Summer Calendar - St. Francis Xavier University

ON-CAMPUS SPRINGCOURSESSTAT 231.30Statistics for Students inthe SciencesCRN 14242Lab CRN 14282A. SarhanWMGS 310.30GenderCRN 14243D. SmytheWMGS 378.30Human SexualityCRN 14290A. WeaverDATESApril 24 - May 229:00 am - 12:00 pmMonday / Tuesday / ThursdayRoom 254, NHApril 24 - June 189:00 am - 12:00 pmMonday / Wednesday / FridayRoom 152, SWApril 24 - May 229:00 am - 12:00 pmMonday / Wednesday /ThursdayRoom 113, AXDESCRIPTIONTopics include descriptive statistics; data collection,tabulation, and presentation; measures of centraltendency and variability; elementary probability;binomial, normal and chi-square distributions;parameter estimation and tests of hypotheses; linearregression and correlation. Students will learn aboutstatistical significance and the communication ofstatistical evidence and be introduced to a statisticscomputer package. Prerequisite: MATH 112 or 122.Credit will be granted for only one of STAT 231 andSTAT 201, 224, PSYC 292. Three credits and a one-hourlab.The course will examine the origin and persistence ofgender-based inequalities in our society and theirimpact on personal lives. Biological, psychological,economic, and cultural analyses of male-female socialrelations will be considered. Cross-listed as SOCI 310.Six credits.This course provides a broad introduction to researchand theory in human sexuality. It includes examinationof fundamental topics such as the nature of humansexuality and also covers contemporary issues/topics.Specific topics addressed will include: historicalperspectives, theories of sexuality, sex research, sexualanatomy, sexual variation, sexual response, gender,sexual dysfunction and sex therapy. Prerequisite: 12credits PSYC. Cross-listed as PSYC 378. Three credits.ONLINEONLINE SPRING COURSES DATES DESCRIPTIONAQUA 100.66Introduction to AquaticResources l: Natural ScienceApplicationsApril 24 - July 3 This course explores the living and non-living characteristics thatdetermine the nature of aquatic resource ecosystems and examineshuman interaction with these resources. Case studies exposestudents to the natural as well as some of the social scienceapplications of aquatic resource use. Not open to studentsmajoring in Aquatic Resources. Six credits.ART 330.66Catholicism and the ArtsCRN 14249S. StewartApril 24 - June 18The primary purpose of this course is to examine the Christiantradition as it is expressed in literature: biblical figures and events,liturgical traditions, religious symbols, and Christian themes thathave appeared, across the ages, in poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfictionprose. As well, it considers how these Christian elementsappear in visual art (and architecture). The course focuses primarilyon Catholicism. However, it necessarily encompasses the ProtestantReformation, as well, which significantly influenced England, thehome of our English literary tradition, beginning in the 16 th century.Cross-listed as CATH 330. Six credits.16