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This course introduces the technical and creative aspects of graphic design, digital design and the design process. Assignments will introduce the most current computer applications and image making software used in the graphic design profession. Traditional and digital design environments will be explored, and principles of 2-d design will be woven into every unit, every project, and every media used. 

Above: Dana Freeman, "Between the Conscious and the Unconscious", photographs & glass books with photo transparencies.

In this art class you'll create images using digital photography. We'll cover the basics of camera use, formal and conceptual concerns, and image editing, through readings, quizzes, exercises, and 5 assignments designed to challenge you to creatively express your ideas.  You will also be required to write a short review of a photographer who inspires you. An SLR digital camera, with "manual" setting option, is recommended. Point and shoot cameras and phone cameras are acceptable, but may limit techniques you can use in some photography assignments, however, this need not affect your grade.  Printing will be discussed, but not required. 

Above: Dana Freeman, "Between the Conscious and the Unconscious", photographs & glass books with photo transparencies.

In this art class you'll create images using digital photography. We'll cover the basics of camera use, formal and conceptual concerns, and image editing, through readings, quizzes, exercises, and 5 assignments designed to challenge you to creatively express your ideas.  You will also be required to write a short review of a photographer who inspires you. An SLR digital camera, with "manual" setting option, is recommended. Point and shoot cameras and phone cameras are acceptable, but may limit techniques you can use in some photography assignments, however, this need not affect your grade.  Printing will be discussed, but not required. 

This course will introduce students to techniques that are commonly used in modern biochemistry and molecular biology research including but not limited to: western blotting, protein purification, enzyme kinetics, DNA electrophoresis, DNA sequencing, reverse transcriptase- and quantitative-polymerase chain reaction, site-directed mutagenesis, nucleic acid hybridization techniques, transformation of cells, fluorescence microscopy, and ELISA. One (1) hour of lecture and two three (3)-hour lab periods per week. Prerequisite: CY325

The focus is on the study of the origin and development of management theory, processes of management, decision-making, leadership, communication, social responsibility, and international management. The course emphasizes on application of management principles to managing organizations.

BUS 200 Principles of Management Spring 2024

Tuesday / Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

BUS 205  Principles of Marketing Spring 2024

Thursday Night 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM

BUS210 serves as a practical guide toward individual money planning and management. Subjects covered include budgeting, housing, asset investments, purchasing a car and home, time value of money, stocks, mutual funds, and taxes, insurance, consumer decisions, and retirement planning.

This course provides a theoretical and practical foundation to understand how digital platforms have become part of a marketing strategy. Consequently, connecting these technologies platforms to achieve Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). Prerequisite(s): BUS 205.  

An introduction to international business theory and practice. The balance of trade, balance of payments, international business strategy options, and the various modes of conducting international trade are included.

BUS402 covers advanced concepts and techniques underlying effective decision making related to investment and financing decisions of organizations. Some topics include financial projections, cash flow analysis, capital markets, and analysis of risk, valuation of financial assets and discounting techniques and business valuation.

This course examines interrelationships between individuals and their abiotic environment as well as population- and community-level interactions. General principles will be applied to a range of organisms, including plants, animals, microorganisms, and humans. Labs will vary in structure and will emphasize the collection and evaluation of numerical data to test hypotheses.
As a student in this course, you are expected to engage with course material both during class meetings and in your own time. Students completing this course should see significant growth in their skills of data collection and data analysis and will exhibit comprehension and synthesis of the fundamental principles of general ecology.

CD210 Life and Career Planning (3) This course is specifically designed for returning adults who want a theoretical and practical study of the career planning process applied to their interests, abilities, goals, academic discipline, and fields of interest. Focus is on self- assessment, development of a career and life plan, and creation of a resume, cover letter, and portfolio. Students will participate in a mock interview and become familiar with current employment trends and organizational environments.

A two-semester introduction to chemical research. The first semester will begin with a literature search on the research topic and will include beginning laboratory work. Literature search will include Chemical Abstracts and other data-retrieval systems for information on the theory and method needed for the project. The second semester will consist of laboratory work and will conclude with a seminar on the results of the project.

This hands-on lab course covers basic spreadsheet functions such as simple formulas, formatting, and print layout using Microsoft Excel. Course projects introduce skills using a variety of formulas and basic functions, charts, and absolute addressing. This course would be beneficial to any students with a desire to analyze numerical data, manage finances, perform simple statistics, or generate charts and graphs.

This course is the second of two courses in spreadsheets. It is designed to teach advanced topics such as advanced formulas, list management, templates, object linking and embedding, macros, Visual Basic for Applications, data validation, and pivot charts and tables.

This course will focus on the integration of counseling theory into practice. Candidates will be introduced to techniques, skills, and interventions of counseling applied to a variety of human problems. Using an intensive seminar format, candidates will learn and practice essential interviewing and counseling skills/techniques necessary to become effective counselors within a multicultural society. Candidates will receive instruction on the development of a therapeutic relationship, establishment of appropriate counseling goals, intervention strategies design, client outcomes evaluation, and appropriate termination of the counselor-client relationship. Particular emphasis will be on understanding and applying empathy. Candidates will practice the skills they are studying in simulated counseling sessions in the Counseling Laboratory where candidates are video recorded, observed and given feedback.

Development of knowledge and skills needed for effective client appraisal. Emphasis is on learning how to gather data and make interpretations of individuals, groups, and case studies. Emphasis will be on sensitizing the student to individual differences in gender, culture, ethnicity, and environmental factors that affect test results.

This course is designed to facilitate the development of the background knowledge and techniques to work more effectively with culturally diverse populations. Candidates will learn ways to apply cross-cultural theory and will achieve a basic mastery of the skills and techniques appropriate for their work settings as counselors. Beliefs, values, and the impact of cultural differences upon the assumptions underlying counseling theories and therapy will be explored.

This course will facilitate the study of the psychological dynamics of small groups, including the stages of group development and variables that affect leader effectiveness; practice with a variety of active group techniques. Emphasis will be on the development of effective counseling practices in a variety of small group settings. Candidates will participate a counseling group and facilitate at least one group session.

The comprehensive examination is intended to be one of the culminating experiences of the graduate program. The exam is offered in January for May graduates, in September for December graduates, and in June for August graduates. MAC Candidates must register for COU 750 Comprehensive Examination in the term prior to their expected graduation. Candidates who fail to register for COU 750 by the Last Day to Add listed on the Graduate Studies Calendar will be ineligible to take the exam and unable to graduate by their expected date. The Comprehensive Examination is a 200 question, multiple choice exam designed to evaluate accrued knowledge across the eight CACREP core areas. The exam consists of eight subtests of 25 questions each. Candidates have thirty minutes to complete each subtest and a total of four hours to complete the entire exam. Candidates will not be considered for graduation until they have passed the comprehensive examination with a minimum score of 70% in each of the eight subtests. Candidates who fail any section of the examination will have 30 days to prepare for a second attempt at which time they will retake only those sections failed. If a candidate fails the exam a second time, he/she may not retake it until the next offering. If a candidate fails the exam a third time, he/she may be dropped from the MAC program or required to retake courses at the discretion of the Program Director.

This course establishes a framework for instructional planning and the creation of a classroom environment which will support students from diverse linguistic, social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Emphasis is given to valuing diversity and applying multicultural anti-bias global perspectives. Topics such as classicism, racism, sexism, and discrimination are explored with a goal of developing culturally responsive educators. Critical pedagogy, social justice, racial bias, positions of power and privilege, and advocacy practices are examined. Fieldwork requirement: minimum 10 hours volunteering or working in a culturally/linguistically diverse setting.

In this course, students will be introduced to what special education is, how it came to be and how special education is provided for in schools.  We will learn about special education law, what inclusion is and about various eligibility categories identified under IDEA.  The purpose of this course is to assist both current and future teachers in understanding their roles and responsibilities in educating students with disabilities in the general education classroom.

Students will demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and application of the major concepts and modes of inquiry for the fields of science and social studies. Additionally, they will demonstrate content knowledge to promote all elementary learners’ abilities to make informed decisions as engaged citizens to enact change in a culturally diverse, democratic society and interdependent world. Fieldwork Component: 10 hours in grade PK-3 or 3-6 classroom.

AME Cohort directed student teaching experience and reflection. This course includes finalization of the professional portfolio, exit materials and application to the state of Michigan for certification. 

This course explores the craft of writing fiction while providing a forum for lively, informed discussion of student and published work.

This course explores the craft of writing fiction while providing a forum for lively, informed discussion of student and published work.

Introduces students to effective listening, writing, and presenting skills for business and other professional activities.

A variable topics course intended to complement the three American Literature surveys by creating a specialized area of concentration.

A survey of American writing from the first European colonization of North America through the first fifty years of the American federation. Prerequisite: EH221.

ETS Senior Survey - gather data to evaluate and inform teaching and learning to pinpoint strengths and areas of improvement.

An integrated collegiate skills course that emphasizes writing, reading research, oral communication, and critical thinking. These skills are developed by examining contemporary American Pluralism issues, including race, class, popular culture and gender. Library and electronic research skills are directly applied as students conclude the course with a research paper and oral presentation. Students must successfully complete this course with a minimum of a C– or better in order to take GE201.

GEN 100 First Year Seminar (4)- Students develop writing, communication, and critical thinking skills through focused exploration of a topic selected by the instructor. Students become familiar with resources and strategies that promote academic success and cultivate a sense of community and connection to the Aquinas College mission.

Students develop writing, communication, and critical thinking skills through focused exploration of a topic selected by the instructor. Students become familiar with resources and strategies that promote academic success and cultivate a sense of community and connection to the Aquinas College mission.

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and the culture of German-speaking countries. Prerequisite: None.

This page provides information for all global students. It contains important topics like registering, tax info, employment, living in Grand Rapids, health care, etc. Students can also find many commonly requested forms here. This page will be edited every semester by Nisha van Laar (nisha.vanlaar@aquinas.edu). 

KIN 201: Introduction to theory and methods of first aid including CPR and other emergency techniques and procedures. The American Red Cross Emergency Medical Response course is offered.

KIN 202: Emergency Medical Response semester B - Recertification Prerequisite: KIN 201.   

KN 145: Medical Terminology  The medical terminology course is a two credit hour course designed for students who need a medical terminology course to fulfill an admissions requirement to a health professions program.  This course will also fulfill any other student who needs an in depth course in the “language of medicine”.  Offered spring semester.

KN 220: Medical Terminology  The medical terminology course is a two credit hour course designed for students who need a medical terminology course to fulfill an admissions requirement to a health professions program.  This course will also fulfill any other student who needs an in depth course in the “language of medicine”.  Offered spring semester.

This course is designed to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to teach group exercise classes in a fitness setting. Students will learn about exercise modalities, cueing, transitions, music selection and tempo. Preparation for AFAA or ACSM certification is included.

A course that provides an opportunity for students to see mathematics used in ways not emphasized in traditional algebra-based courses. This is a survey of topics designed to introduce students to the methods of critical thinking, problem solving, analysis, proficient communication, ethical thought, and sustainability through mathematical models and other tools. Topics may include using probability to understand randomness and chance, the mathematics of infinity, topology, mathematical modeling with graph theory, and connections between mathematics and the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Precalculus. Polynomials, trig, exponentials, logarithms. Graphing, solving, modeling.

text book Dugopolski 4th edition  Precalculus.

syllabus:

https://courses.aquinas.edu/pluginfile.php/150372/course/summary/120sp24syl.pdf

A statistics course for students who have had at least three years of high-school mathematics. Topics to be covered include frequency distributions, variability, probability, sampling, estimation, testing of hypotheses, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis, nonparametric tests, bootstrap methods, and permutation tests.

MCAP Studio Applied *Voice - 141, 142, 241, 341, 342, 441, 442, S1 - Eight-semester sequence of one-hour private voice lessons at the college level. Repertoire will begin with Baroque and 20th C. literature, then progress through Classic, Romantic and Contemporary songs and arias of increasing demands as the semesters continue. 

MUSC Studio Applied Lessons - 130, 131, 230, 231, 330, 331, 430, 431 - Eight-semester sequence of half-hour private voice lessons at the college level. Repertoire will begin with Baroque and 20th C. literature, then progress through Classic, Romantic and Contemporary songs and arias of increasing demands as the semesters continue. 

The Mohler-Thompson Research program provides support for student-faculty teams to perform research in natural sciences and math during the summer.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Group approach to developing piano playing skills, this lab-based class is designed as a starting point for musical self-expression and enrichment. Notation in treble and bass clef, reading one hand at a time and progressing to first hands together pieces; development of sight-reading skills; introduction of major scales and chords in keys up to 3 flats and 3 sharps; beginning rhythmic studies, including simple and compound meter.

Piano Techniques I:  Lab based class, meeting two times per week; Piano skills continue to be developed, using scales and chords previously learned, adding minor scales and chords, to improvise chords to a melody.  Functional skills of playing triads and inversions and vocal warm ups are introduced; sight reading vocal scores to include 2 adjacent vocal lines from a 4-part vocal score.  

This course covers important topics related to educational technology and exposes Aquinas faculty to some of the many resources available to support online teaching and learning. The modules presented in this course can be completed to show competency in hybrid and online teaching.

Facilitator - Susan Hojnacki PhD

After an introduction to key features of the life and works of St. Thomas Aquinas in relation to the perennial Catholic and Dominican intellectual traditions, this course covers the philosophical contributions of the Angelic Doctor in the major systematic areas of the discipline, treating St. Thomas’ basic approach to the theory of human knowledge, nature, the human person (philosophical anthropology), Ethics, and First Philosophy or Natural Theology (metaphysics).

PHYS 202—General Physics II: Electricity, Magnetism, & Light (4 credits)

An algebra-/trigonometry-based introduction to electricity, magnetism, harmonic motion, light, and nuclear physics. This course is the second half of the two-semester general physics sequence. It is recommended for students specializing in science. The course emphasizes quantitative and conceptual understanding of the topics in introductory physics without the use of calculus. 

Prerequisite: PHYS-201; Corequisite: PHYS-202L

PHYS 212—General Physics II with Calculus: Electricity, Magnetism, & Light (4 credits)

A calculus-based introduction to classical physics and modern physics and the fundamental concepts of electricity, magnetism, light, and nuclear physics. This course is the second half of the two-semester general physics sequence. It is recommended for students specializing in science with a background in Calculus.

Prerequisite: PHYS-211; Corequisite: PHYS-212L

This course is designed as a critical examination and in-depth evaluation of American Foreign Policy.  The actors and processes involved in making and executing foreign policy will be examined, along with the policy perspectives of the major nation-states and international organizations with which the United States interacts.  We will look at the history of US foreign policy, with a special emphasis on 20th century interaction.  Specifically, we will study: US - Soviet/Russian relations, the rise and decline of US Hegemony, United States - Japanese and Sino relations, American policy toward West and East Europe, US policy in Central and Latin America, US policy toward Africa, and American foreign economic policy.  Emphasis is placed on counter-revolution and counter terror policies.

We will also look carefully at the decision-making processes of American Foreign Policy.  Here we will examine the roles of: the executive branch and bureaucracies; congress; the press; the public; and certain "exogenous variables" such as multinational corporations or foreign actors.  One objective is to recognize the ways in which these actors interact and the constraints under which they operate.

This one credit course is designed to prepare students for their participation in the 2014 Michigan Model Arab League.  The class will meet every Friday before participation in the Model Arab League Conference (see below).  Significant time will be spent preparing and training.  Students will work in pairs representing specific countries on specific committees (see the agenda items on page 5-6).  This year AQ will represent the countries of Algeria, Palestine and United Arab Emirates.

Credit for PS 393 Model Arab League I / II or III does not count toward the Political Science Major or Political Science Minor.

Psychology as the science of human behavior and mental processes; related areas of human functioning; focus on human research; theory and research methods, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning and memory, intelligence, thought, language, human development, motivation and emotion, social psychology and personality psychological disorders and therapies, stress, health, and coping.

Prerequisite: PSY-100.

This course presents a comparative analysis of various classic and contemporary theories of human personality within psychology. In comparing these perspectives, the course will cover general principles of scientific theory development as well as a range of issues, assumptions and research methods involved in personality theory work.

This course is designed to help candidates develop a personal framework for ethical action and to become more effective in addressing ethical issues in the field of professional counseling. Emphasis will be placed on understanding and identifying relevant legal and ethical issues in mental health counseling, including ethical decision-making protocols. This course will cover multiple professional codes of ethics to build a theoretical framework for approaching ethical dilemmas in a systematic way. This course is intended to deepen awareness of new and emerging ethical issues and provide the tools necessary for ethical practice in the field. 

An integrated collegiate skills course that emphasizes writing, reading research, oral communication, and critical thinking. These skills are developed by examining contemporary American Pluralism issues, including race, class, popular culture and gender. Library and electronic research skills are directly applied as students conclude the course with a research paper and oral presentation. Students must successfully complete this course with a minimum of a C– or better in order to take GE201.

Course exploring the history and research of social media. Students will research personal and professional expression and engagement with social media.

 SPA 325 Introduction to Community Interpretation 

Bienvenidas, bienvenides, bienvenidos a SPA 325. This course consists of introducing students to the theory, application, and practice of English to Spanish and Spanish to English community interpreting. Throughout the course, students will practice and perfect parroting, sight translations, consecutive interpretations, and simultaneous interpretations. These translations and interpretations will cover the fields of social services, schools, and other community-based settings and a strong emphasis on medical services. This course is primarily designed to assist students who are interested in pursuing a career related to interpreting and/or translating as well as those who wish to improve their proficiency in written and spoken Spanish. Students will seek opportunities to perform sight translations and/or interpretations on campus and in their communities. Prerequisite(s): completion of SPA 301 or SPA 302 with a grade of C or above.

A course designed to integrate the four basic language skills: speaking, listening, writing, and reading. The main focus of this course is based on controlled conversations correlated with readings, reports, debates, discussions, and presentations. Topics include, among others, language, politics, national and personal identities, diversity issues, foreigners, minorities, the educational system, religion, and gender issues. This course may be repeated if taken abroad and on campus. Prerequisite: C or higher in SPA 202 or equivalent.

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and general theories of sociological thought and research. Students will be introduced to the major and to careers the sociology major offers. As part of the engaged department initiative and to begin applying sociology concepts and theories to their experiences, students will complete 3 hours of participant observation of a community-based initiative, organization or cultural event outside of the classroom.

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Explores the New Testament portraits of Jesus, including how the first Christian theologians re-interpreted Jewish scripture. Students will compare episodes in the Gospels and become aware of images of Christ in narrative, epistle and poetry. Also introduces the ‘historical Jesus’ debate and the cultural setting of the Jesus movement.

In this course students will be learning the basics of theatre tech and build. 

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