• PHYS 490R: Seminar

  0.50 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Exposes students to current research topics in physics and related fields. Provides an opportunity for students to attend bi-weekly lectures presented by department faculty and invited speakers. Lectures are usually a summary of the speaker's recent research results presented at a level appropriate for junior and senior physics majors.
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• PHYS 492R: Topics in Physics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Departmental approval and University Advanced Standing. Studies a chosen topic in physics. Topics vary depending upon student demand. Possible topic may be the mathematics for quantum mechanics. May be taken for a maximum of 6 credits toward graduation, but is limited to 3 credits for the BS in Physics.
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• PHYS 495R: Independent Readings

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2220, Departmental Approval, and University Advanced Standing. Working under faculty supervision, allows research on a project determined jointly with a faculty member and approved by the department chair. Emphasizes experimental technique, data collection, modeling, and analysis techniques. May be used as part of a senior thesis. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credits toward graduation.
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• PHYS 499A: Senior Project

  2.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval, Departmental approval, and University Advanced Standing. Provides an opportunity for senior physics majors to participate in a current research project supervised by a department faculty member. Includes independent study and/or laboratory work as necessary. Culminates in the preparation of a written paper and oral presentation describing the results of the research project as required for PHYS 499B. May be taken concurrently with PHYS 499B.
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• PHYS 499B: Senior Thesis

  1.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval, Departmental approval, and University Advanced Standing. Continues PHYS 499A. Provides an opportunity for senior physics majors to present the results of a current research project supervised by a department faculty member. Includes independent study as necessary. Culminates in the preparation of a written paper and oral presentation describing the results of the research project.
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• PJST 3000: Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies WE

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHIL 2050 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the student to the important literature, questions, and research programs of peace and justice studies. Explores personal, domestic, national, and international issues. Considers alternative conceptions of violence, war, terrorism, justice/injustice, and peace. Enables the student to become aware of various intellectual and professional disciplines that bear relationships to peace and justice, e.g., history, political theory, international relations, political economy, international law, environmental law, military science, mediation and negotiation.
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• PJST 3020: The Ethics of War and Peace

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PHIL 2050 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces literature concerning the ethics of conflict, war, terrorism, and peace. Considers alternative conceptions of these phenomena, as will be alternative approaches and ethical theories in respect to how conflict of various kinds might most effectively and morally be preempted or diminished. Addresses various defense theories and religious traditions' teachings about conflict, violence, and peace.
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• PJST 3030: The Scientific Study of War and Peace

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): PJST 3000 and University Advanced Standing. Takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of conditions under which the use of violence, terrorism, and war occur. Studies the use of non-violent approaches to conflict and their effectiveness. Examines the ways in which strategies for violent and non-violent approaches to conflict are developed and evaluated.
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• PJST 3040: Peace in Historical Context

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores peace from an historical perspective. Considers the history of peace movements and humanitarianism, warfare, slavery and abolition, colonization, and indigenous perspectives on peace. Introduces students to the field of peace history and the ways historians have defined and understood peace. Enables the student to historicize peace in relationship to violence.
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• PJST 3100: Introduction to Human Security

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (PHIL 2050 or PHIL 205G) and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the student, and brings him or her, to some depth in the field of human security. Engages the student in a wide range of interdisciplinary literature because this field of inquiry, discourse, and conception is contested, theoretically rich, and empirically rich. Analyzes matters that threaten human security, for example: hunger and malnutrition; disease; cultural, structural, and direct violence; ecological and environmental degradation; political and economic instability and hegemony. Analyzes the organizations, institutions, movements, and strategies assembled successfully against these threats.
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