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This course is designed to investigate and practice marketing as the core of an operating business, interfacing with customers, competitors, collaborators, and the environment. In addition to an examination of contemporary marketing topics, case studies may be used to clarify and examine key marketing topics.

This course introduces interpersonal communication, influencing, and percussion processes designed to satisfy customer and company needs; stresses the structure of sound sales presentations through lectures, persuasive presentations, and appraisal and correction of common selling errors.

Mission 

The Department of Biology fosters lifelong learning about the natural world by providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary for careers in biology and environmental science. The faculty are dedicated to active learning strategies and meaningful research opportunities, empowering students to engage directly in the practice of biology and environmental science.

Learning Outcomes 

At graduation, a student who majors in Biology will: 

1. Students will identify and explain the five key biological concepts—evolutionary patterns of unity and diversity, heritable information flow, the interplay between structure and function, transformations of energy and matter, and interactions within and between systems—and apply them to analyze current scientific issues.
2. Students will demonstrate proficiency in the scientific method by evaluating scientific problems, analyzing data, and designing and conducting a relevant research project in the field of biology.
3. Students will critically evaluate current research in biology and effectively communicate their findings through written reports and oral presentations.
4. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue careers in science-related fields or to succeed in professional or graduate programs.

In this course, we strive to comprehend the logic of voting and political participation in America. This is an intensive study of various means and mechanisms of participation in the American political system with special focus on grassroots movements, interest groups, and voting. The importance of public opinion and mass political behavior in the American political process will be examined while taking issues of gender, race, social class and other elements of identity in the American electorate into account.

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the fundamental principles and concepts of the molecular biology of cancer. The theme of cancer as a genetic disease is studied in detail. Emphasis is placed upon the understanding of how aberrant signal transduction cascades affect cell architecture and function, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, tumor cell invasion and metastasis.. Students are required to keep a journal that researches one particular type of cancer, its cause, treatment options, how the disease impacts family structure and dynamics and its economic impact on the family.
 

Special topics in criminal justice provides students with a space in which to explore in greater focus and depth issues concerning the criminal justice system in the U.S. In a spirit of both celebration and critical investigation, each course will consider historical events and figures of particular significance to the topic of focus, will examine current socio-political and economic events and developments of particular salience for that population, and will investigate best practice with regard to engagement and work with that population from the perspective critical thinking within the criminal justice field. Each course will highlight issues important for criminal justice in the U.S., and for administering a criminal justice system that is fair and equitable to all. Each course will provide students with the opportunity to develop a deeper appreciation for. and understanding of, the rich diversity of human experience as it relates to the practice of criminal justice. Each special topics class will have its own course level objectives. 

What does it mean to be a Bethanian, and how have the students, faculty, and staff who came before us shaped the legacy of 'dear old Bethany'? This course surveys the history of Bethany College from its founding to the early 2000s. In addition to traditional lectures, students will participate in in-class activities that foster further engagement with the history of the college. Students will tour historic sites associated with the college, gain hands-on experience sorting, preserving, and utilizing primary sources in the college archives, and research the impact on the campus community of a person, department, club, sport, association, policy, or building of their choice.

Senior Seminar has two purposes. The first is to prepare students for their future. The student learns how to make presentations and how to write a resumé and papers. The second purpose is to synthesize the material learned in economics through Lagrangians and analyze current events using economic models.

The course acquaints the student with the history, culture, and people of Italy. The course is conducted in English. 

This course explores the value of biodiversity, pressures which reduce biodiversity, and strategies to preserve biodiversity while maintaining resources and services needed by the human population.