Summer Session II 2017 Credit Course Offerings
23 courses with 24 sections offered in Summer Session II 2017
Computer Information Science
CISC-100Digital Literacy
3 Credits
A hands-on course for non-majors dealing with personal computers in a wide variety of settings. Topics include: basic computer concepts, computer hardware, operating systems, the Internet, online safety and security, email, computer applications including word processors, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, and the impact of computers on society.
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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CISC-100-E45
Uses Canvas and publisher website; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | McLaughlin MFaculty Syllabus |
CISC-110Introduction to Information Systems
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of business information systems. Topics include hardware and software fundamentals, use of software packages, effective use of networks, Internet, and other communication tools, the design of management information systems, as well as the ethical use of computers in business and society. Hands-on experience is provided.
- Prerequisites
- Reading Placement test score Level 3 or READ110 (C or better) or COMP108 (C or better) or permission of the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- Additional Fees
- View current fees
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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CISC-110-E45
Uses Canvas and MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Burger JFaculty Syllabus |
Education
EDUC-115Observing and Recording the Behavior of Young Children
3 Credits
The development of skills in observing, recording, assessing, and evaluating the behavior of young children is the course content. The course requires field experiences to acquaint students with a genuine teaching learning environment. Students complete five hours of observation.
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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EDUC-115-E41
Uses Canvas and publisher website; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Kaplinski KFaculty Syllabus |
Exsc: Exercise Science
EXSC-201Physiology of Exercise
4 Credits
This course covers the basic concepts and principles of the physiology of exercise. Topics include human responses and adaptations to exercise with varying levels of stress and intensity, as well as the relationship of exercise and training to metabolism, energy transfer, muscle contraction, circulatory, and respiratory function.
- Prerequisites
- BIOL182 (C or better) and KINS180 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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EXSC-201-IND
Meets weekly on Thursdays at 1:30pm in Newtown; Online component uses Canvas; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Face-To-Face | Newtown Campus June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 June 22 2017 June 29 2017 July 06 2017 July 13 2017 July 20 2017 July 27 2017 August 03 2017 August 10 2017 | C. WidmannFaculty Syllabus |
Health Education
HLTH-103Life and Health
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to perplexing personal and social health problems in contemporary society, providing opinions, data, and facts that help the student investigate these problems. A synthesis of knowledge is presented from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, psychology, physiology, sociology, sexology, and child development.
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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HLTH-103-E45
Uses Canvas and publisher website; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Bhaya DFaculty Syllabus |
HLTH-120Nutrition
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to nutrition as a health science that examines the nutrients essential to human life. The metabolic action, requirements, and nutrient food sources are studied along with application of entrepreneurial skills. Needs and behavior patterns in children and adults are used to illustrate the relationship between diet and health.
- Prerequisites
- Reading Placement Test score Level 3 or higher or READ110 (C or better) or COMP108 (C or better) or
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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HLTH-120-E45
Uses Canvas; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Bhaya DFaculty Syllabus |
HLTH-120NNutrition with a Registered Dietitian
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to nutrition as a health science that examines the nutrients essential to human life. The metabolic action, requirements, and food sources of the nutrients are studied along with application of entrepreneurial skills. Needs and behavior patterns in children and adults are used to illustrate the relationship between diet and health.
- Prerequisites
- Reading Placement Test score Level 3 or higher or READ110 (C or better) or COMP108 (C or better) or
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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HLTH-120N-E45
Uses Canvas and MyLab/Mastering; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Fedorko KFaculty Syllabus |
History/Historic Preservation
HIST-114Global History: Modern World
3 Credits
This course is a survey and critical examination of global history in which students explore the social, political, religious, economic, intellectual, and artistic achievements of the major human civilizations from roughly 1500 C.E. to the present.
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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HIST-114-E41
Uses Canvas; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Seutter JFaculty Syllabus |
Mathematics
MATH-095Basic Algebra
3 Credits
This is an introductory course in Algebra. Topics include operations with numerical and algebraic expressions, solving linear and absolute value equations and inequalities; factoring polynomials, solving quadratic equations, and graphing linear equations and inequalities. Study skills are also emphasized. Transferability is determined by transfer institution.
- Prerequisites
- Math Placement Test score of 3 or MATH090 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-095-E45
Uses Canvas and publisher website; Proctored testing is required; Check Canvas for viewing access only, as early as 6/5/17; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Termine JFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-101Mathematical Concepts I
3 Credits
This course is primarily for liberal arts and education majors, and emphasizes mathematical systems and reasoning. Course content includes sets, symbolic logic, and elementary probability and such optional topics as basic statistics, game theory, or linear programming.
- Prerequisites
- Math Placement Test score of 5 or higher or MATH095 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-101-E45
Uses Canvas and publisher website; Proctored testing is required; Check Canvas for viewing access only, as early as 6/5/17; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Termine JFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-115Elementary Statistics
3 Credits
This course is primarily for business, science, liberal arts, and education majors. Topics studied include descriptive measures for empirical data, theory of probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions of statistics from large and small samples, estimation theory, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression.
- Prerequisites
- Math Placement Test score of 7 or higher or MATH101 (C or better) or MATH103 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-115-E45
Uses Canvas and MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Check Canvas for viewing access only, as early as 6/5/17; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Fratantaro SFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-118Business Calculus
3 Credits
This is an introduction to basic calculus with emphasis on applications to business, economics, management, information science, and related fields. Topics include relations and functions, limits, continuity, derivatives, techniques of differentiation, chain rule, applications of differentiation, antiderivatives, the definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus, and applications of integration.
- Prerequisites
- Math Placement Test score of 8 or higher or MATH117 (C or better) or MATH120 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-118-E45
Uses Canvas and MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Check Canvas for viewing access only, as early as 6/5/17; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Bolton MFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-120College Algebra
4 Credits
This course is designed to strengthen and increase the understanding of basic algebraic concepts before a student undertakes advanced study in mathematics. Topics include algebra of the real numbers, algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their graphs, systems of equations, inequalities, and absolute value.
- Prerequisites
- Math Placement Test score of 7 or higher or MATH103 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-120-E45
Uses MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Martin LFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-125Precalculus Mathematics
4 Credits
This course introduces the foundations of analysis designed to precede the calculus sequence with emphasis on functions and graphs. Topics include properties of absolute value, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions, techniques for solving equations and inequalities, and an introduction to the concept of limits and the difference quotient.
- Prerequisites
- MATH Placement Test score of 9, or MATH122 (C or better), or MATH120 (C or better) and High School Trigonometry
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-125-E45
Uses MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Martin LFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-141Calculus II
4 Credits
This course is a continuation of Math 140. Topics include differentiation and integration of transcendental functions, indeterminate forms, methods of integration, improper integrals, infinite series, parametric equations, and polar coordinates.
- Prerequisites
- MATH140 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-141-E45
Uses MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Martin LFaculty Syllabus |
MATH-215Elementary Statistics II
3 Credits
This course is a continuation of MATH115 and is designed primarily for business, economics, and management students. Topics include decision-making procedures in business and related fields that include ANOVA, simple and multiple regression, correlation, time series, forecasting, index numbers, total quality management, and nonparametric methods.
- Prerequisites
- MATH115 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MATH-215-E45
Uses Canvas and MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Check Canvas for viewing access only, as early as 6/5/17; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Ciccimaro JFaculty Syllabus |
Medical Assistant
MEDA-120Medical Terminology
3 Credits
This introductory course in medical terminology focuses on accurate spelling and pronunciation of terms and building knowledge of basic medical vocabulary with an emphasis on prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining vowels. Anatomical, physiological, and pathological terminology are covered and applied in the context of electronic health records.
- Prerequisites
- Reading Level score of 2 or higher
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MEDA-120-E45
Uses Canvas; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Zieziula NFaculty Syllabus |
MEDA-140College Keyboarding and Document Processing
3 Credits
Students use computers to learn the touch method of keyboarding and the basic features of Microsoft Word to produce letters, tables, reports and memos. Eligibility for exemption determined by Prior Learning Assessment (CREX Test).
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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MEDA-140-E45
| Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Grant DFaculty Syllabus |
Physics
PHYS-121Physics I
4 Credits
This lecture and laboratory course provides a rigorous introduction to classical physics designed specifically for engineering and science majors. Topics include: SI units, vector mathematics, kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, gravitation, rigid body dynamics, angular momentum, elastic properties of solids, fluid dynamics, vibrational dynamics, and mechanical waves.
- Prerequisites
- MATH140 (C or better)
- Additional Fees
- View current fees
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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PHYS-121-E45
Uses Canvas and publisher website; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | A. BurgerFaculty Syllabus |
PHYS-121-E46
Uses Canvas and MyLab/Mastering; Proctored testing is required; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | A. BurgerFaculty Syllabus |
PHYS-122Physics II
4 Credits
This lecture and laboratory course continues a rigorous introduction to classical physics designed specifically for engineering and science majors. Topics include: electric forces and fields, potential and potential energy, capacitors, direct current and transient circuits, magnetic forces and fields, electromagnetic induction, inductors, photons, geometric and physical optics.
- Prerequisites
- PHYS121 (C or better)
- Additional Fees
- View current fees
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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PHYS-122-E45
Uses Canvas; Proctored testing is required; Check Canvas for viewing access only, as early as 6/5/17; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Delahanty CFaculty Syllabus |
Psychology
PSYC-160The Psychology of Addiction and Substance Abuse
3 Credits
This course analyzes the development, intervention, and treatment of drug abuse, alcoholism, and codependency. Family dysfunction and its results are examined, as well as specialized techniques in counseling. Various intervention strategies are discussed.
- Prerequisites
- PSYC100 (C or better) or PSYC110 (C or better)
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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PSYC-160-E45
Uses Canvas; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Online | June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Goldblatt MFaculty Syllabus |
Science: General
SCIE-103Physical Geology
4 Credits
This lecture and laboratory course introduces the basic principles and processes of geology. Emphasis is on a wide range of topics, including rocks and minerals, topographic maps, surface processes, hydrologic systems, plate tectonics, the earth’s interior, and the application of entrepreneurial skills to assessment of a geologic or environmental hazard.
- Prerequisites
- Reading Placement Test score Level 3 or READ110 (C or better) or COMP108 (C or better); and Math Placement Test score of 5 or higher or MATH095 (C or better)
- Additional Fees
- View current fees
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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SCIE-103-H45
Meets weekly on Monday and Wednesdays at 9:00am in Newtown; Online component uses Canvas; Specific course details: bucks.edu/welcome | Hybrid (Face-To-Face + Online) | Newtown Campus | Ramacciotti CFaculty Syllabus |
Sports Management
SPMT-280Sport Management Internship
3 Credits
The student is required to perform 180 hours of internship at an affiliated training site. An attempt is made to match sites to the intern's professional interests and career goals. Periodic meetings between the College Coordinator and the student are held to review actual experience and observation.
- Prerequisites
- Permission of the Assistant Academic Dean of the HPEN Department. Must have completed all sport management Core courses with a 2.5 GPA in those courses.
Section | Delivery | Dates / Times / Locations | Instructor |
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SPMT-280-N45
| Face-To-Face | Newtown Campus June 12, 2017 - August 10, 2017 | Coyne S, Sullivan LFaculty Syllabus |