May 14, 2024  
2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.

 

Health

  
  • HLTH 4340 - Fitness Education for the Adult

    3 credit hours
    (Same as PHED 4340 /REC 4340 .) Planning, teaching, and participating in individual and group fitness programs for the adult. Offers preparation for administering and interpreting assessments of related components with understanding of physiological principles related to exercise in the adult. Major lifetime wellness activities covered.


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  • HLTH 4360 - Teaching Human Sexuality

    3 credit hours
    Assists individuals in developing, implementing, and evaluating human sexuality curricula and programs for schools (K-12) and other educational venues.


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  • HLTH 4400 - Drugs and Violence in Health Education

    3 credit hours
    Offers an understanding of the nature of drugs, relationships people form with drugs, and consequences of those relationships. Relationship of drugs to acts of violence considered as well as educational programs addressing issues related to drug use/abuse and acts of violence.


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  • HLTH 4430 - Program Planning in Health Education

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: HLTH 3320  and HLTH 3240 . Historical and contemporary health education philosophy and theories, Health Objectives for the Nation, the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) process, ethical issues, diversity issues, and practice in various setting.


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  • HLTH 4450 - Technology Applications

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisite: An introductory course in computer literacy or equivalent with instructor permission; corequisite: HLTH 4451 . Understanding and competency using a variety of technology applications related to the profession. Students required to enroll in corresponding lab during the same semester.


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  • HLTH 4460 - Introduction to Epidemiology

    3 credit hours
    Epidemiologic analysis including measures of disease frequency, measures of effect, association and causation, sources of inaccuracy, experimental and observational study designs.


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  • HLTH 4700 - Coordinated School Health

    3 credit hours
    Offers preparation for individuals to assume roles as school health coordinators. Emphasizes comprehensive school health and how it fits into K-12 education.


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  • HLTH 4810 - Measurement and Evaluation

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: HLTH 4430  with a minimum grade of C; junior or senior standing. Concepts and procedures used for applied measurement and evaluation in health and human performance settings. Basic statistics, reliability and validity, measurement instruments in field and laboratory settings, and the administration of a variety of tests within discipline.


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  • HLTH 4870 - Methods of Communicating and Marketing Health Education

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: HLTH 3320 , HLTH 3240 , and HLTH 4430  all with a minimum grade of C-. Theory and practice of planning, implementing, and evaluating marketing and communication programs in community and public health education. Includes a review of health communication theories, social marketing, assessment of population needs, coalition-building, health literacy, health advocacy and campaign design, implementation, and evaluation.


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  • HLTH 4920 - Independent Study

    1 to 3 credit hours
    (Same as ATHT 4920 /EXSC 4920 /PHED 4920 /LSTS 4920 .) Independent study topics based on a study plan prepared in cooperation with a faculty supervisor. Culminates in a formal paper and/or comprehensive examination. Application forms must be completed and approved prior to enrollment. A maximum of three credit hours may be applied toward degree.


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  • HLTH 4960 - Advanced Teaching in Health Education

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: HLTH 4260 ; corequisite: YOED 4020 . Supervised field-based experience the semester prior to Residency II (student teaching). Teacher candidates will spend one full school day a week engaged in research-based best practices under the collaborative supervision of highly effective mentor teachers and university faculty. Seminars constructed around effective teaching skills and a variety of co-teaching models.


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  • HLTH 4990 - Health Internship

    12 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of department and must be taken after all major classes are complete. No additional classes may be taken during the internship semester with the exception of the 1 hr. HLTH 4900 , Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) Review course. On-site practical experience in a community health agency.


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Hebrew

  
  
  
  

History

  
  • HIST 1010 - Survey Western Civilization I

    3 credit hours
    A survey of Western humanity from the earliest cultures to 1715. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement. HIST 1010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 1020 .


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  • HIST 1110 - Survey World Civilization I

    3 credit hours
    A global approach to history, with cultural interchange as a major thematic focus; reasons for the rise and decline of civilizations. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement. HIST 1110 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 1120 .


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  • HIST 1120 - Survey World Civilization II

    3 credit hours
    The impact of Western expansion upon the indigenous civilizations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas; their mutual interchange in the creation of the modern world. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement.


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  • HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I

    3 credit hours
    Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. HIST 2010 discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. HIST 2020  discusses the era from 1877 to the present. These courses are prerequisite for all advanced courses in American history and satisfy the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020 . TBR Common Course: HIST 2010


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  • HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II

    3 credit hours
    Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. HIST 2010  discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. HIST 2020 discusses the era from 1877 to the present. These courses are prerequisite for all advanced courses in American history and satisfy the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010  is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2020


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  • HIST 2030 - Tennessee History

    3 credit hours
    The role of the state in the development of the nation. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement. TBR Common Course: HIST 2030


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  • HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II

    3 credit hours
    (Same as AST 2050  and AAS 2050 .) The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.


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History (United States)

  
  
  • HIST 3030 - Topics in African American History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . A seminar course exploring selected topics and problems in the African-American experience since 1619. Possible topics include the Great Migration, the life and work of Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism, Caribbean enslavement, the African American church, the African American woman, African American education, and the Harlem Renaissance.  May repeat for up to six credit hours.


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  • HIST 3040 - Topics in American Cultural History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030 Literature, arts, social sciences, and popular culture examined with regard to a particular topic (such as the history of morality or the history of cultural rebellion) in order to understand how Americans have reacted to conflicting values in society. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours).


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  • HIST 3115 - Geography of Tennessee and the South

    3 credit hours
    (Same as GEOG 3120 .) Geography’s influence upon on Tennessee and the American South’s development in local, regional, national, and global contexts. Examines the physical, cultural, political, and economic geographies and their role in shaping the state and region.


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  • HIST 3870 - Doing Digital History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Students research primary and secondary sources on local, family, or Middle Tennessee State University history or historical topic for which primary sources readily available. Cameras, laptop computers, and audio equipment provided; students work in iMovie or more advanced filmmaking technology. Oral history methodology discussed. NOTE: Students must have a basic competence with current computer hardware and software.


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  • HIST 4040 - Civil War and Reconstruction

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines various causes of the war, the military and political history of the war years, and the legacy of the war in Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, and American social and economic developments through World War I.


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  • HIST 4060 - Modern America, 1914-1945

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 .The increasing involvement of the United States in world affairs from World War I through World War II and the social and political consequences of economic complexity which resulted in prosperity, depression, and the New Deal.


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  • HIST 4070 - Modern America, Post-1945

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The major social, political, economic, and diplomatic developments in the history of the United States from 1945 to the present with particular emphasis on the role of government.


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  • HIST 4140 - The United States West

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Emphasis on the area west of the Mississippi River from pre-contact to the twenty-first century. Explores major social, political, economic, and environmental issues with particular attention to race, class, gender, and the original inhabitants.


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  • HIST 4341 - Historical Geography

    3 credit hours
    (Same as GEOG 4340.) Prerequisite: GEOG 2000  or permission of instructor. The changing human geography of the United States during four centuries of settlement and development. Emphasis on changing population patterns as well as patterns of urban and rural settlement.


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  • HIST 4540 - Geography of Indigenous Peoples

    3 credit hours
    (Same as GEOG 4540 .) Prerequisite: junior standing. Historical and current examination of indigenous peoples from a geographic perspective including their locations(s), history, diffusion and migration, human/land relationships, cultural traits, and cultural landscapes.


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  • HIST 4640 - Environmental History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Traces environmental change in America from European contact to the present and from wilderness to suburbia. Explains impact of growth, settlement, and resource exploitation on our national landscape and institutions.


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  • HIST 4650 - Religious Experience in America

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Explores the nature of religion as experienced in American history focusing on the questions “How has religion affected America?” and “How has America affected religion?” Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the contact of and exchanges among traditions such as Protestant/Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Eastern religions, and Animism.


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  • HIST 4720 - Boone’s and Crockett’s America

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 .The mass movement of farm families into the interior of North America before 1860. Emphasis on Native American life, frontier politics, society, and culture, as well as the subsequent development of a “frontier myth” celebrating this folk migration.


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  • HIST 4755 - Race and Place: The Struggle for Fair Housing Since 1900

    3 credit hours
    (Same as AAS 4755 .) Prerequisites: HIST 2020  or HIST 2050 . Examines the rise of various twentieth-century federal housing policies that made homeownership affordable for most Americans for the first time in the country’s history. Particular emphasis placed on the exclusionary nature of these policies, their generational implications, and the activism that ultimately contributed to their demise.


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History (European)

  
  
  • HIST 3125 - First World War

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1020  or HIST 1120 . Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.


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  • HIST 4220 - Renaissance Europe

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010HIST 1020HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.


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  • HIST 4280 - Europe 1900-1945

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010HIST 1020HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Europe in the early twentieth century with emphasis on the expansion of democracy, continued industrialization, total war, and totalitarian ideologies.


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  • HIST 4320 - Germany Since 1870

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010HIST 1020HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. History of Germany from national unification in 1871 through its reunification in the contemporary world. Emphasis on the major social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic developments of the period as they relate to both German men and women. The history of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918) and the modern Austrian state also included.


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  • HIST 4370 - Britain in the Twentieth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010HIST 1020HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Political, military, imperial, economic, and social history of a changing Britain in its century of total war, imperial decline, and economic readjustment.


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  • HIST 4610 - History of Medicine

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites:HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine.


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History (Global)

  
  
  
  • HIST 3125 - First World War

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1020  or HIST 1120 . Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.
     


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  • HIST 3130 - The Vietnam War

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1110  or HIST 1120 . Examines military, diplomatic, political, and cultural aspects of the Vietnam War. Causes of the war; interplay between military, diplomatic, and domestic policy; historical memory of the conflict through analysis of texts, oral histories, films, and material culture.


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  • HIST 3150 - Twentieth Century Global History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . An integrated examination of major themes and selected area studies of the twentieth century. Themes include the world system, colonialism, the Great Depression, both world wars, the cold war, emergence of independent countries, economic globalization and dependency, religious stirrings, urbanization, massive migrations, social revolution, and the postindustrial world.


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  • HIST 4410 - Classical History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010HIST 1020HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Ancient Greece and Rome, from about 2,000 B.C. to A.D. 476, emphasizing the classical historians, Greek and Roman culture.


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  • HIST 4425 - Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa

    3 credit hours
    (Same as AST 4425 .) Prerequisites: HIST 1110  or HIST 1120 . Explores the various ways that African nations achieved sovereignty and the struggles they faced in creating a new state. Designed to show how the social and political movements took on different forms according to the types of colonial rule imposed upon these communities.


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  • HIST 4435 - African Slave Trade

    3 credit hours
    (Same as AST 4435 .) Prerequisites: HIST 1110  or HIST 1120 . Focuses on the history of the African slave trade. Explores trans-Atlantic slave trade compared to other slaveries; historical significance and legacies of the slave trade; and the changing meaning of the term “slavery” and some modern forms of slavery that persist to this day.


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  • HIST 4445 - The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the history, causes, evolution, and main issues of the Arab-Israeli Conflict from the nineteenth century until the present.


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  • HIST 4510 - Aztecs, Incas, and the Spanish Conquest

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 HIST 1020 HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the indigenous societies present before European colonization and the first encounters in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Analyzes political structures imposed by the Spanish as well as the social and cultural implications of colonialism and miscegenation.


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  • HIST 4550 - Women in Modern Africa

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite:  or HIST 1120 . Examines African women’s social, political, and economic experiences from the rise of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the rise of colonial rule and varied women’s responses to European overrule; changing understandings of marriage, inheritance, and women’s health issues in colonial and post-colonial Africa; the political role of women in decolonization and post-colonial Africa; and African women’s efforts for social and economic development since the end of formal colonial rule.
     


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  • HIST 4560 - Ancient Egypt

    3 credit hours
    Examines the political, social, and cultural developments reflected in Egyptian artistic, literary, and architectural works within the context of the 3000-year history of this ancient state from the Predynastic Period through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (3200-32 BCE). Counts as an elective in the global category in History major.


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  • HIST 4610 - History of Medicine

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites:HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine.


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