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2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • RT 222 - Recreation Programming and Activities


    Description:
    The essential skill of recreation programming will be developed. Games and activities appropriate for playgrounds, camps, and community centers are learned, along with socialization, education, trust building, and outdoor adventure.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: admission to the recreation tourism major or minor.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 272 - Front Office


    Description:
    Examines the room divisions and front office functions critical to hotel operations. Includes the guest cycle, personnel supervision, sales techniques in the reservation process, and hotel organization and operation.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 275 - Career Development


    Description:
    Students will explore career options and networks within the tourism industry and develop materials for a job search.

    Credits: (2)

  
  • RT 286 - International Travel I


    Description:
    Overview North and South America destinations and their travel, tourism, hospitality, and recreation industries. Touristic importance including economic, political, population, geography, social systems, and cultural characteristics.

    Credits: (3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit.
  
  • RT 292 - Practicum


    Description:
    Forty on-the-job hours of practical experience per 1 credit hour earned. Four additional hours may be applied toward the recreation tourism elective area. A minimum of one credit must be taken as a service-learning activity.

    Credits: (1-3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit.
  
  
  • RT 298 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • RT 299 - Seminar


    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • RT 300 - Challenge Course Leadership


    Description:
    Students will develop leadership skills using the challenge course. Specifically, students will learn and use facilitation techniques to improve group and individual interaction.

    Credits: (4)

  
  • RT 309 - Facility Planning and Sustainable Design


    Description:
    This course takes a sustainable development and design approach to studying the key principles and technical concepts associated with recreation and tourism areas and facilities. These principles include community needs assessment and potential environmental impacts.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: RT 201 and admission to the recreation tourism major or minor.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 330 - Sustainable Resources for Recreation and Tourism


    Description:
    The framework of sustainability is used to examine how values, policy, management, and practices direct and affect the use of recreation and tourism areas that are both natural resource-based and part of the built environment.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 337 - Tour and Interpretive Program Development


    Description:
    Methods, techniques, and skills used in the planning, development, and presentation of resource based interpretive programs and visitor tours. This course will include theoretical understanding of the interpretive process and practice of new skills.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 350 - Tourism and Recreation for Special Groups


    Description:
    Distinguishing needs of special populations, mentally ill, disabled, aged, and others. Attention to the ADA. Observations of selected population groups.

    Credits: (2)

  
  • RT 371 - Tourism Essentials


    Description:
    Students will survey the global travel and tourism system, including consumer demand and motivations, tourism suppliers and intermediaries, modes of travel, visitor attractions, marketing and entrepreneurship, destinations, and impacts of tourism on people and communities.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RT 201.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 373A - Supervision in the Hospitality Industry


    Description:
    Basics of supervising programs, personnel, and facilities with emphasis on practical supervisory skill development.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 373D - Convention and Meeting Management


    Description:
    Students will be presented with the mechanics of planning and managing meetings and conventions of a business nature.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • RT 373E - Resort Management


    Description:
    Presentation of management topics applied to the hospitality industry.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • RT 374 - Festivals and Events


    Description:
    Students will learn the purposes, mechanics, and leadership skills required for planning and executing community festivals and special events of a social nature.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 377 - The Gaming and Casino Industry


    Description:
    An overview of the casino industry including: traditional casinos, riverboats, historical perspective, legal, social, cultural and economic impacts, Native American gaming, regulation and control of gaming, and future trends in gaming industry.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 379 - Cruise Line Industry


    Description:
    An overview of the cruise industry including: cruise lines, ships, history of cruising, human resource practices, marketing, design, terminology, and future trends.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 380 - Supervision in the Hospitality Industry


    Description:
    Basics of supervising programs, personnel, and facilities with emphasis on practical supervisory skill development.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 381 - Recreational Sports Management


    Description:
    Organization and implementation of recreational sports programs in community recreation settings. Emphasis on facilities, personnel, materials and supplies, tournament bracketing and other practical considerations.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 382 - Community Recreation


    Description:
    Preparation for positions in community-based organizations to include non-profits and municipalities, grant writing, board-staff relations, community capacity building, and social marketing.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 386 - International Travel II


    Description:
    Overview of selected Europe and Africa destinations and their travel, tourism, hospitality, and recreation industries. Touristic importance, including economic, political, population, geography, social systems, and cultural characteristics.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 393A - Leisure Service Agency Visitations: Public Recreation Agencies


    Description:
    Field visits, usually from two to three days in duration. Review of facilities, programs, and clientele with agency leader/supervisor/manager.

    Credits: (1-3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit under different subtitle.
  
  • RT 393M - Leisure Service Agency Visitations: Community Centers


    Description:
    Field visits, usually from two to three days in duration. Review of facilities, programs, and clientele with agency leader/supervisor/manager.

    Credits: (1-3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit under different subtitle.
  
  • RT 393N - Rt Vis:Destinations


    Description:
    Field visits, two to three days in duration. Review of facilities, programs and clientele with agency leader/supervisor/manager. May be repeated for credit under different titles.

    Credits: (1-3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated up to 3 credits.
  
  • RT 393Q - Leisure Service Agency Visitations: Transportation


    Description:
    Field visits, usually from two to three days in duration. Review of facilities, programs, and clientele with agency leader/supervisor/manager.

    Credits: (1-3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit under different subtitle.
  
  • RT 398 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • RT 405 - Hospitality Catering


    Description:
    Basics of off-premise catering including menu planning, budgeting, logistics, and marketing. NUTR 405, RT 405, and RT 505 are equivalent courses; students may not receive credit for more than one.

    Credits: (3)

    Notes:

  
  • RT 431 - Resident Camp Programming


    Description:
    Methods, techniques, and skills used in the organization and operation of a resident camp program.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 471 - Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development


    Description:
    The planning process is studied in connection with the development of sustainable tourism, taking into consideration the impacts of development on the economic, social, fiscal, environmental, and political fabric of communities.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RT 201.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 473 - Air Travel and Tourism


    Description:
    Examines the airline industry, its components and methods of operation; the interaction with other segments of the industry. Procedures for working with the airlines.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RT 201.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 474 - Hotel Operations Analysis


    Description:
    Analysis of hotel performance and forecasting, with tools typically used in a lodging environment. RT 474 and RT 574 are equivalent courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (2)

  
  • RT 475 - Professionalism in Tourism


    Description:
    Students will develop skills related to professionalism in the tourism industry along with assessing themselves in order to successfully enter their careers.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: admission to the recreation and tourism major or minor.

    Credits: (2)

  
  • RT 479 - Cruise Line Workshop


    Description:
    Students will learn the ports, ports of call, and cruise lines of the Pacific Northwest. A visitation will be made to selected cruise offices and ports.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RT 379.

    Credits: (2)

    Consent
    By permission.
  
  • RT 480 - Tourism Administration


    Description:
    Contemporary problems and issues, basic applied research, organizational development, policy formulation, human resources, inventory, and program personnel evaluation processes.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: RT 302, either HRM 381 or MGT 380, senior standing, and admission to the recreation and tourism major or minor.

    Credits: (4)

  
  • RT 484 - Legal Liability and Risk Management


    Description:
    Aspects of personnel law and premises liability in public, private, and non-profit education, human, and social services organizations. Procedures for managing risks. RT 484 and PE 484 are equivalent courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 486 - International Travel III


    Description:
    Overview of selected Asia, Australia, and South Pacific destinations and their travel, tourism, hospitality, and recreation industries. Touristic importance including economic, political, population, geography, social systems, and cultural characteristics.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 487 - Outdoor Recreation Issues


    Description:
    This course addresses recent and breaking issues in the outdoor recreation field. The course involves readings and discussions in both the classroom and field environments.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RT 330.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RT 488 - Recreation Management


    Description:
    Contemporary issues, basic applied evaluation, organizational development, policy formulation, human resources, inventory, and program planning.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: RT 302, senior standing, and admission to the recreation and tourism major ot minor.

    Credits: (4)

  
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    RT 490 - Cooperative Education


    Description:
    An individualized, contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies. A learning agreement is created by the student to identify and plan the directed and supervised study under the guidance of a tourism mentor. Forty hours required per credit.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: admission to the recreation and tourism major or minor, a minimum GPA of 2.25 in the major, and permission of advisor.

    Credits: (1-12)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit.
    Grading Basis
    Grade will either be S or U.
  
  • RT 491 - Workshop


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  
  • RT 498 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • RT 499 - Seminar


    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • RUSS 151 - First-year Russian


    Description:
    Conversational approach with intensive oral-aural drill. Firm foundation in basic structural principles of the language.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Courses must be taken in sequence.
  
  • RUSS 152 - First-year Russian


    Description:
    Conversational approach with intensive oral-aural drill. Firm foundation in basic structural principles of the language.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequiste: RUSS 151.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Courses must be taken in sequence.
  
  • RUSS 153 - First-year Russian


    Description:
    Conversational approach with intensive oral-aural drill. Firm foundation in basic structural principles of the language.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 152.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Courses must be taken in sequence.
  
  • RUSS 251 - Second-year Russian


    Description:
    Thorough review of Russian grammar and graduated readings in Russian prose and poetry with discussions conducted in Russian.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Courses must be taken in sequence.
  
  • RUSS 252 - Second-year Russian


    Description:
    Thorough review of Russian grammar and graduated readings in Russian prose and poetry with discussions conducted in Russian.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 251.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Courses must be taken in sequence.
  
  • RUSS 253 - Second-year Russian


    Description:
    Thorough review of Russian grammar and graduated readings in Russian prose and poetry with discussions conducted in Russian.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 252.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Courses must be taken in sequence.
  
  • RUSS 298 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • RUSS 341 - Intermediate Composition and Grammar


    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 253.

    Credits: (3)

    Notes:
    Should be taken in sequence with RUSS 441.
  
  • RUSS 342 - Intermediate Composition and Grammar


    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 341.

    Credits: (3)

    Notes:
    Should be taken in sequence with RUSS 441.
  
  • RUSS 398 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • RUSS 441 - Advanced Composition and Grammar


    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 342.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • RUSS 445 - Topics in Russian Language


    Description:
    This course is based on a systematic and functional approach to Russian grammar; from morphology to syntax and text.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: RUSS 253

    Credits: (2)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated up to 6 credits.
  
  • RUSS 462 - Russian Cinema


    Description:
    Explores the cultural and historical context of Soviet and post -Soviet film, including exchanges between art and politics, expressions of national identity, depictions of ethnicity, gender and class, and the development of cinematic institutions.

    Credits: (4)

  
  
  • RUSS 498 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • SCED 301 - Interdisciplinary K-8 Science Inquiry


    Description:
    Interdisciplinary investigation of applied life, physical, and Earth science concepts applicable to K-8 classrooms using integrated contexts. Applied inquiry processes are used to increase student knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

    Credits: (5)

    Notes:
    Six lecture/lab hours per week.
  
  • SCED 311 - Science Concepts for Teachers


    Description:
    An in-depth examination for the science concepts applicable to K-12 classrooms using an individualized and inquiry-based approach. Online and community recourses are utilized to enhance existing science content knowledge and understanding.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCED 322 - Science Education in the Elementary School


    Description:
    Techniques, selection of materials, and appropriate subject matter for the various grade levels. Demonstrations and student investigative activities for use in classroom science teaching.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: conditional or full admission to the Teacher Preparation Program.

    Credits: (4)

  
  • SCED 323 - Teaching Middle School Mathematics and Science


    Description:
    Prospective teachers will learn and use the methods and materials needed to teach middle school students mathematics and science with emphasis on the use of experiments, manipulatives, problems solving, cooperative learning, and communication of understanding. SCED 323 and MATH 323 are equivalent courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: MATH 324 or EDEL 323 or SCED 324 or SCED 322, and application to the Teacher Preparation Program.

    Credits: (3)

    Consent
    By permission.
  
  • SCED 324 - Science Education in Secondary Schools I


    Description:
    Methods, techniques, and materials appropriate for teaching science in secondary schools. Curriculum, planning, and experiments for use in teaching.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: EFC 330 and SCED 401, and admission to the Teacher Preparation Program.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SCED 325 - Science Education in Secondary Schools II


    Description:
    Applied field experience for teaching science in secondary schools. Planning, instruction, and management for teaching science. Enrollment is subject to full admission to the Professional Education Program.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: SCED 324 and admission to the Teacher Preparation Program.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SCED 354 - Science, Society, and the Teaching Community


    Description:
    Teacher candidates will learn the nature and context of science, compare science with other ways of knowing, describe the relationship between science and the community, and gain skills in integrating community resources with the classroom.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: admission to the Teacher Preparation Program.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SCED 398 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • SCED 401 - Interdisciplinary Secondary Science Inquiry


    Description:
    Interdisciplinary investigation of applied life, physical, and earth science concepts applicable to secondary school classrooms using integrated contexts. Applied inquiry processes are used to increase student knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: one laboratory course from two of the following areas: biology, chemistry, geology, or physics.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCED 422 - Advanced Teaching Strategies in Elementary Science


    Description:
    Further develop knowledge and skills of elementary science teaching with a particular emphasis on the science inquiry process, assessment of student knowledge and cross-curricular integration. Includes teaching practica.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: SCED 322.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCED 487 - Teaching Secondary Science Seminar


    Description:
    Students compile knowledge, skills, and dispositions evidence and reflect on performance relative to professional standards. Students discuss current secondary science education issues, participate in program assessment, prepare for endorsement exam, and complete an electronic portfolio.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: students must plan to teach within a year of enrolling in this course.

    Credits: (2)

  
  • SCED 491 - Workshop


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • SCED 495 - Science Education Research


    Description:
    This course introduces pre-service science teachers to qualitative and quantitative methods of action research. Course requires completion of a research project of the student’s design.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: admission to the Teacher Preparation Program.

    Credits: (1-3)

    Repeatable for Credit
    May be repeated for credit.
  
  
  • SCM 310 - Supply Chain Management


    Description:
    Adoption of a supply chain orientation toward business management which emphasizes the inter-functional and inter-firm relationships that contribute to improving coordination of operations and performance of organizations that participate in various types of supply chains. OSC 323 and SCM 310 are equivalent courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: admission to either the business, accounting, or economics major, and a specialization in economic and business forecasting.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCM 324 - Quality and Continuous Improvement


    Description:
    Development and deployment of quality management and continuous improvement practices. Qualitative, analytical, and statistical methods which integrate managerial, technical, behavioral, and economic perspectives.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SCM 310, admission to either the business, accounting, or economics major, and a specialization in economic and business forecasting.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCM 425 - Procurement and Supply Management


    Description:
    Purchasing processes, procurement cycle analysis, research to support purchasing decisions, supplier relationship development and management, negotiations, commodity planning, costing, pricing, and value analysis related to the purchasing of products and services.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SCM 310, admission to either the business, accounting, or economics major, and a specialization in economic and business forecasting.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCM 435 - Advanced Topics in Operations and Supply Chain Management


    Description:
    Advanced methods and models for planning, management, and decision making involving aspects of supply chain management operations including inventory, transportation, location, purchasing, and other related analyses. Emphasizes integration and coordination of resources for productivity improvement.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SCM 310, admission to either the business, accounting, or economics major, and a specialization in economic and business forecasting.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCM 475 - Global Supply Chain Management


    Description:
    Global supply chain activities emphasizing integration of transportation, inventory, warehousing, facility location, customer service, materials handling, packaging, and information. Analysis of product and service delivery and the associated trade, cultural, and legal factors and influences.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SCM 310 and admission to either the business administration or accounting major.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SCM 480 - Supply Chain Strategy


    Description:
    Integration of concepts learned throughout supply chain curriculum into a combined analysis of comprehensive cases incorporating strategic and tactical decision making throughout the supply chain planning and implementation process.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SCM 310, SCM 435, admission to either the business, accounting, or economics major, and a specialization in economic and business forecasting.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • SED 298 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • SED 382 - Driver Task Analysis


    Description:
    Introduction to traffic safety education, the highway transportation system, driver task analysis, classroom instruction techniques.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: SED 180.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SED 398 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • SED 481 - Teaching Traffic Safety Education: Classroom and Simulation Instruction


    Description:
    Methods, materials, and techniques for teaching classroom and simulation. Experience in teaching beginning drivers.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: SED 382.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SED 482 - Teaching Traffic Safety Education: In Car


    Description:
    Methods, materials, and techniques for teaching in dual-control vehicles. Experience teaching beginning drivers.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SED 382.

    Credits: (5)

    Consent
    By permission.
  
  • SED 484 - Safety Program Supervision


    Description:
    Development and management of a total school safety program.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: SED 382.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SED 491 - Workshop


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  
  • SED 498 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • SED 499 - Seminar


    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • SHM 201 - Introduction to Safety and Health Management


    Description:
    Overview of safety and health management profession, credentials, societies, organizations, application of math and science.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: freshmen or sophomore standing.

    Credits: (1)

  
  • SHM 321 - Agriculture Safety


    Description:
    A comprehensive course that covers the safety and health regulations and practices pertaining to agriculture and the food processing industry.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SHM 323 - Construction Safety


    Description:
    A comprehensive course that covers the safety and health regulations and practices pertaining to the construction industry.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SHM 325 - Manufacturing Safety


    Description:
    A comprehensive course that covers the safety and health regulations and practices pertaining to the manufacturing industry.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SHM 327 - Research and Laboratory Safety


    Description:
    A comprehensive course that covers the safety and health regulations and practices pertaining to the laboratory and research industry.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • SHM 349 - Fire Administration and Leadership


    Description:
    Analysis and research on selected topics involving contemporary issues in fire administration.

    Credits: (4)

    Consent
    By permission.
  
  • SHM 351 - Incident Analysis


    Description:
    Occupational safety and health legislation (OSHA, Workers’ Compensation), anatomy of accidents, incident analysis.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: either SHM 321, 323, 325, 327, or permission of instructor and admission to the safety and health major or minor.

    Credits: (4)

  
  • SHM 352 - Systems and Design


    Description:
    Hazard control management, systems and process engineering concepts applied to safety and health management; design for safety principles.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisites: SHM 351 and either MATH 102, or 130.

    Credits: (4)

  
  • SHM 353 - Risk and Insurance


    Description:
    Risk management, insurance, loss control, liability, and legal foundations in safety and health management.

    Prerequisites & Notes:
    Prerequisite: SHM 352.

    Credits: (4)

 

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