Three Credits     [PDF] Application for Enrollment - ANSC 22100
CRN: 32524
This course covers the classification and function of nutrients, deficiency symptoms, digestive processes, characterization of feedstuffs, and formulation of diets for domestic animals.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 16529
The course is a study of communication theories as applied to speech, including practical communicative experiences, ranging from interpersonal communication and small group process, through problem identification and solution in discussion, to informative and persuasive speaking in standard speaker-audience situations.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 16549
This course is a study of the basic characteristics of human communication, and the theoretical and practical implications of these characteristics for various forms of oral communication.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN:34206
This course will focus on why persuasive messages have the effects they do - why they succeed with some people but fail with others. This course should enable you to function more effectively as a consumer and producer of persuasive messages. In particular, this course examines the different ways people mentally process persuasive messages and explores the implications of different processing styles for the design of maximally effective persuasive appeals. The primary aim of this class is to make you an intelligent and critical consumer and user of the persuasive messages and situations that you encounter every day.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 16867-68
This course presents a discussion of the problems associated with managing one's personal finances. Topics include: budgeting; use and cost of credit; life and property insurance; income and estate taxation; housing; saving and investments; and wills, trusts, and estate planning.

Two Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 17776
Addresses fundamentals of educational technology, including the integration of instructional design, media, computers, and related technologies within the classroom setting.

Three Credits      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - EDCI 56400
CRN: 33716
Students will become familiar with the work of teachers and begin to develop their educational philosophies through examining what it means to teach and to learn and the nature and purpose of schools. Students will critically evaluate teaching as their chosen profession. This will include one face-to-face meeting on January 13.

Three Credits      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - EDPS 54000
CRN: 32639
Introduction to intellectual, social, and emotional characteristics of gifted youth. Philosophy of gifted education. Multi-talent concept of giftedness: intellectual, academic, creative, artistic, and leadership. Criteria for selecting instructional materials and methods. Designing learning experiences for the gifted.
The Indiana Department of Education offers partial tuition reimbursement to qualified applicants on a first come, first served basis. More information and an application are available at: www.doe.in.gov/exceptional/gt/whatsnew.html

Course runs: January 20-April 24, 2009. Registration MUST be completed prior to January 15, 2009.

Three Credits      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - EDPS 54200
CRN: 32642
An introduction to curricular materials, curriculum development, and programs for gifted, creative, and talented students. Focuses on the practical development of curriculum and programs for gifted students. Current research and theory is explored through practical curriculum projects, activities, and collaborative evaluation exercises.
The Indiana Department of Education offers partial tuition reimbursement to qualified applicants on a first come, first served basis. More information and an application are available at: www.doe.in.gov/exceptional/gt/whatsnew.html

Three Credits      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - EDPS 69500
CRN: 32655
The practicum in gifted education is designed to be the culminating experience for teachers who are pursuing the gifted and talented (GT) endorsement. In the practicum experience, you will have opportunities to apply what you learned in prior GT endorsement coursework. You will also develop more advanced knowledge and skills through a variety of structured, self-directed activities. A theme throughout the practicum is the development of reflective practitioners who set goals for professional growth, evaluate their progress toward those goals, and continuously improve their ability to work with the talented students entrusted to them.
Prerequisites: EDPS 540, EDPS 541, EDPS 542

The Indiana Department of Education offers partial tuition reimbursement to qualified applicants on a first come, first served basis. More information and an application are available at: www.doe.in.gov/exceptional/gt/whatsnew.html

Three Credits       CLOSED
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Reading and discussion of short stories and seven novels to promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the range, values, techniques, and meanings of modern fiction.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 18991-3
Workplace writing in networked environments for management contexts. Emphasizes organizational context, project planning, document management, ethics, research, and team writing. Typical genres include management memos, reports, letters, e-mail, resumes (print and online), and oral presentations.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 19009-19011
Workplace writing in networked environments for technical contexts. Emphasizes context and user analysis, data analysis/display, project planning, document management, usability, ethics, research, and team writing. Typical genres include technical reports, memos, documentation, and Web sites.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 19742
Basic nutrition and its application in meeting nutritional needs of all ages.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 20280-81
This variable-title course deals with broad historical topics that transcend and collapse traditional analytical, chronological, and geographic boundaries.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 20439
The course is an examination of basic scientific concepts as applied to the problems and issues in selected areas of human health behavior, with particular attention to their influence on optimum health of the individual. Note to Purdue-West Lafayette students: This course is open to H&S majors and minors, only.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 20585
The course is an examination of basic scientific concepts as applied to the problems and issues in selected areas of human health behavior, with particular attention to their influence on optimum health of the individual. Note to Purdue-West Lafayette students: This course is open to H&S majors and minors, only.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 20677
The course covers the origins and development of agriculture, with specific emphasis on horticulture from prehistory to the present, in relation to civilization and modern culture.

Three Credits      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - HORT 40300
CRN: 20691
This course is an introduction to the agriculture of the tropics and subtropics, emphasizing horticultural crops.

Three Credits      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - MA 15300
CRN: 21843
The course covers exponents and radicals; algebraic and fractional expressions; equations and inequalities; systems of linear equations; and polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Note to Purdue-West Lafayette students: This course is not open to students with credit in MA 15900 and is not available for credit toward graduation in the School of Science.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 21860
This course is a continuation of MA 15300. Topics include: the trigonometric functions, analytic geometry, laws of sines and cosines, vectors and the dot product, conic sections, and rational functions. Note to Purdue-West Lafayette students: This course is not open to students with credit in MA 15900 and is not available for credit toward graduation in the School of Science. The course is open to students with an "A" or "B" in MA 15200.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 34653
A study of the nature of democratic government, the U.S. Constitution, federalism, civil rights, political dynamics, the presidency, Congress, and the judiciary.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 26403
The course covers general principles of children's behavior and development, from conception to adolescence, including sensory and motor development, and basic psychological processes such as learning, motivation, and socialization. Note to Purdue-West Lafayette students: This course is not open to students with credit in PSY 36000.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 27357-58
A survey course designed to introduce the student to the scene of human society. Fundamental concepts, description, and analysis of society, culture, the socialization process, social institutions, and social change.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 27367-68
Contemporary problems at the community, society, and international levels, focusing on patterns of social organization and social change in American society, with concentration on such topics as technological militarism and war, poverty, racism, political protest, and cybernation.

Three Credits       CLOSED
CRN: 27385
Development of the city and its functions; types of social behavior in cities; influences of city life on personality; city planning.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 33298
This is the first in a two-course sequence in social science research methods. In this course, we will cover the basics of social statistics, including descriptive statistics, measures of association, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, and bivariate regression. By learning these techniques, you will gain a basic understanding of statistical methods that will: a) allow you to interpret and evaluate social science research (including sociological research and research in the business world and other applied settings), and b) prepare you for more-advanced courses in research methods.

Three Credits      CLOSED
CRN: 27839-40
The course is an introduction to statistical methods as applied to diverse fields, with emphasis on understanding and interpreting standard techniques. Topics include data analysis for one and several variables; design of samples and experiments; basic probability; sampling distributions; confidence intervals; and significance tests for means and proportions, correlation, and regression.
This course is not open to Purdue students in the Department of Mathematics or Schools of Engineering.

Non Credit      [PDF] Application for Enrollment - Air Traffic Control

This course is designed to prepare individuals for success in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controller training program. Through the use of online lectures, programmed learning workbooks, presentations, and exams, this course will cover all the material required for employment by the FAA. This material includes air traffic control procedures, federal aviation regulations, aviation weather observation and reporting, principles of navigation, and the use and interpretation of aeronautical charts. Students enrolled in Purdue University's FAA-approved air traffic control (CTI) program must satisfactorily complete this course if they wish to receive a hiring recommendation from Purdue. Non-Purdue students may enroll in this course, which will better prepare them for the FAA training program if hired by the FAA.
Non-Credit Fee: $285.

Non Credit      [PDF] Registration for Enrollment - Indiana Watershed Academy

The Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy provides the opportunity for participants to:

• Engage in basic and advanced level watershed topics covering leadership principles, watershed science, organization and communication, technology and GIS, stakeholder involvement techniques, and policy skills
• Meet, learn from, and build a network of peers
• Interact with topic experts
• Gain strategies, skills, and resources for successful watershed management