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Accounting 149 ACCT3411 Federal Income Taxes Street Journal. This course is project based, Students study federal income tax laws and it emphasizes both the practical and as they apply to individuals, partnerships, ethical issues of the practice of accounting. c­ orporations, and fiduciaries. Spring semester. 4 credits Spring semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisites: ACCT2204, ACCT3203, or Spring 2020. 4 credits concurrently with ACCT3411 and ACCT3413 Prerequisite: ACCT1201 ACCT4178 Directed Study ACCT3413 Accounting Information Systems This course is limited to seniors. This course focuses on the design, use, Fall and Spring Semesters. 4 credits e­ valuation, and control of accounting Prerequisite: Permission from the instructor ­information systems. Business transactions will include order entry, sales, purchasing, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, among others. Real-world accounting a­ pplications will be used. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2018. 4 credits Prerequisite: ACCT1201 ACCT4201 Advanced Accounting Course Descriptions for This course is the capstone experience in the Arts and Sciences accounting major. Ideally, this course should be taken in a student’s senior year after completion of the following prerequisites: ACCT2204, ACCT3203, ACCT3411 and ACCT3413. The course has two major parts that represent a blend of theory, practice, and research. In part one, topics covered include: consolidated financial statements, partnerships and non-profit accounting. Part two integrates knowledge gained in previous accounting coursework. It requires students to apply and integrate a variety of skills, tools and knowledge to address contemporary issues and problems facing the accounting profession. Problems are drawn from a variety of sources including your textbook, published Case Studies from the AICPA, The American Accounting Association, prior CPA and CMA examinations, CFO Magazine and the Wall 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

150 American Studies AMERICAN STUDIES ART Course Descriptions for AMST1101 Introduction to American ART HISTORY Arts and Sciences Studies (AI-L) This course is designed to introduce ART1201 Survey of Art I: From Prehistoric students to some of the significant works, to Medieval Art (AI-A) interp­ retative methods, and central This course is a chronological survey of concerns of American Studies. Employing art from around the world, covering pre­ an interd­ isciplinary analytical approach historic, ancient and medieval art. Emphasis and focusing on a variety of texts (including will be placed on stylistic developments as works of film, literature, and folklore as they are expressed within specific cultural well as less traditional texts of academic contexts. The course will introduce students study, such as advertisements), this course to the language of art history, including explores popular and academic formulations the analytical, critical, and art historical of American identity and considers a range methodologies used by art historians. of American experiences. In our studies, we Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits will focus especially on times, places, and texts that illuminate the complexity and ART1202 Survey of Art II: From the diversity of American culture. Renaissance to the Beginnings of Fall semester. 4 credits Modernism (AI-A) This course is a chronological survey of AMST4178 Directed Research in art from around the world, covering a American Studies time period from the late 15th century to the Under the guidance of a faculty member, mid-19th century. Emphasis will be placed students will undertake and complete a on stylistic developments as they major research project on an American are expressed within specific cultural Studies-related topic. contexts. The course will introduce students Offered as needed. 4 credits to the language of art history, including Prerequisite: Permission of department chair the analytical, critical, and art historical methodologies used by art historians. AMST4995 American Studies Internship Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits This course involves an internship in a ­cooperating institution, regular discussion ART1203 Art of Resistance: Social Justice sessions, and the completion of several and the Visual Arts (AI-A) ­projects related to the internship site. This course is an examination of the ways in Students select their internship with the which art has been employed by artists approval of the agency and a department to promote social justice. Taking a cross- faculty member. cultural approach, the course will consider Offered as needed. 4 credits key artistic movements throughout history Prerequisites: INT1001, senior status, and that have been grounded in a philosophy of permission of department chair social change as well as individual works that stand out within an art movement for their progressive perspective. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Emmanuel College

Art 151 ART2201 Visual Constructions of Gendered as a medium by the late 20th century. Course Descriptions for Identity (AI-A) The impact of digital photography on Arts and Sciences This course is an examination of the ways in photography as art will also be considered. which gender constructions are revealed in Fall semester. 4 credits works of art throughout history and across cultures. Using the lens of art history, we ART2215 Modern Art (AI-A) will consider the shifting meanings of art This course is an examination of art trends objects based on historically and culturally that have come to define modern art from constructed notions of the so-called the 1860s to the 1950s and the postmodern masculine and feminine. challenges to modern art that began to Fall semester, alternate years, fall 2021. emerge in the 1960s and continue into the 4 credits 21st century. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of new types of media and ART2204 From Globalization to techniques that transformed art, the shifting Transationalism: Art in the Contact s­ ignificance of the art object as an artistic (AI-A) necessity, and the changing view of the This course is an examination of cultural artist’s role from creative genius to cultural exchange from the perspective of a broad critic. range of artists and art communities, with Spring semester. 4 credits roots from Asia to the Middle East and Africa and including the indigenous peoples ART2217 American Art to 1940 (AI-A) of North and South America, in an effort to This course is an examination of American understand how expanded international and art from its indigenous roots to the mid-20th transnational connections have redefined century. We will consider the American visual artistic production throughout the world. arts tradition in relation to constructions of Beginning with an historical perspective national identity and the critiques of those on cultural exchange, the course will then constructions by art historians today. We will consider the widespread acceleration of also consider the ways that issues of class, cultural exchange in the late 20th century. race, and gender have been examined by Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall American art historians. While considering 2020. 4 credits the aesthetic qualities that have come to define American art, we will concentrate on ART2213 Daguerreotypes to Digital Prints: the relationship between American art and The History of Photography the political, economic, and social climate of This course surveys the history of photog­ the United States at the time in which it was raphy from its beginnings in the early19th produced. century to the present. We will examine Spring semester. 4 credits the use of photography for aesthetic, documentary, and “scientific” purposes, ART2221 Contemporary Art and Artistic the stylistic shifts in photography related to Practice (in conjunction to Artist in aesthetic interests, and the interpretations Residence Program) (AI-A) of subject matter based on social and A four-credit art history course focused on cultural concerns. More broadly, we will contemporary art trends as they relate to the evaluate the shifting relationship between studio practices of four artists in residence photography and the visual arts, which at Emmanuel College. This is a unique culminates in the primacy of photography oppor­tunity to study art history grounded in the direct experiences of working artists. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

152 Art Course Descriptions for Through weekly meetings with resident social groups. The course will include travel Arts and Sciences artists, students will examine the working to Ireland during spring break. methods and conceptual frameworks that Travel Component Required. inform artistic practices. At the same time, Spring semester, alternate years, spring 2021. an historical and contextual framework for 4 credits these practices will be developed through classroom discussions. Media to be ART3391/2 Special Topics in Art History examined include ceramics, photography, This course is a focused study of topics in and printmaking. The role of social justice art history that warrant complex analyses in contemporary art practices will also be and in-depth investigation. The course will considered. Learn about contemporary art be designed to assist students in further from a broad lens that covers both theory developing their research skills. Students and practice, and earn four humanities will consider the critical theory that serves credits in an accelerated format. as the foundation for the methodologies Summer. 4 credits used by art historians as well as scholars in other disciplines. ART2223 From Patronage to Practice: The As required. 4 credits Catholic Art Tradition (AI-A) Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing only This course examines the tradition of Catholic art from the Renaissance to the STUDIO ART present. Topics covered include the history of art patronage by the Catholic Church, ART1401 Drawing I (AI-A) the spread of Catholic art around the world Drawing is a primary means of inquiry through missionary activities, the artistic across many disciplines and media. It is an production of practicing Catholics and the essential skill for all artists and designers. appropriation of Catholic imagery by non- The course focuses on developing visual Catholic artists. The course will pay special perception through observational drawing. attention to the position of Catholic abstract Response to critique is an integral part of artists during the Modern Period in relation the class. The course is an introduction to both avant-garde art movements and to to drawing and its formal and expressive the Catholic Church. concerns. Prior drawing experience is not Spring semester, every fourth year, expected necessary. spring 2022. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits $110 studio fee ART2224 Irish Art (AI-A) This course examines the history of Irish art ART1407 Visual Language for Design and from its prehistoric roots to the present. Communication (AI-A) Emphasis will be placed on the “golden age This course is an introduction to the tools of Irish art” during the Medieval Period, the and methodologies related to creating visual influence of English art during the Protestant communication. Students will use industry Ascendancy, and efforts by Irish artists caliber digital tools while learning the to create works of art related to national fundamentals of how to organize, clarity your identity beginning in the late 18th century message, and craft compelling visual work. and continuing through to the present. The Projects include photographic manipulation, subject of Irish national identity will be explanatory illustration, and oster design for central to this course, specifically as it was advocacy. supported by Irish arts organizations with Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits strong ties to Irish ­political, religious, and $110 studio fee Emmanuel College

Art 153 ART2402 Drawing II (AI-A) means of expanding visual expression and Course Descriptions for Drawing is an essential skill for all artists communication. Students are introduced to Arts and Sciences and designers. Through observational the history of photography as an art form. drawing, students increase their visual Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits discernment. Continuing emphasis is placed $110 studio fee on formal analysis and experimentation. Formal and expressive ideas are explored ART2432 Poster and Information Design through a variety of in class and independent In this course students will advance their projects including study of the human form. skill in typography and design principles Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits through the medium of poster design. Prerequisite: ART1401 Projects will focus on typography as an $110 studio fee expressive element, color, information hierarchy, structure, concept and effective ART2403 Design and Composition (AI-A) communication. Through lectures, The understanding of two-dimensional demonstrations, research, and weekly design is essential to all image making. critiques, students will explore the This studio core course explores the formal historical/social impact of the poster and its elements of line, texture, value, space and role as a contemporary means of expression/ composition. Design projects in black and communication. Projects focus on posters white and in color which expand students’ and infographics. visual perception are the focus of the Fall semester. 4 credits course. Lectures, critiques and museum Prerequisites: ART1407 assignments are an integral part of the $110 studio fee course. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits ART2433 3D Form Studies (AI-A) $110 studio fee Understanding three-dimensional form impacts sculpture, industrial design, graphic ART2411 Introduction to Printmaking (AI-A) design, architecture, as well as the execution This course is an introduction to the of successful two-dimensional images. printmaking processes of intaglio, relief, and Form study is a three-dimensional studio screen printing. Studio work, self-generated core course, which is designed to develop independent projects, study of master students’ problem-solving skills. It will prints, and museum visits are an integral e­ xamine perception, organization, analysis, part of the colors, objects and environments in real course. space. The course is structured around Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits s­ tudio projects where students are required $110 studio fee to apply various approaches of generating and developing ideas. Group critiques are ART2413 Photography I (AI-A) given weekly. Simple technical processes This course introduces students to the tra­ with various media will be introduced ditional tools and techniques of black and through demos as well as some of the major white ­photography in an analog, d­ arkroom- ideas influencing three-dimensional art and based lab environment. Students learn design in the history of art. the function of a camera and lens, proper Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits ­exposure and development of the negative $110 studio fee and print, methods of presentation and preservation techniques. This course stresses the photographic process as a 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

154 Art Course Descriptions for ART2443 Digital Photography I: New museum assignments are an integral part of Arts and Sciences Technologies in Photography the course. This course provides each student with Spring semester. 4 credits an ability to maintain a stable digital Prerequisite: ART1401, ART2403 or color work space from capture to print. permission of instructor By means of demonstration and course $110 studio fee projects, students will establish technical knowledge and ­ability with professional ART3402 Interactive Design digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. This advanced course introduces students to The fundamentals of available light control, the concepts and techniques of interactive processing of RAW captured image files, design through industry standard web use of Photoshop from a photographer’s development. Through focused projects, perspective, and maintenance of working students will explore interactive paradigms color space will be introduced. of user experience, information architecture, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits and navigation design with an emphasis Prerequisite: ART1407 or permission on organization and usability. Current and of instructor future directions of interactive design will $110 studio fee be discussed with a focus on advanced CSS, JQuery, and responsive design. ART2451 Ceramics I (AI-A) Spring semesters. 4 credits This course is designed to introduce Prerequisites: ART1407 students to basic handbuilding skills. Demos $110 studio fee include pinch pot, slab, coil, leather-hard slab, paper armature techniques, extruder, ART3403 Drawing III: Advanced Projects glazing etc. Throughout the semester, Projects explore the intersection of the students will experience handbuilding drawing process and concept through a techniques to experiment and explore the variety of 2D media. Emphasis is placed possibilities of the medium. They will also on formal analysis, experimentation, and facilitate skills to control the medium. expression. Independent projects explore The course projects offer a v­ ariety of concepts in tandem with in class drawing. approaches, forms, and ideas. We will Students are asked to work and think in a be exploring realistic, abstract, non- responsive and self-critical manner. Special representational forms, both pedestal work emphasis is placed on the human form. as well as wall pieces, and both functional Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits and s­ culptural work.   Prerequisites: ART1401, ART1402 or ART2402 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits $110 studio fee $110 studio fee ART3412 Photography II: Idea and Image ART3101 Painting This unique hybrid course offers students This course explores painting in oil and with fundamental technical and aesthetic related media and offers an understanding knowledge in the disciplines of film and/ of the visual and physical properties of or digital photography an opportunity the medium. Spatial relationships of to develop their understanding and color, form, light, and composition are faculty of the medium further. Within an emphasized. Lectures, critiques and environment of enhanced critical review and independence, the course provides a more compre­hensive review and application of Emmanuel College

Art 155 advanced photochemical techniques and ART3433 Open Projects Course Descriptions for lighting systems, and promotes a project- This course is structured to allow our Arts and Sciences based exploration of the medium’s ability junior level design students to master to facilitate the expression of concrete and the mediums and methods they have abstract ideas. been exposed to and to explore beyond. Spring semester. 4 credits Students in the course will be expected to Prerequisites: ART1407, ART2213 and ART2413, develop project proposals, research and or ART2443 production timelines, and meet all self- $110 studio fee structured deadlines. All projects will be proposed, approved and developed in close ART3431 Motion Graphics and Digital communication with the instructor. The Animation culmination of the course will be an end of In this advanced course, students build upon semester art exhibition of one or more of fundamentals of design while exploring their projects from the course. time-based media. Students will experience Fall semester. 4 credits concept building, storyboarding and problem Pre-requisites: ART1407 and one of the solving, while investigating issues of following ART2432, ART3402, ART3431, type, image, sequence, scale, contrast, ART3432 movement, rhythm and balance. Focus will $110 studio fee be on the dynamic communication of visual systems of information with an emphasis ART3451 Ceramics II (AI-A) on audience, organization, legibility and This course will examine variety of ceramics purpose. Projects will address web and processes. Students will be introduced broadcast production of advertising, with introductory wheel-throwing, casting informational graphics, and narrative shorts. process, screen printing on clay, 3D Fall semester. 4 credits printing clay, and glaze mixing. A variety of Prerequisites: ART1407 forms such as sculpture, installation, and $110 studio fee tableware will be discussed in the course. Spring semester. 4 credits ART3432 Package and Publication Design Prerequisite: ART2451 or permission of This course focuses on identity design instructor and brand design as it applies to package $110 studio fee and publication design. Through lectures, demonstrations, research, and weekly ART3531 Stories in Motion Studio critiques, students will explore the formal Stories in Motion Studio (SMS) is an design principles of making physical introduction to the confluence of literary designed objects. Conceptual thinking and and visual arts. Students will create various problem solving skills are advanced through digital video projects combining student rapid prototyping and group critique. Design authored short stories, literary adaptations concepts explored include brand guidelines, and journalistic inquiry as core content - the client, the consumer, user interaction, with the visual and conceptual foundations and information in series. of a cinematic view and rhythm of visual Spring semester. 4 credits. sequence editing to create a handful of short Prerequisites: ART1407 video projects. SMS reviews primary texts $110 studio fee and screenings of cinematic masters work with an emphasis on the Short Film genre. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

156 Art Course Descriptions for The course cuminates in a team developed, Spring semester. 4 credits Arts and Sciences final project that is inclusive of the course’s Prerequisites: ART1407, ART2213, ART2413 or theoretical, lyrical and practical core ART2443, ART3412 content. $110 studio fee Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ART1407, and ENGL1502 or ART4417 Senior Studio permission of instructor This capstone course for all studio majors $110 studio fee examines advanced problems in two- dimensional and three-dimensional design ART4178/ART4179 Directed Study I and II with an emphasis on the student’s individual This course is open only to juniors and process of problem solving and the seniors who have had experience in a strategies used. Students work on individual specific area. Approvals of the chairperson projects over the course of the semester and and instructor are required. meet weekly for group critiques. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ART2403, ART1407, ART2433, ART4194/ART4195 Internship I or II ART1401, ART2402, or permission of instructor This course involves a formal, supervised $110 studio fee experience in galleries, museums, corporate collections, art centers, graphic design ART4432 Graphic Design Senior Studio firms, broadcasting and publishing or state In this capstone course, students explore arts funding organizations. Students must user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) apply one semester in advance to the chair design through a series of projects focusing of the department. on app development. In addition, this studio Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits is design to be an incubator where students Prerequisites: INT1001, permission actively research, prototype, and document of instructor their design process in preparation for their senior thesis project. ART4412 Photography III: Pixel to Page: Fall semester. 4 credits Advanced Photography Projects Prerequisites: ART1407, ART2403, ART2432, This course offers advanced students of ART3432 photography an opportunity to exercise $110 studio fee known and new sets of imaging and art- making tools to independently conceive ART4451 Ceramics III and execute an intellectually and visually This course is designed to provide an engaging series of photo-based work. opportunity for students to develop their Students will self-publish visually own vision and produce a cohesive body of contiguous hand-made and web portfolios work. All students enrolled in this course are of their work. Each student is required required to have either a solo exhibition or a to submit personal work to various group exhibition at the end of the semester. competitions and juried exhibitions, a critical This course will also introduce information step in building any young designer and/or regarding professional practice. Students art maker’s résumé. Additionally, we begin are prepared and encouraged to exhibit their a practical discussion and implementation work professionally upon completing this regarding the means by which young visual course. artists and designers can best prepare for a Spring semester. 4 credits career in a creative profession. Prerequisite: ART3451 $110 studio fee Emmanuel College

Art 157 ART EDUCATION ART4365/4366 Art Therapy Practicum I and II ART3501 Methods and Materials of This weekly seminar provides students with Teaching Art a forum for sharing their required training This course deals with the methods and experiences at off-campus clinical sites techniques of teaching art, design and under the supervision of professional craftwork in elementary or secondary school. art therapists. It also serves as a focus for Spring semester, alternate years, or as needed, integration of practice with research and expected spring 2018. 4 credits writing, culminating in an art therapy thesis. $110 studio fee Students are prepared for professional development in the field of art therapy and ART THERAPY are introduced to ongoing professional activity available through workshops ART1301 Introduction to Art Therapy and organizations, as well as graduate This course is an introduction to the field training programs. of art therapy, its history, theoretical Practicum I, fall semester. 4 credits perspectives, and applications for various populations in mental health, special Practicum II, spring semester. 4 credits education and rehabilitation. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: ART1301 for Practicum I and Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 $110 studio fee ART4365 for Practicum II ART2302 Principles of Art Therapy This course provides an in-depth study of the field of art therapy. Through readings, training exercises and case presentations, students gain a deeper understanding of art therapy and the adaptability of methods and materials in clinical and educational practice. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ART1301 or permission of instructor $110 studio fee Course Descriptions for Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

158 Biology Course Descriptions for BIOLOGY medical problems of women and men. Three Arts and Sciences hours lecture. BIOL1101 Life on Earth (SI-L) Spring semester. 4 credits This introductory biology course is designed primarily for non-science majors seeking BIOL1105 Introduction to Cellular and an understanding of life processes. Topics Molecular Biology (SI-L) i­nclude cellular structure, metabolism, This is the first of a two-semester genetics, genetic engineering, human introductory biology course intended for, but systems, plant structure and function, not limited to, students considering a biology evolution, and ecology. Laboratories major. Beginning with the key molecules of include experiments and demonstrations to the cell, the course moves from molecular illustrate these phenomena. Students are to cellular while illustrating key concepts introduced to scientific data analysis and with examples from human diseases such learn to read and write scientific reports. as ­cystic fibrosis, myasthenia gravis, Three hours l­ecture, two hours laboratory. rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Topics Fall semester. 4 credits include: the role of carbohydrates in cellular $85 lab fee activity, illustrated by glucose regulation and diabetes; signaling molecules and signal BIOL1102 Human Biology (SI-L) transduction; transport across membranes This course covers selected topics in human into and out of cellular compartments; biology, chosen for their unique importance protein structure and function; how cells in the lives of women and men. Biological regulate enzymes; cellular receptors for similarities and differences between hormones, neurotransmitters and growth females and males at all stages of life are factors; and inheritance, DNA and the considered. Topics discussed include basic molecular ­biology of transcription and anatomy and physiology, genetics, sexuality, translation. The laboratory introduces reproduction, endocrinology, and medical students to a variety of cutting-edge problems of women and men. Laboratory research techniques via a semester-long exercises using models, slides and project that leads to publishable data. experiments s­ upplement the lecture topics. Students learn data analysis methods and Three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. are introduced to scientific writing. Three Spring semester. 4 credits hours lecture, three hours laboratory. $85 lab fee Fall semester. 4 credits Required of all biology majors, unless BIOL1103 Human Biology (SI) exempted by departmental permission This is the same course content as $85 lab fee BIOL1­ 102, but without the laboratory c­ omponent. This course covers selected BIOL1106 Introduction to Organismic and topics in human ­biology, chosen for their Evolutionary Biology (SI-L) unique importance in the lives of women and This course surveys the kinds of living men. Biological similarities and differences organisms found on the planet and between females and males at all stages of investigates the evolutionary relationship life are considered. Topics discussed include between them. Emphasis is placed on basic anatomy and physiology, genetics, structure, ­function and experimentation at sexuality, reproduction, endocrinology, and the ­organismal level. The laboratory stress data analysis and scientific writing skills. Emmanuel College

Biology 159 Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. of infectious diseases, the biological Course Descriptions for Spring semester. 4 credits mechanisms of EIDs, the ecology of disease Arts and Sciences Prerequisite: BIOL1105 agents and vectors, agencies involved in Required of all biology majors, unless ­exempted fighting the spread of diseases, bioterrorism by departmental permission in the past, present and future, and the $85 lab fee socioeconomic impact of EIDs. Lectures, debates, book ­discussions, case studies, BIOL1112 Biology and Society (SI) films, and projects will be integral parts of This class focuses on decision making on this course. Three hours lecture. ­scientific and technological issues and the Fall semester. 4 credits importance of civic responsibility around s­ cience. This course explores the important BIOL1215 Introduction to Nutrition (SI) roles of biology and scientists in society Introduction to Nutrition provides an h­ istorically and currently and the potential understanding of nutritional requirements for the future. The nature of science is and the roles of nutrients in body ­studied with applications to different functioning. Students discuss how to design ­scientific and technological disciplines. a healthy diet, weight control and physical Appropriate ways of understanding and f­itness. Topics include evaluation of food assessing science are considered, and intakes and habits, world food problems and ethical issues are discussed. Examples of malnutrition, nutrition and health, current controversies in biology are studied, sustainability, food processing and food and the influence of government and the safety. Study of major discoveries within impact on the general public are explored. nutrition research and the relationship For a major project in the course, each between nutrition and health provides a student chooses framework for the focus of this biology a current scientific issue to research and course in scientific inquiry. This nutrition develops an action plan for implementing course is for non-biology majors; it does not education or change at the town, state, count toward the requirements for a major in country, or i­nternational level. biology. Fall semester, alternate years, expected Spring semester, alternate years, expected fall 2020. 4 credits spring 2020. 4 credits BIOL1211 Emerging Infectious BIOL1501 Introduction to Anatomy and Diseases (SI) Physiology (SI-L) Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) is Introduction to anatomy and physiology designed primarily for non-science majors of the human body should provide the who are interested in understanding the student with an understanding and working impact of globalization on the spread of knowledge of the structure of the body and infectious diseases. This course should be how it functions. Basic scientific principles of particular interest to students majoring as applied to biology are covered while in International Studies and related fields. learning anatomy and physiology in both Anthrax, influenza, Lyme disease, Ebola, the lecture and the laboratory. This one- polio, smallpox, plague, malaria, mad cow semester course provides a comprehensive disease, MRSA and tuberculosis continue overview of the important concepts and to attract news headlines. EIDs will cover processes within the human body along with the impact of globalization on the spread the relationships between the structure and functions of the organ systems. The 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

160 Biology Course Descriptions for two-hour laboratory component provides a total body physiological framework will Arts and Sciences hands-on investigation of structures and be studied. The primary focus of the course experiments on how the systems work. will be human anatomy and physiology, Spring semester. 4 credits but comparisons with non-mammalian $85 Lab fee vertebrates will be presented where appropriate. This semester the topics BIOL1919 Anatomy & Physiology I for covered include the: endocrine system, Nursing Professionals (SI-L) cardiovascular system, lymphatic system, To function successfully in the health immune system, respiratory system, professions, one must understand the digestive system, urinary system, and normal function and anatomy of the reproductive system, along with nutrition human body. This course will examine the and pregnancy. The laboratories will structure and function of humans through supplement the lecture and provide the consideration of each of the major organ students with a hands on experience and systems. General physiological principles, appreciation of the complexity of the human especially mechanisms of homeostasis body. and structure-function relationships, Spring semester. 4 credits will be emphasized for each system. The interactions among organ systems within Prerequisites: BIOL1919 a total body physiological framework will be studied. The primary focus of the course $85 Lab fee will be human anatomy and physiology, but comparisons with non-mammalian BIOL1999 Biology in the Larger World (SI) vertebrates will be presented where This course is a clone of the current appropriate. This semester the topics HONORS2501 Science in the Larger World covered include: cellular metabolism, for use in travel abroad programs. The histology, integumentary system, skeletal science of biology is often perceived as system, muscular system, nervous system existing in a vacuum; the dispassionate and special senses. The laboratories will search for ‘truth’ independent of influence supplement the lecture and provide the and bias. In reality, the practice and students with a hands-on experience and implications of biological research sits right appreciation of the complexity of the human at the intersection of knowledge, impacting body. fields such as law, politics, literature, art, Fall semester. 4 credits religion, and business, and being equally $85 Lab fee subject to influence from these fields and others. Can you patent a gene? What impact BIOL1920 Anatomy & Physiology II for will knowing your genetic sequence have on Nursing Professionals (SI-L) your future job options? Does prayer play To function successfully in the health any role in surgical outcomes? What does it professions, one must understand the mean if a computer can simulate the neural normal function and anatomy of the connections found in the brain? What are human body. This course will examine the the conflicts of interest found in clinical structure and function of humans through research, and what role do patients play? consideration of each of the major organ We will address these questions (and many systems. General physiological principles, others) as we investigate the role of biology especially mechanisms of homeostasis in the larger world around us. and structure-function relationships, Summer. 4 credits will be emphasized for each system. The interactions among organ systems within Emmanuel College

Biology 161 BIOL2113 Human Nutrition Spring semester, alternate years, expected Course Descriptions for This course covers the vital roles of nutrients spring 2021. 4 credits Arts and Sciences in human body functioning. Nutritional Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or requirements, nutrient sources in foods permission of instructor and nutritional disorders are examined. Students discuss how nutrients interact and BIOL2119 Current Topics in Biological learn to balance nutrients in foods within a Research healthy diet. The critical role of nutrients in This is an introductory level course that physiology and health is a key focus and is describes and analyzes the emerging fields studied by examining nutrition throughout of biotechnology, genetic engineering and the lifespan. Regulation of nutrient intake molecular biology. The course focuses and processing is examined. Students study on recent developments that will have a weight control and the key functions of revol­utionary impact on our lives. Topics nutrients in physical fitness. Topics include may include transplantation, artificial food safety, processing and biotechnology. organs, rational drug design, combinatorial The complex issues concerning malnutrition, libraries, drug delivery systems, exotic world hunger and the environment are also ­epidemics, transgenic animals, knockout examined. This nutrition course is for biology mice, gene therapy, antisense and others. majors. Readings from a wide spectrum of books Spring semester. 4 credits and periodicals are assigned as a basis Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or for class discussion, short papers and oral permission of instructor ­presentations. Students are encouraged to view the challenges of modern biology from BIOL2115 Determinants of Health and scientific, social and ethical viewpoints. Disease Spring semester, alternate years, expected The objective of this course is to offer ­insight spring 2020. 4 credits into selected determinants of human health Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or and disease. W­ e will learn that disease in permission of instructor humans is complex and multi-factorial, with genetic, biochemical, environmental and BIOL2121 Human Health and the socio-economic inputs. Content will vary and Environment will reflect student input. There is a strong This course will examine the relationship communication component to this course as between the environment and human students will give ­multiple oral ­presentations health. It will focus on issues such as on topics such as cancer (­oncog­ enes, climate change and accompanying disease tumor suppressors), infectious diseases outbreaks, environmental contaminants (tuberculosis, salmonella, hepatitis), genetic and toxins, water, food and air quality disorders (obesity, cystic fibrosis, p­ ituitary and sanitation. It will also examine the dwarfism, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy), pathways through which climate change immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, is likely to influence human health. These asthma, AIDs, d­ iabetes), diseases of the include the health effects of rising ambient n­ ervous system (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, temperatures, shifting patterns of vector- ­depression), respiratory diseases borne and food-borne diseases, physical (emphysema) and others. Reading materials and mental health risks of extreme weather will consist of primary literature, review events, potential food and water insecurity articles and other sources. and the likely impacts of climate change on 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

162 Biology Course Descriptions for health equity. The course includes a strong BIOL2135 Anatomy and Physiology I Arts and Sciences emphasis on personal decision-making. This course is the first semester of Anatomy Fall semester, expected fall 2020. 4 credits and Physiology for biology majors. This Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 or course will examine the structure and instructor permission. f­ unction of the human body through i­nvestigation of the major organ systems. BIOL2123 Genetics General physiological principles, especially This course covers Mendelian and molecular mechanisms of homeostasis and structure- genetics. Students examine the principles function relationships, will be emphasized of gene segregation analysis, gene for each system. The interactions among mapping, chromosome structure, organ systems within a total body transcription, translation and regulation physiologic framework will be studied of gene expression. Particular attention with particular emphasis being placed is paid to the role of genetics in our on homeostatic ­imbalances and disease world, human and bacterial genetics. states. This semester the topics covered Genetically modified organisms, genome include tissues: histology, integumentary analysis, pharmacogenomics and their system, skeletal system, ­muscular system, social implications are analyzed through nervous system and ­special senses. discussions and scientific readings. Students interested in a career in the health Ethical issues, such as risks for genetic professions are particularly encouraged to discrimination, genetic testing and personal take both semesters. Three hours ­lecture, genomics, are discussed. Problem solving three hours laboratory. is also emphasized. Three hours lecture Fall semester. 4 credits and one-hour recitation will be dedicated to Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 problem-­solving skills. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits $85 lab fee Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106, CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or CHEM1103, or BIOL2137 Anatomy and Physiology II permission of instructor This course is the second semester of Anatomy and Physiology for biology majors. BIOL2131 Biochemistry This will examine the structure Biochemistry is an intermediate level course and function of the human body through and, as such, functions to provide a basic investigation of the major organ systems. understanding of the structure and function General physiological principles, especially of the living cell at the level of i­ndividual mechanisms of homeostasis and structure- molecular types. Students are expected function relationships, will be emphasized to master the chemical structures of the for each system. The interactions among major groups of biomolecules ­(proteins, organ systems within a total body carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids) physiologic framework will be studied and to understand the biochemical basis with particular emphasis being placed of cellular metabolism. Contemporary on homeostatic imbalances and disease approaches to biochemical research are states. This semester of the two-semester i­ntegrated into classroom. Three hours sequence covers the endocrine system, lecture. circulatory system, ­respiratory system, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits digestive system, ­metabolism and nutrition, Prerequisites: BIOL1105 or its equivalent, urinary system and reproductive system. CHEM2101, or permission of instructor Three hours l­ecture, three hours laboratory. Spring semester. 4 credits Emmanuel College

Biology 163 Prerequisites: BIOL1105, BIOL1106 and (but are not limited to): microscopy (and Course Descriptions for BIOL2135 or permission of instructor state-of-the-art imaging methods), Arts and Sciences $85 lab fee PCR, chromatography/electrop­ horesis, recombinant DNA methods, and other BIOL2151 Marine Microbiology cellular t­ echniques. Students will be capable The world’s ocean environment contains of ­conducting laboratory investigations, enormous biological diversity. The vast accurately recording observations and majority of that diversity is microbial (both critically analyzing experimental results. procaryotic and eucaryotic) and remains Students should be able to organize raw poorly described. This course will examine data into a final scientific report. This course the biology of the microbiota found in the is required for all biology majors. marine environment. Students will examine Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits what is known about marine bacteria, Prerequisites: BIOL2123 and CHEM2101 archaea, and single cell eucaryotic cells. $85 lab fee What microorganisms are present near the coastline, in the open ocean, at coral reefs, BIOL3101 Analysis of Development and at deep-sea hydrothermal vents? What The processes of development: structural or physiological adaptations allow gametogenesis, fertilization, morphogenesis, them to succeed? How do these organisms differentiation, metamorphosis and affect the global marine environment? What regeneration are examined. Emphasis is the potential for the discovery of new is on vertebrate development, with bioactive and antimicrobial compounds? consideration of invertebrates and plants The laboratory component of this course when appropriate. Laboratory includes will be conducted in the field. Students will observation of developmental events travel to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (or coupled with experimental analysis of other relevant marine ecosystem); survey underlying mechanisms. Three hours the indigenous microbial fauna with the aim l­ecture, three hours laboratory. of discovering new organisms and searching Spring semester, alternate years, expected for novel bioactive compounds of microbial spring 2020. 4 credits origin. Prerequisite: BIOL2135 or permission Spring semester, alternate years, expected of instructor spring 2020. 4 credits $85 lab fee Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 BIOL3103 Cell Biology BIOL2301 Experimental Biology This course includes a detailed examination Laboratory of the structure and function of living This laboratory-based course will meet for s­ ystems at the cellular level. Particular six hours each week with the aim of training ­attention is paid to the relationship between science students in the practice of science. the fine structure of the cell and cellular Students will be trained in core biochemical, mechanisms such as transport, movement, genetic, molecular, and cellular techniques secretion and reproduction. Selected cellular while engaged in open-ended projects. Upon systems such as neurons and muscle cells completion of this course, student-scientists are examined in detail to illustrate specific will be able to culture ­bacteria and yeast phenomena. The laboratory component of cells, and employ these cultured organisms the course is designed to provide hands-on in biochemical and molecular experiments. experience investigating concepts discussed Core techniques to be covered include in the lecture and learning important 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

164 Biology Course Descriptions for ­experimental techniques. Students work Prerequisite: BIOL2131 or its equivalent or Arts and Sciences together as groups of three to four students CHEM2111 each. Some of the labs are done in the traditional mode of demonstration and BIOL3125 Molecular Biology observation while others are investigative. Molecular biology is a discipline at the Three weeks are set aside for the ­center of current advances in medicine, collaborative s­ tudent groups to design and genetics, immunology, development and implement investigations of membrane agriculture. The course entails a rigorous transport in red blood cells from several and detailed exploration of various biological different species. Three hours lecture, three mechanisms, beginning with an examination hours laboratory. of DNA replication, RNA trans­cription, and Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall protein synthesis, followed by analysis of 2020. 4 credits gene regulation, signal transduction, the role Prerequisite: BIOL2301 or its equivalent of mutations, RNAi, and the field of genetic $85 lab fee engineering. Fall semester. 4 credits BIOL3105 Endocrinology Prerequisite: BIOL2131 or permission of The structure and function of the endocrine instructor or CHEM2111 system is examined, with special emphasis on endocrine gland anatomy and physiol­ BIOL3127 Microbiology ogy as well as the mechanisms of hormone Focusing primarily on medical aspects of action. Developmental, comparative, microbiology, with particular attention to behavioral and clinical aspects of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, the course endocrinology are considered. covers fundamental structure, physiology, Fall semester, alternate years, expected and metabolism of microorganisms, as fall 2021. 4 credits well as recent concepts in bacterial, viral Prerequisite: BIOL2131 concurrent or genetics and antimicrobial agents. Microbial permission of instructor or CHEM2111 disease and immune defenses are also addressed. Laboratories follow lecture BIOL3119 Immunology material. Three hours lecture, three hours The course covers the current advances laboratory. and classical foundations of immunology. Spring semester. 4 credits It includes: innate and adaptive immunity; Prerequisites: BIOL1105 and BIOL1106 the anatomic, cellular and molecular basis or their equivalent, BIOL2301 or permission of of the immune response; clonal selection; instructor immunoglobulin structure and specificity; $85 lab fee antibody-antigen interactions, key signaling pathways of T cells and B cells; cytokines; BIOL3132 Advanced Topics in ­Biochemistry apoptosis in the immune system, classic (Cross-referenced with CHEM3132) and novel pathways of antigen processing This is a laboratory-based course in which and presentation; allergy and other forms the student will learn modern biochemical of hypersensitivity; tolerance, autoimmune techniques such as protein expression, diseases and immune deficiency, including ­protein purification, and enzyme assay. HIV. Emphasis will be on developing independent Spring semester, alternate years, expected laboratory skills. This is a Colleges of the spring 2020. 4 credits Fenway course given at one of the member institutions. Six hours laboratory. Emmanuel College

Biology 165 Spring semester. 4 credits non-healthy populations. The laboratory Course Descriptions for Prerequisite: BIOL2131 or CHEM2111 component will follow the American College Arts and Sciences (Cross-referenced with CHEM3132) of Sports Medicine’s guidelines for exercise $85 lab fee testing and will utilize a variety of exercise equipment to apply physiologic concepts to BIOL3135 Cancer Biology exercise testing, prescription, and training. Cancer is an ancient disease that was first Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall described by the great Egyptian physician 2019. Imhotep in a papyrus dating back to 2500 Prerequisite: BIOL2135 and BIOL2137 B.C. Regarding treatment, Imhotep states, $85 lab fee “There is none.” Although a great deal of progress has been made in the last BIOL4178-4179 Directed Study 4,500 years in terms of cancer prevention, Conducted one-on-one with an individual detection, and treatment, there is still no member of the biology faculty, this course cure for cancer. This course will undertake is an in-depth study of an important topic a rigorous investigation into cancer, first chosen mutually by student and instructor. and foremost as a cellular disease, and later Directed Study is an elective in addition to, branching out to understand the systemic not as a replacement for, the required six effects. This course will require students biology electives. to draw on knowledge learned during their Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits studies within the biology major, including By faculty invitation only. genetics, cell, physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, immunology, and molecular BIOL4194/BIOL4195 Research Internships biology. Through the use of primary research in the Natural Sciences I and II and review articles, we will explore both what Qualified students interested in careers is known and what remains to be learned. in research or the health professions may The course will focus on the cellular and undertake senior year research projects molecular underpinnings of cancer, but the on campus under the supervision of clinical perspective will also be considered Emmanuel science faculty from Biology, through readings and a guest lecture. Chemistry, or Physics, or at off-campus Spring semester, alternate years, expected institutions such as Brigham and Women’s spring 2021. 4 credits Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel Prerequisite: BIOL2131; (BIOL3103 or BIOL3125 Deaconess Medical Center, Dana-Farber recommended) Cancer Institute, and the New England Aquarium. With their research supervisor, BIOL3151  Exercise Physiology students plan and carry out projects that This course will introduce students to the reflect their interests and goals. A proposal principles of exercise physiology, testing for the internship must be submitted by and prescription. Students will examine the September 1 for committee review. The physiological and adaptive responses of the proposal describes the project, the name human body to acute and chronic exercise and commitment from the onsite supervisor, stress and will investigate how exercise and the expectations and significance of affects major organ systems, including the the internship. Students spend a minimum cardiovascular, nervous, musculoskeletal of 15 hours per week at the internship and respiratory systems. Clinical aspects site. Students meet weekly with a faculty of exercise will be a major focus and the coordinator and are evaluated by the site effects of exercise stress will be considered supervisor and faculty coordinator. An across the spectrum of healthy and 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

166 Biology undergraduate thesis and presentations, an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, including a defense, are required. BIOL4194 chemistry or mathematics major. and BIOL4195 together represent a two- Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits semester course. Students are not permitted Prerequisites: INT 1001, junior or senior status, to register for only one semester. BIOL4194 and permission of the department. may count as a 3000-level biology elective with laboratory. BIOL4195 does not count as one of the eleven biology courses, but both BIOL4194 and BIOL4195 are required for distinction in the field of biology in addition to a 3.5 grade point average in biology. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits each Prerequisites: INT1001, senior status, 3.0 grade point average, and permission of department Course Descriptions for INT3211 Experiential Internship in the Arts and Sciences Natural Sciences/Mathematics Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and mathematics majors may apply to do an internship in a research or non-research setting. The internship site and project must be appropriate for the disciplines above and it is the student’s responsibility to obtain an internship. The options for sites could include venues that would allow for career exploration. A complete proposal form for the internship must be submitted to the faculty teaching the course and to the Career Center by the first day of class. The proposal must describe the project, the name and commitment from the onsite supervisor and the expectations and significance of the internship. The proposal must be approved by the student’s academic advisor and signed by the site supervisor. Students meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week at the internship site. Students meet weekly with a faculty coordinator and are evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio and formal presentation are required. This one-semester internship course counts as an Emmanuel College elective, but not as Emmanuel College

Chemistry 167 CHEMISTRY electrochemistry and kinetics. This course Course Descriptions for will replace CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 Arts and Sciences CHEM1101 Principles of Chemistry (SI-L) sequence in the chemistry major or minor This course considers basic measurement in for qualified students. Three hours lecture, chemistry, description of matter, the mole, three hours laboratory. stoichiometry, quantitative information Fall semester. 4 credits from balanced chemical equations, solution Prerequisite: MATH1101 and departmental chemistry, atomic structure, bonding and examination molecular shape. The laboratory sessions $85 lab fee focus on development of laboratory technique. The calculations and problems­ CHEM1104 Chemistry of Everyday a­ ssociated with these topics require a Life (SI-L) basic mathematical background. Three This survey course is designed primarily hours l­ecture, three hours laboratory. The for non-majors who are interested in the laboratory sessions focus on reinforcing chemistry involved in everyday life. This lecture topics and development of laboratory course takes a tour of the home, covering techniques The laboratory sessions focus on a wide range of topics, including the reinforcing lecture topic and development of c­ hemistry of cooking, cosmetics, cleaners, laboratory technique. the chemical basis of photography and radon Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits in the basement. The amount of Prerequisite: MATH1101 time spent in any one room in the home $85 lab fee is based on class interest. Laboratories include experiments and demonstrations to CHEM1102 Principles of Chemistry II (SI-L) elucidate topics discussed in lecture. Three This course is a continuation of CHEM1101 hours lecture, two hours laboratory. and considers the states of matter, Fall semester, alternate years, expected colligative properties, fundamental aspects fall 2020. 4 credits of acid-base chemistry, basic principles of $85 lab fee equilibrium, kinetics and selected aspects of thermo­dynamics. The laboratory sessions CHEM1105 Prescription and focus on quantitative behavior related to Non-Prescription Drugs (SI-L) acids/bases, exploring equilibrium, heat This course offers the student a basic content and properties of s­ olutions. Three ­understanding of common prescription and hours lecture, three hours laboratory. The over-the-counter drugs, their uses, misuses, laboratory sessions focus on reinforcing interaction, side effects and lecture topic and development of laboratory contraindications. The course presents the technique. student with methods to evaluate current Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits drugs as well as new products as they come Prerequisites: MATH1101, CHEM1101 on the market. Laboratories include $85 lab fee experiments and demonstrations to elucidate topics discussed in lecture. Three CHEM1103 Chemical Perspectives (SI-L) hours lecture, two hours laboratory. This one-semester advanced course is Fall semester, alternate years, expected designed to further develop the funda­ fall 2019. 4 credits mental topics in chemistry; such as $85 lab fee stoichio­ metry, atomic and molecular structure thermochemistry, equilibrium, 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

168 Chemistry Course Descriptions for CHEM1107 Forensic Chemistry (SI) will cover concepts in atomic and molecular Arts and Sciences Forensic chemistry is a unique and structure, chemical bonding, challenging application of science to the stoichiometry, nuclear chemistry, gases, law. This course will introduce the students solutions, and acid base chemistry. The to the application of science to criminal and second half of the course will address civil law, including an overview of forensic the nomenclature and structure of organic chemistry, analysis of trace evidence, and biological molecules and their roles in forensic t­ oxicology and drug analysis, DNA health related systems. profiling and other sub-d­ isciplines. Special Spring semester. 4 credits emphasis will be placed on the techniques of sampling a crime scene and the use CHEM1110 Introduction to Physical of physical evidence to help solve cases. Sciences (SI-L) Students will (Cross listed with PHYS1110) learn how to unlock the mystery of crimes This course is an introduction to physical through application of modern techniques. science. Students will learn how to Three hours lecture. apply scientific concepts to create and Spring semester. 4 credits understand scientific explanations of physical phenomena. Topics covered will CHEM1108 Chemistry and Art (SI-L) include: motion, energy, heat, light, basic This course is designed to introduce non-­ electricity, physical and chemical changes. science majors to the relationship of This course is required for those planning on chemistry and art. After laying a foundation teaching at the elementary school level. This based on introductory topics (atomic course is taught in a workshop format which structure, light and color), this course will integrates lecture and laboratory so that focus on the chemistry of photography, students will develop their understanding painting and pigments. The topics of art through hands-on experiments. Equivalent conservation and methods of detection of three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. of art f­ orgeries will also be introduced. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Guest l­ecturers will be invited and trips to $85 lab fee the local art museums will be encouraged. The laboratories include experiments CHEM1117 Forensic Chemistry (SI-L) and demonstrations to elucidate topics Forensic chemistry is a unique and discussed in lecture. Three hours lecture, challenging application of science to the two hours laboratory. law. This course will introduce the students Spring semester, alternate years, expected to the application of science to criminal and spring 2021. 4 credits civil law, including an overview of forensic $85 lab fee chemistry, analysis of trace evidence, forensic toxicology and drug analysis, CHEM1109 Chemistry for Health DNA profiling and other sub-disciplines. Professionals Special emphasis will be placed on the This is an introductory course, which is techniques of sampling a crime scene and designed for students pursuing a Bachelor of the use of physical evidence to help solve Science in Nursing. This course cases. Students will learn how to unlock the will highlight the fundamental general, mystery of crimes through application of organic, and biological chemistry principles modern techniques. Three hours lecture, two as they apply to the understanding of the hours laboratory. health sciences. The first part of the course Spring semester. 4 credits $85 lab fee Emmanuel College

Chemistry 169 CHEM1125 Prescription and Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits Course Descriptions for Non-Prescription Drugs (SI) Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102 or Arts and Sciences This is the same course as CHEM1105, CHEM1103, and CHEM2101 but without the laboratory component. $85 lab fee This course offers the student a basic understanding of common prescription CHEM2104 Analytical Chemistry and over-the-counter drugs, their uses, In this course the principles and techniques misuses, interaction, side effects and of various chemical and instrumental contraindications. The course presents the ­methods of qualitative and quantitative student with methods to evaluate current analysis are discussed and applied. Topics drugs as well as new products as they come include gravimetric, titrimetric, electro­ on the market. Three hours lecture. chemical and spectrochemical analysis, Fall semester, alternate years, expected as well as basic analytical methodology fall 2019. 4 credits including statistical analysis of data and testing for bias. Laboratories include the CHEM2101 Organic Chemistry I application of these methods and the This course considers the structure, analysis of environmental, biological, bonding and reactivity of the following pharmaceutical and food samples. Three classes of carbon compounds: alkanes hours lecture, four hours ­laboratory. and alkyl halides. Particular attention will Spring semester. 4 credits be paid to stereochemistry, isomerism Prerequisites: CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or and the mechanisms of organic reactions. CHEM1103 The laboratory sessions focus on common $85 lab fee organic techniques used to analyze reaction progress and for purification of compounds. CHEM2111 Biochemistry Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Biochemistry lays the foundation for a full Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits understanding of the biological chemistry Prerequisites: CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or of the living cell. Students will study the CHEM1103 structure of the biological molecules that $85 lab fee make up living things and the physical and chemical properties that make them suited CHEM2102 Organic Chemistry II to their particular functions. Emphasis This course is a continuation of CHEM2101 will be placed on the relationship between and considers the structure, bonding and the structure of a molecule and the role it reactivity of the following classes of carbon plays in the overall economy of the cell. The compounds: alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, laboratory sessions will focus on mastering ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, basic biochemical techniques. Three hours carboxylic acid derivatives and aromatic lecture, three hours laboratory. compounds. Particular attention will be paid Spring semester, alternate years, expected to multi-step synthesis of target molecules spring 2021. 4 credits from readily available starting materials. The Prerequisites: BIOL1105 laboratory sessions focus on the synt­ hesis, $85 lab fee purification (utilizing techniques learned in the first semester) and identification of CHEM2114 Chemistry of Fire and organic compounds using spectrometric Explosives techniques. Three hours lecture, three hours Fire and explosives, in their relation to laboratory. combustion, fire-fighting, military, and 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

170 Chemistry Course Descriptions for forensics, all depend on the principles of ideal and real gases, thermochemistry, Arts and Sciences chemistry and physics. This course will physical transformations of pure substances provide students a basic introduction to and simple ­mixtures, phase stability and these principles, including thermodynamics, transitions, chemical equilibrium, acid- kinetics, equilibrium, organic and inorganic base equilibria, solutions of electrolytes structure, reactivity, and nuclear chemistry. and ­electrochemical cells. The laboratory With this students will have a foundation involves practical experiments based on of scientific information and will have selected ­lecture topics as well as computer experience relating science to society and modeling projects. Three hours lecture, three media. Additional emphasis will be placed on hours laboratory. case studies, fire and explosives in the news, Fall semester. 4 credits and forensic investigation. Demonstrations Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102, will provide students with important or CHEM1103, PHYS2201, PHYS2202, visualization of these applications. (MATH1111, MATH1112) Spring semester, alternate years, expected Recommended: MATH2103 spring 2021. 4 credits $80 lab fee Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102 or CHEM1103 CHEM3106 Physical Chemistry II: Quantum Mechanics CHEM2115 Inorganic Chemistry This course is the second of the two- This course covers basic concepts of atomic semester physical chemistry sequence. It structure, stereochemical principles and introduces students to the principles of bonding models applied to main group quantum mechanics. The Schrödinger and transition metal and compounds and equation is used to solve a series of to the structure of solids. It considers an important chemical ­problems including the introduction to bonding theories an reaction harmonic oscillator, the rigid rotor and the mechanisms of d-block complexes as well hydrogen atom. The valence-bond and as the fundamental knowledge of the role molecular orbital ­theories of chemical of mental complexes in living organisms. bonding are ­discussed, and ­methods for Basic principles of inorganic coordination performing quantum chemical calculations, chemistry will be discussed and correlated including variational and ­perturbation to important application in organic methods, are introduced. The quantum synthesis, medicine, and industrial biological mechanics of spin and angular momentum catalysis. are discussed and used to interpret Spring semester, alternate years, expected magnetic resonance spectra. The laboratory spring 2020. 4 credits involves practical experiments based on Prerequisite: CHEM1101, CHEM1102 or selected lecture topics as well as computer CHEM1103 modeling projects. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. CHEM3105 Physical Chemistry I: Spring semester. 4 credits Thermodynamics Prerequisites: CHEM1101, CHEM1102, This course is the first of the two-semester or CHEM1103; PHYS2201and PHYS2202, physical chemistry sequence. It covers (MATH111, MATH 1112) the laws of thermodynamics and their Recommended: MATH2103. CHEM3105 application to chemical and selected $80 lab fee biological ­systems. Topics considered include the ­kinetic-molecular theory of Emmanuel College

Chemistry 171 CHEM3108 Instrumental Methods result to the class. The computer exercises Course Descriptions for of Analysis and research project are expected to be Arts and Sciences This is a one-semester upper-level course student’s individual work: data collection in chemistry. The fundamental principles of and interpretation are to be completed analytical instrumentation will be described. independently. This course is intended for Practical, real-world applications of these advanced students who major in science or techniques will be explored in the laboratory. math and who plan to apply to graduate or Topics will include electronics, optical professional programs. One hour lecture, spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, two hours computer exercises. Fourier transforms, NMR spectroscopy, Fall semester, alternate years, expected mass spectrometry, chromatographic fall 2020. 4 credits ­methods and electroanalytical methods. Prerequisites: CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. CHEM1103, one 2000-level chemistry course, Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall and MATH1111 or by permission of instructor. 2018. 4 credits Prerequisites: CHEM2101 and CHEM2104 CHEM3123  Advanced Chemical S­ ynthesis $80 lab fee In this laboratory-based course, students will learn laboratory techniques common in CHEM3115 Introduction to Toxicology the academic research laboratory. Students Toxicology is the study of the adverse will prepare, purify and characterize a effects of chemicals on living organisms. v­ ariety of organic and inorganic compounds. In this course, we will study the symptoms, The course concludes with each s­ tudent mechanisms, treatments, and detection of using the techniques learned to synthesize selected human poisons. Students will be an organic compound independently after introduced to the concepts of dose-response performing an exhaustive literature search. r­ elationships, toxicity of metabolites, and One hour lecture, four hours laboratory. chemical toxicology. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. 2021. 4 credits Spring semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisite: CHEM2102 or permission spring 2020. of instructor Prerequisite: CHEM2102 or permission $80 lab fee of instructor Highly recommended: CHEM2111 or BIOL2131 CHEM3160 Seminar in Chemistry This course is designed to develop student CHEM3121 Introduction to strength in basic research competence, Molecular Modeling scientific writing and communication, The course is devoted to practical and professionalism in science. This will implementations of readily available be achieved through discussions on the software designed for s­ pecific aspects design of a research strategy, research of molecular modeling. Lectures are ethics, scientific literature, scientific intended to provide the background writing strategies, and careers in science. needed to understand the how and why The course will serve to engage students’ of computational techniques that will be curiosity and creativity in advanced applied. Computer exercises represent topics in the field of chemistry, build upon the major portion of this course. Each analytical and critical thinking skills, student will be also asked to formulate develop communication and writing skills a small research project and p­ resent the in the scientific discipline, and highlight 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

172 Economics professional development in the field. internship in a research or non-research This course provides students with an setting. The internship site and project must opportunity to explore career paths and will be appropriate for the disciplines above and lead them towards the required internship, it is the student’s responsibility to obtain either research or experiential, which is the an internship. The options for sites could capstone experience for the major. include venues that would allow for career Spring semester. 4 credits exploration. A complete proposal form for Prerequisite: Successful completion of the internship must be submitted to the at least four upper-level chemistry courses faculty teaching the course and to the Career Recommended: CHEM3116 Center by the first day of class. The proposal must describe the project, the name and CHEM4178 Directed Study commitment from the onsite supervisor and Students investigate topics in chemistry not the expectations and significance of the covered in existing courses. internship. The proposal must be approved Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits by the student’s academic advisor and Prerequisite: Open to qualified students with signed by the site supervisor. Students department approval meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week at the internship site. Students meet CHEM4194 Internship in Chemistry weekly with a faculty coordinator and are In this capstone course, students in their evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty final year of study will gain practical coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio experience in the application of chemistry and formal presentation are required. This coursework in an internship. The internship one-semester internship course counts as is intended to provide real world experience an Emmanuel College elective, but not as in a workplace which is related to chemistry. an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, Students will also develop their career chemistry or mathematics major. advancement skills by attending networking events, researching career and post Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits graduate educational opportunities, working on their resumes and curriculum vitae, as Prerequisites: INT 1001, junior or senior status, well as writing cover letters and essays for job and graduate school applications. The and permission of the department. activities in the course are intended to help Course Descriptions for the student connect chemistry content to a Arts and Sciences real-world experience and to help refine and achieve their career and educational goals after graduation from Emmanuel College. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: CHEM 3160 and permission of department Recommended: CHEM3116 INT3211 Experiential Internship in the Natural Sciences/Mathematics Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and mathematics majors may apply to do an Emmanuel College

Economics 173 ECONOMICS ECON2101 History of Economic Thought Course Descriptions for This course revolves around key ongoing Arts and Sciences ECON1101 Principles of Microeconomics debates in economic theory over the nature (SA) of economic growth, the ideal economic Microeconomics focuses on how individual s­ ystem, and the role of government in the markets work. The emphasis is on how economy. The historical, political, and c­ onsumers make choices and how philosophical context of the evolution of privately owned businesses produce economics is examined. As a survey of goods, set wages and earn profits. It also economic thought, the course also provides addresses policies designed to overcome an overview of the entire body of economic market failure, including antitrust law, theory, from the inception of economics to taxation, environmental regulation, and current techniques and ideas. the redistribution of income. Tools of Fall semester. 4 credits analysis include supply and demand, Prerequisites: ECON1101 profit maximization in competitive and monopolistic markets, and the trade off ECON2113 The Politics of International between incentives and equity in policy Economic Relations design. Microeconomic theory is applied This course will explore the inter-relation­ to a variety of markets, such as energy, ships of economics and politics in the software, pharmaceuticals, housing and international arenas. Students will study the labor markets. interdependence of economies, questions Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits of economic development, the power of multinational corporations, international ECON1103 Principles of Macroeconomics trade and trade agreements, oligopolies, oil, (SA) environment and the arms trade. Macroeconomics studies the well-being of Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits societies by focusing on unemployment, Prerequisite: Either one economics or ­economic growth, inflation, poverty, income one political science course inequality, and globalization. There is a (Cross-referenced with POLSC2409) multitude of contributing factors, including the actions of governments, individuals, ECON2203 An Economic View of the World and firms. Specifically, the Federal Reserve, (SA) tax and trade policies, financial systems, This seminar course will use the tools and values and beliefs all contribute to the perspective of economics to consider current well-being of a society in complex ways. global issues. Each week we’ll consider the Macroe­ conomics provides a theoretical hot topics and controversies of the day in framework for understanding these real time, including economic growth and interactions, causes and their effects, development, market bubbles and crashes, and informing difficult policy decisions. patterns of consumption and income, Furthermore, macroeconomics enables political relationships and international individuals and firms to understand the networks of production, consumption and economic environment that affects them trade. We will focus on the requirement of both personally and professionally. individuals and societies to make tradeoffs Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits to achieve their goals, and on the ethical and social justice implications of these tradeoffs. curiosity about the world and what happens in it each week. Students will develop an 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

174 Economics Course Descriptions for understanding of the economic way of help explain and predict a wide variety of Arts and Sciences thinking, a familiarity with world events, and economic (and sometimes, seemingly non- the skills to research and communicate in economic) phenomena. Topics include their areas of interest. supply and demand interaction, utility Fall semester. 4 credits maximization, profit maximization, elasticity, perfect competition, monopoly power, ECON2205 Urban Economics imperfect competition, and game theory. Three-quarters of the U.S. population and Spring semester. 4 credits approximately half of the world’s population Prerequisite: ECON 1101 live in cities. If economics is the study of how individuals and societies choose to use ECON2303 Intermediate Macroeconomics scarce resources, then this course is the This course uses economic analysis to study of one scarce resource in particular: e­ xamine selected issues in health care. The space. We will focus on the economics of course includes an examination of current cities and urban areas. We will ask questions and proposed private and government such as: Why do cities exist? Why do some health programs in terms of access, equity, cities/areas of metropolitan areas grow and ­efficiency and their potential impact more rapidly than others? How do firms and on the structure of health care delivery in households decide where to locate within the United States. In addition, the federal cities? What determines the price of land health budget, cost-benefit analysis, and and how this varies across space? What are an overview of management techniques the spatial dimensions of local government for health institution administration are policy and the relationship between the city, discussed. suburban and state governments? How do Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall these factors influence urban problems such 2020. 4 credits as housing, poverty, crime and economic Prerequisite: ECON1101 development? A secondary theme of this course will be to consider the particular ECON3103 The International Economy economy of Boston as our urban home. This course will analyze the workings of the Spring semester, alternate years, expected international economy and the economic spring 2021. 4 credits interdependencies between nations using Prerequisite: ECON1101 current theoretical models. Four major topics are covered: international trade ECON2301 Intermediate Microeconomics agreements, the international financial This course is designed to extend the system, multinational corporations, knowledge of the basic microeconomic the relationship between rich and poor principles that will provide the foundation countries and the prospects for economic for the future work in economics and give development. insight into how economic models can Fall semester, alternate years, expected help us think about important real world fall 2020. 4 credits phenomena. This course will show how Prerequisites: ECON1101 and ECON1103 market mechanisms solve extremely complex resource allocation problems. It ECON3105 Money and Financial Markets presents a logical and coherent framework What is money? How does the stock market in which to organize observed economic work? How do financial markets impact phenomena. Several economic “models” the economy? This course will analyze the are developed and analyzed in order to role of financial markets and institutions in Emmanuel College

Economics 175 the world economy, with special emphasis ECON3496: Economics Internship (cross- on the U.S. economy, and an in-depth look listed with MGMT3496 and ACCT3296) at the banking industry, the bond market, The Economics internship involves markets in stocks, foreign currencies, experiential learning in a for-profit, not-for- financial futures and derivatives. The course profit firm or government agency related to explores the impacts of financial activity the student’s prospective career. The course on real economic activity and considers requires that students apply theoretical the effects of government policies and knowledge to a practical setting, and regulations on financial markets. provides them with the opportunity to gain Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall experience in their chosen career and make 2019. 4 credits a contribution to the organization in which Prerequisite: ECON1103 they complete their internship. In addition to working at their internship site, students ECON3113 Economics of Health Care attend weekly seminar or individual sessions This course uses economic analysis to that will deal with theoretical, practical and e­ xamine selected issues in health care. The ethical aspects of work. Together with the course includes an examination of current internship supervisor, a project is defined and proposed private and government for the student that will add value to the health programs in terms of access, equity, organization and that will help the student and ­efficiency and their potential impact build expertise and confidence in an area of on the structure of health care delivery in mutual interest. The student completes the the United States. In addition, the federal project as part of the internship. health budget, cost-benefit analysis, and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits an overview of management techniques Prerequisites: Completion of INT1001, two for health institution administration are of the Economics electives for the major, at discussed. least one of which is a 3000-level course, and Spring semester, alternate years, expected permission of the instructor. This course is spring 2021. 4 credits limited to Economics Majors. Prerequisite: ECON1101 ECON4178-4179 Directed Study ECON3115 Economics and the Environment This course is limited to seniors. This course examines the environmental Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits impact of economic activity and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor effectiveness of environmental policy. Topics include: the depletion of minerals Course Descriptions for and oil, management of renewable Arts and Sciences resources such as water and forests; the conservation of biodiversity; mitigation of global climate change; and the regulation of pollution. Environmental policies are assessed in terms of costs, benefits, ease of implementation and the prospects for encouraging sustainable development. Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2020. 4 credits Prerequisite: ECON1101 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

176 Education ECON 4201 Economics Senior Seminar EDUCATION Topics in major areas of economics will be discussed. This course fulfills the EDUC1111 The Great American ­Experiment capstone requirement in economics by (SA) requiring students to apply their analytical, This course is a comprehensive overview quantitative and research skills in the of the historical, philosophical and societal composition of a senior paper. Each student foundations of American education. Issues will write a senior thesis and present his/her of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and research in the seminar. learning differences are highlighted within Spring semester. 4 credits the context of the positive and negative Prerequisites: Completion of Intermediate impact the schools have on society. Microeconomics and Intermediate Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Macroeconomics; and one 3000-level Service Learning component Economics elective EDUC2211 Learning, Teaching and the Elementary Curriculum This course is designed to provide students with the background and practical skills related to the curriculum planning process for grades 1-6. Students will explore a ­variety of learning styles and instructional methods in meeting the needs of all students. Course objectives include examining the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, their development and impact on student learning, and ways to implement the frameworks in instruction and assessment. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: EDUC1111 Course Descriptions for EDUC2212 Teaching All Students, Arts and Sciences Grades 1-6 This course is a sequel to Part I. Students will apply the theories and skills developed in the first course. Through site placements in local, urban elementary schools, students will regularly observe various pedagogical practices and reflect on their observations, as well as share in small group and whole class discussions. Course objectives include implementing the Massachusetts Curricu­lum Frameworks in instruction and assessment as they relate specifically to student achievement and expected student outcomes. Spring semester. 4 credits Emmanuel College

Education 177 Pre-practicum field-based experience EDUC3211 Literacy and Literacy ­ Course Descriptions for Prerequisite: EDUC2211 Methods I Arts and Sciences This course examines current theory and EDUC2311 Learning, Teaching and the practice in the instruction of literacy for Secondary Curriculum diverse populations of students at the This course is designed to provide students elementary school level. Students will focus with the background and practical skills on the components of a strong reading related to the curriculum planning process program including phonemic awareness, for grades 5-8 and 8-12. Students will phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading explore a variety of learning styles and comprehension. Students will become instructional methods in meeting the needs familiar with research-based strategies and of all students. Course objectives include techniques for effective literacy instruction. examining the Massachusetts Curriculum Students will become knowledgeable Frameworks, their development and about the standards for literacy in the impact on student learning, and ways to Massachusetts English Language Arts implement the frameworks in instruction Framework and will become familiar and assessment. with a wide range of children’s literature, Fall semester. 4 credits instructional materials and assessments, as Prerequisite: EDUC1111 well as the processes of assessing, planning and implementing instruction to address a EDUC2312 Teaching All Students, broad range of students’ abilities and needs. Grades 5-12 Fall semester. 4 credits This course is a sequel to Part I. Students Prerequisite: EDUC2212 will apply the theories and skills developed in the first course. Through site placements EDUC3212 Literacy and Literacy ­ in local, urban middle and high schools, Methods II ­students will regularly observe various This course examines current theory and ­pedagogical practices and reflect on their practice in the instruction of literacy for observations, as well as share in small diverse populations of students at the group and whole class discussions. Course elementary school level. Students will focus objectives include implementing the on grouping strategies, differentiation Massac­ hu­setts Curriculum Frameworks in of literacy instruction, higher-order instruction and assessment as they relate thinking activities, the reading and writing specifically to student achievement and connection, writing workshop and new expected student outcomes. literacies involving technology. Students Spring semester. 4 credits will become familiar with research-based Pre-practicum field-based experience strategies and techniques for effective Prerequisite: EDUC2311 literacy instruction. Students will become knowledgeable about the standards for EDUC2401 Educational Psychology literacy in the Massachusetts English This course studies child growth and Language Arts Framework and will become adolescent development, learning familiar with a wide range of children’s theory and its application to classroom literature, instructional materials and management, and measurement theory and assessments, as well as the processes techniques. Papers emphasize integration of of assessing, planning and implementing theory and practice. instruction to address a broad range of Fall semester. 4 credits students’ abilities and needs. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

178 Education Course Descriptions for Spring semester. 4 credits approaches to classroom management in Arts and Sciences Pre-practicum field-based experience grades 5 to 8 and 8 to 12 and assist Prerequisite: EDUC3211 students in ­developing their skills in classroom management. Developing EDUC3213 Mathematics Methods for competencies in various approaches to Elementary Grades classroom management as well as questions This course will introduce students to concerning goals, curriculum, discipline, current, research-based practices in motivation and instructional methods are the instruction of mathematics at the addressed. elementary level. Through readings, Spring semester. 4 credits hands-on activities, observations, Pre-practicum field-based experience students will develop concepts, skills, Prerequisite: EDUC2312 and pedagogical procedures for teaching mathematics for understanding. Students EDUC3313 Mathematics Methods for will become knowledgeable about the Middle and High School Mathematics Common Core Standards This course will introduce students to for mathematical practice and content. In current, research-based practices in the addition, students will design and present instruction of mathematics at the middle mathematics lessons, as well as explore the and high school level. Through readings, integration of manipulatives, technology, hands-on activities and observations and other tools in mathematics teaching. students will develop concepts, skills Fall semester. 4 credits and pedagogical procedures for teaching Pre-practicum field-based experience mathematics for understanding. Students Prerequisite: EDUC2212 will become knowledgeable about the Mathematics Common Core Standards EDUC3215 Explorations in Science and for mathematical practice and content. In Engineering: Grades 1-6 addition, students will design and present The course develops the knowledge, inquiry-based lessons, as well as explore the skills and dispositions to introduce the integrations of manipulatives, technology practices and habits of mind characteristic and other tools in mathematics teachings. of scientific inquiry and the engineering This course also includes a required 30- design process into the elementary hour pre-practicum field experience. Field classroom. The course meets standards hours must be scheduled during periods of for teacher preparation articulated by the mathematics instruction. Massachusetts curriculum frameworks and Fall semester. 4 credits the National Science Education Standards. Pre-practicum field-based experience Topics include children’s ideas in science, Prerequisite: EDUC2212 the nature of children’s science learning and the implications for teaching. EDUC3314 Explorations in Science & Spring semester. 4 credits Engineering Grades 5-12 Prerequisite: EDUC2212 This course develops the knowledge, skills, Service Learning component and dispositions to introduce learners to 3 dimensions of science teaching and EDUC3311 Managing the Classroom learning, disciplinary core ideas, science and Learning Environment engineering practices, and cross-cutting This course will be a study of different concepts. By developing an understanding Emmanuel College

Education 179 of the 3 dimensions, pre-service teachers a foreign language, writing communicative Course Descriptions for will practice designing learning experiences lesson plans, reflecting on different Arts and Sciences that allow students in grades K-12 to think, classroom environments, teaching a mini act, and communicate like scientists. lesson, creating a unit plan for diverse These learning experiences will be driven language learners, and strategies for by scientific phenomena and solving teaching a foreign culture. A 30 hour real-world problems. Through interactive prepracticum is required as part of this discussions and activities, they will develop course. Students will become familiar with their understanding of Disciplinary Literacy both Massachusetts State Standards for in Science. The course meets standards Language Teachers along with the American for teacher preparation articulated by the Council on the Teaching of a Foreign Massachusetts curriculum frameworks Language (ACTFL) standards. and the National Science Education Fall semester. 4 credits Standards. Topics include phenomena Pre-practicum field-based experience driven instruction, science and engineering Prerequisite: EDUC2312 practices, science notebooks, and formative assessment in the science classroom. EDUC3318 English Language Arts Fall semester. 4 credits Instructional Methods Grades 6-12 Prerequisite: EDUC 2312 This course will examine current theory and practice in the teaching of English Language EDUC3315 Social Studies and History Arts. The course includes “best practices,” Methods: Grades 3-12 content-specific goals, techniques and This course will examine current theory and strategies that promote higher-order practice in the teaching of social studies/ thinking, and the design and management history at the intermediate elementary of inquiry-based learning experiences. It will through high school levels, presenting “best address the teaching and learning of written practices” that include interdisciplinary and oral expressions, reading, literature, planning and instruction, content specific spelling, grammar, mechanics and usage. curriculum goals, techniques and strategies Students will become familiar with the that promote higher order thinking, and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for design and management of inquiry-based English Language Arts at the middle and learning experiences. Students will become high school levels and with a wide range familiar with the standards for social of instructional resources and web-based studies/history at the elementary and high resources. school levels in the Massachusetts History/ Fall semester. 4 credits Social Studies Frameworks, and with a range Pre-practicum field-based experience of instructional materials and web-based Prerequisite: EDUC2312 resources. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits EDUC3467 Education Diverse Students(SA) Pre-practicum field-based experience This course is designed to develop leaders Prerequisite: EDUC2212 or EDUC2312 who are equipped to address challenges to educational equity that are rooted in U.S. EDUC3317 Spanish Language Instructional history and prevalent in the contemporary Methods Grades 5-12 field of education. The course will use case The course will cover different theories of studies to examine and respond to these language acquisition, methods of teaching issues of unequal access with attention to 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

180 Education the historical and contemporary causes. EDUC4490 Moderate Disabilities Internship Upon completion of the course, students will A 150-hour practicum experience in an be able to analyze and address these issues inclusion, resource, or self-contained on the macro and micro levels and use classroom under the supervision of a an array of resources to inform particular licensed teacher of special education and challenges of educational practice. The college supervisor, for students enrolled in final assignment will be a capstone project EDUC4491 who are seeking licensure as a in which students will identify an issue and Teacher of Moderate Disabilities. create an initiative to achieve equity. Spring semester. 4 credits Spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: EDUC4467 and EDUC4468 EDUC4300 Sheltered English Instruction: EDUC4491 Teaching Students with Teaching English Language Learners Disabilities for General Education The purpose of this course is to prepare Professionals the Commonwealth’s teachers with the This course examines the theoretical and knowledge and skills to effectively shelter practical issues that teachers must address their content instruction, so that the growing as they implement effective inclusion population of English language learners of c­ hildren with disabilities in general (ELLs) can access curriculum, achieve education classrooms. Class participants academic success and contribute their will become familiar with the role of the multilingual and multicultural resources general education teacher in special as participants and future leaders in the education. Topics to be studied include: the 21st-century global economy. legal foundations of inclusion; disability Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits categories and the IEP eligibility process; Prerequisite: EDUC1111 appropriate strategies for supporting the academic, behavioral, and social aspects EDUC4467 Student Teaching Practicum of inclusive teaching; and strategies for Supervised student teaching in elementary positive collaborative interactions with or secondary classes provides the other professionals and parents. Students opportunity for experience in all aspects pursuing licensure will complete EDUC4490 of teaching and provides students with Special Education Practicum. understanding of the culture of schools as institutions. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 8 credits Course Descriptions for Prerequisite: Senior status required and Arts and Sciences successful completion of all ­required MTELs EDUC4468 Student Teaching Capstone Seminar This seminar examines the educational issues that grow out of the daily student teaching experience in elementary and secondary classrooms. It is designed to accompany and enhance the practicum experience. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Emmanuel College

English 181 ENGLISH ENGL1502 Introduction to Communication Course Descriptions for and Media Studies (SA) Arts and Sciences ENGL1103 Introduction to Academic This survey course provides students with Writing an introductory working knowledge of ­theory This course is dedicated to providing in the field. Through the evaluation and students with the writing and research skills application of primary texts in inter­pretive, necessary for academic success. Drawing rhetorical, and critical theories of media and on a variety of texts and media, students communication, students will develop skills engage rhetorical strategies designed to in critical analysis, reading, and writing in place them firmly within the intellectual the discipline. discourse. Additionally, theme-based Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits writing assignments focus on sharpening students’ ability to organize, synthesize and ENGL2101 English Literature I (AI-L) interpret data, assess and make persuasive This course surveys English literature from arguments while practicing advanced the medieval period to the 18th century. research strategies. Through peer edit and Reading a broad range of canonical and workshop revision, students come to see non-canonical texts in both an historical writing as both process and empowerment. and cultural context, students will examine Students should expect to write a minimum the ways in which literature challenges of three or four longer (3- to 5-page) essays dominant values. Students will distinguish as well as several shorter assignments. the characteristics of different literary Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits periods, analyze specific passages and understand how those analyses participate ENGL1205 Introduction to Literary Methods in the construction of the English literary (AI-L) canon. This course challenges students to see the Fall semester. 4 credits world and themselves differently through the study of literature and methods of ENGL2102 English Literature II (AI-L) interpretation. Students will use literary This course surveys English literature across tools in this course to pose questions that the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Reading a pursue the truth about what they read, write, broad range of canonical and non-canonical and see. While the specific readings vary texts in both an historical and cultural year to year, students will study different ­context, students will examine the ways in literary modes in their historical contexts, which literature challenges dominant values. in conjunction with contemporary media Students will distinguish the characteristics (news articles, music videos, and visual of different literary periods, analyze specific images) and through the lenses of gender, passages and understand how those politics, economics, and psychology. At the analyses participate in the construction of most basic level, this course challenges the English literary canon. students to become active analysts of the Spring semester. 4 credits world around them. Students take this course to sharpen their skills as a critical ENGL2103 Literary Mirrors: thinkers, readers, and writers and to prepare Introduction to World Literature (AI-L) for greater success in and beyond their Embark on a literary journey to Africa, academic careers. Europe, Asia and Central and South Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Americas with major world authors who treat in short novels the triumphs and tragedies of 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

182 English Course Descriptions for the human condition. This course is designed 20th century, during which the agitations Arts and Sciences to foster critical thinking and to improve for Home Rule led to partition and civil war. writing skills. All readings are in English. Additional texts may include James Joyce’s Spring semester, alternate years, expected Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a spring 2021. 4 credits Young Man, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls, (Cross-referenced with LANG2103) and Lady Gregory’s Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland. ENGL2105 Contemporary Latin ­American Fall semester, alternate years, expected Fiction (AI-L) fall 2019. 4 credits Conducted in English, this literature in translation course introduces students to ENGL2303 The Modern American major contemporary authors from the Novel (AI-L) Latin American Boom to the present. Focusing on American novels since World ­Students will engage in literary analysis of War I, this course will introduce students representative prose from Argentina, Chile, to a range of literary responses to some Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. of the dramatic historical developments Reading selections will expose students and cultural changes of the modern era. to literary styles characteristic of Latin Students will study the formal and aesthetic American writers as well as to the socio­ devel­opments in the modern novel while also political reality of the Americas. e­ xamining each literary work in its historical Fall semester, alternate years, expected context. Writers studied will include both fall 2020. 4 credits well-known and lesser-known figures, and (Cross-referenced with LANG2105) the novels discussed will lend themselves to a consideration of the diversity of American ENGL2106 Irish Identities: experiences that has characterized Literature and Culture (AI-L) American modernity. This class will examine the vibrant and Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall problematic formations of Irish identities 2020. 4 credits in literature and culture, beginning in the 1600s and ending in the early years of the ENGL2304 American Voices I: 20th century. While the class will conclude U.S. Literature to 1865 (AI-L) the semester reading 20th-century literary This course examines the development works of Ireland’s “great writers” (W.B. of American literature from Columbus Yeats and James Joyce, for example), it will to Whitman. Students will consider the begin the semester reading a number of ­aesthetic characteristics of non-fiction, texts that establish the important colonial ­fiction, and poetry, as they engage with perspective of Ireland’s identity such as r­ eligious and political movements like Edmund Spenser’s A View of the State of Puritanism and slavery, interrogate themes Ireland, Jonathan Swift’s Anglo-Irish tracts, like self-reliance and individualism, and and Lady Morgan’s The Wild Irish Girl, d­ iscuss sociocultural issues such as class all of which derive from the Anglo-Irish dynamics, the treatment of indigenous perspective, which emphasizes the English p­ eoples by European settlers, and gender influence on Irish history and culture. The relations. Students consider each text within trajectory of this class attempts to capture its historical context in order to understand the persistent struggles for an Irish identity how it simultaneously responds and free from England’s influence; the class contributes to the conditions that have given ends in the anxious atmosphere of the early rise to it. Throughout the semester, students Emmanuel College

English 183 will ­identify and define the characteristics read a wide array of short stories and Course Descriptions for that constitute an American voice. analyze them in relation to aesthetic and Arts and Sciences Fall semester. 4 credits cultural issues, including race, class, and gender. Writers may include Sherwood ENGL2309 The Haves and the Have-Nots: Anderson, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, American Authors on Money, Class and Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Amy Power (AI-L) Tan, Raymond Carver and Jhumpa Lahiri. Since Puritan times, Americans have linked Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits material wealth and economic success with self-worth and identity. This course explores ENGL2325 Spirituality and the how writers have grappled with the issues Literary Imagination (AI-L) of money, class and power and traces the The recent widespread popularity of theme of consumerism throughout the bestsellers and television shows dealing American literary canon. The readings are with angels, the soul and other religious drawn from a variety of American writers topics suggests that God is anything but from the 17th through the 21st centuries dead in the 21st century. Spirituality has and may include texts by Franklin, Howells, always been a topic of great intellectual Fitzgerald and Wharton as well as lesser- interest to artists and writers, from St. known works by women, African American Augustine and Julian of Norwich to modern- and Native American authors. day writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Spring semester, alternate years, expected Thomas Merton and Kathleen Norris. This spring 2020. 4 credits course examines the ways in which Christian and non-Christian writers have grappled ENGL2321 Love and Gender in British with their faith and relationship with a higher Literature and Film (AI-L) being over the course of centuries. Readings This course focuses on representations of cover both fiction and non-fiction, with gender as they relate to love relationships a special emphasis on Catholic writers. in a variety of films and British literary Spring semester, alternate years, expected texts. The course provides an introduction spring 2021. 4 credits to gender theory as it applies to literary and media studies, with a heavy emphasis on ENGL2402 Shakespeare: Tragedies, pre-1700 British literature.  Readings may Comedies, Histories and Romances (AI-L) include the sonnet sequences of Lady Mary This course is a survey of Shakespeare’s Wroth and Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare’s plays from the four dramatic genres: Twelfth Night, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,  comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. It and Jeanette Winterson’s The Power Book. provides an in-depth study of a selection of Films may include Il Postino (Radford 1994), plays as well as a consideration of broader Soldier’s Girl (Pierson 2003), Eternal Sunshine concerns such as canonicity. How do modern of the Spotless Mind (Gondry 2004), Bridget audiences respond to Shakespeare’s plays? Jones’s Diary (Maguire 2001), and Melancholia Do they ­resonate with a 21st-century (Von Trier 2011). audience because of certain “universal” Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall truths unearthed by a 16th-century 2020. 4 credits “genius”? If so, what are those universals? Why do Shakespeare’s plays persist at the ENGL2323 Short Fiction (AI-L) core of the Western canon? What are the This course introduces students to the specific ­features of a Shakespeare comedy, intensive study of short fiction. Students tragedy, history, or romance? These are 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

184 English Course Descriptions for some of the questions we will explore as we literature and black music. This course Arts and Sciences seek to understand the plays as well as their examines a selection of Morrison’s and place in the literary canon and in our lives. Baldwin’s body of work as they address key Spring semester. 4 credits issues in African American, American, and African diasporic modern history. In other ENGL2406 The Rise of the British words, students study these writers both as Novel (AI-L) American figures and transnational figures A survey of the 18th- and 19th-century who carry global sensibilities in their work. British novel with an emphasis on its We will also examine their work as it lends to development from the cultural margins discussion of contemporary issues of social to literary preeminence, and the way that justice including the legacy of American this rise intersects issues of class, gender, slavery, mass incarceration, police brutality, and empire. Novelists may include Defoe, racial profiling, and income inequality. Richardson, Fielding, Austen, the Brontë Spring semester, alternate years, expected sisters, Eliot, Dickens and Hardy. spring 2021. 4 credits Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2020. 4 credits ENGL2413 African American Literature: A Tradition of Resistance (AI-L) ENGL2408 The Modern British Novel: This course traces the African American Empire and After (AI-L) l­iterary tradition from its origins to the This course surveys major British fiction p­ resent, focusing in particular on ways from the early 20th century to the present that African American narratives have with particular emphasis on how the novel ­challenged and changed American literary, and short story give narrative shape to political, and historical discourses. issues of class, gender, race, nationality in Readings will include folktales, fugitive slave the period of the British Empire’s decline and narratives, and political writings, as well as fall. Writers may include James Joyce, E.M. ­fiction, poetry and drama from the Harlem Forster, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Doris Renaissance to the contemporary moment. Lessing, V.S. Naipaul and Zadie Smith. Writers may include Frederick Douglass, Spring semester, alternate years, expected W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale spring 2021. 4 credits Hurston and Toni Morrison. Spring semester, alternate years, expected fall ENGL2410 African American Literary Giants 2020. 4 credits (AI-L) This course provides a comprehensive ENGL2417 Literature of the Black ­Atlantic survey of two iconic African Americans: (AI-L) Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. It This course surveys the literatures and allows students an intensive study of black c­ ultures of the Black world—including writing from the nineteenth century to the Africa, the Caribbean, and Black Britain— present, while at the same time engaging in the 20th century. Through an examination with contemporary issues facing African of representative works of prose ­fiction, American communities in the United States drama, poetry, film, and music by major and abroad. Studied themes include the figures of Black Africa and its Atlantic following: literature and politics, race in diaspora (including, for example, Chinua America, the history of slavery in America, Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and the relationship between black “dub” poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, and reggae Emmanuel College

English 185 ­musician Bob Marley), the course explores Students will read and discuss the work how Black culture and c­ onsciousness have of a broad selection of contemporary been shaped by their engagements with poets. Various exercises will be assigned to issues of race, class, nationality, and gender demonstrate the relationship between form in the successive h­ istorical contexts of and content. Students will be introduced colonialism, anti-c­ olonial resistance, and to basic figures of speech and concepts in the post-colonial, “globalized” world. poetic form (sonnet and ballad, for example), Fall semester, alternate years, expected rhyme, and meter. Students will compose fall 2019. 4 credits portfolios from daily journals and class workshops. ENGL2501 Journalism Fall semester. 4 credits Taught by a professional journalist, this Prerequisite: ENGL1103 course introduces the roles, responsibilities, and habits of print and online journalists ENGL2507 Fiction Writing in order to consider the place of journalism An overview of the craft of fiction writing and in an age of increased technology and the creative process, study will focus on story- media influence. Students receive telling structure, use of narrative and scene, practice in selected assignments typical the importance of conflict, sensory details, of contemporary journalistic writing the revelation of character through dialogue and research, such as beat reporting, and action, and the paramount importance investigative journalism and interviewing, of point-of-view to literary ­technique. with opportunities to revise their work for Students will read and discuss published possible publication short fiction, write assigned exercises and in the College’s student publications. read/hear the completed manuscripts of Fall semester. 4 credits class members. Prerequisite: ENGL1103 Fall and Spring semester. 4 credits ENGL2504 Prose Writing ENGL2521 Public Relations and Persuasion Course Descriptions for This course explores selected types of This course relies on theories of persuasion Arts and Sciences w­ riting often associated with the term as a way to analyze common practices within “­ literary n­ on-fiction,” giving students the the field of public relations (PR). Students opportunity for active reading as well as will be introduced to modern f­ requent practice in composing and revision. techniques of PR as well as methods Conducted in the workshop format, this of critiquing the wider social, cultural course will provide students the opportunity and political implications of the covert to learn editing skills through the evaluation manipulation of public opinion. Case studies of their peers’ writing. Students will work of “successful” PR campaigns will be in the genres of the personal essay, the evaluated to ­illustrate these effects and to memoir, and the experimental form, and examine how the profession differentiates will be introduced to the publishing world itself from advertising. through introduction to literary venues and forums for their work. Fall semester. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor permission ENGL2506 Poetry Writing ENGL2525 Sport Communication This course is an overview of the craft This course introduces students to the field of poetry writing in a workshop format. of sport communication, a growing area and 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

186 English Course Descriptions for industry that utilizes the skills of journalism, ENGL2701 Literature and Film (AI-L) Arts and Sciences public relations, and other areas of strategic This course focuses on investigating the communication. With communication r­ elationships between different media, theory, sport literature, and case studies, specifically traditional forms of literature this course introduces students to the many and film, with special attention to ways in which individuals, media outlets, understanding the cultural significance of and sport organizations work to create, these texts. Students will read literature disseminate, and manage messages to from a variety of genres, including poetry, their constituents. In addition, this course short stories, plays and novels. Films to be will cover the cultural and ethical issues viewed will include direct adaptations of that are present in sport. As such, issues of these works; alternative representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality will be the work’s plots, themes, or characters; and explored, as well as issues related to the law ­cinematic renderings of literary figures and and politics. the literary imagination. Students are also Spring semester. 4 credits introduced to basics of film history and film Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor theory. permission. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2019. 4 credits ENGL2523 Advertising and Culture This course provides an overview of the ENGL3303 Images of Masculinity broad field of advertising including concepts, This course explores the construction of strategies, and tactics. Students will learn masculinities in post-World War II American about the role of advertising in the American literature and film, concentrating on whether economy and the procedures involved masculinity is conceived as natural and in planning advertising campaigns, with immutable or is culturally or historically special attention to social and ethical topics determined. We will examine how versions of in advertising. Throughout the semester, masculinity relate to cultural developments a strong emphasis will be placed on the such as feminism, the “crisis in masculinity,” ability to think critically and creatively, and drag culture. We will also explore the and to present the ideas convincingly connections between sex, gender, sexuality, using oratorical and technical tools and race, and class. Readings have included techniques. John Irving, The World According to Garp; Spring semester. 4 credits Walter Mosley, The Man in My Basement; Prerequisite: ENGL1502 or instructor Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman; and permission. Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain. Films have included Fight Club (Fincher 1999); The ENGL2604 American Voices II: Graduate (Nichols 1967); Training Day (Fuqua U.S. Literature Since 1865 (AI-L) 2001); Venus Boyz (Baur 2002); Brokeback A survey of American literature from the Civil Mountain (Lee 2005); and Y Tu Mamá También War to the contemporary era, this course (Cuaron 2001). Theoretical texts include introduces students to major works of U.S. readings from theorists such as Michel fiction, poetry, and drama. Students examine Foucault, Thomas Laqueur, and Judith key literary movements, including realism, Halberstam. modernism, and postmodernism, and study Fall semester, alternate years, expected a diverse array of U.S. writers who have fall 2019. 4 credits shaped, extended, or challenged them. Spring semester. 4 credits Emmanuel College

English 187 Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy Course Descriptions for one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor to ­England’s throne (1660) and concludes Arts and Sciences permission. in the chaotic years following the French R­ evolution (1790s). The characters students ENGL3305 Satire will encounter include the fop, the gossip, Focusing on“the Age of Satire” in England, the i­ntellectual, the rake, the virtuous lady, this course will present works by Jonathan the slave, the self-made man, the virtuoso, Swift, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Oliver the newsman and woman, the emerging Goldsmith, and Jane Collier as a context f­ eminist, and the abolitionist. Part of the through which this aggressive literary mode class will involve coming to terms with the emerges as a powerful cultural force. ­uncomfortable excesses (slavery, misogyny, Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall revolution, etc.) that these characters 2020. 4 credits e­ mbody and that pervade this period of Prerequisite: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and one E­ nglish history generally. Primary texts 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor for this class may include John Wilmot, permission. Second Earl of Rochester’s poetry, George Etherege’s The Man of Mode, Aphra Behn’s ENGL3307 Survey of Literature for Children The Rover, J­ onathan Swift’s A Tale and Young Adults of a Tub, Joseph Addison and Richard This course provides a historical and critical Steele’s The Tatler and The Spectator, and survey of major writers and illustrators in Mary Wollstonecraft’s novels. children’s and young adult literature and Spring semester, alternate years, expected explores the distinguishing characteristics of spring 2021. 4 credits literature written for children. Students will Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and read a range of traditional and contemporary one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor literature and explore major authors permission. and illustrators and a variety of genres. Through reading, discussion, in-class ENGL3311 Ethics in Documentary Film writing exercises, written assignments, and What are the ethical concerns that a research paper, students will become filmmakers face? How do we as viewers informed and analytical readers of literature respond to these questions? This practice- written and illustrated for children and based course explores these questions adolescents. through engagement with popular and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits academic literature in the field and through Note: This course does not count toward any screening and discussion of contemporary English department major or minor. documentaries that consider the ethical questions of our day. Coursework consists ENGL3309 Characters of the Long primarily of team-directed filmmaking 18th Century projects, where students conceptualize, This seminar investigates the significance shoot, and edit mini-documentaries while of the different characters one encounters exploring the intersection of theory and in the textual productions (poetry, prose, practice and developing technical skills. and drama) from the “long 18th century.” In Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall current scholarship, the definition of this 2020. 4 credits. period varies widely, but for the purposes Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or of this class, the time period begins at instructor permission. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

188 English Course Descriptions for ENGL3405 Editing and Publishing a Literary Fall semester, alternate years, expected Arts and Sciences Magazine fall 2019. 4 credits (Cross-referenced with This course aims to critically analyze the LANG3421) literary magazine as a genre and to develop students’ knowledge of and skill in the field ENGL3501 Multimedia Storytelling of publishing. We will study and analyze Writers who can write effectively for a number of top literary magazines and electronic media will be tomorrow’s success journals selected for a range of styles, s­ tories. News organizations, publishers, and content, location and goals; includes poetry, commercial businesses are seeking writers fiction, and essays; two classes on each in steeped in new media, especially those who order to assess mission and content as well can write for the web. In this project-based as submission and distribution policies. Over course, students will master writing for the course of the semester, students will ­podcasts, audio slideshows and videos. In develop, plan, edit, publish and distribute an addition, they will sharpen their journalistic issue of The Saintly Review, the Emmanuel skills (through regular blogging, for College literary magazine. The mission of example), and build a professional portfolio the magazine is to nurture and publish that will assist them in finding work in the outstanding student, staff and faculty media business. literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual Spring semester, alternate years, expected art, to foster the professional development spring 2021. 4 credits of editors, writers, poets and artists, and to Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or enrich the Emmanuel College community instructor permission. by publishing a professional quality literary magazine. ENGL3504 Advanced Prose Writing Spring semester. 4 credits A requirement for Writing, Editing and Prerequisites: ENGL1205 and one of Publishing majors, this course will be taught the following: ENGL2504, ENGL2506, in the format of a writing workshop, with ENGL2507, ENGL3501, ENGL3506, the goal of extending and refining the skills ENGL3507 or ENGL3801 of non-fiction writing that students were introduced to in ENGL2504 Prose Writing. ENGL3421 Spanish Caribbean Spring semester. 4 credits Literature (AI-L) Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; This course will introduce students to ENGL2504 or by permission of the instructor the l­iterature of the Spanish Caribbean,­ ­engaging them in literary analysis of major ENGL3506 Advanced Poetry Writing authors from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Advanced Poetry Writing will focus on Dominican Republic. Special attention developing the craft of poetry writing will be given to the author’s literary style, through a combination of writing original themes developed and to the ideological work and studying the work of established content of each piece. Students will also poets. Students will practice writing in a get a glimpse of this region’s historical and variety of received forms and will develop a sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the cohesive body of work. This course will also semester participants will have acquired highlight the workshop format, enhancing an appreciation of the literature of the students’ ability to critique poetic works in Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a formation and creating a writing community ­better understanding of the complex issues that will foster future writing practice. affecting this interesting region. Emmanuel College

English 189 Spring semester alternate years, expected an individual to develop a transnational Course Descriptions for spring 2020. 4 credits sensibility and/or global aptitude that allows Arts and Sciences Prerequisite: ENGL2506 Poetry Writing or them to be at home in any situation, 3) how instructor’s permission literature speaks to the human experience of movement across boundaries. The literary ENGL3601 Crime Stories and works in the course feature such themes as: American Culture exile, refugeeism, displacement, movement, This course will examine crime narrative transience, biculturalism/multi-culturism, t­ raditions and their function in American boundary-crossing and transnationalism. ­culture. The course begins with the birth Ultimately, we will explore global literature of the classic detective story and traces and a literary theory of the global (i.e., the form through various transformations transnational literary theory) as well as the in 20th-­century America, including the ways in which globalization is transforming emergence of hardboiled “private eye,” the human experience politically, socially, noir films, police procedurals and the “true culturally and economically. Writers will crime” genre. Throughout the semester, include Yusef Komunyakaa, Jorie Graham, we will analyze the social and political Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Tracy K. implications of each genre and each text, Smith, Li Young Lee, Bapsi Sidhwa, James focusing especially on the representation of Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Octavio Paz, Walt crime and society, as well as the portrayal of Whitman, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Xi policing, forensic science, law, order, class, Chuan, and Isabelle Allende. race, gender and justice. Spring semester, alternate years, expected Fall semester, alternate years, expected spring 2020. 4 credits fall 2019. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 and one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor permission. permission. ENGL3701 Media Theory ENGL3605 Global Literature and Film This course explores key theoretical models An increasingly global world foregrounds within the field of Communication and questions of place and movement, Media Studies. Topics vary by semester particularly movement across previously and include theoretical approaches defined cultural, geographic and linguistic to gender, sexuality, identity, media boundaries. The course begins with the convergence, digital culture, audience following questions: How do writers (poets studies and media industries. Coursework and novelists) and their characters grapple emphasizes a sustained examination of the with questions of place and movement historical, social, political, technological between socio-politically, geographically, and economic factors that have shaped and linguistically defined spaces? How does the diverse and interdisciplinary theories this movement manifest both thematically within Communications and Media Studies and structurally in their literary works? over the past century. Students then apply The course will not only examine world these theories to media text, past and literatures but it will also investigate present, in order to consider their validity theories of globalization-ways of thinking and application. Assignments in this course about 1) what national home means versus emphasize the use of source material and a global sense of home, 2) what allows research-based analysis. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

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

English 191 Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and contests, with the ultimate goal of Course Descriptions for ENGL2501; or instructor permission. publication. Arts and Sciences Spring semester. 4 credits ENGL3806 Health Communication Prerequisites: ENGL3504 or instructor Health Communication provides permission. students with an overview of the health communication field. Students will explore ENGL4178 Directed Study multiple communication issues relevant Under the guidance of a faculty member, to health organizations, including: written students select, read, and research a and oral communication, information particular literary, writing, or media-related processing, the social construction of health topic. and illness, doctor-patient communication, Offered as needed. 4 credits and the relationship between professionals, Prerequisites: Two 3000-level ENGL courses, patients, friends, families, and cultural proposal approval and senior status. institutions. The course will also explore the role media play in shaping our health ENGL4991/ENGL4992 Independent Study attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. This course is limited to seniors whose Finally, the course will explore the strategic ­proposal for Distinction in the Field has been planning process involved in developing accepted by the department. Under the health campaigns. guidance of a member of the English faculty, Fall semester, alternate years, expected students complete a 40-page research ­ fall 2019. 4 credits paper which is the sole requirement for Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502 or Distinction in the Field of English graduation instructor permission. honors. Offered as needed. 2 credits ENGL3991/ENGL3992 Special Topics Prerequisites: Two 3000-level ENGL courses, I or II proposal approval and senior status. This course emphasizes the study and a­ pplication of theoretical perspectives to ENGL4994/ENGL4995 Internship I or II literary and media texts, as well as advanced Students gain practical and professional research and writing projects requiring training and experience in a range of fields, ­secondary sources. The topic for the course including, but not limited to, journalism, will be determined by the instructor. broadcasting, advertising, publishing, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits public relations, and corporate, political, Prerequisites: ENGL1205 or ENGL1502; and or governmental communication. Students one 2000-level English AI-L course or instructor work a minimum of 15 hours per week at permission. their placement and meet regularly with other interns and the course instructor while ENGL4160 Writing Seminar ­completing several projects related to their Students will extend and refine the skills internship site. All placements must receive of writing, revision, and editing developed instructor approval. in ENGL2504 Prose Writing and ENGL3504 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Advanced Prose Writing, as well as engage Prerequisites: senior status or instructor directly with the publishing process by permission. submitting their best work for consideration by journals, magazines, anthologies, 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

192 History Course Descriptions for ENGL4998 Communication and Media HISTORY Arts and Sciences Studies Senior Seminar This course serves as the capstone course HIST1101 Introduction to Migration Studies for senior students in the Communication This introductory course is designed to and Media Studies major. The senior prepare students to study issues related seminar pulls together key theoretical to immigration and migration from the perspectives in the field while providing perspective of different disciplines and using students with an opportunity to explore, varied methodologies. The course has two synthesize and apply those theories to main goals: first, to equip students with a specific issues, themes and hypotheses. solid historical context of debates related This course also provides a historical context to global migrations and immigration-in to recent and contemporary media events, particular, debates about race, ethnicity, linking these to scholarship and debates diaspora, assimilation, integration, within the field and to past developments in exclusion, citizenship, border policies content, technology, and research. Finally, among others. This section is inspired by the senior seminar reviews methodological transnational and glocal approaches. The practices, introduced in ENGL1502, and second goal is to expose students to a provides students with the opportunity to variety of research methods and literatures, apply these methods in their own original spanning from history to anthropology, research projects. sociology and art. During the semester Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits students will first read from different Prerequisites: ENGL1502 and senior status or disciplines and compare approaches on instructor permission similar topics. (Each instructor will capitalize on his/her expertise). Students will be using ENGL4999 English Senior Seminar a wide range of research material such as Students will examine how different texts primary sources and archival resources, (e.g., popular and classic literature, movies, case studies, qualitative and quantitative television, etc.) present and shape a variety analysis. In this way, students will acquire of issues such as gender, race and class and be challenged by comparative and throughout all levels of culture. Specific interdisciplinary analyses of migrations. t­ opics and texts will be determined by Students will then be required to apply the the instructor, but will include theoretical learned interdisciplinary knowledge to an and critical material as well as primary independent project. They will work on a sources. “Texts” could be all of one kind or topic of their choice, research how such topic a combination of different media, also to be is discussed in different disciplines and with determined by the instructor. Active student different approaches; apply one approach participation and a major research project and compare it to at least one other. At are required. the end of the semester, each student will Spring semester. 4 credits present on his/her findings. Prerequisites: ENGL1502 and senior status or Spring semester. 4 credits instructor permission HIST1105 United States History Emmanuel College to 1877 (H) This survey course explores the major political, social and economic developments of the United States through 1877. The central ideas and conflicts that shaped American society from the Colonial era

History 193 through Reconstruction are examined The course concludes with a consideration of Course Descriptions for through the lives, experiences, and contemporary Africa. Arts and Sciences contributions of various Americans including Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall the working class, African Americans, 2020. 4 credits and immigrants, among others. Topics include colonization and ­contact with HIST1108 World History to 1500 (H) Native Americans, colonial development, World History is an effort to view the past the American Revolution, the origins and with a “wide angle lens.” This involves development of American slavery, western looking at history not on a local or national expansion, and the Civil War. The goal of this scale, nor even exploring a specific part of course is to teach s­ tudents to write critically the world, but looking at history on a truly about the early history of the United States, global scale. World History to 1500 examines and to challenge broad-based assumptions processes of change that affected very large about American history. numbers of people over very long ­periods of Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits time: the emergence of complex societies (civilizations), the rise of religions that HIST1106 United States History have endured for thousands of years, the Since 1877 (H) development and transfer of technologies This survey course examines the major that affected everyday life, and the political, social and economic developments development of systems of government. of the United States by exploring the central This course crisscrosses the globe to give ideas and conflicts that shaped American students an idea of the similarities and society since the Civil War. The lives, differences and, above all, the perhaps experiences, and contributions of various unexpected interconnectedness that mark groups of Americans including the working the early and pre-­modern years of human class, African Americans, and immigrants, ­experience. among others, are a central focus of the Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits course. Some of the broader themes emphasized include industrialization, HIST1109 Modern World History (H) territorial expansion, international relations, This course examines how the modern the women’s movement, and the struggle world has been shaped through historical for civil rights. The successful student encounters, antagonistic or not, among will recognize ways in which conflicts, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas innovations and changing ideas shaped from the 1500s to the present. Given the American society. chronological and geographical expanse, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credit we will focus mainly on significant patterns and long-term developments rather than HIST1107 African History: Themes (H) on specific figures or chronological details. This course examines major themes in The goals of the course are to acquaint the the history of Africa beginning with the student with some of the historical roots of formation of non-state societies, empires, the contemporary world and its problems; and kingdoms prior to the 15th century. to introduce students to the various ways Most of the course content focuses on historians have approached these issues; interactions between Africa and the outside and to help facilitate analytical and critical world from the 15th through the 18th thinking, reading and writing skills. centuries, colonization of the late 19th Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits century and nationalist, anti-colonialist, and liberation movements of the 20th century. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

194 History Course Descriptions for HIST1111 Traveling East: An Introduction to are transforming traditional methods Arts and Sciences East Asian History (H) of doing history, changing the nature of This course seeks to prepare students with historical scholarly production of knowledge. a global perspective on the development This course will also examine the impact of historical narratives in East Asia. It of digital media on the research, writing, introduces key themes in Modern East Asian teaching, and presentation of history, history including the dissemination of classic introducing students to issues in digital philosophies, the development of polities history such as copyright, intellectual and economic systems, food traditions and property, information abundance, and other cultural features. East Asia commonly how the web has changed the relationship means China, Japan and Korea but this between historians and their audience. course also examines other locations in Several topics will be explored, including Asia such as India, Vietnam, Singapore and different kinds of digital expression used by Thailand. Finally, the course examines the historians, the impact of social media and interactions between East Asia with the web 2.0 tools on the discipline of history, rest of the world as well as intra East Asian website and app creation and design issues, relations from approximately 1600 C.E. to teaching and learning with digital tools, 2000 C.E. and conceptual issues regarding the use Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall of historical artifacts. Some assignments 2019. 4 credits and hands-on learning will be taught in conjunction with ATIG and the Library HIST1114 Creating the Atlantic World (H) Learning Commons. This course explores the rise of the Atlantic Spring semester. alternate years, expected World with a chronological focus centered spring 2020. 4 credits on the Age of Exploration through the Age Prerequisite: Completion of either IDDS1000 or of Sail, ca. 1450-1820. It examines the IDDS1101 process through which the histories of Africa, Europe, North America, and South HIST2103 Introduction to Environmental America collided, resulting in conflict but History (H) also in the creation of a large interconnected This course represents an introduction to community of diverse peoples and the history of attitudes towards wilderness, cultures. Readings, lectures and discussion nature (climate, topography, plants, animals, will reflect a transnational approach to the and microorganisms), and natural resources study of history moving beyond traditional in the western hemisphere. Readings and national narratives in an effort to reveal the discussions will focus on the trajectory of ways in which intercultural contact shaped these attitudes, beginning with European- ideas about race, ethnicity and gender, colonial as well as Native American and how new communities and societies perceptions of the natural world. We will were formed through imperial rivalries, then explore the way these perceptions were economic exchange, and various acts of altered through industrialization, west ward accommodation, resistance, and rebellion.  expansion, the rise of national identities, Fall semester. 4 credits the natural sciences and environmentalism and ultimately, global warming. As such, HIST2101 Introduction to Digital History this course also considers the current This course will examine some of the major state of environmental concerns in the US developments in the study, methods, and Latin America. The course content will theories and practices of digital history. add dimension to the regional histories in Current and emerging digital technologies the western hemisphere by incorporating Emmanuel College

History 195 perspectives from literary works and HIST2119 19th Century Europe: Course Descriptions for environmental history. Democracy and Imperialism (H) Arts and Sciences Fall semester, alternate years, expected This course begins with the French fall 2020. 4 credits Revolution and the Napoleonic Era and examines the political, economic, HIST2105 America Since 1960 social, cultural and diplomatic history of America’s history from 1960 to the recent Europe to the close of the 19th century. past is explored in this class. The course Among the topics to be covered are: the will focus primarily on social and cultural industrial revolution; new ideologies such history, diversity, and change since 1960, as nationalism, liberalism, socialism and including the struggle for civil rights, the romanticism; the revolutions of 1830 and women’s movement, youth culture, the 1848; unification of Italy and Germany; counter culture, the anti-war movement, Bismarckian diplomacy; ­militarism; the new gay and lesbian rights movements, and imperialism; and the turn-of-the-century the resulting political, social and economic mind. ramifications. Students are asked to Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall challenge broadly held assumptions and 2019. 4 credits reflect critically upon the past generation through the use of readings, film, music, and HIST2120 Europe in the Era of other non-traditional primary sources. World War (H) Fall semester, alternate years, fall 2019. This course begins with Europe at its zenith 4 credits and the background to the Great War. The devastation of that war, and the troubled HIST 2106 A History of New England: 1500– international relations and radicalization of Present domestic politics that followed from it, are This course will explore New England history major topics, as are the Russian Revolutions from pre-Columbus to the present day by of 1917 and subsequent development exploring the region’s historical relationship of the Soviet Union, the actions of the with the rest of the United States, Canada fascist parties and states, especially the and the world. We will examine New England ascendancy of Nazism in Germany, and the as a center of thought, politics and the causes and course of World War II. Film and economy, a place whose people often drive personal accounts are a prominent part of the nation’s policies and socio-cultural the course. development. Unique in its approach, this Spring semester. 4 credits team-taught course will provide students with a most engaging experience and it HIST2124 History through Fiction promises to make you look at New England’s History and literature question and history from an entirely new perspective illuminate one another as the imagined by examining important themes in the world of novels is read against, and as region’s past, including: the Asian-Diaspora part of, historical events. How do we gain a in New England, Transcendentalism, greater understanding of power relations the conservation movement, literature, and human relations in times of crisis and intellectual life, cities, migration, stasis by analyzing works of fiction? Works abolitionism, the American Revolution, and will be placed in context and then discussed many others. in terms of perspective, ideology, style and Spring semester, alternate years, expected impact. Themes of the course will be youth spring 2021. 4 credits engagement in times of change, revolution 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

196 History Course Descriptions for and tradition, nationalism and identity manga (graphic novels). Arts and Sciences (social, political, collective and individual). Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall Spring semester, alternate years, expected 2020. 4 credits spring 2021. 4 credits (Cross-referenced with ENGL2124) HIST2128 Immigrants in the American Experience HIST2125 History of Modern This course examines the history of Latin America (H) immigration to America from the colonial This course surveys the history of Latin era until the recent past. Emphasis is given America from approximately 1810 to to the role immigrant groups have played in the present. This period witnessed the the nation’s history and the contributions emergence of capitalist economies and they have made in shaping America’s the creation of governments based on the diverse culture. It will examine the “push” nation-state model. This course will focus and “pull” factors which helped propel on how these two transformations impacted emigrants to the United States, particularly Latin American societies across regional, its cities. The course focuses on the diverse ethnic, gender, and class lines and the immigrant experience and the debate over various social movements they produced. assimilation as well as the problems and Class discussions will focus on the following promises immigrants have historically themes: Colonial legacies, economic confronted upon their arrival in the United development, gender and class relations, States. Students are expected to develop urban versus rural relations, and revolution. an appreciation for the role of immigration The course will also address the push-pull in American history and challenge broadly factors associated with emigration to the held assumptions about immigration by United States and Europe. writing and thinking analytically about the Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall topic through the use of actual immigrant 2020.4 credits experiences, film and field trips. Spring semester, alternate years, expected HIST2126 History of Japan Since spring 2020. 4 credits 1600 (H) This course traces the history of Japan HIST2130 African American History:  from 1600 to the present, paying particular 1865 to the Present (H) attention to the social, cultural, and political This course examines the history of African narratives of that history. Broadly speaking, Americans from the end of the Civil War to the class will portray the past 400 years the present. Topics include: emancipation; of Japanese history as two major periods, Reconstruction and its aftermath; the rise the early-modern period (or Tokugawa of Jim Crow; Booker T. Washington and his period, 1600-1868), and the modern period critics; migration and the making of urban (1868-present). In this course, students will ghettoes; the Harlem Renaissance; African embark on an unforgettable journey through Americans and American popular cultures; the history of one of the most intriguing the origins, conduct, and legacy of the Civil and influential nations in the modern Rights Movement; the “War on Poverty;” and international world order. Along that journey, race in contemporary American politics. students will read a variety of texts, primary Spring semester, alternate years, expected as well as secondary, and will be exposed to spring 2021. 4 credits multiple visual primary sources, including woodblock prints, photographs, films, and Emmanuel College

History 197 HIST2140 History of Modern Middle East HIST2207 Slavery in Global History (H) Course Descriptions for This course will begin by studying the Slavery is an ancient institution that Arts and Sciences institutions and internal and international continues to shape peoples, cultures, and dynamics of the Ottoman Empire, beginning societies in the 21st century. Perhaps the with its 14th century rise, including its single largest forced migration in world 16th-century height and its role and history, 12-20 million Africans were sold into influence as the seat of the Caliphate. slavery across Europe and the Americas, Our concentration will then turn to the profoundly reshaping communities, cultures, imperial decline from the 18th century, with and global economies. We will examine a particular focus on increasing competition variety of secondary and primary sources and colonization by European powers. We that make up the core of study of African will study competing ideas of culture and slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. governance that emerge in the 19th century, We will also study other forms of forced as well as the effect of World War I on the labor and bondage, and micro –studies region. We will therefore include indigenous of the slave ship and its importance in programs of reform and reaction to the the development of race, resistance, and strong impact of European imperialism. identity. Additionally, we will study the The creation of the Mandates of Iraq, impact of the slave trade in the development Transjordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, of cultures and economies throughout the along with the separate situation of Egypt, Atlantic world, including the Caribbean, effectively created the contemporary Middle Africa, and Latin America. The course will East as well as some of its most pressing conclude with and examination of Human problems. Throughout, but particularly in Trafficking in the global economy with an conclusion, the course focuses on ethnic and emphasis on America’s role in sustaining religious interrelationships in the region by contemporary slavery. We will also use the mid-century. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, www. Spring semester, alternate years, expected slavevoyages.org, in conjunction with a spring 2021. 4 credits. four-volume set of primary sources – ships logs, port records, diaries, etc – on reserve HIST2205 Women in American History (H) at Cardinal Cushing Library. Compiled by The central focus of this course is the some of the most respected scholars in the contributions of women to the country’s world, this database and primary source history since the Colonial era. Various topics collection will be a key source for classroom will be addressed, including work, family, and research data. race, ethnicity, reform and the development Spring semester, alternate years, expected of the modern women’s movement. The spring 2020. 4 credits course will combine lectures, discussions, readings, a walking tour of Boston’s women’s HIST2210 Themes in the History of the history, and films in re-examining the role of American West (H) women in American society and the reasons By taking the idea of the many “Wests” for their marginalization. Students will and many Western experiences as a starting develop interpretive and analytical skills point, this course explores the history of the through writing assignments and class American West as both a region and an idea. discussion. Part cultural, intellectual and geographic Fall semester, alternate years, expected ­history, the course will highlight a number fall 2019. 4 credits of selected themes that defined the region from the Corps of Discovery (1803) to the 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

198 History Course Descriptions for present day. Although the antebellum HIST2701 Historical Methods and Arts and Sciences period will receive some attention, the Research o­ verarching focus is the Trans-Mississippi This course introduces students to basic West after 1865. Course readings and class ­historical research methods, interpretations, discussions will draw from the following and the processes of historical writing. Stu­ topics as they relate to the West: myth and dents will examine and learn how to use popular culture, boom and bust cycles, both primary and secondary sources, gather women’s h­ istory, Hispanics and Chicanos, information, form questions, and gain the Native America, environmental history, skills necessary to conduct research. Stu­ Chinese h­ istory, the New Deal, and World dents will additionally study the major War II and the nuclear age. This course is ­historical methodologies of history, including designed as a seminar to facilitate high social, political, gender, environmental, and levels of d­ iscussion and interaction, so economic analyses. active p­ artic­ ipation is required. Spring semester. 4 credits Fall semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisites: Sophomore standing fall 2019. 4 credits HIST3107 A History of Boston HIST2401 Modern China: Continuity and This course examines the history of Boston Change (H) since its founding in 1630. The city’s Modern China is a dynamic society changing history will be explored in a number of every year through economic development ways, including its geographic expansion and social transformation, but at the and growth, the development of its same time, China is deeply rooted in the neighborhoods, ­immi­gration and politics, philosophical and political traditions that among other areas. Students will develop an have shaped and supported the largest appreciation of Boston’s varied and unique and oldest bureaucracy of the world. In history through readings, lectures, outside this course we will study how a 3000- assignments and field trips. year old civilization has changed from an Spring semester, alternate years, expected empire to a republic, from a republic to a spring 2020. 4 credits Communist state, and under the Communist Prerequisite: one previous 1000- or 2000-level ideology has turned itself into one of the history course and sophomore standing world’s economic powerhouses; all this in a bit more than one century. The history of HIST3121 Surviving Columbus: History of modern China is the focus of this course; Native Americans, 1492 to 1992 a history of social contradictions and This course explores the events and currents power struggles, of political revolution and of the past 500 years from the perspective economic reconstruction. Understanding of selected Native groups in North and the history of the making of modern China is South America, from the period of the understanding the history of the globalized first contact through the colonial period modern world. and ­culminating in the modern period. Spring semester, alternate years, expected Course readings and class discussions spring 2020. 4 credits focus almost exclusively on the indigenous peoples of Mesomerica and the Andes, the Pueblo nations in present-day New Mexico, and the Lakota Sioux nation of present- day South Dakota. Successful students will understand the ways in which Native Emmanuel College