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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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(UNST) University Studies (984)

  
  • UNST 310 - Special Topics in University Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Interdisciplinary approaches to issues transcending the boundaries of a single discipline. Topics may be initiated by faculty or students through arrangements with the University Studies Program. Taught by faculty from throughout the university (often team-taught). Discussion-based and writing-intensive.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • UNST 317 - Honors: Special Topics in University Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Honors course utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to a significant scholarly or social issue. Topics change every semester. Consult Timetable for current offering. Discussion-based and writing-intensive.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • UNST 320 - Special Topics in University Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Interdisciplinary approaches to issues transcending the boundaries of a single discipline. Topics may be initiated by faculty or students through arrangements with the University Studies Program. Taught by faculty from throughout the university (often team-taught). Discussion-based and writing-intensive.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • UNST 410 - Advanced Topics in University Studies

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Interdisciplinary research approaches to major issues transcending the boundaries of a single discipline. Topics may be initiated by faculty or students through arrangements with the University Studies Program. Taught by faculty from throughout the university (often team-taught).

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • UNST 413 - Art and Organism - Integrative Biology of Aesthetic Experience

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 413.)
  
  • UNST 417 - Honors: Advanced Topics in University Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Honors course utilizing an in-depth interdisciplinary research approach to a significant scholarly or social issue. Topics change every semester. Consult Timetable for current offering. Discussion-based and writing-intensive.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • UNST 420 - Advanced Topics in University Studies

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Interdisciplinary research approaches to major issues transcending the boundaries of a single discipline. Topics may be initiated by faculty or students through arrangements with the University Studies Program. Taught by faculty from throughout the university (often team-taught). Discussion-based and writing-intensive.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • UNST 491 - Foreign Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • UNST 492 - Off-Campus Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • UNST 493 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • UNST 495 - Research Experience

    1-12 Credit Hours
    The course provides pre-professional experience in research, scholarship, and creative activity under the supervision of a faculty member.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Students should identify a prospective faculty supervisor and secure permission in advance of registration.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum 2.0 GPA.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

(WGS) Women, Gender, and Sexuality

  
  • WGS 200 - Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to key concepts and methods in the study of women, gender, and sexuality, including the fields of gender, feminist, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical debates, and contemporary issues, especially as they pertain to the intersection of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social inequality. Emphasis will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise of the instructor.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (SS)
  
  • WGS 314 - Food, Fiction, and Film in Modern Japan

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Japanese 314.)
  
  • WGS 319 - Gender and Religion in Asia

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 319.)
  
  • WGS 320 - Gender and Religion

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 320.)
  
  • WGS 324 - History of Rape in the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – United States 324.)
  
  • WGS 325 - Women in American History

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – United States 325.)
  
  • WGS 326 - Gay American History

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – United States 326.)
  
  • WGS 330 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Musicology 330.)
  
  • WGS 332 - Women in American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    (See English 332.)
  
  • WGS 340 - Gender, Politics, and the Law

    3 Credit Hours
    An examination of recent changes in the laws affecting women and a study of the role of women in contemporary American politics. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • WGS 370 - Gender and Globalization

    3 Credit Hours
    This international and intercultural course examines how economic and political processes affect gender, culture, and society across the globe. Emphasis is placed upon women’s subjectivity and agency in relation to these processes, and upon diverse forms of women’s activism for social change.

    (Same as Anthropology 370.)
    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): English 102, 132, 290, or 298.
  
  • WGS 375 - Gender in Society

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Sociology 375.)
  
  • WGS 376 - African American Women’s History from Slavery to the Present

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – United States 376.)
  
  • WGS 382 - Philosophy of Feminism

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Philosophy 382.)
  
  • WGS 384 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Classics 384.)
  
  • WGS 400 - Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies. Thematic focus on particular issues, concepts, theories, or methods in gender, feminist, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • WGS 412 - Gender, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Musicology 412.)
  
  • WGS 422 - Women Writers in Britain

    3 Credit Hours
    (See English 422.)
  
  • WGS 434 - Psychology of Gender

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Psychology 434.)
  
  • WGS 436 - History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – United States 436.)
  
  • WGS 453 - Gender and Crime

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Sociology 453.)
  
  • WGS 465 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Latin America

    3 Credit Hours
    (See History – Latin America 465.)
  
  • WGS 469 - Sexuality and Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores issues surrounding sexuality, gender and cinema from points of view of feminist film criticism. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Cinema Studies 469.)
  
  • WGS 484 - African American Women in American Society

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Africana Studies 484.)
  
  • WGS 490 - Internship

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Internship pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of program chair.
  
  • WGS 491 - Foreign Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Foreign study pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • WGS 492 - Off-Campus Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Off-campus study pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of program chair.
  
  • WGS 493 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Independent study pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of program chair.
  
  • WGS 499 - Capstone Seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies. Specialized study in women, gender, and sexuality. Includes a culminating research project that requires application of key concepts or methods in women, gender, and sexuality to a contemporary or historical problem or issue.

    Registration Restriction(s): Junior and senior – women, gender, and sexuality majors only.

(WFS) Wildlife and Fisheries Science (993)

  
  • WFS 100 - Introduction to Wildlife and Fisheries Science

    1 Credit Hours
    Introduction to wildlife and fisheries management; review of research and management topics in wildlife and fisheries and current issues.

  
  • WFS 101 - Current Topics in Wildlife Health

    1 Credit Hours
    All aspects of wildlife health, including current topics, emerging diseases, and impact of diseases on wildlife populations, general disease mechanisms, and career opportunities in the wildlife profession.

  
  • WFS 295 - Practicum in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Designed to give students practical, hands-on wildlife and/or fisheries experience working with a state, federal, or private natural resources organization. Provides credit for approved employment in natural resources management or research, 1 hour credit for every 160 hours of work. Students may find work on their own or with faculty assistance. Students must submit an approved work plan to their advisor, keep a daily log submitted every 2 weeks and prepare a final written report.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Forestry and wildlife and fisheries science majors.
  
  • WFS 305 - Prescribed Fire Management

    2 Credit Hours
    Prescribed fire ecology, use, and management in forest stands.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 100; and Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries 212, 250, 310, and 315.
  
  • WFS 323 - Human Dimensions of Wildlife and Fisheries

    1 Credit Hours
    Examination of the linkages between people, institutions, and society at large to natural resource management practices. Case studies and application of basic skills of group communication and collaborative problem-solving and planning will be emphasized. Overnight field trips required.

    (RE) Corequisite(s): 305.
  
  • WFS 324 - Wildlife Habitat Evaluation

    2 Credit Hours
    This course introduces students to the process of wildlife habitat evaluation, with special emphasis on plant identification, wildlife uses of plants, wildlife species habitat needs, and wildlife habitat evaluation methods.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 100; and Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries 212, 250, 310, and 315.
  
  • WFS 340 - Wetlands Ecology and Management

    2 Credit Hours
    Ecology, restoration, and management of wetland ecosystems, including biotic and abiotic processes, functions, and wildlife considerations.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 100; and Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries 212, 250, 310, and 315.
  
  • WFS 350 - Wildlife Damage Management

    1 Credit Hours
    Principles and methods for wildlife damage management, including biological, regulatory, practical, and social considerations. Weekend field trips (2) required.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lab and 1 lab or field.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries 212 and 315.
  
  • WFS 351 - Wildlife Law Enforcement

    1 Credit Hours
    Introduction to laws and policies related to wildlife and fisheries, wildlife law enforcement principles and practices, and career opportunities.

  
  • WFS 401 - Ecology and Management of Wildlife Health

    3 Credit Hours
    Review of ecological and environmental factors affecting wildlife health, and tools available for effective wildlife disease surveillance and management. Emphasis on the importance of multidisciplinary and interagency collaboration for management of wildlife health problems.

    (Same as Wildlife and Fisheries Science 501.)
  
  • WFS 420 - Identification and Ecology of Freshwater Mussels

    3 Credit Hours
    This class is devoted to the study of shells of freshwater mussel species found in the lakes, rivers, and streams of North America, with special attention given to the fauna of Tennessee.

  
  • WFS 425 - Tropical Ecology, Conservation, and Field Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    This study abroad course will cover tropical ecology and conservation concepts, issues, principles, and practices. In addition, it will provide experience in the field methods and techniques used by managers and researchers to study terrestrial natural resource ecology and conservation in tropical regions.

  
  • WFS 431 - Wildlife Physiology and Nutrition

    3 Credit Hours
    An introduction and overview of the physiological and nutritional mechanisms important behind the regulation of wild animal populations (primarily wild birds and mammals). Wildlife responses to seasonal changes in habitat are critical for understanding management options. Discussion of use of chemical immobilization options, physiological indicators, and genetic analysis of wild animal population dynamics.

    Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 431 and 531.
  
  • WFS 433 - Amphibian Ecology and Conservation

    3 Credit Hours
    In-depth examination of amphibian life-history strategies, community interactions, and hypothesized mechanisms of amphibian declines. Also covers amphibian monitoring, conservation and management.

    Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 433 and 533.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Forestry 215 or Biology 260.
  
  • WFS 440 - Wildlife Techniques

    2 Credit Hours
    Methods in wildlife damage control, forest, farmland, wetland wildlife habitat management, identification of wildlife field sign, wildlife capturing techniques, and management plan preparation. Weekend field trips (2) required.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour and 1 lab or field.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 100 and Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries 212, 250, 310, and 315.
  
  • WFS 441 - Stream Ecology

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on freshwater riverine ecology. Emphasis is placed on the stream environment and associated fauna, and the interrelationships therein. Upon completion, students should be able to identify habitat features, selected freshwater invertebrates and fishes, and demonstrate ecological knowledge.

    Registration Restriction(s): Forestry or wildlife and fisheries majors.
  
  • WFS 442 - Fisheries Techniques

    3 Credit Hours
    Active and passive sampling techniques for fish and aquatic organisms. Population estimation methods, fish handling and transport, food habits analysis, and marking and tagging techniques. Age determination and incremental growth analysis. Stream assessment. Equipment and instrumentation usage and maintenance. Safety in sampling methods. Weekend field trip may be required.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour and 1 lab or field.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 100 and Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries 212, 250, 310, and 315.
  
  • WFS 443 - Fisheries Science

    3 Credit Hours
    Quantification and management of freshwater fisheries, including population estimation, age and growth, biological assessment, and stocking.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries 315.
  
  • WFS 444 - Ecology and Management of Wild Mammals

    3 Credit Hours
    Biological and ecological characteristics of game mammals and endangered mammals. Current principles and practices of wild mammal management. Weekend field trip required.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 1 lab.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries 315.
  
  • WFS 445 - Ecology and Management of Wild Birds

    3 Credit Hours
    Biological and ecological characteristics of game birds, endangered birds, and bird pests. Current principles and practices of wild bird management. Weekend field trip required.

    Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 1 lab.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries 315.
  
  • WFS 450 - Fish Physiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Mechanisms of gas transfer, circulation, excretion, osmoregulation, locomotion, and neural/hormonal control of these systems in fishes. Comparisons and contrasts with physiology of terrestrial animals. Practical applications of fish physiology to aquaculture, pollution assessment, and fisheries management.

    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – senior.
  
  • WFS 452 - Ecology and Management of Fishes

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will cover theoretical and applied conservation and management issues relating to the ecology and regulation of fish populations and assemblages. Topics will include the abiotic (physical, chemical) and biotic (predation, competition) interactions facing fishes and how these interactions may be affected by humans, as well as how humans can manage these interactions to conserve and sustain fish populations and assemblages.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries 315, Forestry 215, or Biology 260.
  
  • WFS 461 - Professional Development in Wildlife and Fisheries Science

    1 Credit Hours
    This course is designed to facilitate students’ transition from college into a career or post-baccalaureate studies through a combination of lectures, readings, class discussions, and assignments (group and individual).

    Registration Restriction(s): Senior standing with major in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries.
  
  • WFS 493 - Independent Study in Wildlife and Fisheries Science

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Special research or individual problem in wildlife and fisheries science.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • WFS 496 - Internship in Wildlife and Fisheries Science

    3 Credit Hours
    Supervised experience at departmental-approved employment location arranged by the student. Internship learning objectives must be pre-approved by the advisor/instructor and the field supervisor. Daily log, supervisor evaluations, and final report required. One credit per two weeks of full-time supervised field experience maximum. Up to 3 credits may be used for science elective.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – junior.

(WLEL) World Language Education/English as a Second Language Education

  
  • WLEL 445 - Teaching World Languages: Grades PreK-5

    3 Credit Hours
    ACTFL standards-based pedagogy, curricula, research and instructional resources focused on the PreK-5 WL classroom.

    Recommended Background: Completion or near completion of world language hours for certification.
    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to Teacher Education or consent of instructor.
  
  • WLEL 455 - Teaching of World Languages

    3 Credit Hours
    ACTFL standards-based instructional methods, resources, integrated technologies, second language theories, research and evaluation for world languages. Required for licensure in World Languages.

    (Same as American Sign Language 455.)
    Recommended Background: Completion or near completion of world language hours for certification.
    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education or consent of instructor.
  
  • WLEL 466 - ESL Assessment and Evaluation

    3 Credit Hours
    Highlights the implementation of authentic assessment, specifically, portfolio assessment for ESL students in K-12 settings. Focuses on designing appropriate tools for various assessment purposes. Specific types and different forms of assessment are examined based on their effectiveness and meaningfulness. Required for Tennessee (PreK-12) licensure.

    Comment(s): Admission to teacher education.
  
  • WLEL 475 - Grammar for ESL Teachers

    3 Credit Hours
    Pedagogical approaches, second language acquisition research and resources for teaching English grammar to English language learners. Required for PreK-12 ESL licensure.

    Recommended Background: Completion or near completion of hours for ESL certification.
  
  • WLEL 476 - Teaching English as a Second Language

    3 Credit Hours
    TESOL standards-based ESL pedagogy, practices, research, second language theories, instructional strategies and integrated technologies that accommodate students at all levels of ESL/EFL settings. Required for Tennessee (PreK-12) licensure.

    Comment(s): Admission to teacher education.
  
  • WLEL 489 - Content-Based ESL Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on designing and implementing content-based ESL instruction to enhance English language learners’ academic achievement. Required for Tennessee (PreK-12) licensure.

    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education or consent of instructor.
 

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