Bachelor of Integrative Studies: Detailed Curriculum Requirements: Page 2

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BIS Prerequisites
List of Concentrations
Required Integrative Studies Courses
Intercultural Perspectives Courses
21st Century Literacies Courses
Concentration I
Concentration II
Electives

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Concentration I  (minimum of 15 hrs)
Choose from one of the concentration areas defined below or design an appropriate concentration with adviser and coordinating council approval. View suggested pairings of Concentration I & II.

NOTE: All prerequisites must be fulfilled for concentration courses.

Course/ Concentration	Title	Credit Hours
Applied Sociology
SOC 151 or SOC 152	Social Relations, or Social Relations and U.S. Cultures	4
SOC 201 or SOC 202	Social Problems, or Social Deviance	4
COM 336 or PSY 221 or ATH 411/511	Advanced Interpersonal Relations or Social Psychology or Applied Anthropology	3
SOC 262	Research Methods	4
SOC 440 or SOC 462	Field Experience in Applied Sociology,  or Applied Sociological Research	3-4 or 3
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Contemporary American Experience
Take all of the following:
POL 142	American Politics and Diversity	4
ENG 143	Life and Thought in American Literature 1945 – Present	3
Take two (2) from the following list:
ATH 303	Native American Culture	3
ATH 304	Contemporary Issues in Native American Life	3
BWS/SOC 348	American Minority Relations	3
ENG/WMS 232	American Woman Writers	3
ENG 246	Native American Literature	3
ENG 247	Appalachian Literature	3
HST 367	The U.S. in the 1960s	3
ENG/BWS 338	African American Writing, 1946-Present	3
ENG/LAS 254	Latino/a Literature and the Americas	3
Take one (1) from the following list:
ENG 468	Gender and Genre	3
ENG 490	Special Topics in Literary Study	3-6
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Environmental Studies
BOT 131 or BOT 171 or ZOO 121	Plants, Humanity, and Environment, or Ecology of North America, or Environmental Biology	3 or 3 or 3
BOT 204 or ZOO 204/209 or ZOO 206	Evolution of Plant Biodiversity: Genes to Biosphere, or Fundamentals of Ecology, or Evolutionary Biology	4 or 3 or 3
ENV 274 or ENV 275 or GEO 271	Introduction to Environmental Principles or Principles of Environmental Science or Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation	3 or 3 or 3
Take two (2) from the following list:
BOT/ZOO 351	Environmental Education	4
BOT/ZOO 467	Conservation Biology	3
IES 431	Principles and Applications of Environmental Science	3
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Families, Gender, and Society
Take three (3) from the following list:
FSW 207	Serving and Supporting Children, Youth, and Families	4
FSW 261	Diverse Family Systems Across the Life Cycle	3
FSW 381	Perspectives in Parenting	3
FSW 281	Child Development in Diverse Families	3
PSY 231	Developmental Psychology	3
SOC 203	Sociology of Gender	3
WMS 201	Introduction to Women’s Studies	3
Take one (1) from the following list:
SOC 361	Sociology of Families	3
PHL 312	Contemporary Moral Problems	3
Take one (1) from the following list:
EDT 422	Studies in educational Issues	3
FSW 481	Adolescent Development in Diverse Families	3
FSW/SOC/WMS 451	Family Violence	3
SOC 463	Gender and Aging	3
KNH 473	Children and Youth in Sport	3
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Geographic Information Science
Take one (1) of the following courses:
CSA 163	Introduction to Computer Concepts and Programming	3
MIS 281	Information Technology Hardware and Software	3
Take one (1) of the following courses:
CIT 214	Database Design and Development (Note:Prerequisites CIT 101 or CIT 154, or CSA 141, or BTE 181. )	3
MIS 245	Database Systems and Data Warehousing (Note: Prerequisite MIS 235)	3
Take all of the following:
GEO 441	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	3
GEO 442	Advanced Geographic Information Systems (Note: Prerequisite GEO 441	3
GEO 448	Techniques and Applications of Remote Sensing	3
Note: in order to complete the GISci certificate program, students must also take one of the following:
GEO 444	GISci Techniques in Landscape Ecology	3
GEO 447	Aerial Photo Interpretation	4
GEO 340	GIS internship	3
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Information Technology Strategy for Organizations
Take two (2) of the following courses:
CIT 214	Database Design and Development	3
CIT 276	Systems Analysis and Design	3
CIT 348	Information Management and Retrieval	3
CIT 458	Collaborative System Development and Integration	3
Take one (1) of the following courses:
ENT 316	Project Management (3)	3
ENG 413	Writing Reports and Proposals	3
Take all of the following courses:
CIT 358	Information Technology Assurance and Security	3
CIT 448	Global and Strategic Issues in Information Technology	3
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Organizational Leadership
Take two (2) of the following courses (including at least one COM course):
BTE 282	Computer-Based Business Analysis	3
COM 336	Advanced Interpersonal Communication	3
COM 339	Introduction to Organizational Communications	3
PSY 221	Social Psychology	3
Take all of the following:
BTE 301	Personal Organizational Skills	3
BTE 302	Financial Information for Managers	3
BTE 401	Leadership Decision Skills	3
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Understanding Media and Visual Culture
COM 143	Introduction to Mass Communication	3
ART 183 or FST 201	Images of America or Introduction to Film Criticism and History	3 or 3
BWS 267 or ENG/FST 220	National Cinemas: African Film or Literature and Film	3 or 3
COM 354 or HST 379	Media and Society or U.S. Consumerism, 1890-Present	3 or 3
Take one (1) from the following list:
COM 447	Mass Media Criticism	3
COM 437	Advocacy in Contemporary America	3
COM 438	Political Communication	3
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Concentration II (9 hrs)
Choose nine (9) hours from one of the concentration areas listed above (but not from one with the same general theme as your primary concentration) or select a Miami Plan Thematic sequence (not already taken) or design an appropriate concentration II with adviser and coordinating council approval. View suggested pairings of Concentrations I & II.

Electives (1-16 hours)

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