Courses

Major conflicts in the planning of cities and suburbs, and the social, economic, and political forces which create these conflicts. Issues of land use, group homes, transportation, business development, hazardous wastes, nuclear power, and community development. Preparation of a research project resulting in a professional-quality report. Basics of preparing such reports, including data collection and analysis, research, and presentation.

Investigation of the inner workings of human biology using a biocultural approach. Biocultural perspectives consider the evolutionary, social and biological factors that underpin our biology and shape health and disease. This course introduces the basic structures of the integumentary (i.e., skin), blood, skeletal, respiratory, endocrine, circulatory, and reproductive systems with interactive lab activities.

Biology in the fourth dimension. A tour through time to examine our successively more remote ancestors and their relationships to other important groups such asbirds and dinosaurs. Includes some trips to museums. For non-science majors. May not be used to fulfill biology major requirements.

An examination of the human life cycle from an evolutionary perspective. Features of the human life cycle such as pregnancy, childbirth, child growth, parental behavior, reproductive behavior, and aging will be compared to those of non- human primates and extinct hominids to try to understand how, when and why the particular features of the human life cycle evolved.

An examination of the human life cycle from an evolutionary perspective. Features of the human life cycle such as pregnancy, childbirth, child growth, parental behavior, reproductive behavior, and aging will be compared to those of non- human primates.

Human paleontology is a study of the fossil evidence for human evolution. This class will examine morphological diversity of extinct human taxa, to better understand the biological relationships, behaviors, and adaptations of our extinct relatives, and to gain a deeper understanding of when the characteristics defining modern humans emerged.

An introduction to the principles of employment law, the principal theories, policies, and literature concerning federal and state regulations in the private and public sectors, in the context of problems that typically arise in the workplace. Issues, statutes, and case law examined include employment discrimination, New York State employment law, sexual orientation, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Examination of personnel management, including the legal issues associated with the day-to-day employment-related decisions and actions of managers. The human resources function is divided into major areas of personnel, labor relations, equal employment opportunity, and discipline. Students will discuss topics associated with problems that most typically arise in the workplace.

Humans live in a greater variety of environments than any other animal. This course will examine the ways in which humans adapt biologically and culturally to different environments, and how this adaptation has produced the biological variation seen in contemporary human populations. Major topics to be covered include human growth, nutritional variation, disease, and adaptations to climatic stresses such as heat, cold, high altitude and solar radiation.

Humans live in a greater variety of environments than any other animal. This course will examine the ways in which humans adapt biologically and culturally to different environments, and how this adaptation has produced the biological variation seen in contemporary human populations. Major topics to be covered include human growth, nutritional variation, disease, and adaptations to climatic stresses such as heat, cold, high altitude and solar radiation.