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2006-2007 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
College of Arts and Sciences
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The College of Arts and Sciences at Nazareth College encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including 13 departments and 37 majors in the Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences.
Our mission states: “The College of Arts and Sciences engages students with focused major programs in liberal studies and fine arts and with an undergraduate core curriculum in these areas. Faculty, through teaching, research and creative pursuits, foster an environment where the quest for knowledge is considered valuable for its own sake as well as useful preparation for students’ future endeavors. In this environment students develop the habits of mind of thoughtful, adaptable, creative and productive human beings.”
As a College of Arts and Sciences student, you will prepare for future professional and personal success by stretching your intellectual boundaries. You may take classes in an extensive array of areas, from the English Department’s “Twentieth-Century British Literature” to the Art Department’s “Digital Imaging” to “Ethnobotany,” team taught by faculty from Anthropology and Biology.
The College of Arts and Sciences’ goal is to encourage students to strive for academic excellence while developing a broad understanding of the world we live in. Attending Arts and Sciences’ classes, you will not only gain an outstanding college education, learn through doing and put yourself on the path to personal and professional success; you will also be taught how to learn throughout your entire lifetime.
Art
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Academic Program
Minors
Specializations
AED 307 - Concepts in Art Education Provides students the opportunity to learn a constructivist approach to art education
through the process of making art. Components of the course include creating a
body of art, reflecting on the artmaking process, and understanding the role of
the teacher as it is synthesized in the artist/teacher model.
Credits: 3
AED 354 - Art Education I Combines the methodology, theory and practice of teaching art through
35 hours of student participation in the Saturday Art for Children
Program. Course work includes planning and curriculum development,
special needs concerns, motivation classroom management strategies and
the assessment of the art experience. A prerequisite to student
teaching in art.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FGJ
Prereq: EDU 204
Coreq: EDU 407
Bloodborne Pathogen training required. Must be accepted in an appropriate Education
Program to register for this course.
Credits: 2
AED 407 - Psychological Foundations of Education A study and application of the basic principals and theories of
educational psychology with emphasis on art education. 35-hour field
component required.
Credits: 3
AED 454 - Art Education II Taken as part of the professional semester (with AED 465, 466),
students study curriculum development and instructional strategies as
they are applied to diversity of learners in an inclusive setting.
Emphasis is placed on management of the art classroom; assessment of
the art experience and the integration of learning in art with other
disciplines, using strategies such as reading, research, journal
keeping, verbal critiques and expression that combines words with
images.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FGJ
Required for Art Certification
Corequisites: AED465, AED 466
Credits: 4
AED 465 - Student Teaching Birth-12 The field-based practicum consists of two placements, one elementary and one
secondary for six weeks each.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Bloodborne Pathogen training required.
Adv Codes: FGJ
Coreq: AED 454, AED 466
Credits: 6
AED 466 - Reflective Seminar in Art Education Part of the professional semester. Students critically analyze and
synthesize their experiences in student teaching as they strive to
become reflective practitioners. Students create developmental and
professional portfolios that assess and display their growth as
beginning art teachers. Students complete Part I & II of the
Undergraduate Comprehensive Examination as part of this course.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FGJ
Coreq: AED 454, AED 465
Credits: 3
AED 499 - Art Education Comprehensive The Art Education Senior Experience is completed during the student teaching semester. Students reflect on their art and teaching beliefs and create an electronic Professional Artist-Teacher portfolio.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Credits: 0
AHI 123 - PI History of Photography (Perspectives I course) A survey of the development of photography from scientific experiment
to art form emphasis on how the influence of photography has changed
modern culture and how meaning is identified in photographic
imagery.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: R
Credits: 3
AHI 150 - PI Looking at Art (Perspectives I course) An overview of the visual arts with emphasis on
understanding the medium as well as the message; the development of our
powers of perception.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Credits: 3
AHI 160G - PI Introduction to Non-Western Art (Perspectives I, Global course) A survey of the architecture,sculpture, and painting
in India, Japan, and China.
Prerequisites & Notes Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
AHI 271 - PI History of Art: Survey I (Perspectives I course) A survey of architecture, sculpture and painting from
the Prehistoric through the medieval period.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
AHI 272 - History of Art: Survey II A general survey of architecture, sculpture and painting beginning with
Early Renaissance art and continuing to mid-19th century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
AHI 273 - Introduction to 20th Century Art Survey of the artistic developments of the modern and contemporary
worlds. This is a required course for studio and art education majors
to be taken before Ahi 271, 272.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
AHI 344 - PII The Church and Its Art Through The Ages (Perspectives II course) (See description of Res 344)
Credits: 3
AHI 359 - PII Women in Art (Perspectives II course) Survey of the work and lives of women artists
in history. Emphasis on social attitudes toward women, on the portrayal
of women in art and on the role of female art in cultural change.
(Elective only for art history majors)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
AHI 371 - The Art of Egypt and the Ancient Near East A study of architecture, sculpture and painting produced from the Sumer through
the Ancient Persian periods in the Ancient Near East from the Prehistoric to the
Ptolemaic Periods in Egypt.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: AHI 150 or 271 or any Perspectives I course in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 373 - PII Greek and Roman Art (Perspectives II) A study of classical architecture, sculpture and painting produced in the Mediterranean
area from the Cycladic Period to the end of the Roman Empire.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: AHI 271
Credits: 3
AHI 374 - PII Medieval Art (Perspectives II course) A survey which studies works of art of the Early Christian,
Byzantine, Early Islamic, Germanic, Celtic, Romanesque and Gothic Periods, c.
320 to 1400 AD.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: AHI 150 or 271 or any Perspectives I course in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 376 - PII Italian Renaissance Art (Perspectives II course) A study of the architecture, painting and sculpture
in Italy from c. 1350 to 1600 A.D.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: any PI course in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 377 - PII Northern Renaissance Art (Perspectives II Course) A study of the architecture, painting and sculpture in Northern Europe from c.
1350 to 1600.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: any PI course in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 378 - Baroque and Rococo Art Detailed study of European architecture, painting and sculpture
produced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Emphasis on
the religious and commercial developments as context.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: H
Credits: 3
AHI 379 - PII American Art (Perspectives II course) A survey of architecture, sculpture and
painting and the decorative arts produced in the United States from the
colonial period to the early twentieth century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 380 - PII Nineteenth Century and Modern Art (Perspectives II course) A study of the developments in architecture,
painting, sculpture and photography in the modern world, c.1785 to
c.1940.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 383 - PII Asian Art - India, China and Japan (Perspectives II course) A survey of architecture, sculpture and painting in
India, Japan and China from the prehistoric era through the 1600’s.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: BHR
Prereqs: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
AHI 390 - Methods in Art History Examination of the methodology of art historical research, of the areas
of specialization within the discipline, and of preparation for study
at the graduate level.
Credits: 3
AHI 483 - Art History Internship This program offers the art students of senior status the opportunity
for supervised field experience in the area for which they are
primarily prepared, i.e., museums, galleries, graphics and craft
studios.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: G
Credits: 3
AHI 484 - Art History Internship This program offers the art students of senior status the opportunity
for supervised field experience in the area for which they are
primarily prepared, i.e., museums, galleries, graphics and craft
studios.
Credits: 3
AHI 485 - Independent Study Open to juniors and seniors having a cumulative average of B (3.0) or better, who are interested in doing advanced work in art history with the approval of the department and the designated instructor.
Credits: 3
AHI 499 - Art History Comprehensive Credits: 0
ART 101 - 2D Design Study of and experimentation with the basic elements and principles of visual
design in a sequence of two-dimensional problems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACS
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 102 - 3D Design Study of and experimentation with the basic elements and principles of design
in a sequence of three-dimensional problems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACS
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 106 - Drawing I A study of fundamental pictorial concepts of drawing. Experimentation
with varied technical means and media directed toward both descriptive
and expressive ends.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACS
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 107 - Drawing II A study of fundamental pictorial concepts of drawing. Experimentation with various
technical means and media directed toward both descriptive and expressive ends.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACS
Prereq: ART 106
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 206 - Figure Drawing I Anatomically-based study of the human form. Students will learn the
mechanics of human anatomy by learning to identify the bones and
muscles, as well as how the physiology is affected in various poses.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 101, ART 106, ART 107
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected Spring Terms
Credits: 3
ART 207 - Figure Drawing II Anatomically-based study of the human form. Students will learn the
mechanics of human anatomy by learning to identify the bones and
muscles, as well as how the physiology is affected in various poses.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 101, ART 106, ART 107, or with teachers approval
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected Spring Terms
Credits: 3
ART 211 - Painting I An introduction to acrylic paint and associated issues in the
contemporary world of art. Painting exercises designed to encourage
technique experimentation as well as skill building and accurate
seeing. Direction in color and value relationships, with an emphasis on
concept and personal direction.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 212 - Painting II Additional creative exploration constructed to build students’
understanding of the issues and purpose of art in contemporary culture.
Expanded freedom to develop personal style, philosophy and furthered
self-expression.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 211
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 213 - Watercolor I Experimentation with various styles/techniques of transparent
watercolor. Color theory, composition, content, idea development and
historical background emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes Art 101, 102 and 106, or instructor’s approval
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected Fall Terms
Credits: 3
ART 214 - Watercolor II Experimentation with various styles/techniques of transparent
watercolor. Color theory, composition, content, idea development and
historical background emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Art 101, 102, 106 and 107, or instructor’s approval
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected Fall Terms
Credits: 3
ART 216 - Printmaking: Relief Introduction to relief printmaking, including linoleum cuts, woodcuts,
monotypes, collographs and color processes, using traditional and
contemporary techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CJS
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall, Spring, and Summer Sessions
Credits: 3
ART 217 - Printmaking: Etching and Intaglio Introduction to intaglio printing, including etching, dry point,
collograph, monotype and color processes, using traditional and
contemporary techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 221 - Photography I A study of basic photographic processes, camera and darkroom, and
experimentation with picture-making as a descriptive and expressive art
form. A manual 35mm camera is required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Additional Course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 222 - Photography II Intermediate level designed to expand the student’s awareness of photography
as expressive art form.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 221
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 226 - Sculpture I Experimentation with traditional and contemporary approaches to
sculpture, including carving, modeling, casting and construction
techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 227 - Sculpture II Experimentation with traditional and contemporary approaches to
sculpture, including carving, modeling, casting and construction
techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 231 - Ceramics: Introduction to Handbuilding Experimentation with various handbuilding techniques. Exploration of
functional and sculptural statements in clay. Experience in glaze
application and kiln loading.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 232 - Ceramics: Introduction to Wheel Throwing Development of various wheel-throwing techniques directed toward a
study of utilitarian and sculptural form. Introduction to glaze
formulation and firing procedure.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 231
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 233 - Ceramics: Raku I Experience in the technique and aesthetics of raku-fired ceramics. Philosophical and historical background.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Summer Sessions
Credits: 3
ART 234 - Ceramics Raku II Experience in the technique and aesthetics of raku-fired ceramics. Philosophical and historical background.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Summer Sessions
Credits: 3
ART 241 - Jewelry and Metalsmithing I Introduction to basic jewelry fabrication and elemental metal forming
as employed in the design of jewelry and other metal objects.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall or Spring
Credits: 3
ART 242 - Jewelry and Metalsmithing II Introduction to centrifugal casting. Exploration of basic raising and
shell structure techniques as well as concepts in historical and
contemporary metalwork.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 241
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall or Spring
Credits: 3
ART 250 - Graphic Design I An introduction to concepts and forms of graphic design in advertising
using QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. Exploration of
basic layout, symbol development, and typography combined with problems
in design aesthetics.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 101, ART 106, ART 254
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 251 - Graphic Design II Second Course in graphic design sequence stressing creative problem solving techniques
as applied to layout, color and typography. Course content includes experience
with layout design, symbol typography, color application and printing with an
emphasis on concept and research based practices.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 250, ART 254
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 253 - Visual Graphics for Non-Art Majors Intensive experience with the theory and application of layout, color,
fonts, visual communication, and graphic software’s as they apply to
professional writing and information design.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: HNS
Additional course fee required
Credits: 3
ART 254 - Digital Imaging Introduction to computer skills for art and design using Photoshop and
QuarkXPress. Exploration of basic digital imaging and typography is
combined with problems in design aesthetics. Emphasis on development of
individual style.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 255 - Digital Photography Studies in electronic image processing, imaging and art making, using
still photographic image with Photoshop for digital image synthesis and
collage. Areas of concern include: color, collage, image manipulation
and drawing as well as the technical skills necessary for using
computers, software and digital camera.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Art 221, 254
Credits: 3
ART 260 - Illustration I Introduction to Editorial and Advertising Illustration. Real
assignments with active Art Direction to assist in the practice of
visual communication. Emphasis on the development of visual idea from
thumbnail to repro-ready finish. Technique and style as well as concept
exploration practiced. Exploration of tools and media, visualization of
the idea, approaches to rendering.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 261 - Illustration II Continues creative problem solving of real world assignments,
encouraging development of personal style including conceptualization
techniques, color relativity, line quality and chiaroscuro. Wide
ranging overview of Commercial Art venues in search of appropriate
personal solutions to engage the viewer.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 306 - Advanced Drawing I Media and style with an emphasis on developing personal imagery.
Projects assigned with student input, resulting in finished art works.
Contemporary drawing history included.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 101, 102
Credits: 3
ART 307 - Advanced Drawing II Media and style with an emphasis on developing personal imagery.
Projects assigned with student input, resulting in finished art works.
Contemporary drawing history included.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 101, 102,106
Credits: 3
ART 311 - Advanced Painting I Exploration of more advanced ideas and technical means; concentration on individual
problems related to areas of special interest.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 211 or ART 212
Additional course fee required
Credits: 3
ART 312 - Advanced Painting II Exploration of more advanced ideas and technical means; concentration
on individual problems related to areas of special interest.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 211 and/or ART 212
Credits: 3
ART 313 - Advanced Watercolor Advanced exploration of various styles/techniques of paint application.
Contemporary design and personal creativity are combined with
historical background.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 213, 214
Credits: 3
ART 316 - Printmaking: Lithography A study of an experimentation with the lithographic process. Problems will involve
the aesthetics of printmaking as a 20th century form.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CHS
Prereq: ART 216 or ART 217
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 317 - Advanced Printmaking I Advanced work in one or more of the previous printmaking areas.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 216, ART 217, or ART 316
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 318 - Advanced Printmaking II Advanced work in one or more of the previous printmaking areas.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Any one of ART 216, 217, or 316
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 321 - Advanced Photography I Advanced work in one or more of the previous photography areas.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Any one of ART 221, 222, 324, or 325
Credits: 3
ART 322 - Advanced Photography II Advanced work in one or more of the previous photography areas.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Any one of ART 221, 222, 324, or 325
Credits: 3
ART 326 - Advanced Sculpture I Studio problems involving experimentation with ideas and techniques for sculpture in metal, plastic and wood.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 226
Credits: 3
ART 327 - Advanced Sculpture II Studio problems involving experimentation with ideas and techniques for sculpture in metal, plastics and wood.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 226
Credits: 3
ART 331 - Advanced Ceramics I Further exploration and experimentation with various aspects of ceramics. Glaze
and clay formulation. Study of kiln design and firing procedure.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: S
Prereq: ART 231, ART 232
Additional course fee required
Credits: 3
ART 332 - Advanced Ceramics II Further exploration and experimentation with various aspects of
ceramics. Glaze and clay formulation. Study of kiln design and firing
procedure.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 231, 232
Credits: 3
ART 341 - Advanced Jewelry and Metalsmithing I Introduction to gemstone setting, tool-making, chasing and repousse,
and chiseling. Emphasis on design integration of form and surface.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 241, 242
Credits: 3
ART 342 - Advanced Jewelry and Metalsmithing II Advanced work in one or more of the previous metal techniques. Emphasis on personal aesthetic development.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 241, 242, 341
Credits: 3
ART 350 - Advertising Design Further development of concepts and forms in Graphic Design I and II with an emphasis on real world applications.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 250, 251, 260
Credits: 3
ART 355 - Web-Based Visual Design An exploration of computer graphics as a primary tool in image processing, and
interactive design, using programs such as Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat. Students
will acquire an awareness of the development of computer-based electronic media,
and a critical appreciation of current work in the field.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Prereq: ART 250, ART 254, or instructor’s permission
Credits: 3
ART 356 - Introduction to Art Therapy Aspects of art therapy such as its uses in schools, institutions and
private patient work. Emphasis on the founders of the field, their
theoretical contributions and writings. Lectures, discussion, readings
and studio work required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
ART 357 - Clinical Applications of Art Therapy Field experiences in institutions, private patient work and schools working with
art therapists.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CGS
Prereq: ART 356
Credits: 3
ART 360 - Advanced Illustration I Further development of personal style and practice in honing visual
communication skills. Emphasis on more advanced conceptualization and
technical proficiency. Direction in self-promotion and the business of
Illustration. Increased emphasis on portfolio building and content for
individual needs.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CS
Prereq: ART 260, ART 261
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
ART 361 - Advanced Illustration II Further development of personal style and practice in honing visual
communication skills. Emphasis on more advanced conceptualization and
technical proficiency. Direction in self-promotion and the business of
Illustration. Increased emphasis on portfolio building and content for
individual needs.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ART 260, 261
Credits: 3
ART 365 - Issues in Art An examination of aesthetic criticism and the artist’s role in society with an
emphasis on personal artistic development.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
ART 475 - Directed Studio Problems Open only to Juniors and Seniors with a studio concentration. Allows
for a concentration within a given area over and above the normal
course offerings. Permission of the instructor required.
Credits: 3
ART 476 - Directed Studio Problems Open only to Juniors and Seniors with a studio concentration. Allows
for a concentration. Within a given area over and above the normal
course offerings. Permission of the instructor required.
Credits: 3
ART 483 - Art Internship This program offers the art students of senior status the opportunity
for supervised field experience in the area for which they are
primarily prepared, i.e., museums, galleries, graphics and craft
studios.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: G
Credits: 3
ART 484 - Art Internship This program offers the art students of senior status the opportunity
for supervised field experience in the area for which they are
primarily prepared, i.e., museums, galleries, graphics and craft
studios.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: G
Credits: 3
ART 485 - Independent Study Open to Juniors and Seniors having a cumulative average of B (3.0) or
better, who are interested in doing advanced work in either studio art
or art history with the approval of the department and the designated
instructor.
Credits: 3
ART 486 - Independent Study Open to Juniors and Seniors having a cumulative average of B (3.0) or
better, who are interested in doing advanced work in either studio art
or art history with the approval of the department and the designated
instructor.
Credits: 3
ART 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Credits: 0
Biology
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Academic Program
Minors
Specializations
BIO 103 - PI Biological Systems I (majors) (Perspectives I course) An intensive introduction to scientific logic, hypotheses,
predictions, the origin and evolution of life forms (Monera and Protista), biochemistry,
bioenergetics, genetics and cell biology. Recommended for prospective Biology,
Biochemistry, or Environmental Science majors or non-majors with a score above
80 on the Regents Biology Exam.
Prerequisites & Notes Coreq: BIO 103L
Required for Biology, Biology Inclusive Education, Biology Adolescence Education, and Environmental Science
Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
BIO 103L - PI Biological Systems I Lab (Perspectives I course) An intensive introduction to scientific logic,
hypotheses, prediction, the origin and evolution of life forms, biochemistry, bioenergetics, genetics and cell biology.
Required for Biology, Biochemistry, or Environmental
Science majors. May be taken by non-majors who acheived a score above 80 on the Regents
Biology exam.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Coreq: BIO 103
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 104 - Biological Systems II (majors) This sequel to Bio 103 is a course in animal biology and ecology.
Topics include the diversity, taxonomy and evolution of the members of
the Kingdom Animalia. Laboratory and lecture examine the structure and
function of invertebrates and vertebrates in the context of evolution
and adaptation to their environments. The laboratory includes
dissection and experimental investigations.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L with a grade of C- or better for both.
Required for Biology, Environmental Science, Biology Inclusive
Education, and Biology Adolescence Education
Credits: 3
BIO 104L - Biology Systems Lab II This is a laboratory course in animal biology and ecology.
Topics include the diversity, taxonomy and evolution of the members of
the Kingdom Animalia. Students will examine the structure and
function of invertebrates and vertebrates in the context of evolution
and adaptation to their environments. The laboratory includes
dissection and experimental investigations. Required for all Biology and Environmental Science majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Lab fee required.
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO103L with a grade of C- or better for both.
Coreq: BIO 104
Credits: 1
BIO 109 - PI Human Biology (Perspectives I course for non-majors) This course investigates the
role of the human species in the biosphere. Students will participate
in the process of scientific inquiry through lecture, discussion and
laboratory investigations. Course content will emphasize the structure
and function of the human organism as well as the application of
biological principles to human affairs. For Laboratory see Bio 109L.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Coreq: BIO 109L
Credits: 3
BIO 109L - PI Human Bio Lab (Perspectives I Course for non-majors) Through direct participation in descriptive and
experimental investigation, students will explore human biology from
chemical, cellular, anatomical physiological, genetic, and ecological
perspectives. Must be taken concurrently with BIO 109.
Prerequisites & Notes Coreq: BIO 109
Adv Codes: NR
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 111 - PI Contemporary Biology (Perspectives I course for non-majors) A foundation course for
non-majors in the principles and processes of biological
investigations. This course will follow three main themes: evolution,
diversity, and the environment with emphasis on environmental
applications. This course will examine contemporary issues such as forensics, human reproduction, acid rain, global
warming, habitat destruction, over population, loss of biodiversity and
genetic engineering. For laboratory see Bio 110L.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Coreq: BIO 111L
Credits: 3
BIO 111L - PI Contemporary Biology Lab (Perspectives I Course for non-majors) Through direct participation in experimental
and descriptive investigation, students will be introduced to biology
as an active application of scientific inquiry. Must be taken
concurrently with BIO 111.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Coreq: BIO 111
Lab fee required.
Credits: 1
BIO 114 - PI Plants and People (Perspectives I Course for non-majors) An introduction to plants for non-majors.
Students will explore propagation and structure of plants, forensic
botany, economic botany, and the importance of botanical diversity.
Consideration also given to other issues involving plants such as
conservation, discovery of new drugs from plants, and genetic
engineering. Must be taken concurrently with BIO 114L.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Coreq: BIO 114L
Credits: 3
BIO 114L - PI Plants and People Lab (Perspectives I Laboratory course for non-majors) This course will actively involve students
in using the scientific method to study plants. It will include work in
the greenhouse, in the field and in the lab. Must be taken concurrently
with BIO 114.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Coreq: BIO 114
Lab fee required.
Credits: 1
BIO 117 - PI Microbes & Society (Perspectives I Course) PI Course for non-biology majors. An
introduction to microbiology. Students will explore contemporary
beneficial and harmful aspects of microbes such as bioterrorism,
emerging diseases like SARS and AIDS, bioremediation, and food
microbiology. Must be taken concurrently with BIO 117L.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Corequisite: BIO 117L
Credits: 3
BIO 117L - PI Microbes and Society Lab (Perspectives I course for non-majors) PI Microbes and society laboratory course for non-biology majors.
Topics will correlate with the course (BIO 117). Emphasis on safe
handling of microbes and the scientific method.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Coreq: BIO 117
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 150 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I The first in a sequence of two foundational courses in the structure and function
of the human body. This course is designed as an elective for science majors (Biology,
Chemistry) and is required by health profession majors (Physical Therapy, Nursing);
it is offered every spring semester. A systems level approach is used to study
general histology, and integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and endocrine
systems. The laboratory component of the course (BIO 150L) is a co-requisite that
reinforces the principles learned in lecture (BIO 150) with hands-on experiences
in human physiology using state-of-the-art digital instrumentation, computer simulations,
and animal dissection.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: CR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L with grade C- or better for both.
Coreq: BIO 150L
For Biology/Environmental Science majors seeking to fulfill either
the Organismal or Biology Elective requirement, both BIO 150/150L and
BIO 151/151L are required.
Credits: 3
BIO 150L - Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab I This laboratory course uses a systems level approach to study general
histology, and integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and
endocrine systems. This course (BIO 150L) is a co-requisite that
reinforces the principles learned in lecture (BIO 150) with hands-on
experiences in human physiology using state-of-the-art digital
instrumentation, computer simulations, and animal dissection.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv. Codes: BR
Pre-req: BIO 103/103L with a grade of C- or better
Coreq: BIO 150.
Lab fee required.
Credits: 1
BIO 151 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II A continuation of Bio 150/150L. Topics covered during this fall
semester course include the structure and function of circulatory,
lymphatic (including immunology), respiratory, excretory, digestive,
and reproductive systems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv. Codes: CR
Prereq: BIO 150, BIO 150L with a grade of C- or better
Coreq: BIO 151L
Primarily for Biology, Nursing & Physical therapy majors
Credits: 3
BIO 151L - Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab II Topics covered during this laboratory course include the structure and function of circulatory,
lymphatic (including immunology), respiratory, excretory, digestive,
and reproductive systems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv. Codes: BR
Prereq: BIO 150/150L with a grade of C- or better.
Coreq: BIO 151
Lab fee required.
Credits: 1
BIO 201 - Comparative Chordate Anatomy Phylogeny of the chordates and the evolution of their organ systems
through comparative anatomy. Structural modifications are correlated
with function and their impact on the evolution of vertebrate phyla.
Laboratory includes microscopic study of protochordates and dissection of the lamprey, shark, mudpuppy, and cat as well
as detailed study of skeletal material.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 104 or equivalent with a grade of C- or better.
Coreq: BIO 201L
May be used to satisfy the Organismal or Biology Elective requirement for Biology majors.
Credits: 4
BIO 201L - Comparative Chordate Anatomy Lab Phylogeny of the chordates and the evolution of their organ systems
though comparative anatomy. Structural modifications are correlated
with function and their impact on the evolution of vertebrate phyla. Laboratory includes microscopic study of protochordates and dissection
of the lamprey, shark, mudpuppy, and cat as well as detailed study of
skeletal material.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 104 with a grade of C- or better.
Coreq: BIO 201
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 216 - Plant Biology A consideration of diversity and relationships among various taxa of
the plant kingdom. Focus will be on structure, function, genetical and
cytological aspects of Anthophyta.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHR
Prereq: BIO103, BIO 103L with a grade of C- or better.
Coreq: BIO 216L
Required for Biology, Environmental Science, Biology Inclusive Education, and Biology Adolescence Education majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 216L - Plant Biology Laboratory Laboratory begins with propagation techniques covering traditional aspects of anatomy
and taxonomy of higher plants, investigates cell types and the
physiological processes of photosynthesis and transpiration.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHR
Coreq: BIO 216
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 226 - PII The Biology of Women (Perspectives II course) A course dealing with the human female
throughout her life span. Topics include: biological sex
differentiation; the events of a woman’s reproductive life from
menarche to menopause; controversies in the treatment of female
diseases; sociological and cultural factors that influence a woman’s
health and nutrition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: Any PI in Science.
Credits: 3
BIO 235 - PII Fund of Human Anatomy & Physiology (Perspectives II course) An introduction to human anatomy and
physiology primarily for students in psychology and music therapy
professions, although any non-science major with an interest in human
biology can enroll in this course. In addition to a study of the
structure of the body systems, the course includes topics of current
interest: biochemistry, nutrition, substance abuse and control,
age-onset diseases, infectious diseases and environmental hazards.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: any PI in Science
Credits: 3
BIO 237 - Animal Physiology An in-depth study of the function of vertebrate organisms. Includes the
basic physiological mechanisms involved in the maintenance of both
cellular and organ-system homeostasis in vertebrates. Laboratory (Bio
237Q) is a co-requisite and is a writing intensive (W) laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FH
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L, CHM 145, CHM 146L, CHM 147, CHM 148L, all with a grade
of
C- or better.
Co-requisite: BIO 237Q
May be used to satisfy either the Organismal or Biology Elective requirement for Biology majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 237Q - Animal Physiology Laboratory An application of theory and concepts through direct experimentation.
Includes respiratory physiology, urine analysis, nerve-muscle
physiology, endocrinology, cardiovascular physiology, metabolism study,
and exercise physiology. This is a writing intensive laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHR
Prereq: Bio 103/103L & Bio 104/104L with a grade of C- or better
Coreq: Bio 237.
Lab fee required.
Credits: 1
BIO 250 - PII Exercise Physiology & Life Fitness (Perspectives II Course) Individuals interested in upgrading or
maintaining their level of physical fitness and wellness or those who
consider themselves to be competitive athletes must possess a
foundation for understanding the importance of nutrition and energy
transfer to maximize their potential for exercise and training. In
addition to the basic principles of exercise physiology, a variety of
additional contemporary issues will be offered to including: use of
legal and illegal aids, cardiovascular fitness and disease prevention,
training methodologies and fitness assessment. The course will be
taught in a distance learning format manner. The laboratory portion of the course (BIO 250L), when offered, is a
co-requisite that will be taught in a traditional laboratory
(on-campus) setting.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Preq: Any Perspectives I course in Science
Credits: 3
BIO 250L - PII Exercise Physiology and Life Fitness Laboratory (Perspectives II Lab) Individuals interested in upgrading or
maintaining their level of physical fitness and wellness or those who
consider themselves to be competitive athletes must possess a
foundation for understanding the important of nutrition and energy
transfer to maximize their potential for exercise and training. In
addition to the basic principles of exercise physiology, variety of
additional contemporary issues will be offered to include, but not be
limited to: use of legal and illegal aids, cardiovascular fitness and
disease prevention, training methodologies and fitness assessment. The
course will be taught in an interactive and participative manner in the traditional on-campus laboratory setting.
Students will be asked to apply factual information to practical
experiences designed to improve their understanding of basic
principles. Strategies to enhance the educational environment will
include experience logs and journals of athletic performance,
self-assessments for heart disease, nutritional status, stress
management, and overall fitness, and conference interactions with
instructors.
Prerequisites & Notes Preq: Any Perspectives I course in Science
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 251 - PII Introduction to Animal Behavior (Perspectives II course) A survey of the study of animal behavior, its
mechanism and methods of inquiry. Lectures and discussions are
supplemented with films. Includes applications of ecology, genetics,
neurophysiology and evolution to investigating the cause and function
of behavior. Individual projects enable students to have experience
with direct observation and analysis of behavior.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: HRB
Coreq: BIO 251L to satisfy Organismal requirement for Biology majors.
The laboratory portion of the course (Bio 251L), when offered, is a
co-requisite for Biology/Environmental Science majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 251L - Animal Behavior Seminar and Laboratory Students meet weekly to discuss and define problems for investigation.
Sessions are followed by laboratory research. Field trips may
supplement these activities. May be taken after or concurrently with
Bio 251.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: HR
Coreq: Bio 251.
Lab fee required.
Credits: 1
BIO 253 - PII Human Genetics (Perspectives II course for non-majors) A survey of the role of genes
in heredity and daily existence of the human being. Basic molecular,
genetic and chromosomal mechanisms will be described in order to
examine human embryonic development, reproduction, disease, genetic
counseling and ethics in medical genetics.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Preq: Any Perspectives I course in Biology
Credits: 3
BIO 260G - PII Ethnobotany (Perspectives II Global course) This course focuses on the way native peoples incorporate the use of plants into their cultures. This includes exploration of plants as food, medicine, material goods and for spiritual enhancement. We will integrate botanical studies with anthropological aspects of plant use including indigenous cultures’ world views/cosmology, and how these world views impact healing practices, spiritual practices, and biological conservation with regard to plants. We will also focus on the application of anthropological theories, methods, and concepts to the place of plants in society.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in Science or Social Science
Fulfills Multicultural Studies Concentration
Credits: 3
BIO 270 - PII Natural History (Perspectives II course) Evolution and ecology provide the basis for
understanding the lives of animals and plants that inhabit our region.
Animal and plant taxonomy and identification will focus on those
commonly encountered in the Rochester area. Lectures and field trips to
local parks will include discussion and field identification of
insects, birds, mammals as well as trees, shrubs and wildflowers.
(Summer session only)
Credits: 3
BIO 304 - Developmental Biology An analysis of the patterns and principles of development,
with emphasis on morphogenetic processes, differentiation, regulation, determination, and discussion of contemporary issues.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 104 (BIO 201 recommended)
Coreq: BIO 304L
May be used to satisfy the Organismal or Biology Elective requirement for Biology majors.
Credits: 4
BIO 304L - Developmental Biology Lab Experimental development of model developmental systems such as starfish, fruit fly, and chick embryos.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHR
Prereq: BIO 103/103L, BIO 104/104L (BIO 201 recommended) all with a grade of C- or better.
Coreq: BIO 304
Lab fee required
Credits: 0
BIO 310 - Genetics A study of the principles of inheritance and cell regulation from
classical and molecular viewpoints. Special attention is given to
chromatin structure, molecular genetics and the genetic aspects of the
immune response and cancer.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHR
Prereq: BIO 103 or instructor approval
Coreq: BIO 310L
Required for Biology, Biology Inclusive Education, and Biology Adolescence Education majors.
Credits: 4
BIO 310L - Genetics Lab Laboratory topics include microbial and molecular genetics, chromosome
analysis, thermal amplification of DNA, and the use of online genetics
databases for gene mapping and evolutionary analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHR
Prereq: BIO 103 or instructor approval
Coreq: BIO 310
Lab fee required
Credits: 0
BIO 317 - General Microbiology Study of the spectrum and significance of microorganisms and their relationship
to human welfare, public health and environment. Microbial anatomy, metabolism,
genetics, growth patterns, epidemiology, and biological responses to microbial infection are
included.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFHR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L, CHM 145, CHM 146L, CHM 147, CHM 148L all with grade
of C- or better.
Required for Environmental Science majors only; may be used to
satisfy Organismal or Biology Elective requirement for Biology majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 317L - General Microbiology Lab Students develop skills necessary to work safely with environmentally and clinically important microbes.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFHR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L, CHM 145, CHM 146L, CHM 147, CHM 148L all with grade
of C-
or better.
Lab fee required
Required for Environmental Science Majors only
Credits: 1
BIO 318 - Clinical Microbiology Microbiology is the study of organisms and agents that are, in general,
too small to be seen with the naked eye. As such, microbiology is a
vast field, ranging from the study of cell structure and function, to
the nature and control of infectious diseases, to microbial ecology and
the beneficial use of microbes for food and industrial purposes. In
Clinical Microbiology (BIO 318/318L) we will focus considerable
attention on the study of bacteria and viruses that cause disease. This
course is specifically designed for those interested in a career in the
health care professions (e.g. nursing and
pre-medical/pre-dental/pre-veterinary students).
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L with grade C- or better
Coreq: BIO 318L
Recommended for pre-med, pre-vet and pre-dental minors.
Credits: 3
BIO 318L - Clinical Microbiology Lab A survey of the microbial world with emphasis on disease-causing
bacteria and viruses. Topics include microbial structure, function,
taxonomy, growth, reproduction, metabolism, and genetics, as well as
immunology and medical microbiology. Students develop skills necessary
to work safely with clinically important microbes.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: BIO 103, BIO 103L with grade C- or better
Coreq: BIO 318
Recommended for Pre-med, Pre-veterinary, and Pre-dental minors.
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 325 - Immunology Immunology is the study of the processes by which an organism
recognizes and responds to foreign substances in order to maintain a
constant internal environment. This course explores immunology in three
parts: 1. principles of immuno-biology, -chemistry and -genetics; 2.
mechanisms of immune responses, and 3. applications in research and
medicine.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FH
Prereq: Bio 103/103L and Bio 104/104L or equivalent or instructor permission;
may be used to satisfy the Biology Elective requirement for Biology
majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 330 - PII Ecology (Perspectives II course) For science and non-science majors wishing
more advanced study, this course will cover both the principles of
ecology and its applications. This course covers ecosystem analysis,
population dynamics as well as the impact of humans on the global
environment. A few short field trips on campus are included. The
writing intensive component includes critical analysis of controversial
issues.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Prereq: Any Perspectives I course in Science.
Required
for Biology, Environmental Science, Biology Inclusive Education, and
Biology Adolescence Education Majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 330L - Ecology Laboratory With a greater focus on field study and quantitative analysis, this course will
include field trips for the study of and collection of specimens as well as computer
analysis and simulations in ecology. Laboratory is required only for students
majoring in biology or environmental science and may be taken after or concurrently
with BIO 330.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ARH
Coreq: BIO 330
Required only for Biology/Environmental Science majors
Lab fee required
Credits: 1
BIO 353 - Bioinformatics Bioinformatics is the use of information technology to advance the
scientific understanding of living systems. Bioinformatic technologies
are used to analyze sequences, structure, and map information about
genes and proteins. Topics covered include gene sequence
comparison for mutation and evolution analysis, molecular modeling and
clinical applications.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CHR
Prereq: BIO 310/310L
May be used to satisfy the Biology Elective requirement for Biology majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 377 - Conservation Biology Conservation biology is the scientific investigation of the human impact on biological
diversity and the development of strategies to prevent species extinction. It
merges ecosystem and population biology concepts with issues of environmental
law, economics and ethics. The course includes a field component in which students
examine a local habitat and conduct a quantitative environmental assessment of
possible damage and the need for remediation and protection.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACHR
Prereq: BIO 330L
Required for Environmental Science majors
Credits: 3
BIO 410 - Cell Biology The molecular basis of cell structure and function is explored in a
systematic examination of cell organelles. Special attention is given
to cell thermodynamics, energy production, biosynthesis, control
processes and evolutionary patterns.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: HRF
Prereq: BIO 103 CHM 251 CHM 252
Coreq: BIO 410L
Required for Biology and Biology Adolescence Education majors.
Credits: 4
BIO 410L - Cell Biology Lab Laboratory investigations of the cell include protein and enzyme
analyses, cell culture, advanced microscopy, immuno- and histo-
chemistry, molecular modeling and cell viability assays.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: HRF
Prereq: BIO 103/103L, CHM 251, CHM 252
Coreq: BIO 410
Lab fee required
Credits: 0
BIO 421 - Biochemistry (See description of CHM 421.)
Credits: 3
BIO 422 - Biochemistry II/Molecular Biology (See description of CHM 422.)
Credits: 4
BIO 425 - Advanced Genetics In-depth exploration of current research literature in genetics through formal
lectures and scientific conversations among students and the instructor. Topics
include recombinant DNA, cancer genetics and gene regulation.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: BIO 310.
May be used to satisfy the Biology Elective requirement for Biology majors.
Credits: 3
BIO 450 - Biology Seminar A reading course in biological literature involving an in-depth
exploration of selected topics in biology. Students will be expected to
report on and discuss a broad range of biological issues and prepare a
proposal for a research investigation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFGH
Prereq: Senior Status.
Credits: 1.5
BIO 451 - Biology Seminar A reading course in biological literature involving an in-depth
exploration of selected topics in biology. Students will be expected to
report on and discuss a broad range of biological issues and prepare a
proposal for a research investigation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFHR
Credits: 1.5
BIO 452 - Senior Research Following a literature search and a project proposal, students will
conduct an original laboratory investigation culminating in a
scientific research paper, or participate as an apprentice at a
research institution. Senior research is recommended for students
planning to go on to graduate school.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHG
Number of credits are determined by the professor. Course may be taken more than once.
Credits: 1 to 3
BIO 457 - Curriculum Methodology Middle School and Senior High Study and discussion of subject matter, special methods and techniques
of teaching secondary school science. Observation component required.
Offered in Spring Semesters only.
Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
BIO 479 - Student Teaching Middle and Senior High The field based practicum in biology. Fall Semesters only.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: M
Prereq: Bloodborne Pathogen training required
Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
BIO 485 - Independent Study Independent study may be pursued as a reading course in biological
literature, as a research project or as an opportunity to acquire
special biological techniques. Permission of instructor is required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHG
Number of credits are determined by the instructor. Course may be taken more than once.
Credits: 1 to 3
BIO 499 - Biology Comprehensive Typically satisfied by successful completion of the GRE Achievement Test in Biology or the Major Field Test in Biology.
Prerequisites & Notes All Biology majors must enroll in this course during the spring semester of the senior year.
Credits: 0
ENV 450 - Environmental Science Seminar A reading-tutorial course involving an in-depth exploration of selected
topics in environmental science. The student will examine contemporary
topics such as energy, pollution, populations, wildlife management,
conservation, and related social issues.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFGH
Prereq: BIO 330
Required for Environmental Science majors
Credits: 1.5
ENV 451 - Environmental Science Seminar Students will develop and complete either a laboratory/field-based or a
literature-based research investigation, culminating in a formal
presentation.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: BIO 330 (A full year course with credit given after the completion of ENV 451)
Required for Environmental Science majors
Credits: 1.5
ENV 454 - Field Study Field work in which experience is gained by direct application of
theory and skills in the area of environmental science. The field
experience may include a research project, internship, or a field
course at a field station. A complete description and list of past
projects may be obtained from the program director.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: BIO 330/330L
Credits: 4
ENV 499 - Environmental Science Comprehensive Typically satisfied by successful completion of the GRE Achievement Test in Biology or the Major Field Test in Biology.
Prerequisites & Notes All Environmental Science majors must enroll in this course during the spring semester of their senior year.
Credits: 0
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BCH 499 - Biochemistry Comprehensive Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 0
BIO 421L - Biochemistry Laboratory I See description of CHM 421L.
Credits: 0
BIO 422L - Biochemistry II/Molecular Biology and Laboratory See description of CHM 422L.
Credits: 0
CHM 090 - Laboratory Safety Workshop The focus of this course is to train chemistry, biochemistry, and
biology majors in acceptable laboratory practices. Topics covered
include: emergency response procedures, general laboratory safety
guidelines, identification and use of safety equipment, chemical
storage and waste disposal, legal aspects including government
standards (OSHA, ANSI, EPA), handling glassware, equipment and
reagents, record keeping, library and on line resources. Required
course for all chemistry, biochemstry, chemistry education majors as
well as departmental student workers.
Prerequisites & Notes Meets 3 times at the beginning of the Fall semester
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 0
CHM 145 - PI General Chemistry I (Perspectives I Course) This course deals with non-carbon elements, their compounds
and reactions. Atomic structure will be reviewed and elemental groups will be
discussed. Synthesis, stoichiometry, understanding of reaction mechanisms and
physical properties will be investigated as well as the understanding of periodic
trends of the elements.
Prerequisites & Notes Corequisite: CHM 146L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
CHM 146L - PI General Chemistry I Laboratory (Perspectives I Laboratory) A one semester laboratory course involving
synthesis of various types of inorganic compounds and the
classification of their chemical and physical properties.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Coreq: CHM 145
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 1
CHM 147 - General Chemistry II Continuation of Chm 145. Lecture course discussing the theory and
mathematical solutions to problems related to solution equilibria.
Topics covered include: Intermolecular forces, kinetics, chemical
equilibria, acid-base theory, thermodynamics, electrochemistry and
nuclear chemistry.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 145 with grade of C- or better
Coreq CHM 148L
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
CHM 148L - General Chemistry II Laboratory A one semester laboratory course involving various methods of analysis. Techniques
of titration, spectroscopy, and kinetics are covered. Experimental procedures
involve the use of analytical glassware and statistical analysis of data.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 146L with a C- grade or better
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 225 - Analytical Chemistry A one semester course covering the techniques of classical analytical
chemistry. Topics covered include gravimetric, titrimetric and
spectroscopic methods of analysis as well as methods of data analysis
and experimental design.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 147 with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 226L
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
CHM 226L - Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Laboratory techniques including titration and gravimetric methods of analysis are emphasized.
Separation, spectroscopic and electrochemical methods are also introduced.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 148L with a C- or better
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 251 - Organic Chemistry I The relationship between structure and properties of organic compounds,
reactions and reaction mechanisms are studied. Introductions to stereochemistry,
spectroscopy and synthetic design nomenclature of organic functional
groups and reaction kinetics and thermodynamics are covered as well.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 147 with C- grade or better
Coreq: CHM 253L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 4
CHM 252 - Organic Chemistry II The relationship between structure and properties of organic compounds,
reactions, and reaction mechanisms are studied. Introductions to stereochemistry,
spectroscopy, and synthetic design nomenclature of organic functional
groups and reaction kinetics and thermodynamics are covered as well.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 251 with grade of C- or better
Coreq CHM 254L
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
CHM 253L - Organic Chemistry Laboratory I Techniques including: purification, separation, recrystallization,
fractional distillation, solvent extraction, and various forms of
chromatography and spectral analysis are introduced in the fall
semester. Organic syntheses and a semester project are carried out in
the second semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 148L with a C- or better
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 1
CHM 254L - Organic Chemistry Laboratory II Techniques include purification, separation, recrystallization, fractional distillation,
solvent extraction and various forms of chromatography and spectral analysis are
introduced in the fall semester. Organic syntheses and a semester project are
carried out in the second semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: CHM 253L with a C- grade or better
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 261 - Introduction to Chemistry Research I This course is designed for lower division chemistry or other science majors who wish to participate in a research group. Students will work with experienced upper-division students under the direction of a faculty member on a research project. Students will be expected to be active laboratory participants and will contribute to the final written/oral report. May be repeated for additional credit.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: C
Prereq: CHM 090 (may also be taken as a coreq)
Credits: 1
CHM 262 - Introduction to Chemistry Research II This course is designed for lower division chemistry or other science
majors who wish to participate in a research group. Students will work
with experienced upper-division students under the direction of a
faculty member on a research project. Students will be expected to be
active laboratory participants and will contribute to the final
written/oral report. May be repeated for additional credit.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: C
Prereq: CHM 090 (may also be taken as a coreq)
Credits: 1
CHM 311 - Environmental Chemistry A one-semester course building on the concepts discussed in CHM 145-148 as they
apply to environmental systems. The chemistry of air, water, soil and energy systems
will be discussed as well as the interactions between systems. Basic toxicology
will also be covered.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 147 with a C- or better
Normal Offering Cycle: Offered every other year
Credits: 3
CHM 311L - Environmental Chemistry Laboratory A one-semester course building on the concepts discussed in Chm 145-148 as they
apply to environmental systems. The chemistry of air, water, soil and energy systems
will be discussed as well as the interactions between systems. Basic toxicology
will also be covered.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 147 with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 311
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Offered every other year
Credits: 1
CHM 325 - Instrumentation for Biologists An integrated seminar/laboratory course which gives majors in
biological sciences practical experience with modern instrumentation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: N
Prereq: CHM 147, 148L with a grade of C- or better
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
CHM 361 - Physical Chemistry I A study of the fundamental theories of matter and their application to chemistry.
Topics include thermodynamics, kinetic molecular theory, and electrochemistry
in the first semester and kinetics and quantum mechanics, molecular orbital theory
and spectroscopy in the second semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACR
Prereq: CHM 147, MTH 213, PHY 252 with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 363L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
CHM 362 - Physical Chemistry II A study of fundamental theories of matter and their application to
chemistry. Topics include thermodynamics, kinetic molecular theory, and
electrochemistry in the first semester and kinetics and quantum
mechanics, molecular orbital theory and spectroscopy in the second
semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACR
Prereq: CHM 147, MTH 213, PHY 252 with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM364L
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
CHM 363L - Physical Chemistry Laboratory I The basic properties and structure of matter will be studied by thermodynamic,
electrochemical and spectroscopic means. The course emphasizes knowledge of the
principles of instrumental techniques and detailed error analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 148L with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 361
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 1
CHM 364L - Physical Chemistry Laboratory II The basic properties and structure of matter will be studied by thermodynamic,
electrochemical and spectroscopic means. The course emphasizes knowledge of the
principles of instrumental techniques and detailed error analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 148L with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 362
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 365 - Instrumental Analysis Instrumental methods used in research and industry with emphasis on
modern equipment and recent advances. Techniques include: spectroscopy,
potentiometry, chromatography, and electrochemical methods.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACR
Prereq: CHM 225, CHM 361
Coreq: CHM 366L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
CHM 366L - Instrumental Analysis Laboratory Investigations of the techniques, applications and operations of various types
of instrumentation as applied to chemical, biochemical and environmental systems.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 226L
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 421 - Biochemistry I A study of the structure and function of biological macromolecules,
their synthesis and degradation, principles of enzyme kinetics,
bioenergetics and biological oxidation. The laboratory is an
introduction to modern biochemical methods and techniques and their
application to the solution of biochemical problems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACR
Prereq: CHM252 with C- grade or better
Coreq: CHM 421L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 4
CHM 421L - Biochemistry Laboratory I A study of the structure and function of biological macromolecules,
their synthesis and degradation, principles of enzyme kinetics,
bioenergetics and biological oxidation. The laboratory is an
introduction to modern biochemical methods and techniques and their
application to the solution of biochemical problems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACR
Prereq: CHM 252 with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 421
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 0
CHM 422 - Biochemistry I/Molecular Biology Topics include nucleic acid structure and function, gene regulation and recombinant
DNA technology. The laboratory is an introduction to modern biochemical methods,
protein synthesis and techniques including differential centrifugation, electrophoresis
and recombinant DNA technology.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 252.
Recommended prereq: BIO 103, CHM 361, CHM 421
Credits: 4
CHM 422L - Biochemistry II/Molecular Biology and Laboratory The laboratory is an introduction to modern biochemical methods, protein synthesis
and techniques including differential centrifugation, electrophoresis and recombinant
DNA technology.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 252.
Recommended prereq: BIO 103, CHM 361, CHM 421
Coreq: CHM 422
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 0
CHM 435 - Adv Organic Chemistry Study of the mechanisms of organic reactions, including such topics as electronic
theory, kinetics, orbital symmetry, reactive intermediates, stereochemistry and
synthesis.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 252 and CHM 361.
Lecture 2 hours, Lab 3 hours
Normal Offering Cycle: Not offered 2005-2006
Credits: 3
CHM 445 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Chemistry of elements and special topics such as atomic structures,
bonding, symmetry, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, acid-base theory
and coordination chemistry.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Prereq: CHM 362 with a C- or better
Coreq: CHM 44L
Credits: 3
CHM 446L - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Application of techniques of synthetic chemistry and the analysis of inorganic
materials using instrumental methods.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 364L
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 447 - Selected Topics in Chemistry A topically oriented course geared to the demands of the students. Topics could
include Physical Biochemistry, Surface Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Chromatography,
Magnetic Resonance and Polymer Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, and Advanced
Organic Synthesis.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: CHM 361
Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
CHM 451 - Chemistry Seminar I A reading and writing intensive course that prepares students to write
like a chemist. Students learn how to access chemical
information, read a journal article, write a journal article, present a
scientific poster and prepare a research proposal.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 2
CHM 452 - Senior Seminar A writing intensive course with instruction in the use of chemical
literature, accompanied by both written and oral presentations of
advanced topics selected from the various fields of chemistry.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
CHM 457 - Curriculum Methodology Middle School and Senior High Study and discussion of subject matter, methods, philosophy and
instructional aids. Offered in Spring semester. Observation component
required.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
CHM 461 - Chemistry Research Faculty-directed student laboratory research projects. Written report
and seminar presentation required. Open to qualified juniors and
seniors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
CHM 462 - Chemistry Research Faculty-directed student laboratory research projects. Written report
and seminar presentation required. Open to qualified juniors and
seniors.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
CHM 462L - Senior Research Lab Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
CHM 468 - Env. Chemistry Lab Students will use modern analytical techniques to explore scientific
problems involving natural systems. Analyses of soils, air and natural
waters will be done in an integrated project format. Students will
develop many of their own procedures based on the hypotheses developed,
and follow up each project with written/oral reports.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Offered every other year
Credits: 3
CHM 479 - Student Teaching Middle School and Senior High The field-based practicum in Chemistry 7-12. Offered only in fall semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
CHM 483 - Chemistry Internship Supervised placement in a biochemistry/chemistry research setting
providing experience appropriate to the student’s knowledge, skills and
interest. Departmental approval required.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
CHM 484 - Chemistry Internship Supervised placement in a biochemistry/chemistry research setting
providing experience appropriate to the student’s knowledge, skills,
and interest. Departmental approval required.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
CHM 485 - Independent Study Faculty-directed study of appropriate topics on a tutorial basis. This
course will enable a student to pursue studies of existing knowledge
available in the literature. Open to qualified juniors and seniors.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 3
CHM 486 - Independent Study Faculty-directed study of appropriate topics on a tutorial basis. This
course will enable a student to pursue studies of existing knowledge
available in the literature. Open to qualified juniors and seniors.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 3
CHM 499 - Chemistry Comprehensive Credits: 0
PHY 203L - PI General Physics Laboratory I (Perspectives I Course) An experimental laboratory course designed to develop skills in data acquisition, data analysis and error analysis. Includes experiments in kinematics, dynamics, energy and momentum conservation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 1
PHY 204L - PII General Physics Laboratory II (Perspectives II course) An experimental laboratory course designed to develop skills in data acquisition, data analysis and error analysis. Includes experiments in heat, harmonic motion, sound, light and electricity and magnetism.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
PHY 207 - PI Introductory Physics I (Perspectives I course) This is the first semester of a one-year course
appropriate for liberal arts students. The course is designed to
provide the student with an appreciation of the role of Physics in life
as well as understanding the laws of natures. An objective of this
course is the development of problem solving skills. Topics include:
kinematics, Newton’s laws, statics, work and energy, power, momentum,
and vibrations. Requires a strong background in algebra, geometry and
trigonometry.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Coreq: PHY 203L
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PHY 208 - PII Introductory Physics II (Perspectives II course) This is the second semester of a one-year course appropriate
for liberal arts students. Topics include: wave motion, sound, light, geometric
optics, and electricity and magnetism.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: PHY 207/203L.
Coreq: PHY 204L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PHY 251 - PI Fundamentals of Physics I (Perspectives I course) This course is a calculus-based introduction to physics
with primary emphasis on Newtonian mechanics. The topics include: kinematics,
dynamics, work and energy, momentum, equilibrium of rigid bodies, gravitation,
and vibrations. Problem solving is a major component of the course.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: MTH 113
Coreq: PHY 203L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PHY 252 - PII Fundamentals of Physics II (Perspectives II course) Continuation of the calculus-based physics sequence.
The topics covered include: waves, geometrical optics, heat and thermodynamics
and electricity and magnetism.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: PHY 251/203L with grades of C- or better and MTH 114
Coreq: PHY 204L
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
SCI 105 - PI Introduction to Earth Science (Perspectives I course) This course will examine the Earth Systems that shape
and modify our physical environment. This includes aspects of Geology (rocks.
mineral resources, and earth processes), Meteorology (atmosphere, climate, and
weather patterns), and Oceanography (composition, movement, and geology of the
oceans). These systems will be viewed in terms of the modern environment and how
the earth’s physical environment has changed throughout the history of the earth.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Coreq: SCI 106L
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
SCI 106L - PI Introduction to Earth Science Lab (Perspectives I Lab) This laboratory course allows students to work with earth
materials (rocks, minerals, fossils etc.) in the lab and in the field, and introduces
them to techniques for gathering field data. It also introduces them to techniques
for gathering field data. It also introduces the students to other methods used
by earth scientists for interpreting earth processes (maps, aerial photos, seismograms,
etc.).
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Coreq: SCI 105 or equivalent; intended to complement SCI 105.
Additional lab fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 1
SCI 111 - PI Understanding Our Environment (Perspectives I course) A course designed for the non-science major who
desires to learn about the environment and how the human race has
impacted on natural processes. Topics covered will include: natural
cycles, energy, resources, pollution, and future speculations as to the
fate of our natural world.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Summer
Credits: 3
SCI 112L - PI Understanding Our Environment Lab This laboratory is suitable for students who have already completed the
lecture portion of the PI Science requirement, or those seeking a lab
to accompany the SCI 111 course. Students will study a variety of
natural systems and conduct measurements and make conclusions about the
natural environment.
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Summer
Credits: 1
SCI 115 - PI Cosmology A study of the earth and the universe beyond. Topics include: evolution
of the universe, the universe today, stars, the solar system and man’s
attempt to understand the universe.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 3
SCI 116L - PI Cosmology Laboratory Evening observations both with and without the aid of a telescope will
be used to explore the skies and learn the basic principles of
astronomy.
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required.
Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 1
SCI 131 - PI Nutrition Concepts (Perspectives I course) Students learn the basic principles of nutrition, and
fundamental concepts in science relevant to nutrition, evaluate personal dietary
intakes using computer software programs and discuss topics of current interest
related to nutrition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
SCI 132L - PI Nutrition Laboratory (Perspectives I course) Using the scientific method of problem solving, the student
will use analytical tools to determine both qualitatively and quantitatively the
presence of specific nutrients in various foods, determine the caloric content
of foods and design diets for computer analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 1
SCI 135 - Environmental Geology A one semester introductory course covering the geological processes that shape
the natural world. Topics include: evolution of the earth, rock cycle, water cycle,
evolution of the atmosphere, and forces that shape the earth.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in natural science
Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 3
SCI 167 - PI Science of Sound (Perspectives I course) This course is designed for the non-science major to
gain a basic understanding of the phenomenon of sound. The physical laws governing
the production, propagation and detection of sound will be presented and applied
to explain the human voice, the human ear, musical instruments, room acoustics
and a number of natural manifestations of sound.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
SCI 168L - PI Science of Sound Laboratory (Perspectives I course) This laboratory will permit students to gain hands-on
experience with various experimental procedures and equipment, how scientific
observations are made, how data is manipulated and how these results are used
to prove, or disprove, a theory. The applications will focus on the propagation
of sound, wave motion and acoustics.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Additional course fee required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
SCI 201 - PII Interrelationships in Science (Perspectives II course) This course will explore the basic ideas in
science that transcend the traditional disciplines of Earth Science,
Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy. Topics such as energy, matter,
motion and reactions will be investigated. An integral part of this
course will be the application of these concepts through inquire-based,
hands-on laboratory experiments. Diversity among the disciplines as
well as the ways that different cultures have answered fundamental
questions about themselves and their world will be discussed.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 3
SCI 221 - PII Women, Health and Culture (Perspectives II course) A discussion of the natural factors that control the
health of women and the environmental, cultural and behavioral conditions that
influence this health.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: any PI in Science
Women’s Studies Minor Course
This course is offered by the Biology Department
Credits: 3
SCI 241 - PII Science of Everyday Life (Perspectives II course) A writing-intensive course which focuses on
advantages and limitations of technological applications of scientific
discoveries. Covers information and issues relevant to art, politics
and philosophy; cooking, hygiene and daily life.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: any PI science course
Normal Offering Cycle: As needed
Credits: 3
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COMM 201 - Introduction to Mass Communications Theoretical and
historical in its content. Theory
includes exploration of the social and scientific theories and concepts used to
study communication in its various forms:verbal/non-verbal, interpersonal, small-group, organizational,
electronic, and intercultural, among others. Historical in its specific trace of the history of written communication
and more generally in its look at the evolution of communication (the written
in relation to other forms of communication). The study of the development of communications will include a variety of
perspectives (i.e. critical, feminist, multicultural, class) and will make use
of new technologies and how they impact the profession.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
COMM 202 - Communication Ethics and Law Focuses
on the ethical and legal issues that affect all areas in the field of mass
communication. Study of ethical theories and philosophies as well as specific
case studies and defined standards and codes of ethics at work in the profession. Aims to foster professional
attitudes and behavior by confronting the students with the extent of ethical
and legal problems faced in the profession and by equipping them with the
heuristics needed to solve those problems. Some issues to be explored for
ethical and legal implications include, but are not restricted to, libel, free
speech, privacy, freedom of information, censorship, obscenity, community
responsibility, and social justice.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: COMM 201
Credits: 3
COMM 352 - The English Language The nature of language; the ambitions, methods and applicability of
phonological, syntactic and semantic study; the nature and history of
English; the grounds of and authorities for English usage.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
COMM 352 - The English Language The nature of language; the ambitions, methods and applicability of phonological, syntactic
and semantic study; the nature and history of English; the grounds of and
authorities for English usage.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
COMM 355 - Video Scriptwriting and Production Helps students develop simple story sense and effective dialogue in the service of business
communication. Students will learn to write scenarios, storyboards and sketches
designed for video media in training programs of social service agencies, business and industry.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
COMM 355L - Video Scriptwriting and Production Lab Helps students
develop simple story sense and effective dialogue in the service of business
communication. Students will learn to write scenarios, storyboards and sketches
designed for video media in training programs of social service agencies,
business and industry.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 0
COMM 374 - Public Relations Writing Focuses on developing
students’ writing skills for public relations in the areas of press releases,
memos and letters, speeches, public service announcements and annual reports. Students
also study the practical application of basic public relations concepts and
processes including public relations in corporations, government, and
institutions, public opinion, communication media, ethics of public relations,
and public relations campaigns.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Prereqs: ENGW 251and ENGW 252
Credits: 3
COMM 450 - Technical Communication Seminar Capstone course for seniors pursuing a more technical writing
concentration. A Project Management course, students work in
teams with a “real world” client applying skills and theories learned
over the course of their writing program, creating a product for the
client. Course culminates in a professional oral presentation of
the product to the client.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHFR
Credits: 3
COMM 451 - Writing for Publication Seminar Capstone course
for seniors pursuing a journalism, magazine publishing, or creative writing
concentration. Provides students with the opportunity to apply skills and
theories learned throughout their writing program. Students will produce
articles to be submitted to professional publications for consideration.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFHR
Credits: 3
COMM 482 - Writing for Publication Internship Through
supervised placement in an appropriate position with a local publication, firm,
or organization, the internship provides students with opportunities to explore
and participate in the planning and preparation of written materials in a
specific field of written communication and publication.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFH
Prereqs or Coreqs: COMM 374 or COMM 375
Credits: 3
COMM 483 - Technical Communication Internship Supervised placement in an appropriate position with a local publication, firm,
or organization.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHF
Prereq or Coreq: ENGW 351
Credits: 3
COMM 499 - Senior Experience Culmination project for all seniors in the major. Students are expected to design a project that will apply what they have learned over the course of their study.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFH
Credits: 0
ENGE 357 - Theories of Grammar and the Composing Process Intensive and reflective study of contemporary composition theories as
well as traditional, structural, and transformational-generative
systems of grammar; extensive exploration of the relationships among
grammar, style, and the composing process. Required for all
certification candidates majoring in English. Prerequisite for Enge 457.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: JHR
Prereq: ENG 457
Credits: 3
ENGE 457 - Curriculum Methodology Middle School and Senior High Intensive exploration of the literary and pedagogical arts related to
the teaching of English at the secondary level (grades 7-12). Teaching
candidates will develop expertise in the areas of lesson and unit
planning, sequenced activity development, assessment techniques, and
differentiated instruction for maximal student learning in reading,
writing, listening and speaking. Alignment with NYS Standards and
development of an effective teaching persona will also be stressed.
35-hour field experience component required. Required for English
majors seeking certification in Adolescence Education.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHM
Prereq: 50-hours of field participation required
Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
ENGE 479 - Student Teaching Middle School and Senior High The field-based practicum in English.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FHJ
Bloodborne Pathogen training required
Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
ENGL 134 - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Selected Studies (Perspectives I Course) This selected studies designation allows for
the teaching of a variety of genres and sub-genres not covered by the
other individual PI genre course offerings. Offerings include “Science
Fiction,” “Mystery Fiction,” “Creative Non-Fiction,” “Gothic Fiction,”
“Travel Literature,” “Satire,” among others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Special/Selected Topics
Credits: 3
ENGL 140 - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Short Story (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the short story as a
literary genre through its 19th century beginnings in America, its
development in Europe/Asia, and its variations in contemporary writing.
Writers include Poe, Hawthorne, DeMaupassant, Chekhov, Flannery
O’Connor, Cheever, Walker and others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ENGL 141G - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Epic (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the epic as a literary genre
that examines the hero/heroine’s role in society. Readings illustrate
the ways epic has changed to articulate otherwise marginalized voices
in the culture. They include: The Illiad and Beowulf as well as
Ellison’s Invisible Man and Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ENGL 142 - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Poetry (Perspectives I course) An introduction to poetry as a multi-faceted
literary genre and to the terms which make it accessible to criticism,
e.g. metre, rhyme, image, metaphor, symbol, etc. Texts reflecting an
historical spectrum of the form’s development will be chosen at the
discretion of the instructor.
Credits: 3
ENGL 143 - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Novel (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the novel as a literary
genre including focus on the components of setting, mood, story, plot,
meaning, characters, point of view, etc., and exploration of
traditional and experimental forms. Readings reflecting an historical
spectrum of the form’s development will be chosen at the discretion of
the instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ENGL 144 - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Drama (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the drama as a literary genre focusing
on Classical, English, American and Continental masterpieces. Writers include
Aeschylus, Racine, Congreve, Ibsen, Shaw Garcia Lorca.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ENGL 145 - PI Shapes of the Imagination: Personal Narrative (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the forms, uses, and values
of the genres of personal narrative including letters, diaries,
journals, memoirs, autobiographies and travelogues. Special attention
will be paid to issues of purpose, identity and credibility. Readings
include American, European and Non-Western writers.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 200 - Introduction to Literary Studies Designed to prepare English majors for advanced work in the major, this course will introduce students to different literary genres; expose students to the formal vocabulary used to discuss such texts; and familiarize students with different approaches to the study of literature, ranging from new criticism to more contemporary literary theories.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: C
Prereqs: ENGW 101 and ENGW 102
Credits: 3
ENGL 201 - Survey British Literature I Major British authors from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 18th century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABRH
Credits: 3
ENGL 202 - Survey British Literature II Major British authors from the 18th century to the present.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 203 - Voices in American Literature I A sampling of the Native-American oral literature, the travel writings
of French and Spanish explorers, Puritan spiritual journals and
sermons, revolutionary war treatises, captivity, and slave narratives,
as well as the authors traditionally associated with American
literature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 204 - Voices in American Literature II A survey of American Literature from the Civil War to the present,
including voices from the Realist, Naturalist, Modernist and
Postmodernist movements.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 205G - PII World Literature I (Perspectives II Global course) Study of representative works of world
literature from earliest times through the 16th century. Emphasizes
consideration of the literary, cultural and human significance of
selected great works of the Eastern and Western literary traditions
including woman’s, minority, and ethnic literature with the goal of
promoting an understanding of the works in their cultural/historical
contexts and of the human values which unite the different literary
traditions. Readings include works by Homer, Sapho, Valmiki, Dante,
Tsao Hsueh Chin, Murasaki, Ferdouski, Rumi, Cervantes.
Prerequisites & Notes Any Perspectives I course in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 206G - PII World Literature II (Perspectives II Global course) Study of the representative works of world
literature from the 17th century to the present. Emphasizes
consideration of the literary, cultural and human significance of
selected great works of the Eastern and Western literary traditions
with the goal of promoting an understanding of the works in their
cultural/historical contexts and of the human values which unite the
different literary traditions. Readings include works by Racine,
Voltaire, Rousseau, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Cesaire, Kawabata, Tagore,
Borges, Roy. Prerequiste: any Perspectives I course in literature.
Credits: 3
ENGL 303 - Classical Greek Drama Major Classical Greek dramatists in translation and selected readings in theories
of the drama.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 304G - PII Mythology (Perspectives II Global course) Theoretical, historical, cultural,
psychological, and literary study of mythology, including Greek, Norse,
mid-Eastern, African, Hindu, and Native American. Emphasis on
philosophical, cultural and moral values as they shape civilizations
from their origins.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Any Perspectives I course in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 305 - Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories Comedies and histories.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 306 - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Last Plays Tragedies and last plays.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 308 - PII Music and Literature (Perspectives II course) A study of some relationships between music
and literature. As a cross-disciplinary course, students explore
musical elements that appear in literature, as well as literary
elements in and sources for great works of literature. The historical
and cultural contexts of these relationships will also be considered.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 309 - Renaissance Literature More, Montaigne, Spenser and other Continental and English writers.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 310 - Seventeenth-Century Literature Major figures of the period, with emphasis on the poets from Donne to Marvell.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 311 - Eighteenth-Century Literature Selected masterpieces from the literature of the Enlightenment in
England, including works by Pope, Swift, Boswell and Johnson. Attention
will be paid both to currents of thought and to the development of the
genres characteristic of the period.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 312 - The Romantic Movement Major English Romantic poets, essayists, and fiction writers -
including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hemans, Blake, Keats, Shelley,
and Byron. Continental figures are sometimes considered, as well.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 313 - The Victorians Major writers of the Victorian period in relation to social thought and the development
of literary forms.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 314 - 19th Century Women Writers This course will [a] examine the literary achievement of some major
English women writers of the 19th century, and [b] explore whether
their individual literary careers were dependent upon, supported by, or
entirely independent of influential men in their society. The
course will emphasize these authors’ strategies for becoming successful
writers, in the light of cultural/class restrictions and gender
stereotypes. Writers will include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley,
Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. Satisfies
Women’s Studies Minor.
Prerequisites & Notes Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 321 - 20th Century American Literature Novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama by authors who have made
significant contributions to twentieth-century American literature.
Writers include Fitzgerald, Hemingway, O’Connor, Eliot, Williams,
Plath, Miller, Pynchon, Ellison, and Morrison, among others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 322 - Twentieth-Century British Literature Readings in British and post-colonial writers from World War I to present.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 324 - PII Children’s Literature (Perspectives II course) Readings in children’s literature by
representative authors, including prose narratives and poems that have
appealed to both adults and children.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 325 - PII Young Adult Literature (Perspectives II course) Examines the emergent genre of adolescent
fiction and non-fiction through the lenses of developmental, literary
and pedagogical theory. Students will read notable works from a variety
of cultural, regional and ethnic points of view. Emphasis will be
placed on understanding the unique characteristics of this developing
form.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 328 - Literature and Film A study of the evolution of film genres and their relationship to
literature. May engage film adaptations of literary works, or emphasize
applications of literary reading strategies to the medium of film.
Credits: 3
ENGL 330 - Irish Literature and Culture Irish literature and culture from the moment of the Irish Renaissance
in the 1880’s to the present, seen against the backdrop of Irish
history, particularly the political and military struggles against
British colonialism. From Yeats’ poetry to Joyce’s fiction, from U2’s
music to Jordan’s films, an examination of how “the troubles” in
Ireland have been reflected in high and popular culture, and how
culture has influenced various political movements.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 333G - PII Literature of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Perspectives II Global course) Study of the critical theory of the
literature, art, culture of these regions to identify common elements
of human experience and to develop a better understanding of ways in
which the thought and cultures of these regions compare to American and
European Literature. Readings span pre-historic to contemporary time
and touch culture of all continents.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Any PI course in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 334 - PII Selected Topics (Perspectives II course) This selected studies designation allows for
the teaching of courses with more specialized focus, themes and issues
that transcend genre and period classification. Course topics include
American Nature Writers, Utopian Literature, among others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 342 - PII Women in Literature (Perspectives II course) A study of some issues central to the literature by
and about women in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Literature
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 344 - PII African-American Literature I (Perspectives II course) A study of African-American literature from the antebellum
period to the Harlem Renaissance. Examination of the formal qualities of selected
texts (slave narratives, song lyrics, essays, speeches, sermons, poetry, fiction),
as well as the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created and
received.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Literature
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 345 - PII African-American Literature II (Perspectives II course) Focuses on African-American literature from the Harlem
Renaissance to contemporary times. Formal, historical, and cultural matters will
be emphasized. Writers may include Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin,
Angelou, and Morrison, among others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: any PI in Literature
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 346 - PII Latino/a Literature (Perspectives II course) Prose fiction, poetry, drama, and film by
authors of Latino cultural groups in the United States. Writers may
include Villareal, Anaya, Cisneros, Ortiz, Cofer, Alvarez, Acosta,
Fornes, Fernandez, Perez-Firmat, Garcia, Prida, Hijuelos, and Munoz,
among others.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: any PI course in Literature
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ENGL 347 - PII American Ethnic Experience Through Literature (Perspectives II course) Novels, short fiction, and poetry by
Native-American, African-American, Asian American, and Latino/a writers
in dialogue with Anglo-American culture.
Prerequisites & Notes any Perspectives I course in Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 380 - PII Philosophy through Literature (Perspectives II) An investigation of literary treatments of
philosophical themes with special attention to the relation between
‘form’ and ‘content’ in various approaches to philosophical problems.
Readings from poets, philosophers, novelists and essayists.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
and any PI in Literature
Cross-Listed as PHL 380
Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year
Credits: 3
ENGL 400 - Senior Literature Seminar A senior capstone course for all Literature majors, the Senior Seminar
will involve intensive literary study, research, and writing, with
different foci in different years, depending on faculty and student
interest.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ENGL 200 and at least 5 additional ENGL courses at the 200-level and above
Co-req: ENGL 499
Credits: 3
ENGL 401 - Chaucer A study of Chaucer’s major poems and of Middle English.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 402 - Medieval Literature Medieval literature exclusive of Chaucer.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 404 - Milton Major poems and selected prose.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 416 - Modern Poetry British and American poets of the 20th and 21st century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 417 - Experimental Literature Selected 20th and 21st century experimental literature examined for its
relationship to and departure from standard genre classifications. The
influence of aesthetic, cultural and literary historical forces in
shaping these experimental works is examined.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGL 433 - Literature Seminar: Selected Studies Topics for the senior seminar may include concentrated study of a major
figure in English, American or World Literatures; advanced studies in
literary genre or period; focused critical exploration of significant
themes, cultural and historical trends, or cross disciplinary relations
in literature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Special/Selected Topics - see current course schedule book
Credits: 3
ENGL 434 - Literature Seminar: Selected Studies Topics for the senior seminar may include concentrated study of a major
figure in English, American or World Literatures; advanced studies in
literary genre or period; focused critical exploration of significant
themes, cultural and historical trends, or cross disciplinary relations
in literature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Special/Selected Topics
Credits: 3
ENGL 435 - Seminar: Literary Theory and Criticism This seminar selectively explores the principles, theories and issues
of literary criticism from antiquity to the present. Course is by
invitation only.
Credits: 3
ENGL 484 - Literature Internship Supervised placement in an appropriate position with a publication, literary,
or arts organization.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FH
Credits: 3
ENGL 485 - Independent Study Open to qualified juniors and seniors. Area of study congenial to
student and instructor; minimum of eight meetings a semester. Papers,
discussion.
Credits: 3
ENGL 486 - Independent Study Open to qualified juniors and seniors. Area of study congenial to student and instructor; minimum of eight meetings a semester. Papers, discussion.
Credits: 3
ENGL 499 - English Literature Comprehensive Credits: 0
ENGW 101 - College Writing I The first of two courses in a first-year writing program
designed to help students develop and hone their written communication skills.
This course emphasizes writing as a recursive process and requires students to
negotiate rhetorical problems that allow practice for writing various audiences
and purposes. Such purpose-driven
writing instruction teaches students that they are entering varying discourse
communities (with varying expectations for style, tone, organization, development
and content) depending on what they are writing and for whom. This awareness, coupled with intense practice
at all stages of the writing process, prepares students to write productively and
appropriately in their concurrent and future courses. Furthermore, the skills developed in this
course will be expanded further next semester in ENGW 102, College Writing II.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ENGW 101L - College Writing Lab I Intensive writing workshop that is the complement to ENGW 101.
Focus will be on the student’s individual writing strengths and
weaknesses; opportunity for extensive writing and assessment on an
individual and small-group basis.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 0
ENGW 102 - College Writing II The second of two courses in a first-year writing program
designed to help college students develop and hone their written
communication
skills. This course carries forth the key methods and objectives of
ENGW 101, but now engages
students in scholarly application, focusing on argumentation techniques
(including recognition of such rhetorical strategies in professional
writing) and research protocol (incl. library holdings and database
navigation, as well as academic integrity in all of its
complexity). Students bring their newly learned (or
recently augmented) exposition skills into the arena of higher-level
college
discourse, learning to develop sophisticated, textually supported,
logical arguments free from fallacious and/or unsupported
claims.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ENGW 102L - College Writing Lab II Intensive writing workshop that is the complement to ENGW 102.
Focus will be on the student’s individual writing strengths and
weaknesses; opportunity for extensive writing and assessment on an
individual and small-group basis.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 0
ENGW 103 - Writing in Disciplines Writing in undergraduate academic contexts. Course introduces transfer
and re-entry students to the College as a knowledge-making institution.
Students practice analytical and persuasive writing in various
disciplines that address academic audiences. Emphasis on critical
reading, writing for learning, textual analysis, writing from research
and collaboration. Attention paid to invention, organization, logic and
style.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ENGW 101
Credits: 3
ENGW 251 - Rhetoric I Basic rhetorical theory; frequent writing assignments of a problem
solving nature; attention to appropriate elements of logic; emphasis on
pre-writing skills and invention strategies. Student/ faculty
conferences for each paper assigned.
Credits: 3
ENGW 252 - Rhetoric II Advanced study in rhetorical theory and practice; emphasis on study of
arrangement and style. Introductory work in computer graphics. Student/
faculty conferences for each paper assigned.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ENGW 251
Credits: 3
ENGW 270 - Journalism Provides students
with the fundamentals of print journalism with a focus on writing for print,
interviewing techniques, news gathering and reporting, writing under deadline
pressure, copy editing, and the command of Associate Press style.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereqs: ENGW 101, ENGW 251, or equivalent
Coreq: ENGW 270L
Credits: 3
ENGW 270L - Journalism Lab Labs are required
of all students who take ENGW 270 - Journalism. The
lab’s purpose is to provide students an opportunity to apply the skills and
knowledge learned in the Journalism courses in the actual production of Nazareth College’s newspaper and literary
magazine. Students will be involved in all dimensions of the production of
those publications: writing, editing, shooting photos, and selling advertising,
among other responsibilities. Emphasis in the lab will be on a student-centered
atmosphere that encourages student editorial development.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BQR
Coreqs: ENGW 270
Credits: 1
ENGW 271 - Advanced Journalism Builds on ENGW
270-Journalism I by having students demonstrate their ability to research and
write a major journalistic project. Projects may take the form of investigative
articles, a series of feature stories, or magazine articles or profiles.
Students will critique and analyze such forms of well-established journalists
and will workshop their own projects with their peers. The course will also
continue to stress cultural issues involved in the profession, methodologies
used in addressing these issues, and concerns such as objectivity, critical
thinking, ethics, and libel.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ENGW 270, or equivalent
Coreq: ENGW 271L
Credits: 3
ENGW 271L - Advanced Journalism Lab Labs are required
of all students who take ENGW 271 - Advanced Journalism. The
lab’s purpose is to provide students an opportunity to apply the skills and
knowledge learned in the Journalism courses in the actual production of Nazareth College’s newspaper and literary
magazine. Students will be involved in all dimensions of the production of
those publications: writing, editing, shooting photos, and selling advertising,
among other responsibilities. Emphasis in the lab will be on a student-centered
atmosphere that encourages student editorial development.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BQR
Coreq: ENGW 271
Credits: 1
ENGW 351 - Technical and Professional Writing Principles and practice of technical communication as applied to
reports, technical papers, oral presentations, business communication.
Extensive writing experience and computer applications.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABH
Coreq: ENGP 351L
Credits: 3
ENGW 351L - Technical and Professional Writing Computer Lab Required computer lab taken with ENGW 351. Teaches the computer and
information technology software integral to technical and professional
writing and information design. Includes MS Word, PageMaker, Photoshop,
Powerpoint, Pagemill.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABH
Coreq: ENGW 351
Credits: 0
ENGW 356 - Editing for Publication An intense study
of stylistic dimensions of written discourse, with particular focus on its
grammatical, mechanical, figurative, and graphic dimensions as they apply to
newspaper, magazine, and online forms of writing. Hands-on work on the
selection/editing of material, on the news evaluation and decision-making
process, on the re-writing process, and on copyediting making use of Associated
Press style and the latest editing technologies and softwares.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
ENGW 375 - Feature Writing Focuses on research and writing for the consumer/trade publications
market (magazine feature writing for a variety of trade, consumer, and literary
magazines). In addition, the skills behind editorial management, manuscript
review, printing and layout principles, and marketing will be covered in
relation to this particular genre of print media.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereqs: ENGW 251 and ENGW 252
Credits: 3
ENGW 376 - Creative Writing: Prose Fiction and non-fiction prose will be explored both by reading great
practitioners as well as engaging in personal, creative explorations of
the forms (short story, essay, memoir, and journalistic writing).
Workshop formats, portfolios, peer critiquing and public readings will
be some of the methods used in this course.
Credits: 3
ENGW 377 - Creative Writing: Playwriting After a brief introduction to structure, students in this class
actively engage in the writing process. Students will begin by writing
simple conversations, then progress to dialogue, incident and scene
structure; finally they will write a twenty to thirty minute one-act
play. Critical thinking is an integral part of the evaluative component
of the class. Students are expected to thoughtfully and carefully
respond to each other’s developing work. One text required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Cross-listed with THA 377
Credits: 3
ENGW 378 - Creative Writing: Poetry Forms of poetry will be explored by examining great practitioners as
well as engaging in personal, creative explorations of the forms.
Workshop formats, portfolios, peer critiquing and public readings will
be some methods used in this course.
Credits: 3
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Go to information for this department.
SPN 101 - Elementary Spanish I Beginning level work in the language. Practice in speaking, listening,
reading and writing. Emphasis on communicative proficiency.
Introduction to the basic vocabulary, expressions and structures of
Spanish and to the culture of Hispanic countries.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BCR
Consultation with department required
Credits: 3
SPN 102 - Elementary Spanish II Beginning level work in the language. Practice in speaking, listening,
reading and writing. Emphasis on communicative proficiency.
Introduction to the basic vocabulary, expressions and structures of
Spanish and to the culture of Hispanic countries.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BCR
Prereq: SPN 101
Credits: 3
SPN 103 - Intermediate Spanish I Intermediate level work in the language, adding more extensive practice
in the four basic language skills. A review of the grammar. Continued
emphasis on communicative proficiency. Expansion of the study of
Hispanic cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SPN 101 SPN 102 or department approval
Credits: 3
SPN 104 - Intermediate Spanish II Intermediate level work in the language, adding more extensive practice
in the four basic language skills. A review of the grammar. Continued
emphasis on communicative proficiency. Expansion of the study of
Hispanic cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BCR
Prereq: SPN 101 SPN 102 or department approval
Credits: 3
SPN 105 - Survival Spanish I Extensive conversation practice, with emphasis on “survival” situations that
tourists and other travelers normally encounter in Spanish speaking countries.
Focus is on communication of the message, rather than on grammatical perfection.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: SPN 104 or equivalent (usually four semesters)
Credits: 3
SPN 106 - Survival Spanish II Extensive conversation practice, with emphasis on “survival” situations that
tourists and other travelers normally encounter in Spanish speaking countries.
Focus is on communication of the message, rather than on grammatical perfection.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: SPN 104 or equivalent (usually four semesters)
Credits: 3
SPN 201 - Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition I Intensive practice in conversation and in writing, working from
intermediate toward advanced level of proficiency. Attention to
idiomatic expressions and a thorough review of the grammar. Short
literary and cultural readings.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: SPN 104
Credits: 3
SPN 202 - Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition II Intensive practice in conversation and in writing, working from
intermediate toward advanced level of proficiency. Attention to
idiomatic expressions and a thorough review of the grammar. Short
literary and cultural readings.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABCR
Prereq: SPN 201
Offered every Spring
Credits: 3
SPN 203G - Cultural Perspectives of Spain (Global course) An introductory study of Spain through its geography, history, art,
music and architecture. Includes a panoramic view of its literature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR Prereq: SPN 202
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Offered every Fall
Credits: 3
SPN 204G - Cultural Perspectives of Latin America (Global course) A study of geography, history, politics, current
events, the arts, literature, culture and way of life in Latin America.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: SPN 202
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Offered every Spring
Credits: 3
SPN 301 - PII Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Perspectives II Literature course) Survey beginning with “Poema de Mio
Cid.” Emphasis on representative texts: “El Conde Lucanor”, “Libro de
Buen Amor” and “La Celestina” through the 15th century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: Any PI in Literature
Offered every other Fall
Credits: 3
SPN 302 - Golden Age: Renaissance and Baroque Survey from the 15th century to the beginning of Neoclassicism.
Selected authors include Garcilaso, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon
and Tirso de Molina.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABCR
Offered every other Spring
Credits: 3
SPN 305 - PII 19th Century Cultural Codes: Conflicts and Evolution (Perspectives II Literature course) A study of trends of
pre-Romanticism and Romanticism through poetry, drama and the novel of
representative authors such as Moratin, Duque de Rivas, Zorrilla,
Becquer, Galdos, Juan Valera, and Pardo Bazan.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: Any PI in Literature
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Offered every other Fall
Credits: 3
SPN 306G - PII 19th Century Latin American Writing (Perspectives II Global course) Connections between literary productions and
the imagination of the modern states. Ambiguities/
contradictions/hybridity/splittings of the National Subject writers,
with special emphasis on historical and literary connections.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: Any PI in Literature
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Offered every other Spring
Credits: 3
SPN 307 - Commercial Spanish I An advanced language and area studies course, specializing in the
terminology of business, economic structures, import-export trade,
reports and business correspondence.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Offered every Fall
Credits: 3
SPN 308 - Commercial Spanish II An advanced language and area studies course, specializing in the
terminology of business, economic structures, import-export trade,
reports and business correspondence.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BCGR
Prereq: SPN 307
Offered every Spring
Credits: 3
SPN 312 - Advanced Grammar and Stylistics Advanced language and grammar course specializing in in-depth study of
grammatical structures, stylistics and translation with extensive
exercises in writing.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BCR
Credits: 3
SPN 401G - Senior Seminar: Latin American Contemporary Narrative (Global course) A study of contemporary Latin American literature with special emphasis on the novel.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABC
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Offered every Fall
Credits: 3
SPN 402 - 20th Century Spanish Poetry and Drama A study of contemporary trends in drama and poetry of the 20th century.
Includes the Generation of ‘27 and drama of Jacinto Benavente, Garcia
Lorca, Buero Vallejo.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABC
Offered every Spring
Credits: 3
SPN 457 - Curriculum Methodology Middle School And Senior High Methods, materials and techniques of modern language teaching
emphasizing current language objectives. Observation component required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FIM
50-hours of field participation required
Offered every Spring
Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
SPN 479 - Student Teaching Middle School and Senior High The field-based practicum in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FIJM
Prereq: SPN 457
Bloodborne Pathogen training required
Offered every Fall
Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
SPN 485 - Independent Study By invitation of the department. Special literary and linguistic problems under direction of a member of the language staff.
Credits: 3
SPN 486 - Independent Study By invitation of the department. Special literary and linguistic problems under direction of a member of the language staff.
Credits: 3
SPN 499 - Spanish Comprehensive Credits: 0
SWA 101 - Elementary Kiswahili I Practice in speaking, listening, reading and writing at the beginning
level work in the language. Emphasis on communicative proficiency.
Introduction to the basic vocabulary, expressions and structures of
Swahili and to the culture of African countries.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BCR
Consultation with dept. required
Credits: 3
SWA 102 - Elementary Kiswahili II Practice in speaking, listening, reading and writing at the beginning
level work in the language. Emphasis on communicative proficiency.
Introduction to the basic vocabulary, expressions, and structures of
Swahili and to the culture of African countries.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BCR
Prereq: SWA 101
Credits: 3
SWA 103 - Intermediate Kiswahili I Intermediate level work in the language, adding more extensive practice
in the four basic language skills. Continued emphasis on the grammar,
on communicative proficiency, and on the study of African cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BR
Prereq: SWA 102
Credits: 3
SWA 104 - Intermediate Kiswahili II Intermediate level work in the language, adding more extensive practice
in the four basic language skills. Continued emphasis on the grammar,
on communicative proficiency, and on the study of African cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BR
Prereq: SWA 103
Credits: 3
VAL 300 - Fall Valencia Study Abroad Program
VAL 301 - Spring Valencia Study Abroad Program
VAL 302 - Summer Valencia Study Abroad Program
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History and Political Science
Go to information for this department.
AMS 440 - American Studies Seminar Senior experience integrating the methods and materials of the major
which by definition is an interdisciplinary major. The topic of the
seminar varies from year to year depending on the interests and needs
of the students. Particular attention is given to social and cultural
aspects of the study.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFR
Credits: 3
AMS 499 - American Studies Comprehensive Majors select a specific theme or period in American Studiies e.g.
Gilded Age; Women in the Civil War; Reform Spirit in America. They
write a paper on the selected topic, incorporating ideas from the
various areas of study–comparing, contrasting, evaluating. Students
defend their paper in an oral presentation.
Credits: 0
GEO 101G - PI Intro to Geography (Perspectives I Global course) Introduction to how geographers look at
the world and the tools they use to analyze how people, material
resources, ethnic conflict, ideas and power are spatially distributed
on the earth’s surface.
Credits: 3
GEO 102G - PI Cultural Geography (Perspectives I Global course) A study of the cultural diversity throughout
the world through the examination of the methods, concepts, and
theories used in geography to explore such topics as socio-cultural
boundaries, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, and cultural
landscape.
Prerequisites & Notes Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 101 - PI Western Civilization I (Perspectives I course) The cultural, political and social highlights
of European civilization from Ancient Greece to the late Middle Ages.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 102 - PI Western Civilization II (Perspectives I course) The cultural, political and social highlights
of European civilization from the late Middle Ages through the Age of
Napoleon.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 103 - PI Western Civilization III (Perspectives I course) The highlights of European history from the age of Metternich
into the travails of the 20th century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 106G - PI Asian Civilization I (Perspectives I Global course)
A study of significant events and topics in Asian culture.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 107G - PI Asian Civilization II (Perspectives I Global Course) The cultural, social, and political highlights
of East Asian civilizations from the start of the seventeenth century
to the late twentieth century.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 205 - PI American Republic I: Exploration Through Reconstruction (Perspectives I course) A study of significant events and topics in United States
history to 1877.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 206 - PI American Republic II: Gilded Age to the Present (Perspectives I course) A study of significant events and topics in United States
history since 1877.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
HIS 210G - PII Traditional China and Japan (Perspectives II Global course) Course examines the history and culture of China and Japan from pre-history to the 17th century with an emphasis on the political, social and intellectual foundations of traditional East Asian cultures.
Credits: 3
HIS 212G - PII China and Japan (Perspectives II Global course) A comparative examination of the main
cultural and political influences that shape the values, social roles
and institution of these Asian societies.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: a PII course in History
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 301 - PII Ancient Greece (Perspectives II course) The social, political and cultural history of
Ancient Greece from Bronze Age Minoan Crete to Alexander the Great and
the Hellenistic era.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: any PI in History
Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
HIS 302 - PII Ancient Rome (Perspectives II course) The social, political and cultural history of
Roman civilization from Etruscan times to the end of the Western Roman
Empire. Perspectives I course in History.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 304 - History of Law An intensive study of the historical development of law and legal
studies in Western Europe, from Greco-Roman civilization to the early
modern era.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BR
Cross-listed with PSC 304
Credits: 3
HIS 305 - PII The American Presidency (Perspectives II course) The political and historical evolution of the
office of the president from Washington to the present. Attention given
to campaigns, elections, presidential leadership, politics of the Oval
Office and the development of the powers of the president.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History and Social Science
Cross-listed with PSC 305
Credits: 3
HIS 308 - PII United States Constitutional History (Perspectives II course) The American constitutional system as seen
through significant judicial decisions and administrative policies,
1789 to the present.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History and Social Science
Cross-listed with PSC 308
Credits: 3
HIS 309G - PII Conflict and Crisis in the Middle East (Perspectives II Global course) An introductory study of the region
including its historical, religious and political background
emphasizing various crises in the twentieth century.
Prerequisites & Notes a Perspectives I course in History
Credits: 3
HIS 310 - PII African American Experience (Perspectives II course) Examination of the major events, movements and
individuals included in the African American experience from the
seventeenth century through the Civil Rights Movement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 311G - PII Latin America (Perspectives II course) Explores Indian, Hispanic and African cultures
and the social and political patterns that emerge from the colonial
into the modern period.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 312G - PII Politics of Sub-Sahara Africa (Perspectives II Global course) An introduction to the complex problems which
consume this region using selected case studies. Areas of inquiry
include revolution, ethnic conflicts, hunger, and Africa’s role in
international politics.
Prerequisites & Notes a Perspectives I course in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 314G - PII Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 (Perspectives II Global course) Russian history through two centuries of Tsarism to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Prerequisites & Notes a Perspectives I course in History
Credits: 3
HIS 315G - PII Russia in the 20th Century (Perspectives II Global course) Domestic and external factors
contributing to the Bolshvik experiment, the consequences under Stalin,
and the post-World War II efforts at restructuring.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: a Perspectives I course in History
Credits: 3
HIS 316 - PII History of Science in America (Perspectives II Course) Study of Science and medicine in the United
States and its impact on American values, behavior and institutions.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: PI course in History.
Credits: 3
HIS 317 - PII Technology in American Society (Perspectives II course) A study of technological development in modern
America and its impact on American values, behavior and institutions.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 318 - PII Medieval Europe I (Perspectives II course) Cultural, political and religious history of
continental Europe and England from Late Antiquity (c. 300 A.D.) to the
Ottonian age (c. 1000 A.D.).
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 319 - PII Medieval Europe II (Perspectives II course) Cultural, political, and religious history of
continental Europe and England from the central Middle Ages (c. 1000)
to the end of the Hundred Years’ War (1453).
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 320 - PII American Women’s History (Perspectives II course) Historical experiences of American women from
the colonial era through the Cold War; female reformers; suffrage;
feminism; the relationship between women, work, family and gender roles.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 322 - PII Renaissance and Reformation Europe (Perspectives II course) The cultural, political and religious history of Western
Europe from the era of the Italian Renaissance to the Protestant Reformation and
Counter-Reformation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 323G - PII Native American I: Pre-Columbian America Through Removal (Perspectives II Global course) This course examines the history of Native
Americans from pre-Colombian times through Removal. We will discuss the
methods used by historians and anthropologists in studying the cultures
of North America, and learn about the civilizations that existed on the
continent before 1492. We will explore the contentious period of
European colonization and “conquest” and how Native Americans dealt
with the new challenges posed by the foundation and expansion of the
United States.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 324G - PII Native American II: Removal-Present (Perspectives II Global Course) This course examines the history of Native
Americans from the end of the Removal Era through the present. We will
discuss the methods used by historians and anthropologists in studying
cultures of North America. We will explore the issues of United States
expansionism and the Plains Wars, the early twentieth century (often
called the nadir of American Indian history), and the revitalization
that occurred throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We
will look at the changing legal status of Native Americans, their
migrations to urban areas, and the contemporary issues of Indian gaming
and other legal and economic concerns.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
HIS 328 - China in the Twentieth Century Explores China as it moves from the traditional Imperial culture through the modernization efforts of Mao, Deng and Jiang.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
HIS 329G - PII Imperial China (Perspectives II Global course) Explores the major social, cultural and
political developments in imperial China from 800 to 1800.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in History or Social Sciences.
Credits: 3
HIS 330G - PII Women and Family in East Asia (Perspectives II Global Course) This course examines the history
of women and the family in East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) from
early classical texts to the present. We will explore traditional
kinship relations, the place, space, and behavior of women in society
and culture, the evolution of gender roles and attitudes, and the
contributions of women to life in the home and in the public arena.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 342 - PII Civil War and Reconstruction (Perspectives II course) An examination of the causes, evolution and
aftermath of the Civil War with an emphasis on the major figures and
reform currents of the era.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 345 - New York State History This course will examine the history of New York State,
from the pre-Columbian era through the present. Special attention will be paid
to the religious, political, economic, and cultural history of the state. The
New York City/Upstate divide (or perceived divide) will also be explored.
Students will complete an independent research project of their own design.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 346 - PII American People in the 20th Century (Perspectives II course) Political, economic, cultural, social and
intellectual aspects of Modern America including the impact of war on
American society.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 381 - Historical Methodology Examination of the concepts, skills and methods by which historians research, analyze, and write about historical events and issues. Required for all History majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Coreq: HIS 381L
Credits: 3
HIS 381L - Historical Methodology Lab Lab to be used for periodic guest speakers and films. Required for all History majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Coreq: HIS 381
Credits: 0
HIS 401 - PII Modern Revolutions (Perspectives II course) Investigates various forms of internal
violence including such phenomena as rebellion, terrorism, and the
anatomy of revolution.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History and Social Science
Cross-listed with PSC 401
Credits: 3
HIS 402 - Europe and the World Since 1914 The impact of two world wars upon the politics and civilization of Western Europe.
Credits: 3
HIS 408 - PII The American Colonies (Perspectives II course) The founding and the political, cultural and social development of the original 13 colonies, 1607 to 1787.
Credits: 3
HIS 409 - The American Revolution, 1765-1789 The focus of this course will be the period of
the American Revolution, including its origins, the course of the war,
its aftermath, and the creation of the American republic.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 410 - PII American Ethnic History (Perspectives II course) The study in historical perspective of major ethnic
groups in American national life.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
HIS 411 - PII People, Issues and Ideas in America (Perspectives II course) American intellectual history focusing on a study of select people and movements from the colonial era to the 20th century.
Credits: 3
HIS 412 - PII United States Foreign Policy (Perspectives II course) American diplomacy from 1776 to recent times.
Credits: 3
HIS 421 - PII Tudor and Stuart England (Perspectives II course) England in the era of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs with an emphasis on the religious and constitutional crises of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Credits: 3
HIS 457 - Curriculum Methodology Middle School and Senior High Methods of teaching history and social studies in the secondary schools. 35-hour
observation component required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FM
Prereq: 50 hours of field participation required
Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
HIS 460 - Special Topics in Historical Study (Perspectives II course) Seminar which explores in-depth topics of
particular interest in historiography, significant intellectual, social
or political movements or biography. Students admitted with permission
of the instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes Advisor Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in History
Credits: 3
HIS 479 - Student Teaching Middle and Senior High Supervised field-based practicum in secondary social studies areas
which provides experiences in both a middle school and a senior high
school classroom.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: M
Prereq: Bloodborne Pathogen training required
Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
HIS 481 - History and Historians An exploration of the nature of history, the tasks of the historian and the development of historical writing from ancient to recent times. Senior requirement for all history majors.
Credits: 3
HIS 483 - History Internship Credits: 3
HIS 484 - History Internship Credits: 3
HIS 485 - Independent Study Advanced study in history through readings and tutorials arranged by the individual student with a faculty member in a field of their special interest.
Credits: 3
HIS 486 - Independent Study Advanced study in history through readings and tutorials arranged by the individual student with a faculty member in a field of their special interest.
Credits: 3
HIS 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 0
INS 201G - PII Introduction to International Studies (Perspectives II Global course) Introduces the field of international
studies in its various aspects. Course will demonstrate connections
among the various areas of study within the major. Special emphasis is
given to world geography.
Credits: 3
INS 400 - Junior-Senior Seminar Course in which students integrate the various courses in the major. The seminar
fulfills the Senior Experience requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes AFM
Credits: 3
PSC 201 - PI Introduction to Political Science (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the discipline of political
science: the development of Western political philosophy; the structure
of U.S. and European governments; and basic principles of international
relations.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
PSC 205 - Mock Trial Prepares students to participate in the intercollegiate mock trial competition, a simulated trial procedure in which students play the roles of prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys and witnesses. New York State Bar Association prepares the case on which the students work. Participation requires preparation of case materials and practice trial runs.
Credits: 1
PSC 301 - PII American Government and Politics (Perspectives II course) The foundations of American government, the principles and practices of federalism, the institutions of government, political behavior and public policy.
Credits: 3
PSC 302 - State and Local Government An overview of the function of state and local governments in the U.S.
federal system; the structure and powers of different local
governmental bodies, the problems and opportunities related to
inter-governmental relations, current trends in the consolidation, and
proliferation of state and local bodies. Special attention given to
workings of New York State and local government.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Social Science
Credits: 3
PSC 303 - PII Western Political Philosophy (Perspectives II course) Introduction to ideas of prominent political
philosophers of western civilization. Readings from Plato, Aristotle,
Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and others.
(Cross-listed as Phl 303)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Social Science and Philosophy
Cross-listed with PHL 303
Credits: 3
PSC 304 - History of Law An intensive study of the historical development of law and legal
studies in Western Europe, from Greco-Roman civilization to the early
modern era.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: BR
Cross-listed with HIS 304
Credits: 3
PSC 305 - PII The American Presidency (Perspectives II course) The political and historical evolution of the
office of the president from Washington to the present. Attention given
to campaigns, elections, presidential leadership and politics of the
Oval Office and the development of the powers of the president.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History and Social Science
Cross-listed with HIS 305
Credits: 3
PSC 308 - PII United States Constitutional History (Perspectives II course) The American constitutional system as seen through significant
judicial decisions and administrative policies, 1789 to the present.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History & Social Science
Cross-listed with HIS 308
Credits: 3
PSC 309G - PII Conflict and Crisis in the Middle East (Perspectives II Global course) An introductory study of the region
including its historical, religious and political background
emphasizing various crises in the twentieth century.
Prerequisites & Notes Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
PSC 310G - PII Politics in the Developing World (Perspectives II Global course) A study of selected nations of the
“Third World,” taking into consideration the major theories which
dominate the literature, the vestiges of colonialism, current political
and economic conditions, and the “North-South” conflict.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ANT 101, ECO 101, PSC 201
Credits: 3
PSC 312G - PII Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (Perspectives II Global course) An introduction to the complex problems
which consume this region using selected case studies. Areas of inquiry
include revolution, ethnic conflicts, hunger, and Africa’s role in
international politics.
Prerequisites & Notes Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
PSC 313G - PII Comparative Politics of Europe and Japan (Perspectives II Global course) An in-depth study of the governmental
structures and domestic politics of the major Western European
democracies and Japan.
Credits: 3
PSC 314G - PII International Relations (Perspectives II Global course) A study of the struggle for power among
nations with emphasis on issues of sovereignty, international law and
human rights using selected case studies.
Credits: 3
PSC 315G - PII Russia in the 20th Century (Perspectives II Global course) Domestic and external factors
contributing to the Bolshevik experiment, the consequences under
Stalin, and the post-World War II efforts at restructuring.
Credits: 3
PSC 340 - Campaigns, Voting and Elections Electoral politics in the United States are examined in a study of national, state and local elections. Topics will include a study of historical and contemporary political campaigns, theories and patterns of voting, the expansion of sufferage, electoral reform, media coverage and opinion polling, and the interpretation of electoral outcomes.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSC 201
Credits: 3
PSC 352 - Political Methodology A study and an exercise in the methods of knowledge and analysis appropriate
to Political Science as an empirical discipline.
Prerequisites & Notes PSC 201, SOC 101
Credits: 3
PSC 401 - PII Modern Revolutions (Perspectives II course) Investigates various forms of internal
violence including such penomena as rebellion, terrorism, and the
anatomy of revolution.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History and Social Science
Cross-listed with HIS 401
Credits: 3
PSC 412 - PII United States Foreign Policy (Perspective II course) American diplomacy from 1176 to recent times.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in History and Social Sciences
Cross-listed with HIS 412
Credits: 3
PSC 418 - Public Administration Introduction to decision-making and implementation of policy in the public sector.
The “what” and “how” of government.
Prerequisites & Notes PSC 201 or 301
Credits: 3
PSC 419 - PII Public Policy (Perspectives II course) An examination of the development of public
policy in the American democratic political system and the role of
values in that policy formulation. Selected concrete policy issues will
be analyzed.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Social Science
Credits: 3
PSC 440 - Junior-Senior Seminar Capstone course in which students synthesize their study within the
major, study selected topics and undertake a major research project.
Credits: 3
PSC 460 - Special Topics in Political Science Seminar will explore topics of interest in Political Science.
Credits: 3
PSC 483 - Law Internship Supervised placement in an appropriate legal agency for qualified
upperclassmen to provide job experience in the law field. Departmental
approval and a GPA of 3.2 are required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CF
Prereq: Department approval and GPA 3.2 or higher
Credits: 3
PSC 484 - Political Science Internship A supervised placement in a political setting providing on-the-job
experience appropriate to the student’s knowledge, skills and interest.
Besides local placements, students who qualify have an opportunity
to spend a semester in Albany serving as session assistants in the New
York State Senate or Assembly or to intern at a selected site in
Washington, D.C. through the Institute for Experiential Learning.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CF
Prereq: Department approval and GPA 3.2 or higher
Credits: 3
PSC 485 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of interest and concern to the students of Political Science. Open to Political Science majors with consent of instructor.
Credits: 3
PSC 486 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of interest and concern to the students of Political Science. Open to Political Science majors with consent of instructor.
Credits: 3
PSC 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 0
Honors Program
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HON 301 - Mayan Cosmogonies in the New Millennium Study of Mayan cultures and literatures from pre-Hispanic to contemporary time. Course concentrates on the acknowledgement and analysis of Mayan literacy, architecture, oral history, texts, and rituals of a people whose civilization was at its peak centuries before the Spaniards arrived on the American Continent.
Credits: 3
HON 313 - Concept of Justice in Islamic Philosophy And Political Theory Course examines the concept of justice in the writings of some of the major figures in the history of Islamic philosophy. It begins with a study of Islam and a general survey of the history of Islamic lands of the Middle East. Includes study of primary texts of philosophers or theorists whose works represent major turning points in the development of Islamic thought.
Credits: 3
HON 314 - Jerusalem: City At the Center For 3000 years, the city of Jerusalem-both real and imagined-has occupied a central position in the formation of Western civilization. In exploring its extensive history and archeology, its varied religious traditions, its complex politics and social thought and its unique art and literature, one begins to discover why Jerusalem can be seen both as a microcosm and metaphor in the contemporary world.
Credits: 3
HON 315 - Fannish Critics and Critical Fans: Interpreting and Evaluating Culture From Byron to the Beatles, from Pre-Raphaelite painting to Star Trek, the cultural, psychological, sociological and philosophical questions at stake in making the decision between the “critic” and the “fan.” Study of series of works of music, art, literature, film, and television to show the enthusiastic and enduring popular response.
Credits: 3
HON 316 - Understanding Violence Seminar is a multi-disciplinary approach to the issue of violence in our contemporary world. Students will explore a variety of theories on the origins of violence, as well as identify the manifest symptoms, behaviors, and consequences of violence. The connection between ideas on violence and their application to specific concerns within the community will be a continuing priority in the course.
Credits: 3
HON 317 - Constructing an Ethnic-American Identity: Cuban-American Experience Course will deal with the Cuban-American experience in the United
States exploring in-depth the consequences of cultural relocation and
the struggles as well as the achievements that accompany the
assimilation and acculturation process in America. Literature, film and
documentary are the various cultural products to be examined, focusing
on the culture of Latino people through one of the most successful
immigrant populations in the United States.
Prerequisites & Notes Advisor Code: R
Open to students in the Honors Program only
Credits: 3
HON 485 - Honors Thesis An independent study project involving the researching and writing of an Honors thesis on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with Honors Program Director and faculty. Taken in either semester of the student’s senior year.
Prerequisites & Notes Permission of the Program Director
Credits: 3
Mathematics
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MTH 102 - PI Thinking Mathematically (Perspectives I course) A problem-solving course for non-majors designed to improve
students’ application of mathematical concepts in their everyday experience. These
concepts will be developed through inductive/deductive reasoning, and topics such
as patterns, sequences, geometry, topology, and fractals. Students work in groups, both inside and outside of class.
Must also enroll in
Mth 102L if Mathematics SAT is less than 400 and ACT score is below 18.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: Math SAT score of at least 400 or ACT score of at least 18.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 102L - Thinking Mathematically Lab This mathematics laboratory which complements MTH 102 is designed to
focus on the mathematical strengths and weaknesses of students while
its content parallels that of MTH 102. Students will study in small
groups and receive individual assistance from the instructor. Students
with neither an SAT score above 400 nor an ACT score above 18 must
register for this lab and a section of MTH 102 in the Fall of their
Freshman year. This course is open to all students who are concerned
about their mathematical preparation for MTH 102.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Math SAT score less than 400 and ACT less than 18.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 0
MTH 109 - PI The Mathematical Experience (Perspectives I course) What is mathematics, what do mathematicians do,
and why do people do mathematics? What is the role of mathematics in the development of our modern society? These fundamental questions are
addressed in this course to reveal the history, nature, goals, and
accomplishments of mathematics. The relationship of mathematics with other disciplines and human endeavors is explored as well. The course is especially suited to
those with inquiring minds, regardless of their previous mathematical
experience.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv. Codes NR
Prereq: SAT score of at least 400 or ACT score of at least 18.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 111 - PI Applied Calculus (Perspectives I course) This course will address many of the basic concepts from
single variable calculus. An intuitive approach will be used that will allow the
student to explore and investigate these concepts. The emphasis in this course
will be on applications of the calculus, particularly the applications of differential
calculus with some time spent on the integral calculus. (Not preparation for Mth
114).
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: 3 years high school preparation for Precalculus with a C grade or better.
A TI-83 or TI-84+ calculator is required. Rentals available ($25/semester).
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 112 - PI Precalculus (Perspectives I course) Topics include analytic geometry,
trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic, polynomial and rational
functions and relations.
Intended for students preparing to take Calculus I.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: 3 years of HS preparation for Precalculus with a C grade or better
TI-83 or TI-84+ calculator required, rentals available ($25/semester).
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
MTH 113 - PI Calculus I (Perspectives I course) Topics include functions, limits, the derivative
and applications, the integral and applications, and fundamental
theorems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: Precalculus or equivalent with a C grade or better.
TI-84+ calculator is required, other calculators may be used with permission of
instructor.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 4
MTH 114 - PII Calculus II (Perspectives II course) A math and science majors course covering techniques of integration, applications of
integration, infinite sequences
and series, and Taylor series.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: MTH 113 with a C grade or better.
TI-84+ calculator recommended. (Other calculators may be used with permission of instructor).
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 4
MTH 201 - Introduction to Mathematical Structures (Writing Intensive) An introduction to advanced mathematical language, literature,
logic, composition, theorem proving, and problem-solving. Prerequisite for many
upper division mathematics courses.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: MTH 114 with a C grade or better, or permission of instructor.
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
MTH 205 - PII Mathematical Connections (Perspectives II course) This course emphasizes the connections between
contemporary mathematics and modern society by developing students’ quantitative reasoning and logical thinking skills. A variety of applications from areas such as operations research, game theory, social choice, and fair division are used to illustrate the power of mathematics.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: any PI in Mathematics
Credits: 3
MTH 207 - PII Elementary Statistics (Perspectives II course) This is a course for non-mathematics majors. The course emphasizes basic understanding of statistical concepts. Students learn how to organize and analyze data, design samples, compute and analyze correlation and regression lines, compute and analyze confidence intervals and perform hypothesis tests. Emphasis is placed on the analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Prereq: any PI in Mathematics
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 213 - PII Calculus III (Perspectives II course) This course is a detailed study of the calculus of functions of several variables, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, optimization, vector calculus, and their applications.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: MTH 114 with a C grade or better
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 4
MTH 215 - PII Exploring Mathematics (Perspectives II course) In this course, students reflect on human
mathematical development and link that knowledge to the developmental
level of a learner. The student will investigate such human factors as
memory, knowing, language, logic and aptitude as they relate to
learning mathematics. Specifically the mathematical topics covered
include logical classification, numeration systems, Euclidean geometry,
topology and measurement. Not open to freshmen.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: EDU 204 or take concurrently and any PI in Mathematics
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall/Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 302 - Differential Equations This course provides a mathematically rigorous introduction to the theory, techniques and applications of ordinary differential equations. Solutions of first and second order differential equations are presented, as well as solutions to systems of equations and series solutions. The course examines a variety of applications in the physical, biological and social sciences.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 213 with a C grade or better
Credits: 3
MTH 304 - Probability and Statistics A calculus based course covering standard topics in probability and statistics.
The topics in probability include: discrete and continuous probability density
functions, independence and dependence, combinatorics, random variables, distribution
and density functions, and expectation. The topics in statistics include: sampling, distributions and data analysis, estimation, inference, regression, correlation,
and analysis of variance.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better or permission of instructor
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
MTH 309G - History of Mathematics (Global Course) This course uses writing, original sources, and
discussion to discuss the development of elementary and advanced
mathematics in a variety of cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better, or permission of the instructor
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
MTH 312 - Linear Algebra This course covers Vector spaces, systems of linear equations (both real and abstract) linear
transformations and matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better or permission of instructor
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 314 - Introduction to Probability Topics in this course include counting techniques, axiomatic probability theory; discrete and continuous sample spaces; random variables, distribution functions, probability density and mass functions; expectation; moment-generating functions; normal, binomial, and Poisson distributions; and covers joint and continuous distributions.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better
Credits: 3
MTH 320 - Numerical Analysis Topics include error analysis, Taylor polynomials, interpolation, approximation of functions, numerical integration and
differentiation, solutions of systems of linear equations, numerical
solutions of differential equations, and other topics as time permits. Intensive use of computer software is an integral part of this class.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better
Credits: 3
MTH 390 - Special Topics in Mathematics Choice of topics reflects the special interest of students and
instructors. Examples are chaos and fractals, topology, complex
variables, game theory. May involve undergraduate research.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
MTH 399 - Seminar in Problem Solving Students will be actively involved in investigating collections of non-routine
problems from a variety of sources.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AR
Prereq: Linear Algebra and Junior status or permission of instructor
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
MTH 413 - Real Analysis This course provides a mathematically rigorous introduction to the
analysis of real-valued functions of one variable. Real Analysis is an
in-depth study of the real numbers as complete, ordered field. Topics
include, but are not limited to, continuity and compactness, the
intermediate value and extreme value theorems, Bolzano/Weierstrass,
Heine/Borel theorems; monotone convergence, convergence and uniform
convergence of sequences of continuous functions, differentiation and
the mean value theorem.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 and MTH 213 both a with C grade or better
Normal Offering Cycle: Alternate Springs
Credits: 3
MTH 414 - Modern Algebra Algebraic structures, groups, rings, integral domains, fields, polynomial rings.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better
Normal Offering Cycle: Alternate Springs
Credits: 3
MTH 415 - Number Theory Number theory is a study of the properties of the integers. Topics include divisibility,
factorization, numerical functions, algebra of congruence classes, Diophantine equations, primitave roots, and quadratic reciprocity.
Applications in cryptography, primality testing, and zeta functions as time allows.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201W with a C grade or better
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 417 - Foundations of Geometry A study of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. Focus is on the
axiomatic method and the significance of the discovery of non-Euclidean
geometry. Students investigate various aspects and applications of
geometry and related mathematical topics through projects.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 425 - Mathematical Modeling A study of the relationship between mathematics and other disciplines.
Mathematical models for interesting and significant problems in these
disciplines are constructed, analyzed and interpreted. Intensive use of computers and technology is an integral part of the class.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: R
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better
Credits: 3
MTH 457 - Curriculum Methodology: Inclusive Middle School and Senior High Special methods and techniques for teaching middle school and senior
high mathematics, with emphasis on new methods and materials.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: M
Prereq: MTH 201 with a C grade or better
Field work required
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
MTH 479 - Student Teaching Middle School and Senior High The field-based practicum in Mathematics in middle school and senior high.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 6
MTH 485 - Independent Study Advanced study in mathematics through readings and tutorials in an area
of mutual interest arranged by individual student with a faculty member.
Credits: 3
MTH 486 - Independent Study Advanced study in mathematics through readings and tutorials in an area of mutual interest arranged by individual student with a faculty member.
Credits: 3
MTH 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 0
Multicultural Studies Program
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Music
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ENS 080 - Concert Band A campus-wide instrumental group which welcomes qualified Nazareth students from
all disciplines. Audition required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0.5
ENS 081 - Concert Choir A campus-wide vocal ensemble for both men and women, with concerts each semester.
Audition required.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0.5
ENS 082 - Orchestra A full orchestra open to all qualified Nazareth students upon successful completion
of audition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0.5
ENS 083 - Chamber Players: Strings A select instrumental group, open campus-wide to qualified students. Audition
required.
Credits: 0
ENS 084 - Chamber Choir A select vocal group, open campus-wide to qualified students. Audition required.
Credits: 0.5
ENS 085 - Chamber Players: Guitar Gives classical guitar students an opportunity to play ensemble music for guitar
duet, trio and quartet, as well as music for guitar with other instruments.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 086 - Opera Workshop Concepts of opera as an art form through actual production scenes from operas
of various periods in history.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 087 - Jazz Ensemble A select large instrumental ensemble, open to all qualified
students.
Improvisation skills required for rhythm section instruments,
encouraged but not required for other instruments.
Credits: 0
ENS 088 - Jazz Combo A select small instrumental ensemble open to a limited number
of qualified students.
Improvisation skills required.
Credits: 0
ENS 089 - Chamber Players: Percussion Open to qualified students upon audition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 090 - Chamber Players: Clarinet/Saxophone Performing group open to all clarinetists and saxophonists by audition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 091 - Chamber Players: Piano Ensemble experience for pianists, Features study in piano duos, trios
and quartets, vocal accompanying, chamber music. Required for
piano primaries; open to other qualified students upon audition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 092 - Chamber Players: Brass Open to qualified students upon audition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 093 - Chamber Players: Flute Open to qualified students upon audition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGO
Credits: 0
ENS 094 - Lab Ensemble A co-requisite with Conducting I (MUS 371) and Conducting II (MUS 372),
this course provides conducting opportunities for choral and
instrumental conducting students.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Coreq: MUS 372
Credits: 0
ENS 095 - Vocal Jazz Ensemble A highly select ensemble vocal group, open campus wide to qualified students.
Audition required.
Credits: 0
MED 101 - Orientation to Music Education Discussion and experiences in basic concepts of music education
including the who, what, and how of teaching music. Group visits to
music classrooms included and part of the semester’s experiences
Credits: 0
MED 102 - Introduction to Music Education An exploration of various aspects of the music teaching profession with
an emphasis placed on practical approaches to teaching both in the
classroom and rehearsal settings. Topics include becoming a music
teacher, developing tools for teaching, implementing the National
Standards as well as overviews of early childhood music education,
diverse learners and developing a philosophy of music education.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Prereq: MED 101
Credits: 1.5
MED 103 - Percussion Techniques I Introduction to the techniques, teaching methods, maintenance and nomenclature of the standard percussion instruments.
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required.
Credits: 1
MED 104 - Percussion Techniques II Emphasis on techniques and teaching methods of the melodic percussion.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Prereq: MED 103
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MED 105 - Brass Techniques I Basic instruction and pedagogy for trumpet.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MED 106 - Brass Techniques II Basic instruction and pedagogy for F horn, Trombone, Euphonium, and
Tuba. Required for instrumental emphasis music education majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: MED 105 or approval of instructor
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MED 203 - Woodwind Techniques I Basic instruction and pedagogy for clarinet and saxophone.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MED 204 - Woodwind Techniques II Basic instruction and pedagogy for flute, oboe & bassoon. Required for instrumental emphasis music education majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Prereq: MED 203 or approval of instructor
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MED 205 - String Techniques I Basic instruction and pedagogy for violin.
Credits: 1
MED 206 - String Techniques II Basic instruction and pedagogy for viola, cello & bass. Required for instrumental emphasis music education majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Prereq: MED 203 or approval of instructor
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MED 299 - Orientation to the Professional Semester Preparation of a professional portfolio for student teaching including
completion of the student teaching application and resume.
Credits: 0
MED 301 - Secondary Music Education Methods Teaching music at the middle school and high school levels. Topics
include the following: administrative and professional roles of the
music educator; curriculum surveys; assessment; public relations and
communication processes between school, home and community; using
technology for research, organizational skills and teaching; and
methods for teaching literacy skills for the adolescent. A 25-hour
field placement in a secondary school music program is required and
provides opportunity for guided observation, teaching and feedback.
Students also study guitar one day per week.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: MED 102
Requires 25 hours of observation during the public school day.
Credits: 3
MED 302 - Elementary Music Education Methods Teaching classroom music at the primary and intermediate levels based
on the national and state standards for music education. Includes
attention to literacy skills for children; formal and informal methods
of assessing student learning and teaching practices; and the rights
and responsibilities of the music educator. A 25-hour field placement
in an elementary school music program is required and provides
opportunities for guided observation, teaching and feedback.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFJ
Prereq: MED 301
Requires 25 hours of observation during the
public school day.
Credits: 3
MED 401 - Special Education Methods A survey of music education and music therapy materials, methods and
techniques to facilitate successful inclusion of special learners in
the music classroom, lessons and ensembles. Taken concurrently with MED
403 and MED 465.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: MED 301, 302
Credits: 1
MED 403 - Seminar in School Music A senior seminar in the interaction of theory and practice in public
school music today. Ethical issues, professional development and the
applications of music computer software are included. Taken
concurrently with MED 401 and MED 465.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: MED 301, 302
Credits: 4
MED 408 - Psychological Foundations of Education A study and application of the basic principles of teaching and learning through
course work and a 20-hour field experience. The emphasis is on understanding what
successful inclusive learning environments are for all learners in music classrooms.
Topics include child and adolescent development; including language development;
learning theories; motivation; classroom management; learner differences and exceptionalities;
and assessment.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: HJR
Open to Music Education majors only.
20 hours of fieldwork required in Greater
Rochester Area schools during daytime instruction
in PreK-12 classrooms. Placements made by Instructor. Students provide own transportation.
Credits: 3
MED 465 - Student Teaching Two student teaching placements in vocal/general/ instrumental music;
one at the elementary level and one at the secondary level. Taken with
MED 401 and MED 403. Required for music certification at Nazareth
College.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: MED 301, MED 302
Credits: 6
MTR 102 - Introduction to Music Therapy An orientation to the historical background and philosophical bases of
music therapy and functions of the music therapist as a health-field
professional. Prerequisite for major and for all other music therapy
courses.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Credits: 1
MTR 201 - Principles of Music Therapy Development of the accountability procedures needed in music therapy, including assessment, treatment and evaluation. The course will focus on writing appropriate music therapy goals and objectives, measuring client progress.
Credits: 3
MTR 202 - Methods and Materials in Music Therapy Course will provide skills in developing therapeutic, goal-oriented
music experiences, and will increase skills with certain social
instruments.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 3
MTR 302 - Psychology of Music Science of psychology related to the fundamentals of the music
experience. The musical mind, sensory capacities, individual
differences and the psychology of listening are pursued through the
empirical literature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 3
MTR 331 - Pre-Clinic I Field work in which experience is gained in facilitating music therapy sessions with music therapists in local clinical facilities. Weekly seminars with registered music therapy faculty. Two hours direct clinical service, one-hour seminar weekly.
Credits: 1
MTR 332 - PreClinic II Field work in which experience is gained in facilitating music therapy
sessions with music therapists in local clinical facilities. Weekly
seminars with registered music therapy faculty. Two hours direct
clinical service, one hour seminar weekly.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Additional course fee required.
Credits: 1
MTR 401 - Influence of Music on Behavior A study of environmental, cultural, sociological, and musical influences on behavior; an overview of music techniques that therapeutically influence human behavior; an introduction to reading and critiquing empirical studies in music.
Credits: 3
MTR 402 - Music in Therapy Survey of the literature in music therapy and of psychological theories
and their relationship to applied music therapy; an introduction to
group processes and a look at the specific functions of the music
therapist.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 3
MTR 403 - Research in Music Therapy This course will focus on research methods useful in everyday clinic work.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 2
MTR 431 - Pre-Clinic III Field work in which experience is gained in facilitating music therapy sessions with music therapists in local clinical facilities. Weekly seminars with registered music therapy faculty. Two hours direct clinical service, one-hour seminar weekly.
Credits: 1
MTR 432 - Pre-Clinic IV Field work in which experience is gained in facilitating music therapy sessions with music therapists in local clinical facilities. Weekly seminars with registered music therapy faculty. Two hours direct clinical service, one hour seminar weekly.
Credits: 1
MTR 483 - Music Therapy Internship Six-month, 1040-hour internship at an AMTA approved clinical training
center. Application is made upon departmental approval. Internship must
be completed within two years after graduation to become eligible to
take the national certification examination.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Required course work must be completed before entering the internship.
Credits: 0
MUG 096 - Vocal Studio Weekly repertoire class for vocal primary students.
Prerequisites & Notes Required for music majors with voice as their primary instrument.
Credits: 0
MUG 097 - The Feldenkrais Method for Performers This course serves as an introduction to the Feldenkrais Method,
a self discovery process using movement. It’s aim is to produce an
individual organized to perform with maximum effort and maximum
efficiency. Students are taught through group “Awareness Through
Movement” (ATM).
Credits: 1
MUG 098 - Piano Studio Weekly memorized performances for peers and faculty; the development of
memorization skills, strategies for performance security, repertoire.
Prerequisites & Notes Required for music majors with piano as their primary instrument.
Credits: 0
MUG 131 - Piano Class I Piano as a secondary concentration for music majors, emphasizing
sight-reading and harmonization of folk and jazz melodies; pieces from
Baroque to contemporary; technical studies coordinated with the
fundamentals of theory and musical form.
Credits: 1
MUG 132 - Piano Class II Piano as a secondary concentration for music majors, emphasizing
sight-singing and harmonization of folk and jazz melodies; pieces from
Baroque to contemporary; technical studies coordinated with the
fundamentals of theory and musical form.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFS
Additional course fee required.
Credits: 1
MUG 141 - Voice Class I Voice as secondary concentration for music majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFS
Credits: 1
MUG 142 - Voice Class II Voice as secondary concentration for music majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFS
Additional course fee required.
Credits: 1
MUG 206 - Beginning Piano Class for Non-Majors Piano for non-majors with or without previous experience. Includes
technique, harmonization, sight-reading and repertoire study. (Offered
Fall, Spring)
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required.
Credits: 1
MUG 207 - Beginning Class Piano II for Non-Majors Continuation of MUG 206. Includes technique, theory, harmonization,
sight-reading, improvisation and repertoire study. Ability to
sight-read music in both treble and bass clefs is required. This course
may be repeated for credit. (Offered Fall, Spring)
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUG 208 - Voice Class for Non-Majors Designed for the non-music major. The art of singing is experienced by
the individual student at his/her own level, through the use of
appropriate solo and ensemble literature. This course may be repeated.
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUG 231 - Piano Class III Piano as a secondary concentration for music majors, emphasizing
sight-reading and harmonization of folk and jazz melodies; pieces from
Baroque to contemporary; technical studies coordinated with the
fundamentals of theory and musical form.
Prerequisites & Notes Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUG 232 - Piano Class IV Piano as a secondary concentration for music majors, emphasizing
sight-reading and harmonization of folk and jazz melodies; pieces from
Baroque to contemporary; technical studies coordinated with the
fundamentals of theory and musical form.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFS
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUG 281 - Guitar Techniques I Designed to enable students to accompany themselves and to lead others
in the singing of simple folk and popular songs, progressing from
simple strumming and finger picking to more advanced accompaniment
patterns, transposition and the use of the capo.
Credits: 1
MUG 282 - Guitar Techniques II Designed to enable students to accompany themselves and to lead others
in the singing of simple folk and popular songs, progressing from
simple strumming and finger picking to more advanced accompaniment
patterns, transposition and the use of the capo.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FS
Prereq: MUG 281
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUG 331 - Functional Piano I Concentration on fundamental keyboard skills necessary for improvisation and
realizing lead sheets.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FH
Prereq: MUG 232 or equivalent. Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUG 332 - Functional Piano II Group piano techniques and apprenticeship in class piano.
Credits: 1
MUG 333 - Keyboard Score-Reading Instruction in the basic skills of reading vocal and orchestral scores at the
keyboard; work with various clefs and transpositions; reduction of open-score
layouts to keyboard style.
Prerequisites & Notes MUG 232 or equivalent
Credits: 1
MUP 2A - Performance Secondary Voice Credits: 1
MUS 019 - Concert Attendance Required of all music majors registered for 10 credit hours or more.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AF
Credits: 0
MUS 099 - Freshman Orientation Credits: 0
MUS 101 - PI The Way of Music (Perspectives I course) An introduction to the way in which music is
made, both physically and aesthetically; a study of the role of music
in human history, with special emphasis on Western civilization.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NR
Credits: 3
MUS 102 - PII The Language of Music (Perspectives II course) Course explores the various parameters of music syntax and the
theoretical foundations of music. Developing a fluency in the language
of music, the student will learn the interrelationship of music tones
in the theoretical side of the art and science of sound. Course is
designed for non-music majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
MUS 103 - Advanced Fundamentals of Music This course further develops the material of Mus 102. Includes an introduction to the structural organization of music and music analysis. Includes sight-singing and ear-training.
Credits: 3
MUS 104G - PI Introduction to World Music (Perspectives I course) In this course, the musics of various
non-Western cultures will be explored, with an emphasis on the
technical, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of those repertoires.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: N
Credits: 3
MUS 121 - Rudiments for Majors The elements of music, notation of pitch and rhythm, medodic and
rhythmic comprehension and perception. The structural
organization of music. Designed for the music major who needs
pre-work in music theory. Intensive work in the stages of
sight-singing and ear training. Does not count toward completion of the
requirement for the music degree.(Fall term only)
Credits: 1.5
MUS 122 - Rudiments of Sight-Singing and Ear Training Continuation of developmental work in the elements of music, notation
of pitch and rhythm, medodic and rhythmic comprehension and
perception. The structural organization of music. Designed
for the music major who needs pre-work in music theory.
Continuation of intensive work in the stages of sight-singing and ear
training. Does not count toward completion of the requirement for the
music degree.(Spring term only)
Credits: 1
MUS 123 - Music Theory I Courses devoted to the study of the materials and structure of music; nomenclature for intervals, chords, progressions, basic forms; fundamentals of part writing and harmonic analysis.
Credits: 3
MUS 124 - Music Theory II Courses devoted to the study of the materials and structure of music;
nomenclature for intervals, chords, progressions, basic forms;
fundamentals of part-writing and harmonic analysis.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACG
Credits: 3
MUS 125 - Sight Singing/Ear Training I Weekly laboratory experience in sight-singing and ear training.
Credits: 1
MUS 126 - Sight-Singing/Ear Training II Weekly laboratory experience in sight-singing and ear training.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACG
Credits: 1
MUS 203 - PII Jazz: an American Art Form (Perspectives II course) An introduction to jazz music and to the history of the American social environment in which it grew, from 1890 to the present; the characteristics, history, styles and key personalities in jazz along with a look at the role of jazz in society. No background in music is required. Some music rudiments are studied at the outset of the course.
Prerequisites & Notes any Perspective I course in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
MUS 204 - PII America’s Music (Perspectives II course) This course will explore the rich variety of music which has accompanied the founding and subsequent development of America. Divided into three sections, the course covers the gamut from the music used by the early Puritans through the works of Copland and Gershwin and other composers of the last half-century.
Prerequisites & Notes any Perspective I course in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
MUS 205 - PII Women in Music (Perspectives II course) A historically-based discussion of female
composers, performers, and patrons from the Middle Ages to the present
day. A wide variety of styles, genres, and cultural themes will
be discussed, including the impact of Women’s Studies on
music-making and music history.Coursework will consist of class
discussion, listening and repertoire identification, class
presentations, and one research paper.
Prerequisites & Notes any Perspectives I course in Fine Arts
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
MUS 211 - History and Literature of Music I An introduction to the methods and materials of historical study, as
well as a survey of the repertoire, styles, genres, performance
practices, and cultural contexts of Western art music from the Middle
Ages to c. 1750. Coursework will consist of class discussion,
listening, small research projects and assignments, and one term paper
on a topic of the student’s choice (with approval of the instructor).
Much emphasis will be placed on written communication skills.
Credits: 3
MUS 212 - History and Literature of Music II A survey of the repertoire, styles, genres, performance practices, and
cultural contexts of music from 1750 to the mid-20th century. Coursework will consist of class discussion, listening, small research
projects and assignments, and one term paper on a topic of the
student’s choice (with approval of the instructor). Writing intensive
credit in the major area.
Credits: 3
MUS 213 - Introduction to Music Bibliography This course will provide a hands-on experience with the standard major reference works in musicology and with the major scholarly journals.
Credits: 1
MUS 221 - Introduction to Electronic Music An introduction to the methods and techniques used in the creation of
electronic music; hands-on experience in the electronic lab through
creative assignments.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: CGS
Additional course fee required
Credits: 1
MUS 223 - Music Theory III Historically oriented analysis of the style characteristics of major Western composers from Baroque to modern; advanced study of harmony and form, leading to the advent of 20th-century styles.
Credits: 3
MUS 223L - Theory Technology Lab Required with MUS 223.
Credits: 0
MUS 224 - Music Theory IV Historically-oriented analysis of the style characteristics of major
Western composers from Baroque to modern; advanced study of harmony and
form, leading to the advent of 20th-century styles.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACG
Credits: 3
MUS 225 - Sight Singing/Ear Training III Continuation of freshman laboratory experience in sight-singing and ear-training.
Credits: 1
MUS 226 - Sight Singing/Ear Training IV Continuation of the freshman laboratory experience in sight singing and ear training.
Credits: 1
MUS 227 - Aural Training: SS and ET Course designed to provide additional aural training for those who have
completed the second-year sight-singing and ear-training course.
Emphasis on traditional ear/eye skills such as interval and melodic
singing and dictation. Required of all students who have not
successfully completed the Sight-Singing Proficiency Exam at the end of
the sophomore year and all transfer students who are weak in these
skills.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: F
Credits: 0
MUS 243 - Diction I Symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as it is used by singers with applications to the reading of texts in the Italian language as well as texts in English.
Credits: 1
MUS 244 - Diction II Instruction in the reading of texts in German through the use of IPA symbols. Emphasis on poets who were used by standard lieder composers.
Credits: 1
MUS 272 - Introduction to Conducting Introduction to the basics of conducting simple beat patterns,
releases, cues, fermati, tempo variation and control. Conducting of
simple composition, both vocal and instrumental.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFH
Credits: 1
MUS 305 - PII Introduction to Opera (Perspectives II course) Course will view all or part of several operas
from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with emphasis on dramatic
and musical styles and on the historical, social and cultural
conditions portrayed and the interaction of the many components of
opera.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: NRT
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
MUS 308 - PII Music and Poetry (Perspectives II course) A cross-disciplinary study of the interrelationships between music and poetry.
Prerequisites & Notes a Perspectives I course in Literature and in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
MUS 309 - PII Literature and Music of Germany (Perspectives II course) A cross-discipline course that investigates German literature and German music and its influence on as well as interactions with the other cultures of Europe. Students taking this course must also sign up for the study tour to Europe in which elements studied in class are experienced as a primary source.
Credits: 3
MUS 311 - Survey of Song Literature I A survey of vocal literature for solo voice in Western culture. Emphasis on the over-all output for solo voice in art forms, interpretation of texts, and problems in diction; incorporates training for independence in repertoire planning; special emphasis on details of the most significant Lieder and Melodie composers.
Credits: 3
MUS 312 - Survey Song Literature II A survey of vocal literature for solo voice in Western culture. Emphasis on the overall output for solo voice in art forms, interpretation of texts, and problems in diction; incorporates training for independence in repertoire planning; special emphasis on details on the most significant Lieder and Melodie composers.
Credits: 3
MUS 313 - Keyboard Literature I A brief history of keyboard instruments; a study of the pianist’s standard repertoire from the Baroque to the present including stylistic analysis and discussion of performance practices and problems.
Credits: 3
MUS 314 - Keyboard Literature II A brief history of keyboard instruments; a study of the pianist’s standard repertoire from the Baroque to the present including stylistic analysis and discussion of performance practices and problems.
Credits: 3
MUS 315 - Instrumental Music History & Literature Readings and study of standard literature appropriate to the instrument; also included will be performance and listening assignments. Study of performance practices, aesthetic values, technical problems, and formal structure. (Independent Study).
Credits: 3
MUS 316G - PII Introduction to World Music (Perspectives II Global course) Surveys styles and genres of world
music with references to social, cultural and historical contexts.
Through guided listening, students sample various non-Western classical
music as well as native and folk music around the world.
Prerequisites & Notes any Perspectives I course in Fine Arts
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PHL 101 - PI Logic and Inquiry (Perspectives I course) An introduction to Aristotelian and Stoic logic
with a view to understanding the nature of logic and its role in
inquiry.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall, Spring and Summer
Credits: 3
PHL 201 - PII Logic and Inquiry II (Perspectives II course) An introduction to “material logic,” that is,
an exploration of the different kinds of knowing–demonstrative,
dialectical, rhetorical and intuitive–achieved in human inquiry, and
the relation of logic to each of them. All discussions are set within
the context of an investigation of the nature of education, as distinct
from training or indoctrination.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PHL 211 - PII Ethics (Perspectives II course) One of the most important questions posed by
Ancient Greek philosophy was: “What is the best way to live?” That
question serves as a guiding line for this introductory course, which
will examine the various approaches that major philosophical thinkers
have made to the study of philosophical ethics in answer to that
question. Topics will include the problem of moral relativism, the
relation between knowledge and virtue, virtue ethics, stoicism, an
ethics based on pure reason, utilitarianism and existentialism.
Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Kant, Mill, Sartre, and
deBeauvoir.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PHL 222 - PII Philosophy of Art (Perspectives II course) An introduction to some of the many philosophical issues
that surround art and the aesthetic
through an examination of the following topics: historical and modern
conceptions of the “aesthetic’, the relationship between the arts and
society, expression and creativity, and understanding and interpreting
art. Differences between art, craft, entertainment, the aesthetic and
the beautiful will be explored.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 224 - PII The Philosophy of Religion (Perspectives II course) Philosophical investigations of issues
surrounding religious beliefs, ideas and practices. Topics may include
the relation between faith and reason, the question of the existence of
God, questions about immortality, the reality of evil and the reality
of miracles.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Every third semester
Credits: 3
PHL 260 - PII American Philosophy (Perspectives II course) An introduction to classical American
philosophy and those thinkers who between 1870 and 1940 developed a
philosophy that is unique to the United States. The defining movement
in classical American philosophy is called pragmatism. Course will
evaluate the pragmatic conception of truth and how it relates to the notion
of pure experience, the individual and the community, science,
morality, loyalty, the transcendental, and education. Readings from
Emerson, Peirce, James, Royce, and Dewey.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 272 - PII The Philosophy of Science (Perspectives II course) An examination of the foundations and workings
of scientific theory and practice. Topics may include the internal and
external virtues of scientific theories, explanation, the role of
observation in science, replication in experiments, scientific
discovery, theory change and the social construction of science.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 280 - PII Feminist Philosophy (Perspectives II course) Explores the views and theories of selected
feminists of both the past and the present. Topics of discussions may
include theories of knowledge, critiques of science, of history, and of
philosophy.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected terms
Credits: 3
PHL 285 - PII 20th Century Women Philosophers (Perspectives II Course) An introduction to the important and
noteworthy contributions of three twentieth century women philosophers,
Simone Weil, Edith Stein and Hannah Arendt, all of Jewish descent,
who tried to come to terms with issues of modern oppression, faith,
knowledge, the concept of the person, liberty, totalitarian tactics of
dehumanization and the human condition itself.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 290 - PII Existentialism (Perspectives II course) Often conceived less as a philosophy and more
as a revolt against the traditional philosophy, existentialism, while
all but impossible to define, is pre-occupied with such themes as
the relation between the individual and society, the significance of
human choice, the significance of suffering in human life, the reality
of death and the relation between existence and absurdity. Readings
from such authors as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Kafka,
Camus, and Dostoyevsky.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Code: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 303 - PII Western Political Philosophy (Perspectives II) Theme of course is the nature of citizenship and whether
or not the individuals have a responsibility to their community. Course
will also introduce students to the major problems and questions which
belong to the history of political philosophy. As such it will provide
political science students with an important historical and
philosophical background for contemporary political discourse. Topics
include the structure of political communities and civil societies, the
state of nature, social contract theory, law, and leadership. Readings
from Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and any PI in Social Science
Cross-listed with PSC 303
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PHL 320 - PII Ancient Philosophy (Perspectives II) There were two famous inscriptions at the Oracle of Delphi: ‘know
yourself’ and ‘nothing in excess’. In this course, we investigate the
significance of these sayings by exploring connections between them and
other Greek ideas: e.g., the idea of hubris (or excessive pride),
catharsis (purification or purgation), and sophrosune (one translation:
moderation). Readings from Hesiod, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Plato,
Aristotle, and others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Once a year
Credits: 3
PHL 330 - Medieval Philosophy Major figures such as Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and Ockham on such
problems as free will, human knowledge, the existence of God, virtue
and vice.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101, PHL 201
Normal Offering Cycle: Once every two years
Credits: 3
PHL 340 - Modern Philosophy Major figures in modern philosophy addressing such issues as the nature
and limits of human knowledge, the nature of truth and the reality of
God. Readings from Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one additional philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Every third semester
Credits: 3
PHL 350 - PII Contemporary Philosophy (Perspectives II course) Themes of course are self, world, and
language. Investigation of the nature of self-identity, the structure
of the life-world, and the function of language as the relation between
self and world. Course will introduce students to the basic problems of
contemporary philosophy. Issues in phenomenology, existentialism,
fundamental ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, and
hermeneutics will be addressed. Readings from Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl,
Heidegger, and Gadamer.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Once a year
Credits: 3
PHL 360 - Metaphysics Investigations in “the science of being as being”, including
fundamental questions about the nature of reality and the existence of
God. Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Leibniz, Heidegger and
others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one other Philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 370 - The Philosophy of Mind Philosophical explorations of the psychological issues ranging from
behaviorism to artificial intelligence to the nature or reality of the
human soul.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one other Philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 380 - PII Philosophy through Literature (Perspectives II) An investigation of literary treatments of
philosophical themes with special attention to the relation between
‘form’ and ‘content’ in various approaches to philosophical problems.
Readings from poets, philosophers, novelists and essayists.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101
and any PI in Literature
Cross-Listed as ENGL 380
Normal Offering Cycle: Every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 401 - Honors Seminar Different topics in philosophy treated in different semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one additional Philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 402 - Honors Seminar Different topics in philosophy treated in different semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one additional Philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 403 - Honors Seminar Different topics in philosophy treated in different semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one other Philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 404 - Honors Seminar Different topics in philosophy treated in different semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PHL 101 and one other Philosophy course
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PHL 433 - Selected Topics in Philosophy Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 434 - Selected topics in Philosophy Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 435 - Selected Areas History of Philosophy Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 436 - Selected Areas History of Philosophy Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 485 - Independent Study For students who have completed at least nine credit hours in
philosophy. Concentrated study of areas agreed upon between student and
instructor; readings, tutorials.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 486 - Independent Study For students who have completed at least nine credit hours in
philosophy. Concentrated study of areas agreed upon between the student
and instructor; readings, tutorials.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PHL 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
Psychology
Go to information for this department.
PSY 101 - PI Introduction to Psychology (Perspectives I Course) A survey course designed to
introduce students to many of the diverse areas within the field of
psychology, including Abnormal, Developmental, Cognitive, Biological,
Cultural, Personality and Social Psychology. We also discuss the
experimental, case study, and survey methodologies that have
characterized psychological research through its history, including
contemporary research and applications.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 200 - Theories in Psychology This course provides students new to the discipline of Psychology with
an examination of contemporary psychological theories and systems such
as the behavioral, phenomenological, and analytical with an emphasis on
conceptual underpinnings and the links between theory, methods and
data.This course is one of the core courses required of all Psychology
Majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 201 - Statistics and Research Methods I Integrated examination of methodological and statistical procedures.
the focus of this course is on descriptive statistics and descriptive methodologies. Topics
include the nature of scientific inquiry, naturalistic observation,
survey methods, single subject designs, and correlation research.
Coverage of research methods is connected with appropriate statistical
issues. Laboratory exercises are used to illustrate research approaches.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 202 - Statistics and Research Methods II Continuation of Statistics and Research Methods I. This course
emphasizes inferential statistics, hypothesis testing and experimental
methodologies. Topics include experimental and quasi-experimental
research methods, one-way and factorial research designs with their
related statistical procedures including the logic of hypothesis
testing, t-tests, and analysis of variance. Laboratory component
includes group experiments and an individual research project. This
course satisfies the college’s writing-intensive requirement for the
major course.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PSY 201
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 4
PSY 203 - Making the Most out of the Psychology Major This course is designed to orient new and prospective psychology majors
to the field of psychology and to inform students about academic
requirements, expectations, opportunities, careers, and limitations.
Students will explore psychology careers, identify courses tailored to
their long-term career goals, and develop basic information literacy
skills necessary for other psychology courses.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 1
PSY 221 - PII Development I: Childhood and Adolescence (Perspectives II course) An examination of age-related changes in
psychological functioning from conception through young adulthood. All
aspects of development including physical, cognitive, social and
emotional are discussed. Alternative theoretical views are examined,
and a special emphasis is made on a theoretical understanding of the
facts of development.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 222 - Social Psychology Social psychology investigates how the behavior of the individual is
influenced by the social context through a discussion of theories and
research. Topics include aggression, interpersonal perception,
attraction, altruism, social influence, attitudes and effects of the
environment on social behavior. The power of the social situations
serves as an organizing theme for the course.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 223 - PII Psychology of Women (Perspectives II course) Major psychological theories with specific
regard to women. Exploration of female personality with particular
attention to achievement, identity, sex role identification,
traditional and non-traditional career development. Emphasis on
individual self-awareness in contemporary society.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 224 - PII Adolescence and Early Adulthood (Perspectives II course) An examination of typical physical, social,
emotional, and cognitive changes that occur during the second two
decades of life. Special emphasis is placed on development as it
occurs in a social context. Examples of topics include moral
decision making, career choices, identity development, and the role of media.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 231 - Behavior Modification Students are introduced to the theory and practice of Behavior
Modification, or Applied Behavior Analysis. Applications in
education, parenting, self-control are emphasized, as are clinical,
therapeutic contexts, as well as standard daily uses in the home and
workplace. Students will practice numerous basic behavioral
techniques, such as positive and negative reinforcement schedules,
shaping, chaining, and discrimination training.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 240G - PII Multicultural Psychology (Perspectives II Global course) This course explores the intersection and
interplay between culture and psychology. Readings and discussion of
some classic essays and studies that have addressed the complex
relationship between culture and psychology will give students a chance
to explore methods for understanding cultural differences in ways that
transcend subjective views of other cultures and ourselves.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 311 - Psychology of Learning A laboratory course grounded in the investigation of Pavlovian and
Operant theory and research. Students gain experience using a
virtual “Skinner Box,” to apply a succession of behavioral principles
to condition a virtual laboratory rat to respond differentially to
various tones, reinforcement schedules, and other complex stimulus
combinations.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 4
PSY 312 - Memory and Cognition Course examines cognitive processes, often called “higher mental
processes”. As a discipline, the field of cognitive psychology is
concerned with how humans acquire, store, retrieve and use knowledge.
Topics include perception, memory, attention, categorization of
thinking, problem solving, and decision making. Course introduces
student to research and theory in cognitive psychology and demonstrates
how knowledge gained from research has been applied to solve problems,
and improve the quality of life.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 313 - PII Motivation (Perspectives II course) Course will explore all those conditions in
the person, environment, and culture that explain why we want what we
do. Special emphasis will be placed on helping the student develop an
understanding of how biological, psychological, and environmental
principles interact to motivate human behavior and thought.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 314 - Sensation and Perception Introduces students to fundamentals of sensation and perception. Topics
include the anatomy and physiology of the senses, color and depth
perception, perceptual constancy, perception of pitch and timbre, taste
and smell and perceptual development. Special emphasis is placed on
understanding the neurophysiology of the sensory systems which gives to
human perceptual phenomena.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 315 - Physiological Psychology This course is designed to provide an introduction to the basic
structure and function of the brain and nervous system.The anatomical,
physiological, and chemical bases for
behaviors are considered including a special emphasis on the classic
topics of physiological psychology: brain-behavior relations, sensory
integration, and physiological correlates of motivation and emotion.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 315L - Physiological Psychology Lab The optional lab includes disection activities related to the course and an introduction to biofeedback methodolgy.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Optional lab to accompany PSY 315
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 1
PSY 316 - Comparative Psychology Broad coverage of the study of psychological processes within an evolutionary
framework, especially through the study of the behavior of animals, both human
and non-human. We will examine the innate structure and organization of behavior
and how these change, both through evolution and within the lifespan.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: PSY 101 or BIO 103
Adv Codes: BR
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 321 - Developmental II : Middle Age and Aging Psychological, social, and biological changes and transitions occurring
during the adult developmental trajectory will be discussed. Attention
will be given to the creation of new networks of relationships, new and
changing behaviors, and the formation of new self-perceptions as a
person moves through life.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 322 - Psychology of Personality Study of individual differences within the context of major
contemporary personality theories. Theoretical understanding of
personality is approached from biological, psychosocial, cross-cultural
and gender perspectives. Research methods and assessment are reviewed.
Case studies are used to illustrate various personality traits and
dynamics.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 323 - PII Abnormal Psychology (Perspectives II course) Distinguishes normality from abnormality on a continuum of human
behavior, and defines abnormal behavior within a context of culture and
history. Provides an integrated biopsychosocial approach, using
multiple theoretical perspectives, to understanding the causes of
abnormal behavior. Surveys the major mental disorders of
childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Reviews assessment
techniques, diagnosis and treatment.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 324 - Issues in Aging In-depth investigation of the theoretical and experimental findings
related to cognitive, personality, environmental, social, and physical
forces affecting development in middle-aged and older adults in
American society. Topics include coping and adaptation, creativity,
wisdom, successful aging, and death and dying.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 321
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PSY 327 - PII Human Sexual Behavior (Perspectives II Course) This course is team-taught by a psychologist
and sociologist and provides and integrated analysis and understanding
of sexuality. Discussions are organized around the perspectives of
essentialism and social constructionism. Topics include sexual behavior
from a cross-cultural perspective; the “sexual revolution;” research on
sexual behavior; theories of human sexuality, sexual orientation, and
the connection among sex, gender, and sexuality.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ANT 101, ANT 102, PSY 101, or SOC 101
Cross-listed with SOC 327
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PSY 331 - Psychological Tests and Measurements Survey of psychological tests and their applications across various
settings and populations. Basic psychometric properties, methods of
measurement and principles of test construction are introduced; ethical
and multicultural issues are addressed. Tests used in the assessment of
intelligence, personality, neuropsychological functioning, achievement
and career interests are reviewed and demonstrated.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 201
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 332 - Psychology of the Exceptional Individual The etiological factors, clinical description, therapeutic and educational approaches
to various forms of exceptionality in childhood and adolescence.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 333 - Organizational Psychology Survey of the relationship between psychological principles and traditional organizational
aspects such as leadership, group processes, decision-making and communication
networks.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 334 - Principles of Counseling The course is designed to introduce a broad spectrum of counseling
theories, the processes involved in counseling and psychotherapy,
professional ethics and issues of concern to those in the profession,
and research regarding the effectiveness of these treatments. The
course is theoretical and not applied and is intended to provide the
student with an understanding of the complexity of the change process
in relation to human problems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 335 - Environmental Psychology A focus on the interrelationship between the physical environment and
human behavior and experience. The behavioral relationships involved in
defining settings such as learning environments, residential settings,
hospitals, prisons, work environments and environments of the future
are explored.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PSY 336 - Human Factors A multidisciplinary approach that promotes the discovery, exchange, and
application of knowledge concerning the relationship of people to their
environment and the machines they use. Readings and other class
assignments allow students to recognize how empirical research in human
factors can be applied usefully and meaningfully to optimize the
relationship between technology and the human. Special emphasis is
given to helping students learn how human factors research has led to
designing environments that are better suited for work, to assessing
human capabilities and limitations, and to designing manufactured
objects so that people can use them more efficiently.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PSY 340 - Aging and Community Service This course integrates community placement in elder care and adult
residential settings with some of the major theories and facts related
to the biological, psychological, and social characteristics of the
older person, as well as with the research investigating the various
ways in which older persons influence and are influenced by their
environment and caregivers.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 321
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall semester of every other year
Credits: 3
PSY 341 - Advanced Special Topics in Psychology For junior and senior psychology majors. Choice of topics reflects the
special interests of the students and expertise of the instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PSY 342 - Sports Psychology This course investigates scientific knowledge derived from the
discipline of Psychology to the understanding of individuals and groups
involved in sporting activities. The focus will be on underlying
psychological theories and principles that inform our understanding of
athletes, coaches and spectators. (Cross-listed as SPT 372)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: PSY 101
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 441 - Adv Special Topics in Psychology For junior and senior psychology majors. Choice of topics reflects the
special interest of the students and expertise of the instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Offering Cycle: Selected semesters
Credits: 3
PSY 442 - History of Psychology This capstone course builds upon a basic theoretical knowledge of
psychology as a social science. Highlights the major
philosophical and scientific underpinnings that contributed to the
evolution of psychology as a distinct discipline. Examines the
influences of person, place and time that shaped psychology, beginning
with Ancient Greek civilization and concluding with the turn of the
21st century. Develops critical thinking skills applied to
understanding the historical development of psychology, and provides an
integrated perspective on contemporary psychology.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Senior status or permission of instructor
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 444 - Senior Seminar Senior seminar in psychology is a capstone course that explores both
current and historical events in the discipline. As a culminating
experience for the psychology major, students utilize their knowledge
about psychological principles and theories to think critically about
current and past events in psychology. Students read and discuss
selected topics, give presentations about recent developments in the
discipline or events of historical importance, and write a
comprehensive review paper that integrates some contemporary topic in
psychology with one other liberal arts discipline. The comprehensive
paper serves at part of the senior comprehensive exam. The exact nature
of course topics may vary by instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Senior status or permission of instructor
21 hours of psychology including PSY 202
Credits: 3
PSY 481 - Gerontology Internship
Credits: 3
PSY 482 - Gerontology Internship
Credits: 3
PSY 483 - Psychology Internship Engages students actively and directly with a professional experience
to complement their academic study. Incorporates psychological
theory and research into an emphasis on application. Provides
students with the opportunity to explore career options within
psychology and to become familiar with professional practice. A
minimum of 120 hours of work in one semester is completed, with
participation in college-wide and department seminars that focus on
practical and ethical issues. Application and department approval
are required prior to course selection.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereqs: 15 hours of Psychology and 3.0 GPA in Psychology
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 484 - Psychology Internship Engages students actively and directly with a professional experience
to complement their academic study. Incorporates psychological
theory and research into an emphasis on application. Provides
students with the opportunity to explore career options within
psychology and to become familiar with professional practice. A
minimum of 120 hours of work in one semester is completed, with
participation in college-wide and department seminars that focus on
practical and ethical issues. Application and department approval
are required prior to course selection.
Prerequisites & Notes 15 hours of Psychology and 3.0 GPA in Psychology
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 485 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of interest and concern to the student
of psychology or a research project. A formal research written according to APA formal is required as well
as a public presentation of findings at the project’s termination. Approval by supervising
professor and department chairperson are required.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: PSY 202
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 486 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of interest and concern to the student
of psychology or a research projectA formal research written according to APA formal is required as well
as a public presentation of findings at the project’s termination. Approval by supervising
professor and department chairperson are required.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: PSY 202
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
PSY 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
Religious Studies
Go to information for this department.
RES 101 - PI Exploring Religion (Perspectives I course) A study of religion as lived in major world traditions,
East and West. Exploration of experiences of the sacred, scriptures, symbols,
rituals, ethics; influence of religion upon cultures, societies, and life stories.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
RES 103G - PI Exploring Religion: East (Perspectives I Global course) A study of religion as lived in the major
traditions of the East: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and
Shinto. Exploration of experiences of the sacred, scriptures, symbols,
rituals, ethics; influence of religion upon cultures, societies, and
life stories.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
RES 104 - PI Exploring Religion: West (Perspectives I course) A study of religion as lived in the major traditions
of the West: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Exploration of experiences of the
sacred, scriptures, symbols, rituals, ethics; influence of religion upon cultures,
societies, and life stories.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
RES 202 - PII History of Christianity (Perspectives II course) A study of Christianity from ancient times to
the present with a focus on key figures, events, and themes which
shaped and shape the Christian Church.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 203 - PII Introducing the Bible (Perspectives II course) A study of both Hebrew and Christian scriptures, examined
in light of the worlds that produced them. Special emphasis on important theological
themes which are common to both traditions.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 204 - PII Biblical Perspectives (Perspectives II course) Various Biblical responses to some basic
religious questions raised in one’s search for the meaning of human
existence.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 213 - PII The Prophets for Today (Perspectives II course) A study of the selected readings from the prophetic
literature of the Hebrew Scriptures in order to understand not only the message
of the Prophets in their own context but also to apply this message to contemporary
life.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 214 - PII Biblical Prayer (Perspectives II course) Basic characteristics, underlying attitudes
and central themes of Biblical prayer. Special emphasis on the Psalms
and the Prayer of Jesus.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 221 - PII Matthew, Mark and Luke: Synoptic Gospels (Perspectives II course) An introduction to each of these Gospels, examining
their literary beauty and their theological significance for the Christian Community.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 224 - PII Philosophy of Religion (Perspectives II Course) Philosophical investigation of issues surrounding religious
beliefs, ideas and practices. Topics may include the relation between faith and
reason, the question of existence of God, questions about immortality, the reality
of evil and the reality of miracles.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 226G - PII Religions of East Asia (Perspectives II Global course) An
exploration of the major religious traditions found in East Asia, both
indigenous and those originating elsewhere. Special attention is paid to the
interplay between religion, society and culture in the countries concerned.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 227G - PII Religions of India (Perspectives II Global course) A study of the development of Hinduism as well
as the contributions of Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam. Focus on
key spiritual figures, primary scripture and literature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 228 - PII Islam (Perspectives II course) A study of Islam in terms of its primary texts, rituals,
symbols, foundational story, moral code, spirituality, historically as well as
in the present.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 230G - PII Buddhism (Perspectives II Global course) How Buddhist meditation, psychology, and
literature reveal rich cultural insights from India, China, Tibet, and
Japan. Special emphasis on the Buddhist experience of enlightenment and
compassion for all beings.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 232 - PII Judaism Past and Present (Perspectives II course) A study of the historical development of Judaism with
a focus on the sacred writings, belief and practice of contemporary Jews.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 233 - PII Ethics in Christianity (Perspectives II course) Ethical decision-making informed by the Christian tradition:
defining morality, analyzing situations, assessing alternatives. Typical topics:
personal ethics (familial, friendship, and sexual ethics); social ethics (capital
punishment, environmental ethics, pacifism, and war); medical ethics (euthanasia,
abortion).
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 236 - PII Religion in America (Perspectives II course) Exploration of the contemporary American religious landscape
in the context of key moments, groups and persons in America’s history. Attention
to the distinctive character, beliefs, and practices of religions, old and new;
inter-religious conflict and co-operation; the interplay of religion and politics;
religion in the media.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 237 - PII Catholicism Today (Perspectives II course) Study of major beliefs and practices of Roman Catholic
Christianity with and exploration of its history and heritage, worldview, sacraments
and worship, personal and social morality, contemporary challenges and issues.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 239 - PII Word and Sacrament (Perspectives II course) The role of story and sacrament in the religious lives
of persons and communities with a focus on Christian rituals and worship. Topics:
sacramentality; the history and practice of sacraments of initiation, reconciliation,
healing, marriage and orders; centrality of Baptism and Eucharist; sacraments
as “rites of justice.”
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 240 - PII Jews and Christians in Dialogue (Perspectives II course) The relationship between Jews and Christians
including the painful past, changing attitudes in the 20th century, and
current issues in Jewish/Christian dialogue.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 250G - PII Self-Cultivation, Kinship and Rulership in Confucianism (Perspectives II Global course) A study of the role of Confucianism in
Chinese culture with emphasis on its primary texts, figures, moral
teachings. Attention to the relationship of the self with the self,
family and state.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in Religious Studies
Fulfills Multicultural Studies Concentration
Credits: 3
RES 251G - PII Shamans, Divination and Deities in Chinese Folk Religion (Perspectives II Global Course) A study of the beliefs and
practices in Chinese folk religion with a focus on the themes of
shamans, divination, ghosts and deities. Attention to how
people’s understanding of their relationship with the superior power
impacts their arrangement of daily life.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 252 - The Way (Dao): an Introduction to Daoism A study of the role of Daoism in Chinese culture with emphasis on its primary texts, figures, philosophy and ritual practices.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereqs: Any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 260G - PII Studies in the Qur’an (Perspectives I Global course) An exploration of the sacred text of
Islam. Attention is given to the historical, literary, social,
philosophical and theological issues involved in the interpretation of
sacred texts. Themes analyzed include: nature, anthropology, gender,
prophecy, eschatology, theodicy, religion and society, and religious
diversity.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereqs: Any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 301 - PII John’s Message (Perspectives II course) The Fourth gospel and Johannine Epistles, examined in
the light of the world that produced them. Emphasis on central themes relevant
for the contemporary Christian: Jesus as focus of divine reality (life, light,
truth, love); faith and discipleship; symbolism and dualism.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 302 - PII St. Paul and His Letters (Perspectives II course) The life and writings of St. Paul, studied in the historical,
cultural, and theological context of early (1st Century) Christianity. Special
emphasis on selected letters.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 303 - PII The Inner Search for God (Perspectives II course) The ways in which men and women through the centuries
have come to experience God. Special emphasis on meditation and prayer in the
mystical tradition.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 304 - PII In Search of Jesus Christ (Perspectives II course) The person, teachings and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.
Biblical, historical, and contemporary images and theological understandings of
Jesus Christ in text and creed, prayer and worship, life and art.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 305 - PII In the Beginning (Perspectives II course) The Biblical roots of the Judeo-Christian tradition
as seen through various themes that emerge from the books of Genesis and Exodus.
Special emphasis on the themes of creation and liberation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 310 - Introduction to Interfaith Studies and Dialogue An introduction to the study of interfaith relations. Examines the history, theory, and practical challenges and techniques of dialogue among religious communities in pluralistic societies. Includes visits to area religious sites.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereqs: Any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 320 - PII Auschwitz and After: Religious Questions and Ethical Dilemmas (Perspectives II course) The continuing impact of the Holocaust upon issues of
religion and spirituality e.g., good and evil, belief and behavior, and individual
responsibility and social protest. Explored through survivor testimony, theological
writing, fiction, and film.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 321 - PII Encountering Evil: Responses from World Religions (Perspectives II course) Evil and innocent suffering as a continuing problematic;
exploration of the responses of world religions; consideration of theoretical
and practical explanations of and responses to evil and innocent suffering in
the modern world.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Fulfills Women’s Studies concentration
Credits: 3
RES 325 - Classic Texts of Daoism An intensive reading of selected texts in Daoism with a focus on Daoist philosophy and its practices. The study of the texts will be situated in the social, political, economic and literary contexts in Chinese history.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereqs: Any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 327G - PII Sacred Literature of India (Perspectives II Global course) An in-depth reading of selected sacred texts drawn
from the tapestry of religious traditions in India with an emphasis upon those
of Hinduism. To enhance our reading of primary texts, we will draw upon
analytical perspectives developed in the social sciences, cultural studies, and
related disciplines.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 330 - PII Ethics of the Professions (Perspectives II course) The identity, roles, relationships, and moral decision-making
of the professional. Analysis of major moral issues relevant to educators, business
persons, health care workers, social workers, attorneys, and others.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 331 - PII Liberation Thought: Empowerment, Solidarity, and Praxis (Perspectives II course) Exploration of theological and ethical approaches which
promote liberative social change and environmental responsibility. Dynamic of
oppression-empowerment-praxis as understood by world religions and engaged by
liberation thinkers, e.g., gay/lesbian, feminist, black, Jewish, and Latin American.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 332 - PII Living Well: Ethics in the World’s Religions (Perspectives II course) The place of morality within religious
systems; relationships among religion, law, and morality; religion and
human rights. Comparative analysis of religious teachings on family,
work, violence, community, and nature.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 333 - PII Peace and Justice (Perspectives II course) Contemporary peace and justice issues viewed from a
variety of religious and ethical perspectives. Topics: defining “peace” and “justice”;
wealth and poverty; nationalism and ethnic - racial - religious diversity; gender;
sexual orientation; nonviolence.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 334 - Love, Sex, & the Body in World Religions Conceptualizations of the body seem uniquely natural and basic, when
they actually embody cultural and social form. Accordingly, religious
traditions construct the body sexually, and, conversely, construct
sexuality physically, psychologically, and/or spiritually. Inscription
of the body in particular cultural, social, and religious form has made
difficult “placing” ideas of love and desire with respect to bodily
and/or sexual constructions of the human self.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 335 - PII Biomedical Ethics (Perspectives II course) Moral analysis of biomedical issues in light of the
Jewish and Christian traditions. Topics: patient rights, suicide, euthanasia,
abortion, organ transplantation, research, genetics, assisted reproduction, malpractice,
justice in health care resource allocation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 336 - Emptiness (Wu): Ethics in Neo-Confucianism, Daoism and Zen The concept of emptiness in terms of annihilation of authority of moral principles is central to three Chinese religions: Neo-Confucianism, Daoism and Zen. By reading the primary texts and literature in these three religions, we will explore how they define and articulate the ethics of emptiness.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereqs: Any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 338 - PII Merton: Mystic and Prophet (Perspectives II course) Readings in Thomas Meron, twentieth-century monk and
writer. Focus on spirituality (meditation, prayer, living contemplatively), urgent
social issues (violence, war and peace, racism, technology), and inter-religious
dialogue and understanding.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 339 - PII Spiritual Autobiography (Perspective II course) A study of selected spiritual autobiographies as a way
to appreciate religion as lived, with special attention to connections between
faith and practice, inner transformation and outer commitment, mysticism and resistance,
spirituality and social justice.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 341 - PII Job’s Dilemma and Ours (Perspectives II course) An exploration of the “problem of evil” as posed by
the biblical book of Job. Can innocent suffering be reconciled with the existence
of a good God?
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 343 - PII Sociology of Religion (Perspectives II course) The effects of society on religion and of religion on
society, including forms of religious organization, the influence of social class
on religion, priests vs. prophets, secularization and the return of fundamentalism.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies or Social Science.
Cross-listed with SOC 343
Credits: 3
RES 344 - PII The Church and Its Art Through the Ages (Perspectives II course) A discussion of crucial moments in the
theological development of the Christian church and their reflection in
various forms of religious art.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Perspectives I course in Religious Studies and in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
RES 347 - PII Women and Christianity (Perspectives II course) Biblical, historical, and contemporary reflections on
women’s experiences from a feminist theological perspective. Focus on remembering
and recovering women’s stories and revisioning Christian beliefs and practices.
Special attention to Womanist, Mujerista, and ecofeminist theologies.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies.
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
RES 348G - PII Mysticism East and West (Perspectives II Global course) A study of spiritual practices and mystical
experience in selected religions including indigenous, eastern and
western religious traditions. Attention to the relationship between
mysticism and ethics.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 349 - PII Meaning of Death (Perspectives II course) Sociological, psychological cross-cultural, perspectives
on death and dying in American society today. Attention to the world’s religions’
responses to the needs of the dying and the bereaved; end-of-life decision-making;
post-death rituals; beliefs concerning death and after death.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies or Social Science.
Cross-listed with SOC
349
Credits: 3
RES 350G - PII Zen (Chan) Buddhism (Perspectives II Global Course) An exploration of how Chinese Zen
Buddhism negotiated its independent identity with Indian Buddhism and
Chinese native religions. Focus on the primary texts, literature and
figures.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in Religious Studies
Credits: 3
RES 360 - Special Topics in Religious Studies A seminar which explores, in depth, topics of interest in Religious Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in Religious Studies.
Special/Selected Topics
Credits: 3
RES 370 - Junior-Senior Seminar in Religious Studies An advanced exploration of religion and religious studies. Analysis of definitions,
methods, theories, and key figures in the history of religious studies. Special
problems and issues in religious studies.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACRH
Normal Offering Cycle: Spring
Credits: 3
RES 483 - Senior Internship Supervised field placement designed to provide experience and expertise
in areas of interest to majors, e.g., religious education, youth
ministry, pastoral ministry.
Credits: 3
RES 485 - Independent Study Open to qualified juniors and seniors. Readings and tutorials arranged by the
individual student with a faculty member.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGR
Credits: 3
RES 486 - Independent Study Open to qualified juniors and seniors. Readings and tutorials arranged by the individual student with a faculty member.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGR
Credits: 3
RES 499 - Religious Studies Comprehensive
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: A
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
Sociology
Go to information for this department.
ANT 101G - PI Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Perspectives I, Global course) A consideration of the concepts of
culture and social structure, their application to the cross-cultural
analysis of societies and their development in the discipline of
anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Multicultural Studies Minor Requirement
Credits: 3
ANT 102 - PI Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archeology (Perspectives I course) Structural and behavioral components of human
evolution and human diversity will be considered. Earliest cultural
developments will be described from the perspective of the actual
“digs” as well as theory, and method in archaeology.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
ANT 313G - PII Gender and Society (Perspectives II, Global course) Examines the social construction of
gender relations in human societies. Through analysis of the processes
and practices by which women and men are made and make themselves, the
course explores what gender is and what it is not; how the meaning and
practice of gender vary from culture to culture, within any culture
over time, and over the life course of individual men and women.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ANT 101g or SOC 101
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ANT 316G - PII Anthropology of Development (Perspectives II Global course) The social correlates of changes from pre- to post-industrial revolution technology.
Comparative material will be emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: Any PI in Social Science
Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
ANT 318G - PII Cultural and Social Change (Perspectives II Global course) Study of types of cultural and social change and the
ways in which change is defined and investigated by social scientists.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ANT101, ANT102, SOC101, ECO101, ECO102, PSC201
Credits: 3
ANT 320G - PII Peoples and Cultures of Africa (Perspectives II Global course) An examination of the cultures of Africa from the prehistoric
period to the present. Overview of the geography and history, and key socioeconomic
and political structures of the continent, in the precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial
periods. Emphasis on the historical, political, economic, and cultural ties between
the peoples of Africa and the rest of the world.
Prerequisites & Notes ANT 101, ANT 102, ECO 101, SOC 101, PSC 201 or PSC 312
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
ANT 341 - Special Topics in Anthropology Specific topic varies by semester reflecting interests of students and instructor.
Recent examples include Religion, Ritual and Worldview in Africa, Ethnobotany;
North American Indian Cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: Any PI in Social Science
Credits: 3
ANT 444 - Senior Seminar Analysis of selected anthropological issues through integration of
theoretical and substantive material and synthesis of liberal arts
perspectives. Emphasis on discussion and student participation.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: 15 hours in anthropology
Credits: 3
ANT 483 - Anthropology Internship Supervised field placement designed to provide experience and expertise in anthropology.
Credits: 3
ANT 485 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of anthropology of interest and concern to the student.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FG
Credits: 3
ANT 486 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of anthropology of interest and concern to the student.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: FG
Credits: 3
ANT 499 - Senior Comprehensive Senior Comprehensive
Credits: 0
MCS 444 - Senior Seminar Analysis of selected multicultural issues through integration of theoretical and substantive material and synthesis of liberal arts perspectives. Emhasis on discussion and student participation.
Prerequisites & Notes 15 hours in multicultural studies
Credits: 3
SOC 101 - PI Introduction to Sociology (Perspectives I course) Introduces students to a mode of inquiry that reveals
how the social world is created by people. Includes fundamental concepts and methods
in sociology. Prerequisite for all other Sociology courses.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
SOC 204 - PII Social Problems (Perspectives II course) Examines the causes and solutions of selected problems
such as poverty, inequality, racism, sexism, family violence, militarism, and
the environmental crisis. Attention is also paid to questions of how some social
problems come to public attention while others are ignored.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Cross-listed with SWK 204
Credits: 3
SOC 307 - Development of Social Theory Survey of sociological theories with primary attention given to conflict theory,
functionalism, and symbolic interaction and the theorists Marx, Durkhein, and
Weber.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 313G - PII Gender and Society (Perspectives II Global course) Examines the social construction of
gender relations in human societies. Through analysis of the processes
and practices by which women and men are made and make themselves, the
course explores what gender is and what it is not; how the meaning and
practice of gender vary from culture to culture, within any culture
over time, and over the life course of individual men and women.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: ANT 101G or SOC 101
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
SOC 314 - PII Marriages and Families (Perspectives II course) What do the Ku Klux Klan, the Wobblies, feminism, and communism have in
common? They are all social movements. Examines the
development, organization, and tactics of groups of people on the
margins of the traditional power structure who work to bring about, or
resist, change.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
SOC 320 - Social Classes Empirical and theoretical treatment of class structure and social mobility within
a historical and comparative framework.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 321 - PII Environmental Sociology (Perspectives II course) Explores relationship between society and the
natural environment and the impact of each upon the other, including
culture, science and technology, population and development, societal
inequalities and attitudes/behavior; the environmental movement and
counter-movement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Social Science
Credits: 3
SOC 322 - PII Sociology of the Arts (Perspectives II course) Explores the social organization of art
worlds, the social construction of art, and seeks answers to questions
such as: “What is the sociology of art?” “Are artists born or made?” “How do
art worlds change?” “What can we learn about society from the study of
the arts?”
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 327 - PII Human Sexual Behavior (Perspectives II course) An interdisciplinary course providing an integrated
analysis and understanding of sexuality. Focus is on attitudes and values clarification.
Sexual behavior from the cross-cultural perspective; the “sexual revolution;”
research on sexual behavior; theories of human sexuality.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ANT 101 ANT 102 PSY 101 or SOC 101
Cross-listed with PSY327
Fulfills Women’s Studies Concentration
Credits: 3
SOC 341 - Special Topics in Sociology Specific topic covered varies by semester reflecting
the interests of students and instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Selected/Special Topics
Credits: 3
SOC 342 - Sociology of Homelessness Examines the historical and social dimensions of homelessness as a
social problem and the reasons for its persistence in American society
and in Rochester. Class involves participation with soup kitchens,
shelters, and other groups that work with homeless persons in the
Rochester area.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: ANT 101 or SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 343 - PII Sociology of Religion (Perspectives II course) If you have one person who believes God has told him/her to kill and
eat other people, you have a lunatic. If you have a group of one
hundred who believe this, you have a religion. Examines the
relationship between society and religion; explores theories of the
social origins of religion, the relationship between religion and
nationalism, types of religious organizations, secularization and the
rise of fundamentalism.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Religious Studies and Social Science
Cross-listed with RES 343
Credits: 3
SOC 345 - Deviance Exploration of the processes by which people break social norms and
come to be labeled deviant. Considers a variety of theories and types
of deviance.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 349 - PII Meaning of Death (Perspectives II course) Sociological, psychological, cross-cultural
perspectives on death and dying in American society today. Attention to
the world’s religions’ responses to the needs of the dying and the
bereaved; end-of-life decision-making; post-death rituals; beliefs
concerning death and after death.
Credits: 3
SOC 352 - Social Research Methods Explore processes used in conducting social research, including evaluation research. Hypothesis development, research design
selection, sampling, observation and interviewing, questionnaire
design, and analysis of collected data are covered.
Credits: 3
SOC 406 - Social Psychology Individual behavior as influenced by the social context with a discussion of theories and research. Topics include aggression, attraction, altruism, interpersonal influence, attitudes and effects of the environment on social behavior.
Credits: 3
SOC 409 - PII Crime and Justice (Perspectives II course) Who is more likely to kill you: a mugger or your boss?
Examines the nature and extent of crime; theoretical explanations of
the origins of crime; the criminal justice system including the police,
courts, and corrections; the relative harmfulness of street crime and
corporate crime.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 410 - PII Racial and Cultural Minorities (Perspectives II course) Racial and ethnic minority groups and their
position and condition in society with emphasis on the United States.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 413 - PII Sociology of Social Movements (Perspectives II course) The development, organization, and tactics of
groups of people on the margins of the traditional power structure who
work to bring about, or resist, social change.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: SOC 101
Credits: 3
SOC 432 - Social Research Methods II An advanced course in social research methods, emphasizing data
analysis and analytical processes, presenting research results; the
ethics of social research. Students complete a significant research
project.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: SOC 352
Credits: 3
SOC 444 - Senior Seminar Analysis of selected societal and sociological issues through
integration of theoretical and substantive sociological material and
synthesis of liberal arts perspectives. Emphasis on discussion and
student participation.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: 15 hours in sociology
Credits: 3
SOC 483 - Sociology Internship Supervised field placement designed to provide experience and expertise in sociology.
Credits: 3
SOC 484 - Sociology Internship Supervised field placement designed to provide experience and expertise in Sociology.
Credits: 3
SOC 485 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of sociology of interest and concern to the student.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: G
Credits: 3
SOC 486 - Independent Study Intensive reading and study in an area of sociology of interest and concern to the student.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: G
Credits: 3
SOC 499 - Senior Comprehensive Senior Comprehensive
Credits: 0
SSC 444 - Senior Seminar Analysis of selected social science issues through integration of theoretical and substantive material and synthesis of liberal arts perspectives. Emphasis on discussion and student participation.
Prerequisites & Notes 15 hours in social science
Credits: 3
SSC 499 - Social Science Comprehensive Credits: 0
Theatre Arts
Go to information for this department.
MTHA 260 - Musical Theatre Performance I Integration of basic vocal, musical, and acting skills through the American musical theatre repertoire in a performance setting. Emphasis on the discovery and process of the singer-actor, development of analytic and interpretive abilities through solo pieces, and basic audition techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AGS
Prereqs: THA 120, THA 140
Credits: 3
MTHA 285 - Dance History This course will study both the history and philosophy of dance and explore the relationship of dance to allied arts. It will cover the three primary theatrical dance forms and the major artists in each to understand dance both as a theatrical event as well as a reflection and determinant of culture.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: ACR
Prereqs: THA 120
Credits: 3
MTHA 360 - Musical Theatre Performance II Continuation and strengthening of vocal, musical, acting, and movement integration through the American musical theatre repertoire. Emphasis on duet and ensemble literature, the transitional moment when speech turns to song, and audition portfolios.
Prerequisites & Notes ADV Codes: AGS
Prereqs: MTHA 260
Credits: 3
THA 105 - Dance Studio Class This is a Music Theatre Major core requirement. The student will take
this Dance Studio course every semester and will gain dance experience
in the following areas during their four year matriculation as a Music
Theatre Major: ballet, jazz, tap and modern.
Prerequisites & Notes Course repeated each semester for four years or four total credits.
Adv codes: ABS
Credits: 0.5
THA 107 - Jazz Dance Credits: 0
THA 109 - Ballet Credits: 0
THA 120 - PI Introduction to Theatre Arts (Perspectives I course) Examination of theatre as an art form.
Structural analysis of scripts and study of the creative steps in the
production of a play. (Production lab option.)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABPR
THA majors must participate in the production concurrent with this course.
Non-THA majors may participate on a space-available basis.
Credits: 3
THA 125 - PI The Play’s the Thing (Perspectives I course) Course content framed around one or two scripts
to be produced during the term. The historical, critical, and literary
contexts of the scripts will be learned first-hand as each class member
participates in the production process. (Production lab option.)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: PRN
Credits: 3
THA 140 - Fundamentals of Acting Beginning aspects of an actor’s training will be explored. This course will aid students in understanding the actor’s psychological and physical instrument and relationship to the script. Emphasis is placed on the development of credible and compelling in performance in contemporary drama.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABS
Coreq: THA 140L
Credits: 3
THA 140L - Fundamentals of Acting Lab All aspects of an actor’s training will be explored. This course will aid students
in understanding the art of the actor.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABS
Coreq: THA 140
Credits: 0
THA 150 - Technical Theatre I Introductory work in areas of technical theatre: set construction, scene painting,
stage lighting, stage properties and costumes. Forty-hour lab requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABPS
Additional course fee required
THA majors must participate in the production concurrent with this course.
Non-THA majors may participate on a space-available basis.
Credits: 3
THA 150L - Technical Theatre I Lab In order to better understand the area
of technical theatre, all THA 150 students
are required to complete a lab. This lab
involves hands-on training and completion of
hours in the scene shop where we train to build
the scenery, construct costumes, prepare the
lighting, and the rest of all scenic elements for
the Department of Theatre Arts shows.
Alternative methods of completing the lab include
the backstage running of a show either on the
deck with the scenery, running the light board or
sound console, or on wardrobe crew to help the
actors get dressed and complete their make-up.
Credits: 0
THA 203 - PI Special Problems in Theatre (Perspectives I course) Occasional course offerings in specialized
areas of theatre history, theory, acting, technical theatre, or touring
production. Offered at various levels of difficulty.
Prerequisites & Notes Not open to THA majors.
Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
THA 204 - Special Problems in Theatre Occasional course offerings in specialized areas of theatre history, theory, acting, technical theatre, or touring production. Offered at various levels of difficulty.
Credits: 3
THA 215 - Oral Interpretation The reading aloud of affective material (poetry, prose, dramatic passages). Attention is paid to textual analysis, to determining approaches to readings and to vocal expressiveness and physical involvement in the communication process.
Credits: 3
THA 221 - Voice for the Stage Emphasis will be on freeing the physical instrument of tension,
developing vocal resonance and clear articulation, followed by
exploration of stage dialects.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHS
Credits: 3
THA 226 - PII Women in Theatre (Perspectives II course) Seminar which focuses on the artistic
contributions of women to the genres of dance, film and primarily
theatre.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
THA 230 - PII History of Fashion (Perspectives II course) Study of the evolution of civil dress from the
ancient Egyptians to the 20th century. The course traces changes in
costume forms; identifies political, economic and social events which
influenced fashion, and shows how the use of artistic elements in the
design of clothing changed from one period to the next.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
THA 232 - PII History of Period Styles (Perspectives II course) Survey of 2,000 years of architecture, decor
and furnishings as they impinge upon theatrical production and design.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
THA 233 - Costume Construction Basics of constructing costumes, including use of patterns, cutting,
fittings and alterations, machine and hand work. (Lab requirement)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BPS
Additional course fee required
Credits: 3
THA 235 - Stage Makeup Introduction to basic stage makeup techniques: character makeup; hair, mustaches
and beards. (Lab requirement.)
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Additional course fee required
Credits: 3
THA 237 - Stage Management Introductory studio course in the study and practice of managing the
artistic elements of theatrical production, rehearsal and performance.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes BS
Prereq: THA 150 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
THA 240 - Intermediate Acting: Characterization Course in character analysis and development with particular emphasis on comic technique.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHS
Prereq: THA 140 or permission of instructor
Coreq: THA 240L
Credits: 3
THA 250 - Technical Theatre II A continuation of Technical Theatre I. Forty-hour lab requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BPS
Prereq: THA 150 or permission of instructor
$40 lab fee to be collected
Credits: 3
THA 270 - PII American Musical Theatre (Perspectives II course) The development of modern musical theatre from
both a historical and structural perspective. The works of
representative composers, lyricists, librettists and
director-choreographers will be investigated in an effort to illuminate
the form’s development.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
THA 275 - PII History of the Theatre I (Perspectives II course) Study of the evolution of Western drama,
theatrical styles and production modes from ancient to contemporary
theatre forms with the Renaissance as the dividing line between the two
semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Adv Codes: ABR
Credits: 3
THA 276 - PII History of the Theatre II (Perspectives II course) Study of the evolution of Western drama,
theatrical styles and production modes from ancient to contemporary
theatre forms with the Renaissance as the dividing line between the two
semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
THA 280 - Music Theatre Performance This course will provide students with practical applications of dramatic, musical
and choreographic techniques used in the Musical Theatre form and aid the student
in the preparation of audition and performance materials by the integration of
skills learned in vocal and dance technique class with performance elements learned
in acting.
Credits: 3
THA 303 - Special Problems in Theatre Occasional course offerings in specialized areas of theatre history,
theory, acting, technical theatre, or touring production. Offering at
various levels of difficulty.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Special/Selected Topics
Credits: 3
THA 304G - Special Problems in Theatre (Perspectives II Global Course) This course will focus on all relevant
aspects of Chinese culture as evolutionary factors, which affected the
development of Chinese traditional and modern drama will be covered.
The semester will be divided into several units which will focus on
different types of drama, their historical background, scripts, music
and acting styles, and also the connection between Chinese theatre and
theatre of the West. This course is a combination of lecture, video
viewing of the Chinese dramatic productions, and student presentations.
There will be a midterm exam and a final exam. Prerequisite, any PI in
Fine Arts
Prerequisites & Notes any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
THA 321 - Movement for the Stage Emphasis will be on the student’s relationship to the body as well as
tuning it and developing physical performance skills for stage work.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BS
Prereq: THA 140 and one of the following Jazz Dance, Tap, Ballet, Yoga Juggling
or Fencing
Credits: 3
THA 322 - PII The Art of Film (Perspectives II course) The history and aesthetics of film and
filmmaking; the distinctive qualities of film as an artistic medium.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
THA 330 - Scene Design Introductory study of scenic design which takes the student from the
design concept to implementation with emphasis on research, design
process and presentation skills.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AHS
Additional supplies required
Credits: 3
THA 331 - Lighting Design Introductory study of lighting for the stage from concept through
implementation of the design. Emphasis placed upon design process,
presentation and technical skills.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACS
Prereq: THA 150 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
THA 332 - Costume Design Introductory study of stage costume design which approaches clothing
both as an artistic medium and as an expressive element within a
production concept. Design problems in different periods, media and
styles will be used to show how costumes help achieve chosen artistic
and production objectives.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACS
Prereq: THA 150 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
THA 335 - Scene Painting A study of both traditional and non-traditional methods for painting scenery.
Lab requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: GQS
10-hours lab practicum required
Credits: 3
THA 340 - Advanced Acting: Styles A course utilizing techniques and theories of acting. Students will study period styles of performance and dramatic literature and use them in scene study.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHS
Prereq: THA 140, THA 240, and permission of the instructor
Coreq: THA 340L
Credits: 3
THA 345 - Theatre Practicum Production, projects in performance, design or management for upper
class students working under direct supervision of appropriate theatre
faculty. Junior or senior standing and departmental permission
required. May be taken for a total of four credits and will not fulfill
upper-level elective requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv codes: FHS
Credits: 1
THA 351 - Play Analysis Intensive reading and analysis of plays, emphasizing structural and theatrical
problems.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ABR
Prereq: THA 120
Credits: 3
THA 353 - PII American Theatre (Perspectives II course) A study of the American theatre experience
from an historical perspective and the development of an American style
in acting and playwriting. Seminar format.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BR
Credits: 3
THA 370 - PII Theatre in England (Perspectives II course) London-based course studying the history of
British theatre. Students will attend theatrical productions, tour
theatre facilities and attend lectures and critiques. Offered in summer
sessions.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BGR
Prereq: any PI in Fine Arts
Multicultural Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
THA 375 - Principles of Play Directing Introduction to basic principles: determining production concepts and
approaches to the dramatic material; deciding upon appropriate visual
and oral patterns; and working with the actor, culminating in one-act productions.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: ACHR
Prereq: THA 150, THA 240, THA 275, THA 276, THA 351 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
THA 377 - Playwriting A workshop course in the making of theatre scripts. Students will
submit work on a project basis, which will be evaluated independently
and/or in class. Course will be limited to 10.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Prereq: THA 275 THA 276 THA 351 or permission of instructor
Cross-listed with ENGW 377
Credits: 3
THA 403 - Special Problems in Theatre Occasional course offerings in specialized areas of theatre history, theory, acting, technical theatre, or touring production. Offered at various levels of difficulty.
Credits: 3
THA 404 - Special Problems in Theatre Occasional course offerings in specialized areas of theatre history, theory, acting, technical theatre, or touring production. Offered at various levels of difficulty.
Credits: 3
THA 452 - Seminar in Theatre Group study of selected topics in the field of theatre and dramatic
literature leading to preparation and execution of senior comprehensive
projects and the comprehensive evaluation.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFHR
Credits: 3
THA 483 - Internship in Theatre Work with professional theatre companies and groups.
Prerequisites & Notes permission of the instructor, a written proposal and acceptance by a professional theatre company
Credits: 3
THA 485 - Independent Study Exploration of specific problems of interest to the Theatre Arts student. Written proposal and departmental approval required.
Credits: 3
THA 486 - Independent Study Exploration of specific problems of interest to the Theatre Arts student. Written proposal and departmental approval required.
Credits: 3
THA 499 - Senior Comprehensive Examination Senior Comprehensive Examination
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: AFI
Credits: 0
Women’s Studies
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WMS 201 - Introduction to Women’s Studies (Perspectives II course) An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women’s
studies. This course explores feminist perspectives on women’s lives across cultures
and over time and seeks answers to questions such as: What is gender inequality?
Is patriarchy universal and inevitable? How are women’s experiences altered by
race, social class, sexual orientation and other social differences? How can women
and men, individually and collectively, contribute to positive social change?
Prerequisites & Notes Women’s Studies Minor Requirement
Credits: 3
WMS 300 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies Occasional course offering which considers a major issue in the field of Women’s
Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Credits: 3
WMS 301G - PII Latin American Women Writing in the Margins: Theories of Gender and Sexuality See LIT 310G for description.
Prerequisites & Notes Cross-listed as LIT 310G
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
WMS 302 - PII Gender and Education
Prerequisites & Notes Adv Codes: BHR
Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
WMS 440 - Seminar in Feminist Theory Course looks at some critical books and essays that compose the
theoretical underpinnings of the last twenty years in feminist theory.
The seminar will raise issues and study different approaches to
questions such as: women’s relationship to language; the social
construction of knowledge; the history of patriarchal policies: the
politics of women’s bodies; “mothering” as a concept and activity.
Prerequisites & Notes Women’s Studies Minor Requirement
Credits: 3
WMS 485 - Independent Study Advanced study open to Juniors and Seniors arranged by individual student with a faculty member in an area of mutual interest.
Prerequisites & Notes Women’s Studies Minor Course
Credits: 3
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