Courses

Taken with ENGL 1101, this is a composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills. Corequisite: ENGL 1101

ENGL 1101 within the past five years. Passed the home institution's computer literacy requirements. For more information on this institution's eCore courses, please see http://www.westga.edu/ecore/ A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101 that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods.

Emphasizes the ability to communicate using written methods. Topics include writing, grammar, and revising, vocabulary skills, comprehension skills, critical reading skills, study skills, and content area reading skills. Provides instruction in vocabulary and comprehension skills with emphasis on critical reading skills.

An introduction to the theoretical and practical issues related to Enterprise Architecture (EA). EA is the organizing structure for business processes and IT infrastructure. Top performing organizations know how to design their business processes and IT infrastructure for success of their current operations, and the most successful companies know how to expand their EA to enable innovation and to seize a competitive advantage for the future.

An introduction to the theoretical and practical issues related to enterprise and decision support systems. Will introduce students to the technologies involved in these systems and will examine the need to share, communicate, and manage organizational information for integration and decision making. Specific emphasis will be placed on using enterprise systems such as Greenway's PrimeSuite or SAP's enterprise system.

The study of insects. This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of insect taxonomy, morphology, physiology, behavior, and evolution. The relationships be-tween insects and humans, other animals, and plants will be examined. The influences of in-sects on culture, religion, art, history, and colonization will be discussed. The laboratory will be devoted primarily to developing an understanding of insect identification.

This course provides an overview of the steps in establishing a business. A formal business will be created. Topics include planning; location analysis; financing; developing a business plan; entrepreneurial ethics; and social responsibility.

This course surveys the issues arising from the interaction of economic and ecological systems, the suitability of the market mechanism to allocate natural and environmental resources, and policy options when markets fail. Applications include energy, climate change, pollution control, land use, fishery management, and water scarcity.

This course will examine long-term human-environmental interaction from an archaeological perspective.

This course is an introduction to the practice of modern environmental chemistry. Topics include pollutants in water, soil, and the atmosphere; equilibria in aqueous systems; experimental methods in environmental analyses; toxicological chemistry; current environmental problems. The laboratory will consist of EPA-approved methods of analyses.