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Johnson - Dance |
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DAN 4130 - Advanced Ballet/Modern Dance: Technique & History
Credit(s): 3
This course solidifies the knowledge and technique acquired in intermediate ballet and intermediate modern dance with an increasing complexity of movement combinations, a broader range of movement and a greater emphasis on performing skills. This course requires an in-depth project on some element of dance history.
Prerequisites: DAN 3020 or DAN 3112 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 4910 - Independent Study in Dance
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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Johnson - English as a Second Language |
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ESL 1010 - Conversation & Listening Skills
Credit(s): 3
This course offers non-native speakers of English the opportunity to develop the oral linguistic skills needed for college study. Class presentations and language laboratory work are required.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 1021 - Written Expression I
Credit(s): 3
The objective of this course is to improve the writing of non-native English speakers. Through a review of grammar, syntax and semantics, this course attempts to develop college-level writing skills.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 1022 - Written Expression II
Credit(s): 3
The objective of this course is to improve the writing of non-native English speakers. Through a review of grammar, syntax and semantics, this course attempts to develop college-level writing skills.
Prerequisites: ESL 1021
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 1031 - Understanding & Using English Grammar & Vocabulary I
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the correct usage of grammar and vocabulary in written and spoken English. Students study intermediate-level grammar and add more challenging and complex structures as the semester progresses. The vocabulary component focuses on words essential for college students.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 1032 - Understanding & Using English Grammar & Vocabulary II
Credit(s): 3
This course builds on ESL 1031 , enabling students to further master the correct use of grammar and vocabulary in written and spoken English. Students study intermediate-level grammar and add more challenging and complex structures as the semester progresses. The vocabulary component focuses on words essential for college students.
Prerequisites: ESL 1031
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 1040 - Editing Lab
Credit(s): 1
This lab deals with specific language-related problems such as syntax, grammar and usage that appear in students’ written work. Students will focus on writing and rewriting essays that have been submitted in other classes.
Prerequisites: ESL 1021 or permission of instructor
Corequisites: Writing or writing-intensive course
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 1050 - Supplemental Instruction Bridge
Credit(s): 1
This course focuses on the study skills necessary for students to master the content of a disciplinary exploration course that is centered on interpretive assignments in reading and writing and on complex, language-based content and information. Course work is dovetailed to the syllabus of the content course. The course may be taken for up to four times, provided that each bridge course corresponds to a separate main category of disciplinary exploration course work (i.e., arts and humanities; natural sciences; anthropology, sociology, psychology; political science and economics). Pass/No Pass grading only.
Prerequisites: 500 TOEFL score or ESL 1021 or ESL 1022 ; and ESL 1031 or ESL 1032
Corequisites: Enrollment in GEC disciplinary exploration course
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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ESL 2910 - Independent Study in English as a Second Language
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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Johnson - Hospitality & Tourism Management |
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HTM 1010 - Survey of Hospitality & Tourism
Credit(s): 3
This course develops and explores the structure and components of the tourism and hospitality industry. This section will focus primarily on the lodging and food service segments of the industry. Industry leaders will join the class for discussion throughout the semester. Students will be expected to explore, in detail, a major lodging or food service company. Students will also be assigned an industry mentor who they will meet with every week during the semester.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 2910 - Independent Study in Hospitality & Tourism Management
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 3010 - Food & Beverage Management
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces the student to all areas of restaurant management. Students learn menu development and planning; proper ordering, receiving and inventory practices; and food-production management techniques. Students develop and supervise a variety of food-service events and explore the issues of concept development, kitchen design and space allocations. Student teams also develop a restaurant concept and design during the course of the semester.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 3110 - Lodging & Resort Operations
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the operation and management of a wide variety of lodging and resort facilities. students will explore, in detail, front desk operations, housekeeping, reservations, as well as other lodging property departments. Strategic management is at the center of this course.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 3150 - Event Management
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on travel and tourism in Vermont. The course begins with an exploration of the history of travel and tourism in Vermont beginning in the 1800’s. From this foundation students learns about the infrastructure of the industry as it exists today. We explore the intricate relationship between state government and local government and non-governmental agencies and associations. This course gives students the opportunity to learn through hands-on research and direct interaction with industry professionals. students is also expected to volunteer in a local or state tourism business for at least 50 hours during the semester.
Prerequisites: HTM 1010 ; BUS 2230
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 3230 - Facility Planning & Design
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces the student to the basic design principles used to develop lodging and resort properties. Student teams will plan and design a lodging facility for presentation to industry executives.
Restrictions: Permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 3710 - Special Topics in Hospitality & Tourism
Credit(s): 1-3
Current issues and advanced subjects in hospitality and tourism management are explored to complement the regular HTM curriculum.
Restrictions: Permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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HTM 4910 - Independent Study in Hospitality & Tourism Management
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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Johnson - Outdoor Education & Recreation |
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OER 1000 - Introduction to Outdoor Education
Credit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the field of outdoor education through a variety of firsthand outdoor learning experiences in combination with classroom sessions. The course includes an introduction to historical and philosophical backgrounds of the field as well as career exploration. Integral to the course is participation in a range of adventure-based experiences, activities that emphasize an understanding and appreciation of the natural environment and outdoor learning experiences integrating various curriculum content areas.
Restrictions: Outdoor Education majors only, or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1030 - Outdoor Education Activities
Credit(s): 0.5
Choices include snowshoeing, river kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, and fly-fishing.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1050 - Hiking & Camping
Credit(s): 1
Students are introduced to outdoor living and travel skills. Topics will include personal preparedness, equipment selection, camp craft skills, outdoor cooking, basic land navigation, trip planning, low-impact practices and safety. This course includes a multi-day trip.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1060 - Ropes Course
Credit(s): 1
Students have the opportunity to experience group-initiative problems, trust-building activities, and low and high ropes-course challenges. Students gain an understanding of how the ropes course is a valuable recreational, educational and developmental tool.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1061 - Backpacking
Credit(s): 1
This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to safely participate in this recreational activity on their own. Topics include personal preparedness, equipment selection, camp craft skills, trip planning, low-impact practices, outdoor living skills and safety. This course includes a multi-day trip.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1070 - Orienteering
Credit(s): 1
This course includes instruction in map and compass use for land navigation. Through practical outdoor experiences, students gain the skills and knowledge to participate in the recreational sport of orienteering and to aid them in wilderness travel.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1090 - FYS: Deep Survival: Wilderness Lessons for a Complex World
Credit(s): 3
While NOT designed to teach the primitive living skills associated with surviving in the wilderness, this course does involve a wilderness experience and associated coursework that explores how and/or why some people manage to survive life-threatening experiences while others don’t live to tell their story. Using a case-study approach to analyze misadventures, one can draw conclusions about what it takes to survive adversity, then link these ideas to personal success while navigating the complexities and challenges of the college experience. This course combines a multi-day backpacking experience during the summer with follow-up meetings in the fall semester to help participants understand how the concepts of leadership, community and a sense of place are integral to surviving a wilderness living and travel experience, and how these lessons directly relate to surviving and thriving in the college experience, and in life. Students must read pertinent course information and sign a contract.
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1131 - Rock Climbing I
Credit(s): 1
This course is designed to introduce students to technical rock climbing. The instruction focuses on personal preparedness, equipment selection and use, knot-tying, belaying and rappelling techniques, climbing movement, safety practices and ethics for climbing and the environment.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1161 - Whitewater Kayaking
Credit(s): 1
This course is designed to enable kayakers to negotiate the challenge of whitewater, focusing on equipment, river dynamics and safety procedures. Students learn in controlled and off-campus locations.
Prerequisites: Introduction to River Kayaking (or equivalent kayaking experience and permission of instructor.)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1162 - Coastal Kayaking
Credit(s): 1
This course is designed as an introduction to recreational kayak touring. Course content includes physical preparation, equipment requirements, paddling and self-rescue skills and minimum-impact techniques. It focuses primarily on the experience of lake touring and includes exposure to technical skill development. Students practice skills in the NVU-Johnson SHAPE Facility pool and partake in an off-campus field trip.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1165 - Coastal Kayak Guide Training
Credit(s): 2
This is an intensive, multi-day program designed to expose students to the skills required to instruct and lead groups in open water kayaking conditions. The training focuses on the development of personal paddling skills, instructional tactics, sea “person”-ship, rescues, leadership and decision making. The course is a blend of dry land presentations and on-water practical sessions; since the goal is to expose students to a variety of sea states, the schedule will be dynamic and the days will be long and more often than not, wet. The majority of on-water sessions will be scenario driven and taught in the context of skills development tours, where students may function as the instructor/guide. Participants will have ample opportunity for self assessment, instructor assessment and peer assessment. In addition, students will be required to perform both written and practical skills assessments. The training may occur on inland bodies of water such as Lake Champlain, Vermont and/or on coastal waters. Students may have the opportunity to assess for nationally or internationally recognized paddlesport certifications.
Recommended: OER 1161 ; OER 1162
Restrictions: Must have kayaking experience
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1170 - Ice Climbing
Credit(s): 1
This course introduces students to technical ice climbing, focusing on personal preparedness for cold weather environments, equipment selection and use, low-impact practices and safety. Students will be taught in controlled and off-campus locations.
Prerequisites: OER 1131 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 1330 - Nordic & Backcountry Skiing
Credit(s): 1
This course is designed as an introduction to the sport of Nordic skiing and backcountry ski touring. Course content will include the theory and methodology of skiing techniques, physical preparation and training for the activity, equipment requirements, proper selection and sizing of equipment, techniques and skills specific to Nordic and back country skiing, and most importantly, practice. Students will ski on and around the NVU-Johnson campus, and partake in a number of off-campus field trips.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2050 - Rock Climbing Instructor
Credit(s): 2
This course serves as an introduction to the philosophy and principles of top rope climbing instruction. Emphasis will be placed on technical safety systems, site and participant management, and curriculum development. The intent of this course is to introduce students to the skills involved in basic top rope climbing programs found in camps, schools and outdoor centers. The in-the-field sessions will include bouldering, selection of equipment, anchor systems, rope management, climbing techniques and personal climbing experience.
Prerequisites: OER 1131 ; OER 2080 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2060 - Wilderness First Responder
Credit(s): 4
This course prepares students to provide emergency medical care in remote areas involving prolonged patient care and severe environments. Certification available upon successful completion of the course.
Restrictions: Sophomore standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2062 - Advanced Backpacking
Credit(s): 2
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to enhance their backpacking skills and experiences and to learn the intricacies of group leadership for backpacking. Topics will include route planning, equipment selection and care, meal and ration planning, group travel, decision-making, recognizing weather patterns and group safety. The field session of this course may include greater challenges than those found in the introductory backpacking course due to weather conditions, length of trip and/or terrain.
Prerequisites: OER 1061 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2080 - Advanced Rock Craft
Credit(s): 2
This course is designed to give students a wider breadth of knowledge and experience in the rock-climbing arena. This class will provide field days in which students will participate in a progression of skill development that will allow students to experience and learn safe and efficient techniques for rock climbing from basic movement to advanced anchor construction.
Prerequisites: OER 1131
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2140 - Ropes Course Leadership
Credit(s): 2
This course prepares students to lead groups in team building challenges, focusing on selected initiative tasks, trust building exercises and ropes course programming.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2810 - Internship in Outdoor Education
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor. This shared course may have different prerequisites at the other VSC colleges.
Restrictions: Contract required
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 2910 - Independent Study in Outdoor Education
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 3010 - Learning in the Outdoors
Credit(s): 4
This course involves the development and implementation of a program of outdoor education activities conducted for the sixth grade students of Grand Isle County at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vermont. Students develop instructional, recreational and counseling activities in various disciplines. Class preparation and planning sessions precede the weeklong residential component. A fee is charged for food service and facility usage during the May program.
Prerequisites: PSY 2070 or EDU 2365 ; and OER or PE Licensure Major; or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 3020 - Outdoor Program Planning & Administration
Credit(s): 3
This is a study of the principles involved in administering safe, high-quality outdoor education experiences, including program philosophy and goals, risk management and liability, fiscal administration and budgeting, organization and leadership and program evaluation. This shared course may have different prerequisites at the other VSC colleges.
Prerequisites: OER major or permission of instructor
Restrictions: Junior standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 3070 - Adventure Education Theory & Practice
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the nature of the adventure participant’s experience from a variety of theoretical perspectives including risk-seeking, motivation, fear, optimal arousal, self-efficacy, attribution, expectancy and flow theory. Also explored are experiential education, leadership theories as applied to adventure education and the ethics of adventure leadership. Students will participate in role playing scenarios, simulations and field trips to better understand the functioning of these theories in practice.
Prerequisites: Three OED activity courses
Restrictions: Junior standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 3090 - Leave No Trace Master Educator
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with comprehensive training in Leave No Trace skills and ethics through practical application in a field-based setting. The course combines classroom sessions with multi-day backpacking trips to learn how to teach and practice the principles of Leave No Trace. This course follows the internationally recognized standards of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics’ LNT Master Educator Course, and, upon successful completion, students will have the ability to conduct Leave No Trace Trainer courses and awareness workshops for others. (Course satisfies OER major instructor course requirement.)
Prerequisites: OER-1061 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 3150 - Winter Expedition
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to develop the essential skills and knowledge associated with winter backcountry travel. Topics may include personal preparation; physical conditioning; equipment selection, use and care; backcountry touring and travel techniques; winter camping skills; shelter construction; thermoregulation and energy conservation techniques; snow science; avalanche assessment; route selection; trip planning; nutrition; and group management skills. Students will be expected to create an interdisciplinary aspect to the course by researching and presenting information on such topics as geology, glaciology, mountain weather, cold weather injuries, ecology, etc. This course involves lecture and an extended expedition. Course topics, travel techniques and venue of the expedition may change annually.
Restrictions: Permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 4030 - Wilderness Leadership Techniques
Credit(s): 4
This course provides practical applications of advanced skills of trip planning, logistics, risk management, group leadership techniques, effective instruction, expedition behavior and low-impact wilderness travel and camping practices. The course will include an extended field experience. Modes of travel used on the trips (backpacking, canoeing, snowshoeing, ski touring, etc.) will be determined by the time of year the course is offered.
Prerequisites: OER 2060 or equivalent; OER 2062 ; OER 3070
Restrictions: Junior standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 4710 - Special Topics in Outdoor Education & Recreation
Credit(s): 3
The topics addressed in this course vary and are noted prior to the registration period.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 4810 - Internship in Outdoor Education
Credit(s): 6-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor. Internship contract required.
Prerequisites: OER 3010 with an earned grade of C-,
Restrictions: Junior standing, 2.50 cumulative GPA, leadership documentation for Adventure Education & Wilderness Leadership concentration only, and faculty recommendation
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 4830 - Outdoor Education Teaching Assistant
Credit(s): 1-4
This Teaching Assistant (TA) course provides practical work experience related to the student’s educational and professional goals in Outdoor Education. The TA will work closely in a mentoring relationship with the instructor of an OER course to deliver learning experiences in Outdoor Education to enrolled Northern Vermont University-Johnson students. The TA experience will allow the student to develop leadership, instructional, facilitation, and/or guiding professional skills. Depending on the specific OER course assigned, the TA may also have opportunities to practice various communication styles, group management, decision-making, program planning, logistics, and risk management.
Restrictions: Sophomore standing, and permission of instructor required
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 4900 - Research in Outdoor Education
Credit(s): 3
This course consists of a survey of research in the field of outdoor education, giving students a perspective on past trends as well as contemporary research themes. The connections of theory with practice will be explored. Students will design and carry out a simple outdoor education research project of their own.
Corequisites: MAT 2021
Restrictions: Junior standing; OED majors in Adventure Education & Wilderness Leadership concentration only; faculty recommendation
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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OER 4910 - Independent Study in Outdoor Education
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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Johnson - Placement Track |
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PLE 0003 - English Placement, Level 3
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of English, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admissions based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLE-0003 indicates placement in the third level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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PLE 0004 - English Placement, Level 4
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of English, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admission based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLE-0004 indicates placement in the fourth level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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PLM 0001 - Mathematics Placement, Level 1
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of mathematics, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admissions based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLM-0001 indicates placement in the first level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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PLM 0002 - Mathematics Placement, Level 2
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of mathematics, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admissions based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLM-0002 indicates placement in the second level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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PLM 0003 - Mathematics Placement, Level 3
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of mathematics, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admissions based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLM-0003 indicates placement in the third level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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PLM 0004 - Mathematics Placement, Level 4
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of mathematics, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admissions based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLM-0004 indicates placement in the fourth level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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PLM 0005 - Mathematics Placement, Level 5
Credit(s): 0
Students are placed in the appropriate level of mathematics, ranging from 0001 to 0005, at the time of admissions based on courses taken in high school, grades earned in those courses, and/or SAT or ACT test scores. PLM-0005 indicates placement in the fifth level.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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Johnson - Degree Requirements |
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GRS 2000 - Quantitative Reasoning Assessment (QRA)
Credit(s): 0
All baccalaureate- and associate-level students must pass Part 1 of the JSC Quantitative Reasoning Standard in order to graduate. Students may do this by taking and passing MAT 1080 , Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning , or by taking and passing (60%) the Quantitative Reasoning Assessment (QRA). The QRA is a 90-minute, online assessment administered at least twice each semester in a computer lab. To take the QRA, students register for a specific section of GRS-2000. Dates and times will vary. It is recommended that students take MAT 1080 or the QRA during their first year at JSC.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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GRS 3000 - The Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)
Credit(s): 0
All baccalaureate- and associate-level students at NVU Johnson must complete The Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) and score 80% or higher on each of the accompanying quizzes in order to graduate. TILT and the quizzes are available to students on the VSC Moodle site after registering for a section of GRS-3000.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Notes: It is recommended that students take TILT during their first year at NVU Johnson.
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Johnson - Wellness & Alternative Medicine |
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WAM 2010 - Native American Healing - The Lakota & Shamanic Traditions
Credit(s): 1
This course will introduce students to Native American healing beliefs, technologies and practices through insight into Lakota traditions. American allopathic healing uses drugs and surgery to treat illness. Native American healing uses the metaphorical power of story, sacred relationships to animals and the land, and rituals such as healing circles where people share their collective stories of illness, to help people find their own way to healing. Students will have the opportunity to observe or participate in a traditional Native American Sweatlodge Ceremony.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2020 - Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture I
Credit(s): 1
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of recorded medicine on earth. It is rooted in beliefs that the body is also part of the earth, with both in a balance of Yin and Yang to either permit the flow or block the flow of Qi – the vital life/earth force. Yin represents cold, slow or passive life flow, while Yang represents hot, excited or active life flow. Both are needed to sustain a healthy life, in balance. Chinese Medicine offers a different vision of how to achieve good health than that of conventional allopathic medicine supported in America. Today, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture are offered alongside conventional allopathic medicine in over 50 of the top U.S. hospitals.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2030 - Wellness Lifestyle & Career Seminar
Credit(s): 1
What challenges hold you back from being happy, healthy and successful? How will you fulfill your dreams for a good life and an exciting career? This course will provide opportunities to learn new skills and offer experiences to help you identify academic planning strategies and personal lifestyle plans to help you build the life you hope to live and the future careers you image when you graduate from college. Wellness & Alternative Medicine (WAM) is an interdisciplinary major where you take classes in several different disciplines to provide knowledge and skills for a diverse approach to social and cultural issues as well as to health and wellness. This seminar offers you opportunities, readings and exercises to identify what excites you and what challenges you as you complete your WAM degree. In this discussion-based seminar, you will meet WAM and Anthropology & Sociology seniors, share stories of your successes and challenges, and review books and films relevant to the “Quarter Life Crisis,” as the unique stresses facing young people today are sometimes called, to help meet your life and career goals.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2040 - Introduction to Meditation
Credit(s): 1
In the 1960s, the Beatles brought Transcendental Meditation to the United States. Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard University studied the physiological effects of people who meditated and found that poeple who meditated lowered their heart rate, their blood pressure, and their response to stress. Dr. Bensen went on to call this the “Relaxation Response” and “Remembered Wellness”. The National Institute of Health (NIH) Office of Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) research supports meditation to reduce stress response through parasympathetic engagement, enhance healing of disease and foster wellness. Today, meditation is widely used in hospitals to reduce the stress of medical treatment. In this class, students will explore the history, practice, sicence and diverse forms of meditation that include: Native American Meditation, Transcendental Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation, Visualization Meditation, Tibetan Meditation, Walking Meditation and Therapeutic Meditation used for healing.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2050 - Herbs: The Medicine Garden
Credit(s): 1
This course focuses on the practical skills of wildcrafting (harvesting from the wild) and cultivating medicinal plants. We will explore sustainable options to harvest at-risk medicinal plants from their wild populations, such as organic cultivation, using substitute plants that offer similar medicinal activity to their at-risk counterparts, and support of ethical growers and harvesters. Cultivating medicinal plants and creating a medicine garden, as ways to grow one’s own health-giving medicinal plants at home, are covered. The skill and technique of proper plant harvesting, drying, and storage as a sound basis for making high quality medicines are discussed. Students will vist Zack Woods Farm in Hyde Park to see a working herb farm in action.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2060 - Naturopathic Medicine
Credit(s): 1
Naturopathic medicine is primary care with an emphasis on prevention and natural therapies – using a combination of homeopathy, nutrition, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda and Botanical. Naturopathic doctors are trained in 4-5 year medical schools to diagnose and treat most common health conditions using the most natural, safe and gentle therapies that work given the situation. Naturopathic doctors have recently been given legal status to practice medicine comparable to Allopathic medical physicians in the state of Vermont. A Naturopathic doctor can now be a patient’s primary care physician who can prescribe pharmaceutical drugs, some surgical procedures and natural medical options for the treatment of disease. Naturopathic doctor medical services are now also coverd by insurance. This course will cover the historical context, scientific background, training, scope of practice, regulation, appropriate use and therapies utilized in naturopathic medicine.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2070 - Massage & Bodywork
Credit(s): 1
This course will explore the diverse types of massage, basic concepts of massage therapy and professional credentials needed to practice as a massage therapist. Anatomy, physiology, body mechanics and various massage/bodywork modalities will be discussed in this concentrated, hands-on class. An overview of a massage therapy session including requisite professional ethics regarding touch, draping and privacy will be demonstrated.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2080 - Homeopathy I
Credit(s): 1
Homeopathy was created by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann who discovered a South American tribe that ate “chinchona bark” that cured malaria. He began examining this bark and noted that when he ate a small amount of it he developed similar physical symptoms to malaria. Thus developed the first principle of Homeopathy – that like cures like. This course examines the history and principles of Homeopathic Medicine and its place in modern medicine today. Students will learn the fundamentals of this elegant, yet profound, medicine that has been used world wide for over 200 years. Of note, the FDA approved Homeopathy as a safe and effective treatment in 1940.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 2810 - Internship in Wellness & Alternative Medicine
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3010 - Living the Good Life
Credit(s): 3
The emphasis of this course is to explore diverse theories of stress, health and wellness by combining study with experiential learning focused on the actualization of stress reduction. Students will assess their own lifestyle conditions that support or undermine health while learning through direct experience specific ways to transform unhealthy behavior patterns through mindfulness, self-awareness, connection to nature, and easy to learn evidence-based skills for emotional regulation and stress reduction. Students will explore a variety of mind-body techniques including meditation, yoga postures, and yogic breathing. Students will explore the healing power of nature through ceremony, nature-based Rites of Passage, and medicine walks. The goal of this course is for students to gain skills necessary to begin, refine or deepen their own spiritual life while developing insight into compassionate and skillful ways to contribute to a gloabally conscious and sustainable lifestyle of health and wellbeing. This course will also prepare students to bring greater presence, ease and sustained care to personal and professional relationships in their lives.
Prerequisites: SOC 1040 or SOC 3080 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3020 - Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture II
Credit(s): 3
Students will learn traditional concepts of Chinese medicine. They will study the scientific review of acupuncture for the successful treatment of autoimmune disease, cancer cardiovascular disease, knee osteoarthritis, weight loss and addiction to smoking. Students will learn the practice of Qi Gong used daily in China as a way to rebalance Qi. Students will learn advanced tongue assessment and pulse diagnosis as a feature of Chinese medical examinations. Chinese medicine is supported by the World Health organization to enhance wellness and reduce disease. The instructor will also share parts of his recent publication on climate change to demonstrate how people’s personal lifestyles are important to the larger issue of climate change.
Prerequisites: WAM 2020 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3025 - Epigenetics: Diet, Lifestyle & Environment
Credit(s): 3
Epigenetics explores how modern diets, lifestyles and environmental toxicity may change the expression of our genes. How? By influencing a network of chemical switches within our cells collectively known as the epigenome. The ethical questions that are inherent in the study of epigenetics are important to discuss, explore and challenge. This course will investigate a new understanding of our bodies in terms of our genetic inheritance, our food choices, our lifestyle choices, and our environment … and their impact on our longevity and others around the world.
Prerequisites: SOC 1040 or SOC 3080 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3030 - Applied Herbal Pharmacology
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the historical and cultural foundations, biochemical principles and clinical applications of drug pharmacology and herbal pharmacology. The pharmacology of synthetic drugs used in allopathic medicine and the pharmacology of herbal preparations as medicinal plants used in naturopathic medicine wil be explored empirically for their strengths and weaknesses in treating disease. Students will learn experiential techniques to prepare different herbal preparations used for curative purposes. This course will use a disease-based approach to permit comparative study of the pharmacology of selected herbs and the pharmacology of synthetic drugs for their safety and efficacy in treating disease.
Restrictions: Permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3040 - Mindfulness Meditation
Credit(s): 3
Mindfulness Meditation was introduced in America by Chogum Trunpa Rinpoche and his lectures were captured in his book The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation in 1976. His lectures offered a mind-body connective approach – versus a drug management approach – to managing stress and suffering. His approach was supported by Dr. Herbert Benson’s research in the early 1970s as per how meditation enhanced immune response by reducing the stress response. In the 1990s, Jon Kabat Zinn used Mindfulness Meditation as the basis for creating a natural pain treatment clinic in Massachusetts where people with advanced pain who could find no relief with traditional medical narcotic drugs or surgery could seek help. This course presents fundamental principles and practice of Mindfulness Meditation designed to mobilize mind/body energies for balancing and complementing personal health and spiritual wellness. Experiential exercises, journal writing, outside readings, home practice, and off-campus weekly meetings plus two 8-hour, day-long retreats highlight the course experience.
Prerequisites: WAM 2040 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3050 - Herbalism, Wellness & Healing
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the study and practice of Western Herbalism, the use of plants to support human health and healing/recovery from an unhealthy state (disease). Therapeutic skills and guidelines, such as the relative safety-toxicity of medicinal plants, the prudent weaning of patients off pharmaceutical drugs, and the conscious observations that are made in order to assess one’s health status, are covered. Two hotly debated issues in herbalism today, the licensing of practicing herbalists and the therapeutic use of standardized extracts, continue to be discussed as herbalism becomes more mainstream. The study of herbalism also embraces the study of the human body, system by system (or, in the case of the liver, organ), the anatomy and physiology of each system, the herbal material medica and lifestyle choices that support each system as well.
Prerequisites: WAM 2050 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3060 - Healing All Wounds: Global Humanitarian Aid and Warzone Medicine
Credit(s): 3
Blurring the boundaries of allopathic and alternative medicine, of traditional and culture, and of personal beliefs, religions and war, this course takes students through the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan and through the danger zones of Africa and Haiti on a global journey to heal all wounds. Students will examine the impact of cultural ethnocentrism. Is there a “right” way to treat the trauma of war and disaster? Students will learn how social stereotype of race, gender, and class across global nations may influence who is treated and what type of medicine is used to heal trauma. Students will explore their own fears, feelings and personal beliefs as they witness international healing and aid work through readings and visual media on controversial ethical issues on war, religion, class, race, gender, society and medicine for healing.
Prerequisites: SOC 1040 or SOC 3080 or Permission of Instrauctor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3070 - Massage, Science & Wellness
Credit(s): 3
Massage was introduced to America in the early 1900s. Back then, it was often associated with prostitution. Today, massage is one of the foremost healing therapies in Mind-Body medicine and the field of Psychoneuroimmunology. Massage is used together with allopathic medicine in some of the top Integrative Medical hospitals in the United States, including John Hopkins hospital and the Mayo Clinic. Massage has extensive evidence for enhancing immune response and reducing stress, for creating wellness and for reducing illness. Students will explore the science of massage, learn diverse massage techniques, and also personally experience massage as a tool for health and wellness. Reflexology, Swedish and Thai traditions will be the main focus of investigation.
Prerequisites: WAM 2070 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 3080 - Homeopathy II
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed for the intermediate student of homeopathy. Students should have completed Homeopathy I or the equivalent knowledge of the fundamentals of homeopathy. Students will complete an in-depth study of the 10 constitutional remedies and 18 acute and chronic remedies. As a class, we will practice case taking and prescribing with each other. We will learn how to make remedies and even do a trial “proving” experiment within the class. The class will focus on women’s and children’s common illnesses, allergies, the common cold, and the flu.
Prerequisites: WAM 2080 or Permission of Instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WAM 4810 - Internship in Wellness & Alternative Medicine
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 1010 - Foundations of Furniture Design I
Credit(s): 9
This course introduces the student to the worlds of craftsmanship, fine woodworking, and furniture design. The student will acquire good habits for the safe use of woodworking machinery and hand tools and a strong knowledge of the foundational skills. Students will also gain an understanding of the concepts and terminology involved in woodworking and furniture making. Students will explore and develop a basic understanding of hand drafting, milling, project timelines, wood turning, and finishing principles. Each student will establish these skills through the design and construction of an Arts & Craft style nightstand with a dovetail drawer.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 1020 - Design Studio I: Small Tables
Credit(s): 6
This studio-based, furniture-making class introduces students to the design considerations of designing while applying furniture-making principles. Each student will take on the challenge of conceptualizing, designing, and making a unique table piece. This course will also help students to solidify their ability to manage a furniture-making project successfully. Students will also be introduced to the critique process by participating in faculty-led peer critiques. Students will expand their knowledge of sketching, drafting, model-making, and design by hand. Instructors will introduce students to Sketch-Up 3-D, a modeling software, and students will use this software to model and create working drawings.
Prerequisites: WFD 1010 (or it may be taken concurrently)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 2010 - Foundations of Furniture Design II
Credit(s): 9
In this concept-to-completion class, students will design and build a wall-hung cabinet to present at a final critique. Through taking on this project, students will learn the essentials of case construction and complex joinery. Students will also learn advanced furniture-making elements that will allow them to stretch their imagination with the addition of bent laminations and veneering techniques. In addition to final critiques, students will participate in faculty-led design critiques as they prepare to make their concept a reality.
Prerequisites: WFD 1010 and WFD 1020
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 2020 - Design Studio II: Casework
Credit(s): 6
In this studio, furniture-design course, students will learn to apply the design considerations and furniture-making principles of cabinet making to a creation of one’s own design. Students will solidify their ability to manage a furniture-making project from concept to completion. Students will look to master their knowledge of sketching, drafting, and model-making. In addition, students will use Solidworks 3-D modeling software to model and create working drawings. Students will participate in a faculty-led peer critique at the end of the design phase and at the end of the semester.
Prerequisites: WFD 1010 ,WFD 1020 , and WFD 2010 ; or these may be taken concurrently.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 2030 - Business Practice and Marketing for Artisans
Credit(s): 3
You will learn the basics of running your own business, including bookkeeping and filing methods required for self-employment, and how to price your work. This will include a section on developing a system of tracking hours for each job, and how to utilize that information for pricing. You will discover how to develop a good portfolio, including basics of how to photograph your work in a professional manner, how to work with and edit digital images of your work, and how to create an online portfolio. Learn best practices of working with galleries, selling your work on the Web, handling commissions for custom work, and working with interior designers. Learn effective tools for marketing and promotion beyond Websites and the Internet, the different types of shows for selling your work, the details and logistics of participating in a show, including booth design. Learn the best methods for shipping your work, different approaches for setting up your first woodshop, general business planning, and scheduling your work.
Prerequisites: WFD 1010
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 3010 - Thinking and Achieving Through Craft
Credit(s): 3
This interdisciplinary course delves into craft – today, traditionally, and across cultures – from technique to meaning, comparing it with art, design, and other endeavors. Through reading, writing, discussion, and critical analysis, we will examine theory, tenets, and craft work itself, as well as how craft is represented in various media. With a focus on contemporary woodworking and furniture making, but looking into and being receptive to what can be learned from other craft disciplines, the course aims to discover how the fundamentals of craftsmanship might be more generally understood and applied. We will consider all kinds of craft publications – books, articles, documentaries, how-to DVDs. All participants are expected to contribute by bringing in ideas, writings, and visual materials (including our own handmade objects) for discussion and portfolio development.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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WFD 3020 - Design Studio III: Chairs
Credit(s): 6
Students will learn to design and build a well-made, quality side chair. The chair must be aesthetically pleasing from all sides, incorporate compound angle joinery, and be comfortable and well-proportioned. Students will begin their design process by researching current and historical chair designs, and creating sketches of three potential designs. The final design chosen can be a durivative but not a copy of a classic chair, or a coherent blend of design elements from a number of styles to create something more unique. Students will hand draft full-scale drawings, proof out joint samples used in the design, build a full-scale mock-up that they can sit in and modify, and present all of this on week five at the design critique. Throughout the course there will be classes on various techniques used in chair construction.
Prerequisites: WFD 1010 , WFD 1020 , WFD 2010 , and WFD 2020
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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