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Students Connecting | Fall 2013 27 IT 2101 - Computers and Your World (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 0099, READ 0099 if required. Students explore how computers and the Internet have revolutionized society, and become well-rounded, informed and curious users of computing technologies. This course is comprised of three modules: 1) hardware and operating systems, 2) spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, and 3) networks, the Internet, and information literacy. Other topics explored include security, privacy, globalization, Web 2.0, diversity, and ethics. KSU 1101 - First-Year Seminar (3) Prerequisite: None. Students with 30 or more credit hours are not eligible to enroll. KSU 1101 (or a Learning Community) is required for all first-year full-time students entering KSU with fewer than 15 credit hours. KSU 1101 is designed to develop college-level skills for academic success by focusing on life skills, strategies for academic success, connecting with campus and community, and foundations for global learning. This First Year Seminar course guides student through the transition from high school to higher education. Students with 30 or more credit hours are not eligible to enroll in KSU 1101 or a Learning Community. KSU 1111 - Tomorrow’s World Today (3) Prerequisite: None. Students with 30 or more credit hours are not eligible to enroll. KSU 1111 is based on the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ research-based projections of what the world will look like in 25 years due to the influence of seven global issues: population, resource management, technology, information/knowledge, economic integration, conflict, and governance. Students will analyze what CSIS calls the Seven Revolutions and their impact of the Seven Revolutions on their own lives. This course satisfies the first-year enrollment requirement by meeting the four learning outcomes of the First-Year Seminar course. KSU 1121 – Special Topics: Be the Change (3) Prerequisite: None. Students with 30 or more credit hours are not eligible to enroll. In this course, students work to make difference in the world through research- and action-oriented community-based learning projects. Students investigate a problem, find supporting evidence of the problem’s scope, and offer solutions that culminate in a final project where academic and life skills relevant to multiple disciplines and careers are applied. This course satisfies the first-year enrollment requirement by meeting the four learning outcomes of the First-Year Seminar course. KSU 1200 – First-Year Seminar: Leadership (3) Prerequisite: None. Students with 30 or more credit hours are not eligible to enroll. This course enhances first-year students’ leadership skills and cultivates their knowledge of leadership theory and application. Through experiential learning projects, students practice leadership on campus and in the community while developing life skills, their connections with the university, academic success strategies, and global perspectives. This course satisfies the first-year curriculum requirement by meeting the four learning outcomes of first-year seminars.
28 Kennesaw State University Learning Communities & First-Year Seminars | Fall 2013 KSU 2290 – Special Topics: Systematic Inquiry (3) Prerequisite: Students with 30 or more credit hours are not eligible to enroll. This course emphasizes strategies for academic success by engaging students in a systematic, intentional approach to inquiry, problem solving, investigation and discovery. This course satisfies the first-year curriculum requirement by meeting the four learning outcomes of first-year seminars. MATH 0099 - Elementary and Intermediate Algebra (3) Prerequisite: Two units of high school algebra or permission of instructor. A Learning Support Programs course that prepares students for basic credit mathematics courses, covering both elementary and intermediate algebra in one semester. Topics include: signed numbers, equations and inequalities, graphs of linear equations, systems of equations, polynomials and factoring, rational expressions, radicals and quadratic equations. MATH 1111 - College Algebra (3) Prerequisite: MATH 0098 if required. This course is a functional approach to algebra that incorporates the use of appropriate technology. Emphasis will be placed on the study of functions and their graphs, inequalities, and linear, quadratic, piece-wise defined, rational, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Note: Appropriate applications will be included. MATH 1111L (1) Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor; Corequisite: Math 1111. This laboratory course provides prerequisite skills and additional instruction for topics and concepts covered in MATH 1111. Only students who have placed in Learning Support Mathematics are eligible to take this lab. The course is a co-requisite to the special Math 1111 course for learning support student. POLS 1101 - American Government in a Global Perspective (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099, if required. Examination of the institutions and processes of American government and Georgia State government. Global comparisons are made between the governments of the U.S. and other modern nation-states. PSYC 1101 - Introductory Psychology (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099, if required. This course is an introduction to the scientific study of human behavior. A brief historical account of the discipline of psychology and an introduction to the scientific method serve as the foundations of the course. In addition to the biological bases of behavior, basic principles of the psychological processes of human development, learning, diversity, social interaction, sensation and perception, thinking, memory, and personality are presented. An overview of psychological disorders and treatment is also provided. SOCI 2201 - Principles of Sociology (3) Prerequisite: READ 0099 if required. This course is an overview of sociology which emphasizes the social nature of human behavior, including an introduction to culture, social structure, socialization, deviance, stratification, family, gender, religion,
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