Custodial Services Manager. TYLER LIFF (2011), Bookstore Assistant Student Life; B.S., M.B.A., Mesa State College. Ivan Raymond (2013), Residence Hall Manager; A.A.S., Mesa State College; B.S., JARED MEIER (2004), Director, Admissions; Coordinator of Grand Mesa Hall; B.A., M.A.Ed., Colorado State University. B.B.A., M.B.A., Mesa State College. Wingate University. DANIEL LINSACUM (2009), Strength and MARIANNE MERCADO (2006), Financial CREE ROBERTS (2008), Academic Advisor; Conditioning Coach; B.A., Mesa State College. Aid Counselor; B.F.A., University of Colorado; A.A., Colorado Mountain College; B.A., Mesa HEATHER LOPEZ (2011), Transfer Services A.A.S., Colorado Institute of Art. State College; M.A., Kansas State University. Coordinator; B.A., Colorado Mesa University. Meghan Miller (2012), Area Coordinator ANDREW RODRIGUEZ (1989), Assistant Vice CINDY LUEB (2000), Director, Sponsored of Elm, Monument and Rait Halls and Walnut President, Auxiliary Services; B.S., University of Programs; B.B.A., M.B.A., Stephen F. Austin Ridge Apartments; B.A., Slippery Rock Northern Colorado. State University. University. PAUL ROLLAND (1998), Reference/Electronic PHILLIP LUNDQUIST (2011), Residence Hall Millie Moland (2005), Director, Advising Resources Librarian; B.A., M.Ed., University of Coordinator of Garfield Hall; B.A., Whitman and Academic Services; B.A., Minot State Florida; M.L.S., Florida State University. College. University; M.S.A., Central Michigan BRYAN ROOKS (2003), Associate Athletic University. Daniel Macdonald (2006), Head Coach, Director of Compliance and Eligibility; B.S., Men’s and Women’s Tennis; B.B.A., Mesa State francesca morales (2005), Mentor for Mesa State College. College. First Generation Students; A.A., Mesa State ERIN ROOKS (2001), Special Projects College. DOUGLAS MACDONALD (2012), Landscape Coordinator, Academic Affairs; B.B.A., Mesa Design & Sustainability Manager; A.A.S., KRISTIN MORT (1995), Associate Athletic State College. Sinclair Community College; B.S., Purdue Director/Senior Women Administrator; B.A., KRISTYN ROSE (2007), Coordinator, University; M.L.A., Ball State University. Mesa State College; M.A., Colorado Christian Distance Education; B.S., M.A.Ed., Texas Tech University. Michael Mansheim (2005), University; Ph.D., Walden University. Director, Marketing and Publications; B.B.A., Bryce Newell (2010), Admissions KRYSTAL RYAN (2008), Professional Staff University of Miami. Counselor-California, B.A. Mesa State College; Assistant to the President; B.B.A., Mesa State M.S. Humboldt State University. Kent Marsh (2007), Director, Facilities College; M.B.A., Colorado Mesa University. Services; B.S., Colorado State University. anna nichols (2012), Assistant Controller/ DANNY SANDOVAL (2012), Director of Bursar; B.A., Colorado Mesa University. BEN MARTIN (2012), Assistant Football Diversity, Advocacy, and Health; B.A., Mesa Coach; B.A., Southeast Missouri State; M.S., AMANDA NICKSIC (2013), Academic State College; M.A. University of Colorado, Chadron State College. Success Coach; B.A., M.A., Chapman Denver. University. 224 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog jane sandoval (2005), Coordinator, RYAN STEWART (2012), Bookstore JAMES WALKER (2006), Head, Technical Entrepreneurial Business Institute. Department Manager. Services, Library; B.A., M.S., Loma Linda University; M.S.L.S., University of Southern BETTE SCHANS (1994), Director of SEAN STRODE (2013), Academic Advisor; California. Assessment of Student Learning and B.A., Berklee College, M.A., Northwestern Professor of Radiologic Technology; B.S., University. ERIN WARD (2009), Coordinator of Student Metropolitan State College; M.S., University Success; B.A., University of Southern PATRICIA STROPKO (2011), Bookstore of Colorado; Ph.D., Colorado State University. Indiana; M.Ed., Kent State University. Department Manager-Supplies/Inventory KENNETH SCHLAGEL (2010), Admissions Control. NATHAN WATCHMAN (2006), Assistant Counselor-Denver; B.B.A., Mesa State College; Director of Residence Life - Operations; Stephanie Summar (2012), Web Content M.B.A., University of Colorado-Denver. A.S., B.A.S., B.B.A., Mesa State College. & Social Media Coordinator; B.A., Colorado JENNIFER SCHMALZ (2013), Budget Services Mesa University. THOMAS WATSON (2002), Computer Coordinator; B.A., Colorado Mesa University. Support Services Manager; B.S., U.S. Coast MARK SUTTON (2011), Parking Services Guard Academy. SHERRY SCHREINER (2009), Director, Manager; B.S., Colorado State University. Developmental Programs; B.S., Colorado STEVEN WERMAN (1990), Assistant Vice WHITNEY SUTTON (1996), Director, State University; M.A., University of Northern President, Academic Affairs and Professor Budgeting; B.S., Mesa State College. Colorado. of Biology; B.S., M.S., California State RICK TAGGART (2010); Acting Executive University - Long Beach; Ph. D., University SALLY CROW SCHUMAN (2011), Assistant Director of Marketing and Student of Miami. Director, Financial Aid; B.A., University of Recruitment; B.S., Syracuse University; M.B.A., Montana. CHRIS WILCOX (2009), Student Services University of Phoenix. Coordinator, Montrose Campus; B.S., JESSE SCOTT (2013), Mentor of First DAVID TAYLOR (1998); Structural Trades Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; M.S., Generation Students, B.A., Mesa State Manager; B.S., Colorado Mesa University. Troy University. College. JOSEPH TAYLOR (2005), Controller; B.A., Fort ROSE WILLETT (2011), Scholarship TROY SEPPELT (2011), Director of Residence Lewis College. Coordinator, Financial Aid; B.S., University Life; B.A., University of Minnesota - Morris; of Colorado - Boulder. M.A., Western Michigan University. HOLLY TEAL (1996), Registrar; B.S., Mesa State College; M.S., Regis University. JERMAINE WILLIAMS (2009), Event ANDREW SHANTZ (2000), Head Coach, Management Coordinator; B.S., Greenville Basketball; B.A., Mesa State College. ENRIQUE TEJADA III (2012), Residence College. Hall Coordinator, North Avenue Hall; B.M.E., Erin Sharpe (2008), Head Women’s Soccer University of Tulsa. TERRI WISE (1993), Coordinator, Testing Coach; B.S., Santa Clara University. Services; A.A., Mesa State College, B.S., Tanner tetrault (2013), Assistant Abby Simpson (2009), Head Women’s Colorado Christian University. Football Coach; B.S., Black Hills State Lacrosse Coach; B.S., SUNY College Cortland. University; M.A., Chadron State College. Lynn Wilson (2012), Acting Director of DAVID SKAFF (2012), Assistant Volleyball Campus Recreation Services; A.A.S., Mesa CHAD THATCHER (2002), Outdoor Program Coach; B.A., Colorado Mesa University. State College. Coordinator; A.A., Clark College; B.A., M.Ed., TERRI SMATLA (2013), Academic Success Portland State University; Ph.D., Prescott Coach; B.S., Metropolitan State College; M.Ed., College. Adams State College. KATRICE THOMAS (2007), Head Track and GERALD SMITH (2012), Director Monfort Field Coach; B.A., Colorado State University. Human Performance Lab & Assistant DANA VANDEBURGT (2011), Assistant Professor of Kinesiology; B.S., Walla Walla Coordinator of Educational Access Services; College; M.S., University of Illinois Urbana- A.S., Colorado Mountain College; B.A., Champaign; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University of Colorado; M.A., University of University. Northern Colorado. JEREMY SMITH (2007), Graphic Artist and Allison Vickers (2013), Residence Hall Creative Project Coordinator; B.A., Mesa State Coordinator of Bunting Avenue Hall; B.A., College. University of Iowa; M.A., New York University. TINA SNOVER (2012), Graduate Coordinator, DEREK WAGNER (2009), Director, Special Center for Teacher Education; B.A., Sweet Projects and Strategic Initiatives; B.A., Mesa Briar College. State College. Ed Stehlin (2012), Aquatics Director and TAYLOR WAGNER (2012), Head Women’s Swim Coach; B.S., Western State College. Basketball Coach; B.S., University of Alaska- A. J. STEVENS (2009), Head Coach, Men’s Anchorage. Lacrosse; B.S., University of Massachusetts- Heidi Waggoner (2012), Financial Aid Dartmouth. Counselor; B.B.A., Colorado Mesa University. Administration and faculty 225

Emeritus Faculty and Visiting Professors

Colorado Mesa SUZANNE JANDRIES, B.A, M.F.A., Colorado Mesa University Professor of Art (2004). University Recent Emeritus ROBERT JOHNSON, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Visiting Professors Faculty Professor of English (2010). (Date in parentheses indicates year LONGINO LUIS LOPEZ, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Aspinall Professors Instructor of English (2012) of retirement. In accord with Faculty CARL ABBOTT (1985), History; B.A., Senate action, this list is limited to DENISE McGINNIS, B.Ed., M.B.A., Ph.D., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., faculty awarded emeritus status in the Professor of Computer Information University of Chicago. past ten years.) Systems, Business (2005). STEPHEN BENNET (1995), History; B.S., CHARLES BAILEY, B.A., M.A., Betsy McLoughlin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M.S., Illinois State University, Normal; Professor of Mathematics (2005). Associate Professor of Spanish (2006). Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Richard Ballard, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., PRASANTA MISRA, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Biology (2008). Professor of Physics (2005). William Beezley (2008), History; B.A., Chico State College; M.A., Ph.D., CATHY BARKLEY, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., JERRY MOORMAN, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D., University of Nebraska. Professor of Mathematics (2010). Professor of Business (2013). ALAN BLOCK (1996), History, Political RICHARD BERKEY, B.A., M.A., Associate LAVERNE MOSHER, B.A., M.F.A. Science, and Public Affairs; A.B., Ph.D., Professor of English (2010). Professor of Art (2009). University of California-Los Angeles; JAMES BROCK, B.S., M.S., Associate Timothy Novotny, B.A., B.S., M.A., M.A., California State University. Professor of Physical Sciences (2010). M.S.B.A., Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics PETER BOYLE (1989), History and and Statistics (2008). ESTHER BROUGHTON, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., American Studies; M.A., Glasgow Professor of English (2008). DAVID REES, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of University, Scotland; Ph.D., University of Economics (2004). California, Los Angeles. JAMES BUCKLEY, C.P.A., B.A., M.S., Professor of Accounting (2006). JANINE RIDER, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., GEORGE BROWDER (2001), History; B.S., Professor of English (2007). Memphis State University; M.A., Ph.D., HAROLD DAVENPORT, B.S., M.S., Ph. D., University of Wisconsin at Madison. Professor of Mathematics (2010). DAVID ROGERS, B.A., M.B.A., Professor of Accounting (2012). William chaloupka (2009), Political forbes Davidson, B.S., Ph.D., Science; B.S., University of Nebraska; Professor of Biological Sciences (2011). CHERYL ROY, B.S., M.S.N., Associate M.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., Professor of Nursing (2010). Matts Djos, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Professor University of Hawaii. of English (2006). JAMES RYBAK, B.S.E.E., M.S., Ph.D., WALKER CONNOR (1992), Political Professor of Engineering and Science; John R. Reitmayer Professor BYRON EVERS, B.S., M.S., Associate Mathematics (2005). Professor of Mass Communication of Political Science, Trinity College, (2013). ann sanders, B.A., M.A., Associate Hartford, Connecticut. Professor of Theatre and Dance (2006). JUDY GOODHART, R.N., B.S., M.S.N THOMAS DAVIS (2007), History; Professor of Nursing (2009). Gene Starbuck, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., A.B., Fordham University; M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Sociology (2006). Columbia University in the City of New ANDREW GORDON, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., York; J.D. State University of New York at Professor of Spanish (2012). cynthia thomas, B.S.N., M.S., Ph.D., Buffalo. Associate Professor of Nursing (2011). CHAD LEE GRABOW, B.S., M.S., M.A., ROGER DINGMAN (1991), History; B.A., Ph.D., Professor of Computer Information KATHLEEN R. TOWER, B.M.E., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D. Harvard Systems (2006). Professor of Library Science (2006). University. THOMAS GRAVES, B.A., M.A., Ed.D., susan Yeager, B.A., M.S., PE.D., Richard W. Etulain (2010), History; Professor of Psychology (2007). Professor of Kinesiology (2011). A.B., Northwest Nazarene College; CHARLES HARDY, B.A., M.F.A., Professor MARY ZIMMERER, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon; D.H.L., of Art (2006). Professor of Business (2007). Northwest Nazarene University BETTY HARRIS, B.S., M.S., Professor of RICHARD FUNSTON (1987), Political Accounting (2004). Science; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles; J.D., University of San Diego. 226 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

ANDREW GULLIFORD (1997), History; B.A., M.A.T., Colorado College; Ph.D., Bowling Green State University. GORDON MARTIN, JR. (1998), Political Science, History, and Public Affairs; A.B., Harvard College; J.D., New York University. THOMAS MILLINGTON (2002), Political Science; B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Study. ROBERT MORTIMER (1986), Political Science; B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. WILLIAM PARRISH (2000), History, Political Science and Public Affairs; B.S., Kansas State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri. EDWIN PERKINS (2003), History, Political Science, and Public Affairs; B.A., College of William and Mary; M.B.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. GLENDA RILEY (1993), History, Political Science and Public Affairs; Ph.D., University of Ohio. PAMELA RINEY-KEHRBERG (1999), History; B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. WILLIAM ROBBINS (1990), History; B.S. Western Connecticut; M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon. RANDOLPH ROTH (2012), History & Sociology. B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Yale University. JEROME STEFFEN (1988), History; B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., Eastern Michigan University; Ph.D., University of Missouri. JOHN WILLS, JR. (2005), History; B.A., University of Illinois; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. ROBERT WESTBROOK (2004), History; B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Stanford University. PETER H. WOOD (2013), History; B.A., Harvard University; B.A., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard University. ZACHARY SMITH (1994), History, Political Science and Public Affairs; B.A., California State University, Fullerton; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Campuses and FACILITIES 227

Campuses and Facilities

Colorado Mesa University’s Main Campus encompasses 86 acres in the heart of Grand Junction, Colorado. Nestled between mountains and high-desert canyons, the area is home to some of the best outdoor recreation in the country and enjoys approximately 300 days of sunshine a year. Explore Colorado Mesa University’s main campus virtually at future.coloradomesa.edu.

The Tilman M. Bishop Campus, located on Blichmann Avenue in the Foresight Industrial Park in Grand Junction, Colorado, is the result of a partnership among the College, Mesa County Valley School District 51, and area businesses. It is the main site of Colorado Mesa University’s two-year division, Western Colorado Community College (WCCC). Programs at the Bishop Campus serve the technical education needs of both university and area high school students, as well as continuing/community education needs of industry and individuals.

Located at the base of the beautiful San Juan mountains, the Montrose Campus of Colorado Mesa University provides access to a variety of associate and bachelor degree programs in a scenic, smaller community campus setting. The Montrose Campus is located on South Cascade Avenue in Montrose, Colorado, and offers courses leading to the completion of selected associate of art (AA) degrees; bachelor of art (BA) degree completion tracks; general education classes, and selected upper-division and graduate-level classes.

The Industrial Energy Training Center/South Facility, located at 29 and D Roads in Grand Junction, Colorado, houses staff offices, training areas and classrooms for the electric lineworker program.

The Whitewater Facility houses CMU’s Forensic Investigation Research Station. Academic Buildings computer lab and 9,200 square-feet of foundry. A state-of-the-art television high bay learning labs. production studio is part of the mass The Academic Classroom Building communication facilities. The building (2008) houses state-of-the-art Building B (1997), located on the design allows viewing of the studio classrooms, lecture auditoriums, Bishop Campus, houses WCCC student activities from the hallways. It is also small breakout rooms for student service offices, Chez Lena restaurant, home to KRMJ-TV, the Grand Junction collaboration, faculty offices and features and instructional space for culinary affiliate of Rocky Mountain PBS. an outdoor patio as well as a coffee bar. arts, computer-aided design, P.O.S.T. Academy and high school programs. Houston Hall (1940), the first permanent The Archuleta Engineering Center building constructed on CMU’s main (2009), located near the Bishop Campus The Fine Arts Building (2002) provides campus, was renovated and expanded in the Foresight Industrial Park, houses studio laboratories, offices, and in 2010-2011 and includes classrooms classrooms and offices for construction classrooms for studio art, graphic design and computer laboratories where a management, mechanical engineering, and mass communication. This facility variety of subject areas are taught such and machining technology programs. has a large covered outdoor work as humanities and social and behavioral The center features an electrical lab, a area for ceramics kilns and a bronze sciences. 228 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

The Moss Performing Arts Center and 3M sparger; a state-of-the-art sports, two championship racquetball/ (2002, 2009) added a 300-seat recital Colorado Time Systems with speedlights handball/wallyball courts, an indoor hall, a 150-seat experimental theatre, and aqua-grip touch pads; Paragon sand track, a 28-foot high climbing wall, choral and instrumental rehearsal top starting platforms with quickset and babysitting services. rooms, dressing rooms, offices, and anchors; a 21-foot by 10-foot digital music practice rooms to the former display system; 22 loudspeakers that The Maverick Pavilion (2009) is Walter Walker Fine Arts Center (1969). surround the pool; and 750 permanent a 45-foot-tall 13,000 square-foot The south side of the building is home balcony seats. structure, and includes heating and to classroom, office, and performance air conditioning for seasonal weather. space for theatre programs. This The Hamilton Recreation Center It is located south of the football/ portion of the building features a 605- consists of a large fitness/strength softball fields and is venue to several seat theatre with fly loft and modern training area equipped with weights indoor sport activities during inclement drama lighting systems. A three-story and cardiovascular machines, a weather. addition completed in 2009 includes recreation gymnasium for intramural a scene shop, a costume shop, and a dance studio.

The Maverick Center (2010) houses classroom and laboratories for health sciences and kinesiology programs, intercollegiate athletic facilities, and campus recreation facilities. Included in the Maverick Center are: El Pomar Natatorium, one of the premier aquatic facilities in the Western United States, featuring a 50-meter competition pool that is ten lanes wide and eight feet deep, with two movable bulkheads. A diving well includes a pair of one- and three-meter boards. The natatorium also features water agitators Campuses and FACILITIES 229

The Monfort Family Human storage areas for physical and life Administrative Performance Lab is an integrative sciences, mathematics and computer multi-use laboratory that features sciences. A special feature is the Weldon Buildings state-of-the art equipment and Lecture Hall that seats 100 persons. This provides advanced physiological and building was completely remodeled The Admissions Welcome Center biomechanical performance and in 1998 and connected to the Science (2008) houses offices for admissions wellness testing for students, faculty, Center. In 2010, a three-story, 31,900 staff responsible for assisting students staff and community members. square-feet addition to the west of the with a smooth transition into their existing facility expanded classroom and higher education experience. The The Roe F. Saunders Field House, research space for the College’s science Welcome Center offers multimedia originally constructed in 1968 and programs. meeting spaces for visitation programs expanded in 1996, provides facilities and campus tours. for a variety of physical education The Science Center (1996, 2010) and recreation activities and includes The Campus Services Center (2007) contains modern laboratories for Brownson Arena, a 2000-seat arena houses offices for purchasing, biology, chemistry, geology and that surrounds the Wayne Nelson warehouse/receiving, and mailroom environmental sciences. This building Court and is home to Colorado Mesa staff as well as offices, shops and also contains an electron microscopy University’s basketball and volleyball storage areas for facilities staff. laboratory and an herbarium. A special teams. feature is the octagonal Saccomanno Residence Life (2008), located The north end of the Maverick Center Lecture Hall that seats 120 persons directly across from the Admission complex includes the Elliott Tennis and has full multimedia capabilities. Welcome Center and next to the Center and Walker Field Stadium, home An attractive courtyard between this Outdoor Program (OP), houses staff to Maverick tennis, soccer, and lacrosse. building and Wubben Hall provides responsible for the on-campus living Immediately west of the complex are space for outdoor lectures and study. experience. In addition to providing physical education and practice athletic There is also a rooftop greenhouse that educational events and activities, fields, the Bus Bergman Field, and a houses tropical vegetation for biology Residence Life helps to create safe, softball stadium/field. students to study. positive communities; offers leadership opportunities; and manages student The John U. Tomlinson Library (1986) The Kerry Youngblood Building behavioral concerns. expands the traditional library concept (1992), located on the Bishop campus, to include physical and electronic houses WCCC administrative offices Lowell Heiny Hall (1967) is a four- holdings and circulation of 365,000 and classrooms and laboratories for level building housing faculty and library materials that are available in a automotive and diesel technology, administrative offices remodeled in variety of formats. About 23,000 journal welding, process systems technology 1986-87. The garden level/first floor titles are available via the library website and technology integration. serves as a hub for student services and more than 20 million items are including the Registrar’s Office, Financial available through Prospector. Aid, Business Office, and the Advising and Career Center. The west side of the Wubben Hall and Science Center building features the Gordon Gilbert Wubben Hall (1962, 2010) contains Amphitheater (dedicated 2009), an classrooms, laboratories, offices and outdoor gathering/classroom space. The Outdoor Program (OP) Office is Colorado Mesa University’s headquarters for outdoor adventure and education. Located next to Residence Life, the OP office offers a gathering space and provides equipment rentals for biking, boating, camping, mountaineering, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding and more. Residence Halls

Albers Hall (1935, remodeled in 2008) houses 20 residents and is Colorado Mesa University’s only all-female housing facility.

Bunting Hall (2011) is a co-ed, suite- style building that can accommodate up to 328 students. The building offers suites with standard double rooms, 230 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

lofted doubles, singles, super single Pinon Hall (1967), Rait Hall (1966) and screen TV’s; and a Wells Fargo Banking rooms. Tolman Hall (1966) provide Center. The first floor of the center also comfortable living quarters for 200 houses the MAVcard Office; Career Elm Hall (1969), remodeled in 2008, residents in each hall. Most rooms are Services; an Information Desk/Parking 2010), is a co-ed, suite-style building doubles, but a few single rooms are Services customer service area; an art that can accommodate up to 21 available. gallery; and a quiet lounge space with residents in two suites on the second gas fireplace, couches, chairs and tables. floor and 22 residents in one suite on Walnut Ridge Apartments (1978) are the first floor. furnished three- and four-bedroom The center’s second floor houses offices units available to sophomores, juniors, for The Criterion newspaper, Garfield Hall (2013) is a traditional and seniors. KMSA 91.3FM radio, the Campus style residence hall that offers Design Studio; and the Student accommodations for 208 residents in Community & Life offices that includes office and double bedrooms. Each floor boasts Outdoor Spaces meeting spaces for Associated Student three lounges and a community Government, Programming Activities kitchen. The University Center (2010) is a two- Council, Club Advisory Board, and the story, 100,000 square-foot building and Cultural Diversity Board. The building Grand Mesa Hall (2006) houses 288 four-level parking structure that serves also features a large study lounge with residents in suites with a mixture as the hub of campus life. 24-hour access for registered students; of single, super single and double administrative offices; a large ballroom; bedrooms. Each suite has at least two The facility features retail food service five meeting rooms, four of which have bathrooms with separate counter options; a convenience store; a coffee a small terrace facing the residence hall and sink facilities. Suites are furnished shop; a dining hall; a large lounge space quad; and a large south-facing terrace. with “bunkable” beds and movable for electronic gaming, pool tables, large furniture. The living area in each suite has comfortable seating and a 32” flat screen, wall-mounted television.

Monument Hall (1997) provides suite- style living. Monument Hall houses 180 residents in suites that share a bathroom. Each double-bed room is furnished with carpet and moveable furniture. North Avenue Hall (2009) is configured in five or six-bed suites in the east wing and six-bed apartments in the north wing, and houses 304 residents.

Orchard Avenue Apartments (2012) is the University’s newest residence hall. The building offers fully furnished, three and six-person apartments for 185 students. Most apartments include individual balconies as well as large community rooms and balconies on each floor. Campuses and FACILITIES 231

The Academic Quad is the quadrangle surrounded by Wubben Hall to the north, Moss Performing Arts Center to the east, Houston Hall to the south, and Tomlinson Library to the west. Throughout the year it is used as one of the campus’ major corridors, and as an outdoor meeting space for various campus events and activities. The Elm Avenue Quad sits between Monument Hall, the Admissions Welcome Center, and Albers Hall. This space is utilized for many student activities throughout the year including the Homecoming bonfire, Pinon Palooza, and some all-campus barbecues. Students are regularly found here playing frisbee, tossing a football, or socializing. The quadrangle/pedestrian mall features “Where Rivers Meet” (2006), a fountain that seeks to portray the Grand Valley’s history, geography and the legacy of the junction of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers. Delta Field is located in front of the Fine Arts Building. The space is used throughout the year for various campus activities and contains expansive fields for intramural and club sports. The Development Center (2004), located on North Avenue at College Place, houses offices, storage space and the Little Mavericks Learning Center (2010) which offers childcare to Colorado Mesa University students, faculty, and staff. 232 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

Glossary of Terms

ACADEMIC PROBATION - The failure of a ACADEMIC YEAR - The traditional cycle of The “audit” status must be recorded in the student to meet the standards required for academic terms: fall and spring. Registrar’s Office within the add/drop deadlines. good standing. Student will be placed on academic probation for one semester and must ACCREDITATION - Certification that the BACCALAUREATE DEGREE - Bachelor's degree: maintain a 2.00 GPA or higher to avoid academic university or program has met established the traditional undergraduate degree. Awarded suspension. standards and is recognized by appropriate for completion of an undergraduate program of accrediting agencies. study, usually of 120 semester hours. This can be ACADEMIC RENEWAL - Following an absence completed in four years of study with an average from the college of at least five years, a student ADD/DROP - A period of time when students of 15 semester hours per semester in the fall and may apply for “academic renewal.” If approved, can alter class schedules by adding or dropping spring terms. Bachelor’s degrees are comprised of none of the course credits and grades earned at classes or changing sections of a course. Prior to general education courses, a major, and elective Colorado Mesa University prior to the five-year the first day of the semester, schedule changes courses. minimum absence will be used for meeting can be processed via the Web. Instructor graduation requirements or in determining the signatures must be obtained beginning the first CAPSTONE - A course, project, paper, student's grade point average. day of the classes through the specified ending presentation, event, or exhibit that must be date each semester. completed, usually in the senior year, before ACADEMIC RESIDENCY - A specified minimum graduation. A capstone demonstrates in an number of credit hours that must be earned at ADMISSION - Status of students who have integrated way everything that has been learned Colorado Mesa University to receive a degree. applied and have been accepted to the while pursuing a particular major. university. ACADEMIC SUSPENSION - Denial of all COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY FUND (COF) - The registration privileges for a specified period of ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE - Degree awarded upon method of funding state tax dollar support for time (minimum one full semester) because of satisfactory completion of a prescribed, planned students enrolled in Colorado public higher failure to meet minimum academic standards. program of approximately 60 credit hours. This education via a voucher. Implemented in fall Suspended students must be readmitted to the can be completed in two years of study with an 2005, qualifying students create an account at the college before continuing enrollment. average of 15 semester hours per semester in the College Access Network into which the fall and spring terms. voucher is deposited and, upon registration by ACADEMIC TERM - A period of instruction. AUDIT - A registration status which allows a the student at a participating institution, then is During the fall and spring, the term is a standard transferred to the college. 15-week semester. During the summer, various student to attend and to participate in a course length periods of instruction are offered. The without benefit of a grade or academic credit. term regular semester refers to fall or spring semester. Glossary of tERms 233

CONCENTRATION - An area of interest Science (B.S.) and Professional, Technical or Other GENERAL EDUCATION - A university-wide within a major that is defined by a group of Programs (PTO). requirement of basic courses that form the courses. Number of hours will vary by major. foundation of all undergraduate degree Concentrations are generally associated with 4 DISCIPLINE - A recognized subject area or field programs. year programs (B.A., B.B.A., B.S., etc). of study within which courses are structured. GENERAL EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONCURRENT STUDENT - A high school DISTANCE LEARNING - Courses offered for (GED) DIPLOMA - Award granted upon passing student who is registered for a university class. credit by an alternative means of delivery for tests that measure student learning normally students who need university credit but are acquired by completing a typical high school CONTACT HOURS - The number of weekly hours unable to travel to campus on a regular weekly program of study. student meets in a class, lab, studio, clinical, or basis (e.g. telecourses, interactive video, or class/lab. online). GOOD STANDING - A sliding scale of academic status achieved by students for semester hours COREQUISITE - Course(s) that must be taken DOUBLE MAJOR - Completing the requirements attempted. Determines eligibility of students to concurrently with one or more additional of more than one major within the same degree continue to register for university course work. courses. Subject matter often is similar or designation (e.g., a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of complementary. Science, Bachelor of Business Administration). A GRADE IMPROVEMENT - Repeat of any student could earn one baccalaureate degree course more than once for academic credit at COURSE LEVELS - with multiple majors (e.g., Bachelor of Arts with Colorado Mesa University done so only for “grade The numbering system of courses: a double major in Psychology and Sociology). improvement.” Academic credit is awarded only Developmental/Preparatory: Students must meet all the requirements for the once and the last grade received is the one used 099 and lower degree and for each major. to compute the student's cumulative grade Lower Division: point average and to fulfill requirements for the 100 - 199 Freshman DUAL/DOUBLE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE - degree. Some exceptions to this policy apply. 200 - 299 Sophomore Completing the requirements of more than one Upper Division: major with different degree designations (e.g., a GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA) - A measure 300 - 399 Junior Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of a student's academic performance which is 400 - 499 Senior of Business Administration). A student earning computed by dividing credit hours attempted Graduate: two baccalaureate degrees (e.g., Bachelor of into grade points earned to determine the mean 500 and above Arts in History and a Bachelor of Science in average grade of all courses taken for credit. Mathematics) must meet all the requirements Does not include courses taken as pass/fail. COURSE LOAD - The total number of semester for each degree, each major, and additional hours registered for in a given academic term. requirements found in the “Undergraduate GRADUATE CERTIFICATES – Contain graduate requirements section” for the second level (5xx-7xx) courses. A student must be CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE - An baccalaureate. admitted as a graduate student to attempt a average GPA calculated by dividing the total graduate certificate. number of quality points/grade points obtained EARNED HOURS - Credit hours earned for (credit hours X grade points) by the number college-level courses (numbered 100 and above) GRADUATE STUDENT - A student who has of credit hours attempted during all academic with a passing grade. earned a baccalaureate degree and who is sessions at Colorado Mesa University. Grades pursuing a master's degree program. from other institutions are not included in the ELECTIVES - Courses selected at a student's calculation. discretion. Electives may be partially restricted, GRADUATION HONORS - Recognition of such as a selection from a specified group graduating students who meet the following DEAN'S LIST - Recognition of students who of courses identified to fulfill a particular academic criteria: achieve a grade point average of between 3.50 requirement or they may be “free” electives • With Distinction - Associate degree graduates and 3.99 while enrolled for a minimum of 12 which may be selected from any course for with cumulative grade point averages of 3.50 semester hours in a fall or spring semester. which the student has proper prerequisites. to 3.74. Electives provide opportunities for students to DEGREE - A title which the university • With High Distinction - Associate degree pursue personal interest and to gain general confers on a student who has satisfactorily graduates with cumulative grade point knowledge. completed a required course of study. Degree averages of 3.75 to 4.00. requirements are established by the university • Cum Laude - Baccalaureate degree graduates EMPHASIS - An area of interest within a major with cumulative grade point averages of 3.50 and departments, and are approved by that is defined by a group of courses. Number of the university’s faculty, administration, and to 3.74. hours will vary by major. Emphases are generally • Magna Cum Laude - Baccalaureate degree authorized by the Colorado Commission on associated with 2-year programs (A.A., A.S.. etc.). Higher Education. The university offers degrees graduates with cumulative grade point at three levels: associate, baccalaureate, and ENROLLMENT - Registration for course work and averages of 3.75 to 3.89. master’s. payment of fees constitutes official enrollment. • Summa Cum Laude - Baccalaureate degree For financial aid purposes, a student must enroll graduates with cumulative grade point DEGREE CATEGORY - One of three degree for 12 credit hours to be classified full-time; for averages of 3.90 to 4.00. categories offered at Colorado Mesa University other purposes, the minimum may be higher. For that may differ in lower division requirements graduate students, a nine-hour load is typical for beyond general education. These categories full-time classification. include the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of 234 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

HIGHER EDUCATION ADMISSION in languages); (4) Minimum SAT or ACT scores or REQUIREMENTS (HEAR) (also referred to as sub-scores; (5) Minimum placement test scores; the pre-collegiate curriculum) - Requirements or (6) Acceptance into a certain program. established by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education for students graduating from PRESIDENT'S LIST - Recognition of students high school in spring 2008 or later and seeking who achieve a grade point average of 4.00 while admission to a Colorado public four-year college enrolled for a minimum of 12 semester hours in a or university. fall or spring semester.

INDEPENDENT STUDY - An upper-division PRIORITY REGISTRATION - Designated period course designated by a special number within of early registration for currently enrolled a discipline. Allows a student to pursue an students. individual project independently, for credit, Program Sheet - A document listing degree under the supervision of an instructor. Requires requirements for graduation. consent of the instructor. QUALITY POINTS -The number points attributed LEVELING COURSES - A set of equivalent to a grade (A=4, B=3, C=2, etc.) times the courses for graduate students who have not number of credit hours in the course. completed specific undergraduate courses prior to beginning graduate study. REGISTRAR - Office responsible for registering students into classes, maintaining academic LOWER DIVISION COURSE - A course that records, and certifying degree requirements for carries a 100 - 199 or 200 - 299 number. graduation. MAJOR - A set of required courses from one or STUDENT CLASSIFICATION - Student level more departments in a subject chosen as the based on the number of semester hours student's principal field of study. Designed to successfully completed as follows: provide students with the knowledge, skills, and 0 - 30 Freshman experiences necessary to pursue a specific career 31 - 60 Sophomore and/or advanced study. 61 - 90 Junior MASTER'S DEGREE - A post-baccalaureate 91 - above Senior degree. All master's degree candidates must Technical CERTIFICATE - Award for the maintain a 3.00 GPA to remain in good academic completion of technical coursework designed standing. to train students for specific skills required for MATRICULATION - Enrollment as an admitted, employment in various vocational occupations. degree-seeking student. TOPICS COURSES - Courses offered from time MINOR - An officially-recognized secondary field to time that contain material of special interest of study requiring fewer units than the major. A within a specific discipline not considered minor must be in an approved subject area and elsewhere in the curriculum. Prerequisites vary is less comprehensive than the major. with course material, and enrollment requires consent of the instructor. MULTIPLE CONCENTRATIONS - Completing the requirements of more than one TRANSCRIPT - An official document issued by concentration within the same major (e.g., the Registrar that lists the entire academic record Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication with of a student at the university. a double concentration in Print Media and TRANSFER CREDIT - Course work completed Public Relations). Students must meet all the at another institution that is accepted for credit requirements for the degree, major, and each toward a degree at the university. Grades from concentration. these courses are not included in calculation of a PREREQUISITE - Requirement(s) that must be student's cumulative GPA. taken and passed before a higher level course UNDERGRADUATE - A student working toward may be taken. Sometimes, permission of the a technical certificate, an associate degree, or a instructor or another requirement (such as baccalaureate degree. graduate status) may be a prerequisite for a course. Prerequisites may include: (1) Course or UPPER LEVEL COURSE - A course that carries a courses that must be completed before a higher- 300 - 399 or 400 - 499 number. level course may be taken, sometimes allowed by the instructor to be taken concurrently; (2) Courses outside the major department that must be completed before admission to the major; (3) Successful completion of high school courses (as Glossary of tERms 235

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- A - High School Students...... 15, 19 Academic Advisor, Graduate...... 103 Home Schooled Students...... 15 Academic Buildings ...... 227 International Students...... 18 Academic Calendar...... inside front cover Non-Degree Seeking Students ...... 18 Academic Classroom Building...... 227 Non-Traditional Students...... 16 Academic Honors Program...... 100 Probationary Admission Status...... 17 Academic Integrity...... 45 Returning Students...... 17 Academic Policies, General...... 40 Transfer Students...... 15, 17 Good Standing...... 41, 233 Admission Procedures, Graduate...... 99 Grade Improvement...... 42, 233 Master of Business Administration...... 106 Grading System...... 40 Master of Arts in Education...... 107 Graduate Program...... 102 Admission to Specific Undergraduate Programs ...... 17 Probation, Academic...... 41, 232 Admission Welcome Center...... 229 Renewal, Academic...... 42, 232 Advanced Placement...... 18, 42 Residency, Academic...... 50, 54, 232 Advising, Academic Standards, Academic...... 41 Undergraduate (see Advising and Career Center)...... 32 Student Conduct...... 45 Graduate...... 103 Suspension, Academic...... 41, 232 New Students (Student Orientation)...... 22 Transfer Student...... 15 Affirmative Action Officer...... 3 Academic Probation...... 41, 232 Albers Hall...... 229 Academic Quad...... 231 Alcohol/Drug Education (AWARE Program)...... 33 Academic Renewal...... 42, 232 American Sign Language...... 163 Academic Residency ...... 50, 54, 232 Animal Research, Human Subject and...... 106 Academic Standards...... 41 Animation (see Graphic Design and Visual Communications). . 75, 116 Academic Suspension...... 41, 232 Anthropology (see Sociology)...... 114 Academic Term...... 232 Applied Studies, General Education, Baccalaureate...... 49-53 Academic Year...... 232 Archaeology...... 58, 115 Acceleration of University Study...... 22 Archuleta Engineering Center...... 227 Accounting...... 56, 112 Art ...... 59, 115 Accreditation...... 8, 232 Art (leading to K-12 teacher licensure)...... 59, 115 Accuplacer...... 15, 20, 22 Assessment and Counseling Test ...... 21 ACT or SAT Scores Assessment and Evaluation after Enrollment...... 22 General Undergraduate...... 15, 20, 21 Associate Degree Requirements...... 54, 55 Acting (see Theatre)...... 95 Associate Degrees Activities, Student...... 32 (also see Programs of Study)...... 9-14, 52, 232 Activities Council, Colorado Mesa University...... 33 Associated Student Government...... 34 Adapted Physical Education (see Kinesiology)...... 77 Athletic Training (see also Kinesiology)...... 77, 171 Add/Drop...... 38, 232 Athletics, Intercollegiate...... 34 Administration ...... 221 Attendance...... 21, 37 Administrative Buildings...... 229 Audit/No-Credit Desired Courses...... 39, 232 Administrative Office Technology...... 57, 197 Automotive Service (see Transportation Services)...... 96, 215 Admission Appeals, Graduate...... 103 Automotive Technology (see Transportation Services) ...... 96, 215 Admission Criteria, Graduate...... 102 Admission Expiration, Graduate...... 103 - B - Admission Information, Undergraduate...... 15, 224 Baccalaureate Degree Requirements...... 49-54 Admission Assessment...... 21 Baccalaureate Degrees (see Programs of Study)...... 9, 49, 232 Confirmation of Attendance...... 21 Behavioral Clinical Services...... 32 Early Scholars Program...... 19 Biology...... 61, 122 How to Apply...... 15 Biology Emphasis, Associate of Science Degree...... 61 Precollegiate Curriculum Requirements...... 21 Biology (leading to secondary teacher licensure)...... 61 Student Orientation...... 22 Bishop Campus...... 8, 227 Admission, MBA Program...... 106 Bookstore ...... 28 Admissions Office...... 15, 32 Broadcasting (see Mass Communication)...... 79, 171 Admission Procedures by Student Classification ...... 16 Building B (Bishop Campus)...... 227 236 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

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Bus Bergman Field...... 229 Course Level Requirements, Graduate...... 104 Business...... 61, 126 Course Load, Undergraduate...... 40, 233 Bachelor of Applied Science Degree...... 61 Credit Hour Requirements Bachelor of Business Administration Degree...... 61 Associate Degrees...... 55 Business Administration Emphasis, Associate of Arts Degree . . . . .61 Baccalaureate Degrees...... 49 Criminal Justice...... 68, 137 - C - Criterion, The...... 33 CAD / Computer-Aided Design Technology Culinary Arts...... 68, 139 (see Manufacturing Technology)...... 78, 174 Cultural Diversity Board...... 33 Calendar, Academic ...... inside front cover Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA)...... 41, 233 Campus Dining...... 29 Campus Directory...... inside back cover - D - Campus Map...... back cover Dance (see Theatre) ...... 95, 212 Campus Parking...... 29, 37 Day Care Center (see Little Mavericks Learning Center)...... 34 Campus Recreation Services...... 35 Dean's List...... 44, 233 Campus Security Act...... 3 Decision Support (see Computer Information Systems)...... 65 Campus Services Center...... 229 Declaring a Major...... 48 Capstone...... 107, 232 Deficiencies...... 47 Career Center, Advising and...... 33 Degree...... 233 Catalog Under Which a Student Graduates...... 48 Degree Category...... 50, 233 CDHE Statewide Guaranteed Transfer Courses...... 53 Degree Plan, Graduate...... 103 Center for Teacher Education...... 98 Degree or Certificate Requirements Certificate, Technical (see Programs of Study)...... 9-14, 55, 234 Associate...... 54 Challenge Examination, Credit by...... 42 Baccalaureate...... 49 Chemistry...... 64, 128 Certificate (Technical) ...... 54 Classical Studies...... 64 Graduate Programs...... 102 Classification Status of Student...... 40 Dentistry, Pre-...... 10 CLEP ...... 22, 42 Department Challenge Examinations...... 42 College Based Programs (Federal)...... 24 Departments, Academic and Administrative (see College Level Examination Program (CLEP) ...... 22, 42 Directory)...... inside back cover College Opportunity Fund (COF)...... 20, 27, 232 Development Center...... 231 Colorado Grants...... 23 Developmental Education ...... 101 Colorado Mesa University Foundation Programs...... 23 Dining Contract, Student Housing and ...... 30 Colorado Student Aid Programs...... 23 Disabled, Physical or Learning (see Educational Communication, Mass...... 79, 177 Access Services)...... 33 Community and Outdoor Spaces...... 230 Discipline...... 233 Computational Science (see Mathematics)...... 80, 179 Distance Learning...... 233 Computer-Aided Design Technology Diversity Statement...... 8 (see Manufacturing Technology)...... 78, 174 Double Emphasis ...... 55 Computer Information Systems...... 65, 130 Double Major...... 233 Computer Information Systems Emphasis, Associate of Arts Degree. . 65 Dual-Listed Courses, Graduate...... 104 Computer Science...... 66, 132 Dual/Double Baccalaureate Degree...... 233 Computer Science Emphasis, Associate of Science Degree...... 66 Concentration...... 233 - E - Concurrent Enrollment, High School...... 19 Early Scholars Program ...... 19 Conditional Admission, Graduate...... 103 Economics (see Business Administration)...... 61, 142 Confirmation of Attendance...... 21 Education, Early Childhood, Director...... 69, 143 Construction Management...... 67, 134 Education, Early Childhood Emphasis, Associate of Arts Degree. . .69, 143 Construction Technology...... 67, 135 Education, Early Childhood, Teacher...... 69, 143 Contact Hours...... 233 Education, Teacher Licensure...... 69, 144 Cooperative Education...... 43 Education, Master of Arts Degree...... 107, 148 Core Transfer Curriculum, General Education Educational Access Services...... 33 (see Guaranteed Transfer Courses)...... 53, 54 El Pomar Natatorium ...... 228 Corequisite...... 233 Electives...... 233 Counseling (see Advising or Counseling Services)...... 32, 33 Elective Studies in Business, Music...... 84 Counseling Psychology (see Psychology)...... 89 Electric Lineworker...... 70, 151 Counseling Services...... 32, 33 Elementary Education Licensure...... 70, 98, 144 Course Descriptions...... 112 Elliott Tennis Center ...... 229 Alphabetical Subject Index 237

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Elm Hall...... 230 - G - Emergency Contact Services ...... 34 General Education...... 49, 233 Emergency Medical Technician...... 70, 152 Core Transfer Curriculum...... 51, 53 Emeritus Faculty...... 225 General Education Course Requirements Emphasis...... 233 Associate of Arts, Science, Applied Science...... 54-55 Energy Management...... 71, 152 Baccalaureate...... 49 Engineering...... 71, 153 General Information...... 7 Engineering, Mechanical...... 81 General Office Administration (see Administrative Engineering, Pre-...... 81 Office Technology)...... 57 English...... 71, 155 General Policies, MBA Program...... 102 English (leading to secondary teacher licensure)...... 71 Geographic Information Science and Technology...... 73 English Requirement...... 48, 52 Geography...... 163 Enrollment...... 233 Geology (leading to secondary teacher licensure)...... 74 Enrollment Prior to Admission, Graduate...... 103 Geology Emphasis, Associate of Science Degree Entrepreneurship (see Business)...... 61 (see Geosciences)...... 74, 163 Environmental Geology (see Geosciences)...... 74 Geology, Environmental Geology (see Geosciences)...... 74, 163 Environmental Science and Technology...... 72, 157 Geosciences...... 74 Exercise Science...... 72 German (see Foreign Languages)...... 161 Expenses...... 26 Glossary...... 232 Golden Scholars Program...... 39 - F - Grade Improvement...... 42, 233 Facilities, University...... 227 Grade Point Average (GPA)...... 41, 233 Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, and Visiting Professors...... 225 Calculation for Graduation...... 41 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)...... 3, 39 Graduate...... 105 Federal Pell Grant Program ...... 24 Minimum...... 41 Federal Student Aid Programs...... 24 Grades, Graduate...... 105 Fees and Other Expenses...... 26 Grading System ...... 40 FERPA, Family Educational Rights Graduate Programs-Admission, Requirements...... 102 And Privacy Act...... 3, 39 Graduate Student ...... 233 Final Credit Requirements Taken at Another College...... 47 Graduation Checklist Finance (see Business)...... 61, 160 Undergraduate...... 47 Financial Aid...... 23 Graduate...... 105 College Based Programs (Federal)...... 24 Graduation Requirements Colorado Graduate Grants...... 23 Undergraduate...... 47 Colorado Student Aid Programs...... 23 With Honors...... 44, 233 Colorado Work-Study...... 23 Graduation with Honors...... 44, 233 Federal Pell Grant Program...... 24 Grand Mesa Hall...... 230 Federal Student Aid Programs...... 24 Grants, Student (see Financial Aid)...... 23 General Guidelines...... 24 Graphic Design...... 75, 116 Colorado Mesa University Foundation Programs...... 23 Scholarships...... 23 - H - Student Loans...... 23 Hamilton Recreation Center...... 228 Tuition Payment Plan...... 23 Health and Fitness Promotion (see Kinesiology)...... 77, 171 Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) ...... 24 Health Information Technology Systems...... 75 Financial Aid Office...... 23, 34 Health Insurance, Student...... 29 Financial Planning...... 29, 34 Health Sciences, Pre- ...... 10 Fine Arts...... 59, 161 Health Services, Student...... 34 Fine Arts Building...... 227 High School Concurrent Enrollment...... 19 Fine Arts Organizations...... 33 Higher Education Admission Requirements...... 21, 234 Food Service (see Campus Dining)...... 31 Higher Education Opportunity Act ...... 2 Foreign Languages...... 161 History...... 75, 167 Forensics...... 73 History, Art...... 59, 115 Foundation, Colorado Mesa University...... 23 History (leading to secondary teacher licensure)...... 75 French (see Foreign Languages)...... 161 Honor Lists...... 44 Freshman Year Initiative (F.Y.I) Program...... 100 Honors Program...... 100 Honor Societies...... 44 Hospitality Management...... 61, 76, 169 Housing, Student (see Residence Life and Dining) ...... 29 238 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

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Houston Hall...... 227 Major, Declaring...... 47 Human Services (see Sociology)...... 92 Management (see Business Administration)...... 61, 175 Human Subject and Animal Research, Graduate...... 106 Manufacturing Technology...... 78 Humanities Emphasis, Associate of Arts Degree...... 76, 170 Marketing (see Business)...... 61, 177 Mass Communication...... 79, 177 - I - Master's Degree...... 107, 234 Immunization Policy...... 19 Master of Arts in Education...... 11, 107 Incomplete and In-Progress Grades...... 40, 105 Master of Business Administration...... 11, 104 Independent Study...... 43, 234 Mathematics...... 80, 179 Industrial Energy Training Center/South Campus ...... 227 B.S./B.B.A. Degree Distinction...... 52 Information Systems (see Business)...... 61 Mathematics (leading to secondary teacher licensure)...... 80 Insurance...... 76 Mathematics Emphasis, Associate of Science Degree...... 80 Intercollegiate Athletics...... 34 Mathematics Requirement...... 48 Interdisciplinary Major (see Liberal Arts)...... 77 Matriculation...... 234 International Student Admission, Graduate...... 103 MAVCard/Identification Card...... 35 International Baccalaureate...... 18, 42 Maverick Center, The...... 228 International Students Maverick Pavilion, The...... 228 Admission, Graduate...... 103 Meal Plans...... 31 Admission, Undergraduate...... 18 Mechanical Engineering...... 81 International Student Exchange Program...... 35, 101 Mechanical Engineering Technology...... 82 International Studies...... 76, 170 Media Organizations...... 33 Intramurals (see Campus Recreation Services)...... 35 Media Strategies and Applications (see Mass Communication). .79, 177 Medical Office Assistant ...... 83, 185 - J - Minor (also see entries in Programs of Study) ...... 54, 234 Japanese (see Foreign Languages)...... 161 Monfort Family Human Performance Lab, The...... 229 Montrose Campus...... 8, 227 - K - Monument Hall...... 230 K-12 Education Licensure...... 70, 98, 144 Moss Performing Arts Center...... 228 Kerry Youngblood Building...... 229 Multiple Concentrations, Baccalaureate Degree...... 54, 234 Kinesiology...... 77, 170 Multimedia Animation...... 185 Kinesiology (leading to K-12 teacher licensure)...... 77 Music ...... 84, 186 Kinesiology (Wellness) Requirement...... 48, 50, 55 Music (leading to K-12 teacher licensure) ...... 84 KMSA, 91.3 FM...... 33 Music Theatre (see Theatre)...... 95

- L - - N - Learning Disabled (see Educational Access Services)...... 33 National Student Exchange...... 35 Learning Progress Evaluation...... 44 Network Technician (see Technology Integration)...... 94 Leveling Courses, MBA Program...... 107 New Media (see Mass Communication)...... 79, 177 Liberal Arts (Interdisciplinary Major)...... 77 New Students: Liberal Arts (leading to elementary teacher licensure)...... 77, 98 Freshman Year Initiative (F.Y.I.) Program...... 100 Liberal Arts, Music...... 84 Student Orientation and Welcome Week...... 22 Library, Tomlinson...... 34, 229 No-Credit-Desired/Audit Courses...... 39, 232 Licensure, Teacher...... 54, 70, 98 Non-Traditional Credit...... 42 Literary Review, The ...... 33 North Avenue Student Housing...... 230 Literature (see English)...... 71 Nurse Aide...... 85, 190 Literature and Language (see Spanish)...... 92 Nursing...... 85, 190 Little Mavericks Learning Center...... 34, 231 Loans, Student (see CMU Foundation Programs)...... 23 - O - Lowell Heiny Hall...... 229 Office Administration, General (see Administrative Office Technology)...... 57, 197 - M - Optometry, Pre-...... 10 Machine and Manufacturing Trades Orientation...... 22 (see Manufacturing Technology)...... 78, 174 Outdoor Program...... 33 Manufacturing Technology Emphasis, Associate of Applied Outdoor Program Office...... 229 Science Degree ...... 78 Overview of Colorado Mesa University...... 7 Manufacturing Supervision...... 78 Machining Technology (see Manufacturing Technology...... 78 - P - Main Campus ...... 227 Parking, Campus...... 29, 135 Major ...... 234 Peace Officer Standards and Training (see Criminal Justice) . . . 68, 137 Alphabetical Subject Index 239

SUBJECT PAGE SUBJECT PAGE Pell Grant Program ...... 24 Rait Hall...... 230 Personal Computer Recommendation...... 29 Real Estate Broker...... 91, 208 Personal Training (see Kinesiology)...... 77 Recreation, Intramural Services...... 35-36 Personnel, Colorado Mesa University Refunds (see Fees, or Tuition, or Housing, Student)...... 29 Administrative Personnel...... 221 Registrar's Office...... 36, 234 University Officers...... 221 Registration Policies and Procedures Faculty List (see Programs of Study)...... 56 Add/Drop, Schedule Adjustments...... 38, 232 Recent Emeritus Faculty...... 225 FERPA...... 3, 39 Visiting Professors List...... 225 Golden Scholars...... 39 Philosophy...... 87, 199 Good Standing...... 233 Philosophy and Goals of a Baccalaureate Education...... 49 Immunization Policy...... 19 Physical Education (see Kinesiology)...... 77 No Credit Desired/Audit...... 39 Physical or Learning Disabled (see Educational Access Services). . . .33 Selective Service...... 19 Physical Therapy, Pre-...... 10 Student Liability for Tuition and Fees ...... 28, 37 Physics ...... 88, 200 Withdrawal Procedures...... 38 Physics Emphasis, Associate of Science Research Activities, Graduate...... 106 Degree ...... 88 Research Misconduct, Graduate...... 106 Pinon Hall...... 230 Research Practicum/Thesis, MBA program...... 107 Plagiarism...... 45, 105 Residence Halls and Apartments (see Residence Life)...... 29 Police Academy (see Peace Officer Standards and Training)...... 87 Residence Life...... 29, 229 Policies Residency Requirement, Colorado Mesa University Courses Affirmative Action...... 3 Associate Degree...... 54 Campus Security Act...... 3 Baccalaureate Degree...... 50 Diversity Statement ...... 8 Graduate Programs...... 102 Drug-Free Workplace Statement...... 3 Residency Status, Tuition ...... 21, 26 FERPA...... 3, 39 Room and Board Charges...... 31 Political Science...... 88, 202 Post-Baccalaureate Licensure Options ...... 109 - S - Practical Nurse (see Nursing)...... 85 SAT or ACT Scores...... 15, 21 Pre-Health (Dentistry, Medicine, Optometry, Physical Therapy, Saunders Field House...... 229 Veterinary Medicine) ...... 10 Brownson Arena...... 229 Pre-Engineering...... 81 Wayne Nelson Court ...... 229 Pre-Forestry ...... 10 Scholarships...... 23 Pre-Medical Technician...... 10 Science Center, The...... 229 Pre-Pharmacy ...... 10 Second Associate Degree...... 55 Prerequisite...... 234 Second Baccalaureate Degree and Concentrations President's List ...... 44, 234 within One Degree...... 54 Priority Registration...... 234 Secondary Education Licensure...... 99 Privacy Act (see FERPA)...... 3, 39 Selective Service...... 19 Process Systems Technology...... 89 Social Science...... 92, 208 Process Technology...... 203 Social Science Emphasis, Associate of Arts Degree...... 92, 208 Program Sheet ...... 47, 234 Sociology...... 92, 209 Program Time Limits, Graduate...... 105 Social Work...... 91, 209 Programs of Study...... 11-14, 56-97 Sophomore Year Experience...... 100 MA Program...... 107 Spanish...... 92, 161 MBA Program...... 107 Speech...... 93, 210 Psychology...... 89, 204 Sponsored Programs, Graduate...... 106 Psychology, Counseling (see Psychology)...... 89, 205 Sport Management ...... 93 Public Accounting (see Accounting)...... 56, 112 Stampede Welcome Week...... 22 Public Administration/Public Safety...... 90, 206 Standards, Academic...... 41 Public Relations/Advertising (see Mass Communication)...... 79 Statistics (see Mathematics)...... 80, 210 Public Safety Diving...... 90 Student Activities...... 32-36 Student Appeals...... 46 - Q - Student Bill of Rights...... 9 Quality Points...... 40, 234 Student Classification Status...... 40, 234 Student Conduct...... 45 - R - Student Credit Load and Limitations Radio Station, Student (KMSA)...... 33 Undergraduate...... 40 Radiologic Technology ...... 91, 206 Graduate Time Limit...... 105 240 colorado mesa university | 2013-2014 Catalog

SUBJECT PAGE SUBJECT PAGE Student Financial Planning...... 29 Transfer Credit (definition)...... 234 Student Government, Associated...... 33 Final Credit Requirements...... 47 Student Health Center...... 34 Transcript Evaluation...... 15-16, 36 Student Health Insurance...... 29 Transfer Credit AP/IB...... 18 Student Housing (see Residence Life)...... 29 Transfer Credit, Graduate ...... 102 Student Liability for Tuition and Fees...... 28, 37 Transfer Credit, Military...... 18 Student Loans...... 23-24 Transfer Services...... 36 Student Orientation...... 22 Transportation Services ...... 96, 215 Student Preparation/Academic Engagement...... 40 Travel, Tourism, and Recreation Management (see Business). . . 61, 63 Student Probation/Termination, MBA Program...... 105 Tuition and Fees (see Expenses) ...... 27 Student Services...... 35 Refunds...... 29 Student Termination, Graduate...... 105 Residency Classification...... 26 Studio Art (see Art)...... 59 Schedule...... 28 Study Abroad (see International Student Exchange Program). . 35, 101 Student Liability for Tuition and Fees ...... 28, 37 Summer Session...... inside front cover Tutoring (see Tutorial Learning Center)...... 36 Supervision (see Business)...... 61 Supplemental Courses...... 211 - U - Supplemental Leveraging Educational Assistance Program ...... 24 Undergraduate...... 15, 234 Sustainability Practices...... 94 Undergraduate Developmental Courses...... 101 University Center...... 230 - T - Teacher Education (Licensure), Center for...... 98 - V - Teacher Education: Programs Leading to Initial Licensure: Varsity Athletics...... 49,171 Early Childhood...... 69 Veterans...... 19 Elementary Veterinary Medicine, Pre-...... 10 Liberal Arts...... 77, 98 Visiting Professors ...... 225-226 K-12 Vision and Values...... 7 Art...... 59, 99 Visual Arts Administration (see Art)...... 59 Kinesiology...... 77, 99 Visual Communications...... 96 Music...... 84, 99 Secondary - W - Biology...... 61, 99 Walker Field Stadium...... 229 English...... 61, 99 Walnut Ridge Apartments...... 230 Environmental Science and Technology...... 72, 99 Water Quality Management...... 97, 216 History...... 75, 99 Watershed Science (see Geosciences)...... 74 Mathematics...... 80, 99 Welcome Week...... 22 Geosciences ...... 74, 99 Welding (see Manufacturing Technology)...... 78, 217 Spanish...... 90, 99 Wellness Requirement (see Kinesiology)...... 48, 49, 55 Master of Arts in Education...... 99, 107 Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE)...... 24 Post-Baccalaureate...... 109 Withdrawal Procedures...... 38 Requirements for Teacher Licensure...... 54, 98 Women’s and Gender Studies...... 97 Technical Certificate...... 10, 11-14, 55, 234 Work-Study...... 23 Technical and Professional Writing (see English)...... 71 Writing Center (see Tutorial Learning Center)...... 36 Technology Integration ...... 94, 211 Wubben Hall and The Science Center...... 229 Telecommunication Technician (see Technology Integration). . . . .94 WUE (Western Undergraduate Exchange)...... 24 Testing Center...... 36 Theatre...... 95, 212 Theses Graduate...... 104 Honors...... 100 Tilman M. Bishop Campus...... 8, 227 Tomlinson Library ...... 34, 229 Topics Courses...... 234 Tolman Hall...... 230 Transcript...... 234 Transfer, CDHE Statewide Guaranteed Transfer Courses...... 53 Acceptance of Transfer Credit...... 17 Campus Directory The campus operator can be reached during business hours at 970.248.1020 or toll-free 800.982.MESA.

Office Location Extension Office Location Extension Academic Affairs ...... LHH 209 . . .248.1881 MA in Ed Program ...... ACB 109 . . .248.1786 Academic Departments MBA Program ...... ACB 309 . . .248.1778 Main Campus: Graduation Information . . . . LHH 121 . . .248.1555 Art ...... FA 200 . . . 248.1833 Hamilton Recreation Center . . MC 136 . . . 248.1592 Biological Sciences . . . . WS 232 . . . 248.1993 Honors Program ...... LHH453 . . .248.1385 Business ...... ACB 309 . . .248.1778 Human Resources ...... LHH 237 . . .248.1820 Computer Science, Industrial Education Training Cntr 2980 D Rd . .248.1372 Mathematics, & Statistics . WS 132 . . . 248.1407 Institutional Research & Assessment . LHH 221 . . .248.1884 Health Sciences ...... MC 169 . . . 248.1398 KMSA/91.3FM ...... UC 201-209 . 248.1240 Kinesiology ...... MC 237 . . . 248.1635 Library ...... L ...... 248.1862 Languages, Literature, & Little Mavs Learning Center . . DEVCTR . . .248.1318 Mass Communication . . .LHH 445 . . .248.1687 Toddler Tech ...... DEVCTR . . .248.1086 Music ...... MPAC 113 . .248.1233 MAVcard Office ...... UC 106 . . . 248.1059 Physical & Environmental Sciences WS 232 . . . 248.1993 Media Services ...... L 132 . . . .248.1734 Social & Behavioral Sciences . H 212G . . . 248.1696 Mesa@Night ...... AO . . . . .248.1232 Teacher Education . . . . .ACB 109 . . .248.1786 Outdoor Program ...... OP . . . . .248.1428 Theatre Arts ...... MPAC 113 . .248.1233 Parking Services ...... UC 106 D & E . 248.1919 Montrose Campus . . . . . MONT . .970.249.7009 Police/Public Safety, Non-Emergency Bishop Campus (GJPD Substation) . . . . .UC 110 . . . 242.6707 Western Colo Comm Collge . 2508 Blichmann 255.2600 President’s Office ...... LHH 301 . . .248.1498 Academic Services ...... LHH 127 . . .248.1177 Public Relations, Mrktg/Publications LHH 205 . . .248.1412 Accounting & Financial Services LHH 101 . . .248.1567 Regional Outreach ...... LHH 107 . . .248.1366 Advising Center ...... LHH 127 . . .248.1177 Registrar’s Office ...... LHH 121 . . .248.1555 Admissions Office ...... AO . . . . .248.1875 Residence Life ...... SLC 100 . . .248.1536 Alumni Association ...... 1450 N 12th . 248.1525 Residence Halls: Associated Student Government UC 212 . . .248.1762 Albers Hall ...... 248.2160 Elm Hall ...... 248.2160 Athletics ...... MC 229 . . . 248.1503 Bunting Hall ...... 248.2192 Behavioral Clinical Services . . 1005 N. 12th #105 241.6500 Garfield Hall ...... 248.1536 Grand Mesa ...... 248.2170 Bookstore ...... UC 130 . . . 248.1422 Mary Rait ...... 248.2151 Box Office ...... MPAC . . . .248.1604 Monument ...... 248.2160 Career Services ...... UC 106E . . .248.1404 North Avenue ...... 248.2180 Pinon ...... 248.1793 Campus Dining ...... UC 115 . . . 248.1742 Tolman ...... 248.2154 Community Education Center . .BISH B 185 . .255.2800 Walnut Ridge Apartments ...... 248.2190 Computer Lab, Library . . . . L 120 . . . .248.1885 Student Services ...... LHH 107 . . .248.1366 Criterion Newspaper . . . . . UC 211 . . . 248.1255 Student Orientation ...... AO . . . . .248.1875 Educational Access Services . . H 108 . . . .248.1856 Student Health Center . . . 1060 Orchard, Ste O . 256.6345 Entrepreneurial Business Institute ACB . . . . 248.1778 Testing Center...... H 125 . . . .248.1260 Extended Campus Program . . CSA 108 . . .248.2398 Transcript Request ...... LHH 121 . . .248.1555 Facilities Services ...... CSA . . . . 248.1465 Transfer Services ...... AO . . . . .248.1232 Financial & Administrative Svcs . . LHH 252 . . .248.1804 Tuition Classification Officer . . AO...... 248.1458 Financial Aid ...... LHH 116 . . .248.1396 Tutorial Learning Center . . . .H 110 . . . .248.1392 CMU Foundation ...... 1450 N 12th . 248.1295 University Center Information Desk UC 106 A . . 248.1758 WCCC Student Services . . . .BISH B . . . 255.2670

Building Legend A ...... Albers Hall H...... Houston Hall OP...... Outdoor Program Office ACB...... Academic Classroom Bldg IETC ...... Industrial Educ Training Center SHC...... Student Health Center AO...... Admissions Welcome Center L ...... Tomlinson Library SLC...... Student Life Center BISH...... Tilman M. Bishop Campus (WCCC) LHH...... Lowell Heiny Hall UC...... University Center CSA...... CampusServices Administration MC...... Maverick Center WCCC...... Western Colorado Community College DEVCTR...... Development Center MAVP...... Maverick Pavilion WS...... Wubben Hall and Science Center FA...... Fine Arts MONT.....Montrose Campus FS...... Facilities Services MPAC...... Moss Performing Arts Center MAIN CAMPUS Main Campus

Map Legend 28 36 Building (code) ...... Number ORCHARD AVENUE Academic Classroom Building (ACB) ...... 1 Academic Quad ...... 2 Admissions Welcome Center (AO) ...... 3 10 Albers Hall (AH) ...... 4 Office of Student Success, Student Services 6 HALL AVENUE 32 Alumni Association (A/F) ...... 5 Bergman Practice Field ...... 6 Bunting Hall (BH) ...... 7 Campus Services, Facilities (CSA) ...... 8

Mail Room, Purchasing, Maintenance Shops CANNELL AVENUE 19 26 14 Delta Field ...... 37 MESA AVENUE MESA AVENUE

Development Center (DEVCTR) ...... 9 12TH STREET Little Mavericks Learning Center 25 Development Office (A/F) ...... 5 33 Elliott Tennis Complex ...... 10 20 Elm Avenue Quad ...... 11 30 TEXAS AVENUE Elm Hall (EH) ...... 12 TEXAS AVENUE 38 Fine Arts Building (FA) ...... 13 18 Football Practice Field ...... 14 24 3 Foundation (A/F) ...... 5 Garfield Hall (GH) ...... 38 39 11 21 Grand Junction Police Substation (UC) ...... 35 4 Grand Mesa Hall (GMH) ...... 15 ELM AVENUE ELM AVENUE Houston Hall (H) ...... 16 8 Educational Access Services (EAS), Testing 12 5 Center, Tutorial Learning Center (TLC) 35 Lowell Heiny Hall (LHH)...... 17 1 Parking Garage 8 Advising Center, Accounting and Financial Services, Financial Aid, Human Resources, KENNEDY AVENUE KENNEDY AVENUE President’s Office, Registrar’s Office, 17 Student Services 13 37 Mary Rait Hall (MRH) ...... 18 34 Maverick Center (MC) ...... 19 BUNTING AVENUE BUNTING AVENUE Brownson Arena, El Pomar Natatorium, 7 Hamilton Recreation Center, Health Sciences 15 31 22 Center, Monfort Family Human Performance 2 Lab, Saunders Field House Maverick Pavilion (MAVP) ...... 20 Monument Hall (MH)...... 21 GLENWOOD AVENUE GLENWOOD AVENUE Moss Performing Arts Center (MPAC) ...... 22

Box Office, Mesa Experimental Theatre CANNELL AVENUE 12TH STREET (MET), Recital Hall, Robinson Theatre 23 16 North Avenue Hall (NAH) ...... 23 9 Orchard Avenue Apartments ...... 36 Outdoor Program ...... 24 NORTH AVENUE Pinon Hall (PH) ...... 25 Residence Life Center (RL) ...... 24 Softball Stadium ...... 26 Stocker Stadium ...... 27 27 Student Health Center ...... 28 Suplizio Field ...... 29 29 Tolman Hall (TH) ...... 30 Tomlinson Library (L) ...... 31 Colorado Mesa University Campus Buildings Walker Field Stadium ...... 32 1100 North Avenue Walnut Ridge Apartments (WR) ...... 33 Campus Police Wubben Hall and Science Center (WS) ...... 34 Grand Junction, CO 81501 University Center ...... 35 970.248.1020 Parking Art Gallery, Ballroom, Bookcliff Cafe, Career City of Grand Junction Buildings Services, Center for Student Involvement, CMU Bookstore, Dining Hall, Game Room, MAVcard Construction Office, Parking Services, Wells Fargo Bank Academic Classroom Building II ...... 39

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