Core Classes/Core Electives
3GC - Global Connections
ANTH 103 - Anthropology, Culture and Society This paper introduces the key concepts of anthropology for students with little or no previous knowledge of the subject. It will show how the different branches of contemporary anthropology have emerged and coalesced to become the most broad-based subject taught at tertiary level, which links disciplines as diverse as history, geology, biology and sociology. This course is focused on the two primary fields of anthropology taught in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago: archaeology as the anthropology of the past and social anthropology with its emphasis on recent historical and contemporary peoples and cultural expressions. The broad sweep and theoretical coverage of ANTH 103 provides students with foundation knowledge that will be relevant to many other humanities and science papers, while preparing anthropology majors for the more specialised social anthropology and archaeology courses taught at the University of Otago. |
4RL - Religion
BIBS 112- Interpreting the Old Testament The interpretation of the Old Testament in its historical context, including an introduction to the overall biblical story, methods of interpreting the Pentateuch and the historical Books, and an in-depth exegesis of selected texts. This paper will study the biblical texts in the context of the ancient Near East, look at how ancient and modern interpreters have explained the biblical texts, and focus in detail on several key examples from the books of Genesis to Kings. This paper not only provides an insight into the foundational texts of two major world religions and Western culture in general, but also encourages students to develop skills in reading closely and thinking critically, skills that will serve them well not only in their university career, but in the rest of their lives. |
4NB - Natural World Biology
BIOL 202 - Fundamentals of Human Anatomy A regional approach to the study of human structure, with the emphasis being on the basic structural organization of the human body, underlying anatomical principles, anatomical details appropriate for allied health students, and clinical application of anatomy. BIOL 202 L - Fundamentals of Human Anatomy Lab Laboratory course to complement BIOL 202, Fundamentals of Human Anatomy, consisting of lab work in identifying anatomical structures in humans. Emphasis on musculoskeletal, circulatory, and nervous systems. This course has a prerequisite of prior completion of or concurrent enrollment in BIOL 202. |
1O - Oral Communication
COMM 110 - Foundations of Human Communication An introductory course that focuses on issues that intersect interpersonal, intercultural, small group, persuasive, and mediated communication. Course lectures and readings will broadly introduce the functions will broadly introduce students to the Communication Studies discipline. This course will help students discover the ways in which communication affects everyday life through verbal and nonverbal communication as well the ways relationships are built.
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4HE - Economics
ECON 222 - Principles of Macroeconomics This course provides an overview of macroeconomic issues: the determination of output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation. Monetary and fiscal policies are discussed. Important policy debates such as, the sub-prime crisis, social security, the public debt, and international economic issues are critically explored. The course introduces basic models of macroeconomics and illustrates principles with the experience of the U.S. and foreign economies. |
1FS - First Year Seminar
FYS 4HE -Jobs, What are your Prospects? This first year seminar class is designed to prepare incoming students for their time at Manchester. Jobs, What are your Prospects is a course designed to introduce students to basic English skills with an economically inclined state. Professor Sree Majumder takes students on a journey through current economic issue as well as existing economic issues.
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3RC - Responsible Citizenship
GNST 125 - Introduction to Gender Studies An introduction to the academic field of gender studies, this course will examine gender as a category for analyzing culture and society. Students will be introduced to issues of gender in both the historical and the contemporary world. We will analyze gender—femininity, masculinity, androgyny—as a category that influences the way we live in society.
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4AR - Visual & Performing Arts
HUM 130 - Experiencing the Arts Humanities 130 is a course designed to understand the non-verbal elements and structures of one or more of the visual and performing arts in different historical periods; also this course examines the arts critically and distinguish among styles and genres. The objectives of Experiencing the Arts is to confront the arts as directly, intensely, and often as possible in order to: Develop vocabularies describing media, elements, and forms of music, art, theater, and cinema; Identify styles of selected artists and composers; Know selected works of music well enough to identify them; Develop abilities to analyze music , paintings, and cinema; and identify different functions of art and to cite specific criteria for criticism. |
MATH 120 - Pre-Calculus
Pre-Calculus is a course that demonstrates the foundations of algebra and functions developed in previous courses, and will be extended to new functions, including exponential and logarithmic functions, and to higher-level sequences and series. The course provides students with the skills and understandings that are necessary for advanced manipulation of angles and measurement. Students will also advance their understanding of imaginary numbers through an investigation of complex numbers and polar coordinates. 1Q - Mathematics
MATH 121 - Calculus I & MATH 122 - Calculus II Calculus is primarily concerned with developing the students’ understanding of the concepts of calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizes a multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. The connections among these representations also are important. Topics include: (1) functions, graphs, and limits; (2) derivatives; and (3) integrals. Technology should be used regularly by students and teachers to reinforce the relationships among the multiple representations of functions, to confirm written work, to implement experimentation, and to assist in interpreting results. |
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2LA PE 101
PE Floor Hockey This PE course is designed to create a recreational physically active environment in which students will learn the basic rules and techniques of floor hockey. PE 2FA PE 105 PE Tennis This PE course is designed to teach lifelong recreational activities to students by teaching the basic rules, etiquette, and techinques of Tennis. PE |
4PH - Philosophy
PHIL 201 - Introduction to Philosophy The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to many of the important persons and questions of philosophy, with the aims of becoming a more critical thinker, a clearer communicator and a more well-informed thinker. We will especially focus on reading, analyzing, and ultimately writing arguments. We will consider what it means to do philosophy, what it is for something to be ethical, how we can know if some idea is true, what it means for an idea to be true, whether or not there is a God, whether or not we are free, whether or not there is meaning to life, and whether or not we are immortal, among other questions.
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4NP - Natural World Physics
PHYS 111 - College Physics I College Physics I is a course focused on the following core topics: motion and forces; energy and momentum; temperature and thermal energy transfer; electricity and magnetism; vibrations and waves; light and optics. Instruction should focus on developing student understanding that scientific knowledge is gained from observation of natural phenomena and experimentation by designing and conducting investigations guided by theory and by evaluating and communicating the results of those investigations according to accepted procedures. |
4HP - Political Science
POSC 121 - American National Politics This course provides a basic introduction to the institutions and processes of government and politics in the United States. It approaches U.S. government and politics from the perspectives of liberal education, citizen education, and disciplinary training.
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