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FCS: Family Studies |
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FS 435 - Family Gerontology
Description:
A review of the research literature on families in later life, focusing on family interactions and building family strengths. FS 435 and FS 545 are layered courses; students cannot receive credit for both.
Credits: (4)
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FS 439 - Families and Public Policy
Description:
Impact of governmental policies on families; policy implications of changes in the structure and composition of families. FS 439 and FS 539 are equivalent courses; students may not receive credit for both.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FS 101 and FS 234.
Credits: (4)
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FS 440 - Teaching for Family Studies
Description:
Supervised teaching assistant experience in family studies courses.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credits: (1-3)
Consent
By permission only.
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 6 credits.
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Learning Agreement Forms FS 490 - Cooperative Education
Description:
A contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agency. Requires a cooperative learning agreement.
Credits: (1-12)
Consent
By permission.
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 20 credits.
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FS 491 - Workshop
Credits: (1-6)
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FS 492 - Family Studies Practicum
Description:
Supervised practicum experience for family studies major.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: family studies major only.
Credits: (1-6)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 15 credits.
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FS 498 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FS 499 - Seminar
Credits: (1-5)
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FCS: General |
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FCSG 205 - FCS Entry Assessment
Description:
This course consists of self-assessment and assessment by the faculty of writing skills, speaking skills, visual/graphic skills, and knowledge of theory and research.
Credits: (1)
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FCSG 220 - Leadership in Human Development
Description:
This highly interactive (challenge course, community service) course focuses on developing students’ leadership skills that provide a base for improved communication in both personal and professional situations.
Credits: (4)
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FCSG 230 - Program and Event Budgeting
Description:
Budget processes, terminology, and formats will be covered along with the preparation of basic budgets for events and programs.
Credits: (2)
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FCSG 305 - Family and Consumer Sciences Student Leadership
Description:
Students engage in leadership development through identifying, organizing, conducting and assessing course activities. Elective credit for major.
Credits: (1)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 6 credits.
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FCSG 320 - Program Management and Planning
Description:
A holistic approach to program management. Content deals with planning, organizing, and controlling programs. For example: special events, recreation, product development, construction, and business.
Credits: (4)
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FCSG 379 - Professional Development and Internship Planning
Description:
Students will explore career options and networks within their industry, develop materials for a job search, and acquire skills related to professionalism.
Credits: (3)
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FCSG 405 - FCS Exit Assessment
Description:
During last quarter of their program, students are assessed on writing skills, speaking skills, visual/graphic skills, and knowledge of theory and research.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FCSG 205.
Credits: (1)
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FCSG 419 - Applied Research and Evaluation
Description:
Basics of research design including problem identification, research and evaluation similarities and differences, sampling, survey development, methods and application, implementation, data analysis, and review of published research.
Credits: (3)
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FCSG 420 - Program Promotion and Advertising
Description:
Provides students with skills through practical exercises, lectures, demonstrations, and examples to enable them to use marketing concepts and tools to develop effective campaigns.
Credits: (5)
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Learning Agreement Forms FCSG 490 - Cooperative Education
Description:
An individualized, contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies. This contractual arrangement involves a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination.
Credits: (1-12)
Consent
By permission.
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for credit.
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FCS: Housing and Interiors |
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FCSH 166 - Applied Creativity
Description:
The creative process; blocks to creativity, creative problem solving, principles and elements of design in housing and interiors.
Credits: (3)
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FCSH 265 - Interior Design Fundamentals
Description:
The design process, space planning, color analysis, evaluating existing spaces, style trends, and scale drawings.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FCSH 166.
Credits: (4)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/16/2014, will go inactive 8/24/2017.
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FCSH 298 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FCSH 366 - History of Housing and Furniture I
Description:
Survey of historic interiors, cabinetmakers, decorative arts, furniture from the antiquity to the middle of the 1700s.
Credits: (3)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/16/2014, will go inactive 8/24/2017.
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FCSH 367 - Family Housing
Description:
An evaluative study of the design, quality, and cost of housing environment.
Credits: (3)
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FCSH 392 - Housing Practicum
Description:
Work study experience in various aspects of the housing profession.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FCSH 265.
Credits: (6-12)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 12 credits.
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FCSH 398 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FCSH 465 - History of Housing and Furniture II
Description:
Survey of historic interiors, cabinetmakers, decorative arts, furniture from the late 1700s to the present.
Credits: (3)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/16/2014, will go inactive 8/24/2017.
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FCSH 466 - Housing Issues
Description:
Cultural factors and social responsibility in housing; evaluating special needs in space planning; economic/environmental issues in family and group housing.
Credits: (4)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/2013, not taught since Winter 2010. Will go inactive 8/2016.
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FCSH 467 - Furnishings
Description:
The different manufacturing and marketing processes of furniture will be explored. Underlying concepts and preparations of documents used by designers for furniture purchases and resale.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/16/2014, will go inactive 8/24/2017.
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FCSH 480 - Kitchen Design
Description:
Fundamental skills and knowledge are applied to a design problem related to functional, structural, and aesthetic qualities of interior environments, specifically residential kitchen design.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FCSH 392.
Credits: (4)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/16/2014, will go inactive 8/24/2017.
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FCSH 485 - Residential Lighting
Description:
Students will be introduced to the lighting and electrical systems that affect the interior environment and acquire a working knowledge of architectural lighting planning and electrical drawings.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FCSH 392.
Credits: (4)
Notes:
Put on reserve 9/16/2014, will go inactive 8/24/2017.
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FCSH 491 - Workshop
Credits: (1-6)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for credit.
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FCSH 492 - Housing Practicum
Description:
A work study course including practical experience in a phase of housing of the student’s choice, accompanied with a seminar.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FCSH 265.
Credits: (6-12)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 12 credits.
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FCSH 498 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FCSH 499 - Seminar
Credits: (1-5)
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Film & Video Studies |
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FVS 215 - Production Technology Skills
Description:
Specialized hands-on skills course in film and television software and/or equipment. Topics may include: animation, compositing, audio techniques, video editing, image editing, production equipment, or pre-production software.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: check with major advisor for topic availability.
Credits: (1)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits, under a different sub-topic.
Grading Basis
Grade will be S or U.
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FVS 250 - Introduction to Film and Video Studies
Description:
Overview of film and video studies, including film viewing and analysis, motion picture language, film genres, and production aspects. Emphasis on the social context, cultural influences, and aesthetic qualities of film.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C- or higher.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
AH-Aesthetic Experience (W)
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FVS 489 - Senior Colloquium
Description:
Students prepare end-of-major portfolios, which illustrate the competence in critical and theoretical analysis of film and video production.
Credits: (2)
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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Learning Agreement Forms FVS 490 - Cooperative Education
Description:
Practical experience in career fields in Film and Video Studies. Individual contract field experience with business, industry, government, or non-profit organization. Requires a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination.
Credits: (1-12)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FVS 491 - Workshop
Credits: (1-6)
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FVS 492 - Practicum
Description:
Focused, practical application of classroom skills-sets to the production of film projects under faculty direction and/or supervision, and/or practice planning instruction, teaching and assessing learning in film/video related course(s).
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: film and video studies major status, and senior status, and permission of program director.
Credits: (2)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 6 credits.
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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FVS 498 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FVS 499 - Seminar
Credits: (1-6)
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Finance
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FIN 364 - Personal Finance
Description:
Broad spectrum course covering financial issues encountered by individuals throughout their lives. Topics include but are not limited to: Preparing a personal budget, money management, investments, retirement planning, and insurance. This course cannot be used as a College of Business upper division course. Those students desiring to use this as a general elective course outside the College of Business requirements please e-mail cbadvising@cwu.edu.
Credits: (5)
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FIN 370 - Introductory Financial Management
Description:
An introduction to financial decision making. Topics include financial statement analysis, time value of money, risk and return, securities valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and capital structure.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: admission to a business, accounting, or economics major with a specialization in general economics, managerial economics, or economic and business forecasting, or an actuarial science major who has completed ACCT 251, ECON 201, MATH 172, MATH 173, and BUS 221 or MATH 311 with grades no lower than a C (2.0). MATH 311 may be taken concurrently.
Credits: (5)
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FIN 466 - Working Capital Management
Description:
Course covers the management of current assets and current liabilities, describes the nature and types of short-term credit instruments, and incorporates a significant use of Excel.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FIN 370.
Credits: (5)
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FIN 470 - Intermediate Financial Management
Description:
A review, consolidation, and extension of the FIN 370 class. Additional focus on the theory, practice, and analysis of the firm’s investing and financing activities as these activities relate to the value creation process.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FIN 370 and admission to a business administration or accounting major.
Credits: (5)
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FIN 474 - Personal Financial Planning
Description:
Introduction to full range of financial planning decisions, including: budgeting, investing, tax planning, risk management, employee benefits, retirement, and estate planning.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FIN 370 and admission to the business administration or accounting major.
Credits: (5)
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FIN 475 - Investments
Description:
Principles of investment valuation. Topics include a survey of securities and securities markets, analysis of risk, expected return, timing, and selection of stocks and bonds in a portfolio context.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FIN 370 and admission to a business administration, accounting, or actuarial science major.
Credits: (5)
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FIN 477 - International Finance
Description:
Financial decision making in an international setting. Explores both traditional areas of finance and recent innovations in financial management from the perspective of the multinational corporation.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FIN 370 and admission to a business administration or accounting major.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Reactivated from reserve 3/31/15.
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FIN 478 - Management of Financial Institutions
Description:
Asset-liability management process; investment and financing activities of banks, savings and loans, and credit unions.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FIN 370 and admission to a business administration or accounting major.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Reactivated from reserve 3/31/15.
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FIN 479 - Derivative Securities and Risk Management
Description:
Survey of characteristics, markets, and pricing of options, futures, and other derivative securities and their use in managing risk for large and small businesses and investors, domestically and internationally.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: FIN 370 and admission to a business administration or accounting major.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Reactivated from reserve 3/31/15.
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French |
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FR 151 - First-year French
Description:
Conversational approach with intensive oral-aural drill. Firm foundation in the basic structural principles of the language.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Courses must be taken in sequence.
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FR 152 - First-year French
Description:
Conversational approach with intensive oral-aural drill. Firm foundation in the basic structural principles of the language.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 151.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Courses must be taken in sequence.
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FR 153 - First-year French
Description:
Conversational approach with intensive oral-aural drill. Firm foundation in the basic structural principles of the language.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 152.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Courses must be taken in sequence.
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FR 181 - Rapid Review of First Year French
Description:
Intense review of first-year French for people with the equivalent for two years of school French who wish to hone their listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills and possibly continue with second-year French.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: two years of high school French or equivalent.
Credits: (5)
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FR 251 - Second-year French
Description:
Thorough review of French grammar and graduated readings in modern French prose with discussions conducted in French.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Courses must be taken in sequence.
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FR 252 - Second-year French
Description:
Thorough review of French grammar and graduated readings in modern French prose with discussions conducted in French.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 251.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Courses must be taken in sequence.
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FR 253 - Second-year French
Description:
Thorough review of French grammar and graduated readings in modern French prose with discussions conducted in French.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 252.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Courses must be taken in sequence.
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FR 298 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FR 301 - Introduction to French Literature
Description:
This course is designed as a transition course to prepare students for the advanced literature courses. Appreciation of literature and methods of analysis will be taught on a basic level through the careful examination of specific texts.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (3)
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FR 341 - Intermediate Composition and Grammar
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (3)
Notes:
Should be taken in sequence with FR 441.
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FR 343 - Intermediate Conversation
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (2)
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FR 351 - French Civilization I: Pre-history to the Revolution
Description:
An overview of continental French history and culture from pre-history to the 1789.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (4)
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FR 352 - French Civilization II: Revolution to 1968.
Description:
An overview of continental French history and culture from the French Revolution to cultural revolution of 1968.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (4)
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FR 353 - French Civilization III: Contemporary France
Description:
An overview of contemporary French culture through readings and viewings of French media with emphasis on topics such as immigration, religion, globalization, and politics of the family.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (4)
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FR 361 - Cultures of the French Caribbean
Description:
A survey of the history and cultures of the French Caribbean from the colonial era to the present.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (4)
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FR 362 - Cultures in French Canada
Description:
A survey of the history and cultures of francophone Canada from the colonial era to the present.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (4)
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FR 363 - Cultures of Francophone Africa
Description:
A survey of the history and cultures of francophone Africa, including the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa, from the colonial era to the present.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253.
Credits: (4)
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FR 380 - Topics in French Language, Literature and Culture
Description:
This course will offer different topics on a rotating basis: these topics will include French language (grammar and conversation), French and Francophone literature and cinema, and French and Francophone cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 253 or by permission of instructor.
Credits: (4)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated up to 12 credits.
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FR 398 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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FR 442 - Translation and Interpretation
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: FR 342.
Credits: (2)
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FR 460 - French Cinema
Description:
Students will view and analyze French films as a backdrop to the discussion of the history of French cinema.
Credits: (4)
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FR 491 - Workshop
Credits: (1-6)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for credit.
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FR 498 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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Geography |
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GEOG 101 - World Regional Geography
Description:
Regions and nations of the world together with the changing elements of the physical and human environment that support them.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
SB-Perspective on World Culture.
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GEOG 107 - Introduction to Physical Geography
Description:
The complex weather, climate, water, landforms, soils, and biota of Earth’s physical environments over space and time. Four hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory each week.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
NS-Patterns and Connection Natural.
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GEOG 108 - Introduction to Human Geography
Description:
Distribution and spatial variation of population, settlement patterns, cultural elements of language, religion, and lifeways, and the economic and political organization of the planet.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
SB-Found Human Adaptations.
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GEOG 203 - Introduction to Maps and Cartography
Description:
Basic introduction to the principles of cartographic communication. Emphasis on using and understanding a wide variety of general purpose, topographic, and thematic map types.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 250 - Natural Resource Conservation
Description:
The meaning of resources and conservation; population growth and its implications for land management, public control, and environment quality; attitudes regarding the use of resources; conservation thought and activities in the United States.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 273 - Geography of Rivers
Description:
Global, regional, and local physical and cultural patterns and processes within river basins.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
NS-Application Natural Science.
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GEOG 279 - Geography of the West
Description:
In-depth field examination of the complex, physical, human, and resource issues of one or more of the varied subregions of western North America.
Credits: (1-12)
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for up to 12 credits under a different topic.
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GEOG 290 - Cooperative Education Field Experience
Description:
Individualized field experience with business, industry, government, or other agency. Requires a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervisors, and faculty coordinator.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: sophomore standing or above.
Credits: (1-5)
Consent
By permission.
Repeatable for Credit
May be repeated for up to 10 credits.
Grading Basis
Grade will either be S or U.
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GEOG 303 - Introductory GIS
Description:
Applications, scope, and benefits of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), classification and components of GIS; data acquisition; data management; data errors; implementation considerations; applied experience using GIS software. Students will be given a computer literacy test during the first week of class. Continued enrollment is dependent upon passing the test.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: computer literacy, and GEOG 203, or GEOG 210, or ANTH 323, or BIOL 360.
Credits: (5)
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GEOG 304 - Economic Geography
Description:
Geographic survey of human livelihood and interaction with the environment. Agriculture, industry, and urbanization are examined in the context of an increasingly interdependent world system.
Credits: (5)
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GEOG 305 - Introduction to Land Use Planning
Description:
Investigation into the process and practice of urban and regional planning. Emphasis on historical development, legal foundations, and techniques of planning in the United States.
Credits: (5)
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GEOG 306 - Transportation Geography and Planning
Description:
Introduction to the planning and spatial analysis of transportation networks. Evaluation of the economic, environmental, and social consequences of major transportation modes. Application of transportation planning principles at the local, regional, and national scales.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 308 - Cultural Geography
Description:
Consequences of cultural diversity in the human occupation of the Earth and the interactions of human and natural systems.
Credits: (5)
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GEOG 309 - Quantitative Methods in Geography
Description:
Quantitative analysis assessment in geography and resource management. Emphasis on spatial statistics.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: Completion of basic skills math requirement.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Formerly GEOG 409.
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GEOG 311 - Qualitative Methods in Geography
Description:
Introduces students with qualitative research methods in geography with particular attention to participatory observation, interviews, data transcription, oral histories, focus groups, descriptive narrative, archival research, document analysis, data coding and interpretation strategies.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 315 - Geography of Oceania
Description:
Examination of the physical and cultural geography, human-environment interactions, landscapes, and regional diversity of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
Credits: (4)
Notes:
Formerly, GEOG 415.
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GEOG 325 - Field Methods in Geography
Description:
Theory of, and practice in, geography field methods via in-depth field research projects. Topics include field observation, data collection, and data interpretation. Formerly GEOG 425, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
Notes:
Two hours lecture and five hours field per week.
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GEOG 330 - Airphoto Interpretation
Description:
Introduction to airborne photography and the tools and techniques to apply this photography to geographical issues. Three hours lecture and two hours laboratory per week. Course fee required.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisites: GEOG 203, or GEOL 210.
Credits: (5)
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GEOG 346 - Political Geography
Description:
The spatial structure of political units. The effect of political, economic, social, and Earth resource factors on the areas, shapes, and boundaries of these units, and on the distribution of populations and institutions.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 352 - Geography of North America
Description:
Examination of the physical and cultural geography, human-environment interactions, landscapes, and regional diversity of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 355 - Geography of the Pacific Northwest
Description:
Examination of the physical and cultural geography, human-environment interactions, landscapes, and regional diversity of the Pacific Northwest.
Credits: (4)
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GEOG 361 - Soils
Description:
Properties, factors, processes, and classification of Earth’s soils, past and present. Four hours lecture and three hours of laboratory or field trips each week. GEOG 361 and GEOG 461 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.
Prerequisites & Notes:
Prerequisite: GEOG 107.
Credits: (5)
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