Voluntary pursuits in the outdoors have defined American culture since the early 17th century. Over the past 400 years, activities in outdoor recreation an education have reflected Americans' spiritual aspirations, imperial ambitions, social concerns, and demographic changes. This course will give students the opportunity to learn how Americans' experiences in the outdoors have influenced and been influenced by major historical developments of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th, and early 21st centuries. This course is cross-listed with RMP 515.

This course will provide an overview of the personal financial planning process, including the establishment of goals and objectives, forecasting of lifetime income and expenditures, evaluation of investment options, money management, and understanding of all the many ways a person can achieve their financial goals through various strategies. The course covers the concepts, theories and analytical methods used in professional personal financial planning. Students analyze the effects of inflation, changing interest rates and taxation (high level taxation) on their investment decisions. The course is designed to expose students to all of the directly applicable mathematical formulas involved in the finance world that we utilize on a daily basis.

Consideration of the impacts of science and technology on humanity from a philosophical perspective. Topics often include genetic engineering, automated labor, advanced weaponry, artificial intelligence, social media and data extraction, space exploration, alien contact, virtual realities, transhumanism, and the future of humanity as an interplanetary species.

Study of a special topic in Public Health Policy and Management.