AAC 200 - Topics in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy
AAC 200 - Topics in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy
Explore the practice of arts administration with a focus on cultural advocacy in the
arts today. Evaluate examples in the humanities and the visual and performing arts
industries surveying leadership, management, marketing, social media, community engagement,
budgeting, grants, research and development. Practical application of studies culminate
in a cultural advocacy project.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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AAC 280 - Writing for Non-Profit Organizations
AAC 280 - Writing for Non-Profit Organizations
Explores theory and practice of writing in arts and cultural, social service, and
other non-governmental agencies. Students learn to compose and revise genres in grant
proposals, fundraising letters, and other advocacy documents. (Cross-listed with ENG
280)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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AAC 490 - Capstone Project in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy
AAC 490 - Capstone Project in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy
A supervised independent capstone project in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy,
culminating in a public arts or cultural advocacy project. Approval of proposal, final
presentation, and regular reporting to faculty sponsor required.
Prerequisite(s): AAC 200 and AAC 497 (may be taken concurrently). Restriction(s):
Program Coordinator permission required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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AAC 497 - Internship in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy
AAC 497 - Internship in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy
A supervised internship in Arts Administration and Cultural Advocacy. Biweekly reporting
to faculty sponsor is required. May be repeatable for credit.
Prerequisite(s): AAC 200 and permission from Minor Coordinator.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ACC 200 - Principles of Financial Accounting
ACC 200 - Principles of Financial Accounting
Financial accounting theory and practice oriented toward the use of financial statements
for decision making. Accounting transactions are analyzed, recorded, and summarized
for the preparation of general purpose financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 202 - Accounting Spreadsheet Applications
ACC 202 - Accounting Spreadsheet Applications
Applications of Financial Accounting concepts are utilized in the development of practical
and creative solutions to a variety of accounting problems using spreadsheet software.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore, Junior, or Senior status.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 210 - Managerial Accounting
ACC 210 - Managerial Accounting
Cost concepts and principles used by management in planning, controlling, and decision
making. Emphasis on accounting information used by management.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in ACC 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 310 - Intermediate Accounting I
ACC 310 - Intermediate Accounting I
The first of a three course sequence which includes a comprehensive review of the
accounting cycle. Students also study the historical development of current financial
reporting regulations and FASB’s conceptual framework. The application of the time
value of money to accounting transactions is introduced. Additional topics include
preparation of primary financial statements and the measurement, recognition and reporting
of cash, receivables, and inventories. An introduction to the CPA profession with
professional ethical considerations is integrated into the course.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in ACC 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 311 - Intermediate Accounting II
ACC 311 - Intermediate Accounting II
The second of a three-course sequence. An in-depth coverage of the measurement, recognition
and reporting of the following topics is included: property plant and equipment, intangible
assets, current liabilities and contingencies, long-term liabilities, stockholders’
equity, earnings per share and investments.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 310.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 312 - Intermediate Accounting III
ACC 312 - Intermediate Accounting III
The third of a three-course sequence. This continuation of Intermediate Accounting
covers such topics as revenue recognition, accounting for income taxes, pensions,
and leases. Accounting changes, corrections of errors, the statement of cash flows
and disclosure issues are also included.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 310 and ACC 311 ( may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 340 - Data Analytics for Accounting
ACC 340 - Data Analytics for Accounting
Building upon the fundamentals of accounting learned in prior courses, students will
explore accounting concepts through the application of data analytics. Students will
gain an understanding of data analytic thinking and terminology applied to accounting
topics as well as hands-on experience with data analytics software packages, such
as Microsoft Excel and Tableau.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 200 and ACC 210
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 350 - Federal Income Taxation
ACC 350 - Federal Income Taxation
The federal income tax law as it applies to individuals, corporations, and partnerships.
Topics emphasized include individual taxable income and property transactions. Additional
topics include corporate taxable income and income from partnerships and S corporations.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status, including non-business majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 351 - Advanced Studies in Taxation
ACC 351 - Advanced Studies in Taxation
An advanced study of the federal tax law as it applies to sole proprietors, C corporations,
S corporations, partnerships, estates, gifts, and limited liability companies.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 350.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 352 - Income Tax Administration Practicum
ACC 352 - Income Tax Administration Practicum
Students prepare individual tax returns under the IRS sponsored Volunteer Income Tax
(VITA) preparation program interfacing with actual tax payers from the community using
tax preparation software. Responsibilities associated with tax ethics, taxpayer identification,
confidentiality and e-filing will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 350
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 370 - Accounting Information Systems
ACC 370 - Accounting Information Systems
Accounting problems arising from data collection, data processing, and report generation,
with emphasis on internal controls, including computer-based information systems.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 200 or equivalent and 'C' or better in ACC 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 380 - Fraud and Forensic Accounting
ACC 380 - Fraud and Forensic Accounting
Study of the application of accounting principles, theories, and methods to the detection,
investigation, prosecution, and prevention of fraud and financial/white collar crimes.
Covers the collection, preservation, and presentation of evidence both in hard copy
and electronic formats for purposes of litigation support.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 311.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ACC 398 - Special Topics
ACC 398 - Special Topics
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ACC 401 - Not-For-Profit and Governmental Accounting
ACC 401 - Not-For-Profit and Governmental Accounting
Comprehensive survey of accounting principles and financial reporting of governmental
and other not-for-profit organizations.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in ACC 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2023
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ACC 410 - Advanced Accounting
ACC 410 - Advanced Accounting
Advanced corporate topics including business combinations, consolidated financial
statements, and other business topics. Additional topics include the definition and
valuation of other economic entities.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 311.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 424 - International Accounting
ACC 424 - International Accounting
A study of International Accounting Standards (IAS)/International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS) including analysis and interpretation with respect to assets, liabilities,
shareholders' equity, revenues and expenses, accounting for the translation of transactions
and foreign subsidiary financial statements, and comparative accounting. In addition,
the Standards Convergence efforts of the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board
(FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and the implications
of the adopting of IAS/IFRS by the European Union will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 311
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 450 - Accounting Capstone
ACC 450 - Accounting Capstone
A focus on the integration of previous accounting knowledge featuring case analyses,
the online codification database, and CPA examination questions. Topics include: history
of standard setting in accounting, advanced international accounting, ethical decision-making
models, and other current relevant topics. The transition from student to professional
is emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in ACC 311.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 461 - Auditing
ACC 461 - Auditing
The nature, environment, and process of auditing. Emphasis on auditing concepts and
standards, planning the audit, and the auditor’s report.
Prerequisite(s): 'C+' or better in both ACC 311 and ACC 370.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ACC 497 - Internship
ACC 497 - Internship
A supervised internship in business or government with the application of accounting
to problems of enterprise administration. Biweekly reporting to the faculty supervisor
is necessary.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission.
3 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ACC 499 - Independent Study
ACC 499 - Independent Study
Research of a high quality meeting the standards of the department faculty director.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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AFR 100 - Introduction to Africana Studies
AFR 100 - Introduction to Africana Studies
Introduces students to Africana Studies through the examination and study of global
Black history and contemporary Black people’s experiences. Interdisciplinary and intersectional
in its design, provides both a historical and contemporary understanding of African
diasporic people’s history, politics, cultural contributions through the various lenses
of key practitioners in the field.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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AFR 475 - Seminar in Africana Studies
AFR 475 - Seminar in Africana Studies
Guides the capstone project of students interested in conducting a discipline-specific
focused project in Africana Studies. Taught through an interdisciplinary lens, “Seminar
in Africana Studies” will draw on important themes and methodologies in multiple disciplines
including but not limited to education, social sciences, and the humanities. In addition
to an in-depth examination of Africana Studies within multiple disciplines, the capstone
experience also emphasizes experiential learning, collaborative reflection and conference
presentation.
Prerequisite(s): AFR 100 and at least two other approved courses within the minor.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ANT 100 - Interpreting Cultures
ANT 100 - Interpreting Cultures
An introduction to the types of critical thinking necessary for the study of culture.
A focus on the ways in which cultural anthropologists gather evidence, analyze that
evidence, and synthesize conclusions. The course includes material from a variety
of cultures around the world and a significant discussion of the diversity of human
social life.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ANT 101 - Cultural Anthropology
ANT 101 - Cultural Anthropology
Study of living cultures, stressing such aspects of social organization as religion,
economics, political behavior, language, kinship, and art. While the models used are
primarily so-called traditional societies, efforts are directed toward the comparison
of all types of cultures and societies existing in the world today.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 102 - Biological Anthropology
ANT 102 - Biological Anthropology
Study of humans as bio-cultural organisms and our place in the animal kingdom. Human
origins and the fossil record bearing on humankind’s evolution. Mechanisms of evolution
with population genetics emphasized. Human variation (race) considered from an evolutionary
perspective and the biological variability between and among modern populations.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 201 - The Global Community
ANT 201 - The Global Community
Globalization as a cultural process. The impact of globalization on communities throughout
the world with attention to political, social, and economic aspects in regard to gender
equity, poverty and inequality, cultural diversity, environment, and social justice
and human rights.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 204 - Language and Culture
ANT 204 - Language and Culture
An introduction to the anthropological study of language including the nature, structure
of language; the sociocultural functions and uses of language; theory and the study
of meaning; language variations; the evolution and learning of language, and the nature
of language change.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 205 - Archaeology and the Human Past
ANT 205 - Archaeology and the Human Past
Introduction to the nature and meaning of the archaeological record. Students learn
the broad story of the human past—in both prehistoric and historic time periods and
in both the Old and New Worlds—as well as the basic methods and theories in archaeology.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 211 - Writing Culture: The Art of Ethnographic Writing
ANT 211 - Writing Culture: The Art of Ethnographic Writing
An introduction into ethnographic writing. Students will be expected to write about
the society and culture which surround them in their everyday lives. Students will
also be reading some examples of ethnographic writing by professional anthropologists.
Engagement with the work of fellow students is an important component of this class.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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ANT 214 - American Tongues: Everyday Politics of Speaking
ANT 214 - American Tongues: Everyday Politics of Speaking
Investigates the ways that language practice constructs, maintains, and complicates
ideas about social cohesion with an emphasis on inequality. Stresses intersections
of race, class, and gender.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 222 - Modern Human Variation
ANT 222 - Modern Human Variation
A survey of biocultural diversity in human groups around the world today. Explores
the interactions between human biology and cultural practices, along with the role
of local environments. Topics include disease and wellness, race, gender and sexuality,
genetic engineering, and body modification.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 224 - Self, Language and Society
ANT 224 - Self, Language and Society
Examines the speaking self from a social perspective. Students will consider how a
sense of self is formed within particular cultures and particular linguistic communities,
as well as to consider the ongoing effects of self-formation throughout life.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ANT 225 - Peoples and Cultures of Central and South America
ANT 225 - Peoples and Cultures of Central and South America
Major patterns characterizing Latin American cultures of Spanish heritage. Mesoamerica
is studied intensively; the world view and major social institutions of indigenous
and Spanish antecedents as well as of contemporary tribal and national culture are
considered.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ANT 235 - Archaeological Fact and Fiction
ANT 235 - Archaeological Fact and Fiction
A critical examination of what and how we know about the human past through the comparison
of fictional accounts with the actual archaeological record. Emphasis will be placed
on the methods, logic, and analogies used to identify past human behavior. Famous
prehistoric frauds and myths conceived by pseudoarchaeologists and novelists also
are discussed.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 252 - Introduction Forensic Science
ANT 252 - Introduction Forensic Science
An overview of the scientific method and its application to the analysis of physical
evidence as it impacts investigations and court proceedings. Topics include the study
of basic methods of documentation, collection and preservation of physical evidence;
general schemes for the analysis of chemical and biological evidence; identification
and individualization of firearms, fingerprints, imprints, documents, hairs, fibers,
blood and body fluids, paint, drugs and poisons, patterns, and other materials associated
with crimes. The course material is reinforced through the use of actual case studies,
hands-on exercises, and class exercises.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 260 - Anthropology of Media
ANT 260 - Anthropology of Media
Examines myth, ritual, and kinship filtered through the lens of various forms of media
in the United States. Explores films and case studies of movies, TV sitcoms and dramas
and news broadcasts.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ANT 298 - Special Topics
ANT 298 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of anthropology.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 305 - Archaeology Field School
ANT 305 - Archaeology Field School
Practical experience on an archaeological excavation. Application of archaeological
methods and theory to explore diverse lifestyles of people in past and gain a complex
understanding of cultural evolution. Advanced experience in the analysis and handling
of artifacts, including cultural, skeletal and fossil remains. Emphasis on processing
an archaeological investigation. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits.
3 to 12 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ANT 311 - Applied Anthropology
ANT 311 - Applied Anthropology
Application of the science of anthropology to solutions of contemporary social change
problems. Research and experience of anthropologists in various developing areas are
examined.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101 or instructor permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ANT 312 - Medical Anthropology
ANT 312 - Medical Anthropology
The cross-cultural approach to health behavior, with emphasis on social factors related
to the success of public health programs in underdeveloped Third World countries.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 321 - Contemporary Issues in Indigenous North America
ANT 321 - Contemporary Issues in Indigenous North America
Offers insight into contemporary issues affecting Indigenous people in North America.
Investigation of Indigenous identity, legacies of colonialism, traditional homelands,
stereotype, art and cultural property, repatriation and legislation, tribal recognition,
and sovereignty. Contextualized through lenses of history and politics.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 322 - Forensic Anthropology
ANT 322 - Forensic Anthropology
Identification, analysis, and interpretation of human remains in a medico-legal context.
Provides training in osteology, forensic method and theory, forensic taphonomy, and
research methods. Numerous “real-life” cases are used to illustrate the theory and
ideas involved with human remains recovery and identification in the contexts of homicide,
suicide, mass disasters, and accidental death.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 335 - African Prehistory
ANT 335 - African Prehistory
An examination of the prehistoric archaeological record in Africa, from the earliest
archaeological traces (approximately 2.6 million years ago) to the rise of the early
African kingdoms. The most prominent sites, particularly in eastern and southern Africa,
are featured. Recent discoveries and current debates within the field of Africanist
archaeology are highlighted.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 205 or 102.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ANT 340 - Ritual Expressions
ANT 340 - Ritual Expressions
An exploration of one of the primary forms of human expressions and creativity, from
the humble handshake to senior proms to the complex rituals of birth, initiation,
and death.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ANT 352 - Crime Scene Investigation
ANT 352 - Crime Scene Investigation
Provides students with knowledge of basic concepts of case and crime scene investigation;
scene and investigative personnel management; nature of investigative personnel roles;
steps in the processing of scenes and evidence; methods of documentation; general
and specialized techniques for the recognition, identification, and individualization
of evidence; sources of investigative information; interview techniques; reconstruction
of events; and legal and ethical considerations during criminal investigations.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 252 or ANT 322.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 355 - Native American Women
ANT 355 - Native American Women
Examines the lives of Native American women with an emphasis on their roles in the
economic, political, and ideological domains.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in ANT, SOC, or WMS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ANT 362 - Forensic Science in Famous Cases
ANT 362 - Forensic Science in Famous Cases
Case studies of famous criminal cases following disciplines of forensic science involved
and applying the science and procedure to the commission of the crime, facts of the
case, elements of the violated criminal statute, and ultimate disposition of the case.
Examines original case documentation
including police and first responder reports, evidence documentation, laboratory reports,
and trial motions.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 252
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 372 - Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
ANT 372 - Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Looks at the biology of sex differences in humans and how culture influences gender
roles and identity. Explores the intersecting identities within the LGBT+ community.
Topics include sexual health, sexuality, gender and violence, transgender and non-binary
identities, intersex conditions, and body image.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 376 - Anthropology of Education
ANT 376 - Anthropology of Education
Examines how the classroom and other learning environments can be understood as cultural
spaces. Emphasis is placed upon the intertwined nature of education and socialization,
cultural perspectives on the cognitive features of learning, and cross-cultural understanding
in the classroom.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 380 - Anthropology of Women and Health
ANT 380 - Anthropology of Women and Health
Anthropological analysis of local to global processes impacting women’s health around
the world. Ethnographic case studies that look at social organization, kinship, marriage,
race, class, religion, etc. that contribute to the well-being of women. Exploration
of non-Western healing techniques employed by women through time and space.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ANT 382 - People and Weight
ANT 382 - People and Weight
An anthropological study of body weight. Biocultural approach draws from human evolution,
physiology, and culture. Examines body weight variation in humans with an emphasis
on root causes of excess weight gain. Cross-cultural analysis of body image ideals.
Topics include: appetite, stress, dieting, nutrition, physical activity, eating disorders,
and social and cultural influences.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 390 - Ethics in Anthropology
ANT 390 - Ethics in Anthropology
Explores the ethical dilemmas faced by anthropologists in their search to study the
cultural and biological diversity in the human species. Employs numerous case studies
in cultural, medical, and biological anthropology and archaeology to examine contemporary
ethical issues.
Prerequisite(s): 9 credits in ANT.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ANT 432 - Evidence of Human Evolution
ANT 432 - Evidence of Human Evolution
A hands-on examination of the fossil evidence of human evolution. Topics include the
skeletal anatomy of modern humans and great apes and the fossil evidence of early
hominids including Orrorin, Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, early
Homo, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens. Recent discoveries and
controversies in paleoanthropology are highlighted.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 102.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ANT 442 - Advanced Forensic Anthropology
ANT 442 - Advanced Forensic Anthropology
An advanced study of research themes in forensic anthropology. Students examine the
primary literature to critically evaluate new research on human skeletal remains.
Topics include trauma and pathological conditions, positive identification, and the
use of forensic anthropology in human rights investigations.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 322.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ANT 445 - Stones and Bones
ANT 445 - Stones and Bones
An introduction to the methods used by archaeologists to catalog, curate, and analyze
artifacts and ecofacts. Topics include taphonomy, middle-range research including
experimental, actualistic and ethnoarchaeological methods, introduction to flintknapping
and lithic artifact analysis, and introduction to zooarchaeological identification
and faunal analysis.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 102 or ANT 205.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ANT 470 - Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods
ANT 470 - Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods
Explanation and analysis of ethnographic field methods. Applying anthropological theory
to research. Designing and conducting anthropological research and ethnographic writing.
Exploration of ethical issues of fieldwork.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101 or instructor permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 475 - Methods in Archaeology
ANT 475 - Methods in Archaeology
Introduction to and participation in the various methods involved in archaeological
fieldwork, laboratory analysis and experimental techniques. Emphasizes hands-on experience,
demonstrations, and applications of modern techniques to archaeological problems.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in ANT or GEO.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 480 - Theory of Anthropology
ANT 480 - Theory of Anthropology
Major theoretical contributions to the field. Development and evaluation of: culture
as a scientific concept, early evolutionism and other determinisms, diffusionism,
neo evolutionism, functionalism, culture and personality, formal semantic analysis,
and ethnoscience.
Prerequisite(s): 9 credits in ANT and junior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 491 - Supervised Research
ANT 491 - Supervised Research
Students work with a faculty member on a research project employing the knowledge
and skills necessary for advanced anthropological investigation. Students are expected
to apply research methods and techniques to settings appropriate to one of the four
fields of anthropology. Supervised research may take place in a fieldwork setting,
research labs and locations, or other appropriate settings. Course may be repeated
up to 12 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 to 9 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ANT 497 - Anthropology Internship
ANT 497 - Anthropology Internship
Practical field training and work assignment in physical anthropology, archaeology,
linguistics, or ethnology, under qualified supervision in conjunction with departmental
faculty. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 to 9 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ANT 499 - Independent Study
ANT 499 - Independent Study
Repeatable up to 12 credits.
Prerequisite(s): 15 credits in ANT.
.5 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ARB 100 - Arabic I
ARB 100 - Arabic I
Basic grammar and vocabulary, mastering reading and writing the Arabic script. Introduction
to speaking and listening skills. One-hour session weekly in the language laboratory
required to complement and reinforce classroom instruction.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ARB 101 - Arabic II
ARB 101 - Arabic II
Basic grammar and vocabulary, mastering reading and writing the Arabic script. Introduction
to speaking and listening skills. One-hour session weekly in the language laboratory
required to complement and reinforce classroom instruction.
Prerequisite(s): ARB 100.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ARB 200 - Arabic III
ARB 200 - Arabic III
Reading of texts from literature, poetry, newspapers, and ancient sources. Acquisition
of advanced vocabulary, grammatical, and language structures. Extensive use of oral
language and practice in written language. Study of Arab culture through movies and
music. One-hour session weekly in the language laboratory required to complement and
reinforce classroom instruction.
Prerequisite(s): ARB 101 or equivalent.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ARB 499 - Independent Study
ARB 499 - Independent Study
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ART 104 - History of Western Art I
ART 104 - History of Western Art I
Painting, sculpture, and architecture from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages,
including Egyptian pyramids, Greek statues, Roman temples, and Gothic cathedrals,
examined in social, historical, and aesthetic context. Course teaches analytical and
viewing skills vital for thinking critically about the visual arts.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 105 - History of Western Art II
ART 105 - History of Western Art II
Painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to contemporary times,
including works by Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Monet, and Picasso,
examined in social, historical, and aesthetic context. Course teaches analytical and
viewing skills vital for thinking critically about the visual arts.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 106 - Critical Thinking in the Visual Arts
ART 106 - Critical Thinking in the Visual Arts
Develops critical thinking skills by examining issues pertaining to the creation and
interpretation of visual art. Open to all university students.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 112 - Color and 2-D Design
ART 112 - Color and 2-D Design
An investigation of the elements and principles guiding the organization of the picture
plane, using selected materials and techniques.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 113 - 3-Dimensional Design
ART 113 - 3-Dimensional Design
Investigation of form and structure, based on design principles, employing various
materials and techniques.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 114 - Digital Foundations for Art & Design
ART 114 - Digital Foundations for Art & Design
In a project-based, studio art environment, course offers an introduction and exploration
of the technology (hardware and software), digital tools, and workflow that drive
art, design, and the creative industry.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 150 - Introductory Drawing I
ART 150 - Introductory Drawing I
Introduction to the mechanics of perceptual drawing.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 151 - Introductory Drawing II
ART 151 - Introductory Drawing II
Continued practice of drawing skills and copncepts introduced in ART 150. Emphasis
will be placed on drawing from observation and content development within one's drawings
as a form of artistic expression. Introduction to figure drawing may be an aspect
of the course.
Prerequisite(s): ART 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 201 - Visual Art and the Studio Experience
ART 201 - Visual Art and the Studio Experience
An 8-week, studio intensive course designed for non-majors, exploring creative drive
in a focused investigation of the visual arts through hands-on studio experiences.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 215 - Graphic Design I
ART 215 - Graphic Design I
Basic design principles are applied to problems of visual communication. Students
gain experience with industry-standard design tools in preparation for further coursework
in graphic design or digital art. Includes reading and writing about the history of
graphic design.
Prerequisite(s): ART 114
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 216 - Typography I
ART 216 - Typography I
A study of typography as applied to problems of visual communication design for print,
web, and signage, including an introduction to the history of typography and practice
identifying and using high-quality digital typefaces.
Prerequisite(s): ART 114
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 220 - Introductory Painting
ART 220 - Introductory Painting
Introduction to the techniques, materials, and tools used in oil painting.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 233 - Jewelry/Metals I
ART 233 - Jewelry/Metals I
Introduction to various techniques in jewelry and metal-working with an emphasis on
design, metal forming, and fabrication, basic stone setting, surface embellishment,
and creative problem solving.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 236 - Ceramics I: Hand-Building
ART 236 - Ceramics I: Hand-Building
Ceramics as an art form. Major work includes experimenting with a variety of hand-building
techniques. Includes glazing and kiln firing.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 237 - Pottery I
ART 237 - Pottery I
Studio experience concentrates on throwing on the potter’s wheel. Includes glaze techniques
and kiln firing.
Prerequisite(s): ART 236.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 238 - Ceramic Sculpture I
ART 238 - Ceramic Sculpture I
Sculptural principles of design and form investigated through the ceramic medium.
Emphasis is placed on early origins of sculpture and their evolution into contemporary
forms. Kiln firing experience.
Prerequisite(s): ART 236.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 240 - Introduction to Sculpture: Construction and Subtraction
ART 240 - Introduction to Sculpture: Construction and Subtraction
Introduction to the processes and techniques used in sculpture including constructed,
subtractive, and mixed media techniques.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 241 - Sculpture: Modeling and Casting
ART 241 - Sculpture: Modeling and Casting
Introduction to the process and techniques used in sculpture, including modeling,
casting, and mixed media techniques.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 250 - Intermediate Drawing
ART 250 - Intermediate Drawing
An intermediate course in drawing that stresses technical and conceptual proficiency
as it relates to personal artistic exploration. Life drawing will be a component of
the course.
Prerequisite(s): ART 151.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 260 - Etching, Woodcut, Collograph
ART 260 - Etching, Woodcut, Collograph
Investigation of the basic materials and processes of three printmaking areas, woodcut,
collograph, and etching.
Special Information: Lab Fee Required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 261 - Lithography and Silkscreen
ART 261 - Lithography and Silkscreen
Basic procedures and processes in both media with emphasis on the formal and expressive
potentials of each.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 262 - Photography as Visual Language
ART 262 - Photography as Visual Language
An introduction to the basic techniques, history and critical thinking skills specific
to the photographic medium. Students will interpret the unique qualities of the photographic
image while experimenting with processes ranging from early 19th century analog methods
through to contemporary digital imaging.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 264 - Introduction to Digital Photography
ART 264 - Introduction to Digital Photography
Introduction to the digital darkroom using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Creative
Suite. Related critical issues are covered.
Special Information: Camera Required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 266 - Conspiracy Theories, Photography and U.S. History
ART 266 - Conspiracy Theories, Photography and U.S. History
Explores the history of conspiracy theories in America, through the study of U.S.
history and the art medium of photography. As a class, we will evaluate the historical
context of specific conspiracy theories, dating from the colonial period though today.
We will develop a model for understanding the function and benefits of these theories
for different groups. In addition to studying the historical and cultural significance
of conspiratorial thinking, we will consider the role photography has played to provide
visual proof or evidence of such theories. We will call into question the authenticity
of what is often thought of as a truthful medium through the completion of photography
based creative assignments, while emulating the strategies and methods of conspirators.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 270 - Introduction to Art Education
ART 270 - Introduction to Art Education
A historical, cultural, psychological, and aesthetic study of art education. The analysis
of creative teaching strategies, advocacy, research findings, child development, and
art media as related to educational settings. Open to all students.
Prerequisite(s): ART 112, ART 113, or ART 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 298 - Special Topics
ART 298 - Special Topics
Special topics courses designed for the exploration and execution of ideas/and/or
creative work in the areas of art education, art history, or studio art, suitable
to an introductory level.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 301 - History of Italian Renaissance Art
ART 301 - History of Italian Renaissance Art
Painting, sculpture, architecture and the graphic arts in Italy from 1300 - 1580.
Giotto, Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, etc.
Prerequisite(s): ART 105.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ART 302 - History of Art of the United States
ART 302 - History of Art of the United States
Study of forms and styles in the visual arts which express social and cultural forces
in the United States from the colonial period to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ART 303 - History of the Art of East Asia
ART 303 - History of the Art of East Asia
Monuments of India, China, and Japan, consisting of architecture, sculpture, painting,
and related arts.
Prerequisite(s): one course in art history, or East Asian history, or philosophy.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ART 306 - History of Medieval Art
ART 306 - History of Medieval Art
A study of early Christian churches, Carolingian book illumination, Romanesque sculpture
and Gothic cathedrals, 400-1400.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ART 307 - History of Baroque Art
ART 307 - History of Baroque Art
Painting, architecture, and sculpture in Europe 1580-1700, with emphasis on works
of Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ART 309 - History of African Art
ART 309 - History of African Art
Study of African art forms as they are used in religious and social ceremonies. Methodology
combines formal and historical stylistic analysis.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ART 310 - Design for Interfaces
ART 310 - Design for Interfaces
Studio course introduces website and front-end development, examining the importance
of organizational layout, and usability considerations of visual, textual, and interactive
elements. Course will also take a closer look at how websites function as complex
design systems and how to adhere to common usability guidelines. Explore the current
relevant technologies and discusses the issues, opportunities, and obligations of
the designer in the development of interactive media.
Prerequisite(s): ART 215 and ART 216
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 315 - Graphic Design II
ART 315 - Graphic Design II
Advanced problems in visual communication requiring sophisticated judgment in typography
and layout. Emphasizes visual problem solving for print, digital, and environmental
display. Writing assignments develop students' ability to articulate their decision-making
and thought processes.
Prerequisite(s): ART 215 and ART216
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 316 - Typography II
ART 316 - Typography II
Develops and extends basic understanding of typography to more complex problems that
address typographic hierarchy, context, sequence, and gestalt. Students will explore
how typography behaves across media. Complex typographic systems are implemented;
and elements of motion design are introduced with the objective of enhancing visual
form, meaning and communication, emphasizing the relationship between typography principles
and animation fundamentals.
Prerequisite(s): ART 215 and ART 216
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 317 - History of Women and Art
ART 317 - History of Women and Art
A history of women as creators and as images in the visual arts from the middle ages
to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ART 318 - Interactive Design
ART 318 - Interactive Design
Focuses on interactive design as a form of visual knowledge production, documentation,
and communication. Special attention to user experience, interaction, and use interface
in mobile design; as well as introduce students to the world of Augmented, Mixed and
Virtual Reality interfaces.
Prerequisite(s): ART 215 and ART 216.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 320 - Intermediate Painting I
ART 320 - Intermediate Painting I
Continued practice of painting skills and concepts introduced in Art 220. Emphasis
will be placed on painting from observation and content development within one's paintings
as a form of artistic expression. Introduction to figure painting may be an aspect
of the course.
Prerequisite(s): ART 220.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 321 - Intermediate Painting II
ART 321 - Intermediate Painting II
A second semester intermediate course in painting with continued practice of painting
skills coupled with content development within one's paintings as a form of artisitc
expression. Working with the live model may be an aspect of the course.
Prerequisite(s): ART 220.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 332 - Metalsmithing
ART 332 - Metalsmithing
Introduction to materials and techniques in handwrought metals, with an emphasis on
raising, forging, hollow-forming, die forming, and repousse.
Prerequisite(s): ART 233.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 333 - Jewelry/Metals II
ART 333 - Jewelry/Metals II
Continued exploration of concepts and techniques introduced in ART 233 with an emphasis
on fabrication, including mechanisms, unit construction, and combining various materials.
Prerequisite(s): ART 233.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 334 - Casting in Jewelry/Metals
ART 334 - Casting in Jewelry/Metals
Exploration of casting processes, concepts, and techniques in jewelry and metalsmithing.
Includes centrifugal, vacuum, split-cavity, lost wax, piece mold, and found object
casting.
Prerequisite(s): ART 233.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 335 - Student Teaching I
ART 335 - Student Teaching I
Guided observation of the teaching process and supervised student teaching coordinated
with study of curricula and educational materials. Course taken as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 336 - Ceramics II
ART 336 - Ceramics II
A continuation of ART 236 which provides the opportunity to experiment with advanced
hand-building projects and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): ART 236.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ART 337 - Pottery II
ART 337 - Pottery II
Advanced experiences in wheel throwing techniques, clay bodies, glazing, and firing
techniques.
Prerequisite(s): ART 237.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 338 - Ceramic Sculpture II
ART 338 - Ceramic Sculpture II
A continuation of ART 238 with emphasis on independent research and experimentation.
Kiln firing experience.
Prerequisite(s): ART 238.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 340 - Intermediate Sculpture: Materials and Concepts
ART 340 - Intermediate Sculpture: Materials and Concepts
Intermediate level experience in processes of construction and subtraction applied
to materials such as metal, wood, and mixed media. Emphasis on continued development
of form, structure, and presentation of sculpture while investigating historical precedence,
materials, and concepts.
Prerequisite(s): ART 240 or ART 241.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 341 - Intermediate Sculpture: Process and Content
ART 341 - Intermediate Sculpture: Process and Content
Intermediate level experience in processes of modeling and casting in a variety of
materials. Emphasis on continued development of sculptural content and subjects while
investigating contemporary examples and studio practice.
Prerequisite(s): ART 240 or ART 241.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 350 - Advanced Drawing I
ART 350 - Advanced Drawing I
A variety of contemporary conceptual and perceptual approaches is explored in drawing
the figure, still-life and other subject matter.
Special Information: Lab fee required.
Prerequisite(s): ART 250.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 351 - Advanced Drawing II
ART 351 - Advanced Drawing II
A variety of contemporary conceptual and perceptual approaches are explored in drawing
the figure, still-life and other subject matter.
Special Information: Lab fee required.
Prerequisite(s): ART 250.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 360 - Intermediate Printmaking: Etching, Woodcut or Collograph
ART 360 - Intermediate Printmaking: Etching, Woodcut or Collograph
Specialized work in one medium; woodcut, collograph or etching.
Prerequisite(s): ART 260 or ART 261.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 361 - Intermediate Printmaking: Lithography or Silkscreen
ART 361 - Intermediate Printmaking: Lithography or Silkscreen
Specialized work in one of these two areas.
Prerequisite(s): ART 260 or ART 261.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 362 - Advanced Film Photography
ART 362 - Advanced Film Photography
An intensive darkroom course in the various aspects of photovisualization. Camera
required.
Prerequisite(s): ART 262.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 368 - Advanced Digital Photography
ART 368 - Advanced Digital Photography
Advanced digital darkroom and image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop and Creative
Suite. Related critical issues are covered. Camera required.
Prerequisite(s): ART 264.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 369 - The Photobook: History and Practice
ART 369 - The Photobook: History and Practice
A studio art course focused on the photobook as a means of creative expression. Students
will develop a narrative photographic series in order to self-publish an indivisualized
photobook. Key concepts throughout the course will focus on narrative, sequencing,
and editing. Additionaly, students will be introduced to the rich history of the photobook
from warly travel logs and records of the civil war to contemporary artist books.
This history will consist of illustrated lectures, discussions of text and images,
as well as field trips to Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ART 370 - Strategies and Methods for Teaching Art
ART 370 - Strategies and Methods for Teaching Art
The course explores diverse strategies and methods for teaching art in the K-12 classroom
that considers contemporary theories of art education, with particular attention to
artistic developmental theories, differentiated instruction, lesson modifications
and adaptions. Students will be guided through an in-depth analysis for creating lesson
and unit plans that align with the Connecticut State Department of Education requirements
for teach certification while preparing students for teaching in the classroom. Special
Information: Fieldwork required.
Special Information: Fieldwork required.
Prerequisite(s): ART 270 and admission to the School of Education
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 371 - Curriculum Development in Art Education
ART 371 - Curriculum Development in Art Education
This course provides students with the foundations for developing curriculum in art
education through an in-depth investigation of past theory as well as contemporary
frameworks, while exploring diverse contexts for developing art education curriculum
that include multicultural, visual culture, and community-based art educators, as
well as museum collaborations.
Prerequisite(s): ART 270, ART 370, and admission to the College of Education
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 375 - Clinical Field Experience
ART 375 - Clinical Field Experience
Supervised field placement in a public school classroom designed to allow implementation
of skills and knowledge gained in methods courses. Students will collaborate with
a classroom teacher to design and implement small group and whole group lessons.
Special Information: Field work and clearances required.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission needed. Corequisite(s): ART 370
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 392 - Methods and Theories of the History of Art
ART 392 - Methods and Theories of the History of Art
The practice of art history studied through analysis of writings by outstanding scholars
in the field. Emphasis on research and presentation techniques.
Prerequisite(s): 9 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ART 398 - Special Topics
ART 398 - Special Topics
Special topics courses designed for the exploration and execution of ideas and/or
creative work in the areas of art education, art history, or studio art, suitable
to an intermediate level.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 400 - History of Architecture
ART 400 - History of Architecture
Architectural ideas, forms, and styles from Palladio to Viollet-le-Duc.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in art history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ART 401 - History of Art Since 1945
ART 401 - History of Art Since 1945
New directions in the visual arts; changing ideas about the role of art in society.
Prerequisite(s): ART 300
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 412 - Professional Topics in Art Education
ART 412 - Professional Topics in Art Education
This course is designed to address issues and current practices in art education that
are meaningful and relevant in light of students' current teaching placements. Topics
include Connecticut State Regulations, classroom management, planning and implementing
curriculum, as well as professional topics such as professional development, portfolio
development, interviewing strategies, and the certification process. Significantly,
this course will align with the new Connecticut State Department of Education Standards
for teacher certification.
Prerequisite(s): Must be taken concurretly with ART 335 and ART 435.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 414 - Socially Engaged Art Education
ART 414 - Socially Engaged Art Education
This capstone course is designed to consider learning spaces and models for art curriculum
(urban education, multicutural education, social justice, socially engaged art education)
that extends beyond the traditional classroom, while revitalizing the connections
between the school and the community it serves.
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance in to the College of Education , ART 270, ART 370, ART
371, EDU 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 415 - Professional Practice in Graphic Design
ART 415 - Professional Practice in Graphic Design
Focuses on preparation for professional design practice. Independent development of
a
professional portfolio, advanced readings in graphic design and aesthetic theory,
and introduction to methods and tools of project management.
Prerequisite(s): ART 315
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 420 - Advanced Painting
ART 420 - Advanced Painting
Continued practice of painting or drawing skills geared towards the conceptual development
of a cohesive body of work as a form of artitstic expression.
Prerequisite(s): ART 320 or ART 350
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 430 - Advanced Ceramics
ART 430 - Advanced Ceramics
Concentrated and independent ceramic project development in pottery, ceramic sculpture,
and clay bodies.
Prerequisite(s): ART 238, ART 336, and ART 337.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ART 433 - Jewelry/Metals III
ART 433 - Jewelry/Metals III
Advanced forming techniques and exploration of the plastic potential of precious and
non-precious metals in the creation of large-format pieces. Students continue to develop
their skills in casting, metalsmithing, and fabrication through the creation of large
projects. Projects emphasize the continuing development of students’ ideas and aesthetic.
Prerequisite(s): ART 332, ART 333, and ART 334.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 434 - Jewelry/Metals IV
ART 434 - Jewelry/Metals IV
Concentrated research in a specific area of jewelry and metal working, culminating
in a representative body of work. Students also focus on professional practices and
the development of their portfolio. Included are documenting student artwork, developing
and building a resume, and exhibiting work.
Prerequisite(s): ART 433.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 435 - Student Teaching II
ART 435 - Student Teaching II
Guided observation of the teaching process and supervised student teaching coordinated
with study of curricula and educational materials. Course taken as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental Permission
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 440 - Advanced Sculpture
ART 440 - Advanced Sculpture
Advanced work in selected area of sculptural activity.
Prerequisite(s): Two of ART 340, ART 341, ART 342; or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 441 - Advanced Sculpture: Studio Practice
ART 441 - Advanced Sculpture: Studio Practice
Advanced work in sculptural activity with an emphasis on thematic development and
studio practice.
Prerequisite(s): ART 440 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 450 - Advanced Photography I
ART 450 - Advanced Photography I
Students explore their own ideas and begin to develop a unique project towards senior
exhibition. Incorporates both analogue and digital technology. For Upper-Level undergraduate
Photography majors. Part 1 of a two-part capstone sequence.
Prerequisite(s): ART 262, ART 264, ART 362, and ART 368.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 451 - Photography Portfolio Development
ART 451 - Photography Portfolio Development
Students develop a unique body of photographic artwork while preparing for a senior
exhibition. Incorporates both analogue and digital technology. For upper-level Studio
Art majors concentrating in Photography. PArt 2 of a two-part capstone experience.
Prerequisite(s): ART 262, 264, 362, 368, and 450
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 460 - Experimental Printmaking
ART 460 - Experimental Printmaking
Exploration of mixed and non-traditional print media.
Prerequisite(s): ART 360 or ART 361.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 461 - Innovative Printmaking
ART 461 - Innovative Printmaking
A concentrated study of image making by a process or combination of processes to produce
unique pieces or multiple copies.
Prerequisite(s): ART 360 or ART 361.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 480 - Advanced Art Problems I
ART 480 - Advanced Art Problems I
Independent work in a program within the Art Department.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 481 - Advanced Art Problems II
ART 481 - Advanced Art Problems II
Independent work in a program within the Art Department.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ART 493 - Studio Art Capstone
ART 493 - Studio Art Capstone
The cumulative capstone experience for students majoring in Studio Art with a concentration
in either: Ceramics, Jewelry /Metals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, or Sculpture.
Topics include: documenting art work, an introduction to gallery practices, the selection
of work for display, portfolio development, and the Artist Statement. Includes the
presentation of a body of work in an exhibition and a final portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): Senior, Studio Art major concurrently enrolled in 400 or equiv. studio
art course within conc., Dept. Chair permission required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ART 496 - Freelance Design - Building a Practice
ART 496 - Freelance Design - Building a Practice
Emphasis on how to start, maintain and grow a freelance career in graphic design.
Focused on self-promotion and building an online presence to develop a client base.
Projects are diverse in concept, content, media, and scope, paying close attention
to project management, agreements, and pricing.
Prerequisite(s): ART 315 and ART 316
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 497 - Design Practicum
ART 497 - Design Practicum
Practical experience in an approved agency which relates to the student’s concentration.
Hours to be arranged with the internship coordinator. Course may be repeated up to
6 credits.
Prerequisite(s): ART 315 and departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ART 499 - Independent Study
ART 499 - Independent Study
Research of a high quality meeting the standards of the department faculty director.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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AST 100 - Stars, Planets, and Galaxies
AST 100 - Stars, Planets, and Galaxies
A survey of astronomy at an introductory level addressing topics ranging from the
Earth’s time of day to stars, planets, galaxies, and the origin and evolution of the
universe as a whole. Telescopic observing and planetarium sessions are included.
Prerequisite(s): LEP Quantitative Reasoning
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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AST 310 - Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics
AST 310 - Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics
Observational and theoretical bases for our current understanding of stars, the interstellar
medium, and our Galaxy, the Milky Way. At the end of the course, it is expected that
the student will understand and be able to apply physical reasoning to make deductions
regarding these phenomena.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 201 or PHY 231, and ESC 210
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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AST 340 - Observational Astronomy
AST 340 - Observational Astronomy
Current techniques in data collection for modern astronomy, including telescopic imaging,
photometry, spectroscopy, and astrometry. Lecture, 2 hours; Lab, 3 hours. Lab fee
required.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 201 or PHY 231 or ESC 200, and ESC 210.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 100 - General Zoology
BIO 100 - General Zoology
Fundamental principles of zoology are examined. Lecture and laboratory sessions introduce
organization, responsiveness, reproduction, and classification on invertebrate and
vertebrate animals while also analyzing the role of mankind on biodiversity. Lecture,
2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours. Not for biology majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 101 - General Botany
BIO 101 - General Botany
Introduction to the fundamental principles of botany including anatomy, morphology,
physiology, genetics, development, and diversity of plants with particular emphasis
on human interaction with plants. Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory, 2 hours. Not for biology
majors. Lab fees required.
Special Information: Not for Biology majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 102 - Biology I
BIO 102 - Biology I
Introduction to the fundamental principles of biology including anatomy, morphology,
metabolism, cell physiology, evolution, genetics, development, and diversity of animals.
Topics link structure with function from the molecular level to the physiological
level. For science majors and minors. Lab fees required. Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory,
4 hours
Special Information: Lab Fee Required.
Prerequisite(s): Science majors and minors.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 103 - Biology II
BIO 103 - Biology II
Introduction to the fundamental principles of biology including anatomy, morphology,
metabolism, cell physiology, evolution, genetics, development, and diversity of plants.
Topics link structure with function from the molecular level to the physiological
level. For science majors and minors. Lab fees required. Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory,
4 hours.
Special Information: Lab Fee Required.
Prerequisite(s): For science majors and minors.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 120 - Microbiology
BIO 120 - Microbiology
Biology of microorganisms with emphasis on their roles in health and disease. Host
defense mechanisms, immunology, and antimicrobial agents will be discussed in the
context of infectious diseases. Credits not applicable toward biology major. Lecture,
3 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 200 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
BIO 200 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
A survey of human's functional anatomy starting at the molecular level then progressing
through various cell and tissue types, organs and organ systems. Labs are anatomically
oriented and designed to examine gross anatomy of the human body.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 201 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II
BIO 201 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II
Functional anatomy of the human body is further explored focusing on physiological
responses at the molecular and cellular level then progressing through various cell
and tissue types, organs and organ systems. Labs are physiologically oriented and
designed to examine human physiological responses.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 200
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 202 - Ecology
BIO 202 - Ecology
Patterns and processes of organisms and their environment. Trait variation, species
distributions, population dynamics, community interactions, and ecosystem properties
are examined. Labs combine fieldwork, computer simulations, and data analysis to study
concepts and quantify variation.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 or 'C' or better in BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 210 - Marine and Environmental Biology
BIO 210 - Marine and Environmental Biology
Investigates the biodiversity of marine habitats with an emphasis on the physical
and biological factors affecting marine environments. The course focuses on common
marine organisms of the littoral seas, coral reef, and open ocean including developing
an understanding of interrelationships and problems related to adaptation and survival.
Field trips required. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
Special Information: Field trips required.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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BIO 215 - Animal Behavior
BIO 215 - Animal Behavior
Catalogs behaviors across multiple taxa of animals. Examines the empirical and conceptual
foundations that explain causation of animal behavior and how it can be further shaped
by intrinsic and ambient parameters.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 and sophomore status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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BIO 220 - Genetics
BIO 220 - Genetics
Biological inheritance in organisms from virus to man. Emphasis is on design and analysis
of experiments. Topics include the chemistry of the genes and gene action, cytogenetics,
genes in development, and the genetic basis of evolution. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory,
2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in both BIO 102 and BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 228 - Vertebrate Zoology
BIO 228 - Vertebrate Zoology
The natural history, evolution and phylogenetic relationships of vertebrate animals
are discussed in lecture; laboratories are devoted to the anatomy and taxonomy of
the major vertebrate classes. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 231 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
BIO 231 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Study of vertebrate organs and systems from the standpoint of divergent and convergent
evolution. Dissection of the dogfish and cat illustrate the principles. Lecture, 2
hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 233 - Introductory Microbiology
BIO 233 - Introductory Microbiology
Scientific research will be used to examine the worldwide health threat related to
the supply of effective antibiotics. Basic biological concepts will be addressed through
intensive research investigations of microbial diversity. Antibiotic discovery from
soil bacteria during the lab portion of the course will support understandings of
principles of microbiology.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 236 - Cell Biology
BIO 236 - Cell Biology
Study of cell biology including organelles, biological membranes, signal transduction,
and changes in gene expression. Each feature is studied within a molecular and cell
biology context focusing on structural and functional aspects, relating form and function,
with emphasis on communication between the extracellular environment and changes in
the cell.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 240 - Human Heredity
BIO 240 - Human Heredity
A discussion of the principles of modern genetics and how they impact human life.
Particular emphasis on how current developments in the science of genetics are changing
medicine and society.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in both BIO 102, BIO 103 and BIO 220.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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BIO 280 - Conservation Biology
BIO 280 - Conservation Biology
Learn what global patterns necessitated the emersion of conservation biology. Understand
the importance of biodiversity and recognize drivers of biodiversity change. Explore
methods and applications of science-based conservation techniques across multiple
taxa and scales.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in both BIO 102 and 103. MAT 221 is recommended. Special
information: Includes field trips for which students must provide their own transportation.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 292 - Biology of Aging
BIO 292 - Biology of Aging
An introduction to the biological principles behind the process of aging starting
with cellular aging and expanding into the physiologic effects on the body. Through
understanding the normal process of aging students will gain a better understanding
of diseases and functional deficits that are and are not typical products of aging.
Prerequisite(s): HLS 150 or 'C' or better in BIO 102.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 296 - Genomics I
BIO 296 - Genomics I
An introduction to genomics through the study of prokaryotic and eukaryotic (including
human) genomes, comparative genomics, and phylogenetic analysis. The lab is a course-based
authentic research experience in which novel soil viruses are discovered, purified,
characterized, visualized by electron microscopy, and sequenced by 'next-gen' sequencing
technology.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 , BIO 103, and freshman or sophomore status.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 298 - Special Topics
BIO 298 - Special Topics
3 to 4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 301 - Physiology
BIO 301 - Physiology
Discussion of the basic principles of physiology, including biological molecules and
cells, tissue biology, and a focus on system physiology.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121 and 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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BIO 325 - Immunology and Infection
BIO 325 - Immunology and Infection
Role of the human immune response with specific regard to combating infectious agents.
Immune development including innate and adaptive immunity are explored. A focus on
the interplay of the immune system with intracellular and extracellular pathogens
including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and prions.
Prerequisite(s): C+ or better in BIO 220.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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BIO 327 - Field Natural History
BIO 327 - Field Natural History
Travel abroad to examine natural history and biodiversity of different ecosystems.
Appreciate the diversity of other cultures and their relationship with biological
features of their environment. Create and practice various applications of field biology
as it relates to ecology, physiology, behavior, evolution, and conservation of a variety
of organisms.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in both BIO 102 and BIO 103.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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BIO 335 - Pathogenic Microbiology
BIO 335 - Pathogenic Microbiology
Role of microorganisms in human disease including pathogenic mechanism, epidemiology,
host resistance, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Lecture, 2 hours;
laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 233.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 337 - Medically Important Arthropods
BIO 337 - Medically Important Arthropods
Important species of arthropods as biological vectors of disease will be introduced.
Students will explore the taxonomy, ecology, morphology and life cycle of arthropod
vectors. Additionally, this course will address the human cost of associated diseases,
mitigation and strategies for population control.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 351 - Histology
BIO 351 - Histology
Microscopic anatomy of cells and tissues within the organ systems of vertebrates with
an emphasis upon structure function relationships. Lecture 3 Hours, Lab 3 Hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 120 and 'C' or better in both BIO 102 and BIO 103
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 386 - Practical Bioinformatics: Genomics II
BIO 386 - Practical Bioinformatics: Genomics II
Mapping, annotating, and comparing genomes with an introduction to DNA and protein
sequence analysis using web-based genomic databases and tools. The lab is a course-based
authentic research experience in which genes and associated sequences are identified
and analyzed from a novel viral genomes sequenced in BIO 296, and submitted for publication.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 220 or 296
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 390 - Biology Research Training
BIO 390 - Biology Research Training
Introduction to basic research principles and laboratory techniques under the supervision
of a Biology faculty member. Development of research proposal.
Corequisite(s): BIO 391 Restriction(s): Instructor and Biology Chair permission and
GPA of 2.5 or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 391 - Biology Research Seminar
BIO 391 - Biology Research Seminar
Organization of research projects. Communication of research results. Summarizing
scientific literature. Presenting research progress. Writing research proposal.
Corequisite(s): BIO 390
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 393 - Introduction to Bioinformatics
BIO 393 - Introduction to Bioinformatics
An analysis of DNA and protein sequences, evolutionary processes, genome characteristics,
protein structure analysis, and global gene expression. Lab involves using bioinformatics
software and programming.
Special Information: Lab fee required.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 220 or BIO 386
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 396 - Synthetic Biology: Engineering Life
BIO 396 - Synthetic Biology: Engineering Life
This emerging interdisciplinary field intersects biology, mathematics, physics, computer
science, and engineering. Real-world problems are identified, and student-driven projects
are performed using network modeling in order to make predictions and test assumptions,
and then molecular biology and genetic engineering laboratory techniques are used
to redesign genetic circuits in single-celled organisms.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 122 or MAT 150, a 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103, completion
of LEP: Natural World I and II.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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BIO 398 - Special Topics
BIO 398 - Special Topics
3 or 4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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BIO 399 - Mammalian Biology
BIO 399 - Mammalian Biology
Evolution, classification, ecology, behavior, and conservation of mammals. Identification
and familiarity with a diverse range of both North American and exotic mammalian species.
This course includes field trips, during which students must provide their own transportation.
Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 and either BIO 228 or BIO 231.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 401 - Comparative Physiology
BIO 401 - Comparative Physiology
Basic principles of physiology with emphasis on the biochemical and cellular mechanisms.
Designed for students who wish to pursue a career in a biomedical profession. Lecture,
3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121, 'C' or better in BIO 102, and PHY 201 or PHY 210 or PHY
231.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 405 - Marine Mammal Physiology
BIO 405 - Marine Mammal Physiology
Expands on the basic concepts of physiology by exploring the unique adaptations utilized
by marine mammals to survive. Explores specific adaptions required to live in high
salinity, high pressure aquatic environment in which there is intermittent oxygen
availability and unique feeding and sleeping requirements. Students learn typical
mammalian physiology along with these adaptations.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121 and 'C' or better in BIO 220
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2023-24
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BIO 420 - Plant Physiology
BIO 420 - Plant Physiology
Study of the principles of plant physiology including photosynthesis, respiration,
gas exchange, transpiration, and metabolism. The interaction of plants and the environment
is emphasized focusing on both biotic and abiotic factors. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory,
3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 120 and 'C' or better in BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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BIO 429 - Limnology
BIO 429 - Limnology
Study of freshwater lake and stream ecosystems. Practical field and laboratory experiences
supplement theory. Identification and interpretation of freshwater organisms and their
habitats. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory or field work, 4 hours. Students must provide
transportation.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 120 and 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 430 - Marine Ecology
BIO 430 - Marine Ecology
Ecological approach to the study of estuarine-marine environments and organisms. Topics
emphasized are productivity, food from the sea, food webs, pollution and environmental
limiting factors. Field trips are required. Students must provide transportation.
Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 120 and 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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BIO 435 - Developmental Biology
BIO 435 - Developmental Biology
Study of the mechanisms and patterns of development in animals. Microscopic examination
of prepared slides and selected experiments are used to illustrate principles involved.
Two three-hour lecture-laboratory periods each week.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 220; BIO 436 recommended.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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BIO 436 - Molecular Biology
BIO 436 - Molecular Biology
The study of the macromolecules and pathways of life that allow cells to store information,
replicate, and maintain homeostasis. The structures and functions of the genome, transcriptome,
and proteome will be emphasized. Introductory techniques of molecular biology are
applied in this HHMI SEA-GENES laboratory. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 220 or BIO 296; and CHE 121.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 440 - Parasitic Infections
BIO 440 - Parasitic Infections
Study of parasites that infect humans and the diseases that they cause. The focus
will be on transmission, hosts, symptoms, and prevention. The social costs of current
and emerging infections will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102 and BIO 103.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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BIO 450 - Undergraduate Research Methods in Biology
BIO 450 - Undergraduate Research Methods in Biology
Advanced application of research procedures and experimental methods. Students will
design and carry out experiments through laboratory or field work. Research exercises
included critically reading scientific literature, designing and implementing experimental
protocols using appropriate technology and approaches, analyzing data, and creating
a research presentation. Four hours of laboratory and/or field work. May require travel
outside of SCSU.
Special Information: May require field work and travel.
Prerequisite(s): Biology major and Senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 451 - Tissue Culture
BIO 451 - Tissue Culture
Methods of growing isolated cells in vitro. Media preparation, inoculation, growth
factors and analysis of results are considered. A variety of tissues is cultured subject
to facilities, time, and student interest. Two three-hour periods per week oflecture-laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 233 or BIO 301.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 454 - Brain – Anatomy and Transmission
BIO 454 - Brain – Anatomy and Transmission
Discussion of the structure of human brain and the pharmacology and biochemistry of
neural transmission. Offered primarily to pre-med, pre-vet and pre-dental students.
Prerequisite(s): (BIO 228 or 231 or 301 or 401) and CHE 121
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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BIO 460 - Paleontology
BIO 460 - Paleontology
Systematic study of the fossil remains of organisms, with emphasis on their evolution,
structure, distribution and phylogenetic relationships.Three two-hour lecture-laboratory
periods.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in BIO 102.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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BIO 467 - Laboratory Course in Biotechnology
BIO 467 - Laboratory Course in Biotechnology
Principles and practice of biotechnology in a research context. Laboratory methods,
experimental design and research applications. Inquiry-based format designed to explore
and analyze specific research problems.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 220 and BIO 436.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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BIO 491 - Seminar in Biotechnology
BIO 491 - Seminar in Biotechnology
Development of communication and analytic skills needed by biotechnology and molecular
biology professionals through student oral presentations and facilitated discussions.
Topics include current scientific advances in biotechnology. May be repeated.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIO 497 - In-Service Training in Biology
BIO 497 - In-Service Training in Biology
Provides the opportunity for upperclass Biology majors to participate in a biological
research project being conducted by an industry or governmental agency. Acceptance
dependent on student’s qualifications. 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Departmental approval required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIO 499 - Independent Study and Research
BIO 499 - Independent Study and Research
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission and overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIS 370 - Business Information Systems
BIS 370 - Business Information Systems
The relationship of business and technology enabled systems. Planning, design, and
implementing of business information systems and decision making supported by information
systems. (Formerly MIS 370)
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 371 - Information System Analysis and Design Techniques
BIS 371 - Information System Analysis and Design Techniques
Overview of the system development life cycle. Emphasis on current documentation through
the use of both classical and structured tools, techniques for describing process
flows, data structures, file designs, input/output designs, security and system backup
and recovery. Discussion of implementation and system maintenance issues. (Formerly
MIS 371)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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BIS 372 - Database Management
BIS 372 - Database Management
Managing relational database systems including entity relationship (E-R) data modeling,
structured query language (SQL), normalization of tables, performance and optimization,
building interfaces, and database administration tasks.
Prerequisite(s): BIS 370.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 375 - Decision Support Systems
BIS 375 - Decision Support Systems
A study of the various information systems used to support the decision-making process
of managers and executives in a business organization. Includes collection of data
in data warehouses to support decision-making. (Formerly MIS 375)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370 and CSC 200
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIS 380 - Cloud Computing for Business
BIS 380 - Cloud Computing for Business
An overview of the application of cloud computing for business use, with a focus on
understanding what "cloud computing" offers a business and to provide the ability
to address the major drawback limiting cloud computing implementation which is the
business concern for data security in the "cloud". (Formerly MIS 380)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIS 385 - Design and Administration of Business Messaging Systems
BIS 385 - Design and Administration of Business Messaging Systems
The design and administration of data and messaging systems in support of business
information networks. System platforms include: telecommunications, email, SMS/MMS
and social network media messaging. (Formerly MIS 385)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIS 390 - GetVirtual
BIS 390 - GetVirtual
This is a service-based learning course. It provides supervised learning experiences
where students reflect on, communicate, and apply principles and theories from the
classroom in real-world settings. Service-based learning provides students with an
opportunity to integrate their academic coursework with community involvement. The
goal of this educational approach is for students to gain valuable practical skills
while giving back to the community.
Prerequisite(s): BIS 370 Restriction(s): Juniors and Seniors only
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIS 398 - Special Topics
BIS 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and current ideas in the field of business administration,
which are pertinent to business information systems.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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BIS 400 - Global Information Systems
BIS 400 - Global Information Systems
Study of issues involved in adapting information systems for use in a global business
environment. Techniques for designing systems for multi-country use. Includes review
of current enterprise-wide ERP software. (Formerly MIS 400)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 410 - AI for Business Systems
BIS 410 - AI for Business Systems
A study of artificial intelligent applications of computer use with a focus on expert
system development for business with storage expertise in a knowledge-based used by
managers or knowledge workers. (Formerly MIS 410)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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BIS 415 - Technology for Real Estate Professionals
BIS 415 - Technology for Real Estate Professionals
Exploration of business processes and the supporting business technologies that residential
and commercial real estate professionals need to utilize in their roles as back-office
administrators, sale professionals, brokers, or property managers.
Prerequisite(s): BIS 370 and FIN 457 or FIN 458 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 422 - Supply Chain Automation and Logistics
BIS 422 - Supply Chain Automation and Logistics
The automation and logistical flow of materials in an organization beginning with
the supplier and ending with the customer. Topics include purchasing, buyer-supplier
relationships, negotiation, outsourcing, electronic commerce, total cost of ownership,
inventory management, and ethical and legal consideration of Supply Chain Management
(SCM). (Formerly MIS 360)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 430 - Project Management
BIS 430 - Project Management
Coverage of the process of project management used to plan activities involved with
BIS work. Detail of what needs to be planned and controlled as well as standard tools
and techniques used for this purpose follow guidelines for preparing for certification
as PMP. Includes learning to use Project management software to create project plans,
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and GANTT, PERT, and CPM charts. (Formerly MIS 430)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 460 - Information Security Management
BIS 460 - Information Security Management
Coverage of managing security for a business with regard to protecting the firm's
operations, the information systems used in the business, the employees involved in
the business, and the data collected during the operation of the business. Attention
is paid to protecting customers from identity theft or any access to their private
financial information white doing business with the firm. (Formerly MIS 460)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 470 - Business Information Systems Design
BIS 470 - Business Information Systems Design
An overview of the application of cloud computing for business use, with a focus on
understanding what "cloud computing" offers a business and to provide the ability
to address the major drawback limiting cloud computing implementation which is the
business concern for data security in the "cloud". (Formerly MIS 470)
Prerequisite(s): MIS 370 or BIS 370 and Senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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BIS 497 - Internship
BIS 497 - Internship
A supervised internship in business or government with the application of business
information systems to problems of enterprise administration. Biweekly reporting to
the faculty supervisor required.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BIS 498 - Special Topics
BIS 498 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and current ideas in the field of business administration,
which are pertinent to business information systems.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status and majoring in Business minoring in Management Information
Systems.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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BUS 300 - Practical Business Work Experience and Education
BUS 300 - Practical Business Work Experience and Education
This internship enables students to gain experience while pursuing their undergraduate
program. Students perform agreed upon responsibilities in relation to their major
and apply their academic knowledge, skills, and capabilities. Graded as pass/fail
only.
Prerequisite(s): Department permission Restriction(s): Junior or Seniors only.
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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BUS 398 - Special Topics
BUS 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of Business.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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BUS 400 - Practical Business Work Experience, Education and
BUS 400 - Practical Business Work Experience, Education and
This internship trains students to become a consultant and encourages students to
attend training programs supporting their professional development and fulfilling
the employer’s needs. Students examine the nature of consulting, learn a framework
for professional consulting, develop a model of consulting, apply the model for assessing
the needs of the employer's clients, and in parallel, attend training programs and
get credentials supporting their professional development. Graded as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 300 or CRT 300
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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BUS 497 - Interdisciplinary Business Internship
BUS 497 - Interdisciplinary Business Internship
A supervised interdisciplinary internship in small businesses, non-for-profit organizations,
Connecticut Innovation Centers, and/or entrepreneurial ventures with the application
of entrepreneurship/interdisciplinary ability to problems of enterprise administration.
Bi-weekly reporting to the faculty supervisor required.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and school permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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BUS 498 - Special Topics
BUS 498 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of Business.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CHE 103 - Crime Scene Chemistry
CHE 103 - Crime Scene Chemistry
A forensic science perspective on the fundamental concepts of chemistry with emphasis
on applications of scientific methods to criminal investigations. Some of the topics
are atomic clues, chemical evidence, drug chemistry, chemistry of addiction, chemistry
of explosions, and poisons. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
Special Information: Recommended for non-science majors.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100P or placement into MAT 100 or higher.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 108 - Culinary Chemistry
CHE 108 - Culinary Chemistry
Discusses topics such as international flavors/cuisine, organic versus nonorganic
food, nutrition, and food presentation. Chemical topics such as density, hydrophobicity,
biochemical aspects of foods, and the chemical structures of substances such as vitamins,
fats, and proteins will also be discussed. Lecture, 3 hours.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 120 - General Chemistry I
CHE 120 - General Chemistry I
The topics include atomic structure, gas laws, valence, solutions, ionization, redox
reaction, activity series, periodic classification, stoichiometry. Lecture, 3 hours;
laboratory, 3 hours; recitational session, 1 hour.
Special Information: Recommended for STEM, Nursing, and Pre-Health students.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100P or placement into MAT 100 or higher.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 121 - General Chemistry II
CHE 121 - General Chemistry II
The topics covered include intermolecular forces, thermochemistry, kinetics, equilibrium,
acid-base chemistry, electrochemistry. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours; recitational
session, 1 hour.
Special Information: Recommended for STEM and Pre-Health students.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 120.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 125 - Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry
CHE 125 - Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry
Fundamental aspects of general, organic, and biochemistry are covered with applications
to nursing. The topics include atomic structure, units of measurement, chemical bonds,
intermolecular forces, acids and bases, solutions, functional groups, organic nomenclature,
basic organic reactions, and an introduction to carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and
nucleic acids.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100P or placement into MAT 100 or higher.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 240 - Analytical Chemistry
CHE 240 - Analytical Chemistry
In lectures, discussion, and laboratory classes, students develop skills using instruments
to analyze inorganic compounds by gravimetric, volumetric, electrometric, and colorimetric
methods. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 260 - Organic Chemistry I
CHE 260 - Organic Chemistry I
Introduction to organic chemistry. Topics include the nomenclature, study of alkanes,
modern spectroscopic techniques (including NMR, IR, and MS), stereochemistry and conformational
analysis of organic molecules, and reactions and mechanisms of alkenes, alkynes, and
alkyl halides. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 261 - Organic Chemistry II
CHE 261 - Organic Chemistry II
Discussion of nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions and mechanisms.
Nomenclature, characteristic reactions and mechanisms of alcohols, ethers, thiols,
aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acid derivatives, aromatic systems, and amines are
covered. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 260.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 264 - Organic Chemistry I: Lab Only
CHE 264 - Organic Chemistry I: Lab Only
Identical to CHE 260, but without the lecture. Introduction to synthetic techniques,
lab calculations, and spectroscopy (NMR, IR, and MS). Laboratory: 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 262.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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CHE 290 - Introduction to Chemistry Research
CHE 290 - Introduction to Chemistry Research
Experimental research supervised by a member of the chemistry department.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 120 and CHE 121.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CHE 301 - Preparation of Scientific Documents
CHE 301 - Preparation of Scientific Documents
Introduction to the use of current software technology and appropriate style guides
for the preparation of professional reports in the field of chemistry. Includes the
use of standard word processing, generation of tables, graphs, and diagrams. Lecture,
1 hour.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 340 - Environmental Chemistry
CHE 340 - Environmental Chemistry
A study of the chemistry of air, water and soil as well as the various sources of
energy and industrial and municipal waste treatment. Cannot be used for graduate credit
by chemistry majors. Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE120 and CHE 121.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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CHE 370 - Physical Chemistry I
CHE 370 - Physical Chemistry I
The properties of gases, chemical thermodynamics, phase and chemical equilibria and
solutions at an advanced level. Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 261, PHY 230, and MAT 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 371 - Physical Chemistry II
CHE 371 - Physical Chemistry II
Discussion of electrochemistry and chemical kinetics. Introduction to quantum mechanics
as applied to the electronic structure of atoms and molecules and to spectroscopy.
Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 370.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CHE 372 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory I
CHE 372 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory I
Laboratory experiments that reinforce the lecture material covered in CHE 370. Laboratory,
4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 370 (may be taken concurrently).
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 411 - Chemical Education
CHE 411 - Chemical Education
Discussion of various issues, activities, and research in chemical education including
the history of curricula, student and teacher knowledge and beliefs, ethics in science,
the cognitive basis of science learning, and related instructional approaches. Assignments
require reading, writing, discussion, and reflection on current issues and trends
in chemical education as well as scientific ethics.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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CHE 421 - Computational Chemistry
CHE 421 - Computational Chemistry
Introduction to modern molecular and quantum mechanical basis sets and methods for
the calculation of physical properties such as molecular geometry, electron density,
and thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 261
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2023-24
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CHE 435 - Inorganic Chemistry I
CHE 435 - Inorganic Chemistry I
Discussion of the electronic structure, symmetry, group theory, and bonding theories
as they apply to the properties and reactions of the elements and their compounds
found on the periodic chart. Lecture: 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 261.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 436 - Inorganic Chemistry Lab
CHE 436 - Inorganic Chemistry Lab
Application of the theory of inorganic chemistry to methods of air free synthesis
and manipulation of chemical compounds, characterization of inorganic and catalytic
products using spectroscopic and physical methods. Laboratory: 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 240, CHE 301 and CHE 435.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 440 - Instrumental Analysis
CHE 440 - Instrumental Analysis
Introduction to the theoretical background and practical use of modern instruments
in the analytical laboratory. Work in spectrophotometry, chromatography, and electrochemistry.
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 240 and CHE 260.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 445 - Chemical Hazards and Laboratory Safety
CHE 445 - Chemical Hazards and Laboratory Safety
The study of the principles and methods of handling hazardous materials in the laboratory.
Coverage includes: the nature and scope of hazards in the laboratory, overview of
applicable regulations fundamentals of chemical hygiene, safety data sheets, and chemical
toxicity.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121 and senior status.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 450 - Biochemistry I
CHE 450 - Biochemistry I
Introduction to biochemistry. Chemistry of biological equilibria, bioenergetics, proteins,
carbohydrates, enzymes, and metabolic pathways. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 261.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 451 - Biochemistry II
CHE 451 - Biochemistry II
Chemistry of lipids, cell membranes, nucleic acids, and signal transduction. Lecture,
3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 450.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 456 - Medicinal Chemistry
CHE 456 - Medicinal Chemistry
A survey of the main classes of drugs with emphasis upon their structures, structure-activity
relationships, effects, side effects, and syntheses. Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 260 and CHE 261.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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CHE 457 - Pharmacology
CHE 457 - Pharmacology
This is a course designed to give a broad overview of the chemical basis of pharmacology,
with a focus on psychoactive compounds. The course provides a survey of the chemical
properties and current research on several classes of drugs, including opioids, psychedelics,
stimulants, depressants, and cannabinoids. Pharmacology provides the link between
advances in medicinal chemistry and the action of drugs in the body. Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 261
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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CHE 458 - Drug Discovery
CHE 458 - Drug Discovery
An introduction to the field of drug discovery and a comprehensive overview of the
process. Students learn about the qualities that a viable drug candidate should possess
and gain hands-on experience in a variety of methods such as LC/MS, macromolecular
visualization, ligand docking, and interpretation of biological screening data.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 261.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 490 - Chemistry Research
CHE 490 - Chemistry Research
Experimental research supervised by a member of the chemistry department.
Special Information: Lab Fee Required.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and permission of research advisor.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CHE 491 - Chemistry Research
CHE 491 - Chemistry Research
Experimental research supervised by a member of the chemistry department. Only seniors
may register for this course with written permission from their research adviser.
Special Information: Lab Fee Required
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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CHE 496 - Chemistry Seminar
CHE 496 - Chemistry Seminar
The study of the nature of the chemical literature and the vital role that the literature
plays in the development of chemistry. Students conduct literature searches in the
different areas of chemistry and present seminars based on these searches. Lecture,
1 hour.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CHE 497 - Chemistry Internship
CHE 497 - Chemistry Internship
A supervised internship offering practical experience in chemistry while working in
a business, government, or other organization external to the university. Students
complete internship under the supervision of a site supervisor in coordination with
a faculty mentor at the university. Internship must have significant chemistry related
experiences and must be pre-approved by the department. Students are responsible
for placing themselves in the internship. This course is ideal for students that are
already working in the field of chemistry. Internship 10 hours per week. Course may
be repeated for credit 1 time.
Prerequisite(s): CHE 121
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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CHE 499 - Independent Study and Research
CHE 499 - Independent Study and Research
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CHI 100 - Chinese I
CHI 100 - Chinese I
Conversational approach to Mandarin Chinese; the basic phonetic system, vocabulary,
grammar, and logographic systems; rudiments of reading and writing. Introduces fundamental
aspects of Chinese culture and civilization. One-hour weekly session in the language
laboratory required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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CMD 150 - Sustaining Professional Resilience in Health Care and School Settings
CMD 150 - Sustaining Professional Resilience in Health Care and School Settings
Develop knowledge and understanding of practices that have been shown to promote resilience
among health care providers and education professionals. The format will include didactic
presentations, readings, and experiential learning through contemplative pedagogy.
Topics to be examined include factors that contribute to burnout, empathic distress,
“compassion fatigue,” and moral suffering; cognitive research on resilience, or the
ability to effectively cope with stress and adversity; components of emotional intelligence;
and strategic application of mindfulness-based contemplative practices that support
self-care and resilience.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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CMD 200 - Introduction to Developmental Communication Disorders
CMD 200 - Introduction to Developmental Communication Disorders
Introduction to the major theories of normal and abnormal speech development, etiology,
classification, and characteristics of communication disorders, survey and observation
of clinical procedures.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 201 - Introduction to Communication Disorders in Medical Settings
CMD 201 - Introduction to Communication Disorders in Medical Settings
Introduction to normal adult communication, acquired disorders of communication and
swallowing, and service delivery systems for adult clients.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 203 - Phonetics and Phonological Systems
CMD 203 - Phonetics and Phonological Systems
The study of clinical phonetics and phonological systems. Topics include basic concepts
in anatomy, physiology, and acoustics relating to the development and use of phonological
systems. Use and application of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and relevant
diacritical markings will be reviewed and practiced.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 317 - Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism
CMD 317 - Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism
The anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, the larynx, and the head and
neck related to speech production and reception.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 319 - Language Development: Ages Birth to Five
CMD 319 - Language Development: Ages Birth to Five
Semantic, syntactic, phonological, and pragmatic sequence of normal language development
in children. Topics may include language disorders, early cognitive development, and
theoretical bases.
Prerequisite(s): CMD 200 and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 320 - Introduction to Hearing Science
CMD 320 - Introduction to Hearing Science
The anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, theories of hearing, auditory disorders,
and the nature of sound. Introduction to the study of acoustics and psychoacoustics.
Prerequisite(s): CMD 200 and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 321 - Introduction to Audiology
CMD 321 - Introduction to Audiology
Instrumentation and techniques for the identification and management of peripheral
hearing disorders including pure-tone, speech audiometrics, immittance testing, screening
procedures and methods of aural rehabilitation.
Prerequisite(s): CMD 200, CMD 320 and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 418 - Neurological Bases of Communication
CMD 418 - Neurological Bases of Communication
Study of neuroanatomy and the neurophysiology underlying normal speech production.
The central and peripheral systems are considered as well as the embryologic development
of the nervous system.
Prerequisite(s): CMD 317 and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 419 - Language Acquisition: School Age: Adolescence
CMD 419 - Language Acquisition: School Age: Adolescence
Normal sequence of pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and phonological development in
school age children. Topics may include language-learning disabilities, language disorder,
bilingual language processes, and classroom discourse.
Prerequisite(s): CMD 200 and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 420 - Speech Science
CMD 420 - Speech Science
Study of the physiological, acoustical, and perceptual bases of speech; the mechanics
of phonation, vocal theory, consonant production; and the acoustic and physiologic
investigation of speech output. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): CMD 317, CMD 320 and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 461 - Clinical Practice of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
CMD 461 - Clinical Practice of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Introduction to clinical practice and professional issues in the fields of Speech-Language
Pathology and Audiology. Emphasis on observation of practicing clinicians in various
professional settings.
Prerequisite(s): 21 CMD credits and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 462 - Clinical Practicum for the Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
CMD 462 - Clinical Practicum for the Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
Introduces students to professional concepts and skills needed to transition to clinical
practice as a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant(SLPA). Students actively engage
in synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities to establish the foundational
knowledge and skills required of an SLPA in an educational setting. Completion of
this course is a prerequisite for CMD 463: Speech Language Pathology Assistant Practicum.
Prerequisite(s): Cumulative GPA of 2.7 and Grade of 'B-' or better in CMD 200, CMD
203, CMD 317, CMD 319 and CMD 419.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMD 463 - Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Practicum
CMD 463 - Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Practicum
During this 3 credit practicum, students engage in seminar/didactic-based instruction,
active online discussion, clinical reflection, evidence-based (EBP) practice (EBP)reviews,
and complete required observation and supervised clinical practicum hours as required
by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) for Certification as
a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLP-A). This practicum, in a school-based setting,
enables students to obtain experience working with and exposure to a variety of communication
disabilities and functional abilities. Supervision is provided onsite by CT licensed,
ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologists who meet the ASHA standards for supervision.
The onsite SLP(s) will determine the mode, duration and frequency of supervision provided
to the student. Placements are arranged by the Seminar Instructor. Students are prohibited
from arranging their placements.
Prerequisite(s): Cumulative GPA of 2.7 and Grade of 'B-' or better in CMD 200, CMD
203, CMD 317, CMD 319, CMD 419, and CMD 462.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMD 499 - Independent Study
CMD 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 101 - Public Speaking
CMS 101 - Public Speaking
A study-application of the various elements of communication, including verbal, nonverbal.
Feedback to improve individual effectiveness before a professional listening group.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 102 - Professional Voice and Diction
CMS 102 - Professional Voice and Diction
A hands-on intensive for building the basic tools for dramatic, broadcast and presentational
speaking. Methods of achieving greater freedom of vocal expression and learning about
the vocal process, clearer vocal mechanics, and how to care for the voice.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 110 - World of Communication
CMS 110 - World of Communication
Introduction of core communication concepts, theories, and skills. Examination of
significant contemporary trends through different disciplinary perspectives. Exploration
of appropriate communication tools for competent and ethical communication in a variety
of personal and professional contexts. Creation of basic student portfolio.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 115 - Human Communication
CMS 115 - Human Communication
Students learn fundamental concepts and theories related to competent communication
in interpersonal, relational, and small group contexts. Basic interaction skills are
developed and applied in dyadic and group assignments to practice effective, appropriate,
and ethical communication behaviors in personal and professional situations.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 130 - Media Persuasion and Everyday Life
CMS 130 - Media Persuasion and Everyday Life
An exploration of classical forms of persuasion as compared to the form and structure
of persuasion in contemporary media sources (e.g., mass media advertising, opinion
news, political messages, etc.) and the way those sources exemplify, modify, and/or
avoid these classic forms.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 135 - Introduction to Computer Mediated Communication
CMS 135 - Introduction to Computer Mediated Communication
This course introduces practical and theoretical issues associated with online communication
systems. Focus will center on the analysis of communication practices, the social
structures that emerge when people use online tools, and the issues associated with
design and implementation of online technologies in local and global contexts.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 140 - How Media Means
CMS 140 - How Media Means
Analysis of media composition, contexts, and intentions using visual and language
theories. Addresses how overall perceptual impact of specific words and images influences
our response to the content itself.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 145 - Visual Communication
CMS 145 - Visual Communication
Students learn fundamental concepts and theories related to designing effective content
for print, online, and video distribution channels. Basic multimedia production technologies
and software programs are learned and applied in both individual and collaborative
projects to demonstrate student knowledge of effective communication principles and
strategies.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 201 - Interpersonal Communication
CMS 201 - Interpersonal Communication
Investigation of interpersonal communication behavior, the effects of communication
on relationships, and interactions within a variety of relational contexts.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 205 - Capturing, Analyzing, and Presenting Family Stories
CMS 205 - Capturing, Analyzing, and Presenting Family Stories
Explores existing and student-oriented family story artifacts (photographs, home videos,
audio recordings, written documents) as a starting point for a creative, digital multi-media
final project.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 210 - Persuasion
CMS 210 - Persuasion
Investigation of theories, principles, and strategies of social influence in various
communication contexts. Emphasis on compliance-gaining communication, methods of persuasion,
and ethics of social influence in interpersonal and professional contexts.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 221 - Advertising and Public Relations Theories and Concepts
CMS 221 - Advertising and Public Relations Theories and Concepts
Discusses the principles of advertising and public relations with specific attention
on their history, industry standards, and key elements of operation. Basic application
elements will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS class.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 222 - Media Theory
CMS 222 - Media Theory
An introduction to media theory that explores ways to observe, explain, and predict
the role and place of media in society and culture.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 238 - Communication Design
CMS 238 - Communication Design
Introduces components of the message construction process and principles of effective
communication. Applications of computer programs to the design and development of
communication material.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 240 - Introduction to Media Studies
CMS 240 - Introduction to Media Studies
Provides an introduction to the field of media studies by studying forms of the mass
media.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 245 - Experimental Media Production
CMS 245 - Experimental Media Production
Exploration of video as an experimental art form, integrating theory and practice.
Through screenings and discussions, students will study the history of the medium
while working on individual, short-form production projects.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course or MUS 117.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 247 - Media Issues and Problems
CMS 247 - Media Issues and Problems
An examination of the ethical, economic, political, and social issues that influence
the characteristics and content of contemporary media.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 250 - Reading Film: Form, Genre, Culture
CMS 250 - Reading Film: Form, Genre, Culture
A study of the various structures and codes from which an audience makes meaning from
mainstream narrative cinema.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 258 - Cinematic Technique
CMS 258 - Cinematic Technique
Examines how the elements of film and video production are used to communicate a message
from the creator’s viewpoint. Uses illustrative scenes from significant films and
episodic television shows to demonstrate how production elements can be used to achieve
a desired effect.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 260 - Reading Film II: Approaches to International Film
CMS 260 - Reading Film II: Approaches to International Film
A critical exploration of cinematic forms and their social, economic, and cultural
contexts that depart significantly from (and are at times a reaction to) films constructed
in the classical Hollywood style.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 261 - Managing Social Media I
CMS 261 - Managing Social Media I
Introduction to techniques for building an effective social media presence. Prepares
students with fundamental strategies required by social media managers in a variety
of professional settings. Laptop, basic internet proficiency and ability to set up
social media accounts are required.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 265 - Social Media: Private Life/Public Life
CMS 265 - Social Media: Private Life/Public Life
Critical examination of social media's digital transformation of private and public
life. Exploration of private/public life in terms of history, social functions, fluidity,
and redefinition in today's social media environment.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 285 - Communication and Media Research
CMS 285 - Communication and Media Research
An introduction to the development, design, analysis, and implementation of a variety
of media research methods.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 298 - Special Topics
CMS 298 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of communication.
Prerequisite(s): One 100-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 300 - Organizational Communication
CMS 300 - Organizational Communication
Extensive examination of theories related to communication processes necessary to
develop and maintain organizations. Includes an overview of various stakeholders with
whom organizational members communicate including employees, managers, clients, and
other external persons or groups. Students apply knowledge of theories by evaluating
organizations based on field research.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 302 - Relational Communication
CMS 302 - Relational Communication
Extensive examination of theories related to communication processes during the development,
maintenance, and termination of personal relationships. Includes specific communication
issues related to family, friendship, and romantic relationships. Applied knowledge
of relational communication theories and research.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 312 - Communication and Gender
CMS 312 - Communication and Gender
Explores communication and gender including masculine and feminine communication styles
as well as stereotypes of men and women’s communication and gender patterns in communication
across a variety of personal and professional contexts.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 315 - Networked Youth Culture
CMS 315 - Networked Youth Culture
A study of youth and social media. How and why youth use social media and the cultural
impact on this distinctive group.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 320 - Workplace Communication
CMS 320 - Workplace Communication
The study and application of communication tools needed for success in today's workplace,
emphasis on assessing transferable skills to match employment needs, practicing oral
and written communication strategies, and researching current organizational trends.
Students adapt samples of their work for inclusion in their student professional portfolio.
Special Information: Field research required.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 325 - Romance to Ruin: Media and Relationships
CMS 325 - Romance to Ruin: Media and Relationships
A study of culturally created ideologies concerning intimate relationships including
attraction, romance, intimacy, sexuality, commitment, power, and gender roles as systematic
and mediated constructions.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 327 - Interpersonal Conflict and Communication
CMS 327 - Interpersonal Conflict and Communication
An examination of theoretical and practical approaches to communication in interpersonal
conflict. Emphasis on interpersonal conflict resolution, negotiation, and third-party
mediation.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 329 - Communication Theory
CMS 329 - Communication Theory
An introduction to communication theories with special attention to understanding,
evaluating, and applying various theories in multiple contexts.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 330 - Propaganda in Media
CMS 330 - Propaganda in Media
Explores historical and current perspectives of propaganda in various forms that affect
and shape attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, and behavior. It explores propaganda at
institutional and personal levels.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120. Restrictions(s): Sophomore status or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 333 - Scriptwriting for Film and Television
CMS 333 - Scriptwriting for Film and Television
In-depth understanding of the scriptwriting process. Written exercises and final project
provide the opportunity to explore scripting formats and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 335 - Advertising Strategy and Planning
CMS 335 - Advertising Strategy and Planning
The creative application of communication concepts designed to solve advertising problems
for targeted audiences. Focus is on designing creative strategies involved in briefs
and concept work. Emphasis is on the creative process.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 336 - Writing Copy for Integrated Media
CMS 336 - Writing Copy for Integrated Media
Communication concepts and technologies for radio, television, and other electronic
media. Emphasis is placed on writing of scripts.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 338 - Advanced Communication Design
CMS 338 - Advanced Communication Design
Message construction in professional communication environments utilizing electronic
applications. Areas covered include communication principles in desktop publishing
and presentation graphics.
Prerequisite(s): COM 238 or ART 215.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 340 - Brand Management
CMS 340 - Brand Management
Exploration of the means by which organizations promote a consistent corporate identity.
Focus on practices of maintaining persistent internal and external brand communication.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 342 - Hip Hop, Rap and Media
CMS 342 - Hip Hop, Rap and Media
Critical analysis of the historical, cultural, and artistic influences of Hip Hop
and Rap from its origins to present trends. Considers the place of Hip Hop and Rap
as a mediator of cultural messages.
Prerequisite(s):ENG 112 or 120 or HON 150 or one 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 345 - Advanced Audio Production and Sound
CMS 345 - Advanced Audio Production and Sound
A practical application of sound design concepts for film, television, and digital
media. Emphasis on advanced audio recording and editing techniques.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 346 - Music and Sound in Media
CMS 346 - Music and Sound in Media
Explores and analyzes how music and sound function in our creation of meaning from
mediated messages.
Prerequisite(s):One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 347 - Political Satire and New Media
CMS 347 - Political Satire and New Media
Explores political satire of television and internet in our current postmodern era
and satire's role in shaping political thought and public consciousness of social
issues. From Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to more independent forms of satire,
this course studies the conventions and transformations of irony, parody, and satire
within new media practices.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 348 - Media Literacy Education for Students and Teachers
CMS 348 - Media Literacy Education for Students and Teachers
Students learn to critically read media texts, analyze the impact of media and technology
on society and culture from the perspective of educators and educational institutions,
understand and evaluate the current place of media and technology in curriculum, and
design and develop improved curriculum based on theory and research.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 or MDS 247 or department permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 361 - Managing Social Media II
CMS 361 - Managing Social Media II
Concepts and practices of advanced strategies for maintaining an effective social
presence in contemporary online culture from a practical and critical perspective.
Laptop, basic internet proficiency and ability to set up social media accounts are
required.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 261
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 362 - Gender Media Culture
CMS 362 - Gender Media Culture
Explores contemporary issues in gender and media; examines the relational, ideological,
and political meanings of gender that are reinforced and negotiated in contemporary
popular culture and new media practices.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 365 - Television, New Media, and Culture
CMS 365 - Television, New Media, and Culture
Explores the relationship between television comedy and the American culture past
and present. Through postmodern and comedy theory, students study television as a
commercial enterprise, its potential and effectiveness for moral agenda, and its impact
on cultural attitudes.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 370 - Studio Production
CMS 370 - Studio Production
Studio experience in creating multi-camera programs for television and webcast. Emphasis
on producing and directing programs for live broadcast.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course or JRN 135.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 375 - Field Production
CMS 375 - Field Production
Introduction to the fundamental principles and technologies of professional field
productions.
Prerequisite(s): On 200-level CMS course or JRN 135.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 378 - Graphics for Film and Television
CMS 378 - Graphics for Film and Television
Application of the theoretical and practical concepts necessary to create effective
still and motion graphics for film and television production. A variety of computer
applications are used to integrate still images, sound, and motion media.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 398 - Special Topics
CMS 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of communication.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 410 - Crisis Communication
CMS 410 - Crisis Communication
Application of communication strategies in an environment of organizational crisis;
a study of the types and characteristics of crises; the communication skills needed
to deal with crisis, and the steps involved in developing a crisis communication plan.
Prerequisite(s):One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 420 - Professional Communication Training and Development
CMS 420 - Professional Communication Training and Development
A comprehensive application of communication principles, skills, and theory to the
training and development process. Emphasis on needs assessment, information and technical
literacy, leadership, facilitation, critical and creative thinking, and assessment
skills. Students will take part in all phases of the training process including development,
execution and assessment of a self-directed professional training module.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 430 - Advertising and Public Relations Campaigns
CMS 430 - Advertising and Public Relations Campaigns
Advertising and public relations strategies in planning, designing, implementing,
and managing effective communication campaigns are discussed. Students execute comprehensive
campaigns. Professional standards stressed.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 435 - Sex, Violence, and the American Dream
CMS 435 - Sex, Violence, and the American Dream
Analyzes the merging of sex and violence in media treatments of the American dream
from dime novels to films and music videos.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 440 - Cultural Influences on Communication
CMS 440 - Cultural Influences on Communication
Critical examination and analysis of cultural communication theory, diversity issues,
cultural values, and effective communication practices between and among cultures
in an increasingly global society.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 445 - Social Media Campaign Planning
CMS 445 - Social Media Campaign Planning
The use of the Internet in contemporary advertising and public relations settings.
Basic design concepts and computer applications relevant to understanding communication
processes and strategies for evolving online contexts.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 450 - CMS Capstone
CMS 450 - CMS Capstone
Practical experience that emphasizes the planning, execution, and evaluation of communication
solutions to authentic workplace problems. Coordinated student teams from all concentrations
in the major apply core communication concepts and skills learned in previous coursework
to a semester-long project. Includes revision and final assessment of professional
portfolio.
Special Information: Field research required.
Prerequisite(s): One 300 or 400-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 460 - Seminar in Communication, Media, & Screen Studies
CMS 460 - Seminar in Communication, Media, & Screen Studies
Application of historical knowledge, theoretical concepts, research methods, and critical
perspectives to a media project that reflects the student’s individual research interest.
Project involves conducting a review of literature, framing a research question, considering
appropriate methodology, and designing a systematic plan for completion. This course
can be taken twice.
Prerequisite(s): One 300 or 400-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 465 - Content Development for Social Media
CMS 465 - Content Development for Social Media
Theory and practice of creation and curation of online content. Includes readings,
analysis of relevant case studies, examination of current site models and practice
of writing and curating for diverse platforms and populations from a critical perspective.
Laptop and basic internet proficiency required.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 470 - Narrative Filmmaking
CMS 470 - Narrative Filmmaking
Advanced level, single-camera narrative production. Emphasis on creative storytelling
and application of digital production and post-production technologies.
Prerequisite(s): One 200-level CMS course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 473 - Advanced Studio Production
CMS 473 - Advanced Studio Production
Advanced studio experience creating multi-camera productions for television and webcast.
Emphasis on professional practices for producing and directing programs for live broadcast.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 475 - Documentary Filmmaking
CMS 475 - Documentary Filmmaking
Advanced level, single-camera documentary production. Research, advocacy, and presentation
of evidence using traditional and non-traditional shooting and editing styles.
Prerequisite(s): one 200-level CMS course
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CMS 490 - Practicum in Communication, Media and Screen Studies
CMS 490 - Practicum in Communication, Media and Screen Studies
Application of relational and organizational communication practices to problems and
issues in professional environments. Students undertake a client project from concept
to completion.
Prerequisite(s): one 300 or 400-level CMS course
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 495 - Communication, Media, and Screen Studies Capstone Project
CMS 495 - Communication, Media, and Screen Studies Capstone Project
Practical experience that emphasizes the planning, execution, and evaluation of communication
solutions to authentic workplace problems. Coordinated student teams from all concentrations
in the major apply core communication concepts and skills learned in previous coursework
to a semester-long project. Includes revision and final assessment of professional
portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): one 200-level CMS course
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 497 - Communication, Media and Screen Studies Field Experience
CMS 497 - Communication, Media and Screen Studies Field Experience
Application of communication, media, and screen studies concepts and professional
skills in an off-campus workplace environment. Course taken as pass/fail only. Course
may be repeated once up to a maximum of 12 credits.
Prerequisite(s): 2.75 or better GPA in CMS major, one 200-level CMS course or departmental
permission.
1 to 12 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CMS 498 - Special Topics
CMS 498 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of Communication,
Media, and Screen Studies.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CMS 499 - Independent Study
CMS 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): Department Permission
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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COE 200 - Social Emotional Learning in Children Module
COE 200 - Social Emotional Learning in Children Module
0 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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COE 201 - Dyslexia Module
COE 201 - Dyslexia Module
0 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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COE 202 - Health and Mental Health Module
COE 202 - Health and Mental Health Module
0 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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COE 203 - Computational Thinking Module
COE 203 - Computational Thinking Module
0 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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COM 234 - Copywriting and Creative Concepts
COM 234 - Copywriting and Creative Concepts
Basic principles, techniques, and procedures for writing effective copy. Application
of creative problem solving and idea generating techniques in advertising.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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COM 287 - Introduction to Communication Research
COM 287 - Introduction to Communication Research
An introduction to communication research methods that focuses on the development,
interpretation, analysis, and implementation of communication research.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in COM 150 and either COM 210 or COM 212.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CSC 101 - Introduction to Computers and Applications
CSC 101 - Introduction to Computers and Applications
Computer concepts, hardware, applications, and utilities in an interactive lab setting.
Hands-on exercises using emerging technologies such as web-based communication and
information resources, multimedia applications, office productivity software, e-portfolios,
and collaboration tools.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 104 - Web Technology
CSC 104 - Web Technology
An introduction to web site development and an examination of societal dimensions
of the web. Extensive computer work using HTML and CSS is required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 152 - CS1: Programming Fundamentals
CSC 152 - CS1: Programming Fundamentals
An introduction to computer science. This course covers problem-solving methods and
algorithm development; the design, coding, debugging, and documentation of computer
programs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 111 or higher (may be taken concurrently) or placement into MAT
120 or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 200 - Information Management and Productivity Software
CSC 200 - Information Management and Productivity Software
Use of software applications to manage and present data. Spreadsheet development,
database management concepts, and presentation software; linkages among these applications,
and to the Internet using examples from business, education,and both natural and social
sciences.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 207 - Computer Systems
CSC 207 - Computer Systems
Study of fundamental principles that form the basis for the operation of computers.
Topics include: analysis and design of combinatorial logic circuits, basic computer
components, processor instruction set and assembly language. Laboratory experiments
required.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 152 ('C' or better); and MAT 111 (or higher) or placement in
MAT 120 (or higher).
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 212 - CS 2: Data Structures
CSC 212 - CS 2: Data Structures
Techniques for representing and processing information, including the use of tables,
linked lists, trees, and graphs. Comprehensive foundation of data abstraction including
stacks and queues using object oriented approach.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 111 (or higher) or placement into MAT 120 (or higher); and 'C'
or better in CSC 152 or DSC 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 229 - Object - Oriented Programming
CSC 229 - Object - Oriented Programming
Introduction to object-oriented concepts and principles. Topics include: classes,
encapsulation, information hiding, aggregation, inheritance and polymorphism. Event-driven
programming, graphical user interfaces and exception handling.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in CSC 212
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 235 - Web and Database Development
CSC 235 - Web and Database Development
Introduction to web design and database concepts. Topics include basics of HTML, CSS
and JAVASCRIPT, web and database security; database fundamentals, relational model,
SQL, and web application development framework.
Prerequisite(s): DSC 205 or 'C' or better in CSC 212
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 265 - Computer Networking and Security I
CSC 265 - Computer Networking and Security I
Principles of computer networking and security, with emphasis on the Internet. Topics
include CIA Triad, OSI Model, Network Interconnection Devices (repeater, switch and
router), TCP / IP Application Protocols, Network Security Components (public/private
key, hashing and certificates), Security Protocols (SSL, TLS, IPSEC, SSH), overview
of wireless LAN and security ( WPA / WPA2).
Prerequisite(s): CSC 207
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 305 - Computer Organization
CSC 305 - Computer Organization
The basic organization of digital computer, including CPU, I/O processing, memory,
microprogramming, pipelined computers, parallel processing, arithmetic processor and
introduction to computer networks.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 207.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CSC 321 - Algorithm Design and Analysis
CSC 321 - Algorithm Design and Analysis
Covers the analysis and application of algorithmic solutions to a range of fundamental
computing problems. Topics include hashing, sorting, graph representation and algorithms,
string matching, data compression, and computability.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 178 and 'C' or better in CSC 229.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 324 - Computer Ethics
CSC 324 - Computer Ethics
Application of moral theories to ethical problems created, aggravated or transformed
by computer technology. Topics include privacy, computer crime, replacement of human
decision making. Also listed as PHI 324.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits of PHI or CSC (or equivalent knowledge), or junior status
with departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 330 - Software Design and Development
CSC 330 - Software Design and Development
Techniques for the design, organization, management, and implementation of large scale
computer software projects. Team project and programming work required.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 212 and 'C' or better in CSC 229 and CSC 235.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 334 - Human Computer Interaction
CSC 334 - Human Computer Interaction
Basic concepts of perceptional design, information processing skilled behavior, interaction
models, user interface design, and implementation and deployment of usability testing
procedures. Case studies are analyzed and a show case project is implemented.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 235
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 335 - Database Systems
CSC 335 - Database Systems
Covers the design, analysis, and development of database management systems (DBMS).
Topics include relational model and languages, commercial DBMSs, database development
life cycle, fact-finding techniques, entity-relationship modeling, normalization,
storage and file structure, indexing and hashing, and database security issues.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 235
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CSC 341 - Digital Imaging
CSC 341 - Digital Imaging
Enhancement, analysis and classification of digital imaging. Thresholding, filtering,
and histogram and curve manipulation. Digital image processing and assembly through
use of layers, channels, masks, and paths utilizing object-oriented, bitmapped and
image composition software.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 139 or higher and 'C' or better in CSC 229
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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CSC 398 - Special Topics
CSC 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of computer
science.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CSC 400 - Computer Science Project Seminar
CSC 400 - Computer Science Project Seminar
A capstone investigation of selective current computer science topics and independent
experience in designing and executing a computer science project.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 330
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 421 - Theory of Programming Language
CSC 421 - Theory of Programming Language
An advanced computer science course teaches students basic concepts of functional
programming language and theory of computer programming languages.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 321
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 424 - System Administration
CSC 424 - System Administration
Comprehensive examination of the planning, installation, configuration, and maintenance
of operating systems, and their related services including startup and shut down,
hardware and software installation, file systems and disks, processes, user management,
backups, kernel customization, networking, security, and troubleshooting. Hands-on
assignments required.
Prerequisite(s): ('C' or better in CSC 212) and CSC 265.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 425 - Operating Systems
CSC 425 - Operating Systems
Overview of operating systems principles, and the interrelationship between the operating
systems and the architecture of computer systems. Topics include multithreading, CPU
and I/O device scheduling, process synchronization, deadlocks, and virtual memory
organization.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 207 and 'C' or better in CSC 229
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 431 - Computer Graphics
CSC 431 - Computer Graphics
Introduction to fundamental concepts of computer graphics. Topics include 2-D and
3-D geometry, image formation, graphics pipeline, camera and object transformations,
lighting models, mathematical models of curves and surfaces, and texture mapping techniques.
Students are expected to complete multiple programming projects.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in CSC 229 and MAT 139 or higher
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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CSC 443 - Internet Programming
CSC 443 - Internet Programming
An intermediate course on programming languages used in developing interactive web
sites. Basic experience in the full development cycle including: web site conception,
client / server side programming, and web site maintenance. Individual programming-intensive
web projects are required.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 235
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CSC 451 - Fundamentals of Deep Learning
CSC 451 - Fundamentals of Deep Learning
Theory and application of deep learning. Topics include linear and logistic regression,
fully-connected neural networks, convolutional neural networks, object localization/detection,
neural style transfer, recurrent neural networks, generative adversarial networks,
variational auto encoders, and capsule networks. Students are required to complete
multiple programming assignments.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in CSC 229, and ( MAT 150 or MAT 139).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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CSC 453 - Information Security
CSC 453 - Information Security
This course examines issues related to information and network security. Topics include:
general security concepts, security attacks and risks, security architectures, security
mechanisms, cryptographic algorithms, security standards, and case studies of current
security issues.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 265 or CSC 380 or CSC 465
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 461 - Generative AI for Language Modeling
CSC 461 - Generative AI for Language Modeling
Introduction to generative models in artificial Intelligence for natural languages.
Topics include the attention mechanism and the transformer architecture, word embedding,
large-language models (LLMs), application development using LLMs, model fine-tuning,
and ethical issues in generative AI.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in CSC 229, and MAT 125 or MAT 150
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 463 - Distributed and Parallel Computing
CSC 463 - Distributed and Parallel Computing
Covers general concepts in the design and implementation of distributed and parallel
systems, covering the major branches such as cloud computing, grid computing, cluster
computing and supercomputing. Team projects are required.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 235
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 465 - Computer Networking and Security II
CSC 465 - Computer Networking and Security II
An advanced study of computer networking and its associated security technologies.
Topics include internet architecture, routing protocols, modulation methods, DSL and
cable modem, fiber to the home (FTTH), wireless LAN (IEEE803.11b, g, n, ac), LTE (
Long Term Evolution) 4G and 5G architecture, wireless sensor networks (ZigBee, Thread),
6LoWPAN, IEE802.15.4, software defined networks, multimedia networking and the security
components embedded in these technologies.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 265
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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CSC 477 - Data Mining
CSC 477 - Data Mining
Basic concepts of data mining including data representation, data visualization, data
classification, association discovery and analysis, cluster formation and analysis,
and anomaly detection and analysis. Case studies are reviewed and implemented.
Prerequisite(s):CSC 235 and MAT 221
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CSC 481 - Artificial Intelligence
CSC 481 - Artificial Intelligence
An overview of theoretical foundations and modern tools for artificial intelligence
and their applicationsfor tackling complex real-world problems such as machine translation,
speech recognition, and autonomous driving. Topics include machine learning, search,
game playing, MArkov decision process, constraint satisfaction, statistical learning,
and information fusion. A project is required where students will develop an AI application.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 229 and MAT 221
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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CSC 490 - Research in Computer Science I
CSC 490 - Research in Computer Science I
Introduces students to research in Computer Science and CS-related disciplines. Students
will learn how to conduct literature search, read research papers, and perform analyses.
Students will work in teams to identify and formulate research problems, design and
conduct research studies, analyze results and present the research orally and in written
form.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 229 and [CSC 235 or DSC 333].
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CSC 491 - Research in Computer Science II
CSC 491 - Research in Computer Science II
Provides students with the opportunity to complete the research project proposed in
CSC490. Students will conduct research activities including collecting data, running
experiments, getting results, and performing analyses. Students will present their
research orally and in written form.
Prerequisite(s): 'B' or better in CSC 490.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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CSC 497 - Computer Science Internship
CSC 497 - Computer Science Internship
A supervised internship in a business, government or non-profit organization with
the opportunity to obtain experience in software development, design, or other computer
science related activities in a professional setting. Regular reporting to the faculty
supervisor is required.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 229, CSC 235 and departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CSC 499 - Independent Study and Research
CSC 499 - Independent Study and Research
Upon completion of project and oral presentation of 20-30 minutes is required.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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CTR 300 - Cooperative Education
CTR 300 - Cooperative Education
Enables students to gain employment experience as part of their undergraduate program.
Students may be employed by an industry, a business firm, a nonprofit organization,
or a government agency in order to apply their academic studies to practical employment
situations. Course taken as pass/fail only. Course may be repeated up to 12 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status with a minimum overall GPA of 2.0.
.5 to 12 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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DGH 100 - Introduction to Digital Humanities
DGH 100 - Introduction to Digital Humanities
Explores methods, theories, and applications in digital humanistic research. Introduces
students to a variety of digital tools and approaches to organize, explore, understand,
present and tell stories with data. Students learn how to examine digital humanities
projects to understand how they were built; identify, use and discuss the advantages
and disadvantages of different tools and methodologies.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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DSC 100 - Data Science I
DSC 100 - Data Science I
This course acts as the stepping stone to the realm of data science. Students will
learn concepts from data science using python as the programming language. Course
contents include: computing and programming, python language fundamentals, basic concepts
from linear algebra, statistics, and probability for data science, and topics from
various stages of the data science pipeline. Provides the necessary bases for students
to develop an understanding of data science from a technical perspective and to move
forward to advanced topics.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 111 or higher (may be taken concurrently) or placement in MAT
120 or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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DSC 101 - Data Science II
DSC 101 - Data Science II
An introduction to the data science life cycle. Topics include data extraction, and
decision making using machine learning methods including regression, classification,
clustering, and anomaly detection. Python language and related tools will be used
for solving data science problems.
Prerequisite(s): DSC 100 or [CSC 152 and MAT 107, 150, 151, 221, 245, 252, 320, 321,
326, 328, 329, 372, 428 or 429].
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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DSC 205 - Data Visualization
DSC 205 - Data Visualization
An introduction to the principles and science of turning data into visualizations.
Topics include principles of visual design, data modeling, mapping data attributes
to graphical representation, and data storytelling. Students are expected to create
their own interactive visualizations using various visualization libraries in Python.
Prerequisite(s): DSC 100 or CSC 152
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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DSC 333 - Cloud Services for Data Science
DSC 333 - Cloud Services for Data Science
An introduction to cloud concepts and services for building and deploying data-driven
applications. Topics include Linux command line, bash scripting, data preparation,
data modeling and querying, machine learning services, and data governance.
Prerequisite(s): DSC 101 or DSC 205 or or CSC 212 or higher
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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DSC 480 - Applications of Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
DSC 480 - Applications of Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
An overview of machine learning (ML) concepts and tools used for analysis of genomics
and genetics data. Topics include applying clustering techniques on gene expression
profiles, benign/malignant sample classification using somatic variant data, and dimensionality
reduction techniques for single cell sequencing data. A final group project will involve
presenting a research paper on a ML bioinformatics method, including generating results
using the method in the paper.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 221 and DSC 333 or (CSC 212 and CSC 229).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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DSC 490 - Data Science Capstone Project
DSC 490 - Data Science Capstone Project
Culminating project that revolves around a student-selected data problem. Course activities
parallel the various stages of the data science lifecycle. These include project conception,
data acquisition, data cleaning and transformation, visualization, model building
and evaluation, and presentation of findings.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ECO 100 - Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 100 - Principles of Macroeconomics
This introductory course focuses on the basic principles explaining aggregate economic
activity. Topics covered include the concepts ,measurements, and problems associated
with aggregates such as gross domestic product, price level, unemployment and macroeconomic
policy.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 101 - Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 101 - Principles of Microeconomics
This introductory course focuses on the basic problem of resource allocation in an
economy with particular reference to the market economy.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 110 - Social Issues and Economics
ECO 110 - Social Issues and Economics
One-semester issue-based general education economics course. Various topics include:
The Great Recession, stock market and crashes, race and sex discrimination, international
trade, minimum wage, climate change, helath care, crime, and income inequality.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 200 - Macroeconomic Analysis
ECO 200 - Macroeconomic Analysis
Examination of the composition of the national income and the effects of changes in
its components upon the level of national income. Also analyzed are the nature of
business cycle fluctuations, with attention to the interrelated problems of inflation,
balance of payments, unemployment, and economic growth. The problem of forecasting
economic activity and the development of private and public stabilization programs
are analyzed.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ECO 201 - Microeconomic Analysis
ECO 201 - Microeconomic Analysis
Analysis of the economic principles and processes involved in the structure and operation
of a predominantly free-enterprise economic system. Attention is given to pricing
and distribution theory (micro-analysis).
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 270 - Applied Business Statistics
ECO 270 - Applied Business Statistics
Examination of the practical statistical tools corporate managers and investors use
in decision making. Presentation of statistical concepts such as descriptive indicators,
risk analysis, performance trends and indicators, cause-effect analysis, and the analysis
of relationships between business indicators and measures in applied contexts of business
administration.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 111 or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 302 - Environmental Economics
ECO 302 - Environmental Economics
Economic principles and tools are used to discuss pollution, management and use of
renewable natural resources such as forests and fisheries, as well as the problem
of managing nonrenewable resources.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ECO 303 - Development Economics
ECO 303 - Development Economics
The purpose of this course is fourfold: (1) to introduce the student to the field
and tools of development economics; (2) to explore in depth the philosophical, theoretical,
and policy-oriented complexities of contemporary development issues facing over two-thirds
of the world’s population; (3) to examine the strengths and weaknesses of alternative
development strategies in light of country experience, and (4) to evaluate recent
policy options introduced in development.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 or departmental permission. Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 or departmental
permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 305 - Economic Data Visualization and Analysis
ECO 305 - Economic Data Visualization and Analysis
Provides hands-on experience collecting, visualizing and analyzing real economic data.
Explains appropriate statistical methods depending on data types. Covers various data
sets.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ECO 307 - Urban Economics
ECO 307 - Urban Economics
An economic analysis of the structure and functioning of contemporary urban communities
to identify and study the more pressing economic problems. Attention is directed to
the changing structure of central cities, fiscal arrangements, housing markets, and
public goods.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101. Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ECO 311 - Public Finance
ECO 311 - Public Finance
Principles and techniques involved in obtaining and expending funds by governmental
bodies. Considered also are the nature of governmental borrowing and indebtedness
as well as sources of revenue and fiscal administration.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 316 - Game Theory
ECO 316 - Game Theory
Introduces students to the fundamental concepts of game theory and explains why it
is so relevant across various fields. Focuses on applying concepts to strategic decision-making
situations in business and economics.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ECO 320 - Health Economics
ECO 320 - Health Economics
Introduces students to basic aspects and core principles in health economics and policy.
Provides students with an overview about how to apply economic analysis in major aspects
of health care.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ECO 321 - Introductory Econometrics
ECO 321 - Introductory Econometrics
An exposition of methods of the empirical determination of economic laws. Topics include
the general linear regression model and the corrective measures to take in the critical
use of ready-made econometric computer programs which come with an understanding of
the rationale of the various methods of econometrics.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 270
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ECO 322 - Business and Economic Forecasting
ECO 322 - Business and Economic Forecasting
Explains how to conduct forecasting with business and economic data. Provides hands-on
experience of building various forecasting models and evaluating their performance
with real data and statistical software.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 270
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ECO 323 - Predictive Analytics for Business Data
ECO 323 - Predictive Analytics for Business Data
Explains various analytic tools to make predictions about future outcomes using business
data. Covers regression analysis and data mining techniques. Emphasizes their application
to real data using statistical software.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 270 or HLS 240
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ECO 340 - Money and Banking
ECO 340 - Money and Banking
A close look at the role of money in determining output, inflation, and interest rates.
Topics include money creation, monetary policy, budget deficits, financial intermediation,
banking regulations, and the Federal Reserve.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101. Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 350 - International Economics I: Trade
ECO 350 - International Economics I: Trade
Theoretical foundations of why nations trade; the problems that arise from trade and
the policies nations adopt to correct the problems.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ECO 351 - International Economics II: Finance
ECO 351 - International Economics II: Finance
The global economic activity and balance of payments implications of fiscal/monetary
policies under various capital market conditions. Topics include absolute/comparative
advantages, exchange rates and the balance of payments, national income determination
in an open economy, integrated and nonintegrated capital markets, economic growth,
stablization policies, and the quest for global economic stability.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ECO 410 - Managerial Economics
ECO 410 - Managerial Economics
Problems solving applications of microeconomic theory to policy level decision-making
processes of individual firms competing in local, national, and international markets.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100, ECO 101, and ECO 270.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 450 - Seminar in Applied Economics
ECO 450 - Seminar in Applied Economics
An integrating course in economics that calls for the application of statistical and
econometric methods to solve economic problems of personal interest. Students formulate
a problem, set out the methodology for its resolution, conduct an analysis, and draw
valid inferences with policy implications.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 200, ECO 201 or ECO 221
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ECO 497 - Internship
ECO 497 - Internship
A supervised internship in business or government with the application of economic
theory to problems of enterprise administration. Bi-weekly reporting to the faculty
supervisor is necessary.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ECO 499 - Independent Study
ECO 499 - Independent Study
Research of a high quality meeting the standards of the department faculty director.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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EDU 106 - New Literacies: Digital Text and Tools for Learning
EDU 106 - New Literacies: Digital Text and Tools for Learning
Highlights the shifting nature of literacy and social practices as new digital texts
and tools emerge. Instructs students in the technological fluencies required in the
21st century.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 198 - Special Topics
EDU 198 - Special Topics
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 200 - Teachers, Schools, and Society
EDU 200 - Teachers, Schools, and Society
An examination of the social, cultural, and political origins of contemporary schooling,
with a focus on schools as social institutions that reflect larger social conflict
and change. The course focuses on the role of teachers as both actor and subjects
of educational reform movements. Course includes required field experiences in an
educational setting.
Special Information: Field work required.
Prerequisite(s): Education program or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 206 - Principles of Early Childhood Education
EDU 206 - Principles of Early Childhood Education
Focuses on the distinct philosophies, theories, standards, policies, values and issues
of collaborations in the field of Early Childhood Education. A 40 hour field placement
in an early childhood school setting provides students with an opportunity to experience
what it means to be an early childhood teacher and relate theory to practice. Students
learn to navigate their role as early childhood professionals.
Special Information: Field work required.
Prerequisite(s): Early Childhood program or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 300 - Student Teaching I
EDU 300 - Student Teaching I
Guided observation of the teaching process and supervised student teaching coordinated
with study of curricula and educational materials. Course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 305 - Emerging Literacies
EDU 305 - Emerging Literacies
An introduction to the development of academic languages, oral and written, through
linguistic, cognitive and literacy meaning-making processes in young learners. This
course examines the development and assessment of phonological and phonemic awareness,
phonics, spelling and of cueing systems paired with balanced teaching approaches that
are grounded in student-centered learning theories that stress the role of school,
home, and community.
Prerequisite(s): Admission into Elementary, Elementary Bilingual, or Early Childhood
program, or IDS major with Child, Families and Communities Studies Concentration.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 307 - Children’s Literature and Literacy
EDU 307 - Children’s Literature and Literacy
Study of how literature can be used as a springboard for teaching language arts in
the elementary grade classroom.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or EDU 206 and admission to the Elementary Education, Bilingual
Education, or Special Education (Collaborative or Comprehensive) program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 308 - Children’s Literature and Literacy: Early Childhood
EDU 308 - Children’s Literature and Literacy: Early Childhood
Study of ways to help children use and develop language skills to listen, speak, read,
and write using children’s literature as a springboard.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or EDU 206 and acceptance into Early Childhood Education
Program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 309 - Curriculum Design and Methods for Pre-K/ K
EDU 309 - Curriculum Design and Methods for Pre-K/ K
Study of teacher’s role in facilitating the preschool/kindergarten child’s learning
and development. Course addresses curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and positive guidance.
Field work component links theory of practice.
Special Information: Field work required.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or EDU 206 and acceptance into the Early Childhood Education
Program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 312 - Integrated Curriculum in the Primary Classroom
EDU 312 - Integrated Curriculum in the Primary Classroom
Study of the teacher’s role in facilitating children’s learning and development in
grades 1-3. Course addresses curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and differentiation.
Field work component links theory to practice.
Special Information: Field work required.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or EDU 206 and acceptance into the Early Childhood Education
Program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 316 - Child Development and Psychology for Educators
EDU 316 - Child Development and Psychology for Educators
Focuses on patterns of typical and atypical development from birth through adolescence
and young adulthood. Emphasis on developmental theories, varied research methodologies,
and the development of observational skills to discern individual differences and
begin to analyze developmental characteristics among early and middle childhood and
all stages of adolescence.
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into any of the Educator Preparation Program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 317 - Science Education in the Elementary School
EDU 317 - Science Education in the Elementary School
Examines the content, organization, and techniques of instruction in elementary science
from Kindergarten through grade 6. Emphasis is on directed teaching; inquiry; discovery
and the problem-solving methodologies endorsed by current reform efforts for achievement
of optimal learning and comprehension.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or ED 206 and admission to Elementary Education, Bilingual
Education, or Special Education (Collaborative or Comprehensive) programs.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 319 - Integrated Mathematics, Science, and Technology for Early Childhood Education
EDU 319 - Integrated Mathematics, Science, and Technology for Early Childhood Education
An integrated approach to the teaching of mathematics, science, and technology for
early childhood educators. Cooperative learning, use of manipulative, hands on lessons,
and educational technology designed to motivate students and help them understand
the theories, practices, and processes of mathematics and science is emphasized in
this course.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or 206 and acceptance into Early Childhood Education Program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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EDU 321 - Social Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy
EDU 321 - Social Studies Curriculum and Pedagogy
A study of social studies curriculum and pedagogy, with a focus on understanding the
global and multicultural education. Instructional strategies that support integrated
curriculum and cooperative learning will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Collaborative program.
1.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 322 - Family, School, and Community Partnerships
EDU 322 - Family, School, and Community Partnerships
Theories and practices for building strong family, school, and community relationships;
programs and approaches to help teachers to encourage parent involvement and effectively
support diverse families.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 305 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 325 - Best Practices in Classroom Management
EDU 325 - Best Practices in Classroom Management
The proactive and reactive components of effective classroom management; emphasis
is on the link between normative student development, academic performance, and behavior.
Topics include environmental design, organizational design, establishment of rules
and procedures, and management styles. Field experience in a school setting provides
opportunities to link theory with practice.
Special Information: Fieldwork is required.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or EDU 206 and admission to Elementary Education or Bilingual
Education program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 326 - Culturally Responsive Positive Guidance in Early Childhood
EDU 326 - Culturally Responsive Positive Guidance in Early Childhood
Examine research, theories, and practices related to supporting children’s social/emotional
growth, cultivating belonging, culturally responsive teaching, and approaches to discipline
in the early childhood classroom. Analyze patterns of inequity in disciplinary practices
among early childhood classrooms.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 206
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 330 - Social Studies in Elementary Schools
EDU 330 - Social Studies in Elementary Schools
An examination of social studies content and pedagogy at the elementary school level,
with a focus on integrated curriculum, historical/social studies literacy, backward
planning in the design units and lessons, and cooperative and active instructional
teaching methods.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 or EUD 206 and admission into Elementary Education, Bilingual
Education, or Special Education (Collaborative) program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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EDU 370 - Early Childhood Student Teaching I
EDU 370 - Early Childhood Student Teaching I
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in cooperating school. Six-week
course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 322
5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 400 - Student Teaching II
EDU 400 - Student Teaching II
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in cooperating schools. Eight-week
course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 300 and departmental permission.
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 407 - Developing Literacies
EDU 407 - Developing Literacies
A sociocultural exploration of how cueing systems, meaning, fluency, comprehension,
text structure, genre, and writing play a critical role in developing and assessing
academic literacies. Building upon theoretical foundations of the prerequisite literacy
course, this course examines strategies that expand academic literacies that recognize
the role of identity power.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 305 or SED 435 and Admission into Elementary Education, Bilingual
Education, Early Childhood or Special Education (Collaborative) program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 408 - Developing Literacies in Elementary Education
EDU 408 - Developing Literacies in Elementary Education
A sociocultural exploration of the role of cueing systems, fluency, comprehension,
text, and writing in developing academic literacies. Building upon theoretical foundations,
this course examines strategies that expand languages and literacies in elementary
grades.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 305 Corequisite(s): EDU 475
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 413 - Secondary Education
EDU 413 - Secondary Education
A general study of secondary education curriculum and pedagogy. A required field experience
in a middle or high school setting provides opportunities to link theory with practice.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 200 and Admission into a secondary level Educational Preparation
Program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 414 - Applications of Child Development
EDU 414 - Applications of Child Development
Study of personality development, growth, needs, and guidance of children from early
childhood through age 12.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 316 or PSY 210 and admission to Elementary Education, Bilingual
Education, Early Childhood Education, Special Education (Collaborative), or IDS major
w/concentration in Child, Family, and Community Studies.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 415 - Responsive Curriculum and Assessment
EDU 415 - Responsive Curriculum and Assessment
Engages future teachers in studying diverse classroom, school, and community contexts;
assessing elementary students' strengths, weaknesses, interests, and background knowledge;
and implementing curriculum based on assessment results and context.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 325 or SED 325 and admission to the Elementary, Bilingual, or
Special Education program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 424 - Teaching Mathematics in Elementary School.
EDU 424 - Teaching Mathematics in Elementary School.
Examines the mathematics covered in grades K to 6. Also examines the use and meaning
of numbers in children's lives and the current trends in mathematics education.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 106 and EDU 321 or SED 325 and admission to Elementary Education,
Special Education or Special Ed./ Elem. Ed. Collaborative program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 444 - DSAP Supervision and Appraisal
EDU 444 - DSAP Supervision and Appraisal
This course is for Post Baccalaureate students who are teaching under a DSAP permit.
To waive student teaching, students would need to take and pass EDU 444 over 2 semesters;
pass the student teaching seminar and its required assessments (i.e. edTPA); and submit
proof of 10 months of successful teaching. Special Information: Course taken for pass/fail
only.
Special Information: Course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): 12 credits of post-bacc program completed
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 450 - Student Teaching I
EDU 450 - Student Teaching I
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in cooperating schools. Course
taken as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): departmental permission.
5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 451 - Student Teaching II
EDU 451 - Student Teaching II
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in cooperating schools. Course
taken as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): departmental permission.
5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 470 - Early Childhood Student Teaching II
EDU 470 - Early Childhood Student Teaching II
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in cooperating schools. Ten-week
course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 322
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 471 - Supporting English Learners for School Success
EDU 471 - Supporting English Learners for School Success
This course is for future and current public school teachers, to increase their effectiveness
in helping English Language Learners (ELLs) learn and remember selected content (i.e.,
math, science, social studies, and literature). The course focuses on ESL methodologies
and ways to modify mainstream course materials and instructional strategies so that
ELLs can engage in course content while simultaneously developing their new language.
Prerequisite(s): ART 370 or EDU 305 or EDU 307 or EDU 308 or EDU 413 or HMS 352 or
SED 435 and admission to any Educator Preparation Program.
1.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 472 - Nurturing Multilingual Students in Early Childhood
EDU 472 - Nurturing Multilingual Students in Early Childhood
Prepares early childhood educators to work with multilingual students in early learning
centers, and preschool through grade 3 classrooms. Topics addressed: language and
literacy acquisition, lesson design, community partnerships to support diverse learners
and families.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 305
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 475 - Supervised Fieldwork
EDU 475 - Supervised Fieldwork
Supervised field placement in a public school classroom designed to allow implementation
of skills and knowledge gained in methods courses. Students will collaborate with
a classroom teacher to design and implement small group and whole group lessons.
Course taken for pass/fail only.
Special Information: Field placement in public school classroom. Background check
is required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Education Preparation Program.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 480 - Student Teaching
EDU 480 - Student Teaching
Guided observations and supervised student teaching in cooperating schools. Sixteen-week
course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 305, 317, 407 and 424
11 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 485 - Student Teaching Seminar
EDU 485 - Student Teaching Seminar
Issues and current practices in education are discussed in light of current placements.
Topics include Connecticut regulations, classroom management, planning, and implementing
curriculum. Course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Must be taken concurrently with student teaching.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EDU 499 - Independent Study
EDU 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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EGR 151 - Engineering Concepts
EGR 151 - Engineering Concepts
An introduction to the tools and problem solving techniques used in the engineering
profession.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 122 taken prior to or concurrent with EGR 151.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EGR 232 - Materials Science and Engineering
EGR 232 - Materials Science and Engineering
An interdisciplinary introduction to materials science and engineering with topics
including historical perspective, structure property relationships, engineering design,
characterization techniques, manufacturing/synthesis, nanoscale applications and ethical/society
implications.
Prerequisite(s): EGR 151 and PHY 200 or PHY 230.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EGR 251 - Engineering Mechanics I: Statics
EGR 251 - Engineering Mechanics I: Statics
The emphasis is on analyzing the forces and torques acting on objects and structures
which are at rest. Topics include calculation of centers of mass and moments of inertia
for extended bodies and the application of Newton’s second law in multiple dimensions
to systems of particles and rigid bodies in equilibrium.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 230 and MAT 151.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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EGR 471 - Capstone Experience in Engineering
EGR 471 - Capstone Experience in Engineering
Culminating capstone experience for students in the engineering concentration of the
physics major. A team based learning experience that incorporates a project which
includes aspects of an engineering design process. A final written document and oral
presentation of the chose project.
Prerequisite(s): EGR 151
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ENG 110 - Fundamentals of Academic Writing
ENG 110 - Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Instruction in multi-stage reading and writing processes in order to comprehend complex
texts and write different types of academic essays. A portfolio will be required.
Prerequisite(s): By assignment only.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 112 - Writing Arguments
ENG 112 - Writing Arguments
Development of critical reading and writing skills with a focus on intellectually
demanding texts. Emphasis on source-based argument writing. By assignment only.
Prerequisite(s): successful completion of ENG 110 or ENG 111 or ENG 119 or [placement
into 'Path 2' and successful completion of INQ 101] or placement in ENG 112.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 119 - College Composition for Bilingual Students
ENG 119 - College Composition for Bilingual Students
Instruction in multi-stage reading and writing processes for bilingual students (heritage
speakers and English Learners) in order to comprehend complex texts and write different
types of academic essays; special emphasis on the conventions of U.S. standard academic
English. A portfolio will be required. Special Information: By appointment only.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 120 - Writing Arguments for Bilingual Students
ENG 120 - Writing Arguments for Bilingual Students
English 120 is designed for bilingual students, focusing on developing academic reading
and writing skills in English necessary for their undergraduate study in the U.S.
specifically, students will learn how to understand, summarize, respond to, and integrate
academic-level texts (from academic journals, high-quality journalism, professional
websites, textbooks, and case studies). In addition, the course provides a comprehensive
review of the essential English grammar for academic writing, particularly in the
argumentative genre.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 119
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 125 - Representing Sexism and Homophobia Critically
ENG 125 - Representing Sexism and Homophobia Critically
An analysis of social, aesthetic, psychological and historical manifestations of sexism
and homophobia in literature, and the consequences of these prejudices.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ENG 200 - Intermediate Composition
ENG 200 - Intermediate Composition
Course in expository writing, teaching the command of language.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 201 - Creative Writing
ENG 201 - Creative Writing
Emphasis on the basic craft of writing poetry and stories. Selections from contemporary
literature are used as creative writing models.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 202 - Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENG 202 - Introduction to Poetry Writing
Exercises in the fundamentals of poetry writing: meter, figurative language, tone,
and structure.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 203 - Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENG 203 - Introduction to Fiction Writing
Exercises in character, conflict, point of view, tone, plot, setting, scene, and narration—culminating
in a complete short story.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 204 - Introduction to Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Writing
ENG 204 - Introduction to Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Introduces students to writing memoir and creative nonfiction. Students will read
and analyze selections of published creative nonfiction and will write several short
works in a variety of subgenres as well as one longer memoir or essay.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ENG 209 - Lyrics as Literature:Reading and Writing Song Lyrics
ENG 209 - Lyrics as Literature:Reading and Writing Song Lyrics
Writing Song Lyrics Study of the song lyric as both a literary and musical form, with
emphasis on folk music and the singer-songwriter movement. Discussion and application
of the craft of lyric composition.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 217 - Introduction to Literature
ENG 217 - Introduction to Literature
Introduction to the values, purposes, and pleasures of drama, fiction, and poetry,
and to basic modes of literary interpretation. Readings on topics such as African-American
identity, meaning and madness, sexuality and ethics, or politics. Course may be repeated
one time for credit.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 or HON 150 (any may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 218 - The American Experience and Literature
ENG 218 - The American Experience and Literature
American literature in the genres of prose, poetry, and drama in the context of United
States culture, society, and politics.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 or HON 150 (any may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 219 - Time and Place in Literature
ENG 219 - Time and Place in Literature
Literature studied with attention to the importance of a particular era.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 or HON 150 (any may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 220 - Anglo-Irish Identities in Literature
ENG 220 - Anglo-Irish Identities in Literature
A study of the contentious relationship between England and Ireland through literary
and historical works of the 19th and 20th centuries, and how Anglo-Irish identities
were shaped in the process.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 235 - Seminar in Tutoring Writing: Theory and Practice
ENG 235 - Seminar in Tutoring Writing: Theory and Practice
Prepares students to be writing tutors in the Center for Academic Success and Accessibility
Services. This reading- and writing-intensive course introduces students to the theory
and practice of tutoring writing in academic settings, particularly those involving
writing across the disciplines. The course includes fieldwork at CASAS and opportunities
to develop as writers and tutors/professionals. Through a series of workshops and
case studies, students will begin working toward College Reading and Learning Association
(CRLA) Level 1 certification. Students will be eligible for, but not guaranteed, employment
as an Academic Specialist in Writing at CASAS if they earn a grade of 'B+' or higher
in this course.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or HON 150 ('B+' or higher)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ENG 240 - Professional Writing: Theory and Practice
ENG 240 - Professional Writing: Theory and Practice
The study of how language works in written expression, from articles in trade journals
to poetry.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 280 - Writing for Nonprofit Organizations
ENG 280 - Writing for Nonprofit Organizations
Explores theory and practice of writing in arts and cultural, social service, and
other non-governmental agencies. Students learn to compose and revise genres include
grant proposals, fundraising letters, and other advocacy documents.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 298 - Special Topics
ENG 298 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of English.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ENG 302 - Intermediate Poetry Writing
ENG 302 - Intermediate Poetry Writing
Continued practice and instruction in the craft of writing poetry.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 202 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 304 - Technical Writing and Communication
ENG 304 - Technical Writing and Communication
Interpreting specialized and technical information for readers at various levels and
preparing material for publication.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 306 - Intermediate Fiction Writing
ENG 306 - Intermediate Fiction Writing
Continued practice and instruction in the craft of writing fiction.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 203 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 307 - Literary Analysis for English Majors
ENG 307 - Literary Analysis for English Majors
An introduction to the critical vocabulary for analyzing literature, to the practices
of close reading and interpretation, and to proper documentation and citation using
the MLA style.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 or HON 150; and English major, concentration, or minor.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 308 - English Studies: Critical Theories
ENG 308 - English Studies: Critical Theories
An introduction to the range of literary-critical, historical, and philosophical theories
current in English Studies and to using such ideas to transform reading responses
into coherent interpretations.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 307 (ENG 307 may be taken concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 309 - Rhetorical Strategies in Writing and Communication
ENG 309 - Rhetorical Strategies in Writing and Communication
Instruction in a range of persuasive and argumentative strategies embodied in classical
and modern rhetorics.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 307 (ENG 307 may be taken concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 312 - English Grammar Systems
ENG 312 - English Grammar Systems
Study of three major English grammar systems (traditional, structural, and transformational),
including some history of the language. Emphasis on modern linguistic principles and
on social, regional, and functional varieties of English usage.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 316 - Writing for Business and Industry
ENG 316 - Writing for Business and Industry
Practice in gathering and analyzing data and in writing and editing specialized reports,
manuals, and correspondence.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 317 - Cross-Cultural Literatures and Contexts
ENG 317 - Cross-Cultural Literatures and Contexts
An introduction to cross-cultural literature and their contexts. Students will become
familiar with a range of literatures: African/African American, Asian/Asian American,
Latino/ Latin American, and Native American literature written by male and female
authors; literary texts representing other cultures may be included at individual
professors’ discretion.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307(may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 318 - Writing for the Web
ENG 318 - Writing for the Web
Study of composing processes and content development in professional digital environments.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 321 - British Literature through History I
ENG 321 - British Literature through History I
Study of selected works of pre-1789 British literature as situated in culture and
history.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 322 - British Literature through History II
ENG 322 - British Literature through History II
Study of selected works of post-1789 British literature as situated in culture and
history.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 323 - American Literature through History
ENG 323 - American Literature through History
Study of selected works of United States literature as situated in culture and history.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 342 - Shakespeare I: 1564-1601
ENG 342 - Shakespeare I: 1564-1601
A study of the development of Shakespeare’s dramatic art through a reading of the
histories, comedies, and tragedies from the earliest works through Twelfth Night.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 343 - Shakespeare II: 1601-1616
ENG 343 - Shakespeare II: 1601-1616
A study of Shakespeare’s mature art through a reading of the problem comedies, the
great tragedies, and the dramatic romances.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 350 - Environmental Writing
ENG 350 - Environmental Writing
Explores theory and practice of writing about nature and the environment. Students
learn to observe natural and environmental phenomena, research environmental issues,
and compose in genres such as nature essays, environmental reports, and advocacy documents.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 352 - Medical and Health Writing
ENG 352 - Medical and Health Writing
Explores a range of documents written in healthcare settings, focusing on those written
for a non-expert audience. Students will learn skills such as reading and understanding
medical literature, composing documents for lay readers, creating visual representations
of data to support text, and using
medical knowledge to advocate for change.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ENG 360 - Early American Writers
ENG 360 - Early American Writers
The major works in the age of settlement, revolution, and early romanticism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ENG 371 - Literature into Film
ENG 371 - Literature into Film
An examination of the dynamics involved in the cinematic renderings of literary narratives.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 372 - Young Adult Literature
ENG 372 - Young Adult Literature
A critical examination of young adult literature as a category of literature that
resists easy definition, but requires careful scrutiny in the changing atmosphere
of the 21st century literacy. Students read widely in the field in order to establish
generic characteristics of the literature; common archetypes and themes; rhetorical
elements of author, audience, and message; and the popular, academic, and critical
reception of young adult books.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently)
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 380 - Chaucer
ENG 380 - Chaucer
Chaucer’s poetry with special emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 217 or ENG 218 or ENG 219 or ENG 220 or ENG 307 (may be taken
concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ENG 402 - Advanced Poetry Writing
ENG 402 - Advanced Poetry Writing
Workshop in poetry writing for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 302 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 406 - Advanced Fiction Writing
ENG 406 - Advanced Fiction Writing
Workshop in fiction writing for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 306 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 412 - Soundwriting
ENG 412 - Soundwriting
Focus on writing text for sound-based documents such as audio essays and narrative
podcasts. Students will learn skills such as drafting and revising audio scripts,
incorporating music, ambient sound, and voice to text for rhetorical effect.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120 or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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ENG 415 - History of the English Language
ENG 415 - History of the English Language
Historical, cultural, political, and linguistic survey of the origins and development
of the English language.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112, ENG 120, or HON 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 423 - Contemporary African-American Novelists
ENG 423 - Contemporary African-American Novelists
An examination of recent African-American novelists such as Morrison, Naylor, Johnson,
and Wideman, with particular emphasis on emerging writers.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 424 - The Harlem Renaissance
ENG 424 - The Harlem Renaissance
An examination of the major poets and writers of fiction of the Harlem Renaissance,
including Toomer, Johnson, Thurman, McKay, Larsen, and Hughes.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 462 - Gay and Lesbian Film and Literature
ENG 462 - Gay and Lesbian Film and Literature
A survey of gay and lesbian literature and film in several genres, including documentaries,
comedies, camp parodies, and dramas.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 486 - Seminar in American Literature
ENG 486 - Seminar in American Literature
Intensive study of a major writer or a selected topic, with choices changing each
term. Course may be repeated five times for credit.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ENG 487 - Seminar in British Literature
ENG 487 - Seminar in British Literature
Intensive study of a major writer or a selected topic, with choices changing each
term. Course may be repeated five times for credit.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307 (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ENG 490 - Advanced Seminar in Literature
ENG 490 - Advanced Seminar in Literature
A culminating seminar in literary studies, with an in-depth study of a single author,
group of writers, or literary movement, genre, or topic. Includes advanced instruction
in literary research leading to a public-facing writing project.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 491 - Career Preparation in English
ENG 491 - Career Preparation in English
Career exploration and professional development. Designed to help soon to be graduates
prepare for life after college.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 492 - Teaching English: Methods I
ENG 492 - Teaching English: Methods I
English teacher candidates learn the theories, pedagogies, and practices associated
with teaching poetry, novels, drama, and short fiction to young adults. Work for the
course includes a fieldwork component.
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance to the College of Education and EDU 413.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 493 - Teaching English: Methods II
ENG 493 - Teaching English: Methods II
English teacher candidates learn teh theories, pedagogies, and practices associated
with the teaching of writing of texts of all kinds. Work for the course includes a
fieldwork component.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 492.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 494 - Student Teaching–English
ENG 494 - Student Teaching–English
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in English, grades 7–12, in a cooperating
school. Fifteen-week field experience. Course taken for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 493 and all other professional education courses. Corequisite:
ENG 496.
10.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 496 - Student Teaching Seminar–English
ENG 496 - Student Teaching Seminar–English
Discussion of educational issues, in particular those raised by students' experiences
in the field. Focus on unit planning, Classroom management, reflective practice, and
culturally responsive pedagogy. Exploration of ethical judgements, human diversity,
and civic engagement in secondary English education.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 493 Corequisite(s): ENG 494
2 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENG 497 - Internship in Teaching Writing
ENG 497 - Internship in Teaching Writing
An internship in one of the introductory-level, writing-focused courses offered by
the English Department for an upperdivision student with particular interests and
strengths in writing.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 498 - Professional Writing Internship
ENG 498 - Professional Writing Internship
Practical experience in writing and editing reports, correspondence, and technical
materials for area businesses, industries, and government and community agencies directed
by a company supervisor and a faculty member. Repeatable for up to 6 credits.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 307
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENG 499 - Independent Study
ENG 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ENV 100 - Environmental Studies I
ENV 100 - Environmental Studies I
An overview of the major scientific concepts that underlie current environmental problems.
A multidisciplinary approach to the nature and extent of the pollution jeopardizing
our air, water, resources, wildlife, and quality of human life.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENV 101 - Critical Thinking: Global Environmental Issues
ENV 101 - Critical Thinking: Global Environmental Issues
Course teaches basic critical thinking skills through engagement with some of the
most fundamental global environmental problems of our time (e.g., energy and oil,
climate change, world water resources, biodiversity loss and species extinctions).
The course will examine means of living sustainably with the planet and will provide
students with the tools to sort through the media hype and distortions of information
that are all too common on all sides of these issues. Students will appreciate that
critical thinking skills are applicable to all intellectual endeavors as well as to
the profitable living of one’s own life.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENV 200 - Systems Thinking for the Environment
ENV 200 - Systems Thinking for the Environment
An advanced survey course that uses a multidisciplinary approach to educate students
on how complex socio-ecological systems affect the air, water, soil, wildlife, economic
resources, and the quality of human life. Focuses on interrelationships between human
environmental systems. Also, exposes students to systems theory and seeks to broaden
student perspectives of environmental issues so they have deep understanding of the
multi-faced aspects of environmental problems.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ENV 204 - Principles of Sustainability
ENV 204 - Principles of Sustainability
Introduction to the study of sustainability and human-environment interactions. Taught
from a sustainability science perspective exploring contemporary environmental and
societal challenges in a variety of development contexts and applies the principles
of sustainability to consider how such problems can be most effectively addressed.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENV 220 - Global Climate Change
ENV 220 - Global Climate Change
Examination of the scientific, social, economic and political aspects of global climate
change due to energy production using fossil-fuels.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENV 304 - Sustainability and Public Engagement
ENV 304 - Sustainability and Public Engagement
Through an exploration of everyday activities and items, public engagement with sustainability
is evaluated within the context of consumption practices. Focusing on evaluating different
approaches for involvement; students create, plan, and run their own sustainability
engagement event on campus or in a community-based setting. Emphasis on skills development
for public engagement with sustainability.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ENV 333 - Environmental Impact Assessment & Management
ENV 333 - Environmental Impact Assessment & Management
An in-depth exploration of the fundamental concepts of Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA) as a process to predict, evaluate, and mitigate the impact on the environment
of a proposed project, program or policy prior to its commencement. Provides a comprehensive
and critical understanding of the foundations and regulatory basis for the Environmental
Impact Assessment and Statement process. Emphasis on practical skills development
in preparation for careers applying EIA in environmental assessment and sustainability
management.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore Status
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENV 350 - Environmental Systems Inquiry
ENV 350 - Environmental Systems Inquiry
Local, regional, and global environmental phenomena, events, and issues through inquiry,
field studies, and group collaborative research. Topics include environmental field
studies, site descriptions and monitoring, and data collection (weather, hydrology,
soils, and biometry). A systems analysis approach examines environmental phenomena
and events affecting atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 201
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENV 400 - Environmental Policy
ENV 400 - Environmental Policy
Examining the policy process, behavior of interest groups and political parties, and
the actions of policymakers e.g. Congress, Senate, and the President as they relate
to environmental policies and issues e.g. climate change, natural resource management,
and biodiversity conservation. The course encompasses the process of policy analysis,
stakeholder impact, and methods of analyzing and selecting the most appropriate and
effective policy response.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ENV 401 - Pollution Prevention and Controls
ENV 401 - Pollution Prevention and Controls
Basic principles of hazardous chemical management and emergency response. Investigates
chemical, biologic, and earth science systems and their interactions which influence
the fate of chemicals in the environment. Management strategies, identification, and
quantitative remediation techniques are discussed. Completion of the course results
in eligibility of OSHA 1910.120 40 hour training certificate for Hazardous Materials
Training Certificate.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ENV 404 - Applied Sustainability Science
ENV 404 - Applied Sustainability Science
Experimental field laboratory experience intended to implement the principles of sustainability
and key sustainability engagement techniques into practice through an applied project-based
learning approach. Projects may address energy, transport, food, and environmental/climate
justice related
topics on campus or in a community-based setting.
Prerequisite(s): ENV 304
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENV 491 - Environmental Problem Solving
ENV 491 - Environmental Problem Solving
Systematic analysis of a topic in environmental or marine studies selected by the
student with prior instructor approval. Students learn effective research, writing,
and oral communication skills culminating in the preparation of a research paper and
a formal seminar presentation.
Prerequisite(s): Completed LEP Tier 2 Natural World I and Natural World II, or 6 credits
in ENV or MAR.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ENV 498 - Special Topics
ENV 498 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of environmental
science.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ESC 103 - General Geology
ESC 103 - General Geology
A survey of the fundamental principles of physical and historical geology. Topics
include the formation of rocks and minerals, the structure of the earth's interior,
the processes that shape the surface landscape, and the evolution of earth over time.
Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory, 2 hours.
Special Information: Not open to BIO, CHE, ESC, PHY majors. Recommended for non-science
majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 104 - Geohazards and Natural Disasters
ESC 104 - Geohazards and Natural Disasters
Survey of earth sciences through an examination of natural hazards including causes
and effects of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes,
droughts, wildfires, climate change, and impacts of extraterrestrial objects. Discussion
focuses on personal and societal adjustments to these hazards. Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory,
2 hours.
Special Information: Not open to majors: BIO, CHE, ESC, PHY. Recommended for non-science
majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 106 - General Oceanography
ESC 106 - General Oceanography
Physical, chemical, geological, and biological aspects of the ocean basins and waters.
The historical development and interdisciplinary nature of oceanography are stressed.
Recommended for non-science majors. Not open to biology, chemistry, earth science,
and physics majors. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
Special Information: Not open to majors: BIO, CHE, ESC, PHY. Recommended for non-science
majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 111 - Life Through Time
ESC 111 - Life Through Time
The origin and evolution of life on earth, including an introduction to the geological
and biological foundations of evolutionary theory in addition to an overview of the
important evolutionary events in earth history. Laboratory will include examination
and comparison of the primary invertebrate and vertebrate fossil groups. Recommended
for non-science majors. Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory, 2 hours.
Special Information: Not open to Earth Science majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ESC 200 - Physical Geology
ESC 200 - Physical Geology
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of physical geology including the composition,
structure, and dynamics of the earth from the atomic scale of minerals to the planetary
scale of plate tectonics. Recommended for students with concentrated interest in the
sciences and for those who are interested in pursuing a degree in Earth Science or
science teaching certification. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of MAT 100/100P or higher or placement into MAT 103 or
higher.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 201 - History of Earth and Life
ESC 201 - History of Earth and Life
Evolution of the earth and life through time, with emphasis on the geologic history
of North America.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 205 - Principles of Meteorology
ESC 205 - Principles of Meteorology
Description of atmospheric phenomena and discussion of their underlying physical principles.
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of MAT 103 or higher, or placement into MAT 112 or higher.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 210 - Principles of Astronomy
ESC 210 - Principles of Astronomy
A survey of astronomy addressing topics ranging from earth’s time of day to the solar
system, stars, galaxies, and origin and evolution of the universe. Exploration of
the philosophical and societal interaction with the scientific understanding of the
universe. Telescopic observing sessions are included. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory,
2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 108 or higher; and PHY 200 or PHY 210 or higher.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 220 - Physical and Chemical Oceanography
ESC 220 - Physical and Chemical Oceanography
Introduction to the physical and chemical characteristics of ocean water and the ocean
basins. The course focuses on the composition and properties of sea water, waves,
tides, coastal processes, and ocean circulation. The relationships between chemical
and physical oceanographic processes and the geology and biology of the oceans will
be explored. Recommended for science majors or those with an aptitude for science.
Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 103 or higher (may be taken concurrently).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 235 - Computation and Visualization of Data in the Earth Sciences.
ESC 235 - Computation and Visualization of Data in the Earth Sciences.
Introduction to acquiring, managing, analyzing, and visualizing geoscience data using
digital devices and computers. General purpose and discipline specific software will
be introduced and utilized for classroom, laboratory, and field based learning and
skill acquisition. Lecture 2 hours, Laboratory 2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): ESC 200 or ESC 201.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ESC 303 - Environmental Earth Science
ESC 303 - Environmental Earth Science
Study of dynamic Earth processes and systems, such as the water cycle and climate,
with an emphasis on human interaction with the natural environment. Addresses environmental
problems and potential solutions from an Earth Science perspective.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in one ESC course at the 100 level or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 311 - Mineralogy
ESC 311 - Mineralogy
Systematic study of minerals. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): ESC 200 (may be taken concurrently) or ESC 201 (may be taken concurrently);
CHE 120.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 312 - Petrology
ESC 312 - Petrology
Occurrence, classification, and genesis of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Silicate
melt equilibria, rock associations, petrography and field relations. Lecture, 3 hours;
laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 311.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 315 - Geomorphology and Natural Hazards
ESC 315 - Geomorphology and Natural Hazards
Study of the earth’s surface features including fluvial, eolian, and glacial landforms.
Emphasis will be placed on process and landscape evolution. Natural hazards and their
connection to surface processes will be examined. Analysis of maps, aerial photographs,
and remote sensing data.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 200 or ESC 201.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 325 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
ESC 325 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
Occurrence, genesis, and physical and chemical properties of sediments. Methods of
using ancient sediments to determine geological history.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 201.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ESC 332 - Invertebrate Paleontology and the Fossil Record
ESC 332 - Invertebrate Paleontology and the Fossil Record
Overview of the major groups of invertebrate fossils and their depositional environments.
Class discussions include important concepts in paleontology and paleobiology including
the origins of life, speciation, evolutionary theory and the patterns, taphonomy,
biostratigraphy, and also ethical issues in paleontology, which students examine in
depth as part of a culminating project. A laboratory component includes examination
of fossil invertebrates and plants using hand specimens and microscopes. Lecture,
3 hours; Laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in BIO 102 or ESC 201, junior or senior status.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 350 - Structural Geology and Tectonics
ESC 350 - Structural Geology and Tectonics
Orientation, measurement description, and analysis of planar and linear structures
in rocks, including folds, faults, and fabrics. Basic concepts of strain and stress
and the behavior of earth materials during deformation, linked to regional and structural
data, and construction of geologic maps and cross-sections. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory,
3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 200 or ESC 201, and one ESC course at 300 or
400-level.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 420 - Earth Resources
ESC 420 - Earth Resources
Geologic occurrence, methods of exploration, production, and use of the principal
metallic and non-metallic ores. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 311.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ESC 421 - Marine Geology
ESC 421 - Marine Geology
Provides a comprehensive survey of modern marine geology with an emphasis on the deep
sea. It will examine the physical and chemical processes that control the geology
and structure of the continental margins and ocean basins including plate tectonics
and marine sedimentation. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 200, ESC 220, and one course in ESC at 300
or 400-level.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ESC 430 - Field Methods
ESC 430 - Field Methods
The techniques of field data collection in the Earth Sciences, including geologic
mapping. Strategies for planning and implementing field investigations using traditional
and modern techniques. Problem solving skills, analysis and interpretation of field
data, and preparation of geologic and environmental reports. Lecture, 1 hour; laboratory,
5 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 312 or ESC 350 or ESC 325.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ESC 457 - Hydrology
ESC 457 - Hydrology
The development and utilization of water resources; ground-water occurrence, stream
flow, and flooding. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 200, and one ESC course at 300 or 400-level.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 458 - Soil Science
ESC 458 - Soil Science
Study of the soil-forming processes and properties of soil, with special attention
to soils in land use decision making. Lecture, 2 hours; Laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in ESC 200 and one ESC course at 300 or 400-level.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ESC 461 - Glacial Geology
ESC 461 - Glacial Geology
Survey of the fundamental principles of glacial geology with a focus on contemporary
issues. Characteristics of glaciers such as their flow mechanics, thermal regimes,
and hydrology. The formation of glacial landforms and patterns of sedimentation in
recently glaciated settings. Glaciers as records of paleoclimate and environmental
change. Laboratory component will involve classroom activities and hand samples. Lecture,
2 hours; Laboratory, 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): ESC 201 and (ESC 325 or ESC 312).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ESC 492 - Undergraduate Thesis Proposal
ESC 492 - Undergraduate Thesis Proposal
Preparation of an undergraduate thesis proposal in the earth sciences. Course taken
as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior ESC majors who have completed a minimum of 24 ESC
credits and permission of instructor (faculty mentor).
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ESC 493 - Undergraduate Thesis
ESC 493 - Undergraduate Thesis
The completion of a research project and reporting of this work in an undergraduate
thesis, which must be defended successfully before the department.
Prerequisite(s): ESC 492 and permission of instructor (faculty mentor).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ESC 497 - Internship in Earth Science
ESC 497 - Internship in Earth Science
Supervised, on-the-job, practical experience in a business or government agency, or
a nonprofit organization, related to the student’s program.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status, minimum Earth Science GPA of 3.0 or higher and departmental
permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ESC 499 - Independent Study and Research
ESC 499 - Independent Study and Research
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 200 - Critical Thinking in Finance
FIN 200 - Critical Thinking in Finance
The basic concepts of financial and business decisions and structure of financial
markets such as the following are covered: the Federal Reserve and the financial system,
the corporate financial environment, the stock and the bond markets, the sub-prime
financial crisis, financial regualtions and ethics, executive compensations, credti
cards, student loans, retirement plans, international finance, and corporate social
responsibility.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 250 - U.S. Financial Industry Through Film
FIN 250 - U.S. Financial Industry Through Film
Through motion pictures and documentaries, this course examines how the evolution
of the American corporations and financial firms impacted our society, culture, and
politics throughout history. All films are based on real events, and depict good and
bad practices as well as the ethical dilemmas in the finance industry during both
firm-and market-level crises. The course will also provide students with an awareness
of recent events in the finance industry with a special focus on the financial markets
and institutions in the U.S. The main topics that will be covered are introductions
to financial decision-making, markets and institutions, managing the corporation,
scandals since 1980s, 2008 financial crisis, and new developments after the crisis
(e.g. Regulations, block chain technology).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 300 - Corporate Finance
FIN 300 - Corporate Finance
Study of the private sector, for-profit publicly traded corporations from the standpoint
of managers. Topics: basic theories and techniques of financial decision making, encompassing
working capital, capital budgeting, and long term financing.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 or ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 340 - Financial Markets and Institutions
FIN 340 - Financial Markets and Institutions
Introduces the fundamental principles that govern financial institutions and markets,
both in domestic and global economic environments. Topics discussed include: central
banking and monetary policy; financial regulation; determination and structure of
interest rates; market for fixed-income instruments; stock market; market for financial
derivatives; exchange rates and foreign exchange market; fundamentals of commercial
banking and non-bank financial institutions. As the financial industry evolves over
time, the content of this course is updated dynamically in order to incorporate the
new financial regulations, ongoing consolidations in the sector and also to reflect
the current trends in globalization of financial services.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 341 - Principles of Investment
FIN 341 - Principles of Investment
An introduction to types of securities, sources of information, securities exchanges
and regulations, with emphasis on equity valuation.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 343 - Commercial Banking
FIN 343 - Commercial Banking
Study of depository institutions emphasizing the application of finance theories covering
asset and liability policies, opportunities, and the problems of deregulation.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 340.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 345 - Principles of Real Estate
FIN 345 - Principles of Real Estate
Study of real estate principles, including real estate contracts, real estate management,
appraisal, mortgages, license law, and agency.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 346 - Financial Risk Management
FIN 346 - Financial Risk Management
Provides undergraduate students with an introduction to risk management in financial
institutions, specifically at commercial banks and bank holding companies. Covers
all major risks including market risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, credit
risk, and operations risk. Students also gain an understanding on how recent regulations
impact banks' risk management practices and the financial system.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 340 and FIN 341.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 347 - International Financial Management
FIN 347 - International Financial Management
A study of the financial issues faced by a firm operating in a multinational environment.
Topics include: balance of payments concepts, exchange rates theories, currency markets,
corporate treasury management, capital budgeting, international cost of capital, risk
management, derivatives, security markets and their valuations.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 400 - Behavioral Finance
FIN 400 - Behavioral Finance
The objective of the course is to provide an introduction to behavioral finance theory,
which complements the traditional finance paradigm. To achieve this, the course will
introduce students to various psychological biases documented by research in experimental
psychology and how these biases affect investors’ decision-making and financial markets.
It will also provide valuable insight into the origins of financial bubbles and crashes
such as the dot-com bubble as well as, the recent financial crisis. Finally, the course
will introduce students to current empirical methods in investments and behavioral
finance.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300 and FIN 341.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 401 - Financial Modeling and Analytics
FIN 401 - Financial Modeling and Analytics
Provides a capstone setting in which students will analyze and solve a diverse set
of finance problems by developing spreadsheet models. The course will help develop
critical and analytical thinking skills and make students proficient in researching
and utilizing financial data. The course will also help students to gain a good command
of spreadsheet software such as Excel.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 432 - Advanced Corporate Finance
FIN 432 - Advanced Corporate Finance
An in-depth application of the theories of corporate finance through case studies.
Provides students with the empirical methods and qualitative skills to gain expertise
in solving issues related to corporate finance. Students work on cases on topics such
as valuation models, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, mergers
and acquisitions, distributions to shareholders and initial public offerings.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300 and FIN 341.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 435 - Business Valuation
FIN 435 - Business Valuation
Introduces the techniques that are required for measuring and assessing the value
of projects and firms. Provides students with an in-depth exposure to corporate financing
decisions with emphasis on the impact of such decisions on firm value. Involves case
discussions and excel based analytical assignments.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 439 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
FIN 439 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Presents the basic theories and practical approaches for managing a portfolio of financial
assets within the risk-return framework. Perspectives and strategies associated with
portfolio management and security analysis are studied. Topics discussed include:
risk-return trade-off; asset selection and allocation; portfolio optimization; asset
pricing models; market efficiency and investing strategies; analysis and evaluation
of asset management and new developments in professional asset management. Students
aspiring for a professional asset management career or planning to take the CFA test
will find this course particularly useful.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 341.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 446 - Quantitative Methods in Financial Risk Management
FIN 446 - Quantitative Methods in Financial Risk Management
Introduces financial risk management principles, with an emphasis on implementation
of such principles and their applications on real cases. Presents standard market,
credit and liquidity risk measurement techniques. Students study risk management techniques
from the viewpoint of financial intermediaries, investment banks, hedge funds, and
financial regulators.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 221 or ECO 270; MAT 125 or MAT 150; FIN 341 and FIN 346 .
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 450 - Finance Capstone
FIN 450 - Finance Capstone
Review of finance concepts in a capstone setting; exposure to global financial issues/trends;
application of finance concepts on real world problems; exposure to ethical and other
challenging issues in finance, some of which result in social cost; discussion of
contemporary issues in finance.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 456 - Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
FIN 456 - Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
A special course for students interested in starting a new business. Topics: legal
organization, entrepreneurial profile, return and risk relation in venture business,
and marketing, business planning, capital budgeting, financing and personnel issues
in the management of a venture business.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 457 - Real Estate Finance
FIN 457 - Real Estate Finance
An intermediate level course on Real Estate Finance. The basic financial tools are
presented at the beginning, followed by situations where such tools may be applied,
and a comprehensive study of financial and investment problems related to real estate
is facilitated towards the end of the course. Topics covered include but not limited
to: mechanics of mortgage markets, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), real estate financing
and regulations, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), income producing properties
and their valuation, real estate portfolios and funds and Real Estate Trusts (REITs).
Prerequisite(s): FIN 345
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 458 - Seminar in Real Estate
FIN 458 - Seminar in Real Estate
A comprehensive, case-based analysis of practice of real estate. The course will build
on the theoretical concepts developed in principles of real estate and real estate
finance to provide an in-depth analysis of interesting cases in all areas of housing
and real estate markets. The topics may include but not be limited to: how institutional
investors view real estate, investing in REITS, commercial leases, households’ decision
to rent vs. buy housing, affordable housing development, urban planning, real estate
project feasibility analysis, risk management in commercial real estate, investments
in REITS vs. properties.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 345
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 460 - Treasury Management
FIN 460 - Treasury Management
Examines the treasury management function of an enterprise in both the public and
private sectors. Topics include cash, receivables, payables, and short-term debt management
as well as an introduction to e-commerce. The course is required for the Certified
Treasury Professional examination of the Association for Financial Professionals.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 300.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 470 - Practicum of Investing
FIN 470 - Practicum of Investing
Provides an opportunity for students specializing in Investments and Portfolio Management
to apply the investment theories and practices. Students are considered to be part
of the investment club and the course provides a setting for the students to apply
prior knowledge of investment theories and principles to manage the operations of
the student-run investment portfolio funded by the SCSU Foundation (The Ad Astra Fund).
The objective of the course is to help students gain some money management experience.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 341
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FIN 480 - Introduction to Futures and Options
FIN 480 - Introduction to Futures and Options
This is an introductory course on financial derivatives. Most financial risks are
managed using derivative instruments such as options, futures and swaps. The values
of these assets are derived from the values of other mainstream financial assets such
as stocks, bonds, etc., hence the name. This course presents a conceptual framework
for understanding the pricing mechanism associated with derivative instruments and
for designing risk management strategies using the same.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FIN 485 - Fundamentals of Fintech
FIN 485 - Fundamentals of Fintech
The objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of financial technology
that has gained prominence in recent times in the finance discipline. The course provides
a broad overview of financial technology applications and innovations around financial
technology usage in financial sectors like Banking and Asset Management. Crypto currencies
and Blockchain will also be introduced and the course ends with a discussion on the
future of financial technology.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 340
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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FIN 490 - Fintech Seminar
FIN 490 - Fintech Seminar
The objective of the course is to provide an in-depth understanding of how financial
technology solutions are applied at large financial institutions both nationally and
globally. Through case analysis and discussions, fintech applications and innovations
in areas such as, IPO launch, operational challenges in retail and investment banking
etc. will be covered. The course builds upon the basic knowledge of fintech gained
in Fundamentals of Fintech.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 485
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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FIN 496 - Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning Applications inFinance
FIN 496 - Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning Applications inFinance
Provides a basic understanding of the analytical techniques that are used to analyze
“big” financial datasets. Different types financial datasets like, monthly time series,
cross-sectional securities data and intra-day trading data will be introduced, which
will then be used to demonstrate some standard statistical techniques and non-parametric
methodologies (machine learning) that are used to extract meaningful information from
them. This is an applied course where students will learn how to use different statistical
software packages like R, Stata, and Matlab, in order to present summary statistics,
compute return and risk for individual assets and portfolios and to perform other
statistical computations. Emphasis will be more on usage of software packages and
applications from a finance perspective, as opposed to theory. The objective of the
course is to build a strong foundation on the mechanics of large financial datasets,
their formats and how to extract meaningful information from them, using software
packages. Students can build upon this knowledge at their respective workplaces for
subsequent career development.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 401 and MAT 125
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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FIN 497 - Internship
FIN 497 - Internship
A supervised internship in business or government with the application of finance
to problems of enterprise administration. Bi-weekly reporting to the faculty supervisor
is necessary.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FRE 100 - French I
FRE 100 - French I
Basic grammar and vocabulary: speaking, reading, and writing elementary French. One-hour
session weekly in the language laboratory required to complement classwork through
video, tape, practice, and films. Native speakers of French and students who have
taken four years or more of French in high school may not take FRE 100 for credit.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FRE 101 - French II
FRE 101 - French II
Speaking, reading, and writing skills. One-hour session weekly in the language laboratory
required.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 100 or two years of secondary school French.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FRE 200 - French III
FRE 200 - French III
Grammar, reading, and conversation. One hour session weekly in the language laboratory
required.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 101 or three years of secondary school French.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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FRE 201 - Feasting on France and the Francophone World: Language, Culture, Cuisine.
FRE 201 - Feasting on France and the Francophone World: Language, Culture, Cuisine.
Intermediate French language course designed to introduce students to the food cultures
of France and the francophone world. Students continue to build on and refine previous
language study while exploring new ways of expressing themselves in French. Specific
emphasis will be placed on food-related vocabulary and cultural interactions.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 101, three years of secondary school French, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FRE 202 - French Language for the Global World
FRE 202 - French Language for the Global World
Intermediate French language course where students gain fluency in a variety of professional
and health related disciplines. Study of essential vocabulary and common linguistic
events with the goal of providing students the skills to interact competently as a
French speaker within these domains. Solidification of each student’s general knowledge
of the French language through attention to grammatical concepts appropriate to the
intermediate level.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 101, three years if secondary school French, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FRE 206 - French Culture in France
FRE 206 - French Culture in France
Study of French culture and civilization, for a period of at least four weeks in France
under the supervision of World Language and Literature department faculty. Course
taken in conjunction with either FRE 200 or FRE 204.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission and FRE 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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FRE 210 - Continuing French
FRE 210 - Continuing French
Practice in speaking, reading, and writing French based on modern writings. Grammar
review. Prepares students for the further study of French. One hour a week in language
laboratory required.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 200 or 4 years secondary school French.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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FRE 300 - Expressing Yourself in Writing
FRE 300 - Expressing Yourself in Writing
Practice in writing correct, idiomatic French, based on French models. Review of grammar
and syntax, and exercises in vocabulary building.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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FRE 301 - Expressing Yourself in Speaking I
FRE 301 - Expressing Yourself in Speaking I
Conversational situations and class discussion based on daily life experiences in
France. Emphasis on oral practice through class reports and lab work.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FRE 302 - Expressing Yourself in Speaking II
FRE 302 - Expressing Yourself in Speaking II
Phonetic description and phonemic analysis of French with attention given to individual
problems in pronunciation. Intensive training in class and lab using television as
a corrective device.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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FRE 306 - Advanced French Culture and Language Practice in France
FRE 306 - Advanced French Culture and Language Practice in France
Advanced study of French culture and civilization, for a period of at least four weeks
in France under the supervision of Foreign Language department faculty. A paper or
research project evaluated by a departmental committee and/or examination administered
by the department are required. Course taken in conjunction with FRE 206 or FRE 499.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission and FRE 204 or equivalent.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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FRE 310 - French Civilization I
FRE 310 - French Civilization I
Study of French history from the Roman conquest to the end of the “Ancient Régime,”
1789; discussions of literary texts, slides, and films. Class is taught in French,
but non-majors may do the written work in English.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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FRE 311 - French Civilization II
FRE 311 - French Civilization II
Study of French history from the revolution of 1789 to the 5th Republic; discussions
of selected literary works, slides, and films. Class is taught in French, but non-majors
may do the written work in English.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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FRE 312 - Contemporary French Culture
FRE 312 - Contemporary French Culture
A study of France today; its physical, social, political and economic, and cultural
characteristics and values. Class taught in French, but non-majors may do the written
work in English.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FRE 398 - Special Topics
FRE 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of French.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 300 and FRE 301 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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FRE 400 - Advanced French
FRE 400 - Advanced French
Learning to read French literature by studying language, style, themes, and genres.
Texts chosen from a variety of periods.
Prerequisite(s): Any two of FRE 200, 201, 202, or FRE 210, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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FRE 416 - Francophone Voices
FRE 416 - Francophone Voices
An exploration and examination of voices from the Francophone world through in depth
study of cultural artifacts and productions such as literature, film, theater, music,
photography, as well as social and political events. Areas of study may include Francophone
regions in North and South America, the Caribbean, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa,
and the Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Prerequisite(s): One 300-level FRE course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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FRE 496 - Advanced French Grammar
FRE 496 - Advanced French Grammar
Study of spoken and written French and practice in using French source material.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 300, FRE 301, or GRE 302.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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FYE 100 -
FYE 100 -
15 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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GEO 100 - People, Places, and Environments
GEO 100 - People, Places, and Environments
Study of the world’s natural habitats and cultural landscapes and the interrelationships
that may develop among them.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 104 - Sustainability in America: Challenges and Solutions
GEO 104 - Sustainability in America: Challenges and Solutions
An identification of the environmental challenges facing America and the solutions
that can be implemented to address them. Outlines practical and realistic approaches
to transition american society and the economy towards a more sustainable future for
the benefit of all Americans. Outcomes include workplace-related skills development
for innovative and actionable environmental problem solving.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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GEO 170 - Basic Drone Technology
GEO 170 - Basic Drone Technology
Examine the emerging technology of drones for data acquisition in a multitude of forms,
incorporating the video, still imaging, and remote sensing potential of this aerial
platform. Learn the basics to start flying drones in addition to the legal, ethical
and safety requirements for flying drones and getting licensed by the FAA. Imagery/data
from student and faculty drone flights are used for multimedia storytelling and 3D
mapping projects.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 200 - Human Geography
GEO 200 - Human Geography
Introduction to population, economic, cultural, political, urban, and marine geography
and to ecology.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 201 - Physical Geography
GEO 201 - Physical Geography
Physical environments of representative areas: landforms, climates, vegetation, and
soils are emphasized, as well as their distribution and significance for man.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 260 - Population Geography
GEO 260 - Population Geography
A study of the distribution of people on the earth and the reasons therefore; patterns
of population growth and decline, both historical and contemporary; migrations; and
biological and cultural characteristics of population.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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GEO 270 - Designing Maps
GEO 270 - Designing Maps
Surveys the social and cultural significance of general purpose and thematic maps
as well as the science and technology of their creation. Shows many interdisciplinary
uses of maps and explores their importance to scientific inquiry, commerce, and everyday
life. Teaches fundamental components of map interpretation including georeferencing,
map projections, scale, generalization, symbolization, uses of color, types of maps,
and misuse of maps. Introduces the student to mapmaking software/geographic information
systems and its applications to display and query data for any portion of the earth’s
surface.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 273 - Land Use Planning
GEO 273 - Land Use Planning
An introduction to the principles of land use planning at the local, regional, state
and federal levels.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 290 - Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Sustainability
GEO 290 - Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Sustainability
An introduction to research methods, research design, and research dissemination in
geography and environmental sustainability. Topics addressed include the formulation
of research questions; the development of research projects; qualitative, quantitative
and field-based research approaches; and research ethics. Lecture and group discussion
format.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 305 - Environmental Economic Geography
GEO 305 - Environmental Economic Geography
Theory and applications of economic geography to environmental issues. The course
outlines four core themes, which all contribute to the understanding of sustainable
economic geographies and the roots and compass of an environmental economic geography.
The four themes are: ecological modernization, natural resources, institutions and
environmental governance, and globalization and sustainability.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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GEO 308 - Race, Class and Gender: Geographies of Social (In)Justice
GEO 308 - Race, Class and Gender: Geographies of Social (In)Justice
Race, class and gender are key concepts for understanding how social identities and
geography are interconnected. These social categories are key factors in how inequality
is produced and experienced. This course investigates how race, class, and gender
are geographically dynamic constructions because they not only shape particular geographic
patterns in place, like segregation, and across interpret space, but they also impact
how classed, raced and gendered bodies interact in and interpret space. The current
events in the U.S. make clear the necessity for students to understand how race, class,
and gender operate and geography provides a powerful insight into how these constructions
have created social and spatial injustices. In this course students explore in depth
how race, gender and class identities shape geographic patterns and place.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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GEO 311 - The United States and Canada
GEO 311 - The United States and Canada
Examination of the regional geography of North America, including analysis of its
physical environments, historical development, cultural patterns, and socioeconomic
systems. Interactions between physical and anthropogenic systems are stressed.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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GEO 330 - Europe
GEO 330 - Europe
Geographic factors useful in interpreting conditions in Europe now and in the past.
Current European and world situations are emphasized.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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GEO 357 - Coastal and Marine Geography
GEO 357 - Coastal and Marine Geography
Examination of the relationships between humans and the world’s oceans and coasts,
including the biophysical, socioeconomic, and cultural aspects of this relationship
and interrelationships between these elemenrts. An essential theme is the use and
management of coastal and marine resources.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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GEO 360 - Introduction to GIS
GEO 360 - Introduction to GIS
Provides a broad understanding of concepts and general theory of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS). Students utilize GIS software to complete a series of tutorials and
labs. GIS theory is emphasized over software training. Lecture, 4 hours.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 367 - GIS for Public Health
GEO 367 - GIS for Public Health
Combines fundamental geographic information systems (GIS) concepts with public health
examples. Shows how the spatial aspects of community health and diseases can be recorded,
analyzed, and displayed using GIS tools. Topics may include community profiles, environmental
health risks, health resource distribution, and infectious disease spread.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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GEO 370 - Remote Sensing
GEO 370 - Remote Sensing
Examination of how we view and evaluate our environment using various remote sensing
techniques. Topics include land use/land cover change, vegetation patterns, geologic
mapping, and anthropogenic effects (e.g., oil spills, water contamination). Interpretation
of remotely sensed images through in-class labs and research projects emphasize the
study of spatial and environmental relationships. Lecture, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 270 or GEO 360
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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GEO 371 - Cartography
GEO 371 - Cartography
Computer methods for visualizing qualitative and quantitative geographic information
for data exploration, analysis, and communication. Trains the student to determine
and construct suitable map projections for any study area; techniques for classifying
and symbolizing data based on spatial and frequency distributions and the underlying
behavior of the phenomena being mapped; and, effective map design and the use of color
and lettering for different communication media. Lecture, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 360
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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GEO 400 - Geography of Wine
GEO 400 - Geography of Wine
A critical examination of the global wine industry from a geographical perspective.
The cultivation of vines and the production and consumption of wine is considered
through a focus on the spatial variations of the embedded bio-physical, environmental,
socio-economic, and cultural complexities of the wine industry.
Special Information: Participation in 3 supervised field activities. Prerequisite:
Must be 21 years of age, 3 credits of GEO.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2023
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GEO 405 - Environmental Justice
GEO 405 - Environmental Justice
Examination of the role of social inequalities, particularly those of class and race,
and the dissemination of environmental risks in societies at different geographic
scales. Also includes study of legal solutions and public policy measures that address
environmental injustices.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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GEO 460 - GIS II
GEO 460 - GIS II
Teaches students in environmental and spatial sciences how to use geographic information
systems (GIS) to visualize, query, and begin to analyze key aspects of terrain (such
as elevation, slope, and aspect, landuse, landcover, and vegetation) as well as human
modifications and the built environment. Input and edit georeferenced data from multiple
sources such as paper maps and global positioning systems (GPS) and learn aspects
of various coordinate systems and spatial database designs in order to link attribute
data to inputted geographic features. Classify and symbolize data in order to create
maps; embed graphs and reports in maps; and output maps in digital and paper form.
Export GIS data to other software packages and import spatial data from other software
packages into GIS software. Lecture, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 360.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 461 - Environmental GIS
GEO 461 - Environmental GIS
Examination of GIS in environmental management. Applies GIS techniques to a range
of environmental issues to develop analytical conclusions for stakeholders. Explores
case studies of environmental management topics that employ GIS. Lecture, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 360.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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GEO 470 - Field Techniques
GEO 470 - Field Techniques
Course involves field study in either the southern Connecticut region or an area outside
the United States. Areas are visited and mapped, and techniques of field research
are studied dealing with the physical and human aspects of the environment.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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GEO 481 - Spatial Analysis
GEO 481 - Spatial Analysis
Application of statistical techniques to analyze geographic phenomena. Topics include
public health, criminology, climate change impacts, food systems, among others. Lecture,
4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 360.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GEO 490 - Capstone Seminar
GEO 490 - Capstone Seminar
A capstone experience for Geography and Environmental Systems and Sustainability Studies
majors focusing on the integration of geographic theory and practice in the context
of selected contemporary issues, events, or processes through a combination of seminar
style discussions and project based learning. The course also provides an overview
of the historical and philosophical development of knowledge creation in the disciplines.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 290 and senior status.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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GEO 497 - Internship
GEO 497 - Internship
Practical training in a variety of government agencies and private firms, working
under supervision of the employer’s representative and a faculty administrator. Course
may be repeated up to 6 credits.
Special Information: Program must be approved in advance by the department.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and 12 credits in GEO.
3 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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GEO 499 - Independent Study
GEO 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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GER 100 - German I
GER 100 - German I
Basic German with practice in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing the language.
An hour session in the language laboratory is required each week. Students with one
or two years of secondary school German should elect GER 101. Native speakers of German
and students who have taken four years or more of German in secondary school may not
take GER 100 for credit.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GER 101 - German II
GER 101 - German II
Basic German with practice in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing the language.
An hour session in the language laboratory is required each week.
Prerequisite(s): GER 100, two years high school German, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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GER 201 - Continuing German: Contemporary German Culture
GER 201 - Continuing German: Contemporary German Culture
Using German to explore cultural aspects of the German speaking world. Focus on physical
and political geography, media, education, the arts, travel, and living situations.
An hour session in the language laboratory is required each week. GER 201, GER 202,
GER 203 can be taken in any sequence.
Prerequisite(s): GER 101 , three years high school German, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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GER 202 - Continuing German: Exploring a German City
GER 202 - Continuing German: Exploring a German City
Using German to explore cultural aspects of the German speaking world. Focus on a
major German city, including history, culture, economy, political structure, media,
and transportation. Emphasis on daily events and interactions. An hour session in
the language laboratory is required each week. GER 201, GER 202, GER 203 can be taken
in any sequence.
Prerequisite(s): GER 101, three years high school German, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 100 - Western Civilization to 1500
HIS 100 - Western Civilization to 1500
Survey of Western Civilization from the Neolithic period through the Renaissance and
Reformation.Topics include: the ancient Mesopotamians and Egyptians, the Ancient Greeks
and Romans, Medieval Europe, and the Renaissance and Reformation.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 101 - Western Civilization from 1500 to the present
HIS 101 - Western Civilization from 1500 to the present
Survey of Western Civilization from the Renaissance and Reformation to modern times.
Topics include: The Age of Discovery, the French Revolution, the emergence of nationalism,
the colonial and imperial eras, the wars of the 20th century, and the Cold War.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 104 - Islamic Civilization
HIS 104 - Islamic Civilization
Survey of the history of the Islamic world from 600 C.E. to present. Topics include
the rise of Islam, the creation of an Islamic empire, the spread of Islam beyond the
Near East, the development of Islamic law, theology, and ritual, and Islam in the
modern world.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 105 - Introduction to Southeast Asia: Southeast Asia to 1500.
HIS 105 - Introduction to Southeast Asia: Southeast Asia to 1500.
Introduction to the history of the 10 countries of contemporary Southeast Asia. Examines
artistic, geological, ecological, economic, linguistic, literary, medical, political,
and religious patterns of the pre-modern period, ca. 500 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E. Serves
as an introduction to modern Southeast Asia and its relationship to other regions
of the world.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 106 - East Asia to 1850
HIS 106 - East Asia to 1850
Survey of East Asian history from the Bronze Age to the nineteenth century. Topics
include the social, political, intellectual, and religious trends of pre-modern East
Asian nations, and their increasing contact with the West. Serves as an introduction
to upper division courses in East Asian history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 110 - United States History to 1877
HIS 110 - United States History to 1877
America from the Colonial period to Reconstruction. Emphasis is on political, social,
economic, and cultural developments. Students taking either HIS 110 or HIS 111 will
not receive credit for HIS 112.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 111 - United States History from 1877 to the present
HIS 111 - United States History from 1877 to the present
America from Reconstruction to the present time. Emphasis is on political, social,
economic, and cultural developments. Students taking either HIS 110 or HIS 111 will
not receive credit for HIS 112.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 128 - Latin American History
HIS 128 - Latin American History
Introductory level course focused on the social, economic, cultural and political
history of Latin America from the start of the colonial period (early sixteenth century)
to the recent present. Readings, discussions, and lectures will center on the development
of a racialized colonial society, the Independence struggles, export agriculture,
the internationalization of markets, labor rights struggles, and worker, student,
peasant, and indigenous radicalization. Definitions of race, nation, citizenship,
class, and gender have shifted over time. The United States’ repeated involvement
in the region.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 150 - Voices from the Past
HIS 150 - Voices from the Past
Development of critical thinking, writing, and reading skills through the examination
of a selection of historical individuals, whose representations are analyzed through
standard historical literary sources, film, and art. Students investigate historical
individuals and their relations to their historical contexts through the critical
analysis of primary and secondary sources.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 200 - The Historian's Craft
HIS 200 - The Historian's Craft
Examination of problems in historical analysis and interpretation. Emphasis on historical
reasoning, research, and writing. Consideration of methodological approaches and historical
materials.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 201 - U.S. History Through Film
HIS 201 - U.S. History Through Film
As primary documents of their time, films are studied to illuminate the historical
era in which they were made. They also are used to demonstrate how films can reflect
many of the distortions, inaccuracies, and myths about America’s past.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 202 - European History Through Film
HIS 202 - European History Through Film
European political, social, and intellectual history reflected in films of various
countries.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 210 - U.S. Black History
HIS 210 - U.S. Black History
The origins of the black migration to American and contributions of black men and
women in American historical development.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 212 - War and American Society
HIS 212 - War and American Society
Examines the nature, character, and extent of warfare in American history from the
colonial era to the present, its social and cultural factors, and the ways warfare
has influenced American culture and society in order to gain a better understanding
of the relationship between warfare and American society, the process of social and
cultural change, and the functions war plays in American cultural life.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 220 - Sports in U.S. History
HIS 220 - Sports in U.S. History
An examination of the history of organized sports and their cultural and social impact
in the U.S.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 221 - Ancient History: Classical Greece and Rome
HIS 221 - Ancient History: Classical Greece and Rome
The social and political history of the Classical world from the origin of the Greek
city-state to the empire of Rome under Julius Caesar. Topics include tyranny and democracy
in Classical Greece, the Republic of Rome, and the creation of the Roman Empire.
Prerequisite(s): HIS 100.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 232 - England and the British Empire
HIS 232 - England and the British Empire
The dramatic constitutional crises of the 17th century. The Puritan movement, the
development of Parliament, the industrial age, and expansion of the empire are major
topics. The problems of an industrialized state moving toward democratic control are
stressed in the last section of the course.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 235 - The Holocaust
HIS 235 - The Holocaust
Examines the origins, development, and consequences of the Nazi attack on European
Jews. Important questions about the motives, options, and experiences of the victims,
perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust. Reading, discussing, and writing about
surviving primary sources. Historical debates around questions of guilt, responsibility,
anti-Semitism, racism, faith, resistance, and memory.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 237 - Modern Germany
HIS 237 - Modern Germany
The origins and collapse of Weimar Germany; Weimar culture, the rise of the Nazi party
and its seizure of power; the road to World War II; the collapse of Nazi Germany;
Allied occupation and the division of Germany; and German reunification and the role
of Germany in the 21st century.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 240 - The Middle East from Muhammad to the Mongols
HIS 240 - The Middle East from Muhammad to the Mongols
History of the Muslim Middle East from ca. 500 C.E. to 1500 C.E.Topics include the
rise of Islam, its expansion and cultural achievements, and the impact of migration
from the East, culminating in the Mongol invasion.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 241 - The Modern Middle East
HIS 241 - The Modern Middle East
History of the Middle East from ca. 1500 C.E. through World War II. Topics include
the rise and fall of the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, the impact of colonialism and
world trade, and the emergence of nationalism and fundamentalism.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 257 - Indigenous Histories in North America to 1850
HIS 257 - Indigenous Histories in North America to 1850
Surveys the histories of the First Peoples of North America (north of Mexico) from
earliest times up to the mid-1800s.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HIS 258 - Indigenous Histories in North America, since 1850
HIS 258 - Indigenous Histories in North America, since 1850
Surveys the histories of the First Peoples of North America (north of Mexico) from
the mid-1800s to the present day.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 259 - Digital New Haven Project
HIS 259 - Digital New Haven Project
Use of digital tools and historians' research methods to contribute to digital history
projects about New Haven that increase understanding of the city's historic sites
of political, social, commercial, cultural, and national importance and the histories
of its neighborhoods and residents.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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HIS 262 - Connecticut
HIS 262 - Connecticut
Public perception of Connecticut and its past portrayed in museums, landscapes, and
popular media; understanding the role narrative, authors and audience play in the
construction of our state's history; useful for future teachers, librarians, archivists,
and curators in Connecticut. All class meetings will be held at pulic history locations
around Connecticut (students must provide transportation).
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 266 - Conspiracy Theories, Photography and U.S. History
HIS 266 - Conspiracy Theories, Photography and U.S. History
Explores the history of conspiracy theories in America, through the study of U.S.
history and the art medium of photography. As a class, we will evaluate the historical
context of specific conspiracy theories, dating from the colonial period though today.
We will develop a model for understanding the function and benefits of these theories
for different groups. In addition to studying the historical and cultural significance
of conspiratorial thinking, we will consider the role photography has played to provide
visual proof or evidence of such theories. We will call into question the authenticity
of what is often thought of as a truthful medium through the completion of photography
based creative assignments, while emulating the strategies and methods of conspirators.
Prerequisite(s): INQ 101 and ENG 112 or 120
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 290 - Latin American History Through Film
HIS 290 - Latin American History Through Film
This is an introductory level history course that interrogates cinematic representations
of Latin American history from the Iberian conquests through to the contemporary period.
The aim of this course is to both explore the historical development of the region
and also to question how the past has been depicted in both Latin American and U.S.
– American films.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in History.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HIS 300 - The Vietnam War Era
HIS 300 - The Vietnam War Era
Historical, cultural, social, and geopolitical aspects of the first and second Indochina
Wars. Attention to French Colonial issues; Vietnamese anti-colonialism; military strategy
and major battles; U.S. international and domestic concerns; and the effect on American
society of America’s involvement in Indochina.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 304 - The Reformation
HIS 304 - The Reformation
A survey of the religious division of Europe into Catholic and Protestant, beginning
with the Babylonian Captivity of the Church in the 14th century and ending with the
Thirty Years War in the 17th century.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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HIS 307 - Europe in the 19th Century
HIS 307 - Europe in the 19th Century
The major socio-political movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
including the age of Metternich, the rise of nationalism, the impact of European imperialism,
and the meaning of World War I.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 309 - Issues in Global History
HIS 309 - Issues in Global History
Ideas, events, and movements that changed the Non-Western world. Discussion of selected
places and concepts from multiple perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits of HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 311 - Who Built America? 1500-1928
HIS 311 - Who Built America? 1500-1928
History of workers and work in America from 1500 up to the Great Depression. Focus
is on the experiences of different groups of workers and labor regimes, including
indentured servitude, slavery, 'women's work' and wage work. Origins and rise of capitalism
as well as rise of the labor movement are also analyzed. Includes a close analysis
of the categories of gender, race, sexuality, and class that define women's lives.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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HIS 315 - American Roots
HIS 315 - American Roots
A study of the family as a major institution in American culture, and examination
of immigration and migration patterns of several ethnic and racial groups. Discussion
of the effects of historical forces upon ordinary people; problems associated with
prejudice and assimilation; tracing the changing roles of women, men, and children;
utilizing different kinds of records and evidence to write a three generational family
history.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 316 - History of Ancient Greece
HIS 316 - History of Ancient Greece
The political and social history of ancient Greece, from the Minoan and Mycenaean
periods to Roman annexation in BC 146.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 317 - History of Rome from its Origins to Caesar
HIS 317 - History of Rome from its Origins to Caesar
The history of ancient Rome and the Roman Republic, from the founding of the city
of the Civil Wars and the dictatorship of Caesar.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 318 - Women in American History 1620-1890
HIS 318 - Women in American History 1620-1890
Examines the variety of experiences of groups of American women and presents a broad
outline of major social, economic, political, legal and cultural changes in women's
lives from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries. Includes a close
analysis of the categories of gender, race, sexuality, and class that define women's
lives.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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HIS 319 - Women in American History 1865 - Present
HIS 319 - Women in American History 1865 - Present
Examines the variety of experiences of groups of American women and presents a broad
outline of major social, economic, political, legal and cultural changes in women's
lives from the late nineteenth century to the present. Includes a close analysis of
the categories of gender, race, sexuality, and class that define women's lives.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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HIS 320 - History of the Indochina Wars 1965-1993
HIS 320 - History of the Indochina Wars 1965-1993
History of the Indochina Wars in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam from the introduction
of U.S. ground troops in March 1965 through the U.N. sponsored elections in Cambodia
1993. Discusses the international political arena, domestic dissent, military strategy
and tactics, and the results of the Indochina Wars for the Indochinese peoples.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS of which 3 credits must be HIS 300.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 336 - Nazi Germany
HIS 336 - Nazi Germany
An advanced reading and discussion course concentrating on differing interpretations
of Nazi Germany.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HIS 337 - Utopia
HIS 337 - Utopia
A utopia is believed to be a perfect society, where everyone lives in harmony and
happiness. But utopia, literally, is no place. This course draws on literature, history,
and philosophy to understand the meaning and importance of utopias and utopian thinking.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in History.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 338 - History, Myth, and Legend in the Middle Ages
HIS 338 - History, Myth, and Legend in the Middle Ages
This course considers cultures of myth and legend in Europe in the Middle Ages. In
the Middle Ages no hard distinction existed between history and literature. Instead,
people sang poems and wrote histories of real or perceived-as-real people and events.
This course examines the historical context and historicity of some of the preeminent
legends of the Middle Ages. These include Arthur, El Cid, Robin Hood, Saints' Lives,
and more.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in History.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HIS 340 - The Crusades
HIS 340 - The Crusades
History of the crusades from the 11th century through the fall of the last Latin state
in the Middle East in 1291. Discusses why crusading became a central agenda for European
leaders, the theological implications of religious violence, and the significance
of political and cultural exchanges between crusaders and Middle Eastern peoples.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HIS 341 - Islamic Fundamentalism
HIS 341 - Islamic Fundamentalism
History of Islamic reform movements as intellectual/theological phenomena and as sociopolitical
organizations. Includes discussions of pre-modern roots of Muslim fundamentalist thought
and of contemporary groups, both reactionary and progressive.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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HIS 342 - 20th Century China
HIS 342 - 20th Century China
The political developments in 20th century China from the National Revolution of 1911
through the years of Nationalist rule and the birth of the People’s Republic of China
to the present.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 343 - Modern Eastern Europe
HIS 343 - Modern Eastern Europe
Examines the history of Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Topics include nationalism, the formation of nation states, modernization, war, and
Soviet overlordship.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 345 - History and Culture of the African Diaspora
HIS 345 - History and Culture of the African Diaspora
Focuses largely on the “Black Atlantic,” the history and culture of the people and
descendants of those who were dispersed from the continent of Africa through the Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade and settled in locations within North and South America, the Caribbean,
and Europe. It also engages the condition(s) of those from the continent of Africa
who, in the 20th and 21st centuries, saw themselves as part of international Black
anti-colonial movements and/or migrated out of the continent to various part of the
Atlantic world in more recent years due to the thrusts of globalization.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 347 - Cultural Confrontation in the Developing World
HIS 347 - Cultural Confrontation in the Developing World
An analysis of relationships among Europeans, Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans
during the period of European domination. Emphasis is on social-cultural impact, social
change, and the legacy of European expansion.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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HIS 351 - Religion in America
HIS 351 - Religion in America
Examines the development, culture, and effect of religion in American history from
the 16th through 20th centuries. Focusing on the theological, social, political, and
gendered aspects of religion; examines religion’s role in the creation of community
and identity, contact and conflict with others, and social and political reform. Discusses
the variety of religious expressions that have shaped American history including diversity,
anti- popery, revivalism, tolerance and pluralism, utopian communities, creationism,
and modern spiritualism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 and 6 credits in HIS
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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HIS 357 - Recent American History: 1945 to the Present
HIS 357 - Recent American History: 1945 to the Present
The beginning of the Cold War with special attention to its domestic effects, political
and cultural problems through the 1960’s, and intellectual developments since the
end of World War II.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 358 - American Frontiers
HIS 358 - American Frontiers
Examines the histories of the multiple frontiers that have existed in North America,
from those created by American Indians prior to 1492 to those developed by various
European nations – and offshoots of European nations (e.g., the USA) – after 1492.
Also assesses the ways in which Americans have used and interpreted their frontier
histories.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HIS 359 - American Environmental History
HIS 359 - American Environmental History
History of the interactions between people and the environment in North America from
before European contact to the present. Assesses the changes over time in human cultural
views of nature, the actions those views encouraged, and the consequences of those
actions for people as well as the environment.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 367 - The 20th Century World in Conflict
HIS 367 - The 20th Century World in Conflict
Ideas, events, and movements that changed the world for better and for worse. Analysis
of select problems and controversies from multiple perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): 3 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 376 - Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
HIS 376 - Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
Exploration of Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire and the rise of
the Hellenistic kingdoms until the advent of Rome (ca. 404 B.C.E.–31 B.C.E.). Topics
include the fall of the Greek polis, the formation of the Hellenistic manarchies,
and “Hellenism” (Greek Culture) within the contexts of Macedonia, the Near East, Egypt,
and Central Asia. Lecture format with periodic discussion/debates on various histriographic
issues.
Prerequisite(s): HIS 100 plus 6 additional credits of HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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HIS 378 - Early China
HIS 378 - Early China
Chinese history from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the first century B.C.E. Special
emphasis on the political, social, intellectual, and religious history of the Warring
States Period, the Qin dynasty, and the Western Han dynasty.
Prerequisite(s): 6credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 398 - Special Topics
HIS 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of history.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 409 - Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Conflict: An International Perspective
HIS 409 - Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Conflict: An International Perspective
A comparative analysis of the causes and implications of ethnic conflict. Case studies
from Europe, Asia, and Africa are examined to illustrate the topics of ethnicity,
race, and nationalism.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits in HIS.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 485 - Seminar in History
HIS 485 - Seminar in History
The tools necessary for becoming an historian are presented by the methodologies of
noted American and European historians. Required of all majors.
Prerequisite(s): HIS 200 and 18 additional credits in HIS and senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 490 - Social Science — Secondary School
HIS 490 - Social Science — Secondary School
Current practices in teaching social studies including an examination of teaching
materials and resources. For teacher- certification candidates only.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the College of Education and EDU 413.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 494 - Student Teaching — History
HIS 494 - Student Teaching — History
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in grades 7–12 in cooperating schools.
Course taken as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): HIS 490.
9 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 496 - Student Teaching Seminar — History
HIS 496 - Student Teaching Seminar — History
Discussion of educational issues, in particular those raised by students’ experiences
in the field. Design, analysis, and reflection on teaching techniques to be used in
the field and implementation of findings.
Prerequisite(s): HIS 490
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 497 - History Internship
HIS 497 - History Internship
A supervised public history internship in museum work, historic preservation, historical
societies, libraries, or other history-related fields in public or private institutions.
Course may be repeated up to 12 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 12 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HIS 498 - Special Topics in Computer Science
HIS 498 - Special Topics in Computer Science
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of computer
science.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HIS 499 - Independent Study
HIS 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HLS 100 - Introduction to Healthcare Professions
HLS 100 - Introduction to Healthcare Professions
Inquiry of the preparation, credentials, scopes of practice, roles, and responsibilities
of various clinical and non-clinical medical and healthcare professionals. Introduction
to the interprofessional nature of healthcare.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 101 - Essentials of Medical Terminology
HLS 101 - Essentials of Medical Terminology
Provides overview of medical terminology and medical language. Establishes a fundamental
understanding of the elements of medical language, and covers prefixes, roots and
suffixes of body organizations and systems, anatomical structures and common conditions
and treatments.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 120 - Skills for Becoming a Certified Nurse Aid
HLS 120 - Skills for Becoming a Certified Nurse Aid
Provides theory, hands-on training, and clinical experience critical for providing
nursing assistance in long-term care facilities. Content includes an overview of healthcare
agencies, professional role of nursing assistants, communication, diseases, and restorative
practices, with a particular focus on long-term care, dementia and cognitive impairment,
and end-of-life care. Provides hands-on training in psychomotor skills, including
taking measurements and vitals, safety and emergency care, daily hygiene, and wound
care. Includes 24 hours of clinical training in a long-term care setting. The content
meets the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health guidelines for Certified
Nurse Aide training programs. Students who complete the required hours will sit for
the Connecticut CNA exam at the end of the course and will eligible to be admitted
to the Connecticut CNA registry. Course taken as pass/fail only.
5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HLS 150 - Introduction to Aging Studies
HLS 150 - Introduction to Aging Studies
An introduction to the study of aging with emphasis on social development throughout
various stages of aging (young old, older old, and long-living). An emphasis is placed
on the intersectionality of race, class, gender identity, and culture, and how these
classifications affect life engagement, the future of retirement security, and potential
for work-life extension.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HLS 180 - Introduction to Research and Writing in Healthcare
HLS 180 - Introduction to Research and Writing in Healthcare
Introduces students to the foundations of healthcare research, the process of writing
quality research papers, and the proper use of the APA citation format.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 210 - Principles of Patient Centered Healthcare
HLS 210 - Principles of Patient Centered Healthcare
An exploration of the concepts and principles of patient centered care as a growing
number of hospitals, clinics and continuing care facilities face challenges of providing
quality care and exemplary patient experience. Examination of the response to healthcare
consumer demands, improvement in care delivery systems, and the advancement of more
personalized, humanized experience for the patient.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 220 - Healthcare Communication
HLS 220 - Healthcare Communication
Exploration of challenges of communication in healthcare settings, and development
of skills with methods of effective communication. Introduces communication strategies
for equitable, patient-centered care and for interprofessional collaboration. Investigates
gaps in communication arising from implicit biases and differences across cultures,
genders, and communication styles, and introduces strategies to overcome these barriers.
Topics may include narrative medicine, health literacy, electronic communications
and telehealth, conflict, and privacy/confidentiality.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 230 - Introduction to Clinical Trials
HLS 230 - Introduction to Clinical Trials
Introduction to the purpose, components, and importance of clinical trials in the
advancement of health care. Includes the foundational and practical elements of conducting
a clinical trial. Topics include phases of clinical trials, study design, clinical
research team roles, research protocols, consent and ethical treatment, and diversity.
Incorporates the perspectives of those who conduct, participate in, and benefit from
clinical trials to inspire an appreciation for research and discovery.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 240 - Statistics for Health and Clinical Sciences
HLS 240 - Statistics for Health and Clinical Sciences
An introduction to statistical methods used in health and clinical sciences. Topics
Include: descriptive statistics; techniques for sampling and experimental control;
sampling distributions and principles of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST);
calculation and interpretation of t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation, and
regression; power and sample size estimation; and non-parametric tests. Emphasis on
practical understanding of NHST results, and on relevance to health and clinical studies.
Includes an introduction to use of software for calculations and data visualization.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of LEP Tier 1 Quantitative Reasoning.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HLS 260 - Medical Terminology of Body Systems and Diseases
HLS 260 - Medical Terminology of Body Systems and Diseases
Provides in-depth exploration of body systems and structures, illnesses and diseases,
along with associated medical terminology. Introduces etiology, risk factors, and
disease conditions related to body systems. Enables students to establish mastery
of prefixes, roots, and suffixes of body organizations and systems, anatomical structures
and common medical conditions. Terminology is discussed in the context of illnesses
and diseases and their causes, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and treatments.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 298 - Special Topics
HLS 298 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of healthcare
studies.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HLS 310 - Electronic Health Information
HLS 310 - Electronic Health Information
Exploration of the role of electronic medical records in healthcare. Provides students
with an understanding of the basic structure, functions, and applications of electronic
health record (EHR) systems. Topics include: legislation and policies governing the
adoption and use of EHRs; key functionalities of EHR systems; health data privacy
and security; health information exchange; consumer informatics; an introduction to
healthcare coding classification systems and database structure; EHR system usability;
applications to clinical decision making, clinical research, and quality improvement.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status or higher
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 315 - Healthcare Systems & Policy
HLS 315 - Healthcare Systems & Policy
Investigation of the history, trends, issues, and evolution of the American health
care system across different healthcare settings, with emphasis on the evolving nature
of healthcare policies. Topics include the Affordable Care Act and current healthcare
policies and laws, and entities of healthcare delivery systems such as hospitals,
long-term care facilities, managed and accountable care organizations, and the pharmaceutical
industry. Emphasis on quality improvement, controlling costs, and accessible and ethical
patient-centered care.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 317 - Community Engagement in Health Research
HLS 317 - Community Engagement in Health Research
Engage students in understanding the principles, practices, and importance of community
engagement in health research. This course will address the theoretical frameworks,
key concepts, and ethical issues involved in community-engaged health research. Topics
will include health equity, place-based health, community engagement strategies for
study planning, implementations and the interpretation and dissemination of results.
Methods and frameworks of community engagement will be reviewed. Students will be
exposed to various community and researcher perspectives and students to understand
how community engagement works in practice and distinguish between common and best
practices in community engagement for health research.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HLS 330 - Case Studies in Healthcare Ethics
HLS 330 - Case Studies in Healthcare Ethics
Investigation of groundbreaking medical cases that shape the way healthcare is practiced
today. Examination of ethical and social issues surrounding the practice of medicine,
particularly the relationship between clinician and patient. Emphasis on the role
that advancements in medical technology and biomedical innovation play in healthcare
decision-making, as well as their implications for patient privacy and rights.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 350 - Interventions and Support in Dementia Care
HLS 350 - Interventions and Support in Dementia Care
Examination of different contexts in which people with dementia, and their caregivers
can be supported: at home, in community settings, and in long-term care facilities
and hospitals. Exploration of neurocognitive disorders (NCD) and practice of person-centered
skills effective in communicating and supporting older adults with dementia and memory
loss.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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HLS 370 - Perspectives in LGBTQ+ Healthcare Practices
HLS 370 - Perspectives in LGBTQ+ Healthcare Practices
A queer theory framework deconstructs social contexts and political and religious
power systems that contribute to LGBTQ+ health disparities in the U.S. subject mater
covers current healthcare practices and how they impact the health, well-being, and
lives of LGBTQ+ clients. Historical stigma and current events will influence a semester-long
writing project focused on competent healthcare practices. Topics also include trauma
informed care, gender affirming care, end of life care, and reproductive health.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status or higher status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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HLS 380 - Cultural Humility for the Healthcare Professional
HLS 380 - Cultural Humility for the Healthcare Professional
Practicing cultural humility is necessary for healthcare professionals to provide
appropriate care to clients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors. Students
explore modern barriers to care and learn cultural considerations and communication
skills to successfully meet the needs of clients from diverse backgrounds (including
race, gender identity, sexuality, age, ability, religion). Topics also address anti-racism,
intersectionality, patient distrust of healthcare institutions, reflection of ones’
own cultural sensitivity and implicit bias, and the recent global pandemic.
Prerequisite(s): HLS 200 or HSC 200
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HLS 410 - Medical Insurance and Billing
HLS 410 - Medical Insurance and Billing
Introduction to the fundamentals of medical insurance and the medical billing cycle.
Investigates types of medical insurance, ranging from private insurance plans to federal
programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Introduces diagnostic and procedural coding
systems, regulations from federal policies such as HIPAA and HITECH, third party payers,
and revenue cycle management. Provides students with the ability to accurately complete
a medical insurance claim.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 427 - Research Data Management
HLS 427 - Research Data Management
Introduction to the principles, conduct, and ethics of data management. Investigation
of the types, formats, and stages of data, the creation and importance of metadata,
the best practices for research data storage, backup and security, legal and ethical
considerations for data, the sharing and re-use of data, and the archiving and preservation
of research data. Additional hands-on data and data management skills and best practices
will be demonstrated. Demonstrations of data and data management programs across research
contexts. Based on the New England collaborative data management curriculum, designed
to meet the national science foundation requirements for data management plans.
Prerequisite(s): HLS 240
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 437 - Clinical Trial Administration and Good Clinical Practice
HLS 437 - Clinical Trial Administration and Good Clinical Practice
Introduction to the principles, conduct, and ethics of clinical trial administration
and good clinical practice. Clinical trial design, management, regulatory issues,
and analysis will be considered. Topics will include research deigns, ethics and regulatory
policies, protocol development, treatment allocation, blinding, randomization and
stratification, quality control, sample size and statistical power, data management
and safety monitoring, interpretation of results, and scientific communication. Alternative
study designs (e.g. observational and quasi-experiment) will be considered and sources
of bias will be addressed.
Prerequisite(s): HLS 240
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 440 - Research Methods for Evidence- Based Healthcare
HLS 440 - Research Methods for Evidence- Based Healthcare
Conceptual examination of evidence-based practice and skill acquisition necessary
to incorporate evidence and best practices into patient care. These include an understanding
of research methods and a scientific approach to critical appraisal of research literature.
Analysis of strong scientific data to support approaches to healthcare.
Special Information: may not also take RSP 440 for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 450 - Organization of Long-Term Care Facilities
HLS 450 - Organization of Long-Term Care Facilities
A study of the complex operations required to deliver quality, cost-effective services
in nursing home and assisted living facilities. Examines administrative functions
relating to clients, staffing, community, policy, programming, and financing. This
course is designed to meet the educational requirement toward nursing home administrator
licensure in the state of Connecticut.
Prerequisite(s): HLS 150 or PCH 292, Junior status or instructor permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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HLS 490 - Career Skills for the Healthcare Professional
HLS 490 - Career Skills for the Healthcare Professional
Discussion of career and interpersonal skills for healthcare professionals; and discussion
of issues that arise in the healthcare workplace. Course is centered around a semester-long
project that requires the application of acquired knowledge and skills of the Healthcare
Studies (HLS) competencies.
Prerequisite(s): HLS major and senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HLS 497 - Internship in Healthcare Studies
HLS 497 - Internship in Healthcare Studies
A supervised internship at a professional Healthcare setting that relates to the student's
coursework in healthcare studies and professional interest. 150 hours at internship
site.
Prerequisite(s): HLS majors; permission required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HLS 499 - Independent Study
HLS 499 - Independent Study
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HMS 131 - Teaching Aquatics
HMS 131 - Teaching Aquatics
This course will provide learning experiences that will lead to the development of
skills in a variety of aquatic activities. In addition to skill acquisition, this
course will focus on how to plan, implement and assess aquatic activities in a preK-12
physical education teaching setting.
Prerequisite(s): Exercise Sport Science or Physical Education major.
.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 158 - Athletic Training Professional Practice
HMS 158 - Athletic Training Professional Practice
Initial exposure to the role of the athletic trainer as a health care provider. Emphasizes
the professional responsibilities and foundational knowledge, skills, and behaviors
necessary for effective performance as an entry level athletic trainer. Course content
includes introduction to sports medicine and the sports medicine team, history of
the athletic training profession, standards of practice, medical terminology and basic
principles of athletic training.
Prerequisite(s): Athletic Training Major.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 160 - Introduction to Exercise and Sport Science
HMS 160 - Introduction to Exercise and Sport Science
Provides a foundation to the human performance discipline in the health and movement
sciences field, highlighting history, role, and scope of the sub disciplines (exercise
physiology, biomechanics, exercise nutrition, strength & conditioning, sport psychology.
Exercise prescription, motor behavior). The students are introduced to the profession
of human performance including practical demonstrations of the sub disciplines, career
opportunities, professional certification, basic research techniques, and scientific
writing. Students will learn basic, academic requirements of obtaining employment
in the fitness, clinical, or strength & conditioning environment.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 191 - Introduction to Teaching Physical Education
HMS 191 - Introduction to Teaching Physical Education
Introduces prospective physical educators to the profession of teaching physical education
(PE) in preK-12 schools.-1-t,examines the historical, philosophical and social perspectives
of physical education. Students will learn the purpose of PE, content taught by physical
educators at preK-12 levels, the roles and responsibilities of physical educators
in schools, how to design appropriate learning experiences, and lesson planning.
1.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 201 - Foundations in Scientific Writing
HMS 201 - Foundations in Scientific Writing
Will develop students’ scientific writing skills. Students will learn how to: (1)
read and interpret the scientific literature; (2) succinctly summarize the findings
of study in accordance with standard scientific writing practices; (3) cite and reference
the literature using APA and AMA referencing styles; and (4) synthesize the findings
from the literature and construct a cohesive literature review.
Prerequisite(s): Written Communication Restriction(s): ATH, HMS, HSC, RSP majors only,
or Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 204 - Field Experience in Group Exercise Instruction
HMS 204 - Field Experience in Group Exercise Instruction
Practical work in a group exercise instruction (GEI) setting where students will utilize
their academic knowledge of their major emphasis in human performance to develop knowledge,
skill, abilities and experiences toward national certification in group exercise instruction.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 212 - Lifetime Physical Activity
HMS 212 - Lifetime Physical Activity
Designed to encourage the inclusion of lifetime physical activity to promote an understanding
of lifelong wellness and advocacy for physical activity, as well as identify its relationship
to the prevention of hypokinetic diseases.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 280 - Survey of Anatomy and Physiology
HMS 280 - Survey of Anatomy and Physiology
An overview of body structure and function with fitness emphasis. Including musculoskeletal,
cardiorespiratory, and neuroendocrine systems.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 281 - Anatomy and Physiology I
HMS 281 - Anatomy and Physiology I
Study of the structure and function of the human body, with emphasis on the skeletal
system, muscular system, circulatory, respiratory, urinary, endocrine and nervous
systems, and on the physiology of growth and development.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 282 - Anatomy and Physiology II
HMS 282 - Anatomy and Physiology II
Study of the structure and function of the human body, with emphasis on the skeletal
system, muscular system, circulatory, respiratory, urinary, endocrine and nervous
systems, and on the physiology of growth and development.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 283 - Functional Anatomy
HMS 283 - Functional Anatomy
An investigation into human anatomy focusing on how muscles and joints coordinate
to produce human movement. Emphasis is placed on providing fundamental knowledge necessary
to understand dysfunction. Included in the course is a review of anatomical structures
and their relationship to the kinetic chain.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 281 or BIO 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 291 - Exploring the Teaching of Physical Education
HMS 291 - Exploring the Teaching of Physical Education
Introduces teacher candidates to pedagogy, management, and organizational strategies
specific to physical education. Content includes rationale for skill progressions,
scope and sequence of physical education, lesson planning, and program planning. Provides
an initial exposure to school physical education programs (preK-12) through 5- 8 hours
of-field experiences.
Special Information: Field Experience.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 191
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 292 - Instructional Strategies for Physical Education
HMS 292 - Instructional Strategies for Physical Education
Focus is on teaching physical education to elementary, middle, and high school students,
with instruction on developmental needs, teaching skills, analysis and observation,
behavior management, and curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 291.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 293 - Movement Foundations
HMS 293 - Movement Foundations
Foundation for conceptual understanding, personal proficiency and instructional demonstration
competency for all fundamental human movements and combinations of movement skills.
Major conceptual and skill development components of the course are movement education,
tumbling, dance movement, rhythms and dance fundamentals, and motor development and
motor learning for children K-12, with an emphasis on K-3.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 291 and Exercise and Sport Science or Physical Education major.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 301 - Exercise and Sport Nutrition
HMS 301 - Exercise and Sport Nutrition
An investigation and clarification of the relationship between exercise and human
nutrition as it pertains to sub disciplines of physical fitness and competitive sport
performance.
Prerequisite(s): PCH 200, 'C-' or better in (HMS 281 or BIO 200) and 'C-' or better
in (HMS 282 or BIO 201). Not open to Pre-Exercise and Sport Science majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 313 - Teaching Skill Themes and Movement Concepts
HMS 313 - Teaching Skill Themes and Movement Concepts
Designed to provide a framework for understanding the interaction between manipulative
skills and movement concepts. Participation in this course provides opportunities
for the pre-service teacher to develop pedagogical content knowledge of the movement
framework. Students will learn how movement concepts enhance, expand, and embellish
skill themes.
Corequisite(s): HMS 291
.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 314 - Teaching Individual Performance Activitites
HMS 314 - Teaching Individual Performance Activitites
Provides learning experiences that lead to the development of skills in a variety
of individual performance activities. In addition to skill acquisition, this course
focuses on how to plan and implement these activities. Practice outside of class time
is necessary for students to achieve the expected performance level.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 292
.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 315 - Teaching Outdoor Pursuits and Adventure Education in PE
HMS 315 - Teaching Outdoor Pursuits and Adventure Education in PE
Engages students in learning experiences to prepare them to instruct youth in adventure
activities and outdoor pursuits in physical education. The course includes the basic
principles, skills and concepts of outdoor pursuits and adventure education, as well
as appropriate instructional strategies for these activities.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 292
.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 316 - Physical Activity Promotion and Advocacy
HMS 316 - Physical Activity Promotion and Advocacy
Engages students in learning experiences that develop the knowledge and skills to:
(a) promote physical activity within preK-12 school and community settings; (b) design
and implement a variety of physical activity opportunities for children and adults;
(c) advocate for health and physical education at the local, state, and national levels;
and (d) enhance health, physical education, and physical activity program within preK-12
school and community settings.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 292
.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 319 - Health and Safety for Coaches
HMS 319 - Health and Safety for Coaches
Practical application of the prevention, recognition, initial response, and management
of athletic related injuries and other medical conditions encountered in the coaching
profession.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 280 or HMS 281 or BIO 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 350 - Teaching Physical Fitness K-12
HMS 350 - Teaching Physical Fitness K-12
Prepares pre-service teachers to integrate health-related fitness instruction into
their physical education programs. In addition, this course will prepare pre-service
teachers to administer fitness tests in the K-12 schools. Additionally, teachers will
be prepared to complete the Physical Best Health/Fitness Specialist Certification.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Exercise and Sport Science or Physical Education program,
and HMS 293.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 352 - Skill and Strategy of Target, Striking/Fielding, Net/Wall Games
HMS 352 - Skill and Strategy of Target, Striking/Fielding, Net/Wall Games
Builds on the content and competencies established in Movement Foundations and Teaching
Physical Fitness K-12; Applies conceptual understanding, personal proficiency, and
instructional demonstration competency for all fundamental movement skills, combinations
of skills, and strategies/concepts utilized throughout game-play to the teaching of
target, striking/fielding, and net/wall games at the secondary (grades 6-12) level.
Prerequisite(s): admission to Exercise and Sport Science or Physical Education program,
and HMS 293.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 370 - Coaching Individual, Dual and Team Sports
HMS 370 - Coaching Individual, Dual and Team Sports
Thorough examination of the methods of coaching team and individual sports, including
the mechanics of the sport, conditioning and coaching techniques, practice organization,
strategy, officiating, and safety measures.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 380 - Sport Psychology
HMS 380 - Sport Psychology
The study of the behavior of individuals engaged in human movement environments such
as play, games, and sport. Emphasis is on selected aspects of psychology pertinent
to those interested in sport such as arousal, motivation, perception, and team cohesion.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 383 - Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise
HMS 383 - Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise
Analysis and application of human motion based on anatomical and mechanical principles.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in (HMS 281 or BIO 200), and 'C-' or better in (HMS
282 or BIO 201) Not open to Pre-Exercise and Sport Science students.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 384 - Exercise Physiology
HMS 384 - Exercise Physiology
The physiological bases of human performance are covered. Primary concern is directed
to the muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, and endocrine systems during periods of
exercise.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in (HMS 281 or BIO 200) and 'C-' or better in (HMS
282 or BIO 201). Not open to Pre-Exercise and Sport Science students.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 387 - Standard First Aid and Personal Safety
HMS 387 - Standard First Aid and Personal Safety
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 389 - Exercise Physiology II
HMS 389 - Exercise Physiology II
An introduction to sports training and the effects of sports training on the musculoskeletal
and energy systems of the body.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 384. Not open to Pre-Exercise and Sport Science students.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 392 - Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance
HMS 392 - Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance
Response and adaptations to resistive, anaerobic, and aerobic exercise and training;
practical application of scientific principles to human physical conditioning program
with emphasis on enhancement of maximal strength, power, and high intensity endurance
exercise.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 281 or BIO 200, and HMS 282 or BIO 201. Not open to Pre-Exercise
and Sport Science majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 394 - Physical Education (Elementary School)
HMS 394 - Physical Education (Elementary School)
A prerequisite to elementary student teaching. Content materials of the physical education
program from kindergarten through grade 6, with organization of the elementary program
and methods of teaching.
Prerequisite(s): Open only to physical education majors who have completed Gate 2
requirements.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 400 - Skill and Strategy of Invasion Games
HMS 400 - Skill and Strategy of Invasion Games
Builds on the content and competencies established in Movement Foundations, Teaching
Physical Fitness K-12 and Skill and Strategy of Target, Striking/Fielding and Net/Wall
Games; Applies conceptual understanding, personal proficiency, and instructional demonstration
competency for all fundamental movement skills, combinations of skills, and strategies/concepts
utilized throughout game-play to the teaching of invasion games at the secondary (grades
6- 12) level.
Prerequisite(s): admission to Exercise and Sport Science or Physical Education major,
and HMS 293.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 401 - Exercise for Diverse Populations
HMS 401 - Exercise for Diverse Populations
Exercise prescription for individuals in the special population of commonly encountered
medical conditions, disabilities, abnormalities, and diseases of physically active
individuals; general study of the etiology, epidemiology, and presentation of diseases
and conditions.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in HMS 384 and acceptance into Exercise and Sport Science
or Physical Education major.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 411 - General Medical Perspectives
HMS 411 - General Medical Perspectives
Study of pharmacological agents and general medical conditions, disabilities, abnormalities,
and diseases of physically active individuals. Included is the etiology, recognition,
physical examination, management, prevention and referral of common medical conditions.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 282 or BIO 201, formal acceptance into the Exercise and Sport
Science or Respiratory Therapy programs.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 413 - Functional Anatomy and Clinical Kinesiology
HMS 413 - Functional Anatomy and Clinical Kinesiology
An investigation into human anatomy focusing on joint arthrokinematics and osteokinematics
and associated muscle actions. Emphasis on the fundamental knowledge necessary to
understand anatomical dysfunction’s role in contributing to injury and the role of
joint structure and movement in the application of manual therapy techniques.
Prerequisite(s): Open to students accepted in the Accelerated BS/MAT Athletic Training
program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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HMS 421 - Organization and Administration in Exercise and Sport Science
HMS 421 - Organization and Administration in Exercise and Sport Science
Addresses professional competencies required to successfully operate a physical fitness
facility and maintain communication with clients and other target populations. Topics
include budgeting, facility and personnel management, program development, marketing,
and communication skills.
Prerequisite(s): Formal acceptance into the Exercise and Sport Science program.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 442 - Practicum Seminar in Physical Education
HMS 442 - Practicum Seminar in Physical Education
The practicum seminar in conjunction with the student teaching period is the culminating
experience where the students plan, implement, and evaluate the learning environment
and their performance as pre-service teachers.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 452 - Elementary Physical Education Student Teaching
HMS 452 - Elementary Physical Education Student Teaching
Prearranged experiential learning program, to be planned, supervised, and evaluated
for credit by faculty and field supervisors. Course taken as pass/fail only.
Special Information: Temporary placement within a public school for professional competence
development. This is an 8-week experience. Course is Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 394 and HMS 495
5.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 453 - Secondary Physical Education Student Teaching
HMS 453 - Secondary Physical Education Student Teaching
Prearranged experiential learning program, to be planned, supervised, and evaluated
for credit by faculty and field supervisors. Course taken as pass/fail only.
Special Information: Temporary placement within a public school for professional competence
development. This is an 8-week experience. Grading is Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 394 and HMS 495.
5.5 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 455 - Sport Science and Performance Technology
HMS 455 - Sport Science and Performance Technology
Emphasis is placed on specific sport performance testing and interpretations, athlete
coaching and monitoring using wearable technology, and corrective exercise and movement
screening. Additionally, this course is designed to prepare students for the nationally
accredited certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) certification exam.
Prerequisite(s): 'C' or better in HMS 392 or instructor permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 480 - Motor Learning and Development
HMS 480 - Motor Learning and Development
Study of major variables affecting the learning process as related to the acquisition
of motor skills. Some laboratory exercises required.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 483 - Adapted Physical Education
HMS 483 - Adapted Physical Education
Familiarizes the student with the determination, planning, and programming needs of
preK-12 school children with disabilities in physical education
learning environments. Students also gain familiarity with various disabilities and
the role of inclusive and integrated planning, instructional delivery, and assessment
in providing culturally responsive and appropriate adapted physical education.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 485 - Measurement and Statistics in Exercise Science
HMS 485 - Measurement and Statistics in Exercise Science
Elementary statistics and testing as applied to health and physical education, with
detailed study of the following types of tests: anthropometric, strength, cardiovascular,
general motor ability, specialized skills, and knowledge tests.
Prerequisite(s): Exercise Science major. Not open to Pre-Exercise and Sport Science
students.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 488 - Exercise Testing and Prescription
HMS 488 - Exercise Testing and Prescription
Instruction and application of exercise and health assessments, laboratory emphasizes
group work, human contact, and report writing during assessment learning. Directed
toward preparation for a career in a fitness, sport performance, or clinical physiology
environment.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 384.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 495 - Physical Education (Secondary School)
HMS 495 - Physical Education (Secondary School)
Practices, methods, and materials of teaching physical education in secondary schools.
Emphasis is on development of knowledge and skill in teaching selected physical education
activities. A prerequisite for student teaching in the secondary school.
Prerequisite(s): Open only to physical education majors who have completed Gate 2
requirements.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HMS 496 - Sport in American Culture
HMS 496 - Sport in American Culture
The study of sport in social groups, process, institutions, economics, religion, the
black athlete, women, education, and the media.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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HMS 497 - Exercise and Sport Science Internship
HMS 497 - Exercise and Sport Science Internship
Capstone experience that provides practical involvement in exercise and sport science
procedures in a professional environment, complying with each student’s interests.
Students will complete 300 hours of supervised shadowing of a professional and project
work in a fitness, strength & conditioning, or clinical setting.
Prerequisite(s): HMS 387, 'C' or better in HMS 401 or HMS 488, departmental permission.
6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HMS 499 - Independent Study
HMS 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
.5 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 100 - First-Year leadership Colloquium
HON 100 - First-Year leadership Colloquium
Examination of the skills and strategies of successful student scholars and leaders.
Includes
critical reflection about the meaning of a liberal education and membership in the
Honors
College. Seminar-style format focusing on the academic and leadership standards of
the Honors
College Foundations program. Class dialogue revolves around assigned readings, small
group
discussions, faculty and peer mentor meetings, and guided self-reflections.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission. Corequisite(s): HON 150.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 102 - First Year Research Colloquium
HON 102 - First Year Research Colloquium
Introduction to college research skills and methods from different disciplinary perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): HON 150 and Honors College permission.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HON 150 - Introduction to Critical Inquiry
HON 150 - Introduction to Critical Inquiry
The development of skills necessary for reading critically and for writing correct,
clear, well-organized prose.
Prerequisite(s): Honors college director permission required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 200 - Conceptions of Self and Identity Seminar
HON 200 - Conceptions of Self and Identity Seminar
Examination of the meanings of self and identity. Emphasis on the creation, manifestation,
development, and well-being of the individual and the symbiotic relationship between
the individual and society. Exploration of the conceptions, perceptions, development,
realizations and expressions of the self through the fine and performing arts, the
humanities and the social and natural sciences. Course may be repeated one time for
credit.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission, HON 102 (can be taken concurrently). Corequisite(s):
HON 201.
2 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 201 - Conceptions of Self and Identity Plenary Session
HON 201 - Conceptions of Self and Identity Plenary Session
A weekly meeting for all Honors College students concurrently enrolled in HON 200:
Conceptions
of Self and Identity Seminar. Plenary sessions highlight multiple facets of topics
addressed in HON 200 and kindle indepth discussion about the topics explored in the
courses. Students and faculty examine topics relating to the exploration of identity
and self-expression through discussions of common book readings, transdisciplinary
or multidisciplinary presentations by faculty/student panels, experiential ("place
as text") excursions to relevant sites, and guest lectures.
Required for Honors College Foundations program.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission, HON 150. Corequisite(s): HON 200
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 202 - Conceptions of Community and Context Seminar
HON 202 - Conceptions of Community and Context Seminar
Exploration of conceptions, development, realizations, expressions of community. Examination
of how individuals and communities can affect and be affected by the fine and performing
arts, the humanities, the natural and social sciences. Study of influential concepts
as well as events that impact the nature and well-being of communities. Course can
be repeated one time for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission; HON 102 (may be taken concurrently). Corequisite(s):
HON 203.
2 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HON 203 - Conceptions of Community and Context Plenary Session
HON 203 - Conceptions of Community and Context Plenary Session
A weekly meeting for all Honors College students concurrently enrolled in HON202:
Concepts of
Community. Plenary sessions highlight multiple facets of topics addressed in HON 202
and kindle in-depth discussion about the topics explored in the courses. Students
and faculty examine community based issues and topics through discussions of common
book readings, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary presentations by faculty/student
panels, experiential ("place as text") excursions to relevant sites, and guest lectures.
Required for Honors College Foundations
program.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission. Corequisite(s): HON 202.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HON 210 - The Idea of Self: The Ancient World
HON 210 - The Idea of Self: The Ancient World
Selected aspects of ancient cultures are examined. Students’ written work is emphasized.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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HON 250 - The City in Western Civilization.
HON 250 - The City in Western Civilization.
Interdisciplinary study of western cities, which emphasizes mechanisms of integration
and disintegration in their evolution. Individual cities such as Venice, Florence,
Amsterdam, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, and Mexico City may be presented
as illustrations.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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HON 254 - Utopias and Dystopias
HON 254 - Utopias and Dystopias
Exploration through primary sources of the philosophical, political, literary, and
historical aspects of utopian thinking and its implications, including the modern
disenchantment and dystopian ideas expressed in fiction and political discourse.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Honors College Director.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 255 - Ambiguity and Uncertainty in the Arts and
HON 255 - Ambiguity and Uncertainty in the Arts and
What is ambiguity? What is uncertainty? How do they differ? What role do they play
in helping and hindering learning and understanding different fields? Focus is upon
one discipline from the fine arts and humanities and one selected from mathematics
and the sciences.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 270 - Scientific Investigation and Civic Engagement
HON 270 - Scientific Investigation and Civic Engagement
Current scientific and related societal issues are engaged through direct scientific
investigation and discovery. Topic and research follows an interdisciplinary approach.
Data analysis, interpretation, and communication of results are stressed. Required
for Honors Foundations.
Prerequisite(s): HON 150 and Honors College permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 290 - The Language of Art
HON 290 - The Language of Art
Art as a visual language. Concepts such as aesthetics, abstraction and imitation,
and qualities such as shape, texture and color, studied through studio work and through
lectures and readings in art history. Studio/Lecture, 4 hours.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 300 - Introduction to Service Learning
HON 300 - Introduction to Service Learning
Introduction to service-learning through an experiential approach. Students produce
a
service learning portfolio that draws from relevant academic content knowledge, developing
civic knowledge and career readiness skills, seminar discussion, individual and group
reflection, and at least ten hours of active service with a community partner to help
address a real-world issue. Community partner relationships are reciprocal and variable,
established according to expertise of instructor.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 350 - Research Seminar
HON 350 - Research Seminar
Practical research skills and principles used in the preparation and presentation
of a senior research thesis or creative project.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 398 - Special Topics
HON 398 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues and/or creative work in topics related to the
various areas of knowledge.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 400 - Research Colloquium
HON 400 - Research Colloquium
Presentation and discussion of prospectuses and research during the research stage
of Departmental Honors theses and projects. One hour discussion each week. Course
taken for pass/fail only.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 450 - International Study Foundations
HON 450 - International Study Foundations
Prepares students for the Honors College international study capstone option by addressing
practical information about travel including safety, comportment, weather, communication,
healthcare, diet and culture. Through research on cultural, historical, socio-political,
geographical and other pertinent aspects of the study abroad experience and with specific
reference to the location each student has chosen for their study abroad experience,
students identify and develop topics for their individual final capstone project to
be undertaken during their study abroad experience.
Prerequisite(s): HON 300 and Honors College permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HON 460 - Community-Engaged Research I
HON 460 - Community-Engaged Research I
The first semester in a year-long course. An in-depth examination of and response
to a community issue entailing service-learning, collaborative reflection, portfolio
presentation, and a community appropriate deliverable. Community based relationships
are reciprocal and variable, established according to the interest and applicable
research of students. May satisfy the Honors minor capstone requirement.
Prerequisite(s): HON 300 and Honors College permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HON 461 - Community-Engaged Research II
HON 461 - Community-Engaged Research II
The second semester in a year-long course. A continued examination of and response
to a community issue focusing on sustained community engagement, collaborative reflection,
portfolio presentation, and a community-appropriate deliverable. Community-based relationships
are reciprocal and variable, established according to the interest and applicable
research of students. May satisfy the honors minor capstone requirement.
Prerequisite(s): HON 300, HON 460, and Honors College permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HON 494 - Honors Prospectus
HON 494 - Honors Prospectus
First semester of work during the research stage of departmental honors thesis, including
the creation and presentation of the prospectus. Students must meet departmental and
Liberal Education Program requirements.
Prerequisite(s): Students must obtain all required signatures.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 495 - Honors Thesis
HON 495 - Honors Thesis
Research of exceptionally high quality involving preparation of a thesis and its defense
before the student’s thesis committee. Students who successfully complete and defend
their project and earn a grade of B or higher graduate with departmental honors.
Prerequisite(s): HON 494, completion of approved prospectus.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HON 498 - Special Topics
HON 498 - Special Topics
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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HON 499 - Independent Study
HON 499 - Independent Study
Research and completion of a paper under guidance of a faculty sponsor.
Prerequisite(s): Honors College permission.
.5 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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HSC 200 - Health Professions and Medical Terminology
HSC 200 - Health Professions and Medical Terminology
Inquiry of the preparation, credentials, scopes of practice, roles and responsibilities
of various clinical and non-clinical medical and healthcare professionals. Elements
of medical language related to prefixes, roots and suffixes of body organizations
and systems, anatomical structures and common conditions and treatments.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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HSC 411 - Pathophysiology and Pharmacology
HSC 411 - Pathophysiology and Pharmacology
Study of pharmacological agents and general medical conditions, disabilities, abnormalities,
and diseases of physically active individuals. Included is the etiology, recognition,
physical examination, management, prevention, and referral of common medical conditions.
Prerequisite(s): (HMS 282 or BIO 201) and HMS 384 (may be taken concurrently), Admission
to Health Science Major.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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HSC 421 - Interprofessional Healthcare Practice
HSC 421 - Interprofessional Healthcare Practice
Addresses professional competencies required to successfully perform as a member of
an interprofessional healthcare team. These professional competencies include patient-centered
care, professional scope of practice, healthcare team diversity, ethics and values,
overlapping healthcare team member responsibilities, communication with patients and
other target populations, healthcare team leadership, and team evaluation. This course
requires up to 30 hours of field observations.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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HSC 450 - Principles of Medical Documentation
HSC 450 - Principles of Medical Documentation
Addresses the fundamentals of clinical health documentation. Intended to provide the
student with a thorough understanding of medical terminology and the practical application
of medical terminology in medical/health record documentation. Provides students with
knowledge regarding the importance of the health record and the ability to document
patient information in an accurate and detailed manner.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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IDS 311 - Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Studies
IDS 311 - Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Studies
Examination of interdisciplinary studies, the differences and relationship between
academic disciplines, and teaches students how to conduct interdisciplinary research
by integrating different disciplinary perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): Major in BA/BS IDS and Junior status or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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IDS 320 - Human Flourishing in the 21st Century
IDS 320 - Human Flourishing in the 21st Century
This interdisciplinary capstone focuses on two interrelated questions: what does it
mean to live well in American in the 21st century? and; what is an individual's role
and responsibility as a member of a larger community and environment? As a capstone
project, students develop a thoughtful and coherent response to these questions, which
they will then present as a poster presentation. The capstone project is a synthesis
of four positions developed over the course of the semester as smaller unit projects
dealing with the following interrelated themes: food, clothing and shelter, transportation,
and population.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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IDS 321 - Career Pathways in Interdisciplinary Studies
IDS 321 - Career Pathways in Interdisciplinary Studies
Professional development and career exploration for Interdisciplinary Studies majors.
Assists students in preparation for the job market and/or graduate and professional
studies through an exploration of various career professional paths based on their
unique, self-designed major and individual skills.
Prerequisite(s): IDS major and Junior status.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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IDS 401 - Interdisciplinary Investigations of Globalization
IDS 401 - Interdisciplinary Investigations of Globalization
Develops methodological frameworks and gains structured research experience in interdisciplinary
studies. Examines the economic, sociopolitical, and cultural aspects of globalization
and draws on three or more disciplines to formulate an original line of inquiry, research
a complex problem related to globalization, and propose a solution. Final projects,
which may take the form of a written proposal, or a product/deliverable in the public
service, educational, technological, multi-media, fine arts, or enterpreneurial domains,
will be publicly presented; all final projects will include an accompanying research
journal and process analysis essay.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120, IDS 311, major in BA-IDS or BS-IDS
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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IDS 405 - In a World: A Gamified Capstone Experience
IDS 405 - In a World: A Gamified Capstone Experience
Uses gamification, world-building, and transmedia storytelling techniques to explore
the boundaries between fiction and reality. Interdisciplinary teams work collaboratively
to construct a fictional world informed by what we know about our own. Game elements
structure interaction, creative development, and class discussion and experiences.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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IDS 499 - Independent Study
IDS 499 - Independent Study
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ILS 300 - Literature for Children
ILS 300 - Literature for Children
Critical study of literature for children. Included are folklore, poetry, fiction
and nonfiction, as well as discussions of outstanding writers and illustrators, past
and present.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ILS 302 - Library - Information Service
ILS 302 - Library - Information Service
An overview of the information field: library science, instructional technology, information
science, communications.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ILS 320 - Technical Services
ILS 320 - Technical Services
Organization of the technical services structure: acquisition processes, cataloging-classification
systems.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ILS 330 - User Services
ILS 330 - User Services
Utilization of reference tools and the development of library—information programs.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ILS 360 - Data Literacy and Presentation
ILS 360 - Data Literacy and Presentation
Provides the foundation for understanding the key issues associated with natural characteristics
of data, and data presentation including data management, data presentation and multimedia
data.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ILS 400 - Library - Information Service Practice
ILS 400 - Library - Information Service Practice
A 150-hour work experience in a library-information service agency.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ILS 421 - Organization of the Information Center
ILS 421 - Organization of the Information Center
The structure and function of information service agencies.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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ILS 425 - Library - Information Sources
ILS 425 - Library - Information Sources
Sources of information in the public and private sectors: selection, acquisition,
utilization.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ILS 440 - Information Service Technology
ILS 440 - Information Service Technology
Utilization of major technologies in library-information service agencies: video,
microforms, computers.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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INQ 101 - Intellectual and Creative Inquiry
INQ 101 - Intellectual and Creative Inquiry
Seminar designed to assist first-year students in becoming enthusiastic and engaged
members of the SCSU community. Seminars are organized thematically; topics vary by
instructor. All seminars focus on the process of learning how to learn and cultivating
the habits of mind for life-long achievement and success. Students will learn and
practice the process of academic inquiry common to all university disciplines, while
exploring their reasons for seeking a university education and the choices they make
as first-year university students.
Prerequisite(s): First-year students only.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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INQ 120 - The RISE Workshop
INQ 120 - The RISE Workshop
Focus is on skill-building, time management, resource utilization, and peer networks
via group discussions, journaling, and on-campus resource utilization.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate student on academic warning or probation. Academic
Advising permission required.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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INQ 390 - Peer Mentoring in the First-Year Classroom
INQ 390 - Peer Mentoring in the First-Year Classroom
This course will assist students in developing the leadership skills and knowledge
necessary to become effective mentors of students in the first-year seminar classroom
and beyond. The study of student development theory combined with the practice of
experiential methods will provide students with an opportunity to raise their self-awareness
and increase their understanding of student maturation, intercultural competence,
interpersonal communication, problem-solving techniques, and group processes, as well
as campus resources and referral, follow-up and support techniques. Students will
increase their knowledge-base through study and develop new skills through demonstration,
hands-on activities, self-reflection, role-playing, case studies, feedback, discussion,
writing and revision.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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INQ 391 - Peer Mentoring Practicum
INQ 391 - Peer Mentoring Practicum
The peer mentoring practicum is a continuation of INQ 390: Peer Mentoring in the first-year
classroom and provides a forum for first-year-classroom peer mentors to process, reflect
upon, theorize, problem-solve, and document their experiences mentoring first-year
students. Peer mentors will be required to take this course during the semester they
mentor.
Prerequisite(s): INQ 390 and instructor permission. Open only to approved Inquiry
101 mentors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ITA 100 - Italian I
ITA 100 - Italian I
Reading of simple Italian and the fundamentals of composition and conversation. An
hour session in the language laboratory is required each week. Students with one year
of secondary school Italian should elect ITA 101. Native speakers of Italian and students
who have taken four years or more of Italian in high school may not take ITA 100 for
credit.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ITA 101 - Italian II
ITA 101 - Italian II
Reading of simple Italian and the fundamentals of composition and conversation. An
hour session in the language laboratory is required each week.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 100, two years of secondary school Italian, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ITA 200 - Italian III
ITA 200 - Italian III
Elementary Italian grammar reviewed with stress on pronunciation and conversation.
Modern Italian literary works are read and discussed. An hour session in the language
laboratory is required each week.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 101, three years of secondary school Italian, or placement exam.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ITA 202 - Italian Language and Culture for Pleasure
ITA 202 - Italian Language and Culture for Pleasure
Intermediate Italian language and culture course for students who have some knowledge
of Italian. Student-centered, communicative approach to the study of Italian language
through the lens of the cultural theme of la dolce vita, focusing on the study of
vocabulary and grammatical concepts, as well as a variety of content- and task-based
activities. Through the topics of art, fashion, music, leisure, sport, theatre, cafe'
culture, and regional food, learners acquire the tools to interact with other Italian
speakers in international, national and local communities, and gain proficiency in
all four language skills-speaking, reading, writing and listening.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 101, 3 yrs of high school Italian, placement exam or departmental
permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ITA 204 - Made in Italy: Italian Language and Culture for a GlobalSociety
ITA 204 - Made in Italy: Italian Language and Culture for a GlobalSociety
Intermediate Italian language and culture course for students who have some knowledge
of Italian. Students gain proficiency in all four language skills-speaking, reading,
writing and listening-through the study of Italian culture in the context of the globalized
world of business, food culture, science, engineering, design, travel and hospitality.
Student-centered communicative approach to the study of Italian through the study
of vocabulary and grammatical concepts, as well as a variety of content- and task-based
activities focusing on these areas of study, with the goal of giving learners the
tools to interact with other Italian speakers in international, national and local
communities. By the end of the course, students will be able to speak consistently
in full sentences in Italian, respond to and elaborate on topics related to the content
areas, and express opinions, desire and volition.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 101, 3 years of high school Italian, placement exam or departmental
permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ITA 206 - Italian Culture in Italy
ITA 206 - Italian Culture in Italy
Study of Italian culture and civilization, for a period of at least four weeks in
Italy under the supervision of the Department of World Languages and Literatures faculty.
Course taken in conjunction with either ITA 200 or 210.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission and ITA 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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ITA 220 - Italian Food Culture in Italy and America
ITA 220 - Italian Food Culture in Italy and America
A critical examination of Italian food culture from a historical socio-political and
environmental perspective. Investigates the role that the production, preparation
and consumption of food has played in the development of Italian and Italian-American
culture identity. Considers food culture as a means of preserving regional identity
and explores issues of sustainability and food culture in a global context.
Special Information: Taught in English.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ITA 250 - Italians in America
ITA 250 - Italians in America
Investigates the experience of Italian-Americans in the U.S. through literature, art,
film, and oral narratives. Students analyze Italian-American culture and identity
including its intersections with issues of race, gender, and politics. Field study
required.
Special Information: Field study required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ITA 270 - Italian Cities
ITA 270 - Italian Cities
Explores Rome, Naples, Palermo, Florence, and Venice through the arts, films, food,
and literature and analyzes the cultural difference that lend each city its own uniqueness.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ITA 400 - Italian Literature I
ITA 400 - Italian Literature I
Artistic and historical background of Italian literature from its beginning to the
present, with reading and discussion of selected masterpieces.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 210.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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ITA 484 - Italian Theater
ITA 484 - Italian Theater
Development of the theater from its origins to the present, through representative
dramatists.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 300 and ITA 301.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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ITA 487 - Short Story
ITA 487 - Short Story
Development and influence of the Italian short story from its origins to the present.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 300 and ITA 301.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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ITA 490 - The Modern Novel
ITA 490 - The Modern Novel
Development of the Italian novel from Verga to the present.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 300 and ITA 301.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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ITA 498 - Special Topics
ITA 498 - Special Topics
Examination of developments, issues, and/or creative work in the field of Italian.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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ITA 499 - Directed Reading
ITA 499 - Directed Reading
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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JRN 101 - The Media: Freedom and Power
JRN 101 - The Media: Freedom and Power
Analyzing how the media, including the Internet, provide news and information to the
public with emphasis on the First Amendment, media power, ethics and taste. Develops
skills in written and oral communication.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 135 - Digital Media Skills
JRN 135 - Digital Media Skills
Learn how to use photo, video, audio, data, and web tools to become a multimedia storyteller.
Understand the legal and ethical issues associated with digital publishing.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 170 - Basic Drone Technology
JRN 170 - Basic Drone Technology
Examine the emerging technology of drones for data acquisition in a multitude of forms,
incorporating the video, still imaging, and remote sensing potential of this aerial
platform. Learn the basics to start flying drones in addition to the legal, ethical
and safety requirements for flying drones and getting licensed by the FAA. Imagery/data
from student and faculty drone flights are used for multimedia storytelling and 3D
mapping projects.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 200 - Basics of Journalism
JRN 200 - Basics of Journalism
A survey of the print and broadcast media for an overview of the principles and techniques
of journalistic processes. Development of basic skills in reporting, news and feature
writing, editing and production.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 (JRN majors may take JRN 200 concurrent with ENG 112
or 120 with departmental permission).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 211 - Broadcast Sports Journalism
JRN 211 - Broadcast Sports Journalism
Learn the skills and techniques of covering broadcast sports, including play-by-play,
radio and tv reporting and writing. Students will get hands on experience in shooting,
recording, and performing. Professionals from sports broadcasting will be invited
guests in the class, knowledge of video and audio editing software is recommended.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 135 or JRN 170
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 220 - Digital Reporting and Writing
JRN 220 - Digital Reporting and Writing
Intensive practice in news reporting, writing and digital production. Students will
learn to create digital news, sports, and feature packages, with critiques and discussions
of technical and ethical problems.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 226 - Sports Multimedia Reporting
JRN 226 - Sports Multimedia Reporting
Intensive practice in online and mobile reporting for sports. Students will learn
to create online multimedia sports packages, analyze and report on sports data, and
use social media to report live from sporting events.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 and JRN 135 or 170.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 227 - Audio and Video Storytelling
JRN 227 - Audio and Video Storytelling
Intensive practice in the use of audio and video journalistic storytelling for web
and mobile platforms. Students will develop technical and journalistic skills used
in gathering and editing stories for news, public relations, sports and editorial
content, with an emphasis on different audiences and media.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 200 and (JRN 135 or JRN 170).
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 228 - Big Data Storytelling
JRN 228 - Big Data Storytelling
Explore how corporations, public agencies and news reporters use big data to communicate
complex ideas to the public. Students will study how words paired with numbers can
either augment or hinder understanding, as well as learn techniques to help readers
visualize numbers through infographics. Students will read and analyze data journalism
examples, as well as use real datasets to create their own stories.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 and Tier 1: Quantitative Reasoning.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 230 - Fundamentals of Public Relations
JRN 230 - Fundamentals of Public Relations
Principles, practices, and techniques of public relations in business, industry, government,
and social agencies.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 240 - Race and the News
JRN 240 - Race and the News
Examination of the role of race in American news media. Open to journalism and nonjournalism
majors seeking understanding of how race affects the news process and the news process
affects race.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 260 - Anthropology of Media
JRN 260 - Anthropology of Media
An examination of myth, ritual, and kinship filtered through the lens of various forms
of media in the United States. Explores films and case studies of movies, TV sitcoms,
and dramas and news broadcasts.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 270 - Photojournalism and Drones
JRN 270 - Photojournalism and Drones
An introductory course to photojournalism using digital cameras and drones. Learn
the roots and theory of photojournalism. Gain practical experience flying drones,
shooting and editing pictures for print and online news media.
Prerequisite(s): ART 114 or ART 264 or COM 212 or COM 238 or JRN 135 or JRN 170 or
departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 300 - News Writing
JRN 300 - News Writing
Practical aspects of news gathering, news writing, and copy editing.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 220 and JRN 227.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 301 - The News Media in America
JRN 301 - The News Media in America
An examination of the relationship between the news media and American society covering
the basic issues in journalism through case histories of print and electronic news
coverage.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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JRN 303 - Great Journalism
JRN 303 - Great Journalism
Explore extraordinary journalism in the United States. Read, watch, and listen to
well-reported, well written, and produced work from the print, broadcast, and online
press. Experienced reporters will visit the class.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 304 - Sports Reporting
JRN 304 - Sports Reporting
Reporting sports events for the news media; writing, and preparing sports material
for publication.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 305 - Precision Editing
JRN 305 - Precision Editing
Application of news editing concepts to all kinds of writing. Discussion and practice
in news judgment, copy editing, headline writing, proofreading, typography and design
for print, online and social media.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 306 - Digital News Design
JRN 306 - Digital News Design
Principles and techniques of news design for print and online media based on editorial
values, readership studies, and comparative studies of publications.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 135 or JRN 170 or ART 114 or ART 264 or COM 212 or COM 238 or
Departmental Permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 311 - Broadcast News Reporting I
JRN 311 - Broadcast News Reporting I
The techniques of reporting, writing, editing, and performing to create audio and
video stories for radio, TV and online media.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 and JRN 135 or 170, or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 320 - Writing Magazine Articles I
JRN 320 - Writing Magazine Articles I
The process of writing and selling freelance articles and an analysis of the magazine
market.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 330 - Advanced Integrated Public Relations
JRN 330 - Advanced Integrated Public Relations
Multidisciplinary and multimedia approach to Public Relations. A unique consortium
of PR tactics including the areas of fashion, entertainment, sports, politics, business,
and special events. Emphasis on how message structures change with audience and delivery
systems.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120 and JRN 230.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 350 - American Journalism History
JRN 350 - American Journalism History
The history of American journalism through the reading of key documents and the writings
of major journalists, and through interviews with professionals.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 351 - Media Law and Ethics
JRN 351 - Media Law and Ethics
Legal and ethical problems of the mass media, First Amendment landmark decisions,
and current issues concerning the gathering and dissemination of information.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 101, JRN 200, or JRN 301.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 370 - Drone Video Storytelling
JRN 370 - Drone Video Storytelling
Flying drones for the purposes of news gathering in both image and data applications.
Includes the legal, ethical and safety requirements for flying drones and reviewing
necessary requirements for getting licensed by the FAA. Imagery, video and data from
student and faculty drone flights are used for multimedia storytelling and 3D mapping.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 135 or JRN 170 or GEO 170 or COM 212 or Departmental Permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 410 - Broadcast News Reporting II
JRN 410 - Broadcast News Reporting II
Advanced techniques for reporting, writing, editing and anchoring stories in video
for TV and online media.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 311 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JRN 470 - Advanced Drone Storytelling
JRN 470 - Advanced Drone Storytelling
Utilizing the flying and imaging skills developed in JRN 370, this course emphasizes
advanced techniques and projects using the aerial platform for a number of projects
demonstrating their proficiency in both still imagery and video in a variety of news
products.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 370
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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JRN 490 - Capstone Seminar in Journalism
JRN 490 - Capstone Seminar in Journalism
The Journalism capstone project is the centerpiece and exclamation mark encapsulating
the journalism theories and skills journalism majors have learned in their classes
and in the field. Journalism students focus on a project of impact that can range
from social, political, economic, educational, or other topics/issues centered on
Southern's campus, greater New Haven, statewide, nationally, or globally. Students
critically examine the topic/issue throughout the process.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 220 and JRN 227.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JRN 497 - Journalism Internship
JRN 497 - Journalism Internship
Practical experience working with participating publications, broadcast studios, advertising
and public relations agencies, and government and community organizations, under supervision
of media or agency representatives and a faculty member. Course may be repeated up
to 9 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 9 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JST 101 - Jewish Life and Civilization
JST 101 - Jewish Life and Civilization
An introduction to literature, history, culture, and religion of the Jewish people,
from ancient to modern times, intended for students of all religious faiths. No prior
knowledge of Judaism required.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JST 110 - Narrating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JST 110 - Narrating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Introduction to critical thinking skills through expository prose and fictional narratives
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JST 200 - Jewish Stories
JST 200 - Jewish Stories
A multinational, multicultural, and trans-historical introduction to the Jewish story
from the Hebrew bible to the contemporary period.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JST 204 - Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies
JST 204 - Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies
An introduction to the field of Holocaust and genocide studies through true stories
of resistance, rescue, and survival. Students investigate dimensions common to all
genocides, including the deliberate social construction of the idenity of the targeted
group, an objectification designed to engender fear and hatred through the propagation
of dehumanizing stereotypes and hate speech. As a result of interdisciplinary analyses
of the causes of genocide, through historical accounts, witness literature, and film,
students reflect on possible strategies for genocide prevention through modes of intervention
and education.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JST 207 - The Religious Dimension of Human Existence
JST 207 - The Religious Dimension of Human Existence
The origin, nature, forms, and social manifestations of religious experience; relation
to other cultural institutions and expressions: analysis of diverse types of religious
experiences.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JST 235 - The Holocaust
JST 235 - The Holocaust
Examines the origins, development, and consequences of the Nazi attack on European
Jews. Important questions about the motives, options, and experiences of the victims,
perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust. Reading, discussing, and writing about
surviving primary sources. Historical debates around questions of guilt, responsibility,
anti-Semitism, racism, faith, resistance, and memory.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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JST 237 - Modern Germany
JST 237 - Modern Germany
The Weimar Republic and its failure; Nazi Germany, its internal and foreign policies;
the Allied occupation and division of Germany; the German Federal and the German Democratic
Republics and their position in the world today.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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JST 300 - Literature of the Hebrew Bible
JST 300 - Literature of the Hebrew Bible
Study of the literature of the Hebrew Bible in light of genre (similar to tragedy,
the novel, essay and romance). Critical methods such as source criticism and form
criticism are used as aids to literary interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): LEP Cultural Expression.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JST 303 - The Israeli Short Story
JST 303 - The Israeli Short Story
The Israeli short story from the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the
present examined in historical context. Addresses issues of ethnicity, gender, and
social class.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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JST 305 - Antisemitism
JST 305 - Antisemitism
An advanced introduction to the history and modern manifestations of antisemitism,
the hatred of Jews. Origins of what has been described as the oldest hatred will be
discussed as well as how antisemitism is similar to other prejudices and the ways
in which it is unique. The course will explore whether antisemitism is a form of religious
intolerance, racism or some other type of bigotry, as well as what antisemitism can
teach us about different forms of hatred that plague our work and what we can do about
them.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: not yet offered
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JST 336 - Nazi Germany
JST 336 - Nazi Germany
An advanced reading and discussion course concentrating on differing interpretations
of Nazi Germany.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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LAC 100 - Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LAC 100 - Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies
An examination of the social, cultural, political, economic, geographical, and historical
realities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Course readings, discussions, lectures
and assignments bring into focus the region’s human diversity as well as regional
challenges to state-building, equitable socioeconomic development, and stability.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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LAC 128 - Latin American History
LAC 128 - Latin American History
Introductory level course focused on the social, economic, cultural and political
history of Latin America from the start of the colonial period (early sixteenth century)
to the recent present. Readings, discussions, and lectures will center on the development
of a racialized colonial society, the Independence struggles, export agriculture,
the internationalization of markets, labor rights struggles, and worker, student,
peasant, and indigenous radicalization. Definitions of race, nation, citizenship,
class, and gender have shifted over time. The United States’ repeated involvement
in the region.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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LAT 101 - Latin II
LAT 101 - Latin II
Introduction to Latin vocabulary and grammar. Reading of brief literary texts.
Prerequisite(s): LAT 100.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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LAT 200 - Latin III
LAT 200 - Latin III
Student-centered communicative, content-based, and task-based approach to the study
of Latin. Comprehensive third-semester course, which includes instruction and practice
in all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. By the end
of the course, students will be able to use basic Latin in reading, writing, oral
situations, and have begun to cultivate an awareness of the cultures and civilizations
of the Latin-speaking world.
Prerequisite(s): LAT 100 and LAT 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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LAT 499 - Independent Study
LAT 499 - Independent Study
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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LIT 300 - Hebrew Bible as Literature
LIT 300 - Hebrew Bible as Literature
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible as literature, ancient Israelite and Jewish philosophy,
and foundational cultural text. Students will analyze the three parts of the work
(Torah, Prophesies, and Writing) as a humanistic epic, and emphasize interpretation
of genres, including historical narrative, etiological myth, prophecy, law, poetry,
short story, and philosophical meditation as well as character psychology.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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LIT 302 - Literature of the New Testament
LIT 302 - Literature of the New Testament
Study of the literature of the New Testament in light of genre (gospel, epistle, apocalypse)
and literary development. Critical methods such as source criticism and form criticism
are used as aids to interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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LIT 310 - Mythology
LIT 310 - Mythology
Greek and Roman myths that have influenced the literature, art, speech of Western
civilization.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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LIT 328 - Literature of Medieval Europe
LIT 328 - Literature of Medieval Europe
Narrative, lyric, and dramatic literature reflecting medieval life and the developing
concept of self in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, between 1100 and 1500.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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LIT 332 - Digital Literary Studies
LIT 332 - Digital Literary Studies
Introduces digital humanities tools for literary analysis; possible topics include
genre study, book history, archival surveys, or relevant critical developments.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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LIT 352 - European Novel and Short Story 1900-1945
LIT 352 - European Novel and Short Story 1900-1945
A study of the representative prose writers of the world from 1900-1945, such as Gide,
Mann, Kafka, and Malraux.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2023
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LIT 370 - Contemporary French Novel
LIT 370 - Contemporary French Novel
Study of selected novels of Proust, Gide, Mauriac, Celine, Malraux, Sartre, Camus,
Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Summer 2024
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LIT 371 - Voices of the Francophone Caribbean
LIT 371 - Voices of the Francophone Caribbean
An exploration and examination of voices from the francophone Caribbean through the
study of cultural artefacts and productions such as literature, film, theater, music,
photography, as well as social and political events.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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LIT 376 - Italian Cinema
LIT 376 - Italian Cinema
Critical examination of the most representative films of Italian cinema, from the
silent era to the postwar boom to the hyper-contemporary. Investigates the ways in
which cultural and national identity have been portrayed by filmmakers representing
a variety of cinematic and historical periods and genres, and relates films examined
to a theoretical discourse on film studies.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or ENG 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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LIT 382 - Contemporary Latin American Literature
LIT 382 - Contemporary Latin American Literature
Explores the richness of contemporary Latin American literature, with emphasis on
social and esthetic implications. Works by major and representative authors read in
English translation.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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LIT 406 - Classical Drama
LIT 406 - Classical Drama
A study of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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LIT 430 - Modern World Drama: Ibsen to O’Neill
LIT 430 - Modern World Drama: Ibsen to O’Neill
The major styles (naturalism, realism, impressionism, expressionism, symbolism) are
examined in the plays of Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov, Strindberg, Pirandello, and O’Neill.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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LIT 488 - Seminar in World Literature
LIT 488 - Seminar in World Literature
Intensive study of a major writer or a selected topic, with subject changing each
term.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 112 or 120.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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LIT 499 - Independent Study
LIT 499 - Independent Study
Prerequisite(s): departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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MAR 140 - The World Ocean
MAR 140 - The World Ocean
Introduction to contemporary marine environmental science, focusing on the relationship
between basic marine systems and processes and current marine environmental concerns.
Open to non-science majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAR 210 - Coastal Marine Studies
MAR 210 - Coastal Marine Studies
Classroom and field activities in marine biology, geology, meteorology, and coastal
zone management along Long Island Sound. Lecture and field activities.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAR 250 - Coastal and Marine Pollution
MAR 250 - Coastal and Marine Pollution
Examination of sources, transport, and fate of toxic and non toxic contaminants in
the ocean. Physical, chemical, and biological processes that control distribution
and cycling of contaminants are considered along with relevant state, federal, and
international water pollution control policies. Emphasis placed on case studies in
Long Island Sound.
Prerequisite(s): MAR 140 or MAR 210.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAR 270 - Aquaculture I
MAR 270 - Aquaculture I
A marine science course introducing students to the topical field of aquaculture.
This course is designed to familiarize students with the multi-disciplinary nature
of aquaculture and gain hands-on experience with four of the major marine groups involved
in aquaculture. Students will learn global and national past and current aquaculture
trends, different culture systems and species-specific culture techniques.
Prerequisite(s): MAR 140
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAR 280 - Aquaculture II
MAR 280 - Aquaculture II
The second of two aquaculture courses offering a more in depth understanding of this
topical marine science field not covered in MAR 270. This course is designed to familiarize
students with the applications of aquaculture focusing on general biological principles
including the role of reproduction, growth and nutrition as well as the legal, economic
and social considerations of aquaculture. Students will have hands on aquaculture
engineering experience with designing an aquaculture system, culturing marine organisms
and developing an aquaculture product.
Prerequisite(s): MAR 270
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAR 340 - Coastal Processes and Environments
MAR 340 - Coastal Processes and Environments
Various coastal environments, their origins, and the processes that shape them including
impacts of humans.
Prerequisite(s): MAR 140 or MAR 210.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAR 398 - Special Topics
MAR 398 - Special Topics
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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MAR 460 - Field and Laboratory Techniques in Marine Studies
MAR 460 - Field and Laboratory Techniques in Marine Studies
Investigations of regional environmental processes and problems using state-of-the-art
instrumentation and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): MAR 250 or MAR 340.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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MAR 499 - Independent Study and Research
MAR 499 - Independent Study and Research
Provides properly qualified students an opportunity for independent study and/or research
in selected topics in marine studies.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 095 - Introductory and Intermediate Algebra Support
MAT 095 - Introductory and Intermediate Algebra Support
Topics include real numbers and variables, plus linear, quadratic, polynomial, and
basic rational and radical functions with graphing, word problems, and linear systems.
This is a non-credit course taken for pass/fail only and is a corequisite support
course for MAT 100P.
0 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 100 - Intermediate Algebra
MAT 100 - Intermediate Algebra
Topics include linear, quadratic, polynomial, and basic rational and radical functions
with graphing and word problems.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 095 or appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 100P - Introductory and Intermediate Algebra
MAT 100P - Introductory and Intermediate Algebra
Topics include real numbers and variables, plus linear, quadratic, polynomial, and
basic rational and radical functions with graphing, word problems, and linear systems.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 103 - Mathematics for Liberal Arts
MAT 103 - Mathematics for Liberal Arts
Intended for the student whose major field of study requires no specific mathematical
preparation. Topics include probability, statistics, and aspects of consumer mathematics.
Other topics chosen by the instructor could include critical thinking/problem solving,
geometry, graph theory, linear and exponential models, and voting theory.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100 or MAT 100P or MAT 102, or appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 104 - Mathematics All Around Us
MAT 104 - Mathematics All Around Us
Students will gain an appreciation of the beauty of mathematics and how mathematics
applies to their lives. Mathematics in nature, solving puzzles, playing games, breaking
codes, photo editing, and other familiar items take center stage. Relevant elementary
and advanced mathematics follows naturally, emphasizing its wide-ranging application
to the real world; developing (a) analytic skills,(b) problem solving skills, (c)
inductive and deductive reasoning ability, and (d) facility with mathematical algorithms
and formulas; recognizing quantitative skills are important for students that enter
any field, even those that make little direct use of mathematics.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100 or MAT 100P or MAT 102 or appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 105 - Mathematics for Elementary Education I
MAT 105 - Mathematics for Elementary Education I
Problem solving, mathematical reasoning, sets, whole numbers, numeration systems,
number theory and integers. Required of all students in an elementary school certification
program. Does not satisfy the Liberal Education Program Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100 or MAT 100P or MAT 102 or appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 106 - Mathematics for Elementary Education II
MAT 106 - Mathematics for Elementary Education II
Geometry, measurement, rational numbers, irrational numbers, ratio, proportion, percent,
problem solving, mathematical reasoning and connections, probability and statistics.
Required of all students in an elementary school certification program.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 105.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 107 - Elementary Statistics
MAT 107 - Elementary Statistics
Topics include measures of central tendency and measures of variation; elements of
probability; random variables; introduction to estimation and hypothesis testing;
linear regression analysis.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100 or MAT 100P or MAT 102 or appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 108 - Mathematics for the Natural Sciences
MAT 108 - Mathematics for the Natural Sciences
Elementary mathematical modeling using linear functions, exponential functions, and
power functions. Additional topics include logarithms, curve sketching, and curve
fitting. Examples from the natural sciences.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100 or MAT 100P or MAT 102 with a grade of 'C-' or better or
appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 111 - Extended Algebra for Business and Science
MAT 111 - Extended Algebra for Business and Science
This is an extended, advanced Intermediate Algebra course that includes concepts from
precalculus. Topics include multiple perspectives of functions (verbal, numerical,
algebraic, and graphical) and the various notations used to represent functions. Polynomial,
absolute value, rational, and radical families of functions will be covered.
Prerequisite(s): Passing grade in MAT 100, MAT 100P, MAT 103, MAT 105, MAT 107, or
appropriate mathematics placement.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 112 - Algebra for Business and the Sciences
MAT 112 - Algebra for Business and the Sciences
Advanced Intermediate Algebra course that includes concepts from Precalculus. Topics
include multiple perspectives of functions: verbal, numerical, algebraic, and graphical
and the various notations used to represent functions. Polynomial, absolute value,
rational, and radical families of functions will be covered.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 100 or MAT 100P, MAT 102 or placement at the
appropriate level.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 115 - Introduction to Modern Mathematics
MAT 115 - Introduction to Modern Mathematics
A collection of introductions to, and surveys of, several active and important topics
in mathematics. Topics include cryptography, data science, statistics, actuarial sciences,
fractals, graph theory, discrete geometry, topology, game theory.
Corequisite(s): MAT 111 or higher ,may be taken concurrently.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 120 - College Algebra
MAT 120 - College Algebra
Algebraic problem solving and quantitative reasoning skills needed for business and
social science majors; equations and inequalities in one variable; linear, quadratic,
exponential, and logarithmic functions; systems of linear equations in two variables.
Special Information: Students may earn at most 4 credits toward graduation from MAT
120 and MAT 122.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 111 or MAT 112 or appropriate mathematics placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 122 - Precalculus
MAT 122 - Precalculus
Functions and their graphs, polynomial functions and their zeros, exponential and
logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions and analytic trigonometry. Function
modeling of data and problems from the sciences.
Special Information: Students may earn at most 4 credits toward graduation from MAT
120 and MAT 122.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 111 or MAT 112 or MAT 120, or appropriate mathematics
placement.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 125 - Applied Business Mathematics
MAT 125 - Applied Business Mathematics
Topics include exponential and logarithmic functions, systems of linear equations
and matrices, linear inequalities, linear programming, Leontief models, limits, continuity,
derivatives, and extrema of functions. interest and annuities, break-even, optimization,
and other business applications will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 111 or MAT 112 or MAT 120 or MAT 122 or MAT
124 or appropriate math placement.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 140 - Computational Tools for Mathematics and the Sciences
MAT 140 - Computational Tools for Mathematics and the Sciences
Introduction to computer software as it may be used in the mathematical and scientific
disciplines. Includes selected topics from: uses of spreadsheets, computer algebra,
interactive geometry, vector graphics, document preparation, modeling, and computational
mathematics.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 100 or MAT 100P or MAT 103 or MAT 105 or MAT 107 or placement
into MAT 103 or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 150 - Calculus I
MAT 150 - Calculus I
Functions, limits, differentiation of algebraic and trigonometric, exponential, and
logarithmic functions with applications, indeterminate forms, elementary integrations,
Riemann sums.
Special Information: Students may earn at most 4 credits toward graduation from MAT
139 and MAT 150.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 122 or appropriate mathematics placement.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 151 - Calculus II
MAT 151 - Calculus II
Continuation of MAT 150. Calculus of inverse trigonometric functions, techniques,
and applications of integration, numerical integration, improper integrals, integration
with polar coordinates, parametric curves, infinite sequences and series, power series,
Taylor’s formula, vectors in two and three-dimensions.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 150.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 178 - Elementary Discrete Mathematics
MAT 178 - Elementary Discrete Mathematics
Set theory, logic, methods of proof, relations and functions, mathematical induction,
recursion, graph theory, and algorithms.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 125 or 139 or MAT 150 or appropriate mathematics placement; and
CSC 152 or DSC 101.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 207 - Mathematics for Elementary Education III
MAT 207 - Mathematics for Elementary Education III
Examines the concepts of real numbers, functions, probability and statistics, discrete
mathematics, problem solving, mathematical reasoning and connections.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 106
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 210 - Analysis of Election Structures
MAT 210 - Analysis of Election Structures
Students will explore the structural consequences of democratic processes of elections.
Discussions and activities will center around historical and hypothetical scenarios
that weigh the political and social ramifications of a variety of election structures.
Topics include representation systems, voting formats, and gerrymandered district
design.
Prerequisite(s): LEP Quantitative Reasoning
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 221 - Intermediate Applied Statistics
MAT 221 - Intermediate Applied Statistics
A treatment of statistics concentrating on techniques used in science and industry.
Topics include probability, sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing,
regression analysis, and correlation. Use of appropriate calculator is required.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 120 or MAT 122 or MAT 124 or MAT 125 or MAT 139 or MAT 150 or
appropriate mathematics placement.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 245 - Differential Equations
MAT 245 - Differential Equations
Study of ordinary differential equations. Thorough investigation of first order equations.
Additionally, second order linear equations with constant coefficients, systems of
differential equations, Laplace transforms, and numerical methods.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 151.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 250 - Foundations of Mathematics
MAT 250 - Foundations of Mathematics
A bridge between the calculus and upper level mathematics courses. Logic, sets, relations,
functions, methods of proof.
Special Information: Students may earn at most 5 credits toward graduation from MAT
178 and MAT 250.
Prerequisite(s): “C-” or better in MAT 151.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 252 - Calculus III
MAT 252 - Calculus III
Continuation of MAT 151. Vector-valued functions, three-dimensional geometry, functions
of several variables, partial differentiation with applications, double and triple
integrals with applications, vector calculus.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 151.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 260 - Geometry and the Arts
MAT 260 - Geometry and the Arts
The purpose of the course is to provide students with an adequate geometric background
allowing them to understand basic Euclidean geometry. The course will enable students
with basic tools for geometric reasoning and proof and will promote their geometric
thinking skills. Throughout the course, students will explore and appreciate the use
of geometry in the arts. They will identify, analyze, replicate and produce art work
using geometric figures and transformations.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 103 or higher, or placement into MAT 111 or higher.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 300 - History of Mathematics
MAT 300 - History of Mathematics
History of mathematics from earliest days to the discovery of calculus, the proliferation
of mathematics in modern times, and the implications of these developments for the
present day.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 139 or MAT 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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MAT 320 - Mathematical Statistics I
MAT 320 - Mathematical Statistics I
Post-calculus introduction to mathematical probability theory. Topics include Probability
Axioms, Conditional Probability, Probability Distributions, Random Variables, Probability
Densities, Multivariate Distributions and Densities, Markov Chains, Sampling Distributions,
Central Limit Theorem.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in both MAT 250 and MAT 252.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 321 - Mathematical Statistics II
MAT 321 - Mathematical Statistics II
Mathematical development of sampling distributions, estimation of parameters, confidence
intervals, hypothesis testing, introduction to nonparametric methods.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 320
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 322 - Numerical Analysis I
MAT 322 - Numerical Analysis I
Topics include approximate solutions of equations, polynomial approximations of functions,
interpolation, numerical integration and their corresponding techniques of error analysis.
Computers and calculators are used.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 152 or DSC 101, and “C-” or better in MAT 151.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 326 - Regression Analysis
MAT 326 - Regression Analysis
Model building and analysis focusing on regression. Topics include method of least
squares, ANOVA, model assumptions, interferences about parameters, residual analysis,
model adequacy, dummy variables, non-linear terms, pitfalls, and limitations.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 221 or MAT 321.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 328 - Time Series Analysis
MAT 328 - Time Series Analysis
A continuation of a data science class, which will equip students with various forecasting
techniques and knowledge on modern statistical methods for analyzing time series data.
Although the course will have a theoretical component it will be practical and exercise-driven.
The analyses will be performed using the freely available package ASTSA, which accompanies
the book. Both R and RStudio will be required for this class.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 326 and MAT 372.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 329 - Bayesian Analysis and Decision Making
MAT 329 - Bayesian Analysis and Decision Making
An introduction to Bayesian analysis and inference. It covers many of the topics covered
in a standard frequentist survey course from a Bayesian perspective. Topics include
gathering datasets, summarizing datasets, probability, Bayes Theorem, Bayesian inference
for discrete random variables, Bayesian inference for continuous random variables,
comparing Bayesian and frequentist approaches to inference, Bayesian prediction intervals
for single mean and single proportion, Bayesian inference for two means and two proportions,
and Bayesian inference for linear regression.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 221.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 360 - Foundations of Geometry
MAT 360 - Foundations of Geometry
Introduction to the geometries of Bolyai-Lobachevsky and Riemann and their mathematical
significance, critique of Euclid, axiomatic approach to geometry with modern standards
of rigor, introduction to metamathematics.
Prerequisite(s): “C-” or better in MAT 250.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 372 - Linear Algebra
MAT 372 - Linear Algebra
Course emphasizes matrices, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, elementary
properties of linear transformation, eigenvalues, and applications.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 150.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 373 - Modern Algebra
MAT 373 - Modern Algebra
Introduction to the study of algebraic structures and their applications. Topics include
elementary number theory, abstract groups, cyclic and permutation groups, homomorphisms,
normal subgroups, quotient groups, applications to algebraic coding theory and public-key
cryptography, and a brief introduction to rings and fields.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 250 and MAT 372.
4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 375 - Abstract Algebra I
MAT 375 - Abstract Algebra I
Introduction to the study of algebraic structures. Topics include binary operations,
abstract groups, cyclic and permutation groups, homomorphisms, isomorphisms, normal
subgroups, quotient groups, and a brief introduction to rings and fields.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in both MAT 250 and MAT 372.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2022
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MAT 378 - Discrete Mathematics
MAT 378 - Discrete Mathematics
Rigorous introduction to the basic elements of discrete mathematics: recursion, combinatorics,
and graph theory.
Prerequisite(s): CSC 152 or DSC 101, 'C-' or better in MAT 151, and 'C-' or better
in MAT 250 or MAT 178.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 405 - Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint
MAT 405 - Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint
An examination of the theoretical bases for fundamental mathematics topics which are
normally taught in secondary school.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 250, junior status and mathematics major.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 408 - Technology for Teaching Secondary Mathematics
MAT 408 - Technology for Teaching Secondary Mathematics
Mathematics-specific technology tools for the secondary mathematics teacher for lesson
preparation and presentations. Techniques for integrating dynamic computer software,
the graphing calculator and its applications in teaching. Designing technology-based
activities for mathematics instruction.
Special Information: Field work component included. Graphing calculator required.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 428 - Mathematical Foundations in Machine Learning
MAT 428 - Mathematical Foundations in Machine Learning
A broad introduction to machine learning by using the tools of basic knowledge of
programming and probability theory, including classification; support vector machines;
neural networks; clustering; feature selection; ensemble learning and reinforcement
learning. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such
as to computer science, data mining, bioinformatics and so on.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 221 and MAT 372.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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MAT 429 - Modern Nonparametric Statistics
MAT 429 - Modern Nonparametric Statistics
Covers nonparametric statistical analysis and inference. Topics include empirical
distribution functions, inference using bootstrapping, permutation tests, density
estimation and nonparametric linear regression.
Prerequisite(s): 'C-' or better in MAT 221 and MAT 372.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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MAT 450 - Analysis
MAT 450 - Analysis
Theoretical foundations of functions of one real variable: limits, continuity, differentiability,
Riemann integral.
Prerequisite(s): “C-” or better in both MAT 250 and MAT 252.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2024
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MAT 480 - Topology
MAT 480 - Topology
Metric spaces and fundamental concepts, topological spaces, subspaces and product
spaces, countability properties, separation properties, compactness and connectedness.
Prerequisite(s): “C-” or better in both MAT 250 and 372.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 488 - Seminar in Mathematical Modeling
MAT 488 - Seminar in Mathematical Modeling
The process of constructing and using mathematical models. Investigations focus on
deterministic, probabilistic, and axiomatic models in the physical, social, and life
sciences. Emphasis on independent work and on student written and oral presentations.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 221 or MAT 321, and CSC 152 or DSC 101, and 'C-' or better in
MAT 252 and MAT 372.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 490 - Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School
MAT 490 - Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School
Methods of teaching mathematics grades 7-12. Lesson and unit planning, classroom management,
learning styles, tasks, assessment, incorporating technology, state and national standards.
This course has a required field experience component. For secondary certification
candidates only.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 491 - Mathematics Capstone I
MAT 491 - Mathematics Capstone I
In the first semester of the capstone project, senior-level mathematics majors read
professionally written mathematics papers and increase their proficiency in communicating
mathematics. In consultation with a supervisor, the student should choose a mathematical
topic to study for the capstone project.
1 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MAT 492 - Mathematics Capstone II
MAT 492 - Mathematics Capstone II
In the second semester of the capstone project, senior-level mathematics majors explore
an advanced topic and draw connections to the mathematics they learned in previous
courses. Students work with a faculty mentor to finalize their written project and
oral presentation.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 491
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 494 - Student Teaching — Mathematics
MAT 494 - Student Teaching — Mathematics
Guided observation and supervised student teaching in grades 7–12 in cooperating schools.
Twelve-week course taken as pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 490.
9 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 496 - Student Teaching Seminar
MAT 496 - Student Teaching Seminar
Student teachers design, analyze, and reflect on teaching techniques to be used in
the field. Student teachers also perform case studies that encompass and address various
issues and demonstrate positive impact on the learning of their secondary students.
This course is taken concurrently with MAT 494, Student Teaching (Mathematics).
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MAT 497 - Internship
MAT 497 - Internship
A supervised internship on or off campus offering practical business, industry or
government experience which relates to the student’s specialization.
Special Information: 45 hours per credit.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and a Mathematics or Data Science major, mathematics
GPA of 2.7, overall GPA of 2.5 and departmental permission.
1 to 6 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2023
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MAT 499 - Independent Study
MAT 499 - Independent Study
Provides properly qualified students with an opportunity for independent study and
careful discussion from an advanced standpoint of selected topics in undergraduate
mathematics.
Prerequisite(s): Departmental permission.
1 to 4 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 100 - Introduction to Business
MGT 100 - Introduction to Business
An overview of the significance of general business functions like marketing, finance,
and management. Designed for non-business and undecided majors interested in learning
about business.
Special Information: Does not count toward business major requirements but can be
applied toward minor.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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MGT 200 - Managerial Communication
MGT 200 - Managerial Communication
Students practice written and oral communication and respond appropriately with a
focus on organizational communication (e.g., report writing, executive summaries,
memos, and email), identifying target audiences, and persuading and influencing others.
Students create effective and memorable multi-media professional presentations.
Prerequisite(s): Business or Pre-Business majors.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 202 - Introduction to Conscious Capitalism
MGT 202 - Introduction to Conscious Capitalism
The purpose of this course is to provide undergraduate students with an opportunity
to explore conscious capitalism. This business course will examine the four tenets
of conscious capitalism including: higher purpose stakeholder orientation, conscious
leadership and conscious culture.
Prerequisite(s): Business major.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 240 - Business Law and Ethics
MGT 240 - Business Law and Ethics
An overview of the fundamental legal and ethical principles involved in business formation
and transactions, explores how law and ethics impact business relationships among
key stakeholders. Topics include a review of the U.S. legal system, and relevant elements
of international, administrative, business organization/structure, securities, antitrust,
intellectual property, real property, contract, agency, employment, tort, product
liability, cyber, and end environmental laws. Also included are reviews of business
ethics, corporate social responsibility, negligence and professional responsibility,
and dispute resolution.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 285 - Management and Organization
MGT 285 - Management and Organization
Management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Establishes
frameworks for understanding the nature of managerial work and human behavior in task
groups as well as large, complex organizations.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 301 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
MGT 301 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
The process of developing a small business from the conception of an idea to a viable
growth business. Growth strategies, professional management, creative ideas, feasibility
studies, franchising, venture plan and entrepreneurship.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 200, MGT 240, MGT 300 or MGT 305 or departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 305 - Organizational Behavior
MGT 305 - Organizational Behavior
The roles of the individual, group, and organizational patterns. Organizational theory,
behavior in organizations, role relationships, impact of personality and leadership
styles on morale and development of healthy and cohesive organizations.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 306 - Ocean and Blue Innovations
MGT 306 - Ocean and Blue Innovations
An analysis of the main concepts, case studies, and tools supporting the development
and management of organizations operating within the ocean economy. Express the theoretical
foundations, limitations, advantages, and practical applications of innovation across
multiple related sectors.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 315 - Gender, Leadership & Management
MGT 315 - Gender, Leadership & Management
How gender and leadership are constructed, the leadership styles of men and women,
gender and leadership in the workplace, the political sphere, and the global community,
the legal history of women in the workplace, and how women succeed as leaders.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 335 - Business Law
MGT 335 - Business Law
An advanced course in Business Law, examines legal principles affecting business organizations
and transactions. Additionally, explores legal trends in business law that influence:
Corporate governance, common law contracts, UCC contracts, secured transactions, suretyship,
creditors' rights, bankruptcy, personal and real property, intellectual property,
bailment, financial regulation, common corporate crimes, negotiable instruments including
commercial paper and documents of title.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 240
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 345 - Real Estate Law
MGT 345 - Real Estate Law
Law of real property, transfers, deeds, leases, title insurance, escrow, land contracts,
foreclosures, recordings and law as it effects brokers and salespersons.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 240
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 361 - Operations Management
MGT 361 - Operations Management
Deals with management processes that design, supply, produce, and deliver goods and
services to customers. Topics include product/process innovation, process structures,
quality management, inventory control, lean systems, logistics, and demand planning.
Special emphasis on supply chain management.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 270
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 385 - Human Resources Management
MGT 385 - Human Resources Management
Emphasis on effective human resources practices and requirements from the point of
view of the operating manager.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 390 - Intellectual Property Law
MGT 390 - Intellectual Property Law
Provides an intensive study and comprehensive review of the fundamental areas of intellectual
property law: copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. How these areas
of intellectual property are legally protected, and potentially intersect and complement
each other, is reviewed. A major focus on the intellectual property needs if the entrepreneur.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status or department permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 395 - Technology Entrepreneurship
MGT 395 - Technology Entrepreneurship
Introduction of critical factors affecting technology-based ventures: opportunity
assessment; the entrepreneurial process; founders/team building; preparation of a
business plan including market research, marketing and sales, finance and manufacturing.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 390, MKT 200, FIN 300, (MGT 300 or MGT 305) or department chair
permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 400 - Business and Society
MGT 400 - Business and Society
Examines competing views of the proper purpose and role of business within society,
as well as the interrelationship of business and other institutions. Topics include
stakeholder vs. shareholder views of the corporation; environmental and social sustainability;
social entrepreneurship and other emerging governance frameworks; and the role of
governments and NGOs in influencing business behavior.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 100 and ECO 101; MGT 240 and MGT 305; MKT 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 402 - Managing Diversity
MGT 402 - Managing Diversity
Provides students with an understanding of the growing diversity of the workforce
that managers face, as well as the challenges, emerging issues, and opportunities.
Explores the impact and value of the primary and secondary dimensions of diversity
and examines the contextual elements that influence diversity, such as laws and media.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 405 - Employment & Labor Relations Law
MGT 405 - Employment & Labor Relations Law
Provides a detailed and thorough overview of the laws that apply to the employer-employee
relationship. Reviews the roles of unions and employers, collective bargaining agreements,
employment issues such as discrimination, legal issues related to hiring, termination
of employment, arbitration, and compensation. Federal laws governing the employer-employee
relationship, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations
Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act,
the Family and Medical Leave Act, affirmative action, and other equal employment opportunity
laws, are also thoroughly reviewed.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 415 - Developing Team Managerial Skills
MGT 415 - Developing Team Managerial Skills
Experiential classroom environment designed to practice the personal and interpersonal
skills required of managers. Discussions directed at integrating experience with theory,
and at enhancing professional growth and development.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 305.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 425 - Managing for People, Planet, and Profit
MGT 425 - Managing for People, Planet, and Profit
Examines (1) how companies can advance the "triple bottom line" of people, planet,
and profit and (2) more broadly, how the tools of business may be used to address
environmental and social challenges. Topics include pollution prevention, product
stewardship, sustainable development, the triple bottom line, and systems thinking.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 430 - Management of Multinational Corporations
MGT 430 - Management of Multinational Corporations
Focuses on the nature, functions and activities of the multinational firm. Explores
the strategies and structures of multinnt.ional corporations and the challenges of
managing in multiple countries and markets. Examines the allocation of resources and
the role or strategic alliances as an important element of global strategy. These
factors are analyzed in the context of the economic, political, social, legal, and
technological constraints faced by managers of multinational corporations.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 300 and MGT 305
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 440 - Mindful Leadership
MGT 440 - Mindful Leadership
Introduction to mindfulness and its practices to develop self-awareness and emotional
skills for the cultivation of mindful leadership. In addition to the theoretical investigation
of mindfulness and emotional intelligence, various hands-on experiential learning
activities of contemplative practices are actively utilize to enhance self-management
and professional development skills.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 450 - Business Policy and Strategy Seminar
MGT 450 - Business Policy and Strategy Seminar
Capstone course for business majors, integrating concepts learned in previous business
courses. Readings and case studies deal with formulation, implementation and evaluation
of managerial strategies and plans for ongoing organizational survival and success.
Appreciation for general management perspectives stressed in written and oral analyses.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 200, [ACC 210 or ACC 220], BIS 370, ECO 270, FIN 300, MGT 240,
MGT 305, and MKT 200.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 460 - International Business
MGT 460 - International Business
Examines the influence of political, economic, sociocultural, technological, and legal
environments on international business operations and management. Factors that influence
management decision-making and strategies for dealing with them are covered. Other
topics include national culture, country differences, emerging markets, trade and
investment, global monetary system, international business strategy, and corporate
social responsibility.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 240 and MGT 300 or MGT 305.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 473 - Employee Training and Development
MGT 473 - Employee Training and Development
An examination of individual and organizational strategies for the training and development
of employees to improve personal and organizational performance. Explores theoretical
foundations, practical issues, and applications involved in employee training and
development.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 385
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Spring 2025
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MGT 474 - Compensation and Benefit Management
MGT 474 - Compensation and Benefit Management
A general knowledge of the concepts, design, methodology, management and administration
of compensation and benefit (“C&B”) programs within organizations is the focus of
this course. Major topics include job evaluation, knowledge-based pay, pay for performance,
alternative reward systems, government and employer-provided benefit programs. The
primary emphasis is on the design of appropriate compensation and benefit policies
and programs and how these can help support organizational objectives and strategies.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 385
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 476 - Strategic Staffing
MGT 476 - Strategic Staffing
Equips students with the tools to develop and implement effective strategic staffing
solutions. Focuses on all aspects of the staffing process including planning, sourcing,
recruiting, assessing, selecting, placing, developing, and retaining a qualified workforce.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 385
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Winter 2024-25
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MGT 497 - Internship
MGT 497 - Internship
A supervised internship in business or government with the application of management
to problems of enterprise administration. Bi-weekly reporting to the faculty supervisor
required.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and departmental permission.
3 credit(s).
Last Term Offered: Fall 2024
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MGT 499 - Independent Study
MGT 499 - Independent Study
An approved topic of specialized interest that leads to a well-researched management
paper of professional quality. Bi-weekly reporting to faculty supervisor required.
Prerequisite(s): Overall cumulative |