Courses

Explores the agricultural communication sector through an overview of professional skills and opportunities needed for success in agricultural communication. Emerging new media communication strategies and technologies to convey information on important issues in agriculture to a global audience will be discussed. Content topics will be focused on food, fiber farming, production, and precision agriculture. There will also be an evaluation of communication strategies to target consumer audiences.

Computational Economics introduces students to complex dynamic economic systems. Agent-based computational economics builds systems piece by piece - individual economic agents are constructed and placed in a virtual environment. This creates a virtual laboratory for economic experimentation.

This course provides the scientific basis for the study of public health. It will examine how various agents (viruses, bacteria, toxins, carcinogens) affect the biology of human hosts. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of environmental factors in shaping the interaction between agents and hosts, leading to human disease. Offered each semester.

Survey of political and religious controversies that shaped affairs in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, emphasizing the cataclysmic developments in scientific, political, humanitarian, and economic thought that prepared the way for the rise of democracy in both the old and the new world.

An exploration of the major historiographical works and controversies of the age of Absolutism during the 16th and 17th centuries.

A multidisciplinary investigation into the ecology, anatomy, and classification the dinosaurs as well as the environmental, climatic, and geographic conditions on earth during the Mesozoic. The course will include a broad background into the biological and geological principles involved in understanding the origin, evolution, and extinction of the dinosaurs. In addition, the course will discuss techniques for using dinosaurs as a tool in teaching scientific principles.

The period from the 15th through the 18th centuries saw an unprecedented global expansion. Great empires—British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Inca, Mughal, Ottoman, and Chinese—grew far beyond their original borders through sea voyages, land wars, and conquest. This global history course examines this Age of Exploration and Conquest, looking not only at the European settlements in the Americas, Africa, and Asia but also the changing dynamics of imperial life around the globe.

Students examine the issues of conflict between English continental colonies Topics may include internal colonial conflicts and attempts to solve the federal Equivalents: HIST 3325, HIST 4368 .

Examines the first 50 years of the 16th Century, commonly known as the Age of Jackson or the Market Revolution, as an era of profound economic, political and cultural revolutions that overwhelmed America as it became recognizably modern, industrial and democratic.

This course examines the history of Enlightenment Europe from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. We study Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Adam Smith, and Voltaire— as well as Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Topics covered will include popular resistance and protest; the influence of science and rationality; the role of women in the Enlightenment; absolutism and liberty; and the life of the mind. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course.