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2019-20 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.
 

Music Theory
  
  

  • MUTH 4290 - MIDI Sequencing and Virtual Instruments

    3 credit hours
    (Same as  RIM 4290 ). Prerequisites: RI majors - admission to candidacy and RIM 4910 /MUTH 4910; others - RIM 4190 /MUTH 4190  or permission of instructor. An advanced hands-on course with an emphasis on MIDI sequencing and virtual instruments within Pro Tools, Reason, and other music production software. Drum machines, synthesizers, samplers, and other electronic instruments used to create a commercial music track. Laboratory required.


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  • MUTH 4590 - Computer Based Scoring for Visual Media

    3 credit hours
    (Same as RIM 4590 .) Prerequisites: RI majors - admission to candidacy, RIM 4190 /MUTH 4190  and either RIM 3300  or  RIM 4290 /MUTH 4290 ; others - RIM 4190 /MUTH 4190  and either RIM 3300  or  RIM 4290 /MUTH 4290 ; or permission of instructor. Writing music for visual media using the capabilities of a computer workstation. Introduces compositional techniques utilizing Macintosh sequencing software and QuickTime video playback in combination with synthesizers and sample playback programs. Concepts include synchronization of music to picture, tempo selection, sound source selection/manipulation, and analysis of the dramatic content of a scene. Laboratory required.


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Nursing
  

  • NURS 3000 - Professionalism in Nursing

    1 credit hour
    Exposes the novice nursing student to the profession of nursing. Concept of professionalism explored and related to nursing. Includes a brief historical review of nursing and nursing theories. Professional values, practice standards, informatics, and communication with health care professionals introduced. Legal implications for nursing explored.


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  • NURS 3040 - Health Assessment Laboratory

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: BIOL 2010 /BIOL 2011  and BIOL 2020 /BIOL 2021 ; accepted into upper-division nursing. Corequisite: NURS 3030 . Opportunity to practice the basic principles and techniques required for the assessment and analysis of data. Normal assessment findings in the adult as well as selected abnormal findings studied. Cultural variations and assessment variations across the lifespan explored. Two-hour laboratory.


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  • NURS 3042 - Basic Dosage Calculation

    1 credit hour
    Previews basic math calculations as they relate to computing doses of medication in all forms. Introduces basic medication administration concepts. Passing a final with 100% accuracy will be required to be successful in the completion of this course and to progress in the nursing program.


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  • NURS 3380 - Caring for Clients with Mental Health Alterations

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: NURS 3000 , NURS 3010 , NURS 3030 , NURS 3040 , NURS 3041 , NURS 3042 . Corequisite: NURS 3390  . Provides students with experience communicating and providing care to a variety of patients experiencing mental health issues. Opportunity for students to learn theoretical concepts relating to mental health and psychiatric nursing. Interpersonal and group communication, psychopathology, and legal and ethical issues explored. Methods used in providing nursing care for clients with alterations in mental health presented. Interdisciplinary health care team and its function in the psychiatric setting explored. Three hours lecture.


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  • NURS 4005 - Independent Health Care Study

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Admission to the upper division of the nursing program and permission of instructor. Allows the student to pursue individual interests in nursing by contracting with an instructor and documenting the plan of learning as well as its fulfillment. One to three lectures or two to six laboratory hours. Pass/Fail.


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  • NURS 4330 - Caring for Adult Clients II

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisites: NURS 3530 , NURS 3540 , NURS 3550 , NURS 3560 , and NURS 3580 . Corequisite: NURS 4340 . Incorporates the nursing process and critical thinking skills into the professional nursing care of the adult client experiencing complex, multi-system illness, failure, and trauma. Opportunities for the nursing student to combine acquired knowledge from previous nursing courses and courses from other disciplines with new phenomena encountered in a variety of high acuity care settings. Four hours lecture.


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  • NURS 4370 - Caring for the Community as Client

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: NURS 3530 , NURS 3540 , NURS 3550 , NURS 3560 , and NURS 3580 . Opportunity for students to learn theoretical concepts and epidemiological principles related to health promotion and preventive services. Primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention covered. Focuses on the work of an interdisciplinary health care team and concepts of nursing and public health when working with the individual, family, group, and community as client. Three hours lecture.


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  • NURS 4570 - Professional Practice and Leadership

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites:  ,  , NURS 4370 , NURS 4380 , and NURS 4390 . Opportunity for students to examine and evaluate theoretical concepts relating to leadership and management in nursing. The learning experiences emphasize the development of strategies that enhance leadership capabilities including decision-making, managing conflict, using power, and delegating. Three hours lecture.


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Nutrition and Food Science
  

  • NFS 1010 - Career Orientation in Dietetics

    2 credit hours
    Development, scope, and philosophies of human sciences; career opportunities with analysis of interests, aptitudes, and proficiency related to success in dietetics. Lectures, guest speakers, activities, assignments, and quizzes introduce students to the university, college, department, and the dietetics program. Class meets two hours per week.


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  • NFS 1240 - Principles of Nutrition

    3 credit hours
    Fundamentals of normal nutrition and its relationship to health and physical fitness with emphasis on the scientific, psychological, sociological, and economic aspects of nutrition. (Credit not allowed for Nutrition and Food Sciences major.)


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  • NFS 2220 - Nutrition for the Health Sciences

    3 credit hours
    Elements of scientific, psychological, sociological bases of nutrition and its relationship to prevention and treatment of degenerative diseases. Emphasis on fostering communication between health care practitioners in assessment and implementation of nutrition care.


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  • NFS 3000 - Nutrition Principles for Physical Activity and Health

    3 credit hours
    The fundamentals of normal nutrition and its relationships to physical activity, weight management, and health. Restricted to Exercise Science and Athletic Training students.


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  • NFS 3100 - Food and Culture in the United States

    3 credit hours
    Traces development of foods in regions of the U.S. by immigration of ethnic groups or as native to areas. Influence of immigrant cultures and customs on the introduction and development of regional foods. Concepts include food production, supply, and food processing over the last 150 years and the impact on diet.


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  • NFS 3200 - Food Science

    3 credit hours
    Corequisite: NFS 3201 . Basic physical and chemical principles, techniques, skills, sanitation, and economics involved in quality food selection, composition, and preparation. Lecture meets for two hours per week; lab meets for three hours per week. Offered Fall only.


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  • NFS 3210 - Meal Management

    3 credit hours
    Functions of management applied to serving nutritionally adequate and aesthetically satisfying meals. Management of human and nonhuman resources in group situations. Five hours per week.


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  • NFS 3280 - Sports Nutrition

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 1240  or NFS 2220  with C or better. Nutritional needs of individuals who participate on all levels of athletic performance. Emphasis placed on role of nutrients in athletic performance, ergogenic aids used by athletes, nutritional assessment, and nutritional needs of specific types and population groups of athletes.


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  • NFS 3330 - Nutrition for the Nursing Profession

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Acceptance into the MTSU Nursing program. Fundamentals of nutrition and its relationship to the prevention and treatment of disease and special feeding situations for the nursing profession.


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  • NFS 3400 - Food Safety and Sanitation

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2230  and BIOL 2231  with B or better; junior status. Addresses food safety issues impacting food production, food storage, and food service within the home and food service facilities along with food standards and regulations designed to improve safety of the food supply. Spring only.


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  • NFS 4010 - Professional Issues in Dietetics

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 1010  with a B or better. Focuses on the transition from student to professional including preparation for dietetic internships, graduate education, and employment. Offered fall only.


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  • NFS 4020 - Senior Seminar in Dietetics

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 4010  with B or better. Examines human sciences from a global perspective and specifically as it pertains to students majoring in Nutrition and Food Science (NFS) with the Dietetics concentration. Identifies skills for success in developing and managing a career. Topics such as resume writing, interviewing, networking, career-life planning, ethics, mentoring, precepting, healthcare delivery systems, and coding and billing addressed. Class meets two hours per week. Offered Spring only.


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  • NFS 4090 - Field Experience in Foods and Nutrition

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: NFS 2220  and permission of instructor; 2.25 GPA. Directed and supervised experience in a specialized area of dietetics or food management. Includes a minimum of 150 hours at the work site.


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  • NFS 4100 - Food Service Management for Culinary Arts

    3 credit hours
    Explores the management process of the food service industry. Areas of study include food and beverage operations, facility design, food service marketing, menu planning, and nutritional concerns. 


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  • NFS 4210 - Nutrition in Aging

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 1240  or NFS 2220  with C or better. Nutritional needs of elderly individuals and how these requirements are affected by physiological, pathological, and socioeconomic changes associated with aging. Emphasis placed on assessment, nutrition counseling skills, and resources to assist elderly individuals with adequate nutrient intake.


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  • NFS 4240 - Experimental Food Study

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 3200  with grade of B. Corequisite: NFS 4241 . Chemical and physical factors affecting the flavor, texture, color, and appearance of food. Emphasis placed on evaluation of sensory qualities of food, using subjective and objective measurements and new food product development. Lecture meets two hours per week; lab meets two hours per week. Offered Spring only.


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  • NFS 4250 - Maternal and Child Nutrition

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 1240  or NFS 2220  with a C or better. Nutritional needs during pregnancy, infancy, and childhood related to physical and mental development. Emphasis on cultural, social, and psychological aspects of the development of food patterns and nutrition education resources.


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  • NFS 4251 - Nutrition for the Young Child

    3 credit hours
    Fundamentals of nutrition with emphasis on its relationship to growth, development, and health during the prenatal period, infancy, and childhood. Geared to Early Childhood Education and Child Development and Family Studies majors.


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  • NFS 4260 - Food Safety Issues from Production to Consumption

    3 credit hours
    (Same as AGBS 4850 .) Issues impacting food production, food storage and transportation, food processing, and food consumption within food production facilities, the home, and food service facilities. Consumer concerns evaluated based on risk theory and scientific evaluation of safety, including decision-making through critical thinking. Food standards and regulations designed to improve safety of the food supply discussed.


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  • NFS 4271 - Advanced Nutrition II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 4270  with C or better. Advanced study of vitamins, minerals, water, and phytochemicals. Emphasis on sources, functions, metabolism, deficiency conditions, and interactions. Offered spring only.


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  • NFS 4300 - Medical Nutrition Therapy I

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 2220 , NFS 4271 , BIOL 2020 /BIOL 2021 , and CHEM 3530 /CHEM 3531  with B or better. Modification of diets in pathological and special conditions. Diseases affecting the cardiac, hepatic, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal systems emphasized. Practice in applying strategies in medical nutrition therapy provided through structured case study format. Meets six hours per week. Offered Fall only.


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  • NFS 4305 - Nutrition Coaching and Counseling Skills

    3 credit hours
    Corequisite: NFS 4310 . Prerequisite: NFS 4300  with a B or better. Introduces different theories of behavior change and counseling/coaching techniques used to implement these behavior changes. Applies counseling/coaching techniques, behavior change theories, and the nutrition care process by coaching clients toward nutrition-related behavior changes. Offered spring only.


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  • NFS 4310 - Medical Nutrition Therapy II

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 4300  with B or better. Modification of diets in pathological and special conditions. Diseases affecting the renal system as well as cancer, diabetes, and metabolic stress emphasized. Practice in applying strategies in medical nutrition therapy provided through case study format, patient simulation, and field placement. Meets six hours per week. Offered Spring only.


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  • NFS 4320 - Food Systems Management

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisites: NFS 3200  with B or better and NFS 3400  with B or better. Emphasis on food systems model, sanitation, menu planning, procurement, quantity food production, distribution and service, flow of food, foodservice equipment, and facility design/layout. Combination of lecture and field placement. Six hours per week. Offered Fall only.


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  • NFS 4322 - Dietetics Management

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisite: NFS 4320  with B or better. Introduces students to management roles and responsibilities of dietetics professionals. Emphasis on leadership, marketing food and nutrition services, financial management, facilities planning and design, human resource management, work improvement and productivity. Offered Spring only.


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  • NFS 4570 - Fundamentals of Culinary Arts

    3 credit hours
    (Same as FCSE 4570 .) Prerequisite: NFS 3200  with C or better. Fundamentals and basic concepts of culinary arts to include professionalism; mis en place; Escoffier’s kitchen brigade system; tools and equipment; knife skills; preparation of sauces and stocks; principles of meat, fish, dairy, and vegetable cookery; garde manger; baking; and presentation of aesthetically appealing plates and buffets.


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  • NFS 4810 - The Food Industry

    3 credit hours
    (Same as AGBS 4810 .) An overview from production to processing to marketing. Covers the current status of the world’s largest employer, including where and how foods are produced, distributed, and marketed and where the industry is heading in the future.


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Paralegal Studies
  
  
  
  

Philosophy
  

  • PHIL 1030 - Introduction to Philosophy

    3 credit hours
    Basic philosophical problems suggested by everyday experience integrated into a coherent philosophy of life through comparison with solutions offered by prominent philosophers. TBR Common Course: PHIL 1030


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  • PHIL 3150 - Ethics

    3 credit hours
    Examines major ethical theories, the moral nature of human beings, and the meaning of good and right and applies ethical theories to resolving moral problems in personal and professional lives.
     


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  • PHIL 3160 - Philosophy of Happiness

    3 credit hours
    Examines the concept of human happiness and its application in everyday living as discussed since antiquity by philosophers, psychologists, writers, spiritual leaders, and contributors to popular culture.


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  • PHIL 3170 - Ethics and Computing Technology

    3 credit hours
    Exposes students to the fundamentals of ethical theory and familiarizes them with some of the practical, ethical, and legal issues with which they would have to deal as computer scientists.


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  • PHIL 3300 - Philosophy of Religion

    3 credit hours
    Examines issues of religious experience, religious knowledge, faith and reason, the existence and nature of God, evil, religious diversity, life after death.


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  • PHIL 3310 - Atheism and Philosophy

    3 credit hours
    Examines various philosophical perspectives on atheism, understood as the belief that no transcendent creator deity exists, and that there are no supernatural causes of natural events. Compares and contrasts this belief with familiar alternatives (including theism, agnosticism, and humanism), considers the spiritual significance of atheism, and explores implications for ethics and religion.


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  • PHIL 3340 - Environmental Ethics

    3 credit hours
    Examines the relation of humans to the rest of nature, clarifying the relevant ethical issues and exploring from various perspectives their application to present and future ecological concerns.


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  • PHIL 3345 - Bioethics

    3 credit hours
    Explores ethical issues arising from the practice of medical therapeutics, from the development of new biomedical technologies, and more largely from reflections on life’s meaning and prospects in the face of changing modalities of intervention fostered particularly by the various life sciences.


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  • PHIL 3350 - American Philosophy, British Roots: A Walk Across the Pond

    3 credit hours
    Explores the living legacy of ancient peripatetic pedagogy as expressed in American Pragmatist and British Empiricist philosophies of experience.


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  • PHIL 3500 - Philosophy, Race, and Society

    3 credit hours
    Examines sociopolitical and existential concerns of African Americans, especially in respect to issues of justice, equality, and the very meaning of life in a world of anti-black racism, against the backdrop of “enlightenment” philosophical discourse on race and personhood.


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  • PHIL 3690 - Social Philosophy

    3 credit hours
    The main problems of social philosophy are surveyed: the distinctive nature of social reality and the nature of social knowledge and how they relate to value theory.


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  • PHIL 4050 - Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    3 credit hours
    Emphasis on movements such as German idealism, the rise of the philosophy of the social sciences, historical materialism, utilitarianism, and early critiques of modernism.


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  • PHIL 4130 - Philosophy and Literature

    3 credit hours
    Explores philosophical questions about literature, philosophical themes in literature, and differing assessments of the relation of philosophical to literary texts.


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  • PHIL 4250 - Philosophy of Gender

    3 credit hours
    Examines major work in contemporary feminist philosophy and feminist theory, with particular emphasis on the relation of sex and gender, feminist accounts of inquiry, feminist ethical issues, and feminist aesthetics.
     


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  • PHIL 4350 - Philosophy of Language

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: PHIL 2110  recommended. Introduces students to the most influential analyses of meaning, reference, and truth of early twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy; explores how the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein transforms canonical accounts of language; considers the role of metaphor in human communication and understanding.


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  • PHIL 4550 - Philosophy of Mind

    3 credit hours
    Classical philosophy of mind (emphases: the mind-body problem, theories of consciousness) and contemporary applications of philosophy to psychology (emphases: logic and cognition, emotion and reason, artificial intelligence).


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  • PHIL 4600 - Philosophy of History

    3 credit hours
    Nature of historical knowledge and problems of historical inquiry; meaning and value of history; reality of the past; historical determinism and human freedom.


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Photography
  

  • PHOT 1050 - Basic Digital Photography and Imaging

    3 credit hours

    (Same as EMC 1050 .)

    Introduces simple and multiple image photography, principles, methods, theory, and practice for both Photography majors and non-Photography majors. Explores digital camera anatomy, operating, and handling while discussing proper in-camera exposure, metering, focusing, shutter speeds, apertures, depth of field, and camera accessories. Basic principles of lighting, design, and image composition discussed. Digital darkroom techniques and image manipulation using tool such as Photoshop included. Emphasis placed on  cameras with manual controls. Students required to own a digital camera with manual controls. Must have working knowledge of the Macintosh computer system.

    Three-hour lecture plus up to three-hour lab per week.


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  • PHOT 2050 - Basic Black and White Photography

    3 credit hours

    Black and white chemistry-based darkroom printing and film processing. Introduces the fundamentals of photographic practice and procedures combined with aesthetics, theories of visual perception, and photographic vision. Emphasis placed upon the in-camera exposure, development of black and white film, the traditional silver print, conceptual theory, problem solving, and portfolio presentation. Class format includes demonstrations, lab work, assignments, and critiques. Students responsible for providing a 35mm roll film camera with interchangeable lenses and manual controls and darkroom supplies for the class.

    Three-hour lecture plus up to three-hour lab per week.


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