Course Descriptions

IT 312 - Advanced Application of Web Tools

• Explain vector based graphics and multimedia formats.
• Apply advanced HTML and CSS concepts.
• Apply basic elements and principles of design to web sites.
• Explain site planning, scaling, and site specifications.
• Demonstrate responsive design techniques for cross-media and cross-platform graphic applications using CSS.
• Publish multipage web sites using a remote web server.

IT 322 - Innovative Design in Web

• Explain site planning, scaling, and site specifications
• Create original working code based in HTML
• Employ CSS for formatting text elements
• Employ CSS for page layout
• Apply jQuery/Ajax components on a page, both with and without XML data
• Incorporate XML data (including linked and graphic) in a webpage
• Create and publish web pages that use linked external CSS style sheets
• Read and reconfigure or repurpose existing HTML and CSS code

IT 336 - Digital Forensics

• Identify the relevant processes, objectives, and goals of digital forensics.
• Discuss the legal ramifications of digital forensics investigations.
• Assess the tools and procedures necessary to investigate and evaluate a perpetrator’s computer assets from a digital forensics perspective.
• Analyze digital concealment and recovery techniques and related technologies including hardware, software, and networked computers and systems.
• Utilize digital concealment and recovery techniques and related technologies.

IT 338 - Cybercrime

• Identify the various attributes of cybercrime to include hacking, denial of service attacks, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, virus attacks, identity theft, electronic funds transfers, phishing, spoofing, internet fraud and similar attributes.
• Investigate the vulnerability of computer applications, networks, and systems in terms of computer intrusions and attacks.
• Analyze the impact of cybercrime (social, economic, and legal).
• Discuss methods of the mitigation and/or prevention of cybercrime.
• Utilize tools and procedures to include hardware and/or software to mitigate cybercrime.
• Discuss the legal ramifications of cybercrime on individuals, organizations, and society.

IT 351 - Computer Networks

• Define fundamental networking concepts, components, and functions and the three basic network designs
• Describe how network components are linked either by physical media such as cable or by wireless methods such as infrared or radio transmissions
• Explain the theoretical structure which forms the foundation of all network activity (OSI model)
• Identify the different network components such as drivers, packets, and protocols
• Explain how the access methods control the flow of data across the network
• Describe the major components, features, and functions of the primary network architectures or layouts
• Describe the operating system, applications, utilities, and special languages that make it possible for networks to provide the services they do. (Client/Server)
• Explain what is involved in managing and supporting a network in its day-to-day functions of providing services to its users
• Describe how networks grow from a LAN into larger WAN’ s
• Describe how to manage a network to keep it running smoothly

IT 359 - Advanced Spreadsheet Applications

• Construct simple and compound statements and selected functions.
• Examine lists, data filters and subtotals.
• Employ macros.
• Apply What if analysis, goal seek, forecasts.
• Analyze data with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts.
• Demonstrate the application of common statistical methods using spreadsheet formulas.

IT 362 - Wireless Communications

• Describe wireless communications: how it works, how it is used, its advantages and disadvantage
• Contrast and compare radio and infrared wireless communication: models, transmission and standards
• Describe, explain, configure, and troubleshoot short range wireless communications
• Identify, troubleshoot, and correct Wireless Local Area Networks and associated protocols
• Plan and conduct a wireless site survey to evaluate wireless network design for optimum coverage
• Describe and explain digital Cellular Telephone Applications, Technology and Client software
• Describe and explain fixed broadband wireless and satellite communication
• Identify, describe, and explain the uses and challenges of wireless communications in business
• Describe, explain, configure, and troubleshoot wireless network security

IT 363 - Data Mining for IT Managers

• Explain the procedures involved in extracting useful data from multiple sources in an IT Management context.
• Differentiate between intelligence and analytics and describe the role of each in data-driven decision making.
• Explain various supervised learning methods that can be used to derive meaning from trained data sets in an IT Management context.
• Explain various unsupervised learning methods that can be used to derive meaning from large sets in an IT Management context.
• Identify the best tools to apply to data sets to prepare them for analysis in an IT Management context.

IT 365 - Data Driven Innovation

• Explain the role of machine learning in data mining
• Apply models and algorithms as used in data mining techniques
• Analyze the value of data mining techniques used in the information technology field
• Evaluate visualization techniques used in data mining

IT 370 - The Command Line Interface and Cybersecurity

• Utilize looping and selection statements.
• Utilize truth tables in the evaluation of conditions.
• Construct a script that will help secure a system.
• Evaluate a script for security vulnerabilities.

IT 376 - Project Management and Information Technology

IT 378 - IT Service Management

• Identify the metrics necessary to manage the deployment of an organization’s technology assets.
• Identify the processes for managing the services provided by an IT department.
• Evaluate change management requirements of regulations for IT compliance.
• Develop service level requirements and agreements to measure and assess supplier performance.
• Align IT infrastructure and service delivery activities to an organizations’ core processes.

IT 381 - Web Apps for M-Commerce

• Demonstrate an understanding of web app planning, scaling, and specifications.
• Document web app goals, requirements and internal specifications.
• Demonstrate the ability to create original working web apps.
• Demonstrate an understanding of native web apps for multiple OS.
• Create simple dynamic/interactive m-commerce web apps.

IT 388 - Cloud Fundamentals for IT Managers

• Explain the core concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and its relationship to the spectrum of hosted/on-premise solutions
• Distinguish between different types of cloud offerings and emerging technologies
• Analyze various cloud models and apply them to solve organizational challenges
• Determine the potential impact of cloud-based systems and technology on management processes

IT 396 - Individual Study

IT 397 - Honors

IT 398 - Special Topics

IT 399 - Seminar

IT 425 - Reporting Data and Analytics

• Apply push and pull approaches to analytics reporting.
• Interpret information about people in organizations in terms of its usefulness in strategic process decisions.
• Construct actionable information by using tools to process large data sets.
• Evaluate potential solutions based on analytics data.
• Justify recommendations using data mining and analytics appropriate for a client-based environment.

IT 426 - Application of Web Languages

• Select appropriate languages to accomplish specific tasks on a Website
• Document site goals, requirements and internal specifications
• Conduct an informal usability test of a Website
• Explain how browser compatibility can determine functionality of your site
• Choose an appropriate platform for site development
• Design site architecture that includes appropriate security considerations
• Identify key components in development and testing
• Evaluate and use new technologies for use in a Website including XHTML, CSS, XML, Spry and Ajax
• Plan and budget for the continued maintenance of a site
• Create a plan for implementation of a medium sized site
• Create a working site

IT 436 - Cyberattack/Defense

• Identify the major components of the cyber-attack/defense domain.
• Investigate cyber deterrence capabilities.
• Investigate reconstitution and robustness capabilities designed to enable U.S. systems to continue to function once they have suffered cyber damage.
• Assess tools and procedures to include hardware and/or software to simulate an attack on an adversary.
• Utilize tools and procedures to include hardware and/or software to simulate an attack on an adversary.
• Discuss the implications societally, socially, legally, and technologically, of cyber-attacks on an entity.

IT 437 - Mobile and Cloud Forensics

• Appraise a given scenario, and then choose the correct digital forensic tool and technique for that scenario.
• Prepare a cloud forensics case using the tools provided in the text and other research areas.
• Prepare a mobile digital forensics report after being provided the scenario and necessary tools to include software.
• Demonstrate the understanding of digital forensics in situations where the device is an IoT, Mobile Device, Cloud environment or standard desktop environment.

IT 438 - IT Risk Management

• Identify risk assessment strategies requisite to implement risk mitigation measures and practices.
• Identify the levels of sensitivity of information kept by an organization and the procedures necessary to protect it.
• Examine the tools and procedures utilized by attackers to infiltrate an organization’s infrastructure in order to obtain sensitive information.
• Develop an effective risk management plan for organizations of various sizes, compositions, and industries.
• Construct a disaster recovery plan for organizations of various sizes, compositions, and industries.
• Discuss the legal ramifications in the risk management arena from an IT perspective.

IT 456 - Advanced Computer Network Management

• Define the purpose of routing and switching
• Identify the principles of network design
• Design a switched network
• Install, configure, & manage routing and switching equipment
• Load multiple protocols and be able to differentiate between routing and routed protocols

IT 459 - Workstation Administration

• Install A Workstation Networking Software
• Implement and conduct administration of resources
• Implement manage, and troubleshoot hardware devices, and drivers
• Monitor and optimize system performance and reliability
• Configure and Troubleshoot the Desktop Environment
• Implement, Manage, and Troubleshoot Network Protocols and Services
• Implement, Monitor, and Troubleshoot Security

IT 461 - Systems Analysis

• Position system analysis in the development process
• Develop an understanding of the concepts of problem recognition and problem definition
• Use tools like PIECES framework
• Explain in detail the individual phases of the SDLC, along with the expected activities and deliverables from each
• Identify and select IS projects
• Gather and organize end users’ requirements
• Read, correct, and create data flow diagrams (DFD)
• Read, correct, and create entity relationship diagrams (ERO)
• Perform basic project management tasks associated with scope, time and budget
• Understand ERO extensions
• Create logical and relational models
• Write a system proposal
• Understand the basic elements of other analysis methods like object oriented analysis or rapid application development
• Understand the job of system analyst
• Work effectively in a pair
• Follow a process to solve organizational problems
• Write better

IT 463 - Computer Network Management

• Install Windows 2000 Server
• Install, Configure, and Troubleshoot Access to Resources
• Configure and Troubleshoot Hardware Devices and Drivers
• Manage, monitor, and optimize system performance, reliability, and availability
• Manage, configure, and troubleshoot storage use
• Configure and Troubleshoot Network Connections
• Implement, monitor, and troubleshoot security

IT 464 - Directory Services (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Evaluate network traffic when planning and creating global catalog servers
• Improve network efficiency and performance using operations master roles
• Implement a directory service forest and domain structure
• Manage forest and domain structure
• Monitor, diagnose and restore directory services
• Identify security issues and plan an effective strategy for dealing with those issues
• Plan and implement a strategy for configuring user and computer environments using Group Policy
• Maintain installed software using Group Policy

IT 466 - Open Source Server Management

• Install, configure, & manage a Linux server for network environments
• Compare Linux administration from the command line shell with GUI based tools
• Install, configure, and manage some of the more commonly used network services, (DHCP, DNS, LDAP, email)
• Install, configure, and manage file and print services
• Install, configure, & manage a Linux web server and associated services (http, ftp, php, mySQL)
• Demonstrate best practices for secure server standards within a networked computing environment

IT 467 - Network Security

• Analyze the existing and planned business model
• Analyze the existing and planned organizational structures
• Analyze factors that influence company strategies
• Analyze business and security requirements for the end user
• Analyze the structure of IT management
• Analyze the current physical model and information security model
• Evaluate the company’s existing and planned technical environment
• Analyze the impact of the security design on the existing and planned technical environment
• Design a security baseline for a network
• Identify the required level of security for each resource
• Design an audit policy
• Design a delegation of authority strategy
• Design a placement and inheritance of security policies for sites, domains, and organizational units
• Design an Encrypting File System strategy
• Design an authentication strategy

IT 468 - Projects in Database

• Demonstrate an understanding of terminology used in database management
• Demonstrate an understanding of relational models
• Demonstrate an understanding of QBE and SOL
• Demonstrate an understanding of Normalization
• Demonstrate an understanding of Database Design
• Demonstrate an understanding of Database Administration

IT 469 - Enterprise Database Systems: SQL

• Manipulate a database on paper prior to working in SQL
• Examine concepts and terminology associated with relational databases.
• Use SQL to query a database, discussing the use of simple and compound conditions; computed columns; the SQL operators BETWEEN, LIKE, and IN; SQL functions; nesting queries; grouping data; and retrieving columns with null values.
• Use queries to join multiple tables, discussing the SQL operators IN and EXIST, SQL set operations, and the use of the ALL and ANY operators.
• Apply specific SQL commands, including COMMIT, ROLLBACK, UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE commands to update table data.
• Use procedural code to write stored programs, including the use of transactions and locking.

IT 470 - Database and the Web Capstone

• Develop a data-driven website
• Connect to a database from within a script
• Use SQL from within a script to query a database
• Use a script to build dynamic web pages
• Use a MVC architectural design pattern for a website

IT 481 - Quality Verification and Validation

• Explain the aspects of quality assurance with particular focus on managing reviews and tests.
• Define the roles of developer, peer reviewer, and tester, and describe their interactions on a successful project.
• Define the stages and types of review and testing in system development.
• Demonstrate the inputs, deliverables, and flows of the testing process.
• Develop and implement a test plan, mining system specifications for useful test cases.
• Apply an accepted document review technique for verification.
• Deploy and utilize an effective automated testing tool.
• Apply a suite of systems testing techniques for system validation.
• Apply effective acceptance testing techniques for approval of delivery.
• Manage defects for quality improvement.

IT 482 - Cybersecurity Capstone

• Given a scenario, students will use risk-assessment techniques to prioritize the defense of a given set of information assets.
• Determine and implement the appropriate defensive mechanisms to protect the information assets.
• Use various attack vectors to test the defensive mechanisms.
• Use various digital forensics techniques to assess the effectiveness of their defensive mechanisms and to witness what data was breached.

IT 483 - Applied Predictive Analytics for IT Managers

• Explain the processes involved in mining, analyzing, and reporting on varied data sets in an IT Management context.
• Consider how predictive models can be used with large datasets to drive meaning from the data.
• Explain how predictive analytics can be utilized to support strategy in an IT Management context.
• Apply critical thinking strategies to predictive analytics in an IT Management context.
• Provide a cursory explanation of artificial intelligence (AI) and its likely impact on innovation and IT.

IT 486 - Critical Issues in Information Technology

• Work collaboratively to evaluate the criticality of current IT issues - technical, corporate, and global.
• Lead a group investigation and synthesis of current knowledge and apply solutions to the most critical IT issues.
• Think critically, analyzing colleagues’ proposals in the context of critical IT issues.
• Publish resulting effective solutions to most critical IT issues, for use by industry.

IT 487 - Networking Capstone

• Design and implement a network that is suitable for a small business that has at least two sites
• Implement all infrastructure components on the network (DNS, AD, DHCP, etc.)
• Implement firewalls on the network
• Secure the network

IT 490 - Cooperative Education

IT 491 - Workshop

IT 496 - Individual Study

IT 497 - Honors

IT 498 - Special Topics

IT 499 - Seminar

IEM 103 - Introduction to Energy and Science Inquiry

• Define, explain, and apply basic life, physical, and earth/space science concepts of energy science and global implications.
• Design, perform, and modify approaches to inquiry-based experimentation through best practices research in energy science.
• Identify and apply measurement technologies to record valid and reliable data during best practices research experimentation in energy science.
• Analyze experimental data using tables, graphs, and math models to propose and experimentally test sustainable solutions to energy problems.
• Research current literature, evaluate, create, use, modify, and defend perspectives of energy science that use evidence based claims that are scientifically valid and reliable through scientific investigation that yields experimental reproducible results.

IEM 198 - Special Topics

IEM 201 - Introduction to Energy Management

• Recognize the principles of energy management in different settings.
• Discuss the history of energy production.
• Explain the role of energy managers in identifying basie energy management techniques (auditing, optimization, etc.) to real world problems.
• Identify energy conservation opportunities in residential, commercial, and industrial settings.

IEM 290 - Cooperative Education

• Research, apply, interview, and obtain work in energy management related position.
• Be able to discuss the benefits of the Integrated Energy Management degree and your career plans with a superior in the organization.
• Describe the organizational structure of the placement, including scope, product or service, history, and management style and indicate possible career paths with the organization.
• Analyze the connections that exist between the particular skills learned and tasks performed at the workplace with what was learned in the Integrated Energy Management degree program.
• Evaluate how skills learned and tasks performed at the workplace help you understand and manage the main energy issues at local, national and global scales.

IEM 298 - Special Topics

IEM 299 - Seminar

IEM 302 - Energy, Environment, and Climate Change

• Demonstrate knowledge of the Earth’s climate system and how both natural and human factors influence the functioning of that system.
• Explain how and why past climates vary from those of today and evaluate how energy production in all forms has influenced those climatic variations.
• Discuss and present the ways in which global climate change impacts Earth’s non-energy resources (i.e., freshwater supply, food supply, faunal/floral biodiversity, soils, etc.) and the effects of this on society and its sustainability.
• Evaluate how global energy production and consumption choices influence the development of Global Climate Models and how different scenarios (mathematical inputs) alter projections of future climate change.
• Research, analyze, and present on the extent to which a select country/region contributes to global climate change and how their energy production and consumption decisions play a role in this.
• Identify, collect, and critique data and literature resources relating to past, present, and future global climate change.

IEM 310 - Inquiry Science in Energy Management (Put on Reserve 9/1/2020)

• Describe and explain basic life (biology), physical (chemistry/physics), and earth science (geology) concepts relevant to energy science.
• Design and implement experiments using investigative processes in energy science.
• Use computers and related technologies to gather and analyze data. 

• Interpret and present data using quantitative reasoning including graphs, tables, and 
charts from scientific literature and hands-on scientific investigations. 

• Work in small groups to solve complex problems relevant to energy science.
• Form opinions based on scientific evidence and defend positions using both written and oral methods.

IEM 330 - Geopolitics of Fossil Fuels

• Identify, analyze and evaluate past, present, and likely future developments in global, national, and local energy issues resulting from geopolitical changes.
• Analyze the uneven distribution of fossil fuels around the world and discuss how their exploitation affects social groups in different ways based on diversity, inequality, privilege, or political power from a critical perspective.
• Define geopolitical concepts that relate to fossil fuel energy systems and demonstrate an understanding of the processes required to become an active participant in the economy, politics, and the environment at a global scale.
• Asses significant energy resource issues and identify social, cultural, economic, historic, environmental, or political factors of concern regarding production, transportation, transformation, and consumption of fossil fuels globally.
• Write, research, analyze, and present on any complex global energy problems that address themes covered in class.
• Explain the different strategies used by petro-states to influence political decisions and propose ways in which the impacts of these strategies affect society locally, regionally, and globally.

IEM 396 - Individual Study

IEM 397 - Honors

IEM 398 - Special Topics

IEM 399 - Seminar

IEM 443 - Energy Policy

• Describe the policy process in the US and identify the variables that influence energy policy outcomes.
• Identify the steps in a rational-comprehensive policy analysis framework.
• Identify a range of environmental/energy policy instruments (e.g., regulation, tradable permits, taxes, subsidies, legal instruments) and articulate their strengths and limitations as applied to environmental problems.
• Identify and describe the multifaceted dimensions of a variety of energy “problems” (e.g., climate change, new energy resource development, energy transportation).
• Follow the steps in policy formulation to develop an energy policy that attempts to resolve an environmental/energy problem.

IEM 489 - Integrated Energy Management Capstone

• Illustrate through familiarity with the discipline’s vocabulary, concepts and themes, and the complexity of energy systems, energy resources, and political-economic processes.
• Define and discuss historical and contemporary energy problems, policies, and processes in the field.
• Identify the patterns created through the interactions between human processes and energy systems (i.e. production, distribution, petrochemical transformations, and consumption) and the manner in which political and economic processes shape nature and society.  
• Analyze the value of an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the social, political, economic, and environmental implications of energy systems and energy transition in the world.
• Identify professional opportunities and prospects for energy managers.

IEM 490 - Cooperative Education

• Research, apply, interview, and obtain work in energy management related position for at least nine weeks.
• Be able to discuss the benefits of the Integrated Energy Management degree and your career plans with a superior in the organization.
• Describe the organizational structure of the placement, including scope, product or service, history, and management style and indicate possible career paths with the organization.
• Analyze the connections that exist between the particular skills learned and tasks performed at the workplace with what was learned in the Integrated Energy Management degree program.
• Evaluate how skills learned and tasks performed at the workplace help you understand and manage the main energy issues at local, national and global scales.

IEM 496 - Individual Study

IEM 497 - Honors

IEM 498 - Special Topics

IEM 499 - Seminar

IDS 289 - Introduction to the Major

• Design an individual course of study leading to the accomplished through the Interdisciplinary Studies - Social Sciences degree program.
• Design an individual course of study leading to the accomplishment of the individual learning goals.
• Design an individual learning plan, including academic goals, to be accomplished in the Interdisciplinary Studies-Social Sciences degree program.

IDS 298 - Special Topics

IDS 299 - Seminar

IDS 305 - Surviving to Thriving: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Resiliency and Coping

• Distinguish between resilient and non-resilient characteristics.
• Outline the variety of factors (biopshychosocial and cultural) that contribute to resiliency.
• Analyze the development of resiliency.  
• Predict resiliency and decipher coping capabilities, limitations, and competencies.
• Design an individual plan to apply resiliency-related concepts to approaches to life situations.
• Implement and evaluate a variety of resiliency and coping techniques by applying and executing some of the strategies included in individual plans of study.

IDS 311 - Don’t Lie to Me: Contemporary Profiling

• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic theories and practice surrounding profiling.
• Identify measures of deception and how to detect them.
• Review and apply contemporary research articles associated to the basic theory (profiling) and the relevance that they provide to the practice of profiling.
• Teach students the psycho-social impacts that influence serial and habitual offenders in their formative years.
• Identify the basic personality types represented within the habitual offender population and the most common “triggers” of violent and anti-social actions.
• Identify and differentiate the basic “signatures” of serial offenders and to interpret archival clues contained in report and scene documentation.

IDS 321 - Body Image, Wellness and Popular Culture

Describe the signs and symptoms of body image disturbances and how these disorders impact the different aspects of wellness.

Identify and interpret aspects of popular culture that leads to unhealthy attitudes and practices surrounding weight, shape and physical appearance in general.

List the ways in which one can prevent and treat body image disturbances.

Articulate how to decrease the impact body image disturbances can have on a person’s wellness.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
11/5/2015

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

IDS 323 - Dangerous Women: Mad, Bad or Misunderstood

• Ability to identify the various theories relating to violent behavior in women.
• Increased ability to critically analyze and discuss controversial topics and actively participate in group discussions with peers and professor.
• Produce interdisciplinary research and persuasively argue a position based on this research.
• Ability to create dynamic presentations around a central theme.

IDS 343 - Origins and Results of Food Technology: The Gluttonous Human

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Examine the Neolithic revolution, the development of agriculture, its origin, the various steps up to GMO plants.
• Contrast food choices and availability among various social classes and commensurate outcomes in health, especially obesity.
• Outline approaches to the management of natural and labor resources in various settings: Tiwanaku, Machu Picchu, Bali, Bolivia
• Examine diseases of novel environment and infections from viruses.  Inventory the use of chemicals, additives, dyes, flavorings, and preservatives in food.
• Apply evolutionary approaches to understand obesity in the United States. Be able to recognize and predict opportunistic behaviors and instant gratification.
• Evaluate the ingredients in processed food and in fast food restaurants, and apply this knowledge to one’s own eating behavior.
• Critically analyze the contributions of genes, individual life choices, and culture on health outcomes (e.g., cancer risk, diabetes, and obesity).
• Record behaviors in one’s eating pattern and deduce the negative and positive ones.  
• Outline approaches to the management of natural and labor resources in various settings: Tiwanaku, Machu Picchu, Bali, Bolivia.
• Analyze survival strategies in calorie restricted hypoxic environment (Bolivia, 13000 ft.)
• Evaluate how biology and physiology can be negatively affected by food technology locally and internationally (thrifty genotype/diabetes/
• Obesity.)

IDS 354 - Bedlam to Bellevue - On Being “Mad” in the US from 1960 to Present

• Generate a timeline of the important events in mental health care over the last 60 years and determine how those milestones have created the framework of our current mental health care system.
• Reflect on the stigma of madness in the mid-twentieth century to the stigma of the present and determine how changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual have impacted public views on mental health.
• Design a timeline of pharmacological and psychological treatment regimens for a student-selected diagnosis and discuss how the changes at each major point in time impacted the individual experience, as well as hypothesize future trends.
• Reflect on the way that modern society views heinous events (e.g., mass shootings) and determine at what point in history we changed from judging such acts as “evil” and began to focus on the perpetrators’ diagnoses of mental illness or contributing psychological factors.
• Create a timeline for one diagnosis, exploring the optimal  psychological and pharmacological treatment of each era, the public perception of the diagnosis, and the way that individuals accessed treatment.
• Differentiate between the lived experience of three individuals with the same diagnosis during three different eras, and integrate their shared experiences into a single analysis of how diagnosis and institutionalization impacted their mental state, their physical well being, their relationships with others, and their ability to return to the world.

IDS 357 - Race, Drugs and Prohibition in the U.S.: What Makes Drug Use Criminal?

 

Credits: (5)

General Education Category: K6 - Individual & Society

General Education Pathways: P1 Civic & Community Engagement, P3 Perspectives on Current Issues, P4 Social Justice

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify the basic principles and ideologies that underlie drug regulation in the U.S., as well as the institutions that support and promote regulation.
• Distinguish between social, political, economic, health and moral motivations for drug regulation.
• Identify and distinguish common assumptions about drug use/abuse and explain how they inform social attitudes about drugs and the people who use them.
• Evaluate the pros and cons of a specific ideology that informs U.S. drug policy, and assess whether this ideological approach guides regulations towards productive or counterproductive outcomes. 
• Analyze how social attitudes help shape drug regulation and how existing social inequalities inform enforcement.
• Articulate ways that race, class, and gender might influence individual attitudes about drug use, abuse, and regulatory enforcement.

IDS 363 - The Simpsons: Social Institutions and National Community

• Gain an understanding and appreciation of the pluralistic American community.
• Critically examine the role of informed citizen and leader in the United States of America.
• Conduct research and inquiry in the major themes and concepts structuring American life.
• Use evidence to develop and evaluate positions on topics covered in the class, including historical, political, literary and cultural perspectives.
• Make plausible interpretations and express informed opinions about topics covered in the class.

IDS 369 - Living Voices of America: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Indigenous Women in the U.S.

• Examine Indigenous women’s roles in historical, cultural, and regional contexts in the U.S.
• Investigate the ways that traditional knowledges and cultures have shaped Indigenous women’s identities and will consider the alliances that Indigenous women have built across national geographies.
• Explore gender issues within Indigenous communities, focusing on the effects of legislation on Indigenous women’s roles and the impact of colonization on gender practices.
• Examine colonization through the prisms of Indigenous women’s life experience, exploring colonization issues and methods of decolonization.
• Explore the role of social service organizations in the lives of Indigenous women in the United States.

IDS 373 - The Purpose of the United States

• Discuss the connection between expanding democracy within the United States and increasing democracy in the rest of the world.
• Discuss the cultural differences between collectivism and individualism, and the United States role in increasing global individualism and decreasing global collectivism.
• Discuss the connection between Great Britain’s global role between 1815 and 1914 and the United States global role between 1941 and the present.
• Discuss the United States role in establishing free market economies in other countries.
• Understand the interaction of culture, economics, politics and demographic and sociological trends in the development of democracy.

IDS 389 - Academic and Career Exploration

• Explore the relationship between personal characteristics, e.g., interests, values and skills, influence career development.
• Use a variety of resources to explore academic and occupational options.
• Develop an individual career/academic plan.
• Build a career or graduate school portfolio.

IDS 396 - Individual Study

IDS 397 - Honors

IDS 398 - Special Topics

IDS 399 - Seminar

IDS 405 - Essentials of Project Funding in the Social Sciences

• Define a problem or identify an opportunity for a funding.
• Choose, assess and prioritize funding options.
• Prepare a viable funding proposal solution, including goals, objectives, outcomes and evaluation techniques.
• Propose a final and complete funding plan.

IDS 416 - What did you mean by that? Exploring how differing interpretations can sabotage human interactions

• Contrast various micro and macro influences, which shape individuals, looking at various behaviors, which can lead to misunderstandings.
• Examine various grammatical forms in different languages and propose reasons for these differences, which at times can lead to misunderstandings.
• Outline how gestures from citizens from various countries can play a role in misunderstandings.
• Analyze the issues of pronunciation as possible contributors to misunderstandings.
• Critically analyze the construction of a sentence and distinguish various meanings this sentence can transmit.
• Evaluate non-verbal expressions within a culture and score these non-verbal expressions with feelings of the person being observed.  
• Formulate and diagnose the ways a person understands a comment on their own level using cognitive filters, and how this can lead to biases.
• Argue that people in front of you do not think like you do, or support the fact that the person may be thinking in a different way.
• Predict how misunderstandings will increase through use of technology and assemble solutions to prevent this problem in the future.
• Diagnose and design techniques to be aware of everyday examples of misunderstandings and techniques to prevent them.

IDS 489 - Senior Portfolio Project

• Assess one’s own progress toward the learning goals of interdisciplinary Studies - Social Sciences major and provides the university with program assessment feedback.
• Prepare for academic or career future alternatives, job interview, and/or graduate school application
• Integrate documents representing skills learned as an Interdisciplinary Studies - Social Sciences major.

IDS 490 - Cooperative Education

IDS 496 - Individual Study

IDS 497 - Honors

IDS 498 - Special Topics

IDS 499 - Seminar

INTL 110 - Agriculture

INTL 115 - Business or Management

INTL 120 - Education

INTL 125 - Engineering

INTL 130 - Fine or Applied Arts

INTL 135 - Foreign Languages

INTL 140 - Health Sciences

INTL 145 - Humanities

INTL 150 - Law

INTL 155 - Math or Computer Sciences