FIRST YEAR | ||
First Semester | Hours | |
ENG-120 | Composition I *ENG-120Students will study the writing process by reading essays that illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing writing tasks and texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays.
| 3.0 |
POS-160 | American National Government POS-160The fundamental principles of the American Government are summarized. Such topics as federalism, civil liberties, citizenship, parties and elections, the Presidency, Congress, Judiciary, and national policies and politics are discussed within the framework of the American Constitutional system.
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Mathematics (IAI M) *--- ---
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Physical and Life Sciences (IAI P or IAI L) --- ---
| 4.0 |
--- --- | Humanities and Fine Arts (IAI H) --- ---
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals |
16.0 | |
Second Semester | ||
ENG-121 | Composition II *ENG-121Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.
| 3.0 |
POS-162 | State/Local Govern POS-162Focuses on legal authority, structure, leadership and functions of state, county, city, township, and special district governments. The Illinois state constitution is analyzed.
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Physical and Life Sciences (IAI P or IAI L) --- ---
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Humanities and Fine Arts (IAI F) --- ---
| 3.0 |
PSY-271 | Intr/Psychology PSY-271Focuses on psychology as a science, introducing Concepts, research methods and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy, and social psychology.
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals |
15.0 |
SECOND YEAR | ||
First Semester | Hours | |
SPE-111 | Intro to Speech Communication SPE-111Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences.
| 3.0 |
POS-264 | Intro/Interntnl Rel POS-264An examination of the nation-state system and the sources of conflict in the international community. Comparative political economic systems are studied, as well as the rise of multi-national corporation and international organizations.
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Humanities and Fine Arts (IAI H) --- ---
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Social/Behavioral Science (IAI S) --- ---
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Recommended or Open Electives --- ---
| 4.0 |
Semester Totals | 16.0 | |
Second Semester | ||
--- --- | Social/Behavioral Science (IAI S) --- ---
| 3.0 |
HIS-250 | Western Civil to 1660 HIS-250A survey of the political, economic, cultural and social development of Western Civilization to 1660. Topics include prehistory, ancient near east, Greco-Roman world, Germanic migrations, middle ages, Renaissance and Reformation, and the beginnings of the Modern World.
| 3.0 |
--- --- | Electives --- ---
| 11.0 |
Semester Totals |
17.0 |
Total Program Hours | 64.0 |
Suggested Electives | ||
MAT-125 | Statistics *MAT-125Application of elementary principles of descriptive statistics including frequency distribution, graphical presentation, measures of center, location and variation. Elements of probability, sampling techniques, binomial and normal distribution, correlation/regression and hypothesis testing. Graphing calculator and Excel required.
| 3.0 |
HIS-252 | West Civil/1660-Present HIS-252Survey of Western Civilization with topics including absolutism, the rise of modern science, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Ideology, Imperialism, the Russian Revolutions, World War I, the Rise of Totalitarianism, World War II and the Contemporary Age.
| 3.0 |
HIS-153 | History/Culture of Third World HIS-153The course will introduce the student to history and culture in the third world from ancient civilizations to the modern era. This course will focus upon broad themes in history and culture and will examine those themes in each major historical era.
| 3.0 |