Electives:

Harrison Middleton University Transfer Courses:

The following courses may be transferred from Harrison Middleton University. The student is responsible for applicable tuition and fees of the University.

ENG 101 Expository Writing in the Humanities

This course concentrates on skills necessary for college-level learning with an emphasis on expository writing skills. Papers are assigned throughout the course to help students develop their writing and reasoning skills. This course requires students to actively search for meaning in a text and to reflect creatively and critically about questions of enduring significance. Course goals include enhancing oral communication and expository writing skills. The course includes the reading, discussion, and written analysis of the following selections: “Rothschild’s Fiddle” by Chekhov; “On Happiness” by Aristotle; “The Apology” by Plato; “Heart of Darkness” by Conrad; “Conscience” by Kant; “Alienated Labour” by Marx; the Bible's Genesis; “Civilization and Its Discontents” by Freud; “The Social Contract” by Rousseau. (3-credit college course)

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ENG 102 Research Writing in the Humanities

This course concentrates on skills necessary for college-level learning with an emphasis on research writing. Students develop the ability to gather, organize, and present information in clear and concise writing. The course requires students to actively search for meaning in a text and to reflect creatively and critically about questions of enduring significance. Course goals include enhancing oral communication and expository writing skills. The course includes the reading, discussion, and written analysis of the following selections: “The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals” by Darwin; “Othello” by Shakespeare; “Of Justice and Injustice” by Hume; “The Power of the Majority” by Tocqueville; “Individual Freedom” by Simmel; “Antigone” by Sophocles. (3-credit college course) Prerequisite: ENG 101

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COM 103 Oral Communication: The World's Greatest Speeches I

This course concentrates on skills necessary for college-level learning. The primary intent of the course is not literary or dramatic interpretation, but rather, the development of effective oral communication skills. Students focus on small group and interpersonal speech communication. Students will study speeches by the following orators: Socrates, Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony, Martin Luther, Samuel L. Clemens, Sir Henry Irving, Will Rogers, William Lyon Phelps, Owen D. Young, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lady Astor, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Douglas MacArthur. Course goals include enhancing oral communication and expository writing skills. (3-credit college course) Prerequisites: ENG 101; ENG 102

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COM 121 Oral Communication: The World's Greatest Speeches II

This course concentrates on skills necessary for college-level learning. The primary intent of the course is not literary or dramatic interpretation, but rather, the development of effective oral communication skills. Students focus on small group and interpersonal speech communication. Students will study speeches by the following orators: Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Leon Trotzky, Nikolai Lenin, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Robert McNamara, Edward VIII, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Carl Schurz, Lord Cecil, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, William Edgar Borah, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Mandela. Course goals include enhancing oral communication and expository writing skills. (3-credit college course). Prerequisites: ENG 101; ENG 102

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NSC 131 The Nature of Life: Readings in Biology

This course gives an overview of the answers to questions scientists and philosophers have posed about the nature of life. The themes explored in this course include science as a process, evolution, energy transfer, continuity and change in biology, relationship of structure to function, regulation, interdependence in nature, and science, technology, and society. It examines these themes from the perspective of three subject areas: molecules and cells, heredity and evolution, organisms and populations. The readings span more than 23 centuries of thought, giving the student insight into the evolution of what we know as the life science modern biology. (4-credit college course)

NSC 132 Keeping Things Whole: Readings in Environmental Science.

This course explores what scientists have been debating over the wholeness of the natural world. The themes explored in this course include science as a process, energy conversion, Earth's interconnectedness, human alterations, environmental problems in a social and cultural context, and survival and sustainability. It examines these themes from the perspective of three subject areas: natural science, social science, and philosophy. The interdisciplinary readings of environmental science offer students insight into keeping things whole. (4-credit course). Prerequisite: NSC 131

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MTH 117 College Algebra I

This course includes the study of the axioms and methods associated with college algebra. Topics covered include solving linear equations, the analytic geometry of lines, polynomial factorization, solving systems of linear equations in two or three variables, and basic function theory. (3-credit college course)

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MTH 170 College Algebra II

This course is the continued study of the axioms and methods associated with college algebra. Topics covered include solving higher-order polynomial equations, rational and radical expressions and equations, the analytical geometry of conic sections, function theory, and transcendental functions. (4-credit college course) Prerequisite MTH 117