English 199 ENGL1502 Introduction to Communication create a space for critical reflection and Course Descriptions for and Media Studies global perspectives. Arts and Sciences Social Analysis (SA) Spring semester. 4 credits Social Science (SS) This survey course provides students with ENGL2106 Irish Identities: an introductory working knowledge of theory Literature and Culture in the field. Through the evaluation and Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) application of primary texts in interp retive, Literary Inquiry (LI) rhetorical, and critical theories of media and Emphasizing the colonial and anticolonial communication, students will develop skills tensions within Ireland’s literature and in critical analysis, reading, and writing in culture, this class attempts to capture the the discipline. vibrant and complicated formations of Irish Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits identities beginning in the late sixteenth century and concluding the early twentieth ENGL2101 English Literature I century. The class balances the Anglo-Irish Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) perspective in works by Edmund Spenser, Literary Inquiry (LI) Jonathan Swift, Maria Edgeworth, and This course surveys English literature from Sydney Owneson (Lady Morgan) with the the medieval period to the 18th century. bardic poetry of Tadhg Dall O’Huiginn and Reading a broad range of canonical and the national and international perspectives non-canonical texts in both an historical of writers like William Butler Yeats and and cultural context, students will examine James Joyce. The class ends in the anxious the ways in which literature challenges atmosphere of the early twentieth century, dominant values. Students will distinguish reflecting on the significance of events, like the characteristics of different literary the 1916 Easter Rising, that contributed to periods, analyze specific passages and the partition of the island. understand how those analyses participate Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits in the construction of the English literary canon. ENGL2142 History Through Fiction Fall semester. 4 credits History and literature question and illuminate one another as the imagined ENGL2102 English Literature II world of the political novel is read against, Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) and as part of, historical events. How do Literary Inquiry (LI) such works as The Heart of a Dog, The Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) Victory, or Nervous Conditions present This course is a survey of Nineteenth-, politics and society? How, in reading them, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First Century do we gain a greater understanding of English Literature. Students will read a power relations and human relations in broad range of canonical and non-canonical times of crisis and stasis? Works will be texts that support and challenge dominant placed in context and then discussed in cultural values emerging during a period of terms of perspective, ideology, style and rapid technological and ideological change. impact. When last offered, the theme of the England’s imperial vision provides an course was Jewish history through fiction; important context for the literature in this upcoming themes include ancient and early class. There is a purposeful intersection modern history through fiction, imperialism between canonical authors and traditionally and colonialism in fiction, and history underrepresented English authors who 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
200 English Course Descriptions for through detective and mystery stories. Douglass’s account of his journey from Arts and Sciences Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits slavery to freedom, as well as the more recent literary reflections on Jamestown in ENGL2303 The Modern American the 1619 project. Novel Fall semester. 4 credits Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) Focusing on American novels since World ENGL2309 The Haves and the Have-Nots: War I, this course will introduce students American Authors on Money, Class and to a range of literary responses to some Power of the dramatic historical developments Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) and cultural changes of the modern era. Literary Inquiry (LI) Students will study the formal and aesthetic Since Puritan times, Americans have linked developments in the modern novel while also material wealth and economic success with e xamining each literary work in its historical self-worth and identity. This course explores context. Writers studied will include both how writers have grappled with the issues well-known and lesser-known figures, and of money, class and power and traces the the novels discussed will lend themselves to theme of consumerism throughout the a consideration of the diversity of American American literary canon. The readings are experiences that has characterized drawn from a variety of American writers American modernity. from the 17th through the 21st centuries Fall semester, even years. 4 credits and may include texts by Franklin, Howells, Fitzgerald and Wharton as well as lesser- ENGL2304 American Voices I: known works by women, African American U.S. Literature to 1865 and Native American authors. Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) Spring semester, even years.. 4 credits Literary Inquiry (LI) Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) ENGL2321 Love and Gender in British This course examines the development Literature and Film of American literature from its origins to Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) the Civil War. Students will consider the This course focuses on representations of aesthetic characteristics of non-fiction, gender as they relate to love relationships fiction, and poetry as they engage with in a variety of films and British literary political and religious movements, including texts. The course provides an introduction settler colonialism, Puritanism, abolitionism, to gender theory as it applies to literary and and transcendentalism. Students consider media studies, with a heavy emphasis on each text within its historical, national, pre-1700 British literature. Readings may and transnational context in order to include the sonnet sequences of Lady Mary understand how it simultaneously responds Wroth and Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare’s and contributes to the conditions that have Twelfth Night, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, given rise to it. With the diversity of American and Jeanette Winterson’s The Power Book. literature and U.S. identities serving as Films may include Il Postino (Radford 1994), the key theme of the course, students Soldier’s Girl (Pierson 2003), Eternal Sunshine will consider a wide array of American of the Spotless Mind (Gondry 2004), Bridget voices as well as competing accounts of Jones’s Diary (Maguire 2001), and Melancholia national origin stories, from Christopher (Von Trier 2011). Columbus’s Letter’s of Discovery and the Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Pilgrim’s “Mayflower Compact” to Frederick Emmanuel College
English 201 ENGL2323 Short Fiction (AI-L) Why do Shakespeare’s plays persist at the Course Descriptions for This course introduces students to the core of the Western canon? What are the Arts and Sciences intensive study of short fiction. Students specific features of a Shakespeare comedy, read a wide array of short stories and tragedy, history, or romance? These are analyze them in relation to aesthetic and some of the questions we will explore as we cultural issues, including race, class, and seek to understand the plays as well as their gender. Writers may include Sherwood place in the literary canon and in our lives. Anderson, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Spring semester. 4 credits Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Amy Tan, Raymond Carver and Jhumpa Lahiri. ENGL2406 The Rise of the British Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Novel Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) ENGL2325 Spirituality and the A survey of the 18th- and 19th-century Literary Imagination British novel with an emphasis on its Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) development from the cultural margins The recent widespread popularity of to literary preeminence, and the way that bestsellers and television shows dealing this rise intersects issues of class, gender, with angels, the soul and other religious and empire. Novelists may include Defoe, topics suggests that God is anything but Richardson, Fielding, Austen, the Brontë dead in the 21st century. Spirituality has sisters, Eliot, Dickens and Hardy. always been a topic of great intellectual Fall semester, even years. 4 credits interest to artists and writers, from St. Augustine and Julian of Norwich to modern- ENGL2408 The Modern British Novel: day writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Empire and After Thomas Merton and Kathleen Norris. This Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) course examines the ways in which Christian This course surveys major British fiction and non-Christian writers have grappled from the early 20th century to the present with their faith and relationship with a higher with particular emphasis on how the novel being over the course of centuries. Readings and short story give narrative shape to cover both fiction and non-fiction, with issues of class, gender, race, nationality in a special emphasis on Catholic writers. the period of the British Empire’s decline and Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits fall. Writers may include James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Doris ENGL2402 Shakespeare: Tragedies, Lessing, V.S. Naipaul and Zadie Smith. Comedies, Histories and Romances Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) This course is a survey of Shakespeare’s ENGL2410 African American Literary Giants plays from the four dramatic genres: Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. It This course provides a comprehensive provides an in-depth study of a selection of survey of two iconic African Americans: plays as well as a consideration of broader Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. It concerns such as canonicity. How do modern allows students an intensive study of black audiences respond to Shakespeare’s plays? writing from the nineteenth century to the Do they resonate with a 21st-century present, while at the same time engaging audience because of certain “universal” with contemporary issues facing African truths unearthed by a 16th-century American communities in the United States “genius”? If so, what are those universals? and abroad. Studied themes include the 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
202 English Course Descriptions for following: literature and politics, race in ENGL2417 Literature of the Black Atlantic Arts and Sciences America, the history of slavery in America, and the relationship between black Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) literature and black music. This course Literary Inquiry (LI) examines a selection of Morrison’s and Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) Baldwin’s body of work as they address key Considering the Black Atlantic as a physical issues in African American, American, and and theoretical space, this class surveys African diasporic modern history. In other the developments of Black culture and words, students study these writers both as consciousness in foundational texts written American figures and transnational figures by Black writers who initiated a literary who carry global sensibilities in their work. tradition that changed the world. Reading We will also examine their work as it lends to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discussion of contemporary issues of social texts, including The Interesting Narrative justice including the legacy of American of Olaudah Equiano, The History of Mary slavery, mass incarceration, police brutality, Prince, Incidents in the Life of a Slave racial profiling, and income inequality. Girl (Harriet Jacobs/Linda Brent), and the Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits anonymously published The Woman of Colour: A Tale, students experience the ENGL2413 African American Literature: A painful and liberating intersections of race, Tradition of Resistance gender, and nationality through writers who Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) create a space for their resistant voices Literary Inquiry (LI) and for racial justice. In addition to these Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) primary texts, students read twentieth- and This course considers writing and creative twenty-first century interpretations of these expression as a major form of resistance texts by leading scholars, including Hortense to previously formed ideas, identities, Spillers, Jenny Sharpe, Henry Louis Gates, and narratives (ways of telling stories Jr., and Sandra Pouchet Paquet. about the past). In this sense, this class Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits explores how African Americans often re- wrote themselves and (re)wrote American ENGL2501 Journalism literature and history. It also traces the ways Taught by a professional journalist, this in which African American peoples made course introduces the roles, responsibilities, sense of their relationship to American and habits of print and online journalists society, their sociopolitical environment, in order to consider the place of journalism and how they saw themselves in the in an age of increased technology and world. Major themes include individual vs. media influence. Students receive collective identity, imagination, storytelling, practice in selected assignments typical power and resistance. This course uses a of contemporary journalistic writing sampling of particularly salient works in a and research, such as beat reporting, range of genres to provide a comprehensive investigative journalism and interviewing, introduction to the major themes, ideas, and with opportunities to revise their work for movements that have shaped and continue possible publication to influence African American literature as in the College’s student publications. an ever-evolving American literature. Fall semester. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1103 Emmanuel College
English 203 ENGL2504 Prose Writing ENGL2510 Professional Communication Course Descriptions for This course explores selected types of This class provides students with an Arts and Sciences w riting often associated with the term introduction to the theory and practice “literary n on-fiction,” giving students the of professional communication. Course opportunity for active reading as well as assignments and activities focus on frequent practice in composing and revision. interpersonal communication modes, Conducted in the workshop format, this including public speaking, interviewing, course will provide students the opportunity writing, presentations, digital to learn editing skills through the evaluation communication, and social media. Students of their peers’ writing. Students will work will gain confidence in their ability to in the genres of the personal essay, the communicate with different audiences and memoir, and the experimental form, and to target and convey messaging effectively. will be introduced to the publishing world Fall semester. 4 credits through introduction to literary venues and forums for their work. ENGL2515 Research Methods for Fall semester. 4 credits Communication and Media This class provides an introduction to the ENGL2506 Poetry Writing critical/cultural analysis of media. Its main This course is an overview of the craft goal is to equip you with the necessary of poetry writing in a workshop format. theoretical and methodological tools that Students will read and discuss the work will enable you to conduct your own research of a broad selection of contemporary project. We will explore the basics of critical/ poets. Various exercises will be assigned to cultural media studies, use an analytic demonstrate the relationship between form approach to formulate a research project, and content. Students will be introduced survey a variety of textual and audience- to basic figures of speech and concepts in based qualitative methods, collect and poetic form (sonnet and ballad, for example), analyze data, and use existing theory and rhyme, and meter. Students will compose research to make sense of our findings. portfolios from daily journals and class You will produce your own original research workshops. incorporating methods of textual and Fall semester. 4 credits audience analysis. Prerequisite: ENGL1103 Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1502 ENGL2507 Fiction Writing An overview of the craft of fiction writing and ENGL2521 Public Relations and Persuasion the creative process, study will focus on story- Literary Inquiry (LI) telling structure, use of narrative and scene, This is an introductory course exploring the the importance of conflict, sensory details, field of public relations and the practices of the revelation of character through dialogue persuasive and strategic communication. and action, and the paramount importance During the semester we will address basic of point-of-view to literary t echnique. definitions and principles of public relations, Students will read and discuss published the field’s historical and theoretical short fiction, write assigned exercises and underpinnings, and the inherent ethical read/hear the completed manuscripts of dilemmas of the field. We will also explore class members. the process of working in public relations, Fall and Spring semester. 4 credits identifying and working with key publics, 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
204 English Course Descriptions for and executing public relations writing. ENGL2604 American Voices II: Arts and Sciences Finally, we will investigate the various career U.S. Literature Since 1865 opportunities available in public relations. Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) Fall semester. 4 credits Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor A survey of U.S. literature from the Civil permission War to the contemporary era, this course introduces students to major works of ENGL2523 Advertising and Culture U.S. fiction, poetry, drama, and creative Visual & Creative Inquiry (VCI) non-fiction. Students examine key literary This course provides an overview of the movements, including realism, modernism, broad field of advertising including concepts, and postmodernism, and study a diverse strategies, and tactics. Students will learn array of U.S. writers who have shaped, about the role of advertising in the American extended, or challenged them. The economy and the procedures involved multiculturalism of U.S. history and the in planning advertising campaigns, with diversity of American literature are key special attention to social and ethical topics themes of this course. in advertising. Throughout the semester, Spring semester. 4 credits a strong emphasis will be placed on the ability to think critically and creatively, ENGL2701 Literature and Film and to present the ideas convincingly Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) using oratorical and technical tools and This course focuses on investigating the techniques. relationships between different media, Spring semester. 4 credits specifically traditional forms of literature Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor and film, with special attention to permission. understanding the cultural significance of these texts. Students will read literature ENGL2525 Sport Communication from a variety of genres, including poetry, This course introduces students to the field short stories, plays and novels. Films to be of sport communication, a growing area and viewed will include direct adaptations of industry that utilizes the skills of journalism, these works; alternative representations of public relations, and other areas of strategic the work’s plots, themes, or characters; and communication. With communication cinematic renderings of literary figures and theory, sport literature, and case studies, the literary imagination. Students are also this course introduces students to the many introduced to basics of film history and film ways in which individuals, media outlets, theory. and sport organizations work to create, Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits disseminate, and manage messages to their constituents. In addition, this course ENGL2703 Literature at the Border will cover the cultural and ethical issues This course is a theme-based course in that are present in sport. As such, issues of which students study literature that comes race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality will be from, out of or relates to highly politicized explored, as well as issues related to the law “hot spot” borders between “regions,” and politics. encouraging students to think about borders Spring semester. 4 credits and border crossing, national identities Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor and transnationalism. Students will permission. discover literature as a vehicle for cross- cultural inquiry, as a mode of empathetic Emmanuel College
English 205 engagement, and as an ethical mode of emerges as a powerful cultural force. Course Descriptions for discovery. The course will highlight borders Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Arts and Sciences between the U.S. and Mexico, Palestine and Prerequisite: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and one Israel, India and Pakistan, Tibet and China, 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor and Haiti and Dominican Republic. Students permission. will study a mixture of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction writing and will be ENGL3307 Survey of Literature for Children introduced to major themes in transnational and Young Adults literary studies. This course provides a historical and critical Fall semester, even years. 4 credits survey of major writers and illustrators in children’s and young adult literature and ENGL3303 Images of Masculinity explores the distinguishing characteristics of This course explores the construction of literature written for children. Students will masculinities in post-World War II American read a range of traditional and contemporary literature and film, concentrating on whether literature and explore major authors masculinity is conceived as natural and and illustrators and a variety of genres. immutable or is culturally or historically Through reading, discussion, in-class determined. We will examine how versions of writing exercises, written assignments, and masculinity relate to cultural developments a research paper, students will become such as feminism, the “crisis in masculinity,” informed and analytical readers of literature and drag culture. We will also explore the written and illustrated for children and connections between sex, gender, sexuality, adolescents. race, and class. Readings have included Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits John Irving, The World According to Garp; Note: This course does not count toward any Walter Mosley, The Man in My Basement; English department major or minor. Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman; and Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain. Films ENGL3309 Characters of the Long have included Fight Club (Fincher 1999); The 18th Century Graduate (Nichols 1967); Training Day (Fuqua This seminar investigates the significance 2001); Venus Boyz (Baur 2002); Brokeback of the different characters one encounters Mountain (Lee 2005); and Y Tu Mamá También in the textual productions (poetry, prose, (Cuaron 2001). Theoretical texts include and drama) from the “long 18th century.” In readings from theorists such as Michel current scholarship, the definition of this Foucault, Thomas Laqueur, and Judith period varies widely, but for the purposes Halberstam. of this class, the time period begins at Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and to E ngland’s throne (1660) and concludes one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor in the chaotic years following the French permission. Revolution (1790s). The characters students will encounter include the fop, the gossip, ENGL3305 Satire the intellectual, the rake, the virtuous lady, Focusing on“the Age of Satire” in England, the slave, the self-made man, the virtuoso, this course will present works by Jonathan the newsman and woman, the emerging Swift, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Oliver f eminist, and the abolitionist. Part of the Goldsmith, and Jane Collier as a context class will involve coming to terms with the through which this aggressive literary mode uncomfortable excesses (slavery, misogyny, 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
206 English Course Descriptions for revolution, etc.) that these characters develop, plan, edit, publish and distribute an Arts and Sciences embody and that pervade this period of issue of The Saintly Review, the Emmanuel English history generally. Primary texts College literary magazine. The mission of for this class may include John Wilmot, the magazine is to nurture and publish Second Earl of Rochester’s poetry, George outstanding student, staff and faculty Etherege’s The Man of Mode, Aphra Behn’s literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual The Rover, J onathan Swift’s A Tale art, to foster the professional development of a Tub, Joseph Addison and Richard of editors, writers, poets and artists, and to Steele’s The Tatler and The Spectator, and enrich the Emmanuel College community Mary Wollstonecraft’s novels. by publishing a professional quality literary Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits magazine. Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and Spring semester. 4 credits one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor Prerequisites: ENGL1205 and one of the permission. following: ENGL2504, ENGL2506, ENGL2507, ENGL3501, ENGL3506, ENGL3507 or ENGL3311 Ethics in Documentary Film ENGL3801 What are the ethical concerns that filmmakers face? How do we as viewers ENGL3501 Multimedia Storytelling respond to these questions? This practice- Writers who can write effectively for based course explores these questions electronic media will be tomorrow’s success through engagement with popular and stories. News organizations, publishers, and academic literature in the field and through commercial businesses are seeking writers screening and discussion of contemporary steeped in new media, especially those who documentaries that consider the ethical can write for the web. In this project-based questions of our day. Coursework consists course, students will master writing for primarily of team-directed filmmaking podcasts, audio slideshows and videos. In projects, where students conceptualize, addition, they will sharpen their journalistic shoot, and edit mini-documentaries while skills (through regular blogging, for exploring the intersection of theory and example), and build a professional portfolio practice and developing technical skills. that will assist them in finding work in the Fall semester, even years. 4 credits. media business. Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits instructor permission. Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or instructor permission. ENGL3405 Editing and Publishing a Literary Magazine ENGL3504 Advanced Prose Writing This course aims to critically analyze the A requirement for Writing, Editing and literary magazine as a genre and to develop Publishing majors, this course will be taught students’ knowledge of and skill in the field in the format of a writing workshop, with of publishing. We will study and analyze the goal of extending and refining the skills a number of top literary magazines and of non-fiction writing that students were journals selected for a range of styles, introduced to in ENGL2504 Prose Writing. content, location and goals; includes poetry, Spring semester. 4 credits fiction, and essays; two classes on each in Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; order to assess mission and content as well ENGL2504 or by permission of the instructor as submission and distribution policies. Over the course of the semester, students will Emmanuel College
English 207 ENGL3506 Advanced Poetry Writing between socio-politically, geographically, Course Descriptions for Advanced Poetry Writing will focus on and linguistically defined spaces? How does Arts and Sciences developing the craft of poetry writing this movement manifest both thematically through a combination of writing original and structurally in their literary works? work and studying the work of established The course will not only examine world poets. Students will practice writing in a literatures but it will also investigate variety of received forms and will develop a theories of globalization-ways of thinking cohesive body of work. This course will also about 1) what national home means versus highlight the workshop format, enhancing a global sense of home, 2) what allows students’ ability to critique poetic works in an individual to develop a transnational formation and creating a writing community sensibility and/or global aptitude that allows that will foster future writing practice. them to be at home in any situation, 3) how Spring semester, even years. 4 credits literature speaks to the human experience Prerequisite: ENGL2506 Poetry Writing or of movement across boundaries. The literary instructor’s permission works in the course feature such themes as: exile, refugeeism, displacement, movement, ENGL3601 Crime Stories and transience, biculturalism/multi-culturism, American Culture boundary-crossing and transnationalism. This course will examine crime narrative Ultimately, we will explore global literature traditions and their function in American and a literary theory of the global (i.e., culture. The course begins with the birth transnational literary theory) as well as the of the classic detective story and traces ways in which globalization is transforming the form through various transformations the human experience politically, socially, in 20th-century America, including the culturally and economically. Writers will emergence of hardboiled “private eye,” include Yusef Komunyakaa, Jorie Graham, noir films, police procedurals and the “true Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Tracy K. crime” genre. Throughout the semester, Smith, Li Young Lee, Bapsi Sidhwa, James we will analyze the social and political Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Octavio Paz, Walt implications of each genre and each text, Whitman, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Xi focusing especially on the representation of Chuan, and Isabelle Allende. crime and society, as well as the portrayal of Spring semester, even years. 4 credits policing, forensic science, law, order, class, Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and race, gender and justice. one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits permission. Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor ENGL3701 Media Theory permission. This course explores key theoretical models within the field of Communication and ENGL3605 Global Literature and Film Media Studies. Topics vary by semester An increasingly global world foregrounds and include theoretical approaches questions of place and movement, to gender, sexuality, identity, media particularly movement across previously convergence, digital culture, audience defined cultural, geographic and linguistic studies and media industries. Coursework boundaries. The course begins with the emphasizes a sustained examination of the following questions: How do writers (poets historical, social, political, technological and novelists) and their characters grapple and economic factors that have shaped with questions of place and movement the diverse and interdisciplinary theories 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
208 English Course Descriptions for within Communications and Media Studies learn to think and write critically about Arts and Sciences over the past century. Students then apply its cultural relevance. Students read key these theories to media text, past and theoretical texts, study nine films, and learn present, in order to consider their validity to analyze them using various theoretical and application. Assignments in this course approaches, including ideological criticism, emphasize the use of source material and psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, and 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 Emmanuel College
English 209 and responsibilities of writers and editors directly with the publishing process by Course Descriptions for working in professional settings. submitting their best work for consideration Arts and Sciences Spring semester, even years. 4 credits by journals, magazines, anthologies, Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and contests, with the ultimate goal of ENGL2501; or instructor permission. publication. Spring semester. 4 credits ENGL3806 Health Communication Prerequisites: ENGL3504 or instructor Social Justice (SJ) permission. This course provides students with an overview of the health communication ENGL4178 Directed Study field. Students will explore multiple Under the guidance of a faculty member, communication issues relevant to health students select, read, and research a organizations including written and oral particular literary, writing, or media-related communication, information processing, topic. the social construction of health and Offered as needed. 4 credits illness, doctor-patient communication, and Prerequisites: Two 3000-level ENGL courses, 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, students 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 through the creation of a students complete a 40-page research campaign. paper which is the sole requirement for Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Distinction in the Field of English graduation Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or honors. instructor permission. Offered as needed. 2 credits Prerequisites: Two 3000-level ENGL courses, ENGL3991/ENGL3992 Special Topics proposal approval and senior status. I or II This course emphasizes the study and ENGL4994/ENGL4995 Internship I or II a pplication of theoretical perspectives to Students gain practical and professional literary and media texts, as well as advanced training and experience in a range of fields, research and writing projects requiring including, but not limited to, journalism, secondary sources. The topic for the course broadcasting, advertising, publishing, will be determined by the instructor. public relations, and corporate, political, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits or governmental communication. Students Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and work a minimum of 15 hours per week at one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor their placement and meet regularly with permission. other interns and the course instructor while completing several projects related to their ENGL4160 Writing Seminar internship site. All placements must receive Students will extend and refine the skills instructor approval. of writing, revision, and editing developed Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits in ENGL2504 Prose Writing and ENGL3504 Prerequisites: senior status or instructor Advanced Prose Writing, as well as engage permission. 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
210 Finance Course Descriptions for ENGL4998 Communication and Media FINANCE Arts and Sciences Studies Senior Seminar 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 FINAN3366 Portfolio Management practices, introduced in ENGL1502, and Students will develop and understanding provides students with the opportunity to of the portfolio management process. apply these methods in their own original Emphasis will be on equities and will include research projects. discussions on fixed income securities. In Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits this course the students will simulate a Prerequisites: ENGL1205 and senior status or real world management process covering instructor permission the research and analysis of individual securities, formulation of these securities ENGL4999 English Senior Seminar into portfolios and the use of derivative Students will examine how different texts securities to modify the risk /return profile of (e.g., popular and classic literature, movies, the portfolio. television, etc.) present and shape a variety Spring semester. 4 credits of issues such as gender, race and class Prerequisites: MGMT1101, ACCT1201, throughout all levels of culture. Specific ACCT2201, ECON1101, ECON1103, MATH1111 topics and texts will be determined by or MATH1121, MATH1118, ECON2010, ECON the instructor, but will include theoretical 3105, FINAN3356, MGMT3105, MGMT2301, and critical material as well as primary MGMT3305 sources. “Texts” could be all of one kind or a combination of different media, also to be FINAN3496 Finance Internship determined by the instructor. Active student The Finance Internship involves experiential participation and a major research project learning in a firm related to the student’s are required. major and prospective career. The course Spring semester. 4 credits requires that students apply theory to Prerequisites: ENGL1502 and senior status or practice while gaining experience in their instructor permission chosen career. In addition to working at their internship site, students attend seminar or individual sessions that cover the theory, practice and ethical aspects of work. Together with the internship supervisor, a Emmanuel College
History 211 project is defined that will add value to the HISTORY organization and that will build expertise in the student in an area of mutual interest. HIST1101 Introduction to Migration Studies Fall & Spring semesters. 4 credits Historical Consciousness (H) Prerequisites ACCT2201, MGMT2301, Social Justice (SJ) MGMT3302, MGMT3305 This introductory course is designed to prepare students to study issues related FINAN4303 Financial Modeling to immigration and migration from the The course presents the theory and practice perspective of different disciplines and using of financial management, emphasizing varied methodologies. The course has two excel-based modeling and forecasting main goals: first, to equip students with a as well as traditional methods. Students solid historical context of debates related use spreadsheets to analyze the impacts to global migrations and immigration-in of financial decisions related to financial particular, debates about race, ethnicity, statement analysis, cash budgeting, and diaspora, assimilation, integration, cost of capital determination, capital exclusion, citizenship, border policies budgeting, and capital structure choices. among others. This section is inspired by The course covers a variety of transnational and glocal approaches. The techniques, such as sensitivity and scenario second goal is to expose students to a analysis, optimization methods, Monte Carlo variety of research methods and literatures, simulation,and regression analysis. spanning from history to anthropology, Spring semester. 4 credits sociology and art. During the semester Prerequisites ACCT1201, ACCT2201, students will first read from different ECON1101, ECON1103, MATH1111, MGMT1101 disciplines and compare approaches on or MATH1118, MATH1121, MGMT 2301, similar topics. (Each instructor will capitalize MGMT3302, MGMT3305 on his/her expertise). Students will be using a wide range of research material such as primary sources and archival resources, Course Descriptions for case studies, qualitative and quantitative Arts and Sciences 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 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
212 History Course Descriptions for HIST1105 United States History will recognize ways in which conflicts, Arts and Sciences to 1877 innovations and changing ideas have shaped Historical Consciousness (H) American society. Historical Inquiry (HI) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credit This survey course explores the major political, social and economic developments HIST1107 African History: Themes of the United States through 1877. The Historical Consciousness (H) central ideas and conflicts that shaped Historical Inquiry (HI) American society from the Colonial era This course examines major themes in through Reconstruction are examined the history of Africa beginning with the through the lives, experiences, and formation of non-state societies, empires, contributions of various Americans including and kingdoms prior to the 15th century. the working class, African Americans, Most of the course content focuses on and immigrants, among others. Topics interactions between Africa and the outside include colonization and contact with world from the 15th through the 18th Native Americans, colonial development, centuries, colonization of the late 19th the American Revolution, the origins and century and nationalist, anti-colonialist, and development of American slavery, western liberation movements of the 20th century. expansion, and the Civil War. The goal of this The course concludes with a consideration of course is to teach s tudents to write critically contemporary Africa. about the early history of the United States, Fall semester, even years. 4 credits and to challenge broad-based assumptions about American history. HIST1108 World History to 1500 Historical Consciousness (H) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Historical Inquiry (HI) Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) HIST1106 United States History World History is an effort to view the past Since 1877 with a “wide angle lens.” This involves Historical Consciousness (H) looking at history not on a local or national Historical Inquiry (HI) scale, nor even exploring a specific part of This survey course examines the major the world, but looking at history on a truly political, social and economic developments global scale. World History to 1500 examines of the United States since the Civil War by processes of change that affected very large exploring the central ideas and conflicts that numbers of people over very long periods of shaped American society to the end of the time: the emergence of complex societies twentieth century. Major themes include (civilizations), the rise of religions that industrialization; territorial expansion; have endured for thousands of years, the urbanization; international relations and development and transfer of technologies conflicts; the struggle for civil rights; and that affected everyday life, and the the broader quest for social change since development of systems of government. the Civil War. The lives, experiences, and This course crisscrosses the globe to give contributions of marginalized peoples and students an idea of the similarities and groups are examined and connected to the differences and, above all, the perhaps present. The goal of this course is to make unexpected interconnectedness that mark students to think and critically write about the early and pre-modern years of human the history of the United States, getting experience. them to challenge some of the broad-based Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits and popularly held assumptions about American history. The successful student Emmanuel College
History 213 HIST1109 Modern World History HIST1114 Creating the Atlantic World Course Descriptions for Historical Consciousness (H) Historical Consciousness (H) Arts and Sciences Historical Inquiry (HI) Historical Inquiry (HI) This course examines how the modern TThis course explores the rise of the Atlantic world has been shaped through historical World with a chronological focus centered encounters, antagonistic or not, among on the Age of Exploration through the Age of Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas Sail, ca. 1450-1820. It examines the process from the 1500s to the present. Given the through which the histories of Africa, Europe, chronological and geographical expanse, North America, and South America collided, we will focus mainly on significant patterns resulting in conflict but also in the creation and long-term developments rather than of a large interconnected community on specific figures or chronological details. of diverse peoples languages, and The goals of the course are to acquaint the cultures. Readings, lectures and discussion student with some of the historical roots of will reflect a transnational approach to the the contemporary world and its problems; study of history moving beyond traditional to introduce students to the various ways national narratives in an effort to reveal historians have approached these issues; the ways in which intercultural contact and to help facilitate analytical and critical shaped ideas about race, ethnicity, class, thinking, reading and writing skills. and gender, and how new communities and societies were formed through imperial Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits rivalries, economic exchange, and various acts of accommodation, resistance, and HIST1111 Traveling East: An Introduction to rebellion. East Asian History Historical Consciousness (H) Fall semester. 4 credits Historical Inquiry (HI) Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) HIST2101 Introduction to Digital History This course seeks to prepare students with Historical Consciousness (H) a global perspective on the development Historical Inquiry (HI) of historical narratives in East Asia. It This course will examine some of the major introduces key themes in Modern East Asian developments in the study, methods, history including the dissemination of classic theories and practices of digital history. philosophies, the development of polities Current and emerging digital technologies and economic systems, food traditions and are transforming traditional methods other cultural features. East Asia commonly of doing history, changing the nature of means China, Japan and Korea but this historical scholarly production of knowledge. course also examines other locations in This course will also examine the impact Asia such as India, Vietnam, Singapore and of digital media on the research, writing, Thailand. Finally, the course examines the teaching, and presentation of history, interactions between East Asia with the introducing students to issues in digital rest of the world as well as intra East Asian history such as copyright, intellectual relations from approximately 1600 C.E. to property, information abundance, and 2000 C.E. how the web has changed the relationship between historians and their audience. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Several topics will be explored, including different kinds of digital expression used by historians, the impact of social media and web 2.0 tools on the discipline of history, 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
214 History Course Descriptions for website and app creation and design issues, of the counter-culture, the anti-war Arts and Sciences teaching and learning with digital tools, movement, the turbulent 1970s, and the and conceptual issues regarding the use rise of conservatism in the 1980s. The of historical artifacts. Some assignments resulting political, social and economic and hands-on learning will be taught in ramifications that are still with us to this conjunction with ATIG and the Library day are examined. Students are asked to Learning Commons. challenge broadly held assumptions and Spring semester. even years. 4 credits reflect critically upon the past generation Prerequisite: Completion of either IDDS1000 or through the use of primary sources, IDDS1101 secondary readings, film, music, and other non-traditional primary sources. Students HIST2103 Introduction to Environmental conduct original research utilizing online History resources from multiple sources. Fall Historical Consciousness (H) semester, odd years. 4 credits This course represents an introduction to the history of attitudes towards wilderness, HIST 2106 A History of New England: 1500– nature (climate, topography, plants, animals, Present and microorganisms), and natural resources Historical Consciousness (H) in the western hemisphere. Readings and This course will explore New England history discussions will focus on the trajectory of from pre-Columbus to the present day by these attitudes, beginning with European- exploring the region’s historical relationship colonial as well as Native American with the rest of the United States, Canada perceptions of the natural world. We will and the world. We will examine New England then explore the way these perceptions were as a center of thought, politics and the altered through industrialization, west ward economy, a place whose people often drive expansion, the rise of national identities, the nation’s policies and socio-cultural the natural sciences and environmentalism development. Unique in its approach, this and ultimately, global warming. As such, team-taught course will provide students this course also considers the current with a most engaging experience and it state of environmental concerns in the US promises to make you look at New England’s and Latin America. The course content will history from an entirely new perspective add dimension to the regional histories in by examining important themes in the the western hemisphere by incorporating region’s past, including: the Asian-Diaspora perspectives from literary works and in New England, Transcendentalism, environmental history. the conservation movement, literature, Fall semester, even years. 4 credits intellectual life, cities, migration, abolitionism, the American Revolution, and HIST2105 America Since 1960 many others. Historical Inquiry (HI) Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits America’s history from 1960 to the recent past is examined in this class. The course HIST2119 19th Century Europe: Democracy will focus primarily on the country’s social and Imperialism and cultural history, diversity, and change Historical Consciousness (H) since 1960, and the quest for civil rights This course begins with the French and social justice. Other topics include Revolution and the Napoleonic Era the women’s and LGBTQ+ movements, and examines the political, economic, the student movement, the development social, cultural and diplomatic history of Emmanuel College
History 215 Europe to the close of the 19th century. the 19th Century, birthing what we know as Course Descriptions for Among the topics to be covered are: the professional athletes and athletics. Modern Arts and Sciences industrial revolution; new ideologies such sports history will include topics, such as: as nationalism, liberalism, socialism and sports & resistance; how sports history romanticism; the revolutions of 1830 and provides insights into the complexities of 1848; unification of Italy and Germany; race, gender, and social status; the modern Bismarckian diplomacy; m ilitarism; the new athlete and extreme wealth; the ongoing imperialism; and the turn-of-the-century politicization of athletes; among many other mind. topics. Living in a sports-crazed region will Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits allow us to explore sports history, including private tours of Fenway Park with the Red HIST2120 Europe in the Era of Sox official historian, Gordon Edes; exploring World War the Brookline neighborhood where the first Historical Consciousness (H) Country Club in America was built in an This course begins with Europe at its zenith impoverished immigrant neighborhood in and the background to the Great War. The Brookline, introducing the United States devastation of that war, and the troubled to golf, Mathews Arena at Northeastern international relations and radicalization of University, and the Boston Bruins Museum domestic politics that followed from it, are to augment our examination of integration major topics, as are the Russian Revolutions and professional sports. of 1917 and subsequent development Spring semester,even years. 4 credits of the Soviet Union, the actions of the fascist parties and states, especially the HIST2124 History through Fiction ascendancy of Nazism in Germany, and the History and literature question and causes and course of World War II. Film and illuminate one another as the imagined personal accounts are a prominent part of world of novels is read against, and as the course. part of, historical events. How do we gain a Spring semester. 4 credits greater understanding of power relations and human relations in times of crisis and HIST2122 Sports and the Making of the stasis by analyzing works of fiction? Works Modern World will be placed in context and then discussed Historical Consciousness (H) in terms of perspective, ideology, style and Historical Inquiry (HI) impact. Themes of the course will be youth Megan Rapinoe and Colin Kaepernick engagement in times of change, revolution remind us that sports, politics, and society and tradition, nationalism and identity have long been deeply connected, despite (social, political, collective and individual). cries from some people to “keep politics Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits out of sports.” This course will explore (Cross-referenced with ENGL2124) the history of sports in the making of the modern world. We will examine the HIST2125 History of Modern beginning of organized sports, such as golf Latin America and rounders (aka, baseball), as early as Historical Consciousness (H) 15th-Century Europe and the perception of This course surveys the history of Latin health and social benefits of participation. America from approximately 1810 to We will also consider how sports began to the present. This period witnessed the shape – and be shaped by – the Industrial emergence of capitalist economies and Revolution and emergence of Capitalism in the creation of governments based on the 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
216 History Course Descriptions for nation-state model. This course will focus the course is concerned with varieties of Arts and Sciences on how these two transformations impacted Christianity, but Judaism is also considered. Latin American societies across regional, Fall semester, even years. 4 credits ethnic, gender, and class lines and the various social movements they produced. HIST2128 Immigrants in the Class discussions will focus on the following American Experience themes: Colonial legacies, economic Historical Inquiry (HI) development, gender and class relations, Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) urban versus rural relations, and revolution. This course examines the history of The course will also address the push-pull immigration to America from the colonial factors associated with emigration to the era until the recent past. Emphasis is given United States and Europe. to the role immigrant groups have played in Fall semester, even years. 4 credits the nation’s history and the contributions they have made in shaping America’s HIST2126 History of Japan Since diverse racial and ethnic cultures. The 1600 course examines the “push” and “pull” Historical Consciousness (H) factors which helped propelled emigrants Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) to the United States, particularly its cities. This course traces the history of Japan The course focuses on the diversity of the from 1600 to the present, paying particular immigrant experience, the problems and attention to the social, cultural, and political promises immigrants have confronted upon narratives of that history. Broadly speaking, their arrival in the United States, as well as the class will portray the past 400 years historical and contemporary debates over of Japanese history as two major periods, assimilation and multiculturalism, and what the early-modern period (or Tokugawa it has meant and means to be an “American.” period, 1600-1868), and the modern period Students are expected to develop an (1868-present). In this course, students will appreciation for the role of immigration in embark on an unforgettable journey through American history and challenge broadly the history of one of the most intriguing held assumptions about immigration by and influential nations in the modern writing and thinking analytically about the international world order. Along that journey, topic through the use of actual immigrant students will read a variety of texts, primary experiences through primary and secondary as well as secondary, and will be exposed to sources, interviewing a recent immigrant to multiple visual primary sources, including the United States, film, and field trips. woodblock prints, photographs, films, and Spring semester, even years. 4 credits manga (graphic novels). Fall semester, even years. 4 credits HIST2130 African American History: 1865 to the Present HIST2127 Religion, Society, and Europe Historical Consciousness (H) This course looks at religious beliefs and This course examines the history of African practices in modern Europe from the French Americans from the end of the Civil War to Revolution to the mid-20th century. Such the present. Topics include: emancipation; forms of religious affiliation and expression Reconstruction and its aftermath; the rise as apparitions, pilgrimages, the occult, and of Jim Crow; Booker T. Washington and his minority and dissident churches are major critics; migration and the making of urban topics, as are religious life in cities, women ghettoes; the Harlem Renaissance; African and religious life, and the challenges posed Americans and American popular cultures; by science and atheism to religion. Most of the origins, conduct, and legacy of the Civil Emmanuel College
History 217 Rights Movement; the “War on Poverty;” and through writing assignments and class race in contemporary American politics. discussion. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits HIST2140 History of Modern Middle East HIST2207 Slavery in Global History Course Descriptions for This course will begin by studying the Historical Consciousness (H) Arts and Sciences institutions and internal and international Historical Inquiry (HI) dynamics of the Ottoman Empire, beginning Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) with its 14th century rise, including its Slavery is an ancient institution that 16th-century height and its role and continues to shape peoples, cultures, and influence as the seat of the Caliphate. societies in the 21st century. Perhaps the Our concentration will then turn to the single largest forced migration in world imperial decline from the 18th century, with history, 12-20 million Africans were sold into particular focus on increasing competition slavery across Europe and the Americas, and colonization by European powers. We profoundly reshaping communities, cultures, will study competing ideas of culture and and global economies. We will examine a governance that emerge in the 19th century, variety of secondary and primary sources as well as the effect of World War I on the that make up the core of study of African region. We will therefore include indigenous slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. programs of reform and reaction to the We will also study other forms of forced labor strong impact of European imperialism. and bondage, and microstudies of the slave The creation of the Mandates of Iraq, ship and its importance in the development Transjordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, of race, resistance, and identity. Additionally, along with the separate situation of Egypt, we will study the impact of the slave trade in effectively created the contemporary Middle the development of cultures and economies East as well as some of its most pressing throughout the Atlantic world, including the problems. Throughout, but particularly in Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. The conclusion, the course focuses on ethnic and course will conclude with and examination religious interrelationships in the region by of Human Trafficking in the global economy mid-century. with an emphasis on America’s role in Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits. sustaining contemporary slavery. HIST2205 Women in American History Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Historical Consciousness (H) Historical Inquiry (HI) HIST2210 Themes in the History of the The central focus of this course is the American West contributions of women to the country’s Historical Consciousness (H) history since the Colonial era. Various topics Historical Inquiry (HI) will be addressed, including work, family, By taking the idea of the many “Wests” race, ethnicity, reform and the development and many Western experiences as a starting of the modern women’s movement. The point, this course explores the history of the course will combine lectures, discussions, American West as both a region and an idea. readings, a walking tour of Boston’s women’s Part cultural, intellectual and geographic history, and films in re-examining the role of history, the course will highlight a number women in American society and the reasons of selected themes that defined the region for their marginalization. Students will from the Corps of Discovery (1803) to the develop interpretive and analytical skills present day. Although the antebellum period will receive some attention, the overarching focus is the Trans-Mississippi 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
218 History West after 1865. Course readings and class Communist state, and under the Communist discussions will draw from the following ideology has turned itself into one of the topics as they relate to the West: myth and world’s economic powerhouses; all this in popular culture, boom and bust cycles, a bit more than one century. The history of women’s h istory, Hispanics and Chicanos, modern China is the focus of this course; Native America, environmental history, a history of social contradictions and Chinese h istory, the New Deal, and World power struggles, of political revolution and War II and the nuclear age. This course is economic reconstruction. Understanding designed as a seminar to facilitate high the history of the making of modern China is levels of d iscussion and interaction, so understanding the history of the globalized active p artic ipation is required. modern world. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Course Descriptions for HIST2222 The Business of America: An HIST2701 Historical Methods and Research Arts and Sciences Economic History of U.S. This course introduces students to basic Historical Consciousness (H) historical research methods, interpretations, This course examines the economic and and the processes of historical writing. Stu business history of the United States to dents will examine and learn how to use 2009. It anaylzes the historical development both primary and secondary sources, gather of the economy and business in shaping information, form questions, and gain the American politics, society, and culture since skills necessary to conduct research. Stu the colonial era. It explores the important dents will additionally study the major changes in the national economy from historical methodologies of history, including mercantilism; slavery and the development social, political, gender, environmental, and of capitalism; the rise of big business and economic analyses. industrialization; consumption; and the Spring semester. 4 credits relationship between business and labor. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing Particular emphasis is given to the role of the government, individuals, and labor HIST3107 A History of Boston have had in shaping the nation’s economic This course examines the history of Boston development. since its founding in 1630. The city’s Fall semester, even years. 4 credits history will be explored in a number of ways, including its geographic expansion HIST2401 Modern China: Continuity and and growth, the development of its Change neighborhoods, immigration and politics, Historical Consciousness (H) among other areas. Students will develop an Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) appreciation of Boston’s varied and unique Modern China is a dynamic society changing history through readings, lectures, outside every year through economic development assignments and field trips. and social transformation, but at the Spring semester, even years. 4 credits same time, China is deeply rooted in the Prerequisite: one previous 1000- or 2000-level philosophical and political traditions that history course and sophomore standing have shaped and supported the largest and oldest bureaucracy of the world. In HIST3121 Surviving Columbus: History of this course we will study how a 3000- Native Americans, 1492 to 1992 year old civilization has changed from an This course explores the events and currents empire to a republic, from a republic to a of the past 500 years from the perspective Emmanuel College
Management 219 of selected Native groups in North and political recovery, including the debate over Course Descriptions for South America, from the period of the which individuals, parties and movements Arts and Sciences first contact through the colonial period are the appropriate post-War leaders, the and culminating in the modern period. division of the continent and the histories Course readings and class discussions of Eastern European states in the Soviet focus almost exclusively on the indigenous sphere, diplomatic relations within Europe peoples of Mesomerica and the Andes, the and between European states and various Pueblo nations in present-day New Mexico, world powers, decolonization, the collapse and the Lakota Sioux nation of present- of Communism, European culture and living day South Dakota. Successful students standards, terrorism and activisms, and will understand the ways in which Native changing European identities. At the end of Americans construct their identities and the course, students will characterize the organize their communities and how these power and achievements of the European strategies allowed them to adapt and Union, and Europe’s contemporary place in survive the changing economic and political the world. processes associated with colonization and Spring semester, even years. 4 credits nation-building. Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Fall semester, even years. 4 credits history course and sophomore standing Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level history course and sophomore standing HIST3404 East Asia Migration and Diaspora in Global Perspective HIST3225 Utopias, Dystopias and Revolution in Latin American History Social Justice (SJ) This course explores Latin America through The course explores the history of East selected themes that shaped the region’s Asian migrations from the 19th century history. They include colonialism, trans to the present day. The course follows national identities, utopianism, modernity, a transnational approach insofar as it and environmental perceptions. Course analyzes the migratory patterns of East readings and class discussions will focus Asian communities in South Asia, Africa, on congruent as well as contradictory Europe, and the Americas. Migrant processes experienced by the people of communities are organisms placed in Latin America individually and collectively. different nations or regions, but connected The period covered spans the colonial by a corridor that serves as an extension period to the present day. This course will of the migrant’s old environment. To stress also consider thematic intersections as the importance of connections, this course they relate to Latin American emigration to will illustrate the corridors migrants create the United States and Europe in the 20th between host and receiving societies as century. well as patterns of material and cultural Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits. exchange that travel in either direction. Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Readings and discussions will explore history course and sophomore standing thematic concepts such as identity, ethnicity, nationalism, and citizenship. HIST3231 Europe Since World War II Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits. This course examines important Prerequisites: one 1000- or 2000-level History developments in Europe from the post-World course and sophomore standing. War II era to the present. Among the topics covered are: the quest for economic and 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
220 History Course Descriptions for HIST 3412 Immigrant Kitchens: A Glocal and the past century. Arts and Sciences Historical Perspective on Identity, Ethnicity Fall semester,odd years. 4 credits and Foodways Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Social Justice (SJ) history course and sophomore standing This course investigates how immigrants use culinary practices and traditions as staples HIST3718 Pirates, Rascals and Scoundrels of identity. The course is based on a glocal Pirates are some of the most romanticized approach; that is, it analyzes the history and legendary figures on the High Seas. of eating habits, beliefs and diets in both Thousands of books have been written immigrant communities and their countries about them, from children’s bedtime stories of origin. With a comparative examination of to great novels to serious scholarly works. culinary lifestyles, alimentary adaptations But why are pirates so interesting and and expectations, the course will delve into mesmerizing to audiences throughout the the discourse of ethnicization (the processes centuries? This course explores the illicit of identity formation defined and shaped by side of history by examining the role of local and global historical developments). pirates, criminal convicts and otherwise With a wide variety of readings in the history outsiders in creation of the Atlantic world of emplacement of immigrant groups from 1450-1850. Marginalized peoples such around the world, this course will ask you as pirates, criminal convicts, indentured to consider, for example, the role of taste servants, and non-enslaved populations in the construction of ethnic stereotypes; labeled as “rebellious Rascals” (for example, the influence of ancient culinary traditions the Acadians, Indians and others) counted as in the creation of ethnic boundaries often a silent majority in the Atlantic world. While based on an “us” versus “them” dichotomy; exploring issues of class, race, gender and the meaning of situational trespassing of forced migration, the course examines how such barriers in host countries as practical a variety of marginalized peoples navigated survival strategies. Students will study the difficult and complex landscapes of the secondary sources on immigration history Atlantic. in combination with the history of taste Spring semester,odd years. 4 credits and food production in different countries. Prerequisite: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Students will also be exposed to experiential history course and sophomore standing learning in two main ways: visiting local ethnic communities and making and tasting HIST4000 Senior Seminar recipes from cookbooks analyzed in class as This course is a seminar on historiography, primary sources. the history of historical writing. Covering Fall semester, even years. 4 credits a variety of topics, the course will give students an overview of historical writing HIST3504 From Lenin to Putin: across time. By the end of the course, A History of the Soviet Union and Its students will be familiar with historical Collapse methods, classic and recent interpretations This course will examine the roots of the of history, varieties of approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the 70 years past, and major ideologies and arguments of the Soviet regime, and the brief history in the field. The course will be a capstone of Russia as an independent state since experience and will provide students with 1991. In addition to politics, both domestic a foundation for their future research. and international, the course will survey Spring semester. 4 credits economic policies, everyday life, and cultural accomplishments in the Soviet Union over Emmanuel College
Integrated Digital and Data Sciences 221 HIST4178-4179 Directed Study I and II INTEGRATED DIGITAL AND DATA Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits SCIENCES Prerequisite: Permission of department chair IDDS1000 Digital Citizenship HIST4194-4195 Internship I and II Scientific Inquiry (SI) This course involves an internship in a Social Science (SS) cooperating institution, regular discussion An exploration of the technologies and sessions, and a project term paper. Students implications of the Internet age, designed select their internship with the approval for students with little background in of the agency and a department faculty technology and experienced students member. alike. Presents an integrated view of the Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits underlying mechanisms of the Internet and Prerequisite: INT1001 how they connect to tools we use every day. Examines sociological impacts of these technologies, including culture, politics, and economics. Explores and discusses what a person needs to know and do to be a responsible member of Internet society. Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits IDDS1101 Introduction to Programming Course Descriptions for Quantitative Analysis (QA) Arts and Sciences Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Introduction to the field of computer science and the art of programming. This course explores some of the “big ideas” of computer science, including abstraction, data structures, software engineering, and, centrally, the fundamentals of writing code. Assignments are designed to be engaging, accessible, and creative while developing core programming concepts. This course is taught using JavaScript in a web-based environment. Topics include variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, objects, libraries, errors, debugging, and code best practices. A final project brings all of the ideas together as the students develop unique, original pieces of software they can share. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: MATH 1101 IDDS2201 Data Analytics We are all completely inundated with data, yet only a small fraction of the population has the skillset necessary to interpret, understand, and communicate 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
222 International Studies the meaning inherent within datasets. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES The goal of this course is to give students lifelong and lucrative skills in raw data GLST4100 International Studies Senior retrieval, data cleaning, data analyses, and Seminar data visualization. Students will engage This seminar is the senior capstone course with datasets from a variety of fields and which allows students to apply their ana use computational, statistical, and visual lytical, writing and research skills to methods to tell a story. Students will practical situations and to use them in the develop valuable technical skills focusing on composition of a senior paper. Students will programming, statistical inference, and clear both participate in an internship and meet communication. Additional professional as a seminar class. As much as possible, skills will be developed in teamwork, critical the internship and required paper will be thinking, and problem solving. By the end related. Each student will present his/her of the class students will demonstrate a research in the seminar, and write a senior proficiency in various tools essential in the thesis. field of data science. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: INT1001 Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: MATH1118 or (MATH1117 and MATH0118) or MATH2113 Course Descriptions for IDDS2132 Practical Machine Learning Arts and Sciences This course provides an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, and Machine Learning (ML). A survey of multiple AI techniques, focusing heavily on ML. Students will learn about the different concepts behind each technique, experiment with interactive demonstrations, assess them for equity and bias, and apply them in their assignments. Techniques may be updated as the fast-moving field of machine learning evolves. This course does not go into extreme depth on ML theory, instead focusing on how to use these techniques to solve problems. The goal of this course is for students to understand what Machine Learning is and is not, and have a “utility belt” of skills and conceptual understanding to allow them to identify a problem, choose an AI technique, and apply it effectively Spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: IDDS1101 Emmanuel College
Management 223 MANAGEMENT MGMT2202 International Management Course Descriptions for Social Analysis (SA) Arts and Sciences MGMT1101 Introduction to Business This course focuses on the strategic role of This survey course introduces students to culture and ethics in the implementation business and management in the 21st of global strategies. Emphasis is on the century. Topics covered include: the role management functions, resources, and of business; macro and micro economics strategies required for organizations of business; the legal, social, and ethical (not-for-profit and for-profit) to sustain environment of business; and stakeholders competitive advantage in world markets. and stakeholder relationships. The With ever-accelerating advances in functional areas of business are also technology and world events, the complex covered: management, operations, finance, dimensions of global business relationships accounting, and marketing. The course entwined with interpersonal relations are emphasizes the r emarkable dynamism and discussed. liveliness of business organizations, raises Fall semester. 4 credits issues of ethics and social responsibility, and encourages students to engage in self- MGMT2207 Human Resource Management reflection around career issues in business Large or small, for-profit or not-for-profit, and m anagement. the effective management of human Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits resources is a challenge all organizations face. This course will introduce students MGMT2111 Personal Finance to the central functions they will need Quantitative Analysis (QA) to successfully manage human capital, This course is designed for non- whether they work in HR, finance, departmental majors seeking an operations, marketing, accounting, or understanding of personal finance. This general line management. HR activities course introduces students to a broad covered in this course include recruiting range of concepts and problem-solving and selecting employees, training them, skills for planning and managing personal evaluating their performance, and rewarding financial decisions across the many phases them. Other HR concerns covered in this of personal and professional life. Students course include labor relations, work and will learn to make appropriate financial family, health and safety at work, and decisions for themselves and their families. diversity. They will understand the implications of Fall or spring semester. 4 credits financ ial decisions made by them and others Prerequisite: MGMT1101 on their communities and society as a whole. Personal financial statements, appropriate MGMT2211 Leadership: Person and credit, insurance decisions, investment Process in various financial instruments and real Social Analysis (SA) assets, as well as retirement planning Students will become familiar with models will be covered. This course includes a and theories of leadership and be able to financial literacy service project. Declared apply leadership concepts and ideas to the management/accounting/economics majors lives and accomplishments of many different are not permitted to enroll. leaders, some well-known, others not. Fall semester. 4 credits Through readings, class discussions, group Prerequisite: Sophomore standing activities and projects, students consider questions like: “What is leadership?” 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
224 Management Course Descriptions for “What makes a great leader?” and “How can diverse. When organizations are comprised Arts and Sciences leadership be learned?” Students will also of individuals working across develop greater leadership self-awareness national cultures, both complexity and through assessments and class work. opportunity grow. Through the travel compo- Fall semester. 4 credits nent of this course, students will Prerequisite: Sophomore standing develop the cultural intelligence necessary to understand the effects and opportunities MGMT2301 Legal Environment of Business presented by national culture This course provides students with an differences. This understanding will enable understanding of the legal environment in students to be more effective organizational which businesses operate. Students will members and leaders. learn to use knowledge and understanding Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits of ethics, law, and regulation in making Prerequisite: Sophomore standing business decisions. (Formerly titled Business Law) MGMT2401 Introduction to Sport Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Management Prerequisite: Sophomore standing Principles, practices and issues in sport m anagement. This course will provide an MGMT2307 Organizational overview of the history of sport and sport Behavior management in the United States, the Social Analysis (SA) relationship between sports and society, Organizational Behavior (OB) concentrates the business of sport, contemporary legal on understanding and predicting the and ethical issues that are associated with behavior of people and groups in the work athletes, athletics, and organized sports and environment. No matter what role people career possibilities for students interested in play in a work organization—as individual sport management. contributors, team members, or managers— Fall semester. 4 credits understanding OB concepts and developing Prerequisite: MGMT1101 OB skills will enhance their ability to initiate and sustain healthy working relationships MGMT2410 Entrepreneurship and Small and to contribute more effectively at Business Management work. In this course, students will learn An introduction to the entrepreneurial pro- organizational behavior concepts and cess: deciding to be an entrepreneur, finding theories, apply them in cases and exercises, and developing a good idea, determining develop greater self-awareness, and feasibility and gathering needed resources, practice team skills. In addition, the course launching the venture, and managing the devotes attention to c areer issues and e ntrepreneurial organization. Concepts, ethical concerns that arise between and ideas, and practices learned in this course among people at work. apply to for-profit entrepreneurship as well Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits as to social entrepreneurship. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: MGMT1101 MGMT2308 Organizational Behavior Travel Section MGMT3105 Investments Social Analysis (SA) This course will provide the student with an Organizations are complex, dynamic and introduction to the concepts of investing. This course addresses both the theory Emmanuel College
Management 225 and application of investment topics. This and service operations, and considers the Course Descriptions for course aims at developing key concepts interface of operations to other management Arts and Sciences in investment theory from the perspective functions. of a portfolio manager rather than an Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits individual investor. The goal of this class is Prerequisites: Junior standing, ACCT2201, to provide you with a structure for thinking MATH1118, and MATH1111 or MATH1121 about investment theory and show you how to address investment problems in a MGMT3305 Financial Management systematic manner. Topics in this course include the search for Spring semester. 4 credits financing and the management of funds Prerequisites: ACCT1201 a lready invested, economic value added (EVA) and wealth creating strategies, finan- MGMT3211 Leadership at Work cial analysis and planning, valuation of Being an effective leader at work requires stocks and bonds, the management of work- self-knowledge, an understanding of ing capital, the cost of capital and capital conceptual and practical models of budgeting analysis. Also reviewed are finan- organizational leadership, a range of cial markets, institutions and interest rates. leadership behaviors and skills, as well as Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits ongoing leadership development. In this Prerequisites: Junior standing, MGMT1101, course, students will learn from conceptual ACCT2201, MATH1118, MATH1111 or material, experience, behavioral exercises, MATH1121 or concurrently with MATH1118, cases, discussion, and reflection. The focus MATH1111 or MATH1121 is on both the leader and the organizational context of leadership. Topics include: self- MGMT3423 Sport Law understanding, models of leadership, ethics A review of legislation, and cases relating and values, trust, communication, power and to professional and amateur athletics influence, vision, leading change, shaping and athletes, sports events, sports culture, and leadership diversity. merchandising, contracts, broadcasting and Spring semester. 4 credits sponsorships. Students will learn applicable Prerequisites: Junior standing and MGMT2211 law and analyze cases and situations using legal precedence, legal theory and ethical MGMT3302 Operations Management concepts as they may apply. Operations management is the discipline Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits that focuses on how organizations produce Prerequisites: MGMT2301 and MGMT2401 goods and provide services. Students learn concepts and techniques related MGMT3496/MGMT3497 Management to the design, planning, production, Internship I or II (Cross listed with delivery, control, and improvement of both ACCT3496, ECON3496) manufacturing and service operations. The management internship involves They address problems and issues experiential learning in a for-profit or not- confronting operations managers such for-profit firm related to the student’s as process improvement, forecasting, major and prospective career. The course capacity planning, facility layout, location requires that students apply theoretical planning, inventory management, quality knowledge to a practical setting, and management, and project management. provides them with the opportunity to gain This course employs practical methods for experience in their chosen career and make analyzing and improving manufacturing a contribution to the organization in which 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
226 Marketing Course Descriptions for they complete their internship. In addition MARKETING Arts and Sciences to working at their internship site, students attend seminar or individual sessions that MKTG2200 Principles of Marketing will deal with theoretical, practical and This course focuses on the total system of ethical aspects of work. Together with the interactive business activities involved in internship supervisor, a project is defined the movement of goods from producers for the student that will add value to the to consumers and industrial users. organization and that will help the student It involves analysis of the marketing build expertise and confidence in an area of functions performed by the manufacturers, mutual interest. The student completes the wholesalers, retailers, agent middlemen, project as part of the internship. and market exchangers. This course Fall, spring and summer semesters. 4 credits examines consumer and industrial products Prerequisites: INT1001, completion of two of and services; private, public, for-profit, the four courses: MGMT2200, MGMT2307, not-for-profit organizations; as well as MGMT3302, MGMT3305, and permission of the social, ethical, and legal implications instructor. This course is limited to management of marketing policies. Students evaluate majors. pricing, branding, choice of distribution channels, selective selling, and the planning MGMT4178 Directed Study and implementation of sales programs. This course is limited to seniors. Emphasis is on a managerial approach to Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits making responsible marketing decisions. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: MGMT1101 MGMT4303 Strategic Management This is the capstone course of the MKTG2500 Consumer Behavior management curriculum. This course Consumer behavior includes the study focuses on the formulation and of concepts and methods that help us implementation of strategy. Students use learn about consumers’ shape intentions, tools and knowledge from other courses activities, and motivations. We’ll look at to extract, develop, and make sense consumers as individuals and as part of of technological, financial, economic, groups in learning how they think and make marketing, operational, geographic, and choices as consumers. Individual, family, human information. Emphasis is placed on and group buying decision processes will the strategy process (assessing company be examined. Cases will be considered in performance, identifying problems and class to develop a “hands on” feel for the p ossibilities, developing strategies, p utting usefulness of consumer behavior topics and strategies and plans into action) as well as research. Consumer behavior is a dynamic, the ethical issues and social respons ibilities exciting field whose study is the consumer. that should be addressed in the f ormulation And it is the KNOWLEDGE of the consumer, and implementation of strategic decisions. which enables marketing managers to Traditional and live cases and/or simulation plan effective marketing strategies, to exercises will be a pedagogical component of generate satisfactory product designs, to this course. communicate clearly with target markets, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits and to enhance consumer quality-of-life. Prerequisites: MKTG2200, MGMT2307, Fall semester. 4 credits MGMT3302, MGMT3305 and senior standing Prerequisites: MGMT1101 Emmanuel College
Marketing 227 MKTG3110 Marketing Research: An Applied theories to sports events, facilities, athletes Course Descriptions for Orientation and products. The course will also explore Arts and Sciences Marketing research involves gathering and the role of athletes in the promotion of analyzing data so as to provide marketing products and services as well as the role of managers with timely and relevant a marketing program in generating sports information that will assist them in decision- business revenue. making. The primary goal of this course is Alternate spring semester, odd years. 4 credits to give students the requisite tools that Prerequisites: MKTG2200 and MGMT2401 will enable them to gather and analyze data to help managers to design product, MKTG3496 Marketing Internship as well as determine price, promotion and The Marketing Internship involves distribution strategies. They will accomplish experiential learning in a for-profit or not- this learning by examining cases as well for-profit firm related to the student’s as doing hands-on projects. Students will prospective career. The course requires that gain experience in research design, data students apply theoretical knowledge to a collection, data analysis using the Statistical practical setting. This provides them with Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), and the opportunity to gain experience in their presentation of results. chosen career, and make a contribution to Fall semesters. 4 credits the organization in which they complete Prerequisites: MATH1118, MGMT1101 and their internship. In addition to working MKTG2200 at the internship site, students attend a seminar that deals with the theoretical, MKTG3322 Internet Marketing practical, and ethical aspects of their work. Internet Marketing provides students with Students must also complete a project as a detailed look at the process of marketing part of the internship. Together with the planning and implementation from an Internship supervisor, a project is defined internet marketing perspective. From email for the student that will add value to the marketing to traditional media advertising; organization and that will help the student search engine optimization to marketing build expertise and confidence in an area of strategy, Internet Marketing explores mutual interest. the process of planning for, targeting Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. 4 credits and creating interactive marketing tools Prerequisites: INT1001 and two of the following designed to reach the right audience with courses: MGMT2307, MKTG2200 or MGMT3305 the right message at the right time. Students in this course will learn the fundamentals MKTG3501 Advertising and Promotion of SEO, online advertising, analytics, email This course takes a managerial approach marketing, social media marketing, and to advertising campaign decisions and mobile marketing through the exploration promotional strategies for products and of sample online marketing campaigns. services, with an emphasis on creativity, Students will learn theory as well as implementation, and results. Students learn practitioner tools used in online marketing how to evaluate advertising and promotion campaigns. Content will also contain an campaigns and they learn how to plan and overview of the online marketing industry. execute campaigns using traditional and Spring semester. 4 credits new media. They also explore a range of Prerequisites MGMT1101 and MKTG2200 social, legal, and ethical issues related to advertising and promotion. MKTG3422 Sport Marketing Fall semester. 4 credits Application of Marketing principles and Prerequisites: MKTG2200 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
228 Marketing MKTG4200 Marketing Strategy MATHEMATICS This course provides a capstone class for undergraduate students with prior MATH0118 R for Statistics Lab background in marketing to integrate their In this course, students will learn R for learning in marketing (“put it all together”). performing statistical analyses. R is a powerful It examines the marketing management statistical software which is free and widely concepts underlying both consumer and available. The workshop will get students industrial marketing strategy and tactics. It familiar with R syntax and to use the software helps students learn to think strategically for analyses. when making and implementing marketing Fall and spring semesters. 0 credits decisions (“strategic decision making”), Prerequisite: MATH1117 apply specific analytical approaches and tools for understanding customers, MATH1101 College Algebra competition, and markets (“applications Quantitative Analysis (QA) of marketing data and information”), and Quantitative Reasoning (QR) develop an appreciation for the relationship This course provides a foundation in the between marketing and the other functional skills and concepts of algebra, including areas of business. Strategic marketing linear, quadratic, exponential and focuses on the concepts and processes logarithmic equations and functions. involved in developing market-driven Applications to real-world problems are strategies. The key challenges in formulating emphasized throughout. The course is market-driven strategies include: (1) designed primarily to prepare students for acquiring a shared understanding further study in business and the natural throughout the organization about the and social sciences. current market and how it may change in Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits the future, (2) identifying opportunities for delivering superior value to customers, (3) MATH1103 Precalculus Mathematics positioning the organization and its offerings Quantitative Analysis (QA) to best meet the needs of its target markets, Quantitative Reasoning (QR) and (4) developing a coordinated marketing This course is designed to prepare students program to deliver superior customer value. for calculus (MATH1111). It includes the study of polynomial, exponential, logarithmic Spring semester. 4 credits and trigonometric functions and their graphs. Prerequisites: MKTG2200, MKTG3110, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math MKTG3501, MKTG3322 or MKTG3422, and placement exam or MATH1101 senior status Course Descriptions for MATH1105 Mathematical Reasoning for Arts and Sciences Modern Society Quantitative Analysis (QA) Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Social Justice (SJ) This survey course introduces students to some applications of mathematics and quantitative reasoning with a particular emphasis on how mathematics can be used to spotlight and analyze issues of social justice. The topics chosen will depend on Emmanuel College
Mathematics 229 the instructor’s discretion, student interest, statistics; introduction to probability; and current events; they may include: voting probability distributions including systems and elections, statistics in the normal and t-distributions; confidence news and social media, graph theory and intervals; hypothesis testing; correlation its applications to urban planning, data and regression; two-way tables and chi- and algorithmic bias, measuring climate square test. Course involves regular use of change and social inequalities, and more. statistical software. This course shows students the usefulness Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits of mathematical thinking and helps them to Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the math make sense of, and act on, the abundance of placement exam or MATH1101 numerical information in modern society. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits MATH1118 Introduction to Statistics with R MATH1111 Calculus I Quantitative Analysis (QA) Quantitative Analysis (QA) Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Quantitative Reasoning (QR) TThis is an introductory course in statistics. This course studies limits and continuity, The objective of this course is to organize, differential calculus of algebraic, summarize, interpret, and present data trigonometric and transcendental using graphical and tabular representations; functions, applications of the derivative, apply principles of inferential statistics; and and introduction to integration through the assess the validity of statistical conclusions. fundamental theorem of calculus. Students will learn to select and apply Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits appropriate statistical tests and determine Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math reasonable inferences and predictions from placement exam or MATH1103 a set of data. Topics include descriptive statistics; introduction to probability; MATH1112 Calculus II probability distributions including normal Quantitative Analysis (QA) and t-distributions; confidence intervals; Quantitative Reasoning (QR) hypothesis testing; correlation and This course is a continuation of Calculus regression; two-way tables and chi-square I and includes methods of integration, test. Course includes a 50-minute lab to applications of the definite integral, and learn and use R statistical software. infinite sequences and series. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the math Prerequisite: MATH1111 placement exam or MATH1101 MATH1117 Introduction to Statistics MATH1120 Foundations of Mathematics Course Descriptions for Quantitative Analysis (QA) for Teachers I Arts and Sciences Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Quantitative Analysis (QA) Quantitative Reasoning (QR) This is an introductory course in statistics. MATH1120 is the first course in a three- The objective of this course is to organize, semester mathematics content sequence summarize, interpret, and present data designed to develop fundamental using graphical and tabular representations; computation skills and a comprehensive, apply principles of inferential statistics; and in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics assess the validity of statistical conclusions. among elementary education majors. This Students will learn to select and apply course focuses on numeration systems and appropriate statistical tests and determine properties of numbers. Different numeration reasonable inferences and predictions from systems will be studied, followed by a set of data. Topics include descriptive 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
230 Mathematics Course Descriptions for operations on whole numbers, integers and solutions; matrices and matrix algebra; Arts and Sciences rational numbers. Problem solving will be inverse matrices; determinants; emphasized throughout the course. vector spaces and their axioms; linear Spring semester. 4 credits transformations; and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Some applications of MATH1121 Applied Mathematics for linear algebra will also be discussed. Management This is a gateway course for the major in Quantitative Analysis (QA) mathematics, and must be satisfactorily Quantitative Reasoning (QR) completed before a student declares a major This course introduces students to a variety in mathematics. of useful mathematical principles and Fall semester. 4 credits techniques, and develops their skills in Prerequisite: MATH1111 or MATH1121 problem-solving and utilizing technological or placement by department resources, e.g. Microsoft Excel. Particular topics will be chosen by the instructor to MATH2103 Calculus III emphasize applications in business and Quantitative Analysis (QA) economics and may include: linear functions Quantitative Reasoning (QR) and models, systems of linear equations, This course extends the study of calculus exponential and logarithmic functions, linear to functions of several variables. Topics programming and the Simplex Method, and covered include vectors, partial derivatives, formulas for financial mathematics. multivariable optimization, multiple Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits integrals, and vector calculus. Applications Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math to the natural sciences are emphasized. placement exam or MATH1101 Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: MATH1112 MATH1122 Foundations of Mathematics for Teachers II MATH2104 College Geometry Quantitative Analysis (QA) Quantitative Analysis (QA) MATH1122 is the second course in a Quantitative Reasoning (QR) three-semester mathematics content Euclidean geometry has long been held as sequence designed to develop fundamental an essential part of mathematics. Its results computation skills and a comprehensive, and methods of deduction have been valued in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics and found application in architecture, among elementary education majors. This law, engineering, and many other fields. course begins with a study of patterns This class is a deeper look into Euclidean and functions, followed by a study of two- geometry and the underlying axioms. dimensional geometry, and concludes with a Particular emphasis will be placed on the study of measurement. Problem solving will development of mathematical reasoning be emphasized throughout the course. through critical analysis and construction Fall semester. 4 credits of formal proof. In addition, we will explore Prerequisite: MATH1120 changes in the underlying axioms of Euclidean geometry and several different MATH2101 Linear Algebra types of non-Euclidean geometry created by Quantitative Analysis (QA) these changes. Geometric software will be Quantitative Reasoning (QR) used as a tool to construct geometric figures This course serves as a transition from and for analytic proofs. computational mathematics to more Fall semester odd years. 4 credits theoretical approaches. Topics include Prerequisite: MATH1111 systems of linear equations and their Emmanuel College
Mathematics 231 MATH2107 Differential Equations and investigating them mathematically Course Descriptions for Quantitative Analysis (QA) and computationally. Particular topics are Arts and Sciences Quantitative Reasoning (QR) chosen at the instructor’s discretion and Many of the principles governing the may include discrete dynamical systems, behavior of the real world can be differential equations, and game theory. described mathematically by differential Applications will be taken from a variety equations. This course studies the theory of fields such as the life sciences, physics, and applications of ordinary differential chemistry, engineering and social science. equations. Topics covered include first-order The course will culminate in a project in and higher-order differential equations, which students develop and/or investigate systems of differential equations, Laplace models of their choosing. transforms, numerical methods, phase plane Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits methods, and modeling using differential Prerequisite: MATH1112 equations. Applications will be drawn from science and engineering. MATH2113 Statistics with R Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Quantitative Analysis (QA) Prerequisite: MATH1112 Quantitative Reasoning (QR) This course is a calculus-based introduction MATH2109 Introduction to Proofs to statistics. Topics covered include Quantitative Analysis (QA) descriptive statistics, elements of Quantitative Reasoning (QR) probability, binomial and normal probability In this course, students are introduced to distributions, estimation, hypotheses methods for reading and writing formal testing, and simple linear regression. R mathematical proofs, including proofs statistical software is used to summarize by contradiction, by induction, and by data and perform statistical tests. contrapositive. More advanced courses in Fall semester. 4 credits mathematics will assume familiarity with Corequisite: MATH1112 such methods. Particular topics are chosen at the instructor’s discretion and may MATH2115 Introduction to Programming include set theory, number theory, algebraic with MATLAB structures, combinatorics, or graph theory. Quantitative Analysis (QA) This is a gateway course for the major in MATLAB is a programming language that mathematics, and must be satisfactorily is used extensively by mathematicians and completed before a student declares a major scientists in both academia and industry. in mathematics. This course, which does not assume any Spring semester. 4 credits prior experience with programming, will Prerequisite: MATH1111 introduce students to general concepts in computer science and programming as they MATH2111 Mathematical Modeling in the formulate, solve, and visualize quantitative Sciences problems. Applications will be drawn from Quantitative Analysis (QA) mathematics and science. The course will The interdisciplinary course is an culminate in a project in which students introduction to mathematical modeling, develop a MATLAB program to study a the process of using mathematics to problem of their choosing. represent real world situations. The main Fall semester, even years. 4 credits objective is to introduce the student to Prerequisite: MATH1111 modeling methodology: constructing models appropriate for an intended application, 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
232 Mathematics MATH2122 Foundations of Mathematics successfully completed the math subtest for Teachers III of the (03) MTEL is exempt from taking this Quantitative Analysis (QA) preparatory lab. MATH2122 is the third course in a three- Spring semester. 0 credits semester mathematics content sequence designed to develop fundamental MATH3101 Real Analysis computation skills and a comprehensive, In this course, students investigate the in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics theoretical foundations of calculus and among elementary education majors. deepen their conceptual knowledge by The course will focus on topics in linear reading and writing formal proofs about programming, analytic geometry, probability, sequences, limits, functions, and derivatives. and statistics. This course, like Foundations This also serves as an introduction to I and II, will deepen students’ knowledge of fundamental principles and techniques of mathematics and provide a solid foundation mathematical analysis. Other topics – such for learning about the methods for teaching as integration or sequences of functions elementary school mathematics. –may be explored, at the instructor’s discretion. Spring semester. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisites: MATH2103, MATH2109 Prerequisite: MATH1122 Corequisite: MATH2122L Course Descriptions for MATH2122L Preparatory Lab for Math MATH3103 Probability Arts and Sciences Subtest MTEL This course is an introduction to the theory The audience for this laboratory is teacher of probability and its applications. Topics candidates intending to become licensed include combinatorial analysis, probability to teach at the elementary level in grades laws, discrete and continuous random 1–6. This is a preparatory lab designed to variables, joint distributions, the Law of familiarize teacher candidates with the Large Numbers, and the Central Limit content and structure of the mathematics Theorem. subtest of the General Curriculum Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure Prerequisite: MATH2103 and MATH2113 (03). Teacher candidates will examine the mathematical content of the MTEL (03) test MATH3105 Advanced Statistics objectives as they practice multiple-choice This course is a continuation of MATH 2113 and open-response problems both during Statistics with R. More advanced topics and outside of class. Teacher candidates in statistics will be covered, including enrolled in MATH 2122 who have not contingency tables, exact tests, single and successfully completed the math subtest multiple linear regression, one-way and two of the General Curriculum MTEL (03) by way analyses of variance, logistic regression the start of the MATH 2122 course must and nonparametric methods. Students will concurrently enroll in this preparatory lab. learn both the theory behind these statistical Teacher candidates enrolled in the lab are procedures and practical applications using also required to register for a late spring a statistical software. At the end of the MTEL (03) test date within the first two course, students will perform data analyses weeks of beginning the preparatory lab. on their own data sets, write a paper This lab does NOT satisfy the college-wide summarizing the statistical methods they QA requirement and does not contribute used, the data they worked on, the results to the credits for graduation. Any teacher they received, and give a short presentation. candidate enrolled in MATH 2122 who has Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Emmanuel College
Mathematics 233 Prerequisites: MATH2101, MATH2113 advanced topics in mathematics, as chosen Course Descriptions for by the students and/or the instructor. In Arts and Sciences MATH3107 Abstract Algebra addition, as part of the capstone experience, This course studies abstract algebraic each student will compile and present a systems such as groups, examples of which portfolio of their work as a mathematics are abundant throughout mathematics. major. It attempts to understand the process of Spring semester. 4 credits mathematical abstraction, the formulation Prerequisite: Senior mathematics major status of algebraic axiom systems, and the development of an abstract theory from MATH4178 Directed Study these axiom systems. Topics may include The course is available for junior or senior groups, rings, fields, and homomorphisms. mathematics majors. This is an independent Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits study of material not covered in offered Prerequisites: MATH2101, MATH2109 courses. Offered as needed. 4 credits MATH3113 Special Topics in Mathematics Prerequisite: Consent of department chair This course is on a special topic in Mathematics not listed among the current MATH 4194/4195 Research Internships I course offerings. and II Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Qualified students may undertake Prerequisites: MATH1112 and (MATH 2101 or senior year research projects under the MATH 2109) supervision of Emmanuel mathematics faculty or with faculty at other departments MATH4101 Programming in SAS or institutions. With their research SAS is a powerful statistical software supervisor, students plan and carry out package used by statisticians worldwide original research projects in mathematics in a diverse range of fields, from sociology and/or statistics that reflect their interests to business to medicine. In this course, and goals. If the research supervisor is not students will be introduced to SAS, and a member of the Emmanuel mathematics learn to develop templates, scripts and faculty, a faculty coordinator from the routines they can use to analyze data. department will be assigned to the project. Statistical concepts will come from MATH A proposal for the internship must be 2113 Statistics with R and MATH 3105 submitted by April 1 of their junior year for Advanced Statistics. At the end of the committee review. The proposal describes course, students will use SAS to perform the project, the name and commitment data analyses on their own data sets, write a from the research supervisor (and paper summarizing the statistical methods faculty coordinator if applicable), and the they used, the data they worked on, the expectations and significance of the project. results they received, and give a short Students devote a minimum of 15 hours per presentation. week to the project. Students meet weekly Spring semester, even years. 4 credits with their research supervisor, and also with Prerequisite: MATH3105 the faculty coordinator, if applicable. An undergraduate thesis MATH4157 Senior Seminar and presentation, including a defense, This seminar serves as the culminating are required. MATH4194 and MATH4195 experience for mathematics majors. together represent a two-semester course. Students will research and present on Students are not permitted to register 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
234 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for for only one semester. Upon successful MODERN LANGUAGES Arts and Sciences completion of the sequence, only MATH4194 may count as a mathematics elective. Both ARABIC MATH 4194 and MATH4195 are required for distinction in the fields of mathematics or LANG1661 Beginning Arabic I biostatistics. Offered as needed. 4 credits Language & Culture (LC) Prerequisite: Senior status, at least 3.3 grade Beginning Arabic I is an introduction to point average in courses toward Mathematics Modern Standard Arabic and culture. This or Biostatistics major, and permission of the Basic Arabic I is based on a textbook (namely department. Alif Baa with DVDs Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds) developed by a team of INT3211 Experiential Internship in the experienced native and non-native Arabic Natural Sciences/Mathematics language teachers in the United States. The Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and course presents the basic structure of the mathematics majors may apply to do an formal language which is written and spoken internship in a research or non-research in the contemporary Arab World. It contains setting. The internship site and project must an introduction to the pronunciation and be appropriate for the disciplines above and writing system, the morphology, and the it is the student’s responsibility to obtain basic syntactic structures of Modern an internship. The options for sites could Arabic. It covers a basic vocabulary of include venues that would allow for career approximately 500 words and is aimed at exploration. A complete proposal form for developing students’ essential writing and the internship must be submitted to the reading skills along with a basic grammar faculty teaching the course and to the Career knowledge. Throughout the course there will Center by the first day of class. The proposal be also additional audio and video materials must describe the project, the name and presenting both, the standard language and commitment from the onsite supervisor and some of the most popular colloquial dialects the expectations and significance of the used in the Arab world. internship. The proposal must be approved As needed. 4 credits by the student’s academic advisor and signed by the site supervisor. Students LANG1662 Beginning Arabic II meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week Language & Culture (LC) at the internship site. Students meet This language immersion course is a weekly with a faculty coordinator and are continuation of LANG1661. Students will evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty continue their progress in conversational coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio Arabic while developing basic language and formal presentation are required. This skills. The fundamentals of Arabic one-semester internship course counts as pronunciation, grammar, and culture are an Emmanuel College elective, but not as presented through a balanced development an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, of all four skills: listening, speaking, chemistry or mathematics major. reading, and writing. The importance of communication and cultural awareness is stressed through a wide variety of activities (group/pair work, video, audio recordings, computer assignments, etc.). Students will be introduced to a range of Arabic structures from colloquial to standard in authentic Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 235 contexts. They will be encouraged to verbally oral proficiency. Course Descriptions for communicate in Arabic with one another and As needed. 4 credits Arts and Sciences with the instructor. Prerequisite: LANG1662 or equivalent As needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1661 or equivalent LANG2662 Intermediate Arabic II This course, a continuation of Intermediate LANG2613 Arabic Conversation and Arabic I, strengthens language skills and Composition enables students to master more vocabulary Arabic Conversation and Composition is and grammar. The course will also help designed to introduce students to complex develop proficiency in reading and writing Arabic grammatical constructions, expand Standard Arabic, as well as knowledge of vocabulary, and improve both conversational spoken Standard Arabic and of the Egyptian and writing skills. The course would also and Levantine dialects. It includes readings introduce students to more advanced of medium length, composition exercises, readings selected from literary, historical, review of Arabic grammar, listening political, social and cultural sources. exercises, and conversation practice in This would further develop the students’ Modern Standard Arabic. critical thinking skills while enhancing their As needed. 4 credits knowledge of the Arab and Muslim worlds. Prequisite: LANG2661 or equivalent In addition, students would be introduced to the art of translation from Arabic to LANG2664 The Arab World through Its English and vice versa in order to develop an Literature understanding of the nuances of the Arabic Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) language. Along with the textbook, the In “The Arab World Through Its Literature” course materials include articles and literary students will be exposed to one of the pieces selected from Arabic books as well as richest and oldest cultures of the world newspapers and magazines from different while focusing on the aesthetic and cultural Arab countries. This course would teach significance of influential Arabic literary students how to use the Arabic language texts written in a variety of genres. After both creatively and independently. placing each text in its historical and cultural As needed. 4 credits context, class discussions will focus on Prerequisite: LANG2662 critical issues presented in each reading and on the literary merits of each text. Some of LANG2661 Intermediate Arabic I the authors include legendary pre-Islamic Intermediate Arabic I is a language poet Antara Ibn Shaddad, as well as the immersion course that seeks to improve winner of the Nobel Prize for literature Najib all areas of language communication and Mahfuz. Students will also read a selection develop cultural competency. Intermediate from the eighth century aesthetic poetess Arabic I will continue to introduce students Rabia al-Adawiyya as well as contemporary to Modern Standard Arabic and to the leading Arab feminists that include Egyptian cultures of the Arab world. The course will author Nawal al-Sadawi and the Moroccan emphasize the spoken language while Fatima al-Mernissi. This course will also developing speaking, listening, reading, cover the impact of the Arab Spring on Arab and writing skills. Intermediate Arabic will literary expressions to demonstrate the also expand vocabulary and introduce key influence of this momentous event on the grammatical structures. Class discussions, consciousness of Arab literary figures. pair work and oral presentations will improve As needed. 4 credits 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
236 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for FRENCH speaking, reading, and writing, through a Arts and Sciences variety of classroom activities and homework LANG1201 Beginning French I assignments. A conversationally interactive Language & Culture (LC) cultural component is also emphasized, This course is an introduction to French through the viewing and discussion of both language and culture. The fundamentals classic and contemporary French films. of French pronunciation, grammar, and As needed. 4 credits culture are presented through a balanced Prerequisite: LANG1202 or equivalent development of all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The LANG2202 Intermediate French II: importance of communication and cultural L anguage through Film awareness is stressed through a wide variety This language immersion course, a contin- of activities (group/pair work, video, audio uation of LANG2201, continues to develop recordings, computer assignments, etc.). listening, speaking, reading and writing skills This course is designed for students with in the French language. little or no knowledge of French language or As needed. 4 credits culture. Prerequisite: LANG2201 or equivalent As needed. 4 credits LANG2213 French Conversation LANG1202 Beginning French II and Composition I Language & Culture (LC) Develops proficiency in the oral and written This course continues to introduce learn- use of French language through literary ers to the French language and culture. and cultural readings, written essays and Students will continue their progress in con- oral presentations. Students will expand versational French while developing basic their vocabulary and will also review key language skills. The fundamentals of French grammatical concepts. pronunciation, grammar, and culture are As needed. 4 credits presented through a balanced development Prerequisite: LANG2202 or permission of all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, of instructor and writing. The importance of communi- cation and cultural awareness is stressed LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in through a wide variety of activities (group/ Modern French Literature and Culture pair work, video, audio recordings, com- Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) puter assignments, etc.). It will also present As a source of inspiration, romance, and grammatical structures in context, relating sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has abstract concepts to practical skills, and exerted a profound influence on generations explore relevant cultural knowledge. of artists and writers. In the fall prior to As needed. 4 credits our travel, students will take a preparatory Prerequisite: LANG1201 or equivalent course introducing them to history and culture of the city of lights. Through novels, LANG2201 Intermediate French I: novellas, short stories, poems, and films, Language through Film contrasting accounts of life in the city of This course is part of a language Paris will be studied, offering often radically immersion program that emphasizes oral opposing views of the French capital as communication through interpersonal expressed by realist and surrealist writers, activities, while also further developing basic artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, comprehension skills, such as listening, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 237 cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where culture of Italy. Students will engage in a Course Descriptions for the students will experience firsthand a city variety of inter - personal activities, will Arts and Sciences which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic study the structure of the language and will reflections on modern urban life. This be introduced to literary readings. course, conducted in English, travels to Paris As needed. 4 credits in January. Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission Travel component required. of instructor As needed. 4 credits LANG2302 Intermediate Italian II ITALIAN This language immersion course, which follows LANG 2301, continues to develop LANG1301 Beginning Italian I listening, speaking, reading and writing Beginning Italian I is a language immersion skills in Italian language. The development course designed for students with little or of strong communication skills and an no prior knowledge of Italian. Its objective appreciation of the culture of Italy will is to introduce the language and culture of remain at the center of the program. Italy while developing basic comprehension, As needed. 4 credits speaking, reading and writing skills. The Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission course emphasizes oral communication, of instructor encouraging students to verbally communicate in Italian with one another and LANG2313 Italian Conversation and with the instructor. Composition As needed. 4 credits This course aims at giving students a fresh and authentic image of Italian culture and LANG1302 Beginning Italian II society, while engaging them in oral and Beginning Italian II is a continuation written activities on topics close to their language immersion course designed for interests. The course focuses on different students with prior knowledge of Beginning themes related to the social, political Italian I. Its objective is to continue to and cultural life of present day Italy and introduce the language and culture of Italy explores them through the lenses of a while developing basic comprehension, variety of media, newspaper articles, literary speaking, reading and writing skills. The texts, video clips and songs. The course course emphasizes oral communication, will pioneer a new peer-to-peer exchange encouraging students to verbally program with Italian students of Cattolica communicate in Italian with one another and University, Emmanuel’s partner university with the instructor. in Milan. Such an exchange will be based on As needed. 4 credits discussions between our students and their Prerequisite: LANG1301 or equivalent peers in Cattolica on the themes studied in the course. This will create a realistic LANG2301 Intermediate Italian I situation where the students will be able to This course offers a language immersion write and converse in Italian in areas that program that further develops basic are useful and meaningful to them. The comprehension skills such as listening, students’ active role in connecting their speaking, reading and writing. A primary personal experience to that of people living objective of the course is to help students in a different country will provide strong acquire a good command of spoken and motivation to develop and improve their written Italian, and an appreciation of the linguistic skills. 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
238 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for As needed. 4 credits Spanish Arts and Sciences Prerequisite: LANG2302 LANG1401 Beginning Spanish I LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through Language & Culture (LC) Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life Beginning Spanish I introduce students to Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) the Spanish language and to the different Students will analyze and discuss some cultures in the Spanish-speaking world. masterpieces of Italian literature and some The course is designed for students who movies inspired by them. The course is with little or no previous knowledge of comprised of two parts of four weeks each. Spanish and are committed to the study of The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, the language. It will emphasize the spoken the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). language while developing students basic During the first part of the course, students reading and writing skills in Spanish. It will be reading and discussing some of the will also present grammatical structures masterpieces of Italian literature from the in context, relating abstract concepts to 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific practical skills, and explore relevant cultural focus on Milan. The readings will include two knowledge. plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello Fall semester. 4 credits and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If This Is A Man” and Calvino’s “The Invisible LANG1402 Beginning Spanish II Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in Language & Culture (LC) Milan, during the second part of the course, Beginning Spanish II will continue to where students will visit some of the actual introduce students to the Spanish sites described in their readings and will language and to the different cultures in view movies inspired by the works they read. the Spanish-speaking world. The course is The virtual images from the literary pages designed for students who have completed and the “real” ones from the movies will Beginning Spanish I or its equivalent and are help them discover how modern city life in committed to the study of the language. It Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply will emphasize the spoken language while rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic students continue to develop basic reading and cultural background. This course, taught and writing skills in Spanish. It will also in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the present grammatical structures in context, summer where students will complete the relating abstract concepts to practical skills, course-work started at Emmanuel, as well and explore relevant cultural knowledge. as take 4 credits in intensive Italian language Spring semester. 4 credits at the Universita Cattolica. Prerequisite: LANG1401 or equivalent Program is open to COF students. Prerequisites: None LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for Travel component required. Healthcare Professionals I As needed. 4 credits Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals I is the first semester of an elementary-level course designed for people currently employed in the medical field or for those students planning a career in a health-related field. This course would be beneficial for anyone in the field of medicine, nursing,pharmacology, radiographic Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 239 technology, physical therapy, and dentistry LANG 2412 Spanish at Work in the Health Course Descriptions for as well as for those working as receptionists Care Community Arts and Sciences or office managers in a medical facility. Spanish at Work in the Health Care Fall semster. 4 credits Community is an intermediate-level Spanish course that promotes linguistic fluency LANG1412 Beginning Spanish for through advance Spanish grammatical Healthcare Professionals II structures as well as a better understanding Beginning Spanish for Healthcare of the culture of the Latino communities Professionals II is the second semester of an in the United States. This course explores elementary level course sequence designed topics related to health care disparities, for people currently employed in the medical patient-provider communications, and field or for those students planning a career healthcare accessibility of the country’s in a health-related field. This course builds biggest minority group. In addition, on the skills and knowledge acquired in other relevant topics, such as linguistic LANG 1403 and trains students for more and cultural barriers, identity, and advanced linguistic tasks, such as making socioeconomic and demographic trends, recommendations, discussing past events will also be explored. To exploration of and giving advice about possible medical these topics will be conducted via scholarly treatments. It is designed for students articles and class discussions. The course with some previous knowledge of Spanish will also include a review of key grammatical who need to learn specialized medical structures and vocabulary relevant to the vocabulary. health care field. Students are required to Spring semester. 4 credits dedicate two hours per week (approximately Prerequisites: LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for twenty hours in total) of volunteer Healthcare Professionals I or permission from community service at a local hospital, the instructor clinic, or medical practice serving the Latino community. This internship will allow LANG2401 Intermediate Spanish I students to put their Spanish-language This course is a language immersion skills to practice while helping Spanish- program that emphasizes oral speaking patients navigate the complex communication through interpersonal health care system. activities. Class work and home assingments Fall semester. 4 credits further develop basic comprehension, Prerequisites: LANG 1412 Beginning Spanish for speaking, reading, and writing skills. A video Healthcare Professionals II or permission from program provides the basis for classroom the instructor. dicussion. Fall semester. 4 credits LANG2413 Spanish Conversation and Prerequisite: LANG1402 or equivalent Composition I This course encourages the student to LANG2402 Intermediate Spanish II integrate the grammatical structures already This course is a continuation of LANG2401. learned into meaningful communication Conversation skills are emphasized through in the context of practical settings. Varied role playing and interpersonal activities. activities and audiovisual material will Literary readings are incorporated into the supplement literary readings, readings of course. cultural interest, and readings on public Spring semester. 4 credits events as a stimulus to everday oral and Prerequisite: LANG2401 or equivalent 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
240 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for written language use. LANG2416 Latin American Peoples and Arts and Sciences Fall semester. 4 credits Cultures Prerequisite: LANG2402 or equivalent Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) This Latin American culture course will LANG2414 Spanish Conversation and introduce students to the cultures and Composition II peoples of the region from pre-Columbian This course is a continuation of LANG to modern times. Following a thematic 2413. It continues to emphasize oral and approach, students will gain a better written expression while strengthening understanding of significant historical key grammatical structures necessary events, geographical regions, indigenous for meaningful communications. Varied cultures, regional languages, religious activities will supplement cultural and customs and beliefs, music, and other literary readings. forms of artistic expression. Literary texts Spring semester. 4 credits from different Spanish-speaking countries Prerequisite: LANG2413 or equivalent or will illustrate the richness and diversity of permission of instructor. this complex world. Students will read Inca Garcilaso de la Vegas account of Pizarro’s LANG2415 Spanish at Work in conquest of Peru, José Martís vision of the Community Cuba, Marta Truebas’s gripping narrative of This is an upper-level language course military repression in the Southern Cone, that will promote linguistic fluency and and Nellie Campobello’s fiction of the better cultural understanding of the Latin Mexican revolution. They will also read a American and Latino communities in the selection of poetry and short stories relevant United States. The course’s content will to the content of the course. Music and film focus on Hispanic immigration, emphasizing will also be incorporated into the program. the experiences of the Latin American and Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Latino communities of the United States. Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission It will concentrate on the largest groups of instructor of immigrants, those from Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, exploring issues related to LANG2417 Hispanic Culture and Language language, identity, socioe conomic realities through Film and demographics. Class discussions will This course will introduce students to the center on cultural and literary readings heterogeneous culture of the Hispanic world and films. Students will provide community through the use of films and other selected service to non-profit organizations within materials provided by the instructor. The the Boston area, as well as to local schools, course aims to provide students with where they will be using a panoramic appreciation of Hispanic their language skills while assisting cultures as well as to develop their linguistic Spanish-speakers. proficiency through the use of films and Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits other assorted materials. The course will Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of place special emphasis on the links that tie instructor the films with the broader economic, socio- political and historical landscape of the Hispanic world. All movies will be shown in their original language with subtitles. The Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 241 course will be conducted in Spanish. LANG3411 Latin American Literary Giants Course Descriptions for Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) Arts and Sciences Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission This course will focus on the most of instructor influential Latin American authors. It will en- gage students in literary analysis of LANG2418 The Art of Spain representative texts by Borges, Neruda, Paz, This course provides students with a broad Garcia Marquez and others. Readings will survey of Spanish art. It examines artistic include a wide range of poetry, short stories masterpieces from different periods and novels. highlighting their social and historical Spring semester, even years. 4 credits implications. In this course students will Prerequisite: LANG2413 or p ermission further develop listening, reading, speaking of instructor and writing skills. There will also be field visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the LANG3417 Spanish American Experience: Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum. The An Overview course will be conducted in Spanish. Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) Spring semester, even years. 4 credits This course examines the developments of Prerequisite: LANG2413 Spanish American literature through the study of the most representative literary LANG2419 Approaches to Hispanic movements and cultural periods. Literature Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of The last half of the 20th century witnessed instructor a revolution in literary theory and criticism. Drawing on a vast network of LANG3427 Contemporary Spanish other disciplines such as philosophy, American Women Novelists anthropology, linguistics, political economy, Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) sociology, women’s studies, religion, etc., This course introduces the student this course will introduce students to this to outstand- ing women novelists of vast and varied present-day field. The critical the contempory period, such as Rosio and theoretical concepts presented in this Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, Marta class aim to provide undergraduate students Traba, Rosario Ferre and Isabell Allende. with the tools to conduct in-depth study of Discussions will focus on literary analysis, literary texts. socio-political context and feminist Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits perspective. Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission Spring semester, even years. 4 credits of instructor Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor LANG2605 Spain: A Cultural Approach 2021-2022 Academic Catalog Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) This course presents an overview of Spanish culture in the physical reality of the geography of Spain, the trajectory of its history and the rich values of its art. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor
242 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for LANG3429 Great Figures of Spanish LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Arts and Sciences Literature Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) LANG2103 Literary Mirrors: The study of selected texts of the most Introduction to World Literature outstanding Hispanic authors across the Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) centuries will bring the student into contact Emabark on a literary journey to Africa, with the evolution and artistic richness of Europe, Asia and Central and South the literary history of Spain. Americas with major world authors who treat Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits in short novels the triumphs and tragedies of Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission the human condition. This course, conducted of instructor in English, is designed to foster critcal thinking and to improve writing skills. LANG3431 Contemporary Spanish Novel Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) The student will read and discuss relevant LANG2105 Contemporary Latin A merican works of the most outstanding contemporary Fiction novelists of Spain, noting particularly Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) the changed social, political and cultural Conducted in English, this literature in environment of present day Spain as translation course introduces students to evidenced in these novels. major contemporary authors from the Latin Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits American Boom to the present. Students will Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission engage in literary analysis of representative of instructor prose from Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. Reading LANG3433 Modern Hispanic Drama selections will expose students to literary Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) styles characteristic of Latin American This is an approach to the study of Hispanic writers as well as to the sociopolitical reality society and culture of the contemporary of the Americas. Conducted in English. period through the reading, discussion Fall semester, even years. 4 credits of, and analysis of selected works of outstanding dramatists of the period. LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Modern French Literature and Culture Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) of instructor As a source of inspiration, romance, and sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has LANG4478-4479 Directed Study exerted a profound influence on generations Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits of artists and writers. In the fall prior to Prerequisite: Permission of instructor our travel, students will take a preparatory course introducing them to history and LANG4999 Senior Seminar culture of the city of lights. Through novels, Students will conduct in-depth research of a novellas, short stories, poems, and films, chosen topic that will result in a significant contrasting accounts of life in the city of senior paper. There will be regular peer- Paris will be studied, offering often radically reviewed oral presentations of progress. opposing views of the French capital as Spring semester. 4 credits expressed by realist and surrealist writers, Prerequisites: Two 3000-level Hispanic artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, literature courses and senior status Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 243 cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where LANG3421 Spanish Caribbean Literature the students will experience firsthand a city Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic reflections on modern urban life. This This course will introduce students to course, conducted in English, travels to Paris the literature of the Spanish Caribbean, in January. engaging them in literary analysis of major Travel component required. authors from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Dominican Republic. Special attention will be given to the author’s literary style, LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through themes developed and to the ideological Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life content of each piece. Students will also Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L) get a glimpse of this region’s historical and Students will analyze and discuss some sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the masterpieces of Italian literature and some semester paticipants will have acquired movies inspired by them. The course is an appreciation of the literature of the comprised of two parts of four weeks each. Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, better understanding of the complex issues the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). affecting this interesting region. Conducted During the first part of the course, students in English. will be reading and discussing some of the masterpieces of Italian literature from the Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific focus on Milan. The readings will include two Course Descriptions for plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello Arts and Sciences and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If This Is A Man” and Calvino’s “The Invisible Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in Milan, during the second part of the course, where students will visit some of the actual sites described in their readings and will view movies inspired by the works they read. The virtual images from the literary pages and the “real” ones from the movies will help them discover how modern city life in Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic and cultural background. This course, taught in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the summer where students will complete the course-work started at Emmanuel, as well as take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at the Universita Cattolica. Travel Component Required. Program is open to COF students. Prerequisites: None Spring semester, even years. 4 credits 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
244 Neuroscience Course Descriptions for NEUROSCIENCE figuratively and literally—change minds! Arts and Sciences Spring semester. 4 credits NEURO2201 Neurobiology with Lab Prerequisites: NEURO2201, CHEM1102 and This course is designed to introduce PSYCH2802 and junior standing s tudents to the exciting and ever-evolving $100 lab fee field of n euroscience from molecular to behavioral levels. Consideration of NEURO3137 Medical Neuroscience the fundamentals of neuroanatomy, This course is designed with the future neurophysiology and neurochemistry as m edical student and health professional in they relate to brain function is emphasized. mind. Lecture content will focus on diseases Topics include neuronal communication, and disorders of the nervous system. Clinical sensory, motor and autonomic systems, case studies will be discussed, thus making learning and memory, neuronal plasticity this a good course for pre-med students. and higher level functioning with a focus While there is no separate laboratory, on behavior. Throughout the course, s tudents will participate in class on group examples from c urrent research and clinical projects working on clinical cases as if references will be utilized to reinforce and they were working in the medical field. This illustrate key concepts. Three hours lecture, course is an upper-level elective course for three hours laboratory. completing the neuroscience concentration. Fall semester. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: BIOL1105 or permission of Prerequisite: NEURO2201 or permission of instructor instructor $100 lab fee NEURO3205 Neuroendocrinology NEURO3000 Experimental Neuroscience This course will examine the relationships and Lab between hormones, the brain and behavior. Neuroscience is a very broad, complex We will approach this from a biological field of study. The goal of this course is psychology perspective, thus we will begin to acquaint you with tools you will use to with an overview of the anatomy and conduct certain types of neuroscience physiology of the endocrine systems, the research and critically think about the chemistry of hormones, and the cellular world around us. You will learn about and molecular features of hormone action. huge breakthroughs in our understanding We will follow by looking at a number of of the brain, both in the past and at this behaviors and their regulation by hormones. moment. You will work with large data Fall semester. 4 credits sets and quantify real data. You will learn Prerequisite: PSYCH2209 or NEURO2201 and skills to help you better assess journal sophomore standing articles describing research conducted by other scientists, analyze the results of NEURO3214 Psychopharmacology experiments graphically and statistically, The framework of the course includes: (1) and present your findings via written papers Introduction to the principal concepts in and PowerPoint presentations. Deeply pharmacology, such as pharmacokinetics, significant ethical challenges will be pharmacodynamics and drug-drug discussed and influence your perspective interactions. (2) A brief review of the of art, biotechnology, law, policy-making, mechanisms of action of difference science writing for the masses, and drugs in the central nervous system. (3) A business. This course has the potential to— thorough introduction to different classes of psychoactive compounds, including Emmanuel College
Neuroscience 245 drugs used in the treatment of psychiatric NEURO4282/NEURO4283 Neuroscience Course Descriptions for disorders as well as psychoactive drugs of Internship I and II Arts and Sciences abuse. Special topics of interest will include NEURO 4282 and 4283 comprise a two- the study of pharmacological treatments semester course that requires neuroscience available for major psychiatric disorders majors to undertake an internship, either such as schizophrenia, mood and anxiety on campus under the supervision of a disorders. Upon completion of this course, faculty member, or off-campus at another students will be able to define and discuss institution or other location. Students the principles of the pharmacotherapy identify an internship based on their career currently available for the treatment of interests and professional goals. Students major psychiatric disorders, as well as the can either (a) develop and implement underlying mechanisms of drugs of abuse, their own research study or participate and will be able to interpret and critically in executing an existing study under the evaluate new findings in the field. supervision of another researcher or (b) Spring semester. 4 credits gain substantial proficiency in a clinical Prerequisites: PSYCH2209 or NEURO2201 health care setting or other professional and CHEM1101 setting. Students are expected to complete 125 hours per semester at their site. In NEURO4160 Senior Seminar in addition to gaining significant professional Neuroscience experience through their internship Students read and discuss current research site, students will write a neuroscience and give in-depth oral presentations. Topics thesis paper and engage in professional may include: human genetic disorders, development activities guided by course endocrinology, biochemistry of development, faculty. neuroscience, molecular biology, reproductive physiology, genomics, cancer Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits biology, advanced physiology or others. The neuroscience seminar section satisfies (8 credits total) the s eminar requirement for biology and Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH1501, psychology majors with a concentration PSYCH2801, PSYCH2802, attendance at (1) in neuroscience. capstone information session, application Spring semester. 4 credits submission by mid-February, and senior status. Neuroscience Seminar section prerequisite: Students who wish to study abroad during their NEURO2201 or permission of instructor junior year must submit their application by the Friday before Winter Break. Credit granted upon NEURO4178 Directed Study completion and acceptance of the work. A student, with departmental approval, may pursue research or applied experience NEURO4284 Neuroscience Research in a specialized area in neuroscience under Internship the personal direction of one or more NEURO 4284 is for senior Neuroscience members of the department. majors who, by exception, need to complete Offered as needed. 4 credits their senior internship requirement Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or condensed into one semester. Students p ermission of instructor will identify an on campus or off campus internship based on their career interests and professional goals and will obtain an internship in a research setting, health care setting, or other setting. Students are expected to complete 250 hours at their site. In addition to gaining significant professional experience through their internship 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
246 Nursing site, students will write a neuroscience NURSING thesis paper and engage in professional development activities guided by course NURS1000 Nursing Seminar I faculty. This class focuses on assisting the nursing student to acquire essential skills, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits techniques and behaviors that will lead to Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH1501, success as a student, a lifelong learner and a PSYCH2801, PSYCH2802, attendance at (1) beginning member of the nursing profession. capstone information session, application Fall semester. 1 credit submission by mid-February, and senior status. Students who wish to study abroad during their NURS2000 History and Theory in Nursing/ junior year must submit their application by the Service Seminar II Friday before Winter Break. Credit granted upon This course provides a broad overview and completion and acceptance of the work. synthesis of the issues and trends most relevant to the practice of professional nursing. Historical, contemporary, theoretical and potential influences on professional nursing practice are reviewed. An emphasis on the unique and varied roles of nurses in today’s interdisciplinary healthcare environment are examined within the context of individual, family, community, and global health. Fall semseter. 1 credit Prerequisites: NURS1000 Course Descriptions for NURS2100 Pathophysiology Arts and Sciences This course examines selected pathophysiological concepts within a nursing framework. The course will incorporate holistic aspects of disease process. Concepts include genetics, mechanisms of disease causation, genetics and genomics, immune processes, cellular growth/ proliferation, circulation, oxygenation and alterations in renal, neurological and endocrine functions. The effects of various environmental factors and physiological compensatory changes will be examined. Adaptive responses across the life span are explored. Spring Semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: NURS2000 Concurrently with NURS2200,2300 and 2400 Emmanuel College
Nursing 247 NURS2200 Health Assessment concepts of client needs, safety, Course Descriptions for This course introduces health assessment communication, teaching/learning, critical Arts and Sciences and wellness concepts. The focus of this thinking, clinical judgement, ethical-legal, course is on the development of beginning and cultural diversity. Additionally, this skills in assessing health across the course introduces psychomotor nursing lifespan with an emphasis on physical skills needed to assist individuals in meeting examination and techniques and clinical basic human needs. Skills necessary judgement based on findings. Topics for maintaining microbial, physical, and include the multitude of variables that psychological safety are introduced contribute to wellness, the use of the nursing along with skills needed in therapeutic process, interacting with clients using interventions. At the conclusion of this appropriate communication skills, taking course students demonstrate competency an accurate health history and establishing in performing basic nursing skills for an appropriate database using current individuals with health needs. informatics for correct documentation of Spring Semester. 6 credits obtained information. Prerequisites: NURS2000 Spring Semester. 4 credits Concurrently with NURS2100,NURS2200 and Prerequisites: NURS2000 NURS2300 Concurrently with BIOL1919, BIOL1920, $300 lab fee NURS2100, and NURS2300 NURS3000 End of Life Nursing Seminar III NURS2300 Pharmacology This course emphasizes the role of the nurse This course focuses on the chemical and in providing palliative care for patients at end physical characteristics of therapeutic of life. Cultural, spiritual and psychosocial drugs as well as their physiological impact aspects of death will be covered. Topics in on clients of all ages. General principles of palliative care include, communication, pain pharmacology and the key categories of management, symptom management, final commonly used drug to treat a broad range hours of life, loss, grief and bereavement. of pathophysiological conditions will be Care of the dying patient and family across included. The therapeutic use of drugs the lifespan will be addressed. essential for current nursing practice will be Spring Semester. 1 credit examined. Clinical, legal and ethical Prerequisite: NURS3100 decision making related to drug administration will be covered. NURS3100 Adult Health I (Clinical) Spring Semester. 4 credits This course emphasizes the knowledge Prerequisites: NURS2000 and skills essential for the nursing care Concurrently with CHEM 1109, NURS2100, of the adult and older adult clients. The NURS2200 and NURS2400 role and responsibilities of the nurse include those related to client advocacy NURS2400 Intro to Nursing (Clinical) and teaching, communication, safety, and This course introduces the beginning cultural sensitivity are emphasized. The student to the nursing profession, with a student will utilize the nursing process to focus on the current state of the nursing plan and provide evidence-based patient profession and its alignment with the most centered care with a focus on the physical, recent trends in healthcare. The role of the pathophysiologic, psychosocial and nurse as a member of the healthcare team is spiritual responses of individuals to disease emphasized. Students are introduced to the processes and health promotion. Nursing 2021-2022 Academic Catalog
248 Nursing Course Descriptions for care of clients with oncology, respiratory, which nursing process and clinical judgment Arts and Sciences cardiac, endocrine and musculoskeletal are implemented in collaboration with dysfunction will be covered. The clinical other healthcare professionals with clinical component involves experience in an instructor supervision. The application of acute care environment, in which the standards for professional nursing practice nursing process and clinical judgment is is expected. implemented in collaboration with other Spring semester. 6 credits healthcare professionals with clinical Prerequisite: NURS3100 instructor supervision. The application $300 lab fee of standards for professional nursing practice is expected. NURS3400 Adult Health II (Clinical) Fall Semester. 8 credits This course builds upon Adult health I Prerequisites: NURS2100, NURS2200, to emphasize the knowledge and skills NURS2300 and NURS2400 essential for the nursing care of adult clients. $300 lab fee The role and responsibilities of the nurse including those related to patient advocacy NURS3200 Nursing Research and teaching, communication, safety, and This course is an introduction to the process cultural sensitivity are emphasized. The of scientific inquiry and its application student will utilize the nursing process to to nursing practice. The focus is on the plan and provide evidence-based patient identification of researchable questions centered care with a focus on the physical, derived from nursing practice, the critical pathophysiologic, psychosocial and appraisal of relevant research in the spiritual responses of individuals to disease literature, and the application of evidence- processes and health promotion. Nursing based practice to improve quality of care. care of clients with neurology, hematology, Fall Semester. 4 credits immunology, kidney and urinary, Prerequisites: MATH1117 gastrointestinal, reproductive and integument disfunction will be NURS3300 Mental Health Nursing (Clinical) covered. Emergency and disaster nursing This course focuses on nursing care will be introduced. The clinical component for clients experiencing mental health involves experience in an acute care issues. Emphasis will be on assessment, environment, in which the nursing process therapeutic communication, teaching, and and clinical judgment is implemented pharmacology with this client population. in collaboration with other healthcare The student will utilize the nursing process professionals with clinical instructor to plan and provide evidence-based patient supervision. The application of standards for centered care with a focus on the physical, professional nursing practice is expected. pathophysiologic, psychosocial and spiritual Spring Semester. 6 credits responses of individuals with mental Prerequisite: NURS3100 health issues. Nursing care of clients with $300 lab fee mental health disorders including: anxiety, schizophrenia, mood, personality, eating and NURS3600 Culture and Diversity in Health dementia will be explored. In addition, care Care of clients who have experience of grief and Diversity & Multiculturalism (DM) loss, abuse, violence, and or trauma will be This course focuses on understanding covered. The clinical component involves diversity in nursing and health care. experience in a psychiatric care setting, in Theoretical bases in transcultural nursing, Emmanuel College
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