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Course Descriptions 149 Course Descriptions Course numbers 1000 through 1999 are academic department identifies as essential Course Descriptions for defined as introductory, elementary, and for a student to complete before taking a Arts and Sciences general requirement courses appropriate course. All prerequisites should be stated for first-year students and others with no in the course description, on the course special background. These courses ordinarily syllabus and included in the college catalog. would have few or no prerequisites. Prerequisites may consist of one or more of Course numbers 2000 through 2999 are the following: defined as lower-level undergraduate • completion of placement, proficiency tests courses, ideal for second- and third-year students. These courses build on materials or other assessments (MTEL); from 1000-level courses and may carry • completion of specific course(s). p­ rerequisites. Students must earn a C– or better in any Course numbers 3000 through 3999 are course which is designated a prerequisite defined as upper-level undergraduate for another course. (Note -School of Nursing courses, courses for majors and courses requirements may differ. Please see the that may require significant prerequisites. School of Nursing Student Handbook for specific prerequisite and course restriction Course numbers 4000 through 4999 information.) are defined as advanced upper-level undergraduate courses, including senior A course restriction is a requirement which seminars/ must be satisfied before a student may capstone courses, advanced directed study register for a course. Restrictions may courses and so on. consist of one or more of the following: • completion of a specified number of GENERAL REQUIREMENTS semester hours or achievement of a The courses marked with the following s­ pecified class level; abbreviations indicate fulfillment of the • permission of the instructor or department domains of knowledge component of the chair. general academic requirements: Students are responsible for knowing and Aesthetic Inquiry completing all published prerequisites Historical Consciousness requirements and satisfying any course Social Analysis  restrictions before taking that course. Scientific Inquiry The College must inform students of Scientific Inquiry with Laboratory prerequisites requirements and course Quantitative Analysis restrictions and has the right to cancel a Religious Thought student’s registration in a course if the Moral Reasoning student has not s­ atisfied the published prerequisite requirement or restriction for PREREQUISITES AND that course. RESTRICTIONS 2020-2021 Academic Catalog A course prerequisite is a requirement an

150 Accounting ACCOUNTING Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ACCT1201 and ACCT2201 or ACCT1201 Financial Accounting (QA) concurrently with ACCT2201 At its core, financial accounting converts data into financial information for ACCT2204 Intermediate Accounting II decision making. The course introduces Accounting theory is applied to study students to the methods and procedures financial reporting in proper form and accountants use to gather data, record content. In-depth coverage of the balance their financial effects, summarize them sheet, statement of equity and the into financial statements, analyze and statement of cash flows, with a focus on interpret the economic impact, and report investments, contingent liabilities, bonds, them to stakeholders. Students utilize leasing, equity, and cash flow. Utilization of Excel for financial reporting and analysis. data analysis, data visualization software, Professional values and ethical behavior the Codification Research System, and Excel essential to financial accounting and for financial reporting and analysis. reporting standards are discussed. Spring semester. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: ACCT2203 Course Descriptions for ACCT2201 Managerial Accounting ACCT2206 Cost Accounting Arts and Sciences The use of accounting in planning, In this class Managerial Accounting controlling, and decision making is examined concepts are reinforced and expanded upon, and applied in this project-based course. and new concepts, such as process costing Excel is used throughout to complete break- and capital budgeting, are introduced. even and various cost analyses as well Excel and data analysis software are as budgeting and other decision-making used extensively to analyze and express concepts. An emphasis is placed on the information and to aid in decision making. role of corporate social responsibility, the Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits impact on stakeholders and maintaining Prerequisites: ACCT1201 and ACCT2201 the balanced scorecard. Excel data analysis exercises are also used throughout. ACCT3203 Auditing and Assurance Services Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits This course focuses on the theory and Prerequisites: MGMT1101 and ACCT1201 practice of auditing and assurance services. This includes professional skepticism and ACCT2203 Intermediate Accounting I ethics, appropriate and effective client Accounting theory is applied to prepare relationships, and the application of auditing financial statements in proper form and theory and practice to a simulated audit. content. In-depth coverage of the conceptual Fall semester. 4 credits framework, income statement and balance Prerequisites: ACCT2203 and ACCT2204 sheet, with a focus on the time value of money, revenue recognition, cash and ACCT3296 Accounting Internship receivables, inventory, and property, plant, (cross listed with ECON3496/MGMT3496) and equipment. Utilization of data analysis, The accounting internship course involves data visualization software, the Codification experiential learning in accounting- Research System, and Excel for financial related positions with a corporation, public reporting and analysis. accounting firm and/or a government Emmanuel College

Accounting 151 agency. The course also requires attendance ACCT4201 Advanced Accounting to a seminar where students apply This course is the capstone experience in the theoretical knowledge to the practical accounting major. Ideally, this course should setting where they have chosen to complete be taken in a student’s senior year after their internship work. Together with the completion of the following prerequisites: Internship supervisor, a project is defined ACCT2204, ACCT3203, ACCT3411 and for the student that will add value to the ACCT3413. This course is project based, organization and that will help the student and it emphasizes both the practical and build expertise and confidence in an area of ethical issues of the practice of accounting. mutual interest. The student completes the The course has two major parts that project as part of the internship. represent a blend of theory, practice, Fall, spring and summer semesters. 4 credits and research. In part one, topics covered Prerequisites: INT1001, ACCT2203, ACCT2204 include: consolidated financial statements, or concurrently with ACCT2204 and permission partnerships, non-profit and government of instructor. This course is limited to accounting. Students complete weekly Accounting Majors projects in Excel and data visualization software that require them to apply a ACCT3411 Federal Income Taxes high level of analysis. Part two integrates Students study tax theory, planning, and law knowledge gained in previous accounting as they apply to individual federal income coursework. Students apply and integrate taxes. Circular 230, the Internal Revenue a variety of skills, tools and knowledge, Service’s code of professional conduct, is including data analysis, to address also studied. Partnership and corporate contemporary issues and problems facing taxation are introduced, and various the accounting profession. This course is a business forms are compared. culminating experience that draws from the Spring semester, even years. 4 credits breadth of a student’s work at Emmanuel Prerequisite: ACCT1201 College. Spring semester. 4 credits ACCT3413 Accounting Information Systems Prerequisites: ACCT2204, ACCT3203, or This course focuses on the design, use, evaluation, and control of accounting concurrently with ACCT3411 and ACCT3413 information systems. Business transactions will include order entry, sales, purchasing, ACCT4178 Directed Study accounts receivable, and accounts payable, among others. Real-world accounting This course is limited to seniors. Course Descriptions for applications will be used. The course Arts and Sciences highlights emerging trends in data analytics Fall and Spring Semesters. 4 credits and its growing impact in accounting. Students work directly with various software Prerequisite: Permission from the instructor tools to learn relational database design, data retrieval, and analysis. In addition, the course introduces principles of Big Data, data visualization and software for fraud detection and internal controls. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: ACCT1201 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

152 American Studies AMERICAN STUDIES ART Course Descriptions for AMST1101 Introduction to American ART HISTORY Arts and Sciences Studies (AI-L) This course is designed to introduce ART1203 Art of Resistance: Social Justice students to some of the significant works, and the Visual Arts (AI-A) inter­pretative methods, and central This course is an examination of the ways in concerns of American Studies. Employing which art has been employed by artists an interd­ isciplinary analytical approach to promote social justice. Taking a cross- and focusing on a variety of texts (including cultural approach, the course will consider works of film, literature, and folklore as key artistic movements throughout history well as less traditional texts of academic that have been grounded in a philosophy of study, such as advertisements), this course social change as well as individual works explores popular and academic formulations that stand out within an art movement for of American identity and considers a range their progressive perspective. of American experiences. In our studies, we Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits will focus especially on times, places, and texts that illuminate the complexity and ART1204 History of Western Art (AI-A) diversity of American culture. This course is a survey of the history of Fall semester. 4 credits Western art from its early roots in the Near East through the beginnings of the modern AMST4178 Directed Research in period. Throughout the semester, we will American Studies consider social, political and religious Under the guidance of a faculty member, conditions that help us to understand students will undertake and complete a works of art at particular moments in major research project on an American history. The course will introduce students Studies-related topic. to the language of art history, including Offered as needed. 4 credits the analytical, critical, and art historical Prerequisite: Permission of department chair methodologies used by art historians to evaluate works of art. It will also introduce AMST4995 American Studies Internship students to key moments of transcultural This course involves an internship in a exchange between Europe and other parts ­cooperating institution, regular discussion of the world as these exchanges were sessions, and the completion of several expressed in art. ­projects related to the internship site. Fall semesters. 4 credits Students select their internship with the approval of the agency and a department ART1206 History of Global Art (AI-A) faculty member. This course is a survey of art from around Offered as needed. 4 credits the globe with a focus on art of Africa, Asia, Prerequisites: INT1001, senior status, and and Latin America. The art of indigenous permission of department chair people will also be considered. Some highlights of the course are the Ancient Egyptian Kingdoms, the Mughal Empire, the Chinese Song Dynasty, and Aztec and Mayan civilizations. Beginning with a focus Emmanuel College

Art 153 on ancient societies, the course will move ART2213 Daguerreotypes to Digital Prints: Course Descriptions for through history to consider the continuation The History of Photography Arts and Sciences of these cultures through the modern period This course surveys the history of photog­ and end with the contemporary art world. raphy from its beginnings in the early19th Grounded in historical analysis, the course century to the present. We will examine will consider social, olitical and religious the use of photography for aesthetic, conditions that help us to understand works documentary, and “scientific” purposes, of art at particular moments in history and the stylistic shifts in photography related to through the specific cultural traditions from aesthetic interests, and the interpretations which the art originates. Overall, the course of subject matter based on social and will introduce students to the language of cultural concerns. More broadly, we will art history, including the analytical, critical, evaluate the shifting relationship between and art historical methodologies used by art photography and the visual arts, which historians to evaluate works of art. culminates in the primacy of photography Spring semesters. 4 credits as a medium by the late 20th century. The impact of digital photography on ART2201 Understanding Gender through photography as art will also be considered. Art (AI-A) Fall semester. 4 credits This course is an examination of the ways in which gender constructions are revealed in ART2215 Modern Art (AI-A) works of art throughout history and across This course is an examination of art trends cultures. Using the lens of art history, we that have come to define modern art from will consider the shifting meanings of art the 1860s to the 1950s and the postmodern objects based on historically and culturally challenges to modern art that began to constructed notions of the so-called emerge in the 1960s and continue into the masculine and feminine. 21st century. Emphasis will be placed on Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits the importance of new types of media and techniques that transformed art, the shifting ART2204 Transcultural Exchange and the s­ ignificance of the art object as an artistic Visual Arts (AI-A) necessity, and the changing view of the This course is an examination of cultural artist’s role from creative genius to cultural exchange from the perspective of a broad critic. range of artists and art communities, with Spring semester. 4 credits roots from Asia to the Middle East and Africa and including the indigenous peoples ART2217 American Art to 1940 (AI-A) of North and South America, in an effort to This course is an examination of American understand how expanded international and art from its indigenous roots to the mid-20th transnational connections have redefined century. We will consider the American visual artistic production throughout the world. arts tradition in relation to constructions of Beginning with an historical perspective national identity and the critiques of those on cultural exchange, the course will then constructions by art historians today. We will consider the widespread acceleration of also consider the ways that issues of class, cultural exchange in the late 20th century. race, and gender have been examined by Fall semester, even years. 4 credits American art historians. While considering the aesthetic qualities that have come to define American art, we will concentrate on 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

154 Art Course Descriptions for the relationship between American art and ART2224 Irish Art (AI-A) Arts and Sciences the political, economic, and social climate of This course examines the history of Irish art the United States at the time in which it was from its prehistoric roots to the present. produced. Emphasis will be placed on the “golden age Spring semester. 4 credits of Irish art” during the Medieval Period, the influence of English art during the Protestant ART2221 Contemporary Art and Artistic Ascendancy, and efforts by Irish artists Practice (in conjunction to Artist in to create works of art related to national Residence Program) (AI-A) identity beginning in the late 18th century A four-credit art history course focused on and continuing through to the present. The contemporary art trends as they relate to the subject of Irish national identity will be studio practices of four artists in residence central to this course, specifically as it was at Emmanuel College. This is a unique supported by Irish arts organizations with oppor­tunity to study art history grounded strong ties to Irish ­political, religious, and in the direct experiences of working artists. social groups. The course will include travel Through weekly meetings with resident to Ireland during spring break. artists, students will examine the working Travel Component Required. methods and conceptual frameworks that Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits inform artistic practices. At the same time, an historical and contextual framework for ART3391/2 Special Topics in Art History these practices will be developed through This course is a focused study of topics in classroom discussions. Media to be art history that warrant complex analyses examined include ceramics, photography, and in-depth investigation. The course will and printmaking. The role of social justice be designed to assist students in further in contemporary art practices will also be developing their research skills. Students considered. Learn about contemporary art will consider the critical theory that serves from a broad lens that covers both theory as the foundation for the methodologies and practice, and earn four humanities used by art historians as well as scholars credits in an accelerated format. in other disciplines. Summer. 4 credits Offered as needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing only ART2223 From Patronage to Practice: The Catholic Art Tradition (AI-A) STUDIO ART This course examines the tradition of Catholic art from the Renaissance to the ART1401 Drawing I (AI-A) present. Topics covered include the history Drawing is a primary means of inquiry of art patronage by the Catholic Church, across many disciplines and media. It is an the spread of Catholic art around the world essential skill for all artists and designers. through missionary activities, the artistic The course focuses on developing visual production of practicing Catholics and the perception through observational drawing. appropriation of Catholic imagery by non- Response to critique is an integral part of Catholic artists. The course will pay special the class. The course is an introduction attention to the position of Catholic abstract to drawing and its formal and expressive artists during the Modern Period in relation concerns. Prior drawing experience is not to both avant-garde art movements and to necessary. the Catholic Church. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits $115 studio fee Emmanuel College

Art 155 ART1407 Visual Language for Design and part of the course. Course Descriptions for Communication (AI-A) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Arts and Sciences This course is an introduction to the tools $115 studio fee and methodologies related to creating visual communication. Students will use industry ART2413 Photography I (AI-A) caliber digital tools while learning the This course introduces students to the tra­ fundamentals of how to organize, clarity your ditional tools and techniques of black and message, and craft compelling visual work. white ­photography in an analog, ­darkroom- Projects include photographic manipulation, based lab environment. Students learn explanatory illustration, and oster design for the function of a camera and lens, proper advocacy. ­exposure and development of the negative Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits and print, methods of presentation and $115 studio fee preservation techniques. This course stresses the photographic process as a ART2402 Drawing II (AI-A) means of expanding visual expression and Drawing is an essential skill for all artists communication. Students are introduced to and designers. Through observational the history of photography as an art form. drawing, students increase their visual Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits discernment. Continuing emphasis is placed $115 studio fee on formal analysis and experimentation. Formal and expressive ideas are explored ART2432 Poster and Information Design through a variety of in class and independent In this course students will advance their projects including study of the human form. skill in typography and design principles Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits through the medium of poster design. Prerequisite: ART1401 Projects will focus on typography as an $115 studio fee expressive element, color, information hierarchy, structure, concept and effective ART2403 Design and Composition (AI-A) communication. Through lectures, The understanding of two-dimensional demonstrations, research, and weekly design is essential to all image making. critiques, students will explore the This studio core course explores the formal historical/social impact of the poster and its elements of line, texture, value, space and role as a contemporary means of expression/ composition. Design projects in black and communication. Projects focus on posters white and in color which expand students’ and infographics. visual perception are the focus of the Fall semester. 4 credits course. Lectures, critiques and museum Prerequisites: ART1407 assignments are an integral part of the $115 studio fee course. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits ART2433 3D Form Studies (AI-A) $115 studio fee Understanding three-dimensional form impacts sculpture, industrial design, graphic ART2411 Introduction to Printmaking (AI-A) design, architecture, as well as the execution This course is an introduction to the of successful two-dimensional images. printmaking processes of intaglio, relief, and Form study is a three-dimensional studio screen printing. Studio work, self-generated core course, which is designed to develop independent projects, study of master students’ problem-solving skills. It will prints, and museum visits are an integral ­examine perception, organization, analysis, colors, objects and environments in real 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

156 Art Course Descriptions for space. The course is structured around Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Arts and Sciences ­studio projects where students are required $115 studio fee to apply various approaches of generating and developing ideas. Group critiques are ART3101 Painting given weekly. Simple technical processes This course explores painting in oil and with various media will be introduced related media and offers an understanding through demos as well as some of the major of the visual and physical properties of ideas influencing three-dimensional art and the medium. Spatial relationships of design in the history of art. color, form, light, and composition are Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits emphasized. Lectures, critiques and $115 studio fee museum assignments are an integral part of the course. ART2443 Digital Photography I: New Spring semester. 4 credits Technologies in Photography Prerequisite: ART1401, ART2403 or This course provides each student with permission of instructor an ability to maintain a stable digital $115 studio fee color work space from capture to print. By means of demonstration and course ART3402 Interactive Design projects, students will establish technical This advanced course introduces students to knowledge and a­ bility with professional the concepts and techniques of interactive digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. design through industry standard web The fundamentals of available light control, development. Through focused projects, processing of RAW captured image files, students will explore interactive paradigms use of Photoshop from a photographer’s of user experience, information architecture, perspective, and maintenance of working and navigation design with an emphasis color space will be introduced. on organization and usability. Current and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits future directions of interactive design will Prerequisite: ART1407 or permission be discussed with a focus on advanced CSS, of instructor JQuery, and responsive design. $115 studio fee Spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: ART1407 ART2451 Ceramics I (AI-A) $115 studio fee This course is designed to introduce students to basic handbuilding skills. Demos ART3403 Drawing III: Advanced Projects include pinch pot, slab, coil, leather-hard Projects explore the intersection of the slab, paper armature techniques, extruder, drawing process and concept through a glazing etc. Throughout the semester, variety of 2D media. Emphasis is placed students will experience handbuilding on formal analysis, experimentation, and techniques to experiment and explore the expression. Independent projects explore possibilities of the medium. They will also concepts in tandem with in class drawing. facilitate skills to control the medium. Students are asked to work and think in a The course projects offer a v­ ariety of responsive and self-critical manner. Special approaches, forms, and ideas. We will be emphasis is placed on the human form. exploring realistic, abstract, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits non-representational forms, both pedestal Prerequisites: ART1401, ART1402 or ART2402 work as well as wall pieces, and both $115 studio fee functional and s­ culptural work.   Emmanuel College

Art 157 ART3412 Photography II: Idea and Image problem solving skills are advanced through Course Descriptions for This unique hybrid course offers students rapid prototyping and group critique. Design Arts and Sciences with fundamental technical and aesthetic concepts explored include brand guidelines, knowledge in the disciplines of film and/ the client, the consumer, user interaction, or digital photography an opportunity and information in series. to develop their understanding and Spring semester. 4 credits. faculty of the medium further. Within an Prerequisites: ART1407 environment of enhanced critical review and $115 studio fee independence, the course provides a more compreh­ ensive review and application of ART3433 Open Projects advanced photochemical techniques and This course is structured to allow our lighting systems, and promotes a project- junior level design students to master based exploration of the medium’s ability the mediums and methods they have to facilitate the expression of concrete and been exposed to and to explore beyond. abstract ideas. Students in the course will be expected to Spring semester. 4 credits develop project proposals, research and Prerequisites: ART2413 or ART2443 production timelines, and meet all self- $115 studio fee structured deadlines. All projects will be proposed, approved and developed in close ART3431 Motion Graphics and Digital communication with the instructor. The Animation culmination of the course will be an end of In this advanced course, students build upon semester art exhibition of one or more of fundamentals of design while exploring their projects from the course. time-based media. Students will experience Fall semester. 4 credits concept building, storyboarding and problem Pre-requisites: ART1407 and one of the solving, while investigating issues of following ART2432, ART3402, ART3431, type, image, sequence, scale, contrast, ART3432 movement, rhythm and balance. Focus will $115 studio fee be on the dynamic communication of visual systems of information with an emphasis ART3451 Ceramics II (AI-A) on audience, organization, legibility and This course will examine variety of ceramics purpose. Projects will address web and processes. Students will be introduced broadcast production of advertising, with introductory wheel-throwing, casting informational graphics, and narrative shorts. process, screen printing on clay, 3D Fall semester. 4 credits printing clay, and glaze mixing. A variety of Prerequisites: ART1407 forms such as sculpture, installation, and $115 studio fee tableware will be discussed in the course. Spring semester. 4 credits ART3432 Package and Publication Design Prerequisite: ART2451 or permission of This course focuses on identity design instructor and brand design as it applies to package $115 studio fee and publication design. Through lectures, demonstrations, research, and weekly ART3531 Stories in Motion Studio critiques, students will explore the formal Stories in Motion Studio (SMS) is an design principles of making physical introduction to the confluence of literary designed objects. Conceptual thinking and and visual arts. Students will create various 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

158 Art Course Descriptions for digital video projects combining student of their work. Each student is required Arts and Sciences authored short stories, literary adaptations to submit personal work to various and journalistic inquiry as core content - competitions and juried exhibitions, a critical with the visual and conceptual foundations step in building any young designer and/or of a cinematic view and rhythm of visual art maker’s résumé. Additionally, we begin sequence editing to create a handful of short a practical discussion and implementation video projects. SMS reviews primary texts regarding the means by which young visual and screenings of cinematic masters work artists and designers can best prepare for a with an emphasis on the Short Film genre. career in a creative profession. The course cuminates in a team developed, Spring semester. 4 credits final project that is inclusive of the course’s Prerequisites: ART1407, ART2213, ART2413 or theoretical, lyrical and practical core ART2443, ART3412 content. $115 studio fee Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ART1407, and ENGL1502 or ART4417 Senior Studio permission of instructor This capstone course for all studio majors $115 studio fee examines advanced problems in two- dimensional and three-dimensional design ART4178/ART4179 Directed Study I and II with an emphasis on the student’s individual This course is open only to juniors and process of problem solving and the seniors who have had experience in a strategies used. Students work on individual specific area. Approvals of the chairperson projects over the course of the semester and and instructor are required. meet weekly for group critiques. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ART2403, ART1407, ART2433, ART4194/ART4195 Internship I or II ART1401, ART2402, or permission of instructor This course involves a formal, supervised $115 studio fee experience in galleries, museums, corporate collections, art centers, graphic design ART4432 Graphic Design Senior Studio firms, broadcasting and publishing or state In this capstone course, students explore arts funding organizations. Students must user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) apply one semester in advance to the chair design through a series of projects focusing of the department. on app development. In addition, this studio Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits is design to be an incubator where students Prerequisites: INT1001, permission actively research, prototype, and document of instructor their design process in preparation for their senior thesis project. ART4412 Photography III: Pixel to Page: Fall semester. 4 credits Advanced Photography Projects Prerequisites: ART1407, ART2403, ART2432, This course offers advanced students of ART3432 photography an opportunity to exercise $115 studio fee known and new sets of imaging and art- making tools to independently conceive ART4451 Ceramics III and execute an intellectually and visually This course is designed to provide an engaging series of photo-based work. opportunity for students to develop their Students will self-publish visually own vision and produce a cohesive body of contiguous hand-made and web portfolios work. All students enrolled in this course are required to have either a solo exhibition or a Emmanuel College

Art 159 group exhibition at the end of the semester. ART4365/4366 Art Therapy Practicum This course will also introduce information I and II regarding professional practice. Students This weekly seminar provides students with are prepared and encouraged to exhibit their a forum for sharing their required training work professionally upon completing this experiences at off-campus clinical sites course. under the supervision of professional Spring semester. 4 credits art therapists. It also serves as a focus for Prerequisite: ART3451 integration of practice with research and $115 studio fee writing, culminating in an art therapy thesis. Students are prepared for professional ART EDUCATION development in the field of art therapy and are introduced to ongoing professional ART3501 Methods and Materials of activity available through workshops Teaching Art and organizations, as well as graduate This course deals with the methods and training programs. techniques of teaching art, design and Practicum I, fall semester. 4 credits craftwork in elementary or secondary school. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Practicum II, spring semester. 4 credits $115 studio fee Prerequisites: ART1301 for Practicum I and ART4365 for Practicum II ART THERAPY ART1301 Introduction to Art Therapy This course is an introduction to the field of art therapy, its history, theoretical perspectives, and applications for various populations in mental health, special education and rehabilitation. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 $115 studio fee ART2302 Principles of Art Therapy Course Descriptions for This course provides an in-depth study of Arts and Sciences the field of art therapy. Through readings, training exercises and case presentations, students gain a deeper understanding of art therapy and the adaptability of methods and materials in clinical and educational practice. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ART1301 or permission of instructor $115 studio fee 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

160 Biology Course Descriptions for BIOLOGY patterns, human evolution and human Arts and Sciences impacts on the environment. In addition, this BIOL1101 Life on Earth (SI-L) course provides a forum for discussion and This introductory biology course is designed evaluation of current issues in the area of primarily for non-science majors seeking human biology. Three hours lecture. an understanding of life processes. Topics Spring semester. 4 credits ­include cellular structure, metabolism, genetics, genetic engineering, human BIOL1105 Introduction to Cellular and systems, plant structure and function, Molecular Biology (SI-L) evolution, and ecology. Laboratories This is the first of a two-semester include experiments and demonstrations to introductory biology course intended for, illustrate these phenomena. Students are but not limited to, students considering a introduced to scientific data analysis and biology or neuroscience major. Beginning learn about the biology behind the science with the key molecules of the cell, the course in the news. Three hours l­ecture, two hours moves from molecular to cellular while laboratory. illustrating key concepts with examples from Fall semester. 4 credits human diseases such as ­cystic fibrosis, $100 lab fee sickle cell anemia, and cancer. Topics include: DNA and the molecular b­ iology of BIOL1102 Human Biology (SI-L) transcription and translation; cell division; This course is designed to provide non- protein structure and function; transport science majors with an understanding across membranes into and out of cellular of topics in human biology that may compartments; signaling molecules include selected body systems, disease, and signal transduction. The laboratory development and aging, inheritance introduces students to a variety of cutting- patterns, human evolution and human edge research techniques via a semester- impacts on the environment. In addition, this long project that leads to publishable data. course provides a forum for discussion and Students learn data analysis methods and evaluation of current issues in the area of are introduced to scientific writing. Three human biology. Laboratory includes tracking hours lecture, three hours laboratory. student data using Fitbits, nutrition analyses Fall semester. 4 credits and physiological tests, and other activities Required of all biology majors, unless that complement the lecture. Three hours exempted by departmental permission lecture, two hours laboratory. $100 lab fee Spring semester. 4 credits $100 lab fee BIOL1106 Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (SI-L) BIOL1103 Human Biology (SI) This course surveys the kinds of living This is the same course content as organisms found on the planet and BIOL­1102, but without the laboratory investigates the evolutionary relationship c­ omponent.This course is designed to between them. Students will explore how provide non-science majors with an the principles of evolution explain the understanding of topics in human biology unity and diversity of life on our planet. that may include selected body systems, Emphasis is placed on structure, ­function disease, development and aging, inheritance and experimentation at the ­organismal and population level. The laboratory stresses Emmanuel College

Biology 161 data analysis and scientific writing skills as globalization on the spread of infectious Course Descriptions for students build their expertize in molecular diseases, the biological mechanisms of EIDs, Arts and Sciences biology techniques. Three hours lecture, the ecology of disease agents and vectors, three hours laboratory. agencies involved in fighting the spread of Spring semester. 4 credits diseases, bioterrorism in the past, present Prerequisite: BIOL1105 and future, and the socioeconomic impact of Required of all biology majors, unless ­exempted EIDs. Lectures, debates, book ­discussions, by departmental permission case studies, films, and projects will be $100 lab fee integral parts of this course. Three hours lecture. BIOL1112 Biology and Society (SI) Fall semester. 4 credits This class focuses on decision making on ­scientific and technological issues and the BIOL1215 Introduction to Nutrition (SI) importance of civic responsibility around Introduction to Nutrition provides an ­science. This course explores the important understanding of nutritional requirements roles of biology and scientists in society and the roles of nutrients in body ­historically and currently and the potential functioning. Students discuss how to design for the future. The nature of science is a healthy diet, weight control and physical s­ tudied with applications to different ­fitness. Topics include evaluation of food ­scientific and technological disciplines. intakes and habits, world food problems and Appropriate ways of understanding and malnutrition, nutrition and health, assessing science are considered, and sustainability, food processing and food ethical issues are discussed. Examples of safety. Study of major discoveries within current controversies in biology are studied, nutrition research and the relationship and the influence of government and the between nutrition and health provides a impact on the general public are explored. framework for the focus of this biology For a major project in the course, each course in scientific inquiry. This nutrition student chooses a current scientific issue course is for non-biology majors; it does not to research and develops an action plan for count toward the requirements for a major in implementing education or change at the biology. town, state, country, or ­international level. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Fall semester, even years. 4 credits BIOL1501 Introduction to Anatomy and BIOL1211 Emerging Infectious Physiology (SI-L) Diseases (SI) Introduction to anatomy and physiology Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) is of the human body should provide the designed primarily for non-science majors student with an understanding and working who are interested in understanding the knowledge of the structure of the body and impact of globalization on the spread of how it functions. Basic scientific principles infectious diseases. This course should be as applied to biology are covered while of particular interest to students majoring learning anatomy and physiology in both in International Studies and related fields. the lecture and the laboratory. This one- Cholera, Covid-19, influenza, Lyme disease, semester course provides a comprehensive ebola, polio, smallpox, malaria, MRSA overview of the important concepts and and tuberculosis continue to attract news processes within the human body along with headlines. EIDs will cover the impact of the relationships between the structure and functions of the organ systems. The 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

162 Biology Course Descriptions for two-hour laboratory component provides a total body physiological framework will Arts and Sciences hands-on investigation of structures and be studied. The primary focus of the course experiments on how the systems work. will be human anatomy and physiology, Spring semester. 4 credits but comparisons with non-mammalian vertebrates will be presented where $100 lab fee appropriate. This semester the topics covered include the: endocrine system, BIOL1919 Anatomy & Physiology I for cardiovascular system, lymphatic system, Nursing Professionals (SI-L) immune system, respiratory system, To function successfully in the health digestive system, urinary system, and professions, one must understand the reproductive system, along with nutrition normal function and anatomy of the and pregnancy. The laboratories will human body. This course will examine the supplement the lecture and provide the structure and function of humans through students with a hands on experience and consideration of each of the major organ appreciation of the complexity of the human systems. General physiological principles, body. especially mechanisms of homeostasis Spring semester. 4 credits and structure-function relationships, will be emphasized for each system. The Prerequisites: BIOL1919 interactions among organ systems within a total body physiological framework will $100 lab fee be studied. The primary focus of the course will be human anatomy and physiology, BIOL1999 Biology in the Larger World (SI) but comparisons with non-mammalian This course is a clone of the current vertebrates will be presented where HONORS2501 Science in the Larger World appropriate. This semester the topics for use in travel abroad programs. The covered include: cellular metabolism, science of biology is often perceived as histology, integumentary system, skeletal existing in a vacuum; the dispassionate system, muscular system, nervous system search for ‘truth’ independent of influence and special senses. The laboratories will and bias. In reality, the practice and supplement the lecture and provide the implications of biological research sits right students with a hands-on experience and at the intersection of knowledge, impacting appreciation of the complexity of the human fields such as law, politics, literature, art, body. religion, and business, and being equally Fall semester. 4 credits subject to influence from these fields and others. Can you patent a gene? What impact $100 lab fee will knowing your genetic sequence have on your future job options? Does prayer play BIOL1920 Anatomy & Physiology II for any role in surgical outcomes? What does it Nursing Professionals (SI-L) mean if a computer can simulate the neural To function successfully in the health connections found in the brain? What are professions, one must understand the the conflicts of interest found in clinical normal function and anatomy of the research, and what role do patients play? human body. This course will examine the We will address these questions (and many structure and function of humans through others) as we investigate the role of biology consideration of each of the major organ in the larger world around us. systems. General physiological principles, Summer. 4 credits especially mechanisms of homeostasis and structure-function relationships, BIOL2019 Medical Microbiology W/Lab will be emphasized for each system. The This course will describe the impact of interactions among organ systems within microorganism on human health and Emmanuel College

Biology 163 disease states. The mechanisms of how will reflect student input. There is a strong Course Descriptions for clinically relevant bacteria, fungi, viruses, communication component to this course as Arts and Sciences and protozoa mediate infectious diseases students will give ­multiple oral ­presentations will be examined. Strategies and policies to on topics such as cancer ­(oncog­ enes, control microorganism growth and spread tumor suppressors), infectious diseases will be introduced. Laboratories are designed (tuberculosis, salmonella, hepatitis), genetic to illustrate these phenomena and teach disorders (obesity, cystic fibrosis, ­pituitary hands-on skills on how to safely handle, dwarfism, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy), isolate and study various microorganisms immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, and how to solve real-life clinical case asthma, AIDs, ­diabetes), diseases of the scenarios. n­ ervous system (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Fall semester. 4 credits d­ epression), respiratory diseases Prerequisites: BIOL1919 and BIOL1920 or (emphysema) and others. Reading materials BIOL1105 will consist of primary literature, review $100 lab fee articles and other sources. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits BIOL2113 Human Nutrition Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or This course covers the vital roles of nutrients permission of instructor in human body functioning. Nutritional requirements, nutrient sources in foods BIOL2119 Current Topics in Biological and nutritional disorders are examined. Research Students discuss how nutrients interact and This is an introductory level course that learn to balance nutrients in foods within a describes and analyzes the emerging fields healthy diet. The critical role of nutrients in of biotechnology, genetic engineering and physiology and health is a key focus and is molecular biology. The course focuses studied by examining nutrition throughout on recent developments that will have a the lifespan. Regulation of nutrient intake revo­lutionary impact on our lives. Topics and processing is examined. Students study may include transplantation, artificial weight control and the key functions of organs, rational drug design, combinatorial nutrients in physical fitness. Topics include libraries, drug delivery systems, exotic food safety, processing and biotechnology. ­epidemics, transgenic animals, knockout The complex issues concerning malnutrition, mice, gene therapy, antisense and others. world hunger and the environment are also Readings from a wide spectrum of books examined. This nutrition course is for biology and periodicals are assigned as a basis majors. for class discussion, short papers and oral Spring semester. 4 credits ­presentations. Students are encouraged to Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or view the challenges of modern biology from permission of instructor scientific, social and ethical viewpoints. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits BIOL2115 Determinants of Health and Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or Disease permission of instructor The objective of this course is to offer ­insight into selected determinants of human health BIOL2121 Human Health and the and disease. W­ e will learn that disease in Environment humans is complex and multi-factorial, with This course will examine the relationship genetic, biochemical, environmental and between the environment and human socio-economic inputs. Content will vary and 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

164 Biology Course Descriptions for health. It will focus on issues such as BIOL2131 Biochemistry Arts and Sciences climate change and accompanying disease Biochemistry is an intermediate level course outbreaks, environmental contaminants and, as such, functions to provide a basic and toxins, water, food and air quality understanding of the structure and function and sanitation. It will also examine the of the living cell at the level of i­ndividual pathways through which climate change molecular types. Students are expected is likely to influence human health. These to master the chemical structures of the include the health effects of rising ambient major groups of biomolecules ­(proteins, temperatures, shifting patterns of vector- carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids) borne and food-borne diseases, physical and to understand the biochemical basis and mental health risks of extreme weather of cellular metabolism. Contemporary events, potential food and water insecurity approaches to biochemical research are and the likely impacts of climate change on ­integrated into classroom. Three hours health equity. The course includes a strong lecture. emphasis on personal decision-making. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisites: BIOL1105 or its equivalent, Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or CHEM2101, or permission of instructor instructor permission. BIOL2135 Anatomy and Physiology I BIOL2123 Genetics This course is the first semester of Anatomy This course details the fundamentals of and Physiology for biology majors. This transmission, molecular, and population course will examine the structure and genetics, with a strong emphasis on human f­ unction of the human body through disease. Topics range from the historical i­nvestigation of the major organ systems. foundations of genetics (Mendel’s laws, gene General physiological principles, especially mapping) to modern day extensions and mechanisms of homeostasis and structure- applications (genetic testing, biotechnology). function relationships, will be emphasized Students engage in extensive problem for each system. The interactions among solving that emphasizes critical thinking organ systems within a total body and quantitative skills, including statistical physiologic framework will be studied testing (Chi-square) and population with particular emphasis being placed modeling (Hardy-Weinberg). In addition, on homeostatic ­imbalances and disease students discuss ethical issues related to states. This semester the topics covered genetics and society such as genetically include tissues: histology, integumentary modified organisms (GMOs), genetic system, skeletal system, ­muscular system, discrimination, and personalized medicine, nervous system and ­special senses. culminating in a persuasive essay writing Students interested in a career in the health assignment. Three hours lecture, 75-minute professions are particularly encouraged to recitation will be dedicated to problem- take both semesters. Three hours ­lecture, solving skills. three hours laboratory. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106, Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 (prerequisite or $100 lab fee concurrent) or CHEM1103, or permission of instructor BIOL2137 Anatomy and Physiology II This course is the second semester of Anatomy and Physiology for biology majors. Emmanuel College

Biology 165 This will examine the structure origin. Course Descriptions for and function of the human body through Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Arts and Sciences investigation of the major organ systems. Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 General physiological principles, especially mechanisms of homeostasis and structure- BIOL2301 Experimental Biology function relationships, will be emphasized Laboratory for each system. The interactions among In this course-based undergraduate organ systems within a total body research experience (CURE), students meet physiologic framework will be studied for six hours each week and are trained with particular emphasis being placed to become skilled practitioners of the on homeostatic imbalances and disease scientific method. Student-scientists will states. This semester of the two-semester be instructed in core biochemical, genetic, sequence covers the endocrine system, molecular, and cellular techniques while circulatory system, r­ espiratory system, engaged in open-ended projects. Using a digestive system, m­ etabolism and nutrition, model organism of study, core techniques urinary system and reproductive system. may include (but are not limited to) microbial Three hours l­ecture, three hours laboratory. culture, transformation, microscopy, PCR, Spring semester. 4 credits restriction digestion, DNA assembly, DNA Prerequisites: BIOL1105, BIOL1106 and and protein purification, DNA sequencing, BIOL2135 or permission of instructor and Western blot. Computer software is used for DNA and protein sequence/structure $100 lab fee analyses. Students critically analyze results and produce high-quality data figures, BIOL2151 Marine Microbiology resulting in a formal manuscript based on The world’s ocean environment contains journal club discussions and individual enormous biological diversity. The vast findings. The importance of scientific majority of that diversity is microbial (both integrity and ethics will also be discussed, procaryotic and eucaryotic) and remains using historical examples of scientific poorly described. This course will examine malpractice. the biology of the microbiota found in the Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits marine environment. Students will examine Prerequisites: BIOL2123 what is known about marine bacteria, $100 lab fee archaea, and single cell eucaryotic cells. What microorganisms are present near the BIOL3101 Analysis of Development coastline, in the open ocean, at coral reefs, The processes of development: and at deep-sea hydrothermal vents? What gametogenesis, fertilization, morphogenesis, structural or physiological adaptations allow differentiation, metamorphosis and them to succeed? How do these organisms regeneration are examined. Emphasis affect the global marine environment? What is on vertebrate development, with is the potential for the discovery of new consideration of invertebrates and plants bioactive and antimicrobial compounds? when appropriate. Laboratory includes The laboratory component of this course observation of developmental events will be conducted in the field. Students will coupled with experimental analysis of travel to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (or underlying mechanisms. Three hours other relevant marine ecosystem); survey ­lecture, three hours laboratory. the indigenous microbial fauna with the aim Spring semester, even years. 4 credits of discovering new organisms and searching for novel bioactive compounds of microbial 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

166 Biology Course Descriptions for Prerequisite: BIOL2135 or permission BIOL3119 Immunology Arts and Sciences of instructor The course covers the current advances $100 lab fee and classical foundations of immunology. It includes: innate and adaptive immunity; BIOL3103 Cell Biology the anatomic, cellular and molecular basis This course includes a detailed examination of the immune response; clonal selection; of the structure and function of living immunoglobulin structure and specificity; s­ ystems at the cellular level. Particular antibody-antigen interactions, key signaling a­ ttention is paid to the relationship between pathways of T cells and B cells; cytokines; the fine structure of the cell and cellular apoptosis in the immune system, classic mechanisms such as transport, movement, and novel pathways of antigen processing secretion and reproduction. Selected cellular and presentation; allergy and other forms systems such as neurons and muscle cells of hypersensitivity; tolerance, autoimmune are examined in detail to illustrate specific diseases and immune deficiency, including phenomena. The laboratory component of HIV. the course is designed to provide hands-on Spring semester, even years. 4 credits experience investigating concepts discussed Prerequisite: BIOL2131 or its equivalent or in the lecture and learning important CHEM2111 e­ xperimental techniques. Students work together as groups of three to four students BIOL3125 Molecular Biology each. Some of the labs are done in the Molecular Biology explores the flow of traditional mode of demonstration and genetic information in living cells, and a observation while others are investigative. rapid expansion of this field underlies many Three weeks are set aside for the recent advances in medicine, genetics, collaborative s­ tudent groups to design and and biotechnology. This course entails a implement investigations of membrane thorough exploration of genes and their transport in red blood cells from several expression in biological systems, including different species. Three hours lecture, three DNA replication, RNA transcription, and hours laboratory. protein translation. Students further Fall semester, even years. 4 credits examine protein:nucleic-acid interactions, Prerequisite: BIOL2301 or its equivalent genomic integrity, and gene regulation, $100 lab fee engaging in a journal club to critically analyze primary research methodology BIOL3105 Endocrinology and data. This course also tackles The structure and function of the endocrine daunting ethical challenges that molecular system is examined, with special emphasis technologies pose for society, including the on endocrine gland anatomy and physiol­ use of genetic engineering in human health ogy as well as the mechanisms of hormone and agriculture. action. Developmental, comparative, Fall semester. 4 credits behavioral and clinical aspects of Prerequisite: BIOL2123 and BIOL2131 or endocrinology are considered. CHEM2111 or permission of instructor Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: BIOL2131 concurrent or BIOL3127 Microbiology permission of instructor or CHEM2111 Focusing primarily on medical aspects of microbiology, with particular attention to pathogenic bacteria and viruses, the course covers fundamental structure, physiology, Emmanuel College

Biology 167 and metabolism of microorganisms, as and review articles, we will explore both what well as recent concepts in bacterial, viral is known and what remains to be learned. genetics and antimicrobial agents. Microbial The course will focus on the cellular and disease and immune defenses are also molecular underpinnings of cancer, but the addressed. Laboratories follow lecture clinical perspective will also be considered material. Three hours lecture, three hours through readings and a guest lecture. laboratory. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: BIOL2131; (BIOL3103 or BIOL3125 Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 recommended) or their equivalent, BIOL2301 or permission of instructor BIOL3151  Exercise Physiology $100 lab fee This course will introduce students to the principles of exercise physiology, testing BIOL3132 Advanced Topics in ­Biochemistry and prescription. Students will examine the (Cross-referenced with CHEM3132) physiological and adaptive responses of the This is a laboratory-based course in which human body to acute and chronic exercise the student will learn modern biochemical stress and will investigate how exercise techniques such as protein expression, affects major organ systems, including the p­ rotein purification, and enzyme assay. cardiovascular, nervous, musculoskeletal Emphasis will be on developing independent and respiratory systems. Clinical aspects laboratory skills. This is a Colleges of the of exercise will be a major focus and the Fenway course given at one of the member effects of exercise stress will be considered institutions. Six hours laboratory. across the spectrum of healthy and Spring semester. 4 credits non-healthy populations. The laboratory Prerequisite: BIOL2131 or CHEM2111 component will follow the American College (Cross-referenced with CHEM3132) of Sports Medicine’s guidelines for exercise $100 lab fee testing and will utilize a variety of exercise equipment to apply physiologic concepts to BIOL3135 Cancer Biology exercise testing, prescription, and training. Cancer is an ancient disease that was first Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits described by the great Egyptian physician Prerequisite: BIOL2135 and BIOL2137 Imhotep in a papyrus dating back to 2500 B.C. Regarding treatment, Imhotep states, $100 lab fee “There is none.” Although a great deal of progress has been made in the last Course Descriptions for 4,500 years in terms of cancer prevention, Arts and Sciences detection, and treatment, there is still no cure for cancer. This course will undertake a rigorous investigation into cancer, first and foremost as a cellular disease, and later branching out to understand the systemic effects. This course will require students to draw on knowledge learned during their studies within the biology major, including genetics, cell, physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, immunology, and molecular biology. Through the use of primary research 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

168 Biology Course Descriptions for BIOL4160 Seminar Aquarium. With their research supervisor, Arts and Sciences In the capstone course, student-scientists students plan and carry out projects that discuss current research related to an reflect their interests and goals. A proposal advanced topic that integrates learning for the internship must be submitted by from previous courses. Recent topics September 1 for committee review. The include: the Human Microbiome, CRISPR proposal describes the project, the name and gene editing, Macromolecular Machines and commitment from the onsite supervisor, and the Healthy Brain. Students read and the expectations and significance of and discuss current research and give in- the internship. Students spend a minimum depth oral presentations. Alongside this of 15 hours per week at the internship guided learning and aided with faculty site. Students meet weekly with a faculty and peer feedback, student-scientists coordinator and are evaluated by the site perform a literature review in a topic of their supervisor and faculty coordinator. An choice related to the theme of the class, undergraduate thesis and presentations, formulate a hypothesis, and then craft, including a defense, are required. BIOL4194 assemble and present an NSF-style grant. and BIOL4195 together represent a two- The neuroscience seminar (NEURO4160) semester course. Students are not permitted satisfies the seminar requirement for biology to register for only one semester. BIOL4194 majors with a concentration in neuroscience. may count as a 3000-level biology elective Spring Semester. 4 credits with laboratory. BIOL4195 does not count as Prerequisites: BIOL2123, BIOL2131 or one of the eleven biology courses, but both CHEM211, and senior status BIOL4194 and BIOL4195 are required for distinction in the field of biology in addition BIOL4178-4179 Directed Study to a 3.5 grade point average in biology. Conducted one-on-one with an individual Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits each member of the biology faculty, this course Prerequisites: INT1001, senior status, is an in-depth study of an important topic 3.0 grade point average, and permission of chosen mutually by student and instructor. department Directed Study is an elective in addition to, not as a replacement for, the required six INT3211 Experiential Internship in the biology electives. Natural Sciences/Mathematics Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and By faculty invitation only. mathematics majors may apply to do an internship in a research or non-research BIOL4194/BIOL4195 Research Internships setting. The internship site and project must in the Natural Sciences I and II be appropriate for the disciplines above and Qualified students interested in careers it is the student’s responsibility to obtain in research or the health professions may an internship. The options for sites could undertake senior year research projects include venues that would allow for career on campus under the supervision of exploration. A complete proposal form for Emmanuel science faculty from Biology, the internship must be submitted to the Chemistry, or Physics, or at off-campus faculty teaching the course and to the Career institutions such as Brigham and Women’s Center by the first day of class. The proposal Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel must describe the project, the name and Deaconess Medical Center, Dana-Farber commitment from the onsite supervisor and Cancer Institute, and the New England Emmanuel College

Chemistry 169 the expectations and significance of the CHEMISTRY internship. The proposal must be approved by the student’s academic advisor and CHEM1101 Principles of Chemistry (SI-L) signed by the site supervisor. Students This course considers basic measurement in meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week chemistry, description of matter, the mole, at the internship site. Students meet stoichiometry, quantitative information weekly with a faculty coordinator and are from balanced chemical equations, solution evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty chemistry, atomic structure, bonding and coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio molecular shape. The laboratory sessions and formal presentation are required. This focus on development of laboratory one-semester internship course counts as technique. The calculations and problems­ an Emmanuel College elective, but not as a­ ssociated with these topics require a an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, basic mathematical background. Three chemistry or mathematics major. hours l­ecture, three hours laboratory. The Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits laboratory sessions focus on reinforcing lecture topics and development of laboratory Prerequisites: INT 1001, junior or senior status, techniques The laboratory sessions focus on reinforcing lecture topic and development of and permission of the department. laboratory technique. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: MATH1101 $100 lab fee CHEM1102 Principles of Chemistry II (SI-L) Course Descriptions for This course is a continuation of CHEM1101 Arts and Sciences and considers the states of matter, colligative properties, fundamental aspects of acid-base chemistry, basic principles of equilibrium, kinetics and selected aspects of thermo­dynamics. The laboratory sessions focus on quantitative behavior related to acids/bases, exploring equilibrium, heat content and properties of ­solutions. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. The laboratory sessions focus on reinforcing lecture topic and development of laboratory technique. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: MATH1101, CHEM1101 $100 lab fee CHEM1103 Chemical Perspectives (SI-L) This one-semester advanced course is designed to further develop the funda­ mental topics in chemistry; such as stoichi­ometry, atomic and molecular structure thermochemistry, equilibrium, 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

170 Chemistry Course Descriptions for electrochemistry and kinetics. This course law. This course will introduce the students Arts and Sciences will replace CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 to the application of science to criminal and sequence in the chemistry major or minor civil law, including an overview of forensic for qualified students. Three hours lecture, chemistry, analysis of trace evidence, three hours laboratory. forensic ­toxicology and drug analysis, Fall semester. 4 credits DNA profiling and other sub-­disciplines. Prerequisite: MATH1101 and departmental Special emphasis will be placed on the examination techniques of sampling a crime scene and $100 lab fee the use of physical evidence to help solve cases. Students will learn how to unlock the CHEM1104 Chemistry of Everyday mystery of crimes through application of Life (SI-L) modern techniques. Three hours lecture. This survey course is designed primarily Spring semester. 4 credits for non-majors who are interested in the chemistry involved in everyday life. This CHEM1108 Chemistry and Art (SI-L) course takes a tour of the home, covering This course is designed to introduce non-­ a wide range of topics, including the science majors to the relationship of c­ hemistry of cooking, cosmetics, cleaners, chemistry and art. After laying a foundation the chemical basis of photography and radon based on introductory topics (atomic in the basement. The amount of structure, light and color), this course will time spent in any one room in the home focus on the chemistry of photography, is based on class interest. Laboratories painting and pigments. The topics of art include experiments and demonstrations to conservation and methods of detection elucidate topics discussed in lecture. Three of art ­forgeries will also be introduced. hours lecture, two hours laboratory. Guest l­ecturers will be invited and trips to Fall semester, even years. 4 credits the local art museums will be encouraged. $100 lab fee The laboratories include experiments and demonstrations to elucidate topics CHEM1105 Prescription and discussed in lecture. Three hours lecture, Non-Prescription Drugs (SI-L) two hours laboratory. This course offers the student a basic Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits ­understanding of common prescription and $100 lab fee over-the-counter drugs, their uses, misuses, interaction, side effects and CHEM1109 Chemistry for Health contraindications. The course presents the Professionals student with methods to evaluate current This is an introductory course, which is drugs as well as new products as they come designed for students pursuing a Bachelor of on the market. Laboratories include Science in Nursing. This course experiments and demonstrations to will highlight the fundamental general, elucidate topics discussed in lecture. Three organic, and biological chemistry principles hours lecture, two hours laboratory. as they apply to the understanding of the Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits health sciences. The first part of the course $100 lab fee will cover concepts in atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding, stoichiometry, CHEM1107 Forensic Chemistry (SI) nuclear chemistry, gases, solutions, and Forensic chemistry is a unique and acid base chemistry. The second half of the challenging application of science to the course will address the nomenclature and Emmanuel College

Chemistry 171 structure of organic and biological molecules This course offers the student a basic Course Descriptions for and their roles in health related systems. understanding of common prescription Arts and Sciences Spring semester. 4 credits and over-the-counter drugs, their uses, misuses, interaction, side effects and CHEM1110 Introduction to Physical contraindications. The course presents the Sciences (SI-L) student with methods to evaluate current (Cross listed with PHYS1110) drugs as well as new products as they come This course is an introduction to physical on the market. Three hours lecture. science. Students will learn how to Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits apply scientific concepts to create and understand scientific explanations of CHEM2101 Organic Chemistry I physical phenomena. Topics covered will This course considers the structure, include: motion, energy, heat, light, basic bonding and reactivity of the following electricity, physical and chemical changes. classes of carbon compounds: alkanes This course is required for those planning on and alkyl halides. Particular attention will teaching at the elementary school level. This be paid to stereochemistry, isomerism course is taught in a workshop format which and the mechanisms of organic reactions. integrates lecture and laboratory so that The laboratory sessions focus on common students will develop their understanding organic techniques used to analyze reaction through hands-on experiments. Equivalent progress and for purification of compounds. of three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits $100 lab fee Prerequisites: CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or CHEM1103 CHEM1117 Forensic Chemistry (SI-L) $100 lab fee Forensic chemistry is a unique and challenging application of science to the CHEM2102 Organic Chemistry II law. This course will introduce the students This course is a continuation of CHEM2101 to the application of science to criminal and and considers the structure, bonding and civil law, including an overview of forensic reactivity of the following classes of carbon chemistry, analysis of trace evidence, compounds: alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, forensic toxicology and drug analysis, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, DNA profiling and other sub-disciplines. carboxylic acid derivatives and aromatic Special emphasis will be placed on the compounds. Particular attention will be paid techniques of sampling a crime scene and to multi-step synthesis of target molecules the use of physical evidence to help solve from readily available starting materials. The cases. Students will learn how to unlock the laboratory sessions focus on the syn­thesis, mystery of crimes through application of purification (utilizing techniques learned modern techniques. Three hours lecture, two in the first semester) and identification of hours laboratory. organic compounds using spectrometric Spring semester. 4 credits techniques. Three hours lecture, three hours $100 lab fee laboratory. Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits CHEM1125 Prescription and Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102 or Non-Prescription Drugs (SI) CHEM1103, and CHEM2101 This is the same course as CHEM1105, $100 lab fee but without the laboratory component. 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

172 Chemistry Course Descriptions for CHEM2104 Analytical Chemistry With this students will have a foundation Arts and Sciences In this course the principles and techniques of scientific information and will have of various chemical and instrumental experience relating science to society and m­ ethods of qualitative and quantitative media. Additional emphasis will be placed on analysis are discussed and applied. Topics case studies, fire and explosives in the news, include gravimetric, titrimetric, electro­ and forensic investigation. Demonstrations chemical and spectrochemical analysis, will provide students with important as well as basic analytical methodology visualization of these applications. including statistical analysis of data and Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits testing for bias. Laboratories include the Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102 or application of these methods and the CHEM1103 analysis of environmental, biological, pharmaceutical and food samples. Three CHEM2115 Inorganic Chemistry hours lecture, four hours ­laboratory. This course covers basic concepts of atomic Spring semester. 4 credits structure, stereochemical principles and Prerequisites: CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or bonding models applied to main group CHEM1103 and transition metal and compounds and $100 lab fee to the structure of solids. It considers an introduction to bonding theories an reaction CHEM2111 Biochemistry mechanisms of d-block complexes as well Biochemistry lays the foundation for a full as the fundamental knowledge of the role understanding of the biological chemistry of mental complexes in living organisms. of the living cell. Students will study the Basic principles of inorganic coordination structure of the biological molecules that chemistry will be discussed and correlated make up living things and the physical and to important application in organic chemical properties that make them suited synthesis, medicine, and industrial biological to their particular functions. Emphasis catalysis. will be placed on the relationship between Spring semester, even years. 4 credits the structure of a molecule and the role it Prerequisite: CHEM1101, CHEM1102 or plays in the overall economy of the cell. The CHEM1103 laboratory sessions will focus on mastering basic biochemical techniques. Three hours CHEM3105 Physical Chemistry I: lecture, three hours laboratory. Thermodynamics Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits This course is the first of the two-semester Prerequisites: BIOL1105 physical chemistry sequence. It covers $100 lab fee the laws of thermodynamics and their application to chemical and selected CHEM2114 Chemistry of Fire and biological ­systems. Topics considered Explosives include the ­kinetic-molecular theory of Fire and explosives, in their relation to ideal and real gases, thermochemistry, combustion, fire-fighting, military, and physical transformations of pure substances forensics, all depend on the principles of and simple ­mixtures, phase stability and chemistry and physics. This course will transitions, chemical equilibrium, acid- provide students a basic introduction to base equilibria, solutions of electrolytes these principles, including thermodynamics, and ­electrochemical cells. The laboratory kinetics, equilibrium, organic and inorganic involves practical experiments based on structure, reactivity, and nuclear chemistry. selected l­ecture topics as well as computer Emmanuel College

Chemistry 173 modeling projects. Three hours lecture, three Fourier transforms, NMR spectroscopy, Course Descriptions for hours laboratory. mass spectrometry, chromatographic Arts and Sciences Fall semester. 4 credits ­methods and electroanalytical methods. Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102, Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. or CHEM1103, PHYS2201, PHYS2202, Fall semester, even years. 4 credits (MATH1111, MATH1112) Prerequisites: CHEM2101 and CHEM2104 Recommended: MATH2103 $100 lab fee $100 lab fee CHEM3115 Introduction to Toxicology CHEM3106 Physical Chemistry II: Quantum Toxicology is the study of the adverse Mechanics effects of chemicals on living organisms. This course is the second of the two- In this course, we will study the symptoms, semester physical chemistry sequence. It mechanisms, treatments, and detection of introduces students to the principles of selected human poisons. Students will be quantum mechanics. The Schrödinger introduced to the concepts of dose-response equation is used to solve a series of ­relationships, toxicity of metabolites, and important chemical p­ roblems including the chemical toxicology. harmonic oscillator, the rigid rotor and the Spring semester, even years.4 credits hydrogen atom. The valence-bond and Prerequisite: CHEM2102 or permission molecular orbital t­ heories of chemical of instructor bonding are d­ iscussed, and m­ ethods for Highly recommended: CHEM2111 or BIOL2131 performing quantum chemical calculations, including variational and p­ erturbation CHEM3121 Introduction to methods, are introduced. The quantum Molecular Modeling mechanics of spin and angular momentum The course is devoted to practical are discussed and used to interpret implementations of readily available magnetic resonance spectra. The laboratory software designed for ­specific aspects involves practical experiments based on of molecular modeling. Lectures are selected lecture topics as well as computer intended to provide the background modeling projects. Three hours lecture, three needed to understand the how and why hours laboratory. of computational techniques that will be Spring semester. 4 credits applied. Computer exercises represent Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102, the major portion of this course. Each or CHEM1103; PHYS2201and PHYS2202, student will be also asked to formulate (MATH111, MATH 1112) a small research project and ­present the Recommended: MATH2103. CHEM3105 result to the class. The computer exercises $100 lab fee and research project are expected to be student’s individual work: data collection CHEM3108 Instrumental Methods and interpretation are to be completed of Analysis independently. This course is intended for This is a one-semester upper-level course advanced students who major in science or in chemistry. The fundamental principles of math and who plan to apply to graduate or analytical instrumentation will be described. professional programs. One hour lecture, Practical, real-world applications of these two hours computer exercises. techniques will be explored in the laboratory. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Topics will include electronics, optical spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

174 Chemistry Course Descriptions for Prerequisites: CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or CHEM4178 Directed Study Arts and Sciences CHEM1103, one 2000-level chemistry course, Students investigate topics in chemistry not and MATH1111 or by permission of instructor. covered in existing courses. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits CHEM3123  Advanced Chemical ­Synthesis Prerequisite: Open to qualified students with In this laboratory-based course, students department approval will learn laboratory techniques common in the academic research laboratory. Students CHEM4194 Internship in Chemistry will prepare, purify and characterize a In this capstone course, students in their ­variety of organic and inorganic compounds. final year of study will gain practical The course concludes with each s­ tudent experience in the application of chemistry using the techniques learned to synthesize coursework in an internship. The internship an organic compound independently after is intended to provide real world experience performing an exhaustive literature search. in a workplace which is related to chemistry. One hour lecture, four hours laboratory. Students will also develop their career Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits advancement skills by attending networking Prerequisite: CHEM2102 or permission events, researching career and post of instructor graduate educational opportunities, working $100 lab fee on their resumes and curriculum vitae, as well as writing cover letters and essays for CHEM3160 Seminar in Chemistry job and graduate school applications. The This course is designed to develop student activities in the course are intended to help strength in basic research competence, the student connect chemistry content to a scientific writing and communication, real-world experience and to help refine and and professionalism in science. This will achieve their career and educational goals be achieved through discussions on the after graduation from Emmanuel College. design of a research strategy, research Fall semester. 4 credits ethics, scientific literature, scientific Prerequisites: CHEM 3160 and permission of writing strategies, and careers in science. department The course will serve to engage students’ Recommended: CHEM3116 curiosity and creativity in advanced topics in the field of chemistry, build upon INT3211 Experiential Internship in the analytical and critical thinking skills, Natural Sciences/Mathematics develop communication and writing skills Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and in the scientific discipline, and highlight mathematics majors may apply to do an professional development in the field. internship in a research or non-research This course provides students with an setting. The internship site and project must opportunity to explore career paths and will be appropriate for the disciplines above and lead them towards the required internship, it is the student’s responsibility to obtain either research or experiential, which is the an internship. The options for sites could capstone experience for the major. include venues that would allow for career Spring semester. 4 credits exploration. A complete proposal form for Prerequisite: Successful completion of the internship must be submitted to the at least four upper-level chemistry courses faculty teaching the course and to the Career Recommended: CHEM3116 Center by the first day of class. The proposal Emmanuel College

Economics 175 must describe the project, the name and ECONOMICS commitment from the onsite supervisor and the expectations and significance of the ECON1101 Principles of Microeconomics internship. The proposal must be approved (SA) by the student’s academic advisor and Microeconomics focuses on how individual signed by the site supervisor. Students markets work. The emphasis is on how meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week c­ onsumers make choices and how at the internship site. Students meet privately owned businesses produce weekly with a faculty coordinator and are goods, set wages and earn profits. It also evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty addresses policies designed to overcome coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio market failure, including antitrust law, and formal presentation are required. This taxation, environmental regulation, and one-semester internship course counts as the redistribution of income. Tools of an Emmanuel College elective, but not as analysis include supply and demand, an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, profit maximization in competitive and chemistry or mathematics major. monopolistic markets, and the trade off Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits between incentives and equity in policy design. Microeconomic theory is applied Prerequisites: INT 1001, junior or senior status, to a variety of markets, such as energy, software, pharmaceuticals, housing and and permission of the department. labor markets. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits ECON1103 Principles of Macroeconomics Course Descriptions for (SA) Arts and Sciences Macroeconomics studies the well-being of societies by focusing on unemployment, ­economic growth, inflation, poverty, income inequality, and globalization. There is a multitude of contributing factors, including the actions of governments, individuals, and firms. Specifically, the Federal Reserve, tax and trade policies, financial systems, values and beliefs all contribute to the well-being of a society in complex ways. Macro­economics provides a theoretical framework for understanding these interactions, causes and their effects, and informing difficult policy decisions. Furthermore, macroeconomics enables individuals and firms to understand the economic environment that affects them both personally and professionally. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

176 Economics Course Descriptions for ECON2101 History of Economic Thought world. Arts and Sciences This course revolves around key ongoing Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits debates in economic theory over the nature Prerequisite: Either one economics or of economic growth, the ideal economic one political science course s­ ystem, and the role of government in the (Cross-referenced with POLSC2409) economy. The historical, political, and philosophical context of the evolution of ECON2203 An Economic View of the World economics is examined. As a survey of (SA) economic thought, the course also provides This seminar course will use the tools and an overview of the entire body of economic perspective of economics to consider current theory, from the inception of economics to global issues. Each week we’ll consider the current techniques and ideas. hot topics and controversies of the day in Fall semester. 4 credits real time, including economic growth and Prerequisites: ECON1101 development, market bubbles and crashes, patterns of consumption and income, ECON2113 The Politics of International political relationships and international Economic Relations networks of production, consumption and This course will explore the trade. We will focus on the requirement of interrelationships of economics and individuals and societies to make tradeoffs politics in international arenas. Students to achieve their goals, and on the ethical and will therefore study the interdependence social justice implications of these tradeoffs. of economics, questions of economic curiosity about the world and what happens development, the power of multinational in it each week. Students will develop an corporations, international trade and trade understanding of the economic way of agreements, oligopolies, oil, environment thinking, a familiarity with world events, and and arms trade. the skills to research and communicate in Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits their areas of interest. Prerequisite: Either one economics or Fall semester. 4 credits one political science course (Cross-referenced with POLSC2409) ECON2205 Urban Economics Three-quarters of the U.S. population and ECONXXXX The Politics of International approximately half of the world’s population Economic Relations (Travel Course) live in cities. If economics is the study of This course will explore the how individuals and societies choose to use interrelationships of economics and scarce resources, then this course is the politics in international arenas. Students study of one scarce resource in particular: will therefore study the interdependence space. We will focus on the economics of of economics, questions of economic cities and urban areas. We will ask questions development, the power of multinational such as: Why do cities exist? Why do some corporations, international trade and trade cities/areas of metropolitan areas grow agreements, oligopolies, oil, environment more rapidly than others? How do firms and and arms trade. The class will travel to China households decide where to locate within as it is an increasingly important economic cities? What determines the price of land and political actor in the international and how this varies across space? What are arena. It is therefore an excellent vehicle the spatial dimensions of local government for understanding the financial and power policy and the relationship between the city, relationships that impact the globalized suburban and state governments? How do Emmanuel College

Economics 177 these factors influence urban problems such Prerequisite: ECON1103, MATH1118 and Course Descriptions for as housing, poverty, crime and economic MATH1111 or MATH1121 Arts and Sciences development? A secondary theme of this course will be to consider the particular ECON3103 The International Economy economy of Boston as our urban home. This course will analyze the workings of the Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits international economy and the economic Prerequisite: ECON1101 interdependencies between nations using current theoretical models. Four major ECON2301 Intermediate Microeconomics topics are covered: international trade This course is designed to extend the agreements, the international financial knowledge of the basic microeconomic system, multinational corporations, principles that will provide the foundation the relationship between rich and poor for the future work in economics and give countries and the prospects for economic insight into how economic models can development. help us think about important real world Fall semester, even years. 4 credits phenomena. This course will show how Prerequisites: ECON1101, ECON1103 and market mechanisms solve extremely MATH118 complex resource allocation problems. It presents a logical and coherent framework ECON3105 Money and Financial Markets in which to organize observed economic What is money? How does the stock market phenomena. Several economic “models” work? How do financial markets impact are developed and analyzed in order to the economy? This course will analyze the help explain and predict a wide variety of role of financial markets and institutions in economic (and sometimes, seemingly non- the world economy, with special emphasis economic) phenomena. Topics include on the U.S. economy, and an in-depth look supply and demand interaction, utility at the banking industry, the bond market, maximization, profit maximization, elasticity, markets in stocks, foreign currencies, perfect competition, monopoly power, financial futures and derivatives. The course imperfect competition, and game theory. explores the impacts of financial activity Spring semester. 4 credits on real economic activity and considers Prerequisite: ECON1101, MATH1118 and the effects of government policies and MATH1111 or MATH1121 regulations on financial markets. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits ECON2303 Intermediate Macroeconomics Prerequisite: ECON1103 and MATH1118 This course uses economic analysis to e­ xamine selected issues in health care. The ECON3113 Economics of Health Care course includes an examination of current This course uses economic analysis to and proposed private and government ­examine selected issues in health care. The health programs in terms of access, equity, course includes an examination of current and e­ fficiency and their potential impact and proposed private and government on the structure of health care delivery in health programs in terms of access, equity, the United States. In addition, the federal and ­efficiency and their potential impact health budget, cost-benefit analysis, and on the structure of health care delivery in an overview of management techniques the United States. In addition, the federal for health institution administration are health budget, cost-benefit analysis, and discussed. an overview of management techniques Fall semester, even years. 4 credits for health institution administration are 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

178 Economics discussed. permission of the instructor. This course is Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits limited to Economics Majors. Prerequisite: ECON1101and MATH1118 ECON4178-4179 Directed Study ECON3115 Economics and the Environment This course is limited to seniors. This course examines the environmental Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits impact of economic activity and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor effectiveness of environmental policy. Topics include: the depletion of minerals ECON 4201 Economics Senior Seminar and oil, management of renewable Topics in major areas of economics will resources such as water and forests; the be discussed. This course fulfills the conservation of biodiversity; mitigation of capstone requirement in economics by global climate change; and the regulation requiring students to apply their analytical, of pollution. Environmental policies are quantitative and research skills in the assessed in terms of costs, benefits, ease composition of a senior paper. Each student of implementation and the prospects for will write a senior thesis and present his/her encouraging sustainable development. research in the seminar. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ECON1101, MATH1118 Prerequisites: Completion of Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate ECON3496: Economics Internship (cross- Macroeconomics; and one 3000-level listed with MGMT3496 and ACCT3296) Economics elective The Economics internship involves Course Descriptions for experiential learning in a for-profit, not-for- Arts and Sciences profit firm or government agency related to the student’s prospective career. The course requires that students apply theoretical knowledge to a practical setting, and provides them with the opportunity to gain experience in their chosen career and make a contribution to the organization in which they complete their internship. In addition to working at their internship site, students attend weekly seminar or individual sessions that will deal with theoretical, practical and ethical aspects of work. Together with the internship supervisor, a project is defined for the student that will add value to the organization and that will help the student build expertise and confidence in an area of mutual interest. The student completes the project as part of the internship. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: Completion of INT1001, two of the Economics electives for the major, at least one of which is a 3000-level course, and Emmanuel College

Education 179 EDUCATION Pre-practicum field-based experience Course Descriptions for Prerequisite: EDUC2211 Arts and Sciences EDUC1111 The Great American ­Experiment (SA) EDUC2311 Learning, Teaching and the This course is a comprehensive overview Secondary Curriculum of the historical, philosophical and societal This course is designed to provide students foundations of American education. Issues with the background and practical skills of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and related to the curriculum planning process learning differences are highlighted within for grades 5-8 and 8-12. Students will the context of the positive and negative explore a variety of learning styles and impact the schools have on society. instructional methods in meeting the needs Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits of all students. Course objectives include Service Learning component examining the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, their development and EDUC2211 Learning, Teaching and the impact on student learning, and ways to Elementary Curriculum implement the frameworks in instruction This course is designed to provide students and assessment. with the background and practical Fall semester. 4 credits skills related to the curriculum planning Prerequisite: EDUC1111 process for grades 1-6. Students will explore a ­variety of learning styles and EDUC2312 Teaching All Students, instructional methods in meeting the needs Grades 5-12 of all students. Course objectives include This course is a sequel to Part I. Students examining the Massachusetts Curriculum will apply the theories and skills developed Frameworks, their development and in the first course. Through site placements impact on student learning, and ways to in local, urban middle and high schools, implement the frameworks in instruction ­students will regularly observe various and assessment. p­ edagogical practices and reflect on their Fall semester. 4 credits observations, as well as share in small Prerequisite: EDUC1111 group and whole class discussions. Course objectives include implementing the EDUC2212 Teaching All Students, Massa­chus­ etts Curriculum Frameworks in Grades 1-6 instruction and assessment as they relate This course is a sequel to Part I. Students specifically to student achievement and will apply the theories and skills developed expected student outcomes. in the first course. Through site placements Spring semester. 4 credits in local, urban elementary schools, students Pre-practicum field-based experience will regularly observe various pedagogical Prerequisite: EDUC2311 practices and reflect on their observations, as well as share in small group and whole EDUC2401 Educational Psychology class discussions. Course objectives This course studies child growth and include implementing the Massachusetts adolescent development, learning Curricul­um Frameworks in instruction and theory and its application to classroom assessment as they relate specifically to management, and measurement theory and student achievement and expected student techniques. Papers emphasize integration of outcomes. theory and practice. Spring semester. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

180 Education Course Descriptions for EDUC3210 Education Policy and implementing instruction to address a Arts and Sciences (crosslisted with POLSC3210) broad range of students’ abilities and needs. Education is a fundamental tenet of Fall semester. 4 credits American society. In fact, the right to a Prerequisite: EDUC2212 sound education is enshrined in many state constitutions. Yet, debate over how best to EDUC3212 Literacy and Literacy ­ affect a quality and effective educational Methods II system has pervaded American politics and This course examines current theory and society since the country’s founding. This practice in the instruction of literacy for debate has involved the equitable funding diverse populations of students at the and distribution of resources, assessment, elementary school level. Students will focus issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic on grouping strategies, differentiation class, teaching standards and qualifications, of literacy instruction, higher-order and curriculum on the K-12 level, as well thinking activities, the reading and writing as in colleges and universities. This course connection, writing workshop and new explores the debate surrounding educational literacies involving technology. Students policy in the American political system. will become familiar with research-based Politics is often about conflict over values strategies and techniques for effective and resources. Education policy embodies literacy instruction. Students will become this conflict quite clearly. We will assess knowledgeable about the standards for the social, cultural, and political factors literacy in the Massachusetts English influencing the crafting, implementation, Language Arts Framework and will become and assessment of education policy in the familiar with a wide range of children’s United States. literature, instructional materials and Fall semester, even years. 4 credits assessments, as well as the processes Prerequisite: EDUC 1111 or POLSC1201 of assessing, planning and implementing instruction to address a broad range of EDUC3211 Literacy and Literacy ­ students’ abilities and needs. Methods I Spring semester. 4 credits This course examines current theory and Pre-practicum field-based experience practice in the instruction of literacy for Prerequisite: EDUC3211 diverse populations of students at the elementary school level. Students will focus EDUC3213 Mathematics Methods for on the components of a strong reading Elementary Grades program including phonemic awareness, This course will introduce students to phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading current, research-based practices in comprehension. Students will become the instruction of mathematics at the familiar with research-based strategies and elementary level. Through readings, techniques for effective literacy instruction. hands-on activities, observations, Students will become knowledgeable students will develop concepts, skills, about the standards for literacy in the and pedagogical procedures for teaching Massachusetts English Language Arts mathematics for understanding. Students Framework and will become familiar will become knowledgeable about the with a wide range of children’s literature, Mathematics Common Core Standards instructional materials and assessments, as for mathematical practice and content. In well as the processes of assessing, planning addition, students will design and present Emmanuel College

Education 181 mathematics lessons, as well as explore the hands-on activities and observations Course Descriptions for integration of manipulatives, technology, students will develop concepts, skills Arts and Sciences and other tools in mathematics teaching. and pedagogical procedures for teaching Fall semester. 4 credits mathematics for understanding. Students Pre-practicum field-based experience will become knowledgeable about the Prerequisite: EDUC2212 Mathematics Common Core Standards for mathematical practice and content. In EDUC3215 Explorations in Science and addition, students will design and present Engineering: Grades 1-6 inquiry-based lessons, as well as explore the The course develops the knowledge, integrations of manipulatives, technology skills and dispositions to introduce the and other tools in mathematics teachings. practices and habits of mind characteristic This course also includes a required 30- of scientific inquiry and the engineering hour pre-practicum field experience. Field design process into the elementary hours must be scheduled during periods of classroom. The course meets standards mathematics instruction. for teacher preparation articulated by the Fall semester. 4 credits Massachusetts curriculum frameworks and Pre-practicum field-based experience the National Science Education Standards. Prerequisite: EDUC2312 Topics include children’s ideas in science, the nature of children’s science learning and EDUC3314 Explorations in Science & the implications for teaching. Engineering Grades 5-12 Spring semester. 4 credits This course develops the knowledge, skills, Prerequisite: EDUC2212 and dispositions to introduce learners Service Learning component to 3 dimensions of science teaching and learning, disciplinary core ideas, science and EDUC3311 Managing the Classroom engineering practices, and cross-cutting Learning Environment concepts. By developing an understanding This course will be a study of different of the 3 dimensions, pre-service teachers approaches to classroom management in will practice designing learning experiences grades 5 to 8 and 8 to 12 and assist that allow students in grades K-12 to think, students in d­ eveloping their skills in act, and communicate like scientists. classroom management. Developing These learning experiences will be driven competencies in various approaches to by scientific phenomena and solving classroom management as well as questions real-world problems. Through interactive concerning goals, curriculum, discipline, discussions and activities, they will develop motivation and instructional methods are their understanding of Disciplinary Literacy addressed. in Science. The course meets standards Spring semester. 4 credits for teacher preparation articulated by the Pre-practicum field-based experience Massachusetts curriculum frameworks Prerequisite: EDUC2312 and the National Science Education Standards. Topics include phenomena EDUC3313 Mathematics Methods for driven instruction, science and engineering Middle and High School practices, science notebooks, and formative This course will introduce students to assessment in the science classroom. current, research-based practices in the Fall semester. 4 credits instruction of mathematics at the middle Prerequisite: EDUC 2312 and high school level. Through readings, 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

182 Education Course Descriptions for EDUC3315 Social Studies and History content-specific goals, techniques and Arts and Sciences Methods: Grades 3-12 strategies that promote higher-order This course will examine current theory and thinking, and the design and management practice in the teaching of social studies/ of inquiry-based learning experiences. It will history at the intermediate elementary address the teaching and learning of written through high school levels, presenting “best and oral expressions, reading, literature, practices” that include interdisciplinary spelling, grammar, mechanics and usage. planning and instruction, content specific Students will become familiar with the curriculum goals, techniques and strategies Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for that promote higher order thinking, and the English Language Arts at the middle and design and management of inquiry-based high school levels and with a wide range learning experiences. Students will become of instructional resources and web-based familiar with the standards for social resources. studies/history at the elementary and high Fall semester. 4 credits school levels in the Massachusetts History/ Pre-practicum field-based experience Social Studies Frameworks, and with a range Prerequisite: EDUC2312 of instructional materials and web-based resources. EDUC3300 Sheltered English Instruction: Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Teaching English Language Learners Pre-practicum field-based experience The purpose of this course is to prepare Prerequisite: EDUC2212 or EDUC2312 the Commonwealth’s teachers with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter EDUC3317 Spanish Language Instructional their content instruction, so that the growing Methods Grades 5-12 population of English language learners The course will cover different theories of (ELLs) can access curriculum, achieve language acquisition, methods of teaching academic success and contribute their a foreign language, writing communicative multilingual and multicultural resources lesson plans, reflecting on different as participants and future leaders in the classroom environments, teaching a mini 21st-century global economy. lesson, creating a unit plan for diverse Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits language learners, and strategies for teaching a foreign culture. A 30 hour EDUC3467 Education Diverse Students(SA) prepracticum is required as part of this This course is designed to develop leaders course. Students will become familiar with who are equipped to address challenges to both Massachusetts State Standards for educational equity that are rooted in U.S. Language Teachers along with the American history and prevalent in the contemporary Council on the Teaching of a Foreign field of education. The course will use case Language (ACTFL) standards. studies to examine and respond to these Fall semester. 4 credits issues of unequal access with attention to Pre-practicum field-based experience the historical and contemporary causes. Prerequisite: EDUC2312 Upon completion of the course, students will be able to analyze and address these issues EDUC3318 English Language Arts on the macro and micro levels and use Instructional Methods Grades 6-12 an array of resources to inform particular This course will examine current theory and challenges of educational practice. The practice in the teaching of English Language final assignment will be a capstone project Arts. The course includes “best practices,” in which students will identify an issue and Emmanuel College

Education 183 create an initiative to achieve equity. categories and the IEP eligibility process; Spring semesters. 4 credits appropriate strategies for supporting the academic, behavioral, and social aspects EDUC4467 Student Teaching Practicum of inclusive teaching; and strategies for Supervised student teaching in elementary positive collaborative interactions with or secondary classes provides the other professionals and parents. Students opportunity for experience in all aspects pursuing licensure will complete EDUC4490 of teaching and provides students with Special Education Practicum. understanding of the culture of schools as institutions. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 8 credits Prerequisite: Senior status required and successful completion of all ­required MTELs EDUC4468 Student Teaching Capstone Seminar This seminar examines the educational issues that grow out of the daily student teaching experience in elementary and secondary classrooms. It is designed to accompany and enhance the practicum experience. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits EDUC4490 Moderate Disabilities Internship A 150-hour practicum experience in an inclusion, resource, or self-contained classroom under the supervision of a licensed teacher of special education and college supervisor, for students enrolled in EDUC4491 who are seeking licensure as a Teacher of Moderate Disabilities. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: EDUC4467 and EDUC4468 EDUC4491 Teaching Students with Course Descriptions for Disabilities for General Education Arts and Sciences Professionals This course examines the theoretical and practical issues that teachers must address as they implement effective inclusion of c­ hildren with disabilities in general education classrooms. Class participants will become familiar with the role of the general education teacher in special education. Topics to be studied include: the legal foundations of inclusion; disability 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

184 English Course Descriptions for ENGLISH ENGL1502 Introduction to Communication Arts and Sciences and Media Studies (SA) ENGL1103 Introduction to Academic This survey course provides students with Writing an introductory working knowledge of ­theory This course is dedicated to providing in the field. Through the evaluation and students with the writing and research skills application of primary texts in inter­pretive, necessary for academic success. Drawing rhetorical, and critical theories of media and on a variety of texts and media, students communication, students will develop skills engage rhetorical strategies designed to in critical analysis, reading, and writing in place them firmly within the intellectual the discipline. discourse. Additionally, theme-based Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits writing assignments focus on sharpening students’ ability to organize, synthesize and ENGL2101 English Literature I (AI-L) interpret data, assess and make persuasive This course surveys English literature from arguments while practicing advanced the medieval period to the 18th century. research strategies. Through peer edit and Reading a broad range of canonical and workshop revision, students come to see non-canonical texts in both an historical writing as both process and empowerment. and cultural context, students will examine Students should expect to write a minimum the ways in which literature challenges of three or four longer (3- to 5-page) essays dominant values. Students will distinguish as well as several shorter assignments. the characteristics of different literary Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits periods, analyze specific passages and understand how those analyses participate ENGL1205 Introduction to Literary Methods in the construction of the English literary (AI-L) canon. This course challenges students to see the Fall semester. 4 credits world and themselves differently through the study of literature and methods of ENGL2102 English Literature II (AI-L) interpretation. Students will use literary This course surveys English literature across tools in this course to pose questions that the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Reading a pursue the truth about what they read, write, broad range of canonical and non-canonical and see. While the specific readings vary texts in both an historical and cultural year to year, students will study different ­context, students will examine the ways in literary modes in their historical contexts, which literature challenges dominant values. in conjunction with contemporary media Students will distinguish the characteristics (news articles, music videos, and visual of different literary periods, analyze specific images) and through the lenses of gender, passages and understand how those politics, economics, and psychology. At the analyses participate in the construction of most basic level, this course challenges the English literary canon. students to become active analysts of the Spring semester. 4 credits world around them. Students take this course to sharpen their skills as a critical ENGL2106 Irish Identities: thinkers, readers, and writers and to prepare Literature and Culture (AI-L) for greater success in and beyond their This class will examine the vibrant and academic careers. problematic formations of Irish identities Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits in literature and culture, beginning in the 1600s and ending in the early years of the Emmanuel College

English 185 20th century. While the class will conclude of American literature from Columbus Course Descriptions for the semester reading 20th-century literary to Whitman. Students will consider the Arts and Sciences works of Ireland’s “great writers” (W.B. ­aesthetic characteristics of non-fiction, Yeats and James Joyce, for example), it will ­fiction, and poetry, as they engage with begin the semester reading a number of r­ eligious and political movements like texts that establish the important colonial Puritanism and slavery, interrogate themes perspective of Ireland’s identity such as like self-reliance and individualism, and Edmund Spenser’s A View of the State of d­ iscuss sociocultural issues such as class Ireland, Jonathan Swift’s Anglo-Irish tracts, dynamics, the treatment of indigenous and Lady Morgan’s The Wild Irish Girl, ­peoples by European settlers, and gender all of which derive from the Anglo-Irish relations. Students consider each text within perspective, which emphasizes the English its historical context in order to understand influence on Irish history and culture. The how it simultaneously responds and trajectory of this class attempts to capture contributes to the conditions that have given the persistent struggles for an Irish identity rise to it. Throughout the semester, students free from England’s influence; the class will i­dentify and define the characteristics ends in the anxious atmosphere of the early that constitute an American voice. 20th century, during which the agitations Fall semester. 4 credits for Home Rule led to partition and civil war. Additional texts may include James Joyce’s ENGL2309 The Haves and the Have-Nots: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a American Authors on Money, Class and Young Man, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls, Power (AI-L) and Lady Gregory’s Visions and Beliefs in the Since Puritan times, Americans have linked West of Ireland. material wealth and economic success with Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits self-worth and identity. This course explores how writers have grappled with the issues ENGL2303 The Modern American of money, class and power and traces the Novel (AI-L) theme of consumerism throughout the Focusing on American novels since World American literary canon. The readings are War I, this course will introduce students drawn from a variety of American writers to a range of literary responses to some from the 17th through the 21st centuries of the dramatic historical developments and may include texts by Franklin, Howells, and cultural changes of the modern era. Fitzgerald and Wharton as well as lesser- Students will study the formal and aesthetic known works by women, African American develo­ pments in the modern novel while also and Native American authors. e­ xamining each literary work in its historical Spring semester, even years.. 4 credits context. Writers studied will include both well-known and lesser-known figures, and ENGL2321 Love and Gender in British the novels discussed will lend themselves to Literature and Film (AI-L) a consideration of the diversity of American This course focuses on representations of experiences that has characterized gender as they relate to love relationships American modernity. in a variety of films and British literary Fall semester, even years. 4 credits texts. The course provides an introduction to gender theory as it applies to literary and ENGL2304 American Voices I: media studies, with a heavy emphasis on U.S. Literature to 1865 (AI-L) pre-1700 British literature.  Readings may This course examines the development include the sonnet sequences of Lady Mary 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

186 English Course Descriptions for Wroth and Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare’s comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. It Arts and Sciences Twelfth Night, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,  provides an in-depth study of a selection of and Jeanette Winterson’s The Power Book. plays as well as a consideration of broader Films may include Il Postino (Radford 1994), concerns such as canonicity. How do modern Soldier’s Girl (Pierson 2003), Eternal Sunshine audiences respond to Shakespeare’s plays? of the Spotless Mind (Gondry 2004), Bridget Do they r­ esonate with a 21st-century Jones’s Diary (Maguire 2001), and Melancholia audience because of certain “universal” (Von Trier 2011). truths unearthed by a 16th-century Fall semester, even years. 4 credits “genius”? If so, what are those universals? Why do Shakespeare’s plays persist at the ENGL2323 Short Fiction (AI-L) core of the Western canon? What are the This course introduces students to the specific f­ eatures of a Shakespeare comedy, intensive study of short fiction. Students tragedy, history, or romance? These are read a wide array of short stories and some of the questions we will explore as we analyze them in relation to aesthetic and seek to understand the plays as well as their cultural issues, including race, class, and place in the literary canon and in our lives. gender. Writers may include Sherwood Spring semester. 4 credits Anderson, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Amy ENGL2406 The Rise of the British Tan, Raymond Carver and Jhumpa Lahiri. Novel (AI-L) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits A survey of the 18th- and 19th-century British novel with an emphasis on its ENGL2325 Spirituality and the development from the cultural margins Literary Imagination (AI-L) to literary preeminence, and the way that The recent widespread popularity of this rise intersects issues of class, gender, bestsellers and television shows dealing and empire. Novelists may include Defoe, with angels, the soul and other religious Richardson, Fielding, Austen, the Brontë topics suggests that God is anything but sisters, Eliot, Dickens and Hardy. dead in the 21st century. Spirituality has Fall semester, even years. 4 credits always been a topic of great intellectual interest to artists and writers, from St. ENGL2408 The Modern British Novel: Augustine and Julian of Norwich to modern- Empire and After (AI-L) day writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, This course surveys major British fiction Thomas Merton and Kathleen Norris. This from the early 20th century to the present course examines the ways in which Christian with particular emphasis on how the novel and non-Christian writers have grappled and short story give narrative shape to with their faith and relationship with a higher issues of class, gender, race, nationality in being over the course of centuries. Readings the period of the British Empire’s decline and cover both fiction and non-fiction, with fall. Writers may include James Joyce, E.M. a special emphasis on Catholic writers. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Doris Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Lessing, V.S. Naipaul and Zadie Smith. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits ENGL2402 Shakespeare: Tragedies, Comedies, Histories and Romances (AI-L) ENGL2410 African American Literary Giants This course is a survey of Shakespeare’s (AI-L) plays from the four dramatic genres: This course provides a comprehensive Emmanuel College

English 187 survey of two iconic African Americans: Africa, the Caribbean, and Black Britain— Course Descriptions for Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. It in the 20th century. Through an examination Arts and Sciences allows students an intensive study of black of representative works of prose ­fiction, writing from the nineteenth century to the drama, poetry, film, and music by major present, while at the same time engaging figures of Black Africa and its Atlantic with contemporary issues facing African diaspora (including, for example, Chinua American communities in the United States Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and abroad. Studied themes include the “dub” poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, and reggae following: literature and politics, race in ­musician Bob Marley), the course explores America, the history of slavery in America, how Black culture and ­consciousness have and the relationship between black been shaped by their engagements with literature and black music. This course issues of race, class, nationality, and gender examines a selection of Morrison’s and in the successive h­ istorical contexts of Baldwin’s body of work as they address key colonialism, anti-­colonial resistance, and issues in African American, American, and the post-colonial, “globalized” world. African diasporic modern history. In other Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits words, students study these writers both as American figures and transnational figures ENGL2501 Journalism who carry global sensibilities in their work. Taught by a professional journalist, this We will also examine their work as it lends to course introduces the roles, responsibilities, discussion of contemporary issues of social and habits of print and online journalists justice including the legacy of American in order to consider the place of journalism slavery, mass incarceration, police brutality, in an age of increased technology and racial profiling, and income inequality. media influence. Students receive Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits practice in selected assignments typical of contemporary journalistic writing ENGL2413 African American Literature: A and research, such as beat reporting, Tradition of Resistance (AI-L) investigative journalism and interviewing, This course traces the African American with opportunities to revise their work for l­iterary tradition from its origins to the possible publication p­ resent, focusing in particular on ways in the College’s student publications. that African American narratives have Fall semester. 4 credits ­challenged and changed American literary, Prerequisite: ENGL1103 political, and historical discourses. Readings will include folktales, fugitive slave ENGL2504 Prose Writing narratives, and political writings, as well as This course explores selected types of f­iction, poetry and drama from the Harlem ­writing often associated with the term Renaissance to the contemporary moment. ­“literary ­non-fiction,” giving students the Writers may include Frederick Douglass, opportunity for active reading as well as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale ­frequent practice in composing and revision. Hurston and Toni Morrison. Conducted in the workshop format, this Spring semester, even years. 4 credits course will provide students the opportunity to learn editing skills through the evaluation ENGL2417 Literature of the Black ­Atlantic of their peers’ writing. Students will work (AI-L) in the genres of the personal essay, the This course surveys the literatures and memoir, and the experimental form, and ­cultures of the Black world—including will be introduced to the publishing world 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

188 English through introduction to literary venues and ENGL2515 Research Methods for forums for their work. Communication and Media Fall semester. 4 credits This class provides an introduction to the critical/cultural analysis of media. Its main ENGL2506 Poetry Writing goal is to equip you with the necessary This course is an overview of the craft theoretical and methodological tools that of poetry writing in a workshop format. will enable you to conduct your own research Students will read and discuss the work project. We will explore the basics of critical/ of a broad selection of contemporary cultural media studies, use an analytic poets. Various exercises will be assigned to approach to formulate a research project, demonstrate the relationship between form survey a variety of textual and audience- and content. Students will be introduced based qualitative methods, collect and to basic figures of speech and concepts in analyze data, and use existing theory and poetic form (sonnet and ballad, for example), research to make sense of our findings. rhyme, and meter. Students will compose You will produce your own original research portfolios from daily journals and class incorporating methods of textual and workshops. audience analysis. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1103 Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1502 Course Descriptions for ENGL2507 Fiction Writing ENGL2521 Public Relations and Persuasion Arts and Sciences An overview of the craft of fiction writing and This course relies on theories of persuasion the creative process, study will focus on story- as a way to analyze common practices within telling structure, use of narrative and scene, the field of public relations (PR). Students the importance of conflict, sensory details, will be introduced to modern the revelation of character through dialogue techniques of PR as well as methods and action, and the paramount importance of critiquing the wider social, cultural of point-of-view to literary t­ echnique. and political implications of the covert Students will read and discuss published manipulation of public opinion. Case studies short fiction, write assigned exercises and of “successful” PR campaigns will be read/hear the completed manuscripts of evaluated to ­illustrate these effects and to class members. examine how the profession differentiates Fall and Spring semester. 4 credits itself from advertising. Fall semester. 4 credits ENGL2510 Professional Communication Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor This class provides students with an permission introduction to the theory and practice of professional communication. Course ENGL2525 Sport Communication assignments and activities focus on This course introduces students to the field interpersonal communication modes, of sport communication, a growing area and including public speaking, interviewing, industry that utilizes the skills of journalism, writing, presentations, digital public relations, and other areas of strategic communication, and social media. Students communication. With communication will gain confidence in their ability to theory, sport literature, and case studies, communicate with different audiences and this course introduces students to the many to target and convey messaging effectively. ways in which individuals, media outlets, Fall semester. 4 credits and sport organizations work to create, disseminate, and manage messages to Emmanuel College

English 189 their constituents. In addition, this course these texts. Students will read literature Course Descriptions for will cover the cultural and ethical issues from a variety of genres, including poetry, Arts and Sciences that are present in sport. As such, issues of short stories, plays and novels. Films to be race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality will be viewed will include direct adaptations of explored, as well as issues related to the law these works; alternative representations of and politics. the work’s plots, themes, or characters; and Spring semester. 4 credits ­cinematic renderings of literary figures and Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor the literary imagination. Students are also permission. introduced to basics of film history and film theory. ENGL2523 Advertising and Culture Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits This course provides an overview of the broad field of advertising including concepts, ENGL2703 Literature at the Border strategies, and tactics. Students will learn This course is a theme-based course in about the role of advertising in the American which students study literature that comes economy and the procedures involved from, out of or relates to highly politicized in planning advertising campaigns, with “hot spot” borders between “regions,” special attention to social and ethical topics encouraging students to think about borders in advertising. Throughout the semester, and border crossing, national identities a strong emphasis will be placed on the and transnationalism. Students will ability to think critically and creatively, discover literature as a vehicle for cross- and to present the ideas convincingly cultural inquiry, as a mode of empathetic using oratorical and technical tools and engagement, and as an ethical mode of techniques. discovery. The course will highlight borders Spring semester. 4 credits between the U.S. and Mexico, Palestine and Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor Israel, India and Pakistan, Tibet and China, permission. and Haiti and Dominican Republic. Students will study a mixture of novels, short stories, ENGL2604 American Voices II: poetry and non-fiction writing and will be U.S. Literature Since 1865 (AI-L) introduced to major themes in transnational A survey of American literature from the Civil literary studies. War to the contemporary era, this course Fall semester, even years. 4 credits introduces students to major works of U.S. fiction, poetry, and drama. Students examine ENGL3303 Images of Masculinity key literary movements, including realism, This course explores the construction of modernism, and postmodernism, and study masculinities in post-World War II American a diverse array of U.S. writers who have literature and film, concentrating on whether shaped, extended, or challenged them. masculinity is conceived as natural and Spring semester. 4 credits immutable or is culturally or historically determined. We will examine how versions of ENGL2701 Literature and Film (AI-L) masculinity relate to cultural developments This course focuses on investigating the such as feminism, the “crisis in masculinity,” r­ elationships between different media, and drag culture. We will also explore the specifically traditional forms of literature connections between sex, gender, sexuality, and film, with special attention to race, and class. Readings have included understanding the cultural significance of John Irving, The World According to Garp; 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

190 English Course Descriptions for Walter Mosley, The Man in My Basement; ENGL3309 Characters of the Long Arts and Sciences Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman; and 18th Century Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain. Films This seminar investigates the significance have included Fight Club (Fincher 1999); The of the different characters one encounters Graduate (Nichols 1967); Training Day (Fuqua in the textual productions (poetry, prose, 2001); Venus Boyz (Baur 2002); Brokeback and drama) from the “long 18th century.” In Mountain (Lee 2005); and Y Tu Mamá También current scholarship, the definition of this (Cuaron 2001). Theoretical texts include period varies widely, but for the purposes readings from theorists such as Michel of this class, the time period begins at Foucault, Thomas Laqueur, and Judith the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy Halberstam. to ­England’s throne (1660) and concludes Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits in the chaotic years following the French Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and R­ evolution (1790s). The characters students one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor will encounter include the fop, the gossip, permission. the ­intellectual, the rake, the virtuous lady, the slave, the self-made man, the virtuoso, ENGL3305 Satire the newsman and woman, the emerging Focusing on“the Age of Satire” in England, f­ eminist, and the abolitionist. Part of the this course will present works by Jonathan class will involve coming to terms with the Swift, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Oliver u­ ncomfortable excesses (slavery, misogyny, Goldsmith, and Jane Collier as a context revolution, etc.) that these characters through which this aggressive literary mode e­ mbody and that pervade this period of emerges as a powerful cultural force. E­ nglish history generally. Primary texts Fall semester, even years. 4 credits for this class may include John Wilmot, Prerequisite: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and one Second Earl of Rochester’s poetry, George 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor Etherege’s The Man of Mode, Aphra Behn’s permission. The Rover, ­Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub, Joseph Addison and Richard ENGL3307 Survey of Literature for Children Steele’s The Tatler and The Spectator, and and Young Adults Mary Wollstonecraft’s novels. This course provides a historical and critical Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits survey of major writers and illustrators in Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and children’s and young adult literature and one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor explores the distinguishing characteristics of permission. literature written for children. Students will read a range of traditional and contemporary ENGL3311 Ethics in Documentary Film literature and explore major authors What are the ethical concerns that and illustrators and a variety of genres. filmmakers face? How do we as viewers Through reading, discussion, in-class respond to these questions? This practice- writing exercises, written assignments, and based course explores these questions a research paper, students will become through engagement with popular and informed and analytical readers of literature academic literature in the field and through written and illustrated for children and screening and discussion of contemporary adolescents. documentaries that consider the ethical Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits questions of our day. Coursework consists Note: This course does not count toward any primarily of team-directed filmmaking English department major or minor. projects, where students conceptualize, Emmanuel College

English 191 shoot, and edit mini-documentaries while content of each piece. Students will also Course Descriptions for exploring the intersection of theory and get a glimpse of this region’s historical and Arts and Sciences practice and developing technical skills. sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the Fall semester, even years. 4 credits. semester participants will have acquired Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or an appreciation of the literature of the instructor permission. Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a b­ etter understanding of the complex issues ENGL3405 Editing and Publishing a Literary affecting this interesting region. Magazine Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits (Cross- This course aims to critically analyze the referenced with LANG3421) literary magazine as a genre and to develop students’ knowledge of and skill in the field ENGL3501 Multimedia Storytelling of publishing. We will study and analyze Writers who can write effectively for a number of top literary magazines and electronic media will be tomorrow’s success journals selected for a range of styles, s­ tories. News organizations, publishers, and content, location and goals; includes poetry, commercial businesses are seeking writers fiction, and essays; two classes on each in steeped in new media, especially those who order to assess mission and content as well can write for the web. In this project-based as submission and distribution policies. Over course, students will master writing for the course of the semester, students will p­ odcasts, audio slideshows and videos. In develop, plan, edit, publish and distribute an addition, they will sharpen their journalistic issue of The Saintly Review, the Emmanuel skills (through regular blogging, for College literary magazine. The mission of example), and build a professional portfolio the magazine is to nurture and publish that will assist them in finding work in the outstanding student, staff and faculty media business. literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits art, to foster the professional development Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or of editors, writers, poets and artists, and to instructor permission. enrich the Emmanuel College community by publishing a professional quality literary ENGL3504 Advanced Prose Writing magazine. A requirement for Writing, Editing and Spring semester. 4 credits Publishing majors, this course will be taught Prerequisites: ENGL1205 and one of the in the format of a writing workshop, with following: ENGL2504, ENGL2506, ENGL2507, the goal of extending and refining the skills ENGL3501, ENGL3506, ENGL3507 or of non-fiction writing that students were ENGL3801 introduced to in ENGL2504 Prose Writing. Spring semester. 4 credits ENGL3421 Spanish Caribbean Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; Literature (AI-L) ENGL2504 or by permission of the instructor This course will introduce students to the l­iterature of the Spanish Caribbean,­ ENGL3506 Advanced Poetry Writing ­engaging them in literary analysis of major Advanced Poetry Writing will focus on authors from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the developing the craft of poetry writing Dominican Republic. Special attention through a combination of writing original will be given to the author’s literary style, work and studying the work of established themes developed and to the ideological poets. Students will practice writing in a 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

192 English Course Descriptions for variety of received forms and will develop a literatures but it will also investigate Arts and Sciences cohesive body of work. This course will also theories of globalization-ways of thinking highlight the workshop format, enhancing about 1) what national home means versus students’ ability to critique poetic works in a global sense of home, 2) what allows formation and creating a writing community an individual to develop a transnational that will foster future writing practice. sensibility and/or global aptitude that allows Spring semester, even years. 4 credits them to be at home in any situation, 3) how Prerequisite: ENGL2506 Poetry Writing or literature speaks to the human experience instructor’s permission of movement across boundaries. The literary works in the course feature such themes as: ENGL3601 Crime Stories and exile, refugeeism, displacement, movement, American Culture transience, biculturalism/multi-culturism, This course will examine crime narrative boundary-crossing and transnationalism. t­ raditions and their function in American Ultimately, we will explore global literature c­ ulture. The course begins with the birth and a literary theory of the global (i.e., of the classic detective story and traces transnational literary theory) as well as the the form through various transformations ways in which globalization is transforming in 20th-c­ entury America, including the the human experience politically, socially, emergence of hardboiled “private eye,” culturally and economically. Writers will noir films, police procedurals and the “true include Yusef Komunyakaa, Jorie Graham, crime” genre. Throughout the semester, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Tracy K. we will analyze the social and political Smith, Li Young Lee, Bapsi Sidhwa, James implications of each genre and each text, Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Octavio Paz, Walt focusing especially on the representation of Whitman, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Xi crime and society, as well as the portrayal of Chuan, and Isabelle Allende. policing, forensic science, law, order, class, Spring semester, even years. 4 credits race, gender and justice. Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and permission. one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor permission. ENGL3701 Media Theory This course explores key theoretical models ENGL3605 Global Literature and Film within the field of Communication and An increasingly global world foregrounds Media Studies. Topics vary by semester questions of place and movement, and include theoretical approaches particularly movement across previously to gender, sexuality, identity, media defined cultural, geographic and linguistic convergence, digital culture, audience boundaries. The course begins with the studies and media industries. Coursework following questions: How do writers (poets emphasizes a sustained examination of the and novelists) and their characters grapple historical, social, political, technological with questions of place and movement and economic factors that have shaped between socio-politically, geographically, the diverse and interdisciplinary theories and linguistically defined spaces? How does within Communications and Media Studies this movement manifest both thematically over the past century. Students then apply and structurally in their literary works? these theories to media text, past and The course will not only examine world present, in order to consider their validity Emmanuel College

English 193 and application. Assignments in this course approaches, including ideological criticism, Course Descriptions for emphasize the use of source material and psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and Arts and Sciences research-based analysis. queer theory. Possible films include Citizen Spring semester. 4 credits Kane (1941), Strike (1925), It’s a Wonderful Life Prerequisite: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 andone (1946), Rear Window (1954), Fatal Attraction 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor (1987), The Color Purple (1985), Paris Is permission. Burning (1990), and Slacker (1991). Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits ENGL3703 Critical Theory and Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; one the Academy 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor What does it mean to study literature? permission. What does it mean to be a literary critic? American Studies students: Junior status and What role does theory play for a literary instructor’s permission critic in analyzing literature? Does “high theory” have any application outside ENGL3708 Digital Culture & Social Media of the academy? Should it? What are Promotion the connections between theory and This course combines theoretical and practice? These are some of the questions hands-on approaches to the topic of digital we will explore as we study the history media. This course considers, in theory and development of literary and cultural and practice, the effects of “new media” theory. We will focus on the dominant on con¬temporary society. By evaluating theoretical approaches of the 20th and 21st current research on digital and social media, centuries, including Marxism, structuralism, students will gain a clearer understanding deconstruction, feminist criticism, queer of how the digital world has altered the ways theory, and post-colonial theory. This course we think, behave, and interact. Students is recommended for all interested in literary in this course will also gain practical skills and cultural theories and especially those through the exploration of multiple new interested in the teaching profession or media technologies in order to learn how those continuing on to graduate school, to use social media for marketing and where a basic working knowledge of major promotion. theories is expected. Spring semester. 4 credits or instructor Fall semester, even years. 4 credits permission. Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and Prerequisites: ENGL1502 one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor permission. ENGL3801 Feature Writing Taught by a professional editor, this course ENGL3707 Film Theory focuses on learning to research, write, and The course introduces students to the edit feature-length articles for newsletters, history of film and to “classical” and newspapers, or magazines. The course contemporary approaches to theorizing explores topics such as research, project film. At the same time that students learn management, interviewing, article structure, about cinema as an artistic form, they editing for content and copy, as well as roles learn to think and write critically about and responsibilities of writers and editors its cultural relevance. Students read key working in professional settings. theoretical texts, study nine films, and learn Spring semester, even years. 4 credits to analyze them using various theoretical 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

194 English Course Descriptions for Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; publication. Arts and Sciences ENGL2501; or instructor permission. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL3504 or instructor ENGL3806 Health Communication permission. Health Communication provides students with an overview of the health ENGL4178 Directed Study communication field. Students will explore Under the guidance of a faculty member, multiple communication issues relevant students select, read, and research a to health organizations, including: written particular literary, writing, or media-related and oral communication, information topic. processing, the social construction of health Offered as needed. 4 credits and illness, doctor-patient communication, Prerequisites: Two 3000-level ENGL courses, and the relationship between professionals, proposal approval and senior status. patients, friends, families, and cultural institutions. The course will also explore ENGL4991/ENGL4992 Independent Study the role media play in shaping our health This course is limited to seniors whose attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. p­ roposal for Distinction in the Field has been Finally, the course will explore the strategic accepted by the department. Under the planning process involved in developing guidance of a member of the English faculty, health campaigns. students complete a 40-page research ­ Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits paper which is the sole requirement for Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or Distinction in the Field of English graduation instructor permission. honors. Offered as needed. 2 credits ENGL3991/ENGL3992 Special Topics Prerequisites: Two 3000-level ENGL courses, I or II proposal approval and senior status. This course emphasizes the study and ­application of theoretical perspectives to ENGL4994/ENGL4995 Internship I or II literary and media texts, as well as advanced Students gain practical and professional research and writing projects requiring training and experience in a range of fields, ­secondary sources. The topic for the course including, but not limited to, journalism, will be determined by the instructor. broadcasting, advertising, publishing, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits public relations, and corporate, political, Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and or governmental communication. Students one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor work a minimum of 15 hours per week at permission. their placement and meet regularly with other interns and the course instructor while ENGL4160 Writing Seminar ­completing several projects related to their Students will extend and refine the skills internship site. All placements must receive of writing, revision, and editing developed instructor approval. in ENGL2504 Prose Writing and ENGL3504 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Advanced Prose Writing, as well as engage Prerequisites: senior status or instructor directly with the publishing process by permission. submitting their best work for consideration by journals, magazines, anthologies, and contests, with the ultimate goal of Emmanuel College

Finance 195 ENGL4998 Communication and Media FINANCE Course Descriptions for Studies Senior Seminar Arts and Sciences This course serves as the capstone course FINAN3356 Applied Corporate Finance for senior students in the Communication Students will apply concepts and analytical and Media Studies major. The senior tools that are used to solve problems and seminar pulls together key theoretical make decisions in corporate finance. In perspectives in the field while providing particular, we will focus on applications students with an opportunity to explore, related to three essential strategic decisions synthesize and apply those theories to that every firm faces-the investment specific issues, themes and hypotheses. decision, the financing decision, and the This course also provides a historical context dividend decision. Cases will be used, in part, to recent and contemporary media events, as a problem-solving context. linking these to scholarship and debates Fall semester. 4 credits within the field and to past developments in Prerequisites: MGMT3305 and junior standing content, technology, and research. Finally, the senior seminar reviews methodological FINAN3496 Finance Internship practices, introduced in ENGL1502, and The Finance Internship involves experiential provides students with the opportunity to learning in a firm related to the student’s apply these methods in their own original major and prospective career. The course research projects. requires that students apply theory to Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits practice while gaining experience in their Prerequisites: ENGL1205 and senior status or chosen career. In addition to working at their instructor permission internship site, students attend seminar or individual sessions that cover the theory, ENGL4999 English Senior Seminar practice and ethical aspects of work. Students will examine how different texts Together with the internship supervisor, a (e.g., popular and classic literature, movies, project is defined that will add value to the television, etc.) present and shape a variety organization and that will build expertise in of issues such as gender, race and class the student in an area of mutual interest. throughout all levels of culture. Specific Fall & Spring semesters. 4 credits ­topics and texts will be determined by Prerequisites ACCT2201, MGMT2301, the instructor, but will include theoretical MGMT3302, MGMT3305 and critical material as well as primary sources. “Texts” could be all of one kind or FINAN4303 Financial Modeling a combination of different media, also to be The course presents the theory and practice determined by the instructor. Active student of financial management, emphasizing participation and a major research project excel-based modeling and forecasting are required. as well as traditional methods. Students Spring semester. 4 credits use spreadsheets to analyze the impacts Prerequisites: ENGL1502 and senior status or of financial decisions related to financial instructor permission statement analysis, cash budgeting, and cost of capital determination, capital budgeting, and capital structure choices. The course covers a variety of 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

196 History techniques, such as sensitivity and scenario HISTORY analysis, optimization methods, Monte Carlo simulation,and regression analysis. HIST1101 Introduction to Migration Studies Spring semester. 4 credits (H) Prerequisites ACCT1201, ACCT2201, This introductory course is designed to ECON1101, ECON1103, MATH1111, MGMT1101 prepare students to study issues related or MATH1118, MATH1121, MGMT 2301, to immigration and migration from the MGMT3302, MGMT3305 perspective of different disciplines and using varied methodologies. The course has two Course Descriptions for main goals: first, to equip students with a Arts and Sciences solid historical context of debates related to global migrations and immigration-in particular, debates about race, ethnicity, diaspora, assimilation, integration, exclusion, citizenship, border policies among others. This section is inspired by transnational and glocal approaches. The second goal is to expose students to a variety of research methods and literatures, spanning from history to anthropology, sociology and art. During the semester students will first read from different disciplines and compare approaches on similar topics. (Each instructor will capitalize on his/her expertise). Students will be using a wide range of research material such as primary sources and archival resources, case studies, qualitative and quantitative analysis. In this way, students will acquire and be challenged by comparative and interdisciplinary analyses of migrations. Students will then be required to apply the learned interdisciplinary knowledge to an independent project. They will work on a topic of their choice, research how such topic is discussed in different disciplines and with different approaches; apply one approach and compare it to at least one other. At the end of the semester, each student will present on his/her findings. Spring semester. 4 credits HIST1105 United States History to 1877 (H) This survey course explores the major political, social and economic developments Emmanuel College

History 197 of the United States through 1877. The world from the 15th through the 18th Course Descriptions for central ideas and conflicts that shaped centuries, colonization of the late 19th Arts and Sciences American society from the Colonial era century and nationalist, anti-colonialist, and through Reconstruction are examined liberation movements of the 20th century. through the lives, experiences, and The course concludes with a consideration of contributions of various Americans including contemporary Africa. the working class, African Americans, Fall semester, even years. 4 credits and immigrants, among others. Topics include colonization and ­contact with HIST1108 World History to 1500 (H) Native Americans, colonial development, World History is an effort to view the past the American Revolution, the origins and with a “wide angle lens.” This involves development of American slavery, western looking at history not on a local or national expansion, and the Civil War. The goal of this scale, nor even exploring a specific part of course is to teach s­ tudents to write critically the world, but looking at history on a truly about the early history of the United States, global scale. World History to 1500 examines and to challenge broad-based assumptions processes of change that affected very large about American history. numbers of people over very long ­periods of Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits time: the emergence of complex societies (civilizations), the rise of religions that HIST1106 United States History have endured for thousands of years, the Since 1877 (H) development and transfer of technologies This survey course examines the major that affected everyday life, and the political, social and economic developments development of systems of government. of the United States by exploring the central This course crisscrosses the globe to give ideas and conflicts that shaped American students an idea of the similarities and society since the Civil War. The lives, differences and, above all, the perhaps experiences, and contributions of various unexpected interconnectedness that mark groups of Americans including the working the early and pre-­modern years of human class, African Americans, and immigrants, e­ xperience. among others, are a central focus of the Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits course. Some of the broader themes emphasized include industrialization, HIST1109 Modern World History (H) territorial expansion, international relations, This course examines how the modern the women’s movement, and the struggle world has been shaped through historical for civil rights. The successful student encounters, antagonistic or not, among will recognize ways in which conflicts, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas innovations and changing ideas shaped from the 1500s to the present. Given the American society. chronological and geographical expanse, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credit we will focus mainly on significant patterns and long-term developments rather than HIST1107 African History: Themes (H) on specific figures or chronological details. This course examines major themes in The goals of the course are to acquaint the the history of Africa beginning with the student with some of the historical roots of formation of non-state societies, empires, the contemporary world and its problems; and kingdoms prior to the 15th century. to introduce students to the various ways Most of the course content focuses on historians have approached these issues; interactions between Africa and the outside and to help facilitate analytical and critical 2020-2021 Academic Catalog

198 History Course Descriptions for thinking, reading and writing skills. HIST2101 Introduction to Digital History(H) Arts and Sciences Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits This course will examine some of the major HIST1111 Traveling East: An Introduction to developments in the study, methods, East Asian History (H) theories and practices of digital history. This course seeks to prepare students with Current and emerging digital technologies a global perspective on the development are transforming traditional methods of historical narratives in East Asia. It of doing history, changing the nature of introduces key themes in Modern East Asian historical scholarly production of knowledge. history including the dissemination of classic This course will also examine the impact philosophies, the development of polities of digital media on the research, writing, and economic systems, food traditions and teaching, and presentation of history, other cultural features. East Asia commonly introducing students to issues in digital means China, Japan and Korea but this history such as copyright, intellectual course also examines other locations in property, information abundance, and Asia such as India, Vietnam, Singapore and how the web has changed the relationship Thailand. Finally, the course examines the between historians and their audience. interactions between East Asia with the Several topics will be explored, including rest of the world as well as intra East Asian different kinds of digital expression used by relations from approximately 1600 C.E. to historians, the impact of social media and 2000 C.E. web 2.0 tools on the discipline of history, Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits website and app creation and design issues, teaching and learning with digital tools, HIST1114 Creating the Atlantic World (H) and conceptual issues regarding the use This course explores the rise of the Atlantic of historical artifacts. Some assignments World with a chronological focus centered and hands-on learning will be taught in on the Age of Exploration through the Age conjunction with ATIG and the Library of Sail, ca. 1450-1820. It examines the Learning Commons. process through which the histories of Spring semester. even years. 4 credits Africa, Europe, North America, and South Prerequisite: Completion of either IDDS1000 or America collided, resulting in conflict but IDDS1101 also in the creation of a large interconnected community of diverse peoples and HIST2103 Introduction to Environmental cultures. Readings, lectures and discussion History (H) will reflect a transnational approach to the This course represents an introduction to study of history moving beyond traditional the history of attitudes towards wilderness, national narratives in an effort to reveal the nature (climate, topography, plants, animals, ways in which intercultural contact shaped and microorganisms), and natural resources ideas about race, ethnicity and gender, in the western hemisphere. Readings and and how new communities and societies discussions will focus on the trajectory of were formed through imperial rivalries, these attitudes, beginning with European- economic exchange, and various acts of colonial as well as Native American accommodation, resistance, and rebellion.  perceptions of the natural world. We will Fall semester. 4 credits then explore the way these perceptions were altered through industrialization, west ward expansion, the rise of national identities, the natural sciences and environmentalism and ultimately, global warming. As such, Emmanuel College