INTEGRATIVE STUDIES IN PHYSICAL

Course: ISP 203A

Title: Understanding Earth: Global Change

Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year

Credits: Total Credits 3

Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)

Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 112 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.

Description: Science as a way of knowing about natural and anthropogenic global change. Implications for societies.

Course: ISP 203B

Title: Understanding Earth: Natural Hazards and the Environment

Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year

Credits: Total Credits 3

Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)

Description: Science as a way of knowing about natural hazards, as well as natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Implications for societies.

Course: ISP 203L
Title:  Geology of the Human Environment Laboratory
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 2
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 (1-2)
Prerequisite: ISP 203 or concurrently
Corequisite: ISP 203
Description: Exercises in the scientific method applied to earth materials and their impact on society.

Course: ISP 205
Title:  Visions of the Universe
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3(3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.
Description: Role of observation, theory, philosophy, and technology in the development of the modern conception of the universe. The Copernican Revolution. Birth and death of stars. Spaceship Earth. Cosmology and time.

Course: ISP 205L
Title: Visions of the Universe Laboratory
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 2
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 (1-2)
Prerequisite: ISP 205 or concurrently
Corequisite: ISP 205
Description: Observations of the sky, laboratory experiments, and computer simulations exploring the development of the modern conception of the universe.

Course: ISP 207
Title:  World of Chemistry
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.
Description: The language, concepts, models and techniques of chemical science, including atomic theory; nuclear energy; acids; chemicals in air, water, food and biological systems.

Course: ISP 207L
Title:  World of Chemistry Laboratory
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 2
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 (1-2)
Prerequisite: ISP 207 or concurrently
Corequisite: ISP 207
Description: Chemical combinations and reactivity with respect to such materials as acids, bases, dyes, foods, and detergents.

Course: ISP 209
Title:  The Mystery of the Physical World
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.
Description: Laws of physics through demonstrations and analyses of every day phenomena. Optics, mechanical systems and electromagnetic phenomena.

Course: ISP 209L
Title:  The Mystery of the Physical World Laboratory
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 2
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 (1-2)
Prerequisite: ISP 209 or concurrently
Corequisite: ISP 209
Description: Physical phenomena: optics, mechanical systems and electromagnetics.

Course: ISP 213H
Title:  Navigating the Universe
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.
Description: An historical, philosophical, biographical, and largely descriptive intellectual history of physics. Approximately half of the course covers the physics of Fields, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particle Physics, and Cosmology. As a contrast, the history of art will be tracked as an alternative development of our quest to understand and represent the world.

Course: ISP 215
Title:  The Science of Sound
Semester: Fall and Spring Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.
Not open to students with credit in: TCC 321
Description: The science behind sound. Speech, communication, musical instruments, room acoustics, and analogue and digital audio. Integrating the physical, physiological, and psychological principles involved.
Alias: TCC 321

Course: ISP 217
Title: Water and the Environment
Semester: Fall and Spring every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently) or designated score on Mathematics placement test.
Corequisite: ISP 217L
Description: Application of the scientific method to identification and solution of environmental problems related to water

Course: ISP 217L
Title:  Water and the Environment Lab
Semester: Fall and Spring Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 2
  Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 (1-2)
Prerequisite: ISP 217 or concurrently
Corequisite: ISP 217
Description: Application of the scientific method to identification and solution of environmental problems related to water.

Course: ISP 221
Title: Earth Systems: Energy
Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3
Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisite: (MTH 103 or MTH 110 or MTH 116 or LBS 117 or MTH 106 or concurrently or MTH 124 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 201 or concurrently or STT 200 or concurrently or STT 201 or concurrently)
Description: Flow of energy into, through, and out of the earth's lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Energy, entropy, and life processes. Global warming, greenhouse effect, and contemporary issues.