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This course introduces students to the key concepts in media studies. The economic,social, political, and cultural contexts of modern media will be examined and analyzed. It will also consider the relationship between power, information and identity. Finally, this course will provide students with practical skills in news reporting, using the experiential learning model. 3 credit hours. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Wednesday 12:30PM - 03:15PM, Robertson Library, Room 208

This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of microbiology. The structure and function of the major groups -viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa-which affect human health, are studied. Topics include the process of disease transmission, immunology, physical and chemical methods of disease prevention and control, as well as major infectious diseases of the body systems. Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Restriction: Admitted to the Nursing program. NOTE: Students will not recieve credit for both VPM 1010/BIO 1060 and BIO 2060. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:30AM - 12:20PM, Faculty Sustainable Design Eng, Room 128B

(offered in both semesters) This course focuses on the ways in which an individual's thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced by the social environment. It provides an introduction to major theories, principles, methods and findings of the discipline. Topics include social perception and cognition, attitudes and attitude change, gender, attraction, aggression, helping, conformity, obedience, group interaction, and cultural influences. Through a variety of assignments students are encouraged to attend to the operation of social psychological principles in daily living. The course includes both lectures and participation in group experiences. (Cross-listed with Sociology 2820). Three hours a week. 04-09-2025-04-12-2025 Web Tuesday, Thursday 11:30AM - 12:45PM, Room to be Announced

This course concentrates on effective procedures for the statistical estimation and testing of key parameters in economic models. Remedies are developed for problems associated with model specification. Multicollinearity, serial correlation, heteroscedasticity, simultaneous equations, and forecasting. 08-09-2025-01-12-2025 Lecture Monday 11:30AM - 02:15PM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 115

This course introduces many of the main concepts within the field of sociology such as culture, socialization, norms, social roles, values, deviance, and social structure. In addition, this course utilizes the basic concepts and perspectives in sociology to examine critically and to interpret the kinds of interaction experienced in social institutions such as the economy, the polity, the family, education, and religion. Three hours a week. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Wednesday 05:30PM - 08:20PM, Duffy Science Ctr, Room 135

The course involves advanced training in veterinary surgery with emphasis on food animal and equine general surgery. Emphasis is placed on areas that are of most benefit to individual students. Topics include: surgery of the skin and adnexa, orthopaedic-related surgery, abdominal surgery, respiratory tract surgery, and urogenital surgery. Any necessary additional training in diagnostic evaluation of surgical cases is provided. Students are involved in cases admitted to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and those examined at farms and training facilities. HOURS OF CREDIT: 3 hours Restriction: DVM or equivalent degree, and permission of the instructor. 08-09-2025-01-12-2025 Graduate Studies Monday 08:30AM - 09:20AM, Room to be Announced

This course will explore the future lifetime random variable, probability and survival functions, force of mortality; complete and curtate expectation of life, and Makeham and Gompertz mortality laws. Other topics will include: Life tables, characteristics of population and insurance life tables, selection, and fractional age assumptions. Life insurance payments and annuity payments: Present value random variables; expected present values; higher moments; actuarial notation, annual, monthly and continuous cases, relationships between insurance and annuity functions. Premiums, expense loadings, present value of future loss random variables and distribution, net and gross cases, the equivalence principle and portfolio percentile principle will also be discussed. Three lecture hours plus a two hour lab per week. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 01:30PM - 02:20PM, Memorial Hall, Room 308

The emphasis throughout this course is on the uses of accounting and other financial tools in the management of a business. Topics include inventory costing methods, cost allocation, cost behaviour, the contribution approach, pricing, and budgeting. Three hours a week. 04-09-2025-04-12-2025 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 05:30PM - 06:45PM, McDougall Hall, Room 246

An introduction to the principles of Marine Biology emphasizing marine environments and organisms of P.E.I. and the Eastern Atlantic region. Laboratory periods will involve field and laboratory studies. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory a week. 04-09-2025-04-12-2025 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 08:30AM - 09:45AM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 213