2006–2007 - Florida Institute of Technology

Regulations section of this catalog. Information about current
minor offerings is available through the individual colleges/
departments.
Psychology Minor (19 credit hours)
PSY 1411 Introduction to Psychology
PSY 2511 Introduction to Research Methods for Psychology
PSY 3400 Junior Seminar
One Experimental Bases of Behavior course from the following:
PSY 3421 Psychology of Learning and Motivation
PSY 3422 Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology
PSY 3423 Psychological Psychology
PSY 4521 Animal Learning and Behavior
One Social Bases of Behavior course from the following:
PSY 2441 Child and Adolescent Development
PSY 2442 Adult Development and Aging
PSY 3441 Social Psychology
PSY 3442 Psychology of Personality
Two 3-credit PSY 3xxx or above courses
Note: At least nine (9) credit hours of the psychology minor must be taken in
a Florida Tech psychology program.
NONDEGREE PROGRAMS
General Studies
Freshman Year Curriculum
The general studies program provides a common freshman-year
curriculum for students planning to major in communication,
humanities, psychology or business, but are uncertain about
which major to choose. Courses representative of these majors
are taken during the Freshman Year, allowing students to obtain
a general understanding of each area of study. All courses listed
below are applicable toward degrees in all of these majors.
Students are encouraged to choose a degree program before registering
for the third semester of full-time course work, and must
do so within the first 45 credit hours. These criteria are adjusted
for transfer students. General studies’ students are advised by
faculty in each of the programs noted above, and are assigned a
new adviser in the appropriate academic unit when they choose a
degree program. No degree is awarded in general studies.
Nondegree freshman-year programs in general engineering and
general science are also offered, and are described in the corresponding
sections of this catalog.
Admission
Criteria for admission are based on those established for the
majors listed above. Details are provided in the sections of this
catalog that describe these majors. Transfer students with more
than 45 credit hours are normally required to choose a degree
program rather than general studies before admission.
Admission to the general studies curriculum allows selection
of any of the participating degree programs at any time before
completion of 45 credit hours, unless the student has been
academically dismissed. No additional admission procedures are
required to declare a degree program, except for processing a
Change of Major form (available from the Office of the Registrar
and online from www.fit.edu).
Freshman Year
FALL CREDITS
BUS 1301 Basic Economics ..................................................................3
COM 1101 Composition and Rhetoric ...................................................3
EDS 1031 Survey of Science 1 .............................................................3
MTH xxxx Mathematical Sciences Elective .........................................3
PSY 1400 Freshman Seminar ..............................................................1
PSY 1411 Introduction to Psychology ..................................................3
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SPRING
COM 1102 Writing About Literature .....................................................3
CSE 1301 Introduction to Computer Applications ..............................3
EDS 1032 Survey of Science 2 .............................................................3
MTH 1702 Applied Calculus .................................................................3
PSY 1462 Substance Abuse .................................................................3
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Languages and Linguistics
Chair
TBD
Assistant Professor
Peter-Otto Uhr, Ph.D., foreign languages, literature, history.
Professor Emerita
Grace S. Wylie, M.A.
Instructors
P. Bernard, M.S.; A. Montoya, M.A.; D. Mumford, Ed.D.
Organization
Florida Tech’s division of languages and linguistics is operated
by the department of humanities and communication. It provides
training in English for students whose first language is not
English and who have been admitted into a Florida Tech degree
program.
For all academic students (both international or domestic)
whose first language is not English and whose command of the
English language is insufficient to meet the requirements of their
academic programs, English courses at two levels of advanced
proficiency are available each semester. These courses are listed
in the Course Descriptions section of this catalog under “English
as a Second Language (ESL).” A Florida Tech institutional
TOEFL (paper-based), given at the beginning of each semester
as a placement instrument, permits the division’s staff to determine
the incoming student’s competence in English and establish
the most beneficial program of study. Both undergraduate and
graduate nonnative English-speaking students with scores of 450
through 549 are required to take ESL courses as specified by the
division of languages and linguistics. Students who score below
450 on this Florida Tech institutional TOEFL are referred to the
ELS Language Center on campus where lower-level English as a
Second Language courses are taught.
Students are permitted to begin their academic course work in
conjunction with ESL 3xxx and 4xxx courses. Although these
courses are credit bearing (three credit hours per course, five
days per week), they cannot be applied toward completion of a
degree.
Students who are not native speakers of English are considered
to have demonstrated English language proficiency if they have
done any of the following:
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