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History 199 Americans construct their identities and of Communism, European culture and living Course Descriptions for organize their communities and how these standards, ­terrorism and activisms, and Arts and Sciences strategies allowed them to adapt and changing European identities. At the end of survive the changing economic and political the course, students will characterize the processes associated with colonization and power and achievements of the European nation-building. Union, and Europe’s contemporary place in Fall semester, alternate years, expected Fall the world. 2020. 4 credits Spring semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level spring 2020. 4 credits history course and sophomore standing Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level history course and sophomore standing HIST3225 Utopias, Dystopias and Revolution in Latin American History HIST3404 East Asia Migration and Diaspora This course explores Latin America through in Global Perspective selected themes that shaped the region’s The course explores the history of East h­ istory. They include colonialism, trans­ Asian migrations from the 19th century national identities, utopianism, modernity, to the present day. The course follows and environmental perceptions. Course a transnational approach insofar as it readings and class discussions will focus analyzes the migratory patterns of East on congruent as well as contradictory Asian communities in South Asia, Africa, processes experienced by the people of Europe, and the Americas. Migrant Latin America individually and collectively. communities are organisms placed in The period covered spans the colonial different nations or regions, but connected period to the present day. This course will by a corridor that serves as an extension also consider thematic intersections as of the migrant’s old environment. To stress they relate to Latin American emigration to the importance of connections, this course the United States and Europe in the 20th will illustrate the corridors migrants create century. between host and receiving societies as Spring semester, alternate years, expected well as patterns of material and cultural spring 2021. 4 credits. exchange that travel in either direction. Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Readings and discussions will explore history course and sophomore standing thematic concepts such as identity, ethnicity, nationalism, and citizenship. HIST3231 Europe Since World War II Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall This course examines important 2019. 4 credits. developments in Europe from the post-World Prerequisites: one 1000- or 2000-level History War II era to the present. Among the topics course and sophomore standing. covered are: the quest for economic and political recovery, including the debate over HIST 3412 Immigrant Kitchens: A Glocal and which individuals, parties and movements Historical Perspective on Identity, Ethnicity are the appropriate post-War leaders, the and Foodways division of the continent and the histories This course investigates how immigrants use of Eastern European states in the Soviet culinary practices and traditions as staples sphere, diplomatic relations within Europe of identity. The course is based on a glocal and between European states and various approach; that is, it analyzes the history world powers, decolonization, the collapse of eating habits, beliefs and diets in both 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

200 History Course Descriptions for immigrant communities and their countries HIST3718 Pirates, Rascals and Scoundrels Arts and Sciences of origin. With a comparative examination of Pirates are some of the most romanticized culinary lifestyles, alimentary adaptations and legendary figures on the High Seas. and expectations, the course will delve into Thousands of books have been written the discourse of ethnicization (the processes about them, from children’s bedtime stories of identity formation defined and shaped by to great novels to serious scholarly works. local and global historical developments). But why are pirates so interesting and With a wide variety of readings in the history mesmerizing to audiences throughout the of emplacement of immigrant groups centuries? This course explores the illicit around the world, this course will ask you side of history by examining the role of to consider, for example, the role of taste pirates, criminal convicts and otherwise in the construction of ethnic stereotypes; outsiders in creation of the Atlantic world the influence of ancient culinary traditions from 1450-1850. Marginalized peoples such in the creation of ethnic boundaries often as pirates, criminal convicts, indentured based on an “us” versus “them” dichotomy; servants, and non-enslaved populations the meaning of situational trespassing of labeled as “rebellious Rascals” (for example, such barriers in host countries as practical the Acadians, Indians and others) counted as survival strategies. Students will study a silent majority in the Atlantic world. While secondary sources on immigration history exploring issues of class, race, gender and in combination with the history of taste forced migration, the course examines how and food production in different countries. a variety of marginalized peoples navigated Students will also be exposed to experiential the difficult and complex landscapes of the learning in two main ways: visiting local Atlantic. ethnic communities and making and tasting Spring semester, alternate years, expected recipes from cookbooks analyzed in class as spring 2021. 4 credits primary sources. Prerequisite: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall history course and sophomore standing 2020. 4 credits HIST4000 Senior Seminar HIST3504 From Lenin to Putin: This course is a seminar on historiography, A History of the Soviet Union and Its the history of historical writing. Covering Collapse a variety of topics, the course will give This course will examine the roots of the ­students an overview of historical writing Russian Revolution of 1917, the 70 years across time. By the end of the course, of the Soviet regime, and the brief history ­students will be familiar with historical of Russia as an independent state since methods, classic and recent interpretations 1991. In addition to politics, both domestic of history, varieties of approaches to the and international, the course will survey past, and major ideologies and arguments economic policies, everyday life, and cultural in the field. The course will be a capstone accomplishments in the Soviet Union over experience and will provide students with the past century. a foundation for their future research. Fall semester, alternate years, expected Spring semester. 4 credits fall 2019. 4 credits Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level HIST4178-4179 Directed Study I and II history course and sophomore standing Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Permission of department chair Emmanuel College

Integrated Digital and Data Sciences 201 HIST4194-4195 Internship I and II INTEGRATED DIGITAL AND DATA This course involves an internship in a­ SCIENCES ­cooperating institution, regular discussion sessions, and a project term paper. Students IDDS1000 Digital Citizenship (SI) select their internship with the approval This course provides a foundational of the agency and a department faculty understanding of Internet technology, member. impact, regulation, and ongoing problems. A “how it works” course that demystifies Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits the system that is the Internet, and the impact of technology on culture, politics, Prerequisite: INT1001 and economics. Includes technical elements where students will learn about the basic mechanics of modern technologies, and sociological elements of how it affects us as people. Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits IDDS1101 Introduction to Programming (QA) This course provides a foundational understanding of internet technology, impact, regulation, and ongoing problems. A “how it works” course that demystifies the system that is the Internet, and the impact of technology on culture, politics, and economics. Includes technical elements where students will learn about the basic mechanics of modern technologies, and sociological elements of how it affects us as people. Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: MATH 1101 Course Descriptions for Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

202 International Studies INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MANAGEMENT GLST4100 International Studies Senior MGMT1101 Introduction to Business Seminar This survey course introduces students to This seminar is the senior capstone course business and management in the 21st which allows students to apply their ana­ century. Topics covered include: the role lyti­cal, writing and research skills to of business; macro and micro economics practical situations and to use them in the of business; the legal, social, and ethical composition of a senior paper. Students will environment of business; and stakeholders both participate in an internship and meet and stakeholder relationships. The as a seminar class. As much as possible, functional areas of business are also the internship and required paper will be covered: management, operations, finance, related. Each student will present his/her accounting, and marketing. The course research in the seminar, and write a senior emphasizes the ­remarkable dynamism and thesis. liveliness of business organizations, raises issues of ethics and social responsibility, Spring semester. 4 credits and encourages students to engage in self- reflection around career issues in business Prerequisite: INT1001 and m­ anagement. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Course Descriptions for MGMT2111 Personal Finance (QA) Arts and Sciences This course is designed for non- departmental majors seeking an understanding of personal finance. This course introduces students to a broad range of concepts and problem-solving skills for planning and managing personal financial decisions across the many phases of p­ ersonal and professional life. Students will learn to make appropriate financial decisions for themselves and their families. They will understand the implications of financ­­ ial decisions made by them and others on their communities and society as a whole. Personal financial statements, appropriate credit, insurance decisions, investment in various financial instruments and real assets, as well as retirement planning will be covered. This course includes a financial literacy service project. Declared management/accounting/economics majors are not permitted to enroll. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: Sophomore standing Emmanuel College

Management 203 MGMT2202 International Management (SA) develop greater leadership self-awareness Course Descriptions for This course focuses on the strategic role of through assessments and class work. Arts and Sciences culture and ethics in the implementation Fall semester. 4 credits of global strategies. Emphasis is on the Prerequisite: Sophomore standing management functions, resources, and strategies required for organizations MGMT2301 Legal Environment of Business (not-for-profit and for-profit) to sustain This course provides students with an competitive advantage in world markets. understanding of the legal environment in With ever-accelerating advances in which businesses operate. Students will technology and world events, the complex learn to use knowledge and understanding dimensions of global business relationships of ethics, law, and regulation in making entwined with interpersonal relations are business decisions. (Formerly titled discussed. Business Law) Fall semester. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Sophomore standing MGMT2207 Human Resource Management Large or small, for-profit or not-for-profit, MGMT2307 Organizational the effective management of human Behavior (SA) resources is a challenge all organizations Organizational Behavior (OB) concentrates face. This course will introduce students on understanding and predicting the behav- to the central functions they will need ior of people and groups in the work environ- to successfully manage human capital, ment. No matter what role people play in a whether they work in HR, finance, work organization—as individual contribu- operations, marketing, accounting, or tors, team members, or managers— general line management. HR activities understanding OB concepts and developing covered in this course include recruiting OB skills will enhance their ability to initiate and selecting employees, training them, and sustain healthy working relationships evaluating their performance, and rewarding and to contribute more effectively at work. them. Other HR concerns covered in this In this course, students will learn organiza- course i­nclude labor relations, work and tional behavior concepts and theories, apply family, health and safety at work, and them in cases and exercises, develop greater diversity. self-awareness, and practice team skills. Fall or spring semester. 4 credits In addition, the course devotes attention to Prerequisite: MGMT1101 ­career issues and ethical concerns that arise between and among people at work. MGMT2211 Leadership: Person and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Process (SA) Prerequisite: Sophomore standing Students will become familiar with models and theories of leadership and be able to MGMT2401 Introduction to Sport apply leadership concepts and ideas to the Management lives and accomplishments of many different Principles, practices and issues in sport leaders, some well-known, others not. ­management. This course will provide an Through readings, class discussions, group overview of the history of sport and sport activities and projects, students consider management in the United States, the questions like: “What is leadership?” relationship between sports and society, “What makes a great leader?” and “How can the business of sport, contemporary legal l­eadership be learned?” Students will also and ethical issues that are associated with 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

204 Management Course Descriptions for athletes, athletics, and organized sports and context of leadership. Topics include: self- Arts and Sciences career possibilities for students interested in understanding, models of leadership, ethics sport management. and values, trust, communication, power and Fall semester. 4 credits influence, vision, leading change, shaping Prerequisite: MGMT1101 culture, and leadership diversity. Spring semester. 4 credits MGMT2410 ­Entrepreneurship and Small Prerequisites: Junior standing and MGMT2211 Business Management An introduction to the entrepreneurial pro- MGMT3302 Operations Management cess: deciding to be an entrepreneur, finding Operations management is the discipline and developing a good idea, determining that focuses on how organizations produce feasibility and gathering needed r­ esources, goods and provide services. Students launching the venture, and managing the learn concepts and techniques related ­entrepreneurial organization. Concepts, to the design, planning, production, ideas, and practices learned in this course delivery, control, and improvement of both apply to for-profit entrepreneurship as well manufacturing and service operations. as to social entrepreneurship. They address problems and issues Spring semester. 4 credits confronting operations managers such Prerequisites: MGMT1101 as process improvement, forecasting, capacity planning, facility ­layout, location MGMT3105 Investments planning, inventory management, quality This course will provide the student with an management, and project management. introduction to the concepts of investing. This course employs practical methods for This course addresses both the theory analyzing and improving manufacturing and application of investment topics. This and service operations, and considers the course aims at developing key concepts interface of ­operations to other management in investment theory from the perspective functions. of a portfolio manager rather than an Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits individual investor. The goal of this class is Prerequisites: Junior standing, ACCT2201, to provide you with a structure for thinking MATH1117, and MATH1111 or MATH1121 about investment theory and show you how to address investment problems in a MGMT3305 Financial Management systematic manner. Topics in this course include the search for Spring semester, expected spring 2020. 4 financing and the management of funds credits ­already invested, economic value added (EVA) and wealth creating strategies, finan- MGMT3211 Leadership at Work cial analysis and planning, valuation of Being an effective leader at work requires stocks and bonds, the management of work- self-knowledge, an understanding of ing capital, the cost of capital and capital conceptual and practical models of budgeting analysis. Also reviewed are finan- organizational leadership, a range of cial markets, institutions and interest rates. leadership behaviors and skills, as well as Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits ongoing leadership development. In this Prerequisites: Junior standing, MGMT1101, course, students will learn from conceptual ACT2201, MATH1117, MATH1111 or MATH1121 material, experience, behavioral exercises, or concurrently with MATH1117, MATH1111 or cases, discussion, and reflection. The focus MATH1121 is on both the leader and the organizational Emmanuel College

Management 205 MGMT3423 Sport Law MGMT4303 Strategic Management A review of legislation, and cases relating This is the capstone course of the to professional and amateur athletics management curriculum. This course and athletes, sports events, sports focuses on the formulation and merchandising, contracts, broadcasting and implementation of strategy. Students use sponsorships. Students will learn applicable tools and knowledge from other courses law and analyze cases and situations using to extract, develop, and make sense legal precedence, legal theory and ethical of technological, financial, ­economic, concepts as they may apply. marketing, operational, geographic, and Alternate fall semester, expected fall 2019. 4 human information. Emphasis is placed on credits the strategy process (assessing company Prerequisites: MGMT2301 and MGMT2401 performance, identifying problems and p­ ossibilities, developing strategies, ­putting MGMT3496/MGMT3497 Management strategies and plans into action) as well as Internship I or II (Cross listed with the ethical issues and social respon­sibilities ACCT3496, ECON3496) that should be addressed in the ­formulation The management internship involves and implementation of strategic decisions. experiential learning in a for-profit or not- Cases and/or simulation exercises will be a for-profit firm related to the student’s pedagogical component of this course. major and prospective career. The course requires that students apply theoretical Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits knowledge to a practical setting, and provides them with the opportunity to gain Prerequisites: MGMT2200, MGMT2307, experience in their chosen career and make a contribution to the organization in which MGMT3302, MGMT3305 and senior standing they complete their internship. In addition to working at their internship site, students Course Descriptions for attend seminar or individual sessions that Arts and Sciences will deal with theoretical, practical and ethical aspects of work. Together with the internship supervisor, a project is defined for the student that will add value to the organization and that will help the student build expertise and confidence in an area of mutual interest. The student completes the project as part of the internship. Fall, spring and summer semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: INT1001, completion of two of the four courses: MGMT2200, MGMT2307, MGMT3302, MGMT3305, and permission of instructor. This course is limited to management majors. MGMT4178 Directed Study This course is limited to seniors. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

206 Marketing Course Descriptions for MARKETING MKTG3110 Marketing Research: An Applied Arts and Sciences Orientation MKTG2200 Principles of Marketing Marketing research involves gathering and This course focuses on the total system of analyzing data so as to provide marketing interactive business activities involved in managers with timely and relevant the movement of goods from producers information that will assist them in decision- to consumers and industrial users. making. The primary goal of this course is It involves analysis of the marketing to give students the requisite tools that functions performed by the manufacturers, will enable them to gather and analyze wholesalers, retailers, agent middlemen, data to help managers to design product, and market exchangers. This course as well as determine price, promotion and examines consumer and industrial products distribution strategies. They will accomplish and services; p­ rivate, public, for-profit, this learning by examining cases as well not-for-profit organizations; as well as as doing hands-on projects. Students will the social, ethical, and legal implications gain experience in research design, data of marketing policies. Students evaluate collection, data analysis using the Statistical pricing, branding, choice of distribution Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), and channels, selective selling, and the planning presentation of results. and implementation of sales p­ rograms. Spring semesters. 4 credits Emphasis is on a managerial approach to Prerequisites: MATH1117, MGMT1101 and making responsible m­ arketing decisions. MGMT 2200 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: MGMT1101 MKTG3322 Internet Marketing Internet Marketing provides students with MKTG2500 Consumer Behavior a detailed look at the process of marketing Consumer behavior includes the study planning and implementation from an of concepts and methods that help us internet marketing perspective. From email learn about consumers’ shape intentions, marketing to traditional media advertising; activities, and motivations. We’ll look at search engine optimization to marketing consumers as individuals and as part of strategy, Internet Marketing explores groups in learning how they think and make the process of planning for, targeting choices as consumers. Individual, family, and creating interactive marketing tools and group buying decision processes will designed to reach the right audience with be examined. Cases will be considered in the right message at the right time. Students class to develop a “hands on” feel for the in this course will learn the fundamentals usefulness of consumer behavior topics and of SEO, online advertising, analytics, email research. Consumer behavior is a dynamic, marketing, social media marketing, and exciting field whose study is the consumer. mobile marketing through the exploration And it is the KNOWLEDGE of the consumer, of sample online marketing campaigns. which enables marketing managers to Students will learn theory as well as plan effective marketing strategies, to practitioner tools used in online marketing generate satisfactory product designs, to campaigns. Content will also contain an communicate clearly with target markets, overview of the online marketing industry. and to enhance consumer quality-of-life. Spring semester, expected spring 2019. 4 Fall semester. 4 credits credits Prerequisites: MGMT1101 Prerequisites MGMT1101 and MGMT2200 Emmanuel College

Marketing 207 MKTG3422 Sport Marketing new media. They also explore a range of Course Descriptions for Application of Marketing principles and social, legal, and ethical issues related to Arts and Sciences theories to sports events, facilities, athletes advertising and promotion. and products. The course will also explore Fall semester. 4 credits the role of athletes in the promotion of Prerequisites: MGMT2200 products and services as well as the role of a marketing program in generating sports MKTG4200 Marketing Strategy business revenue. This course provides a capstone class Alternate spring semester, expected spring for undergraduate students with prior 2021. 4 credits background in marketing to integrate their Prerequisites: MGMT2200 and MGMT2401 learning in marketing (“put it all together”). It examines the marketing management MKTG3496 Marketing Internship concepts underlying both consumer and The Marketing Internship involves industrial marketing strategy and tactics. It experiential learning in a for-profit or not- helps students learn to think strategically for-profit firm related to the student’s when making and implementing marketing prospective career. The course requires that decisions (“strategic decision making”), students apply theoretical knowledge to a apply specific analytical approaches practical setting. This provides them with and tools for understanding customers, the opportunity to gain experience in their competition, and markets (“applications chosen career, and make a contribution to of marketing data and information”), and the organization in which they complete develop an appreciation for the relationship their internship. In addition to working between marketing and the other functional at the internship site, students attend a areas of business. Strategic marketing seminar that deals with the theoretical, focuses on the concepts and processes practical, and ethical aspects of their work. involved in developing market-driven Students must also complete a project as strategies. The key challenges in formulating part of the internship. Together with the market-driven strategies include: (1) Internship supervisor, a project is defined acquiring a shared understanding for the student that will add value to the throughout the organization about the organization and that will help the student current market and how it may change in build expertise and confidence in an area of the future, (2) identifying opportunities for mutual interest. delivering superior value to customers, (3) Alternate spring semester, expected spring positioning the organization and its offerings 2019. 4 credits to best meet the needs of its target markets, Prerequisites: INT1001 and two of the following and (4) developing a coordinated marketing courses: MGMT2307, MKTG2200 or MGMT3300 program to deliver superior customer value. Spring semester. 4 credits MKTG3501 Advertising and Promotion Prerequisites: MGMT2200, MGMT 3110, MGMT This course takes a managerial approach 3501, MGMT 3322 or MGMT 3422, and senior to advertising campaign decisions and status promotional strategies for products and services, with an emphasis on creativity, implementation, and results. Students learn how to evaluate advertising and promotion campaigns and they learn how to plan and execute campaigns using traditional and 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

208 Mathematics Course Descriptions for MATHEMATICS MATH1111 Calculus I (QA) Arts and Sciences This course studies limits and continuity, MATH1101 College Algebra (QA) differential calculus of algebraic, This course provides a foundation in the trigonometric and transcendental skills and concepts of algebra, including functions, applications of the derivative, linear, quadratic, exponential and and introduction to integration through the logarithmic equations and functions. fundamental t­ heorem of calculus. Applications to real-world problems are Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits emphasized throughout. The course is Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math designed primarily to prepare students placement exam or MATH1103 for further study in the natural and social sciences. Students with low scores on the MATH1112 Calculus II (QA) mathematics placement exam are required This course is a continuation of Calculus to take 75-minute recitation in addition to I and includes methods of integration, regular class time. applications of the definite integral, and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits infinite sequences and series. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits MATH1103 Precalculus Mathematics (QA) Prerequisite: MATH1111 This course is designed to prepare students for calculus (MATH1111). It includes the MATH1117 Introduction to Statistics (QA) study of polynomial, exponential, logarithmic This is an introductory course in statistics. and trigonometric functions and their The objective of this course is to organize, graphs. summarize, interpret, and present data Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits using graphical and tabular representations; Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math apply principles of inferential statistics; and placement exam or MATH1101 assess the validity of statistical conclusions. Students will learn to select and apply MATH1105 Mathematics of Everyday Life appropriate statistical tests and determine (QA) reasonable inferences and predictions from This survey course introduces students to a set of data. Topics include descriptive a few “big ideas” of mathematics and their statistics; introduction to probability; applications to various situations in everyday probability distributions including binomial, life. The topics chosen will depend on both normal and t-distributions; confidence the instructor’s discretion and student intervals; hypothesis testing; and correlation interest. Examples include: graph theory and regression. and its application to urban planning; data, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits statistics and quantitative literacy in the Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the math news; voting systems and elections; and placement exam or MATH1101 cryptography and ciphers. This course is designed primarily for non-science majors MATH1120 Foundations of Mathematics and does not serve as a prerequisite for for Teachers I (QA) future course work. MATH1120 is the first course in a three- Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits semester mathematics content sequence designed to develop fundamental Emmanuel College computation skills and a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics among elementary education majors. This course focuses on numeration systems and

Mathematics 209 properties of numbers. Different numeration vector spaces and their axioms; linear Course Descriptions for systems will be studied, followed by transformations; and eigenvalues and Arts and Sciences operations on whole numbers, integers and eigenvectors. Some applications of rational numbers. Problem solving will be linear algebra will also be discussed. emphasized throughout the course. This is a gateway course for the major in Spring semester. 4 credits mathematics, and must be satisfactorily completed before a student declares a major MATH1121 Applied Mathematics for in mathematics. Management (QA) Fall semester. 4 credits This course introduces students to a variety Prerequisite: MATH1111 or MATH1121 of useful mathematical principles and or placement by department techniques, and develops their skills in problem-solving and utilizing technological MATH2103 Calculus III (QA) resources, e.g. Microsoft Excel. Particular This course extends the study of calculus topics will be chosen by the instructor to to functions of several variables. Topics emphasize applications in business and covered include vectors, partial derivatives, economics and may include: linear functions multivariable optimization, multiple and models, systems of linear equations, integrals, and vector calculus. Applications exponential and logarithmic functions, linear to the natural sciences are emphasized. programming and the Simplex Method, and Fall semester. 4 credits formulas for financial mathematics. Prerequisite: MATH1112 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math MATH2104 College Geometry (QA) placement exam or MATH1101 Euclidean geometry has long been held as an essential part of mathematics. Its results MATH1122 Foundations of Mathematics and methods of deduction have been valued for Teachers II (QA) and found application in architecture, MATH1122 is the second course in a law, engineering, and many other fields. three-semester mathematics content This class is a deeper look into Euclidean sequence designed to develop fundamental geometry and the underlying axioms. computation skills and a comprehensive, Particular emphasis will be placed on the in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics development of mathematical reasoning among elementary education majors. This through critical analysis and construction course begins with a study of patterns of formal proof. In addition, we will explore and functions, followed by a study of two- changes in the underlying axioms of dimensional geometry, and concludes with a Euclidean geometry and several different study of measurement. Problem solving will types of non-Euclidean geometry created by be emphasized throughout the course. these changes. Geometric software will be Fall semester. 4 credits used as a tool to construct geometric figures Prerequisite: MATH1120 and for analytic proofs. Fall semester, alternate years, expected MATH2101 Linear Algebra (QA) fall 2019. 4 credits This course serves as a transition from Prerequisite: MATH1111 computational mathematics to more theoretical approaches. Topics include systems of linear equations and their solutions; matrices and matrix algebra; inverse matrices; determinants; 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

210 Mathematics Course Descriptions for MATH2107 Differential Equations (QA) may include discrete dynamical systems, Arts and Sciences Many of the principles governing the differential equations, and game theory. behavior of the real world can be Applications will be taken from a variety described mathematically by differential of fields such as the life sciences, physics, equations. This course studies the theory chemistry, engineering and social science. and applications of ordinary differential The course will culminate in a project in equations. Topics covered include first-order which students develop and/or investigate and higher-order differential equations, models of their choosing. systems of differential equations, Laplace Spring semester, alternate years, expected transforms, numerical methods, phase plane spring 2021. 4 credits methods, and modeling using differential Prerequisite: MATH1112 equations. Applications will be drawn from science and engineering. MATH2113 Applied Statistics (QA) Spring semester, alternate years, expected This course is a calculus-based introduction spring 2020. 4 credits to statistics. Topics covered include Corequisite: MATH1112 descriptive statistics, elements of probability, binomial and normal probability MATH2109 Discrete Methods (QA) distributions, estimation, hypotheses In this course, students are introduced to testing, and simple linear regression. R methods for reading and writing formal statistical software is used to summarize mathematical proofs, including proofs data and perform statistical tests. by contradiction, by induction, and by Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall contrapositive. More advanced courses in 2019. 4 credits mathematics will assume familiarity with Corequisite: MATH1112 such methods. Particular topics are chosen at the instructor’s discretion and may MATH2115 Introduction to ­Programming include set theory, number theory, algebraic with MATLAB (QA) structures, combinatorics, or graph theory. MATLAB is a programming language that This is a gateway course for the major in is used extensively by mathematicians and mathematics, and must be satisfactorily scientists in both academia and industry. completed before a student declares a major This course, which does not assume any in mathematics. prior experience with programming, will Spring semester. 4 credits introduce students to general concepts in Prerequisite: MATH1111 computer science and programming as they formulate, solve, and visualize quantitative MATH2111 Mathematical Modeling in the problems. Applications will be drawn from Sciences (QA) mathematics and science. The course will The interdisciplinary course is an culminate in a project in which students introduction to mathematical modeling, develop a MATLAB program to study a the process of using mathematics to problem of their choosing. represent real world situations. The main Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall objective is to introduce the student to 2020. 4 credits modeling methodology: constructing models Prerequisite: MATH1111 appropriate for an intended application, and investigating them mathematically MATH2122 Foundations of Mathematics and computationally. Particular topics are for Teachers III (QA) chosen at the instructor’s discretion and MATH2122 is the third course in a three- Emmanuel College

Mathematics 211 semester mathematics content sequence MATH3101 Real Analysis designed to develop fundamental In this course, students investigate the computation skills and a comprehensive, theoretical foundations of calculus and in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics deepen their conceptual knowledge by among elementary education majors. reading and writing formal proofs about The course will focus on topics in linear sequences, limits, functions, and derivatives. programming, analytic geometry, probability, This also serves as an introduction to and statistics. This course, like Foundations fundamental principles and techniques of I and II, will deepen students’ knowledge of mathematical analysis. Other topics – such mathematics and provide a solid foundation as integration or sequences of functions for learning about the methods for teaching –may be explored, at the instructor’s elementary school mathematics. discretion. Spring semester. 4 credits Spring semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisite: MATH1122 spring 2020. 4 credits Corequisite: MATH2122L Prerequisites: MATH2103, MATH2109 MATH2122L Preparatory Lab for Math MATH3103 Probability Course Descriptions for Subtest MTEL This course is an introduction to the theory Arts and Sciences The audience for this laboratory is teacher of probability and its applications. Topics candidates intending to become licensed include combinatorial analysis, probability to teach at the elementary level in grades laws, discrete and continuous random 1–6. This is a preparatory lab designed to variables, joint distributions, the Law of familiarize teacher candidates with the Large Numbers, and the Central Limit content and structure of the mathematics Theorem. subtest of the General Curriculum Spring semester, alternate years, expected Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure spring 2021. 4 credits (03). Teacher candidates will examine the Corequisite: MATH2103 mathematical content of the MTEL (03) test objectives as they practice multiple-choice MATH3105 Advanced Statistics and open-response problems both during This course is a continuation of MATH 2113 and outside of class. Teacher candidates Applied Statistics. More advanced topics enrolled in MATH 2122 who have not in statistics will be covered, including successfully completed the math subtest contingency tables, exact tests, single and of the General Curriculum MTEL (03) by multiple linear regression, one-way and two the start of the MATH 2122 course must way analyses of variance, logistic regression concurrently enroll in this preparatory lab. and nonparametric methods. Students will Teacher candidates enrolled in the lab are learn both the theory behind these statistical also required to register for a late spring procedures and practical applications using MTEL (03) test date within the first two a statistical software. At the end of the weeks of beginning the preparatory lab. course, students will perform data analyses This lab does NOT satisfy the college-wide on their own data sets, write a paper QA requirement and does not contribute summarizing the statistical methods they to the credits for graduation. Any teacher used, the data they worked on, the results candidate enrolled in MATH 2122 who has they received, and give a short presentation. successfully completed the math subtest Fall semester, alternate years, expected of the (03) MTEL is exempt from taking this fall 2019. 4 credits preparatory lab. Prerequisites: MATH2101, MATH2113 Spring semester. 0 credits 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

212 Mathematics Course Descriptions for MATH3107 Abstract Algebra by the students and/or the instructor. In Arts and Sciences This course studies abstract algebraic addition, as part of the capstone experience, systems such as groups, examples of which each student will compile and present a are abundant throughout mathematics. portfolio of their work as a mathematics It attempts to understand the process of major. mathematical abstraction, the formulation Spring semester. 4 credits of algebraic axiom systems, and the Prerequisite: Senior mathematics major status development of an abstract theory from these axiom systems. Topics may include MATH4178 Directed Study groups, rings, fields, and homomorphisms. The course is available for junior or senior Spring semester, alternate years, expected mathematics majors. This is an independent Spring 2019. 4 credits study of material not covered in offered Prerequisites: MATH2101, MATH2109 courses. Offered as needed. 4 credits MATH3113 Special Topics in Mathematics Prerequisite: Consent of department chair This course is on a special topic in Mathematics not listed among the current MATH 4194/4195 Research Internships I course offerings. and II Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall Qualified students may undertake senior 2018. 4 credits year research projects under the supervision Prerequisites: MATH 2101, MATH 2109 of Emmanuel mathematics faculty or with faculty at other departments or institutions. MATH4101 Programming in SAS With their research supervisor, students SAS is a powerful statistical software plan and carry out original research projects package used by statisticians worldwide in mathematics and/or statistics that reflect in a diverse range of fields, from sociology their interests and goals. If the research to business to medicine. In this course, supervisor is not a member of the Emmanuel students will be introduced to SAS, and learn mathematics faculty, a faculty coordinator to develop templates, scripts and routines from the department will be assigned to they can use to analyze data. Statistical the project. A proposal for the internship concepts will come from MATH 2113 must be submitted by April 1 of their junior Applied Statistics and MATH 3105 Advanced year for committee review. The proposal Statistics. At the end of the course, students describes the project, the name and will use SAS to perform data analyses commitment from the research supervisor on their own data sets, write a paper (and faculty coordinator if applicable), and summarizing the statistical methods they the expectations and significance of the used, the data they worked on, the results project. Students devote a minimum of 15 they received, and give a short presentation. hours per week to the project. Students Spring semester, alternate years, expected meet weekly with their research supervisor, spring 2020. 4 credits and also with the faculty coordinator, if Prerequisite: MATH3105 applicable. An undergraduate thesis and presentation, including a defense, MATH4157 Senior Seminar are required. MATH4194 and MATH4195 This seminar serves as the culminating together represent a two-semester course. experience for mathematics majors. Students are not permitted to register Students will research and present on for only one semester. Upon successful advanced topics in mathematics, as chosen completion of the sequence, only MATH4194 Emmanuel College

Modern Languages 213 may count as a mathematics elective. Both MODERN LANGUAGES Course Descriptions for MATH 4194 and MATH4195 are required for Arts and Sciences distinction in the fields of mathematics or ARABIC biostatistics. Offered as needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: Senior status, at least 3.3 grade LANG1661 Beginning Arabic I point average in courses toward Mathematics Beginning Arabic I will introduce students to or Biostatistics major, and permission of the Modern Standard Arabic and to the cultures department. of the Arab world. This program is ­designed for students with little or no prior knowledge INT3211 Experiential Internship in the of Arabic who are committed to the study Natural Sciences/Mathematics of this fascinating language. The course Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and will emphasize the spoken language while mathematics majors may apply to do an developing basic reading and writing skills internship in a research or non-research as well. It will also present grammatical setting. The internship site and project must structures in context, relating abstract be appropriate for the disciplines above and concepts to practical skills. Students it is the student’s responsibility to obtain will be introduced to a range of Arabic, an internship. The options for sites could from colloquial to standard, in authentic include venues that would allow for career contexts. They will be encouraged to verbally exploration. A complete proposal form for communicate in Arabic with one another and the internship must be submitted to the with the instructor. faculty teaching the course and to the Career Fall semester. 4 credits Center by the first day of class. The proposal must describe the project, the name and LANG1662 Beginning Arabic II commitment from the onsite supervisor and Beginning Arabic II will continue to introduce the expectations and significance of the students to Modern Standard Arabic and to internship. The proposal must be approved the cultures of the Arab world. The course is by the student’s academic advisor and designed for students who have completed signed by the site supervisor. Students Beginning Arabic I or its equivalent and are meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week committed to the study of this fascinating at the internship site. Students meet language. It will emphasize the spoken weekly with a faculty coordinator and are l­anguage while developing basic reading evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty and writing skills as well. It will also present coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio grammatical structures in context, relating and formal presentation are required. This abstract concepts to practical skills. In one-semester internship course counts as ­addition, students will gain ample cultural an Emmanuel College elective, but not as knowledge, learning about conventional an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, forms of politeness, social greetings and chemistry or mathematics major. ­culturally appropriate etiquette. Students will be introduced to a range of Arabic from colloquial to standard in authentic contexts. They will be encouraged to verbally communicate in Arabic with one another and with the instructor. Spring semester. 4 credits 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

214 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for LANG2661 Intermediate Arabic I In addition, students would be introduced Arts and Sciences Intermediate Arabic I is a language to the art of translation from Arabic to immersion course that seeks to improve English and vice versa in order to develop an all areas of language communication and understanding of the nuances of the Arabic develop cultural competency. Intermediate language. Along with the textbook, the Arabic I will continue to introduce students course materials include articles and literary to Modern Standard Arabic and to the pieces selected from Arabic books as well as cultures of the Arab world. The course will newspapers and magazines from different emphasize the spoken language while Arab countries. This course would teach developing speaking, listening, reading, students how to use the Arabic language and writing skills. Intermediate Arabic will both creatively and independently. also expand vocabulary and introduce key Fall semester; expected fall 2019. 4 credits grammatical structures. Class discussions, Prerequisite: LANG2662 pair work, and oral presentations will improve oral proficiency. LANG2664 The Arab World through Its Fall semester. 4 credits Literature (AI-L) Prerequisite: LANG1662 or equivalent In “The Arab World through Its Litera­ture,” students will be exposed to one of the LANG2662 Intermediate Arabic II richest and oldest cultures of the world This course, a continuation of Intermediate while focusing on the aesthetic and cultural Arabic I, strengthens language skills and significance of influential Arabic literary enables students to master more vocabulary texts written in a variety of genres. After and grammar. The course will also help placing each text in its historical and cultural develop proficiency in reading and writing context, class discussions will focus on Standard Arabic, as well as knowledge of critical issues presented in each reading and spoken Standard Arabic and of the Egyptian on the literary merits of each text. Some of and Levantine dialects. It includes readings the authors include legendary pre-Islamic of medium length, composition exercises, poet Antara Ibn Shaddad, as well as the review of Arabic grammar, listening winner of the Nobel Prize for ­literature Najib exercises, and conversation practice in Mahfuz. Students will also read a selection Modern Standard Arabic. from the eighth century aesthetic poetess Spring semester. 4 credits Rabia al-Adawiyya as well as contemporary Prequisite: LANG2661 or equivalent leading Arab feminists that include Egyptian author Nawal al-Sadawi and the Moroccan LANG2613 Arabic Conversation and Fatima al-Mernissi. This course will also Composition cover the impact of the Arab Spring on Arab Arabic Conversation and Composition is literary expressions to demonstrate the designed to introduce students to complex influence of this momentous event on the Arabic grammatical constructions, expand consciousness of Arab literary figures. vocabulary, and improve both conversational Spring semester. 4 credits and writing skills. The course would also introduce students to more advanced readings selected from literary, historical, political, social and cultural sources. This would further develop the students’ critical thinking skills while enhancing their knowledge of the Arab and Muslim worlds. Emmanuel College

Modern Languages 215 FRENCH LANG2202 Intermediate French II: Course Descriptions for L­ anguage through Film Arts and Sciences LANG1201 Beginning French I This language immersion course, a contin­ This course is a language immersion uation of LANG2201, continues to develop program that introduces French to students l­istening, speaking, reading and writing skills with little or no previous knowledge of in the French language. the language while developing basic Spring semester. 4 credits comprehension, speaking, reading and Prerequisite: LANG2201 or equivalent writing skills. The students are encouraged to communicate with each other and LANG2213 French Conversation the instructor through role-playing and and Composition I interpersonal ­activities. A video program Develops proficiency in the oral and written supplements classroom instruction. use of French language through literary Fall semester. 4 credits and cultural readings, written essays and oral presentations. Students will expand LANG1202 Beginning French II their vocabulary and will also review key This course is a continuation of LANG1201. grammatical concepts. Students will continue their progress in con- Fall semester. 4 credits versational French while developing basic Prerequisite: LANG2202 or permission language skills. A video program supple- of instructor ments classroom instruction. Spring semester. 4 credits LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in Prerequisite: LANG1201 or equivalent Modern French Literature and Culture (AI-L) As a source of inspiration, romance, and LANG2201 Intermediate French I: sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has Language through Film exerted a profound influence on generations This course is part of a language of artists and writers. In the fall prior to immersion program that emphasizes oral our travel, students will take a preparatory communication through interpersonal course introducing them to history and activities, while also further developing basic culture of the city of lights. Through novels, comprehension skills, such as listening, novellas, short stories, poems, and films, speaking, reading, and writing, through a contrasting accounts of life in the city of variety of classroom activities and homework Paris will be studied, offering often radically assignments. A conversationally interactive opposing views of the French capital as cultural component is also emphasized, expressed by realist and surrealist writers, through the viewing and discussion of both artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, classic and contemporary French films. Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The Fall semester. 4 credits cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where Prerequisite: LANG1202 or equivalent the students will experience firsthand a city which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic reflections on modern urban life. This course, conducted in English, travels to Paris in January. Travel component required. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2019. 4 credits 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

216 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for ITALIAN LANG2302 Intermediate Italian II Arts and Sciences This language immersion course, which LANG1301 Beginning Italian I f­ ollows LANG2301, continues to develop Beginning Italian I is a language immersion listening, speaking, reading and writing course designed for students with little or skills in Italian language. The development no prior knowledge of Italian. Its objective of strong communication skills and an is to introduce the language and culture of appreciation of the culture of Italy will Italy while developing basic comprehension, remain at the center of the program. speaking, reading and writing skills. The Spring semester. 4 credits course emphasizes oral communication, Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission encouraging students to verbally of instructor communicate in Italian with one another and with the instructor. LANG2313 Italian Conversation and Fall semester. 4 credits Composition This course aims at giving students a fresh LANG1302 Beginning Italian II and authentic image of Italian culture and Beginning Italian II is a continuation society, while engaging them in oral and l­anguage immersion course designed for­ written activities on topics close to their ­students with prior knowledge of Beginning interests. The course focuses on different Italian I. Its objective is to continue to themes related to the social, political ­introduce the language and culture of Italy and cultural life of present day Italy and while developing basic comprehension, explores them through the lenses of a speaking, reading and writing skills. The variety of media, newspaper articles, literary course emphasizes oral communication, texts, video clips and songs. The course encouraging students to verbally will pioneer a new peer-to-peer exchange communicate in Italian with one another and program with Italian students of Cattolica with the instructor. University, Emmanuel’s partner university Spring semester. 4 credits in Milan. Such an exchange will be based on Prerequisite: LANG1301 or equivalent discussions between our students and their peers in Cattolica on the themes studied LANG2301 Intermediate Italian I in the course. This will create a realistic This course offers a language immersion situation where the students will be able to program that further develops basic compre- write and converse in Italian in areas that hension skills such as listening, speaking, are useful and meaningful to them. The reading and writing. A primary objective of students’ active role in connecting their the course is to help students acquire a good personal experience to that of people living command of spoken and written Italian, in a different country will provide strong and an appreciation of the culture of Italy. motivation to develop and improve their Students will engage in a variety of inter­ linguistic skills. personal activities, will study the structure Fall semester; expected fall 2019. 4 credits of the language and will be introduced to Prerequisite: LANG2302 ­literary readings. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission of instructor Emmanuel College

Modern Languages 217 LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through Spanish Course Descriptions for Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life (AI-L) Arts and Sciences Students will analyze and discuss some LANG1401 Beginning Spanish I ­masterpieces of Italian literature and some This course is a language immersion movies inspired by them. The course is program that introduces Spanish to comprised of two parts of four weeks each. students with little or no previous knowledge The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, of the language while developing basic the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). comprehension, speaking, reading and During the first part of the course, students writing skills. The students are encouraged will be reading and discussing some of the to communicate with each other and masterpieces of Italian literature from the the instructor through role-playing and 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific interpersonal activities. focus on Milan. The readings will include two Fall semester. 4 credits plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If LANG1402 Beginning Spanish II This Is a Man,” and Calvino’s “The Invisible This course is a continuation of LANG1401. Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in Students will continue their progress in Milan, during the second part of the course, conversational Spanish while developing where students will visit some of the actual basic language skills. A video supplements sites described in their readings and will classroom instruction. view movies inspired by the works they read. Spring semester. 4 credits The virtual images from the literary pages Prerequisite: LANG1401 or equivalent and the “real” ones from the movies will help them discover how modern city life in LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply Healthcare Professionals I rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic Beginning Spanish for Healthcare and cultural background. This course, taught Professionals I is the first semester of an in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the elementary level course sequence designed summer where students will complete the for people currently employed in the medical coursework started at Emmanuel, as well as field or for those students planning a take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at career in a health-related field. The primary the Università Cattolica. objective of this two-course sequence is to develop aural/oral proficiency in Spanish Program is open to COF students. within a medical context. The course aims to provide students in health-related programs Prerequisites: None with the solid foundation in Spanish grammar that is essential to communication Travel component required. and with the medical vocabulary that will be useful in the workplace. Emphasis will Spring semester, alternate years, expected also be placed on cultural issues that can affect communication between patient and spring 2020. 4 credits provider. Fall semster. 4 credits 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

218 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for LANG1412 Beginning Spanish for LANG2402 Intermediate Spanish II Arts and Sciences Healthcare Professionals II This course is a continuation of LANG2401. Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Conversational skills are emphasized Professionals II is the second semester of an through role-playing and ­interpersonal elementary level course sequence designed activities. Literary readings are incorporated for people currently employed in the medical into the course. field or for those students planning a career Spring semester. 4 credits in a health-related field. This course builds Prerequisite: LANG2401 or equivalent on the skills and knowledge acquired in LANG 1403 and trains students for more LANG 2412 Spanish at Work in the Health advanced linguistic tasks, such as making Care Community recommendations, discussing past events Spanish at Work in the Health Care and giving advice about possible medical Community is an intermediate-level Spanish treatments. It is designed for students with course that promotes linguistic fluency some previous knowledge of Spanish who through advance Spanish grammatical are looking to learn specialized medical structures as well as a better understanding vocabulary. The primary objective of this of the culture of the Latino communities course is to continue to develop aural/oral in the United States. This course explores proficiency in Spanish within a medical topics related to health care disparities, context. The course aims to provide patient-provider communications, and students in health-related programs with healthcare accessibility of the country’s the solid foundation in Spanish grammar biggest minority group. In addition, that is essential to communication and other relevant topics, such as linguistic with the medical vocabulary that will be and cultural barriers, identity, and useful in the workplace. Emphasis will socioeconomic and demographic trends, also be placed on cultural issues that can will also be explored. To exploration of affect communication between patient and these topics will be conducted via scholarly provider. articles and class discussions. The course Spring semester. 4 credits will also include a review of key grammatical Prerequisites: LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for structures and vocabulary relevant to the Healthcare Professionals I or permission from health care field. Students are required to the instructor dedicate two hours per week (approximately twenty hours in total) of volunteer LANG2401 Intermediate Spanish I community service at a local hospital, This course is a language immersion pro- clinic, or medical practice serving the gram that emphasizes oral communication Latino community. This internship will allow through interpersonal activities. Class work students to put their Spanish-language and home assignments further develop basic skills to practice while helping Spanish- comprehension, speaking, reading and writ- speaking patients navigate the complex ing skills. A video program provides the basis health care system for classroom discussion. Fall semester. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: LANG 1404 Beginning Spanish for Prerequisite: LANG1402 or equivalent Healthcare Professionals II or permission from the instructor. Emmanuel College

Modern Languages 219 LANG2413 Spanish Conversation and and films. Students will provide community Course Descriptions for Composition I service to non-profit organizations within Arts and Sciences This course encourages the student to the Boston area, as well as to local schools, integrate the grammatical structures where they will be using already learned into meaningful their language skills while assisting communication Spanish-speakers. in the context of practical settings. Varied Spring semester, alternate years, expected activities and audiovisual material will spring 2021. 4 credits s­ upplement literary readings, readings of Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of cultural interest, and readings on public instructor events as a stimulus to everyday oral and written language use. LANG2416 Latin American Peoples and Fall semester. 4 credits Cultures (AI-L) Prerequisite: LANG2402 or equivalent This Latin American culture course will introduce students to the cultures and LANG2414 Spanish Conversation and p­ eoples of the region from pre-Columbian Composition II to modern times. Following a thematic This course is a continuation of LANG2413. approach, students will gain a better The course encourages student to integrate understanding of ­significant historical the grammatical structures already events, ­geographical regions, indigenous learned into meaningful communication cultures, regional languages, religious in the context of practical settings. Varied customs and beliefs, music, and other activities and audiovisual material will forms of artistic expression. Liter­ary texts supplement literary readings, readings of from different Spanish-speaking countries cultural interest, and readings on public will illustrate the richness and diversity of events as a stimulus to everyday oral and this complex world. Students will read Inca written language use.Fall semester. 4 credits Garcilaso de la Vegas account of Pizarro’s Prerequisite: LANG2413 or equivalent or conquest of Perú, José Martís vision of permission of instructor. Cuba, Marta Truebas’s gripping narrative of military repression in the Southern LANG2415 Spanish at Work in Cone, and Nellie Campobello’s ­fiction of the ­Community the Mexican revo­lution. They will also read This is an upper-level language course a selection of poetry and short stories that will promote linguistic fluency and relevant to the content of the course. Music better cultural understanding of the Latin and film will also be incorporated into the American and Latino communities in the program. United States. The course’s content will Spring semester, alternate years, expected focus on Hispanic immigration, emphasizing spring 2021. 4 credits the experiences of the Latin American and Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission Latino communities of the United States. of instructor It will concentrate on the largest groups of immigrants, those from Mexico, Puerto LANG2417 Hispanic Culture and L­ anguage Rico and Cuba, exploring issues related to through Film language, identity, socio­economic realities This course will introduce students to the and demographics. Class discussions will ­heterogeneous culture of the Hispanic world center on cultural and literary readings through the use of films and other selected 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

220 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for materials provided by the instructor. The literary texts. Arts and Sciences course aims to provide students with a Fall semester, alternate years, expected panoramic appreciation of Hispanic cultures fall 2019. 4 credits as well as to develop their linguistic Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission proficiency through the use of films and of instructor other assorted materials (music, pictures, paintings, articles, short narratives, and LANG2605 Spain: A Cultural the like). The course will place special Approach (AI-L) emphasis on the links that tie the films with This course presents an overview of Spanish the broader economic, sociopolitical and culture in the physical reality of the geogra- historical landscape of the Hispanic world. phy of Spain, the trajectory of its history and All movies will be shown in their original the rich values of its art. language with subtitles. The course will be Spring semester, alternate years, expected conducted in Spanish. spring 2020. 4 credits Fall semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission fall 2020. 4 credits of instructor Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor LANG3411 Latin American Literary G­ iants (AI-L) LANG2418 The Art of Spain This course will focus on the most influ- This course provides students with a broad ential Latin American authors. It will survey of Spanish art. It examines artistic engage students in literary analysis of masterpieces from different periods representative texts by Borges, Neruda, Paz, highlighting their social and historical Garcia Marquez and others. Readings will implications. In this course students will include a wide range of poetry, short stories further develop listening, reading, speaking and novels. and writing skills. There will also be field Spring semester. 4 credits visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Prerequisite: LANG2413 or p­ ermission Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The of instructor course will be conducted in Spanish. Spring semester, alternate years, expected LANG3417 Spanish American Experience: spring 2020. 4 credits An Overview (AI-L) Prerequisite: LANG2413 This course examines the developments of Spanish American literature through the LANG2419 Approaches to Hispanic study of the most representative literary Literature (AI-L) movements and cultural periods. The last half of the 20th century witnessed Fall semester, alternate years, expected a revolution in literary theory and criticism. fall 2020. 4 credits Drawing on a vast network of other d­ isci­ Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of plines such as philosophy, anthropology, instructor l­inguistics, political economy, sociology, women’s studies, religion, etc., this course LANG3427 Contemporary Spanish will introduce students to this vast and American Women Novelists (AI-L) varied present-day field. The critical and This course introduces the student to out- theoretical concepts presented in this class standing women novelists of the contem- aim to provide undergraduate students porary period, such as Rosario Castellanos, with the tools to conduct in-depth study of Elena Poniatowska, Marta Traba, Rosario Emmanuel College

Modern Languages 221 Ferré and Isabel Allende. Discussions will LANG4999 Senior Seminar Course Descriptions for focus on literary analysis, sociopolitical Students will conduct in-depth research of a Arts and Sciences c­ ontext and feminist perspective. chosen topic that will result in a significant Spring semester. 4 credits senior paper. There will be regular peer- Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission reviewed oral presentations of progress. of instructor Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: Two 3000-level Hispanic LANG3429 Great Figures of Spanish literature courses and senior status Literature (AI-L) This study of selected texts of the most LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION ­outstanding Hispanic authors across the centuries will bring the student into contact LANG2103 Literary Mirrors: with the evolution and artistic riches of the Introduction to World Literature (AI-L) literary history of Spain. Embark on a literary journey to Africa, Fall semester, alternate years, expected Europe, Asia and Central and South fall 2019. 4 credits Americas with major world authors who treat Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission in short novels the triumphs and ­tragedies of of instructor the human condition. This course, conducted in English, is designed to foster critical LANG3431 Contemporary Spanish thinking and to improve writing skills. Novel (AI-L) Spring semester, alternate years, expected The student will read and discuss relevant spring 2021. 4 credits works of the most outstanding contemporary (Cross-referenced with ENGL2103) novelists of Spain, noting particularly the changed social, political and cultural LANG2105 Contemporary Latin A­ merican environment of present day Spain as Fiction (AI-L) evidenced in these novels. Conducted in English, this literature in Spring semester, expected spring 2021. translation course introduces students to 4 credits major contemporary authors from the Latin Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission American Boom to the present. ­Students will of instructor engage in literary analysis of representa- tive prose from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, LANG3433 Modern Hispanic Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. Reading Drama (AI-L) selections will expose students to literary This is an approach to the study of Hispanic styles characteristic of Latin ­American writ- society and culture of the contemporary ers as well as to the socio­political reality of p­ eriod through the reading, discussion of, the Americas. Conducted in English. and analysis of selected works of outstand- Fall semester, alternate years, expected ing dramatists of the period. fall 2020. 4 credits Spring semester, expected spring 2021. (Cross-referenced with ENGL2105) 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission LANG2107 From Damsel in Distress to of instructor Femme Fatale: Parisian Women in Modern French Cinema and LANG4478-4479 Directed Study Literature (AL-L) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits This course will look at the myriad roles Prerequisite: Permission of instructor of Parisian female personae as depicted 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

222 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for during the later part of the 19th century, and course, conducted in English, travels to Paris Arts and Sciences the long span of the 20th-century period. in January. Through modern original readings and Travel component required. films (in translation or with subtitles), we Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall will explore the complex and complicated 2019. 4 credits identities of Parisian women, perhaps as varied as the differences between the 20 LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through districts comprising the city itself. We will Literature, Cinema and study the progression of the representation Everyday Life (AI-L) of “femmes Parisiennes,” from one end Students will analyze and discuss some of the spectrum to the other. First we are m­ asterpieces of Italian literature and some introduced to the “damsel in distress,” movies inspired by them. The course is ostensibly in need of a man to “save” her, comprised of two parts of four weeks each. and later the “femme fatale,” not only The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, capable of taking care of herself but also in the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). possession of the talent for luring men into During the first part of the course, students dangerous or compromising situations. At will be reading and discussing some of the the same time, we will tease out the shifting masterpieces of Italian literature from the cultural identities of women from a state of 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific disempowerment to one of empowerment, focus on Milan. The readings will include two including the increasing visibility of French plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello women in the Parisian workplace. Conducted and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If in English. This Is a Man,” and Calvino’s “The Invisible Fall semester, alternate years, fall 2020. Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in 4 credits Milan, during the second part of the course, where students will visit some of the actual LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in sites described in their readings and will Modern French Literature and Culture (AI-L) view movies inspired by the works they read. As a source of inspiration, romance, and The virtual images from the literary pages sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has and the “real” ones from the movies will exerted a profound influence on generations help them discover how modern city life in of artists and writers. In the fall prior to Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply our travel, students will take a preparatory rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic course introducing them to history and and cultural background. This course, taught culture of the city of lights. Through novels, in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the novellas, short stories, poems, and films, summer where students will complete the contrasting accounts of life in the city of coursework started at Emmanuel, as well as Paris will be studied, offering often radically take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at opposing views of the French capital as the Università Cattolica. expressed by realist and surrealist writers, Travel Component Required. artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, Program is open to COF students. Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The Prerequisites: None cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where Spring semester, alternate years, expected the students will experience firsthand a city spring 2020. 4 credits which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic reflections on modern urban life. This Emmanuel College

Neuroscience 223 LANG3421 Spanish Caribbean NEUROSCIENCE Literature (AI-L) This course will introduce students to NEURO2201 Neurobiology the literature of the Spanish Caribbean, This course is designed to introduce engaging them in literary analysis of major s­ tudents to the exciting and ever-evolving authors form Cuba, Puerto Rico and the field of n­ euroscience from molecular Dominican Republic. Special attention to behavioral levels. Consideration of will be given to the author’s literary style, the fundamentals of neuroanatomy, themes developed and to the ideological neurophysiology and neurochemistry as content of each piece. Students will also they relate to brain function is emphasized. get a glimpse of this region’s historical and Topics include neuronal communication, sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the sensory, motor and autonomic systems, semester participants will have acquired learning and memory, neuronal plasticity an appreciation of the literature of the and higher level functioning with a focus Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a on behavior. Throughout the course, better understanding of the complex issues examples from ­current research and clinical affecting this interesting region. Conducted references will be utilized to reinforce and in English. illustrate key concepts. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: BIOL1105 or permission of 2019. 4 credits instructor $85 lab fee (Cross-referenced with ENGL3421) NEURO3000 Experimental Neuroscience and Lab Course Descriptions for Neuroscience is a very broad, complex Arts and Sciences field of study. The goal of this course is to acquaint you with tools you will use to conduct certain types of neuroscience research and critically think about the world around us. You will learn about huge breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain, both in the past and at this moment. You will work with large data sets and quantify real data. You will learn skills to help you better assess journal articles describing research conducted by other scientists, analyze the results of experiments graphically and statistically, and present your findings via written papers and PowerPoint presentations. Deeply significant ethical challenges will be discussed and influence your perspective of art, biotechnology, law, policy-making, science writing for the masses, and 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

224 Neuroscience Course Descriptions for business. This course has the potential to— thorough introduction to different classes Arts and Sciences figuratively and literally—change minds! of psychoactive compounds, including Fall semester. 4 credits drugs used in the treatment of psychiatric Prerequisites: BIOL2201, CHEM1102 and disorders as well as psychoactive drugs of PSYCH2802 abuse. Special topics of interest will include $85 Lab fee the study of pharmacological treatments available for major psychiatric disorders NEURO3137 Medical Neuroscience such as schizophrenia, mood and anxiety This course is designed with the future disorders. Upon completion of this course, m­ edical student and health professional in students will be able to define and discuss mind. Lecture content will focus on diseases the principles of the pharmacotherapy and disorders of the nervous system. Clinical currently available for the treatment of case studies will be discussed, thus making major psychiatric disorders, as well as the this a good course for pre-med students. underlying mechanisms of drugs of abuse, While there is no separate laboratory, and will be able to interpret and critically s­ tudents will participate in class on group evaluate new findings in the field. projects working on clinical cases as if Spring semester, alternate years, expected they were working in the medical field. This spring 2019. 4 credits course is an upper-level elective course for Prerequisites: PSYCH2229 or BIOL2201 completing the neuroscience concentration. and CHEM1101 and CHEM1102 or Fall semester, alternate years, expected permission of instructor fall 2020. 4 credits Prerequisite: BIOL2201 or permission of NEURO4160 Senior Seminar in instructor Neuroscience Students read and discuss current research NEURO3205 Neuroendocrinology and give in-depth oral presentations. Topics This course will examine the relationships may include: human genetic disorders, between hormones, the brain and behavior. endocrinology, biochemistry of development, We will approach this from a biological neuroscience, molecular biology, psychology perspective, thus we will begin reproductive physiology, genomics, cancer with an overview of the anatomy and biology, advanced physiology or others. physiology of the endocrine systems, the The neuroscience seminar section satisfies chemistry of hormones, and the cellular the ­seminar requirement for biology and and molecular features of hormone action. ­psychology majors with a concentration We will follow by looking at a number of in neuroscience. behaviors and their regulation by hormones. Spring semester. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Required of all senior biology majors Prerequisite: PSYCH2209 or BIOL2201 and Prerequisites: BIOL2123 and BIOL2131 or sophomore standing CHEM2111 or permission of instructor Neuroscience Seminar section prerequisite: NEURO3214 Psychopharmacology BIOL2201 or PSYCH2209 or permission of The framework of the course includes: (1) instructor Introduction to the principal concepts in pharmacology, such as pharmacokinetics, NEURO4282/NEURO4283 ­Research pharmacodynamics and drug-drug Internship I and II interactions. (2) A brief review of the Students interested in gaining research mechanisms of action of difference experience, preparing to take on post- drugs in the central nervous system. (3) A graduate clinical research positions, getting Emmanuel College

Nursing 225 a Ph.D. in any psychology subfield, and/or NURSING wishing to develop a broad set of skills for careers in research, marketing or business NURS1000 Nursing Seminar I should take this course. Students will This class focuses on assisting the develop research skills, write an APA style nursing student to acquire essential skills, research paper and engage in professional techniques and behaviors that will lead to positions. Students will work as a research success as a student, a lifelong learner and a assistant either on campus with a faculty beginning member of the nursing profession. member or off campus at any number of 1 credit sites (e.g., Children’s Hospital, Mass Mental Health). Students will have the opportunity NURS2000 History and Theory in to either (a) develop and implement their Nursing/Service own research study under the supervision This course provides a broad overview and of another researcher or (b) participate synthesis of the issues and trends most in executing an existing research study. relevant to the practice of professional Students will gain significant exposure to nursing. Historical, theoretical, research process (e.g., developing research contemporary and potential influences on questions, methodologies) through their professional nursing practice are reviewed. internship site and in the class. An emphasis on the unique and varied roles of nurses in today’s interdisciplinary health Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits care environment are examined within the context of individual, family, community, and (8 credits total) global health. 1 credit Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH1501, Prerequisites: NURS1000 PSYCH2801, PSYCH2802, attendance at (1) NURS2100 Pathophysiology This course examines selected capstone information session, application pathophysiological concepts within a nursing framework. The course will incorporate submission by the Friday before Spring Break, holistic aspects of disease process. Concepts include genetics, mechanisms of and senior status. Students who wish to study disease causation, genetics and genomics, immune processes, cellular growth/ abroad during their junior year must submit proliferation, circulation, oxygenation and alterations in renal, neurological and their application by the Friday before Winter endocrine functions. The effects of various environmental factors and physiological Break. Credit granted upon completion and compensatory changes will be examined. Adaptive responses across the life span are acceptance of the work. addressed for each system. 4 credits Prerequisites: NURS2000 Course Descriptions for Concurrently with NURS2200,2300 and 2400 Arts and Sciences 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

226 Nursing Course Descriptions for NURS2200 Health Assessment communication, teaching/learning, Arts and Sciences This course introduces health assessment critical thinking, ethical-legal, cultural and wellness concepts. The focus of this diversity, nursing history, and the program’s course is on the development of beginning philosophy of nursing. Additionally, this skills in assessing health across the course introduces psychomotor nursing lifespan with an emphasis on physical skills needed to assist individuals in meeting examination techniques and clinical basic human needs. Skills necessary decision making based on findings. Topics for maintaining microbial, physical, and include the multitude of variables that psychological safety are introduced contribute to wellness, the use of the nursing along with skills needed in therapeutic process, interacting with clients using interventions. At the conclusion of this appropriate communication skills, taking course students demonstrate competency an accurate health history and establishing in performing basic nursing skills for an appropriate data base using current individuals with common health alterations. informatics for correct documentation of obtained information. 6 credits 4 credits Prerequisites: NURS2000 Prerequisites: NURS2000 Concurrently with NURS2100,NURS2200 and Concurrently with NURS2100,2300 and 2400 NURS2300 NURS2300 Pharmacology NURS3100 Adult Health I (Clinical) This course focuses on the chemical and This course emphasizes development of physical characteristics of therapeutic the professional role of the nurse as a drugs as well as their physiological impact provider and manager of care. The student on clients of all ages. General principles will utilize the nursing process to provide of pharmacology and the key categories evidence-based care with a focus on of commonly used drugs to treat a broad the social, physical, psychological and range of pathophysiological conditions will spiritual responses of individuals and be included. The therapeutic use of drugs caregivers to disease processes, as well as essential for current nursing practice will be health promotion. The student will employ examined. Clinical, legal and ethical decision effective communication and critical making related to drug administration will be reasoning to provide patient centered care covered. encompassing ethical decision-making and appreciation of human diversity. The 4 credits application of standards for professional nursing practice will be expected. The clinical Prerequisites: NURS2000 component involves experience in an acute care environment, in which the nursing Concurrently with NURS2100,2200 and 2400 process is implemented in interdisciplinary collaboration with other healthcare NURS2400 Intro to Nursing (Clinical) professionals. This course introduces the beginning 8 credits student to the nursing profession, providing Prerequisites: NURS2100, NURS2200, both a historical perspective and a focus on NURS2300 and NURS2400 the current state of the nursing profession and its alignment with the most recent NURS3200 Nursing Research trends in healthcare. The role of the nurse This course is an introduction to the process as a member of the healthcare team is of scientific inquiry and its application emphasized. Students are introduced to the concepts of client needs, safety, Emmanuel College

Nursing 227 to nursing practice. The focus is on the manage and prevent error in the healthcare Course Descriptions for identification of researchable questions setting will also be emphasized. Arts and Sciences derived from nursing practice, the critical 6 credits examination of relevant research in the Prerequisite: NURS3100 literature, and the application of evidence- based practice to improve quality of care. NURS3500 Seminar III – Interprofessional/ 4 credits Comm/Death and Dying Prerequisites: MATH1117 This course explores aging concepts and their impact on health care of older adults NURS3300 Mental Health Nursing (Clinical) and their families. Individualized patient- This course focuses on the provision of centered nursing care as the standard of nursing intervention to clients experiencing practice for older adults will be addressed. mental health issues. In addition to Interprofessional, evidence-based strategies theoretical and clinical exposure to a for health promotion, disease prevention, broad range of psychiatric conditions, the chronic illness management, palliative and connection of the mind-body, the importance end-of-life care are integrated. The key role of coping skills and stress management will of the nurse as member of the healthcare be explored. Interpersonal skill development team for promoting patient autonomy and and clinical decision making with this dignity across health-care settings will be population will be emphasized. discussed. 6 credits Prerequisite: NURS3100 Prerequisite: NURS3100 NURS3400 Adult Health II (Clinical) NURS3114 Culture and Diversity in Health This course will prepare the student for Care (Social Analysis) professional nursing practice in a tertiary This course focuses on understanding care setting and for collaborating with the diversity in nursing and health care. interdisciplinary health care team. The Theoretical bases in transcultural nursing, student will discuss evidence to achieve spirituality, and lifestyles are discussed and desired outcomes for patients with complex their impact on the provision of health care health problems. The student will develop services are analyzed. The genetic origins of clinical judgment and advance competence man as it relates to the commonality of all in creating strategies for patient centered races are explored. The use of music, art, care. Strategies for patient advocacy in literature, and healing/touch modalities that promoting patient preferences for care will enhance care giving and healing response be evaluated. Evidence-based practice will of individuals will be studied. Contemporary guide the delivery of patient care. The clinical interventions addressing complementary experience will allow the student to apply therapies and cultural practices including: current evidenced based practice to patient Reiki, acupressure, Tai Chi, yoga, and family care situations. The student meditation, guided imagery, homeopathy, will be encouraged to utilize theoretical herbal medicine, food supplements, and concepts to develop clinical judgment and aromatherapy will be reviewed as it relates to decision-making skills, appreciate the the care of the mind, body, and patient health ethical implications of nursing actions and outcomes. There will be a travel option with develop an understanding of the role of the this course. nurse as an active member of the health care team. The use of technology to communicate, Prerequisite: NURS3100 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

228 Nursing Course Descriptions for NURS3600 Maternity and Women’s Health/ course examines how the professional nurse Arts and Sciences Peds (Clinical) works collaboratively within the structure This course focuses on the care and of a health care organization. Emphasis interventions to support the health needs will be on leadership and organizational of women, children and their families. theories and their relationship to managing Strategies to promote health are presented people, positive problem solving/ decision in relation to childbearing and childhood making, conflict resolution, appropriate illness/development. The course will stress delegation and effective communication the development of clinical judgement to with all members of the health care team. meet the physiological and psychological The use of self-assessment to facilitate the needs of families and will provide clinical development of leadership/ management opportunities to care for these clients in skills will be incorporated. different venues across the wellness-illness continuum. Collaboration with patients, Prerequisite: NURS3600 and 3700 families and the interdisciplinary health care team is promoted in order to provide quality NURS4400 Transition to Practice nursing care. Ethical and legal concerns This course will assist the student in and the exploration of cultural influences preparation for the NCLEX-RN, which on family-centered care are analyzed in this authorizes the graduate for entry level course. Evidence-based practice will guide practice. The student will evaluate readiness the delivery of patient care. for transition to professional practice through regular practice with NCLEX Prerequisite: NURS3300 and 3400 style questions and standardized NCLEX preparatory products. Activities will assist NURS3700 Nursing in the Community the student in analyzing individual strengths (Clinical) and areas for development. Engagement This course identifies current nursing through class discussions and case concepts and focuses on their applications presentations required. in public health and community settings with individuals, families, and at-risk populations. Prerequisite: NURS3600 and 3700 The dynamics of health promotion and prevention as impacted by global, societal NURS4500 Nursing Synthesis & Capstone and cultural influences will be explored. (Clinical) A variety of community agencies will be This course is designed to facilitate utilized. Students will discuss topics such professional development and/or transition as systems of health care delivery finance, into practice. Experiences provide for community assessment, teaching and continued clinical exposure that will assist learning processes, families, cultures, the student in further development of the vulnerable populations, environment, nursing generalist role and build upon communicable diseases, epidemiology, and previously attained nursing knowledge research that impacts community health. and skills. Opportunities for leadership and management development, as well as Prerequisite: NURS3300 and 3400 decision making are encouraged through participation in the delivery of health NURS3800 Seminar IV: Leadership and services and nursing care. Professional Practice Focused on the role of professional nurse Prerequisite: NURS3600 and 3700 in a leadership/ management position. The Emmanuel College

Philosophy 229 PHILOSOPHY artistic merit are culturally determined. Course Descriptions for Spring semester. 4 credits Arts and Sciences PHIL1101 Introduction to Philosophy (M) This general introduction to philosophy is PHIL1115 Recent Moral Issues (M) divided into two parts. First is an historical The nature of ethical decision making is survey, which considers central ideas first discussed. Skills of moral reasoning from leading philosophers throughout are then applied to various issues such as its history. Next is a topical part, which capital punishment, euthanasia, abortion, considers philosophical problems in areas world hunger, preferential treatment such as epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and discrimination, pornography and philosophy of mind and political philosophy censorship, environmental ethics, war and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits. terrorism, reproductive technology, genetic engineering, animal rights, and the legal­ PHIL1103 Philosophy of Religion (R) ization of drugs. This course examines philosophical Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits questions about God and religion. It will clarify the concepts of God in the great PHIL1116 Ethics in Science (M) religious traditions stemming from Abraham In this course we will investigate the and examine the classic arguments designed ways that science, typically regarded as to prove that this God exists. Additional ‘objective’ and/or ‘morally neutral’ domain, topics discussed are miracles, the possibility may actually have a significant normative of life after death, the natural evils dimension including, but not limited to, its embedded in God’s creation, the tension impact on human society. In particular, we between modern science and religion, and will inquire into the ethics involved in how the atheistic c­ ritiques of Nietzsche and science has been (and is) framed as an Freud. objective discipline, how ethical judgments Fall semester. 4 credits are involved in determining ‘proper’ goal(s) science and scientific research, how PHIL1112 Aesthetics (AI-L) scientific standards/values may, in fact, The philosophical field of aesthetics has be normative standards (e.g. honesty, a long history that includes contributions carefulness, openness) as well as particular from some of the most prominent ethical issues that arise in science such philosophers of Western history. The class as the moral permissibility of human and will explore a variety of key areas regarding animal experimentation, the privatization ­aesthetics, including the nature of beauty, of research, bias and conflicts of interest. the grounds of aesthetic judgment, and Finally we look into the moral dilemmas the various functions of art in society, with scientists confront (e.g. issues related ­reference to some of the most important to social responsibility such as providing texts of aesthetic philosophy. The course testimony as an expert in the legal and/ takes a historical approach, beginning with or political sphere, participating in military classical ideas of aesthetics in antiquity, research, etc.) through the early-modern period, and Spring semester. 4 credits concluding with aesthetics theory in the modern era. Controversial questions also PHIL1201 Global Ethics (M) will be examined, such as whether artistic This course examines what various cultures evaluations can possibly be objective, or consider to be a good moral life. It examines whether determinations of beauty and both the moral principles offered by many 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

230 Philosophy Course Descriptions for cultures to determine right from wrong, deliberation and ethical decision making. Arts and Sciences and the values that they believe we ought Fall semester. 4 credits to pursue to lead full, rich and happy lives. Moral traditions considered include PHIL2101 Problems in Philosophy (M) European, Asian, Arab, African, Latin This course discusses fundamental American, Caribbean, and Native American. problems in philosophy, the nature of reality, In this global age, multicultural ethical views the existence of God, the nature of the self, will deepen a student’s appreciation of major life after death, the nature and foundations ethical traditions from ­various c­ ultures, of society, right and wrong, good and evil, the serve as a foundation for further exploration, meaning of life and the nature of knowledge. and develop moral r­ easoning and critical- Major philosophers from various ­historical thinking skills. periods are discussed but the ­emphasis is Fall semester. 4 credits on how answers to their questions affect the basic beliefs and world view of students. PHIL1205 Health Care Ethics (M) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits After an overview of the various normative frameworks for making moral decisions PHIL2104 Theories of Human Nature (M) and judgments that moral philosophies and This course is an introduction to a wide moral theologies propose, the course will ­variety of views on how human beings focus on intelligent decision making about ­understand human nature. It will consider the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise the accounts of Confucianism, Hinduism, the in the field now known as bioethics. Among Bible, the early Greeks (Plato and ­Aristotle), the topics considered are: patient choices Darwin, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and informed consent, proxy decision Freud, Hume and Skinner. The course ­making, advance directives, brain death, will conclude with an overview of some withholding life-prolonging treatments and contemporary issues and topics: gender, feeding tubes, diagnostic and experimental sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and interventions on human embryos, cloning, cognitive science. artificial reproductive techniques, surrogate Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits motherhood, preimplantation and prenatal testing, treatment and destruction (abortion) PHIL2106 Ethics (M) of fetuses, treatment of seriously d­ efective This course addresses some fundamental babies, euthanasia and physician-assisted questions about the “Good Life” and suicide, medical research on human what makes life worth living. Students will subjects, transplanting organs from dead explore questions about what makes an and living donors, the ethical implications of ­action “right” or “wrong,” what makes us genetic medicine and genomic information, happy, what kinds of qualities a person and the ethical issues arising in m­ anaged should have, and how we should treat care payment systems. other people. The course will begin with an Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits examination of various conceptions of the good life and what it means to be virtuous. PHIL1207 Ethics at Work (M) This will be followed by a discussion of After a brief introduction to moral theory the central moral theories that continue and moral reasoning the course will examine to influence contemporary discussions some typical ethical issues that arise in about ethics: Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, managing organizations. Case studies Utilitarianism, and Immanuel Kant’s will help students develop their skills in Deontology. Throughout the semester, we Emmanuel College

Philosophy 231 will also consider the ways in which feminist recognition that we are inescapably Course Descriptions for and non-Western perspectives both parallel responsible—responsible for our outlook Arts and Sciences and challenge some of the ideals of Western on life, respon­sible for what we do and do moral philosophy. not do, responsible for the kind of person we Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall are, and responsible for what we become 2020. 4 credits in life. It’s up to us, no matter what the circumstances, to find meaning and value PHIL2108 Critical Thinking (M) in our lives. This course will examine major The goal of this course is to improve skills themes of existentialism in the writings of critical thinking. Students learn to of Kierke­gaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, define concepts accurately, to examine Jaspers, Sartre, Camus, Marcel, and Frankl. assumptions of their thinking, to be aware Spring semester. 4 credits of various points of view, to reason correctly and ­evaluate the reasoning of others, and PHIL2203 Philosophy of Law (M) to examine the logical consequences and This course begins with a general ­interconnections of their beliefs. Students introduction to the central concepts and practice various techniques to improve issues in philosophy of law. After some ­problem-solving skills and their ability to consideration of the history of legal think creatively. philosophy, it next discusses such topics Spring semester. 4 credits as the nature of judicial decision making, legal responsibility, various theories of PHIL2119 Symbolic Logic (QA) punishment, and the basis of various The study of logic can make a deep and rights, such as property rights and the l­asting contribution to the intellectual life of right to privacy. The last part of the course every student. Knowledge of the principles discusses some of the various ways that the of clear and accurate thinking are required relationship between ethics and the law has to evaluate information and judge between been understood. competing cognitive claims. The study of Fall semester. 4 credits symbolic logic is an especially effective way to develop the higher order reasoning skills PHIL3106 Twentieth Century Analytic which such abilities require. Both categorical Philosophy logic and propositional logic are examined Analytic Philosophy is a name for a method in this course, which will focus on how to of doing philosophy that was developed symbolize arguments and construct proofs in the early 20th century, especially in of their validity. Topics discussed include Britain and America, where it remains the syllogisms, sentential connectives, truth predominant approach today. While there tables, quantification, rules of ­inference, are many different approaches, they are formal and informal proofs, and criteria for united in the belief that philosophy should proper definitions. not be about creating grand theories about Fall semester. 4 credits reality, but that they should concentrate on more narrow problems. Moreover, these PHIL2201 Existentialism and the Meaning problems are especially problems about of Life (M) how we do or should use language. This Existentialism, unlike many technical and course traces the development of analytic academic philosophical movements, is a philosophy through the 20th century and philosophy of life. It begins with the discusses its contemporary influence. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

232 Philosophy Course Descriptions for Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall PHIL3115 Ancient and Medieval Arts and Sciences 2020. 4 credits. Philosophy Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of This course is a textual analysis of ancient instructor philosophy, including the pre-Socratic philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and PHIL3109 Philosophy of Mind the Stoics. Medieval philosophers studied This course will begin by discussing the include Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure and problem of how mental phenomena fit into Aquinas. a physical universe. The past century’s Spring semester, alternate years, expected most influential responses to the problem spring 2020. 4 credits will be discussed: behaviorism, the identity Prerequisite: Junior status or permission theory, and functionalism. Next, topics of instructor such as whether computers could ever have thoughts or consciousness, the extent to PHIL3215 Modern Philosophy which our thoughts and experiences depend This course is an examination of some on the nature of our environment, and how c­ entral ideas of major modern philosophers, it is that the mental causally interacts with including Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, the physical, will be discussed. Additional Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant, as well ­questions to be explored include: What is as associated authors. These philosophers consciousness? What is the mind-body greatly influenced the development of problem? Are mental states identical with the contemporary mind. Emphasis is on neural states? Is there something it is like epistemology and metaphysics, especially to be in a mental state? What is the problem the rationalist and empiricist traditions, of mental causation? We will consider some with some discussion of political philosophy. of the most important historical answers Students will read original texts and, with offered to the topics and questions above, as the help of background readings, interpret well as some of the views philosophers have their meaning and significance. developed in response to the contemporary Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall sciences of the mind. 2019. 4 credits Spring semester, alternate years, expected Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of spring 2020. 4 credits instructor Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of instructor PHIL4178-4179 Directed Study Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits PHIL3110 Philosophy of Psychiatry Prerequisite: Permission of instructor This course will examine philosophical questions raised by mental disorder and our PHIL4999 Senior Seminar in Philosophy attempts to understand and treat it. Topics Topics in major areas of philosophy will be explored include the mind/body problem, discussed. A major paper and presentation self-consciousness, the unity of the mind, are required. This course fulfills the and diagnostic practice. capstone requirement in philosophy. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall Spring semester. 4 credits 2019. 4 credits. Prerequisite: Open only to senior philosophy Prerequisites: Junior status or permission of majors instructor Emmanuel College

Physics 233 PHYSICS structure; the fate of the universe; extrasolar Course Descriptions for planets and the possibility of life in the Arts and Sciences PHYS1110 Introduction to Physical universe. Three hours lecture, two hours Sciences (SI-L) laboratory. (Cross listed with CHEM1110) Fall semester, alternate years, expected This course is an introduction to physical fall 2019. 4 credits science. Students will learn how to $85 lab fee apply scientific concepts to create and understand scientific explanations of PHYS1121 Energy and the physical phenomena. Topics covered will Environment (SI-L) include: motion, energy, heat, light, basic In this course, students study energy use, electricity, physical and chemical changes. production, and environmental effects. This course is required for those planning on Topics may include, but are not limited teaching at the elementary school level. This to energy basics, fossil fuels, alternative course is taught in a workshop format which energy (solar, wind, biomass, etc.), nuclear integrates lecture and laboratory so that energy, acid rain, ozone depletion, climate students will develop their understanding and global climate change. The class will through hands-on experiments. Equivalent focus on scientific and quantitative issues, of three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. however, political and social aspects will Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits also be touched upon. Three hours ­lecture, $85 lab fee two hours laboratory. Fall semester, alternate years, expected PHYS1116 Astronomy (SI) fall 2020. 4 credits This course is the same as PHYS1117, $85 lab fee but without the laboratory component. This course gives the student a tour of the PHYS1122 Energy and the universe, from our Sun and Solar System Environment (SI) to the very edge of space and time itself. This course is the same as PHYS1121, Topics may include, but are not limited to the but without the laboratory component. ­ eight planets; our Sun and the structure of Students study energy use, production, the stars; nuclear fusion as a stellar energy and environmental effects. Topics include: source; stellar evolution; the Milky Way; energy basics, fossil fuels, alternative galaxies and galaxy evolution; large scale energy (solar, wind, biomass, etc.), nuclear structure; the fate of the universe; extrasolar energy, acid rain, ozone depletion, climate planets and the possibility of life in the uni- and global warming. The class will focus on verse. Three hours lecture. scientific and quantitative issues, however, Fall semester, alternate years, expected political and social aspects will also be fall 2019. 4 credits touched upon. Three hours lecture. Fall semester, alternate years, expected PHYS1117 Astronomy (SI-L) fall 2020. 4 credits This course gives the student a tour of the universe, from our Sun and Solar System PHYS2201 General Physics I (Calculus to the very edge of space and time itself. based) (SI-L) Topics may include, but are not limited to the This course is a mathematical treatment eight planets; our Sun and the structure of of introductory physics using calculus. the stars; nuclear fusion as a stellar energy This course provides an introduction to the source; stellar evolution; the Milky Way; classical mechanics of particles and rigid galaxies and galaxy evolution; large scale bodies. Topics include: vectors, momentum, energy, angular momentum, conservation 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

234 Physics laws, basic thermodynamics, Newton’s PHYS4178-4179 Directed Study laws of motion, statics, projectile motion, This is an independent study of material not oscillations, and orbits. Three hours lecture, included in existing courses. three hours laboratory. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: Permission of department Prerequisites: MATH1111, MATH1112 $85 lab fee PHYS2202 General Physics II (Calculus based) (SI-L) This course is a mathematical treatment of introductory physics using calculus. This course provides an introduction to the classical theories of electromagnetism and optics. Topics include: electrostatistics, electric and magnetic fields, electric circuits, magnets, Maxwell’s equations, waves, optics, interference, and diffraction. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: PHYS2201, MATH1111, MATH1112 $85 lab fee Course Descriptions for PHYS 2410 Indonesia: Sustainability Sci- Arts and Sciences ence (SI-L) This course provides an introduction to the science of sustainability and to selected issues in sustainable development. We fill focus on topics that are of major importance to Indonesia: (1) deforestation, (2) urbaniza- tion, and (3) depletion of marine resources. We will study three geographical regions of Indonesia as case studies: Borneo (de- forestation), Java (urbanization), and Bali (the oceans). We will examine the causes of these processes and their effects on people and the environment. Proposals for sustain- able solutions to the problems posed will also be evaluated. In the travel component of this course we will visit these regions to see the facts on the ground and how Indone- sians are trying to find their own solutions. Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2021. 4 credits Emmanuel College

Political Science 235 POLITICAL SCIENCE underlie contemporary ideologies. Special Course Descriptions for attention will be placed on the theoretical Arts and Sciences POLSC1201 Introduction to American background that ultimately deals with the Politics and Government (SA) complex triangular relationship between the This course offers an overview of the individual, society, and the state. American political system. Included are Spring semester. 4 credits examinations of the American presidency, Congress, political parties, interest groups, POLSC2203 Political Socialization the courts and the mass media. Students Political socialization, the “people-oriented” analyze the way in which American explanation of political events, is concerned society attempts to realize the goals of a with the knowledge, values and beliefs of constitutional democracy, as well as the the average citizen. What do citizens successes and failures of the system. demand of their government? Under what Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits conditions are they willing to support its leaders? What is the relationship between POLSC1301 Introduction to Comparative citizens’ attitudes and the way the state Government and Politics (SA) operates? How are political standards This course offers a comparative analysis and beliefs transmitted from generation of the structure and operation of selected to generation? By what agents? These European, African, Latin American and Asian questions are addressed throughout the governments. Emphasis is placed on the semester. structure, functions and operations of the Fall semester, alternate years, expected political systems in each country. fall 2019. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits POLSC2207 Politics and the Media POLSC1401 Introduction to International This course examines the impact the mass Relations (SA) media has on the workings of the American The course introduces students to the political system. The course investigates dynamics of the interrelationships in the the continually increasing influence of international arena. It examines the inter­ the media in terms of its interaction with actions of states and international organi­ political institutions, its role in campaigning, zations as well as sub-national actors such its use by politicians and office-holders, as guerrilla groups. The course explores its effect upon recent trends in the political the theoretical concepts used to explain arena (e.g., its treatment of violence, riots, the international system and applies them etc.) and possible future effects. to international politics today in Europe, Spring semester, alternate years, expected the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin spring 2020. 4 credits America. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits POLSC2211 Campaign Strategies and Electoral Politics POLSC1501 Political Theory This course will undertake an examination of This survey course will provide an intro­ the motivations that propel voters to choose duction to major political philosophers, the winning candidate or campaign in ­concepts, and to competing ideologies on Electoral politics. We will utilize current and political science by presenting some of the recent American elections on the national, fundamental theoretical schools and by state, and local levels, to evaluate whether examining many of the approaches that campaign strategy or candidate-appeal 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

236 Political Science Course Descriptions for determine the Electoral outcome.  Party POLSC2232 Parties and Interests in Arts and Sciences affiliation, issue importance and campaign American Politics: Polarized America techniques will be reviewed as to determine It is perceived that America is indeed a what factors contribute to a successful polarized nation. This course investigates campaign strategy. A main goal of the this possibility through the prism of political course is to intrigue students as campaign parties and interest groups. Parties and participants through an understanding of interests arguably articulate the will of how to approach campaigns. the people, and will be assessed in their Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall role in government, the electorate, and as 2020. 4 credits organizations. This course will explore these institutions to assess the relative strength POLSC2225 The 1960s and influences of these groups and to see to The decade of the 1960s represents dif- what degree America is a polarized nation. ferent things to different generations. The Prerequisite: POLSC1201 decade was a combination of a peculiar set Spring semester, alternate years, expected of events, conflicts and emotions. To those spring 2021. 4 credits who lived through it, it was a difficult ­period in time. Yet now there is a nostalgia about it. POLSC2301 Politics of Race and Ethnicity in For those who did not live through it, there is Latin America often a sense of “lost moments.” This course The mosaic of identities in Latin America, shall explore the many events, personalities has been forged by geopolitical, geo- and movements that constitute the unique eonomic and social imperatives has been period of the 1960s. a prominent contributor to the political Spring semester, alternate years, expected transformation of the region. In this course spring 2020. 4 credits we will examine the forces of identity that influence the politics of 21st century Latin POLSC2228 Federalism through State and America. Although race and ethnicity will Local Government be the major focus, other dimensions This course will explore the relationship of identity, such as gender, religion and between national, state, and local authority sexual orientation, will also be addressed with an emphasis on the latter two as they influence the formation of political levels of governance. The bulk of public culture and public policy. This course will policies affecting the lives of citizens are extend beyond the classroom in a number implemented at the state and local levels, of ways, most importantly with travel to yet it is not always clear which level of the Caribbean island of Cuba, which is an government has ultimate jurisdiction, excellent case to illustrate the complexity creating periodic conflict over contested of identity politics in political, economic and ground; which is the essence of the evolution social development. of federalism in America. A focus on state Travel component to Cuba during and local governments is essential to intersession required. become more knowledgeable about public Fall semester, alternate years, fall 2020. policy and the American federal system. 4 credits Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2021. 4 credits POLSC2302 European Politics: From Transition to Integration Comparative study of politics in several Western European countries, with an Emmanuel College

Political Science 237 emphasis on political development, people and governments of the area. Lastly, Course Descriptions for institutions, major issues in contemporary students will look at the implications for Arts and Sciences politics, and the impact of European the United States of the complexities of this integration. Special attention will be paid region—its challenges and its promise. to the issue of Europe-making related to Fall semester, alternate years, expected the post-EU/NATO enlargement and the fall 2020. 4 credits post-9/11 situation and European-Atlantic ­relations. POLSC2413 International Law and­ Spring semester, alternate years, expected ­Institutions spring 2021. 4 credits In this course, students will examine the Prerequisite: POLSC1301 sources and historical foundations of contemporary International Law as well as POLSC2401 American Foreign Policy the international institutions most closely This course will examine when and how the associated with its application. Students United States acts in the world arena. We will gain an understanding of the role played will analyze the role of domestic politics, by state actors, international institutions the interpretation of the national interest, and NGOs in both the development of and the formulation of policy. international law and its application, as Fall semester, alternate years, expected well as of the difficulties of enforcing these fall 2019. 4 credits norms on sovereign states. This will be demonstrated through applied case studies POLSC2409 The Politics of International in specific areas of international law, such Economic Relations as humanitarian law, the Responsibility to This course will explore the interrelation- Protect Doctrine, the Law of Seas, the use of ships of economics and politics in interna- force, and the environmental law. tional arenas. Students will therefore study Spring semester, alternate years, expected the interdependence of economics, ques- spring 2020. 4 credits. tions of economic development, the power of multinational corporations, international POLSC2415 In the Footsteps of Thucydides trade and trade agreements, oligopolies, oil, The course examines the theoretical genesis environment and arms trade. of the dominant argument of International Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Relations, namely that of the Realist and Prerequisite: Either one economics or the Neorealist paradigm. Thucydides, an one political science course Athenian general and a combatant in the (Cross-referenced with ECON2113) “world war” of his day, which pinned two great alliances against each other and POLSC2411 The Contemporary Middle East: ultimately caused the demise of the entire Challenges and Promise city-state system, traces the seductive This course will introduce students to the lure of state power and its effects on states, political movements, conflicts and those who p­ ossess it as well as those who the possibilities for peace in the Middle East. seek it. Students will trace the footsteps Students will begin by examining the major of Thucydides through the pages of The international dynamics of the region, such Peloponnesian War and in Athens, Sparta as the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, the inter­ and Milos, where “the strong did as they actions of the Gulf Region, and the Syrian- wished and the weak suffered as they must.” Lebanese-Israeli triangle. The discussion will This course travels to Greece in March. then turn to the domestic political, social, and economic environment challenging the 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

238 Political Science Course Descriptions for Travel component required. of persuasion, leadership, organization, and Arts and Sciences Spring semester, alternate years, expected interpersonal communication. Students spring 2020. 4 credits will gain these skills through course assignments, and, most importantly, by POLSC2417 Statecraft and Globalization playing the role of United Nations delegates In a globalized political system, states’ at MUN and Crisis conferences during the ability to use statecraft is affected by the fall semester. You will have the opportunity condition of the international system and to represent EC as a delegate at Model the structure of alliance membership. UN and Crisis conferences locally as part The current Eurozone crisis that has at of the course. Students are responsible its e­ picenter the southern Mediterranean for attending classes, completing several littoral states of Portugal, Italy, Greece, assignments in preparation for attending and Spain (PIGS) presents interesting and participating in two Boston-area MUN dimensions of statecraft that states practice conference at Boston University and the within institutional arrangements such as Harvard National Model United Nations the European Union and NATO, at a time of conference in February, following the end of economic crisis. the semester. Travel component required. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall Summer 2020. 4 credits 2020. 4 credits Offered in Crete as part of Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies program POLSC2503 Revolution and Nationalism This course discusses the nature and causes POLSC2419 The Geopolitics of Democracy of rebellion and revolution with special In this course, we will examine the conflict of regard to the national self-assertion of geopolitical interests versus domestic forces ­societies emerging from imperialism since that challenge the modern state. We will World War I. begin by outlining the dominant arguments Spring semester, alternate years, expected that have defined the emergence of liberal spring 2021. 4 credits democracy as “the only game in town” as Prerequisite: POLSC1501 well as the new geopolitical “great game.” We will then proceed to examine how the POLSC2602 Introduction to Law and the coveting of energy highways within the new Judicial System geopolitical great game affects the domestic This course provides a general introduction political priority of democratic governance in to the study of law and the judicial process in the eastern Mediterranean. the U.S. It will explore the different areas of Travel component required. law, giving students an overview of the many Summer 2020. 4 credits different directions in which the study of law Offered in Crete as part of Eastern may take them. Mediterranean Security Studies program Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2020. 4 credits POLSC2421 Model United Nations The Model United Nations (MUN) course POLSC2603 Problems of Law and Society aims to increase the student’s knowledge The course evaluates the current ability of of international issues, policy making and legal institutions to deal with a variety of the activities of the United Nations. You will societal problems such as discrimination, also gain valuable skills in public speaking, child rights, the aged, drug addictions, AIDs, research and writing, negotiation and powers prisoner rights and rehabilitation, Emmanuel College

Political Science 239 and the environment. Lastly, the course examines policy measures Course Descriptions for Fall semester, alternate years, towards sustainable development. Arts and Sciences expected fall 2019. 4 credits Spring semester. 4 credits (Cross-referenced with SOC2705) POLSC2701 Research Methods in Political Science POLSC2801 Food Policy and Social Justice The aim of this course is to give students (SA) opportunities to conduct their own research ‘This course will explore food policy as an and to understand and use the research of issue of social justice. Politics involves others. Both qualitative and quantitative conflict over scarce resources. How these methods will be covered, including resources are allocated and to what library and archival research, legislative programs reveal the values of those making documents, election data, and multivariate the decisions. Food policy and social justice analysis. The immediate aim of the course will be explored through the political, is to provide students with the necessary economic, and social concerns of food tools to conduct research and to create production and consumption in the United substantive work in any of the sub-fields States, and its extension throughout the of Political Science, and thus to prepare globe. We will assess policy issues such them for their own Senior Seminar capstone as immigration, trade, the agro-industrial paper. Students will be encouraged to complex, labor, poverty, public health, and submit their Research Methods course for government initiatives to promote healthier presentation at a professional conference and more nutritious diets. In addition to a such as the Northeast Political Science comprehensive research paper, this course Association meeting. will include an experiential education Spring semester. 4 credits component that will take us out of the Prerequisites: MATH1117, at least one 1000- classroom and into the community to level Political Science course and sophomore explore how all aspects of food policy affects status people’s everyday lives. Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall POLSC2705 Sustainable Development: 2020. 4 credits Paradigms and Policies This interdisciplinary course examines the POLSC3160 American Political Thought idea and practice of sustainable develop- American political development is character­ ment in the global north and south from the ized by consensus and conflict—consensus perspectives of Economics, Political Science over a shared set of ideals and values; and Sociology. The course starts by ana- c­ onflict over how these values are to be lyzing definitions and theories underlying implemented in society. This trajectory of the concept of sustainable development. It consensus and conflict results in a society in continues to critically assess the sustain- which public policies do not always comport ability indices built on these different para- with American ideals. This course assesses digms before analyzing major sustainability debate over the meaning of American challenges such as population growth and political ideologies; as well as how the climate change. Students will also learn disenfranchised, those marginalized on the about the actors, processes and institutions basis of their ethnicity, national origin skin at the national and international levels that color, gender, sexual orientation, or play a significant role in sustainability policy. economic status have enhanced their rights over time. This course seeks to explore this 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

240 Political Science debate through an overview of American POLSC3209 Public Policy, the Law and political thought from the nation’s founding Psychology through present day. A close reading and Public policy and the law affect, and analysis of canonical documents will reveal a are affected by, many disciplines, with society often at struggle with itself while psychology playing an increasingly striving to attain certain ideals. prominent role in the legal system. One Spring semester, alternate years, expected cannot truly understand psychology, the spring 2020. 4 credits law, or public policy in the United States Prerequisite: POLSC1201 without understanding the interrelationships of these three realms of knowledge and POLSC3201 Congress, Representation and practice. This course the Legislative Process will explore the evolving interactions at The powers and duties of Congress are the t­ heoretical and practical level among delineated in Article 1 of the Constitution. psychology, law and public policy. This is a Congress has a unique role in the service-learning course, which requires two American political system by possessing to three hours per week devoted to working legislative, representative, and oversight at an appropriate site. responsibilities. It is accepted wisdom Spring semester, alternate years, expected that representatives want to get reelected, spring 2021. 4 credits but the question is how or in what acts do Prerequisites: POLSC1201, PSYCH1501, individual members engage to affect this PSYCH2203 or instructor permission. reality. As a result, this course focuses on Congress’s role in the formation, POLSC3301 Comparative Politics of enactment, and implementation of public ­Developing States policy in the United States from the This course explores various models of perspective of legislative agendas and goals. the government of changing societies, such Understanding the basic characteristics as those evolving out of revolution and and nature of Congress is critical to a fuller ­military juntas, as well as the politics of appreciation of the development of American ­economic and religious change. Africa, government and politics as Asia and Latin America are the areas of a whole. ­concentration. Spring semester, alternate years, expected Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall spring 2019. 4 credits 2020. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or permission Prerequisite: POLSC1301 or permission of instructor of instructor Course Descriptions for POLSC3202 The American Presidency POLSC3303 Street Democracy Arts and Sciences This course studies the development and This course focuses on protest movements contemporary importance of the Presidency and their role as interest articulation mech- as an institution of national and interna- anisms specifically within transitioning and tional leadership. consolidated democracies. The main ques- Fall semester, alternate years, expected tion that this course raises is: Do protest fall 2020. 4 credits movements work to hinder or enhance the Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or EDUC1111 or process of democratic consolidation, and permission of instructor to what extent? Comparative methods will be used to identify, compare and contrast Emmanuel College

Political Science 241 protest movements in Latin America and presentations of each ­student’s individual Course Descriptions for Europe. research papers. Arts and Sciences Fall semester, alternate years, expected Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall 2019. 4 credits fall 2019. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1301 Prerequisite: POLSC1401 or permission of instructor POLSC3403 Human Issues in ­International Relations POLSC3607 Constitutional Law Through the use of novels, films, biogra- Through an examination of Supreme Court phies, and special studies, students examine decisions, the first part of this course the phenomena which play an increasing explores the constitutional powers of the role in the world arena. These may include: Presidency, Congress, and the judiciary as nationalism, genocide, refugee movements, well as the c­ onstitutional relations between international intervention and women and states and the environment. the federal government. The second part of Spring semester, alternate years, expected the course will focus on individual rights spring 2020. 4 credits and freedoms. Prerequisite: POLSC1401 or permission Fall semester, alternate years, expected of instructor fall 2019. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or permission POLSC3405 Strategies of War and Peace of instructor This course emphasizes conflict resolution. It begins with the study of various methods POLSC4100 Senior Seminar and ­Internship of war then moves to the analysis of the in Political Science evolving methods of negotiation and This seminar is the senior capstone course reconciliation. The class will culminate with which allows students to apply their analyt- a month-long negotiation simulation working ical skills to practical situations. Students to resolve a contemporary conflict situation. will both participate in an internship and Spring semester, alternate years, expected meet as a seminar class. As often as pos- spring 2021. 4 credits sible the internship and required research Prerequisite: POLSC1401 or permission project should interrelate. Each student of instructor presents his/her research in the seminar and writes POLSC3407 People and Politics of the a senior thesis. Middle East Spring semester. 4 credits This course will be conducted as a seminar Prerequisite: INT1001 around one or more themes each time it is offered. The types of themes that may POLSC4178 Directed Study be rotated include: political reform in the Prerequisites: INT1001, permission Middle East; human rights in the Middle of department chair. 4 credits East; women in the Middle East; water in Offered as needed. 4 credits the Middle East; the Peace Process in the Palestinian-Israeli Dispute; U.S. policy in the Middle East; and political Islam in the Middle East. Students will lead and participate in discussions throughout the semester. The seminar will culminate with the 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

242 Psychology Course Descriptions for PSYCHOLOGY PSYCH2209 Physiological Bases Arts and Sciences of B­ ehavior (SI) PSYCH1501 General Psychology (SA) This course covers current knowledge con- This course introduces the broad field of cerning the relationship between anatomy psychology by surveying a wide range of and physiology on the one hand, and behav- topics, including personality, development, ior on the other. Although the focus is on the motivation, emotion, adjustment, cognition, central nervous system, other structures consciousness, the nature of psychological having wide ramifications for behavior, such research, social problems and behavioral as sex differentiation and cardiac, endocrine disorders. The objective is for students to and gastrointestinal systems, are studied. gain a base of knowledge, which they will Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits broaden and deepen in other ­psychology Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 courses. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits PSYCH 2211 Race, Gender and Sexuality: Intersection of Privilege and Oppression PSYCH2103 Relationships, Marriage (SA) and the Family (SA) Our social environments typically determine This course considers how intimate relation- the ways in which we are defined. For ships are formed, what makes a successful example, the expectations for appropriate relationship and how relationships fail. behavior for women and men are prescribed T­ opics include people’s choices of different by a given culture. These labels, in turn, lifestyles, sex and love, communication and have social consequences. Privilege refers conflict. Modern data is used to consider to advantages that are prescribed to changes in the typical family, the troubled people based upon their perceived group family and abuse, and racial and ethnic membership. In most societies, differences p­ atterns in family life. are transformed into inequalities. Whether Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits someone experiences privilege or oppression can depend on which aspects of our PSYCH2203 Social Psychology (SA) identities are salient in a given context. Social psychology deals with the study of Why does this take place? We will discuss people and the environmental contexts the causes and social manifestations of in which they live. Social psychology privilege/oppression as they relate to three encompasses a broad range of topics, aspects of three aspects of identity (race, including such areas as conformity, sex, sexuality) and their relationship to attitudes, gender, attraction and love, socioeconomic class and social power. We helping and aggression, and prejudice will read classic and contemporary theories and discrimination. Through lectures, and research, discuss the real implications discussions, demonstrations and group in people’s lives, and develop ideas for social activities, we will take a scientific a­ pproach change. to explore these everyday topics. We Spring semester, expected spring 2021. 4 will examine classic, as well as more credits contemporary, research in social psychology, critically evaluate this research and apply PSYCH2303 Child Psychology (SA) social psychological findings to real-world This course offers a comprehensive view situations. of the research and theory dealing with the Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits psychological development of the individual throughout childhood. Within these stages Emmanuel College the focus will be on the specifics of cognitive,

Psychology 243 emotional, physical, social and moral tasks Psycho­logical research on coping and Course Descriptions for of development. In addition to dealing with adaptation is applied to specific questions Arts and Sciences the key markers of the early life stages, of pain, illness and modern behavioral language development and the emergence medicine. of personality, appropriate applications Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits from research will be made to parenting and Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 educational situations. Recommended: PSYCH2209 or BIOL1501 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits PSYCH2801 Methods and Statistics I PSYCH2304 Adulthood and Aging This course will introduce psychology This course offers a comprehensive view students to the scientific method and the of the research and theory pertaining to the basics of conducting research, including developmental tasks of adulthood and the the use of appropriate measures, design later adult years. The focus is on normal and analyses. Students will learn to use adjustment processes, both biological PsychiNFO, follow the elements of the and psychological, from young adulthood, American Psychological Association’s through mid-life, to the end stages of life. sixth edition manual of style and Topics will include the biological process of compose a research report. Validity, aging, changes in emotional and cognitive reliability, descriptive statistics, sampling functions, relationships, parenting, mid-life distributions, ethics, simple measures, crises, life choices as to occupation and probability theory, hypothesis testing, basic retirement, coping and adaptation. inferential statistics, and the foundations of Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits a statistical package will be covered. Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math PSYCH2403 Adolescent Development (SA) placement exam, MATH1101 and PSYCH1501 This course studies the physical, cognitive, social and moral development from the PSYCH2802 Methods and Statistics II (QA) onset of adolescence to young adulthood. This course will begin where Methods The influence of heredity, family, culture, and Statistics I ended. It will cover non- school and peers will be discussed, experimental and experimental designs including common adolescent problems and introduce more complex methods as well as adolescent psychopathological including simple programming. Students disorders. Special emphasis will be placed will be expected to become proficient in on the characteristics and needs of early using a statistical package to analyze data. adolescents and the role of professionals in Between and within subject designs and adolescent assessment, coordination and their analogous techniques will be taught, education. followed by factorial design and two-way Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits analyses of variance. Use of frequency counts and non-parametric statistical PSYCH2405 Health Psychology techniques will be introduced. This course deals with the psychophysical Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits bases of health and illness. It considers Prerequisites: PSYCH1501 and PSYCH2801 health-enhancing and health-endangering behaviors, the causes of stress, ways of PSYCH3101 Seminar: Psychology of Women ­dealing with stress and the psychological The experiences of women, both as a group preparation for stressful situations. and as unique individuals, are an important focus of research by psychologists today. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

244 Psychology Course Descriptions for In this service-learning course, students for our thought, with the potential to extend, Arts and Sciences will examine critical issues in the field (e.g., refine, and direct thinking. Therefore the gender roles, body image, violence against interaction of language with other cognitive women), integrate research with applied abilities is the central focus of the course. resources and service in the Boston area, Psycholinguistics asks many important and develop educational programs on these questions like the following. How do people issues for adolescent girls. Classic and use language to understand each other? c­ ontemporary research will guide dialogues What enables children to learn to speak about specific issues women and girls face without someone explicitly teaching them as a group. Examining Boston’s resources the grammar? Why do people have so much (e.g., shelters) will allow students to study trouble to learn a second language in their how theoretical and empirical research is adulthood? What kind of trouble do brain- applied to real-world situations and affects damaged patients have with speaking and real individuals. Finally, students will work understanding? Are we able to develop with small groups of adolescent girls to robots to speak and understand as humans develop resources and programs that will do? And finally, does our language affect the ultimately benefit them and their peers. The way we think? In our course, we will focus on work accomplished in this service-learning the issues and debates that surround this seminar will reflect the core mission of social rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. awareness and social justice. Spring semester, alternate years, expected Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2020. 4 credits spring 2021. 4 credits Prerequisite: PSYCH2801 Prerequisites: Junior or senior status, PSYCH1501, or PSYCH2203 or permission of PSYCH3205 Neuroendocrinology instructor This course will examine the relationships between hormones, the brain and behavior. PSYCH3111 Cognition We will approach this from a biological This course is designed to introduce psychology perspective, thus we will begin ­students to cognitive psychology with an with an overview of the anatomy and emphasis on cognitive methods. Students physiology of the endocrine systems, the will examine internal mental processes chemistry of hormones, and the cellular such as attention, memory, language, and and molecular features of hormone action. reasoning. At all times, students will be We will follow by looking at a number of challenged to make links between cognitive behaviors and their regulation by hormones. theory, research, and methods. Fall semester. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: PSYCH2209 or BIOL2201 and Prerequisites: PSYCH1501, PSYCH2801 sophomore standing PSYCH3201 Psychology of Language PSYCH3210 Child Psychopathology This course introduces the psychology This course provides an introduction to of language or psycholinguistics. The the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment use of language distinguishes humans of childhood mental health disorders. from animals. Although some animal Additionally, the risk and protective factors communication systems may be considered associated with child psychopathology as rudimentary forms of language, human· will be reviewed. The course will use language differs sharply from animal a developmental psychopathological communications in its cognitive and social framework to examine childhood mental functions, and it is also an important vehicle illness. Emmanuel College

Psychology 245 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits PSYCH4178 Directed Study Course Descriptions for Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 or PSYCH2203 and A student, with departmental approval, Arts and Sciences sophomore standing may pursue research or applied experience in a specialized area in psychology under the PSYCH3211 Theories of Personality personal direction of one or more members This course presents the major features of the department. of several important personality theories, including the psychoanalytic, the humanist Offered as needed. 4 credits and the cognitive-behavioral. Emphasis will be given to contemporary and Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or psychodynamic theories. Case studies will be used to clarify, compare and contrast ­permission of instructor different theoretical approaches. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits PSYCH4282/PSYCH4283 ­Research Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 and sophomore Internship I and II standing Students interested in gaining research experience, preparing to take on post- PSYCH3212 Adult Psychopathology graduate clinical research positions, getting This course studies mental deviation from a Ph.D. in any psychology subfield, and/or normal adult behavior; the etiology and wishing to develop a broad set of skills for description of various symptom categories, careers in research, marketing or business including the changes brought about by should take this course. Students will D.S.M. IV; major explanatory systems, meth- develop research skills, write an APA style ods of diagnosis and study of abnormal men- research paper and engage in professional tal processes, and methods of treatment positions. Students will work as a research and rehabilitation. assistant either on campus with a faculty Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits member or off campus at any number of Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 and sophomore sites (e.g., Children’s Hospital, Mass Mental standing Health). Students will have the opportunity to either (a) develop and implement their PSYCH3601 Counseling Theories and own research study under the supervision Techniques of another researcher or (b) participate This course provides an introduction to in executing an existing research study. the theories and techniques of behavior Students will gain significant exposure to change and psychotherapy. Students will research process (e.g., developing research be exposed to various schools of thought, questions, methodologies) through their with greater emphasis on empirically internship site and in the class. v­ alidated treatments. Specific skills in ­interviewing and clinical techniques will Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits be learned through role-plays and classroom demonstrations. (8 credits total) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH1501, Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 or sophomore PSYCH2801, PSYCH2802, attendance at (1) standing capstone information session, application Recommended: PSYCH3211, PSYCH3212 submission by the Friday before Spring Break, and senior status. Students who wish to study abroad during their junior year must submit their application by the Friday before Winter Break. Credit granted upon completion and acceptance of the work. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

246 Sociology PSYCH4284 Research Internship during their junior year must submit their This capstone involves supervised application by the Friday before Winter Break. experience in research settings designed for Credit granted upon completion and acceptance Psychology majors. This specific course is of the work. for those students who, by exception, need only one semester of a research internship. PSYCH4496 Applied Internship Students are required to complete 250 This course is for those students who, hours at their sites. Students work as a by exception, need only one semester of research assistant either on campus with internship. This course involves supervised a faculty member or off campus at any experience in practical or clinical settings number of research settings. Students have designed for psychology majors. Students the opportunity to either (a) develop and are required to complete 250 hours at implement their own research study under their sites. the supervision of another researcher or (b) Fall semester. 4 credits participate in executing an existing research Prerequisites: INT1001, six courses in study. psychology including PSYCH2801, PSYCH2802, and permission of instructor. Senior status Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits required. Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH2801, PSYCH4478 Senior Directed Study A student, with departmental approval, may pursue research in a specialized area in psychology under the personal direction of one or more members of the department. Offered as needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: Senior status Course Descriptions for PSYCH4494/PSYCH4495 Applied Internship Arts and Sciences I and II This course involves supervised work e­ xpe­- rience in clinical or social service-o­ riented placements. Over the course of two semesters with the guidance of the ­faculty and internship office, students are responsible for finding and arranging their own internship. Students are expected to be working at their sites by the end of the first week of classes (for a total of 125 hours per semester) and meet on campus for a weekly seminar. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits (8 credits total) Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH1501, PSYCH2801, PSYCH280, attendance at (1) information session, application submission by the Friday before Spring Break, and senior status. Students who wish to study abroad Emmanuel College

Sociology 247 SOCIOLOGY course begins by examining the research Course Descriptions for methods used by anthropologists before Arts and Sciences SOC1101 Introduction to turning to the comparative study of the Sociology: Analysis of Society in Global p­ erspectives and customs of various com­ Perspective (SA) munities. Students will compare different This course will help students to understand groups’ approaches to food production and the complexities of society by introducing consumption; child-rearing and family life; students to the discipline of sociology and its g­ ender and sexuality; and race, ethnicity and tools. Students will explore what society is, social class. what institutions are, and how they vary from Spring semester. 4 credits place to place and over time, how groups of people are divided within society, and how SOC1111 Introduction to Social Work these different groups behave and interact. This course provides an overview of social We will read works by major theorists and problems, social welfare systems, and researchers, and we will use the city of social work practice from both historical Boston as a lab in order to understand social and ­contemporary perspectives. Students issues on the local level. become familiar with interventions at Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits individual, ­family, community, and societal ­levels. Social work values and ethics provide SOC1105 Major Institutions in U.S. Society the framework for exploring fields of social (SA) work practice and work with vulnerable This course will introduce students to the populations. major institutions that underlie and organize Spring semester. 4 credits U.S. society. We will explore the government, the economy, the military, the system of SOC1203 Crime and Justice e­ ducation, and the prison system, as well as Sociology reminds us that the way in which a other institutions within the United States. society defines and responds to crime is This course will provide both sociologists a choice. This course examines the and non-sociologists with a framework for institutions of the U.S. criminal justice thinking about the major structures in U.S. system, focusing on law enforcement, society. We will explore how the institutions the courts, and corrections, with special are structured, how they came to look this emphasis on the sociological roles of crime way, and their differential implications for victims, police, prosecutors, jurors, judges, groups and individuals within the United wardens, probation, and parole officers States. within those institutions. Boston based Fall semester, alternate years, expected crimes and criminal justice responses will fall 2020. 4 credits receive particular focus. A cross-cultural perspective will also be introduced. SOC1107 Introduction to Fall semester. 4 credits Anthropology (SA) The goal of this course is to introduce SOC2100 Law and Society s­ tudents to the comparative study of Laws are a salient aspect part of our society human societies. With the help of hands-on as they guide our behavior and inform social research exercises, ethnographic accounts change. This course introduces students and video documentaries, students will to how sociologists think about the law explore the beliefs and cultural practices of and legal institutions by Examining the social groups from all parts of the world. The relationship between U.S. legal institutions and society from a sociological perspective. 2019-2020 Academic Catalog

248 Sociology Course Descriptions for The course introduces students to basic something fundamentally different about Arts and Sciences legal concepts and examines the social the cultural norms, institutions and social foundations of law; theories of law; the problems of this city? legal profession and the courts; and the Fall semester, alternate years, expected fall relationships between law, social control, 2020. 4 credits (in)equality and social change, especially pertaining to class, gender, race and SOC2103 Qualitative ­Methods Quantitative ethnicity. Methods Fall semester. 4 credits In this course, students will conduct Prerequisite: SOC1101 their own projects based on in-depth interviewing, participant observation or SOC2101 Criminology content analysis. Thus, students will gain This course explores theories about the hands-on experience with research design, causes of crime by examining the theoretical data collection, analysis and presentation. underpinnings of criminal behavior and To provide students with the knowledge social control. The course analyzes those and tools necessary to conduct qualitative theories that label or define certain research, the course will introduce readings behaviors as deviant or criminal. It examines on qualitative research methods as well as the social functions that those behaviors recent sociological studies based on these and processes fulfill, and the institutions methods. Students will discuss the goals that influence and are influenced by those of qualitative research, its epistemological behaviors and processes. The course underpinnings and its strengths. Students analyzes the foundations and success or will learn how to formulate a sociological failure of various crime prevention, and research question, and to choose the punishment and rehabilitation strategies. appropriate method(s) to answer the Spring semester. 4 credits question. The course will also introduce Prerequisite: SOC1203 techniques for analyzing qualitative data, including coding and memo-writing. In SOC2102: The Sociology of Boston (SA) addition, we will discuss issues of validity In this course, students use the city of and ethical concerns. Boston as their sociological lab to learn Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits about the main concepts of the field of Urban Prerequisites: SOC1101 Sociology and study the contemporary social dynamics of cities. The course is arranged SOC2104 Quantitative Methods around the interplay between sociological This course teaches students, through concepts and analysis of studies of today’s a hands-on approach, the basics of diverse institutions that compromise Boston quantitative methods for sociological (education, housing, government, etc.) and of research. Students will develop a social problems, such as poverty and crime. sociological research question, conduct a Throughout the course of the semester, literature review, and develop hypotheses students will undertake field trips tied to the that they will test empirically. They will put class readings and discussions. Students together a survey, distribute the survey, and will compare the social dynamics of Boston collect and input their data into SPSS. They to those of other cities by employing a will learn how to calculate basic univariate sociological lens; one of the questions to statistics, as well as calculate and interpret which we will repeatedly return is whether bivariate statistics, such as correlations and Boston could be Any City, U.S.A.: is there cross-tabs. They will learn what statistical Emmanuel College