Below is a detailed list of the courses I have completed and at what school I completed them. If you see a course in red that will mean that I am currently in that course and it is not yet complete.
Graduate Courses Taken
Adams State University 30 credits
HIST 500 Historiography/ Historical Methods (3). A historiographical seminar in which students learn and demonstrate a mastery of a variety of methods historians use to understand the past.
HIST 501 State History (3). A graduate-level survey of the history of a particular state, with emphasis on how meta and national phenomenon impacted a given state, as well as events and phenomena unique to the state. Chosen focus: Colorado.
HIST 505 American West (3). This course is a survey of the American West with an emphasis on interpretation by historians.
HIST 507 Latino History (3). This course will give special attention to the loss of land in the late 19th century, community formation during the early twentieth century, and the Chicano Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's. At a deeper level, this course explores both the strengths and weaknesses in the relevant historiography and fundamental questions about the practice of history and the forces that form and serve as custodians of memory.
HIST 521 Women in US History (3). This course examines the role of women in American history with special emphasis on how the story of women is told by historians over time. It examines not only the lives of many famous white women, but also the experiences of women from various ethnicities and economic backgrounds. In addressing how Americans construct their understanding of women's lives in the U.S., this course will also reassess how focusing on women's lives might alter one's understanding of the broader patterns and interpretations of American history.
HIST 522 Gilded Age and Progressive Era U.S. (3). A Study of the United States History from 1877-1920, with special attention devoted to the economic and social changes brought about as a result of the industrialization. Other topics of particular interest is the changing role of the United States in the world and advent of overseas expansion. The history of reform in the early 20th century through the Progressive Movement can also be a particular emphasis.
HIST 526 U.S. in the Era of World Wars (3). A study of the United States history during World War I and World War II, or focused on either War, with special attention devoted to diplomatic, social, and political developments of the specific period under study with emphasis on the impact of immigration, urbanization, technology, and America's increasing involvement in world affairs.
HIST 540 U.S. Presidency (3). A study of the United States Presidency from 1789 to the present with special attention devoted to the changing scope and function of the office in the changing context of broader America History. Other topics of particular interest are the key figures who have altered the in the institution and the role of crises in changing the scope and functioning of the office.
HIST 568 U.S. Latin American Relations (3). The course will examine U.S./Latin Relations from the Monroe doctrine to the present with more intensive and analytical focus on cold-war relations and the shift to post-cold-war dynamics.
HIST 591 Thesis (3). This course is the culminating experience for the MA program in which students demonstrate mastery of the discipline by producing an acceptable Mater's Thesis.
Undergraduate Courses Taken
Metropolitan State University 34 credits
BIO3600 General Genetics (4). A study is made of classical genetics, with emphasis on numerical analysis of inheritance. The molecular biology of replication, transcription, and translation is presented. Genetic variation and human genetic diseases are discussed.
HIS 1040 World History since 1500 (3). This course provides an introduction to important theories, concepts, methods and content for understanding world history since 1500. Among others, it explores social, cultural, religious, economic, and political themes.
HIS 1210 American History to 1865 (3). This is an introductory course in the history of the American peoples and the development of the United States through the Civil War. It will present an interpretation of how North American cultures--indigenous, European, and African--converged and influenced one another. It will also focus on how the British colonies created a new social order, along with political institutions, that continually evolved until 1865.
HIS1220 American History Since 1865 (3). This course covers the background to the present-day United States beginning with the Civil War and culminating with recent times. It analyzes cultural, social, economic and technological change. Topics addressed include immigration, industrialism, emergence of the U.S. as a world power, Progressivism, the first World War, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War and its aftermath.
HIS 3031 Ancient Greece (3). The course will treat the history of the Greek world from late Neolithic period to the rise of Macedonia. The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, the growth of the city states such as Sparta and the development of democratic institutions at Athens, the Peloponnesian Wars and the rise of the kingdom of Macedonia will be covered.
HIS 3090 Native Americans in American History (3). The purpose of this course is to examine the history of the cultural contact and confrontation between North American indigenous people and Europeans and Africans from Celtic times to the present. The course seeks to integrate ethnohistoric evidence from "traditional" Eurocentric accounts to provide as balanced an account as possible. (Multicultural) (Prerequisite: Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy)
HIS3430 American Revolution-Early Nation (3). This course examines politics, society, and economics during the Revolutionary and Early National periods. Major topics will include American society on the eve of the Revolution, the causes of the Revolution, military and diplomatic aspects of the eras, the development of political parties, reform movements, the changing status of Native and African Americans, and the position of women.
HIS 3520 Civil War and Reconstruction (3). This course traces the background of the Civil War, the war itself, and the aftermaths of the war. It also familiarizes students with Civil War and Reconstruction historiography.
HIS 3590 American Immigration History (3). This course concentrates on the historical movement of people into the United States. lt considers the factors which caused them to migrate, their adjustment to their new homes, and the interactions between them and other Americans. Students will explore the ethnic backgrounds, customs, and identities of diverse groups including Mexican and Asian Americans among others.
HIS 4820 Senior Seminar (3). This course refines students' knowledge of a historiography and their skills in the research and writing of history. As a culmination of the major, it asks students to think more analytically and extensively about a particular historical topic (labor).
NAS 1000 Intro Native American Studies (3). This course provides an opportunity to study the indigenous population of the United States. The primary focus of the course is on the historical, political, social, and economic relationship between Native Americans and how this culture is imbedded in the American culture. (Multicultural)
Colorado State University 121 credits
ANTH 100 03. Introductory Cultural Anthropology. Human societies and their cultural settings; variation in beliefs, social customs, and technologies; human differences in anthropological terms. (NT-O)
ANTH 120 03. Human Origins and Variation. Mechanisms of evolution; genetics. Living primate biology, behavior, and history. Human evolutionary history. Human variation and adaptation. (NT-O)
ANTH 121 01. Human Origins and Variation Laboratory. Prerequisite: ANTH 120 or concurrent registration. Labs demonstrating genetic and evolutionary processes, comparative skeletal anatomy, human evolution through fossil casts, and modern human variation.
ANTH 140 03. Introduction to Prehistory. Origins of human society from the Stone Age to urban civilization using architecture, art, tools, and other material remains. (NT-O)
ANTH 200 03. Cultures and the Global System. Analyze diversity, cultural responses, and adaptations of smaller-scale societies to emerging global trends. (NT-O)
ANTH 322 03. Religion, Culture, and Mind. F. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200. Major anthropological theories and descriptions of religious beliefs and practices. Intersection of religion, culture, and human psychology.
ANTH 324 03. Folk Religion. European folk beliefs and their carry-over into America; ghosts, vampires, trolls, elves, saints, rituals, witchcraft, sorcery, folk cures.
ANTH 329 03. Cultural Change. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200. Cultural change and effects of directed global forces; colonial origins of underdevelopment on small-scale societies.
ANTH 340 03. Medical Anthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200. Cultural adaptation to disease; non-Western theories of health and disease: categories, causes, cures; learned roles of patients and healers.
ANTH 350 03. Archaeology of North America. Prerequisite: ANTH 140. Native American life, tools, architecture, religion, food-getting from cultures of 12,000 years ago or earlier until European contact.
ANTH 375 03. Evolution of Primate Behavior. Prerequisite: ANTH 120 or BZ 110 or LIFE 102. Primate behavior from an evolutionary perspective, drawing on a variety of studies of humans, primates, and mammals.
ANTH 400 03. History of Anthropological Theory. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200; ANTH 120; ANTH 121; ANTH 140; senior status. Anthropological theory from its beginnings in 19th century through recent developments in the latter half of the 20th century.
ANTH 493 01. Capstone Seminar. Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in a 4A course (see department list). Linkages between anthropological subfields and how professional anthropologists approach issues. Focus Medical Anthropology.
BMS 305 04. Domestic Animal Gross Anatomy. Prerequisite: BZ 110 or LIFE 102. Credit not allowed for both BMS 305 and VS 333. Comparative gross anatomy of domestic carnivores, ruminants, and horses.
BUS 205 03. Legal and Ethical Issues in Business. Credit not allowed for both BUS 205 and BUS 260. Ethical, legal and regulatory issues in the U.S. business environment.
BZ 220 03. Introduction to Evolution. Prerequisite: BZ 110; BZ 111 or BZ 120 or LIFE 103. Fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology.
BZ 300 03. Animal Behavior. Prerequisite: BZ 110 and (BZ 111 or LIFE 103). Principles of ethnology, behaviors of nonhuman animals emphasizing their adaptive significance and phylogenetic relationships.
CHEM 111 04. General Chemistry I. Prerequisite: (MATH 118 or placement out of MATH 118) or MATH 141 or MATH 155 or MATH 160 or MATH 161 or MATH 229 or MATH 261. Intended for science majors. Fundamental aspects of chemistry and chemical principles; emphasis on structure, bonding, and stoichiometry.
CHEM 112 01. General Chemistry Laboratory I. Prerequisite: CHEM 111 or concurrent registration or CHEM 117 or concurrent registration. Credit not allowed for both CHEM 112 and CHEM 108. Laboratory applications of principles covered in CHEM 111.
CHEM 114 01. General Chemistry Laboratory II. Prerequisite: CHEM 112; CHEM 113 or concurrent registration. Laboratory applications of principles covered in CHEM 113.
CO 150 03. College Composition. Prerequisite: SAT critical reading score of 600 or above or ACT English score of 26 or above or composition placement/challenge exam (score of 3, 4, or 5) or CO 130. (For students registered at CSU prior to Fall 2008, SAT verbal score of 500 or above or ACT English score of 20 or above.) Understanding and writing for rhetorical situations; critical reading and response; writing source-based argument for academic and public audiences.
CO 300 03. Writing Arguments. Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. Reading, analyzing, researching, and writing arguments.
E 140 03. The Study of Literature. Basic principles of reading literary texts.
E 210 03. Beginning Creative Writing. Prerequisite: Any lower-level E prefix course. Basic techniques of writing fiction and poetry; may include some elements of drama.
E 336 03. Goddess Religions. Ancient goddess religions and their uses and reinterpretations by the contemporary women’s spirituality movement.
ETST 205 03. Ethnicity and the Media. Ethnic representation across time as represented in auto/biography, fiction, poetry, and popular media.
ETST 210 03. Asian American Leaders and Leadership. Cultural, historical and social influences on Asian American leaders and leadership explored via personal histories, culture, and values.
ETST 320 03. Ethnicity and Film: Asian-American Experience. Asian American film image and film representation through both mainstream and independent movies.
HES 240 02. First Aid and Emergency Care. Principles, applied techniques emphasizing emergency rescue and care. Meets requirements for Red Cross Advanced First Aid and Emergency Care Credential.
HIST 115 03. Islamic World to 1800. Religion, society, and culture in the Islamic world from the time of Muhammad to 1800.
HIST 120 03. Asian Civilizations I. Major traditional intellectual and cultural patterns of Asia during the formative years.
HIST 121 03. Asian Civilizations II. Transformation of major intellectual and cultural patterns and the process of globalization in Asia.
HIST 310 03. Medieval Europe. Prerequisite: HIST 100 or HIST 115 or HIST 120 or HIST 170; completion of 45 credits. Political, legal, socioeconomic development of Europe from 300-1500 emphasizing emergence of major states.
LIFE 102 04. Attributes of Living Systems. Prerequisites: High school chemistry. Intended for students requiring additional courses in biology or areas related to biological science. Levels of organization, stability, and change in living systems.
LIFE 103 04. Biology of Organisms-Animals and Plants. Prerequisite: LIFE 102. Diversity of animals and plants; their structural and functional characteristics.
LJPN 250 03. Japanese Language, Literature, Culture in Translation. Selected works in translation from different periods and genres which represent the interrelationship of Japanese language, literature, and culture.
MATH 125 01. Numerical Trigonometry. Prerequisite: MATH 118 or placement. Definition and graphs of trigonometric functions, laws of sines and cosines, solutions of right and oblique triangles, applications.
PH 121 05. General Physics I. Prerequisite: MATH 125 or concurrent registration. Credit not allowed for both PH 121 and PH 110; or for both PH 121 and PH 141. Concepts of force, torque, energy, momentum, work used to cover fluids, waves, sound, temperature, heat; biological, physical examples (noncalculus). (GT-SC1)
PHIL 106 03. Wisdom of the East-Oriental Philosophy. Major philosophical issues and world views of the Orient.
POLS 131 03. Current World Problems. Background and nature of international political events.
PSY 228 03. Psychology of Human Sexuality. Physiology, psychology of human sexuality; cross cultural issues, development, social perspectives, values, sexual dysfunction.
STAT 307 03. Introduction to Biostatistics. Prerequisite: MATH 117 or MATH 118 or MATH 124 or MATH 125 or MATH 126 or MATH 141 or MATH 155 or MATH 160. Biostatistical methods; confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, simple correlation and regression, one-way analysis of variance.
Community College of Aurora 41 credits
ANT 201 Intro to Forensic Anthropology (3). Studies the basic principles of forensic anthropology, an applied field within the discipline of physical anthropology. Includes the study of the human skeleton, practical application of physical anthropology and archaeology, and judicial procedure, as they relate to the identification of human remains within a medico-legal context.
AST 101 Astronomy I (4). Focuses on the history of astronomy, the tools of the astronomer, and the contents of the solar system including the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. Incorporates laboratory experience.
BIO 105 Science of Biology (4). Examines the basis of biology in the modern world and surveys the current knowledge and conceptual framework of the discipline. Explores biology as a science – a process of gaining new knowledge – as is the impact of biological science on society. Includes laboratory experiences. Designed for non-science majors.
COM 115 Public Speaking (3). Combines the basic theories of communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech preparation, organization, support, audience analysis, and delivery.
HIS 111 The World: Antiquity – 1500 (3). Explores a number of peoples, groups, ideas, institutions, and trends that have shaped World History from the prehistoric era to 1500. Reflects the multiple perspectives of gender, class, religion, and ethnic groups in a broad global sense. Focuses on the common denominators among all people. This approach goes beyond political borders to provide a better appreciation for different cultures. Focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in this discipline.
MAT 100 Elementary Algebra (3). Includes the study of linear equations, polynomials, factoring rational expressions, quadratic equations, linear systems, inequalities, graphing, and applications.
MAT 121 College Algebra (4). Includes a brief review of intermediate algebra, equations and inequalities, functions and their graphs, exponential and logarithmic functions, linear and non-linear systems, selection of topics from among graphing of the conic sections, introduction to sequences and series, permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem, and theory of equations.
MAT 178 Probability and Statistics (4). Successful student will learn to apply the principles of elementary probability theory and descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include random variables, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, and tests of hypotheses.
PED 143 Tai Chi I (1). Introduces Tai Chi as an expression of understanding of self-control, exercise and self-defense. The primary emphasis is to gain an understanding of the history (origins and changes) of Tai Chi, the movements and their names, application of movements and terminology.
PHI112 Ethics (3). Examines human life, experience, and thought in order to discover and develop the principles and values for pursuing a more fulfilling existence. Theories designed to justify ethical judgments are applied to a selection of contemporary personal and social issues.
PSY 101 General Psychology I (3). Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, sexuality and memory.
PSY 102 General Psychology II (3). Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, and social psychology.
PSY 2552 Psychopathology (3). Examines psychopathology and its classification, causes, treatment, and prevention.
SPA 101 Conversational Spanish I (3). Offers beginning students the skills necessary to understand and speak Spanish. The material includes basic vocabulary, grammar, and expressions that are used in daily situations and in travel.
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