Pre-Law Minor

A study of contracts and sales as the basic laws affecting business transactions. Also, law of principal and agency relationships.

A comprehensive examination of the theories of human communication, beginning with a review of the metatheoretical traditions informing communication research and progressing through the wide variety of communication theories developed from the 20th century to today. Students write papers, participate in online discussions and produce videos to demonstrate knowledge of theories and to demonstrate the ability to apply the theories to everyday communication and human interactions.

In this course students learn the basic principles of propositional and first-order logic. Emphasis is on developing understanding and skill in constructing valid deductive arguments and recognizing fallacious reasoning. Informal and inductive logic will also be introduced with a survey of common informal fallacies.

This is an introductory course in Macroeconomics. This course includes learning about national income accounts, the business cycle, the aggregate supply-demand model, employment theory, economic growth, fiscal and monetary policy, money and banking, inflation and international trade. Policy issues are also discussed.

The study of the structure and processes of American national government and its political processes and institutions. Particular attention is paid to constitutionalism, federalism, the presidency, the Congress, the Judiciary, bureaucracy, interest groups and policy formation.