Undergraduate UW Extended Campus Online
Undergraduate UW Extended Campus Online
2024 Summer Term
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INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING
UWX CM101
This course offers communication experiences intended to improve students' public speaking and listening skills across a broad spectrum of situations including intercultural communication, public communication, small group communication and interpersonal communication.
COLLEGE WRITING AND CRITICAL READING
UWX EN101
A composition course focusing on academic writing, the writing process, and critical reading. Emphasis will be on essays that incorporate readings.
CRITICAL WRITING AND RESEARCH
UWX EN102
A composition course focusing on researched academic writing that presents information, ideas, and arguments. Emphasis will be on the writing process, critical thinking, and critical reading.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
UWX EN210
Study and practice of the techniques of achieving clarity, brevity and effectiveness in business communication. Planning, preparation, critiquing of business letters, memoranda, short and long reports, resumes, manuals of procedure, and oral reports.
DISASTERS: LIVING ON THE EDGE
UWX GE170
Study of various environmental hazards, their causes, impacts on humans, and mitigations. Core topics are natural hazards (earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes), and anthropogenic hazards (climate change, nuclear hazards, overpopulation). Additional topics may be covered: coastal hazards, pollution, other atmospheric hazards, impacts from space, extinctions, biohazards, chemical hazards, and terrorism.
INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
UWX GS101
This course focuses on both historical and current ways in which women's lives are shaped by structures of power, and on analyzing how gender works in society and in our everyday lives. Topics include feminist theory, intersectional identity, the social construction of gender, and reproductive justice.
US HISTORY SINCE 1877
UWX HS102
A survey of American political, economic, social, and intellectual history from the era of the Civil War to the present. This Ethnic Studies (ES) course thoroughly integrates the historical experiences and contributions of racial and ethnic minorities within US society, fostering an understanding and appreciation at least two groups.
COLLEGE ALGEBRA
UWX MA116
The study of the properties of elementary functions, such as polynomial, absolute value, piecewise, radical, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Topics include equations, inequalities, functions, and their graphs. Students will formulate, analyze, solve, and interpret mathematical and real-world problems. This course is intended to provide algebra skills required for calculus.
ROCK AND ROLL ROOTS
UWX MU278
Rock and Roll evolved from blues, jazz, gospel, and several folk musical genres. This course reveals the connections between, and fusion of, these diverse musical styles and how they influenced the nearly 70 years of Rock and Roll history.
CRITICAL THINKING
UWX PH121
Critical thinking is the process of identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and constructing reasoning in deciding what conclusions to draw or actions to take. This course will help you to master an approach to critical thinking that will allow you understand how others think and enable you to think more clearly.
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
UWX PS101
This introductory behavioral science course emphasizes the history of the field of psychology, research methods, the biological basis of behavior, human cognition, human development, social behavior, and mental health.
INTRODUCTION TO RELIGION
UWX RE101
This course introduces a number of the world's major religious traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) as well as several ways of studying these religions (anthropology, psychology, sociology, phenomenology, and economic approaches).
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
UWX SC101
Sociology as a special field of behavioral science, examines social relations, social organizations, and social systems through the study of process, structure, and function.
CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
UWX SC231
Examines the American systems of Criminal Law and Justice in socio-historical context. Presents the three branches of the Criminal Justice system (Law Enforcement, Courts, Corrections) and critiques them against the backdrop of five cultural philosophies of criminal justice. Explores how crime is defined and measured, and how social sciences theorize causes of crime and crime patterns.