KINESIOLOGY

KIN 131 FOUNDATIONS OF KINESIOLOGY.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
This course serves as a base for all kinesiology courses. Units will include historical development, philosophical implications, physical fitness, scientific bases of movement, and educational values of kinesiology.

KIN 378 ADMINISTRATION OF KINESIOLOGY AND RECREATION.
(undergoing revision)

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: 18 hours in Kinesiology.
The first half of this course is concerned with the organization and administration of physical education and recreation in the public schools; the second half, with the organization, administration, and business management of a high school athletic program.

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MANAGEMENT

MGT 380 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
This course is concerned with the principles and methods used in managing and operating organizations, both domestically and abroad. Course coverage includes analysis of the organization's environment and the managerial functions of planning, organizing, leading, motivating, and controlling. Only students who have successfully completed sixty or more semester credit hours are permitted to take 300-400 level business courses by correspondence.

MGT 381 BEHAVIOR DYNAMICS IN MANAGEMENT.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: MGT 380.
Advanced study of individual and group behavior in organizations and how it affects the achievement of organizational objectives. Only students who have successfully completed sixty or more semester credit hours are permitted to take 300-400 level business courses by correspondence.

MGT 474 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: MGT 380.
Personnel policies and administration, job classification and analysis, wage plans and employment procedure, employment interviewing and testing, employee training and evaluation, labor turnover, and legislation affecting labor problems are studied. Only students who have successfully completed sixty or more semester credit hours are permitted to take 300-400 level business courses by correspondence. This course is not available to SHSU students who major or minor in Management or Human Resource Management.

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MARKETING

MKT 371 PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: ECO 230 or 233.
This course includes marketing functions, transportation, assembling, storage, trade channels, cost, co-operative marketing, trade association, market analysis, marketing structures and agencies, types of middlemen, international marketing, and current marketing practices. Only students who have successfully completed sixty or more semester credit hours are permitted to take 300-400 level business courses by correspondence.

MKT 376 RETAILING.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: MKT 371.
This course includes the evolution of retailing, the scope of retailing, store location, store layout, organization, the customer, buying markets, receiving and marketing merchandise, mark-up, stock control, merchandise plan, fashions, retail credit, accounting, insurance, and sales promotion. Only students who have successfully completed sixty or more semester credit hours are permitted to take 300-400 level business courses by correspondence.

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MATHEMATICS

MTH 163 [MATH 1316] PLANE TRIGONOMETRY.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra and high school geometry.
Topics include coordinate systems, circular functions, solutions of triangles, identities, trigonometric equations, and inverse functions.

MTH 166 [MATH 1321] ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra.
Mathematical principles and techniques are applied to problems which arise in finance. Topics include simple interest, compound interest, installment buying, annuities, and perpetuities.

MTH 170 [MATH 2312] PRE CALCULUS ALGEBRA.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra and high school geometry.
Topics include a brief review of introductory algebra, variation, elementary theory of equations, functions (including exponential and logarithmic), inequalities, systems of equations, and other related topics. Formerly MTH 162.

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PHILOSOPHY

PHL 261 [PHIL 1301] INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY.
(undergoing revision)
15 lessons, 1 final exam
Writing Enhanced Course.
A general examination of the fields and issues of philosophy as discussed by both classical and modern philosophers. Philosophical problems discussed include the existence of God, the nature of knowledge and truth, the issue of human free will, and theories of moral judgment.

PHL 262 CRITICAL THINKING.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Designed to improve students' ability to think critically. The course covers the fundamentals of deductive reasoning, the identification of common fallacies, and an introduction to inductive reasoning, as well as sensitizing the students to some of the ways information is distorted, e.g., by advertising and news management.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

PHO 235 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

12 lessons, 1 term paper proposal and 1 term paper
Writing Enhanced Course.
A study is made of the history of photography from its earliest beginnings. Technical, visual, aesthetic and social aspects are considered.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

POL 261 [GOVT 2301] PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Ñ NATIONAL AND STATE.

10 lessons, 1 final exam
Writing Enhanced Course.
This course deals with the origin, development, and Constitution of the American governmental system, citizenship and civil rights, suffrage, the national party system, the national executive, organization of congress, national judiciary, federal-state relations, and the Constitution of the State of Texas. This course meets the legislative requirement for a course on the Constitutions of the United States and Texas for teacher certification.

POL 285 [GOVT 2302] AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY.

11 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: POL 261.
Writing Enhanced Course.
This a study of National and State Policy. Topics include foreign relations, labor, agriculture, civil liberties, and environmental policy.

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PSYCHOLOGY

PSY 131 [PSYC 2301] INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
This course is designed to be a broad survey of the field of psychology, covering such topics as learning, perception, personality, development, psychopathology, etc. It covers both the theoretical basis and the empirical content of these areas.

PSY 289 [PSYC 2315] PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT.

12 lessons, 1 final exam
A study is made of the dynamics of human behavior applying psychological theory to the development of the wholesome, well adjusted personality. Techniques for managing stress, reducing anxiety, coping with anger, increasing assertiveness, and achieving self-control are considered.

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SOCIOLOGY

SOC 261 [SOCI 1301] PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Writing Enhanced Course.
Introduction to the discipline with a focus on concepts and principles used in the study of group life, social institutions and social processes. This course is a prerequisite to many other courses taught in the department. It is required of all sociology majors and minors.

SOC 264 [SOCI 1306] SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Writing Enhanced Course.
Application of sociological principles to the major problems of contemporary society. Special attention given to mental disorders; use and abuse of drugs and alcohol; sexual deviance and crime and delinquency; problems of youth and the family in contemporary society; institutionalized aspects of inequality, prejudice and discrimination; and population and environmental concerns.

SOC 333 AGE AND INEQUALITY.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: SOC 261 or consent of instructor.
Writing Enhanced Course.
This course is a study of the influence of age on income and wealth, status, and power. It includes an examination of institutional discrimination against the young and the old, as well as individual discrimination, such as child and elder abuse. It studies the relationship between lifecycle changes and changes in placement on the class, status, and power stratification system.

SOC 381 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: SOC 261 or consent of instructor.
Cultural and social organization among primitive or preliterate societies; marriage, property, religion, magic, and tribal control. Significance of the study of primitive cultures for understanding of urban industrial civilizations.

SOC 462 MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: SOC 261 or consent of instructor.
A sociological examination of marriage and family life. Problems of courtship, mate selection, and marriage adjustment in modern American society.

SOC 465 MINORITY RELATIONS.

15 lessons, 1 final exam
Prerequisite: SOC 261 or consent of instructor.
This course examines ethnic stratification, i.e., placement in the class, status, and power stratification systems on the basis of birth ascribed and socially defined race/ethnicity, and of the ideologies which serve to rationalize these inequalities. The course includes study of institutional discrimination Ñ ethnic stratification in major social institutions such as education, health care, religion, and work. Broadly defined, ethnic stratification includes inequality based on other birth ascribed statuses, such as age and gender.

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