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2007-2008 Catalog Clarification


Please find listed below further information regarding the 2007-2008 Pacific Lutheran University Catalog.


BUSINESS
BUSA 486A: SA: Business Culture in China - C

Study away in China, focusing on the changing business environment and business culture in China's principal urban centers of culture and commerce: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Exploration of how traditional culture, political, economic and legal developments, enterprise reforms, the growth of joint ventures and emergence of a middle class have combined to create new markets, new policies and new practices. Visits to privately-owned and foreign-invested enterprises and to historical and cultural sites. Meetings with enterprise managers and local experts on contemporary Chinese culture and business. (4)


COMMUNICATION (BAC degree)
Conflict Management Concentration

Coma 211: Debate (2) or COMA 313: Dialog (2) is required for the Conflict Management Concentration under the BAC Degree.

COMPUTER SCIENCE
CSCE 372: Algorithms, Machines and Grammars - NS


Study of formal models of computation (finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines). Study of formal language concepts such as regular expressions and grammars. There will be a significant programming component where students implement and test algorithms. Prerequisite: CSCE 371. (4)

DANCE
DANC 462: Dance Production does not carry the PE GUR.

GEOSCIENCES Correction:
Bachelor of Science Major correction:
42 to 44 semester hours in following Geoscience courses:
  • One from GEOS 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 or 106
  • GEOS 201, 324, 325, 326, 327, 329 and 335
  • Eight semester hours from GEOS 328, 330, 331, 332, 334 or 350
  • One semester hour of GEOS 390
  • One semester hour of GEOS 498
  • Two semester hours of GEOS 499
  • Required: Geological Field Experience (minimum of four semester hours): Student completing the B.S. degree in Geosciences are required to take a departmentally approved field camp from another college or university. Student would normally take this during the summer, after their junior year or after their senior year depending upon their level of preparation. This field experience may be a traditional field geology course or a field-based course in Hydrology, Environmental Geology or Geophysics, etc. Students must have approval of the department chair before enrolling in the Field Experience.

HISTORY
HIST 380: Asian American History and Culture - A, SI
has been offered in the past as an experimental course only. It is not a permanent course and thus is removed from the 2007-2008 catalog.

LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Page 102, LANG 597: Non-Thesis Research Project, not LANG 598.

MATHEMATICS:
Page 107, Following Courses Required: MATH 341 is required, not MATH 342.

MOVEMENT STUDIES & WELLNESS EDUCATION
Page 110: Exercise Science Concentration is 63 semester hours.

Page 111: Pre-Physical Therapy Concentration
CHEM 331/333 instead of CHEM 232/234

Page 112: Sport Psychology Minor
Select from the following: (four semester hours):
HEED 262, 365
PHED 315, 324, 411

PHYSICS
PHYS 110: Astronomy - NS, SM
Prerequisites:
MATH 115 or Math placement score of 115 or above.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Correction in printed version, page 133:
Group A - American Government and Public Policy list is:
POLS 338, 358, 346, 353, 354, 361, 363, 364, 368, 371, 373


THEATRE
Page 60 of printed catalog under Theatre, Acting/Directing Concentration: THEA 360: Theatre History I should be listed.

SOAC 499 is two credits for theatre majors.

Faculty Information

Amy Shell-Gellasch,
2007-, Instructor of Mathematics; B.S.Ed., University of Michigan, 1989; M.A., Oakland University, 1995; D.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000.

Social Sciences
Norris Peterson, Dean, Division of Social Sciences

Frederick Wolf, 2006-, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business/Executive in Residence; B.S., University of South Carolina, 1974; M.S., East Tennessee State University, 1978; M.S., University of Denver, 1990; D.B.A., Nova Southeastern University, 2000.



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