History 199 this course also considers the current many others. Course Descriptions for state of environmental concerns in the US Spring semester, alternate years, expected Arts and Sciences and Latin America. The course content will spring 2021. 4 credits add dimension to the regional histories in the western hemisphere by incorporating HIST2119 19th Century Europe: perspectives from literary works and Democracy and Imperialism (H) environmental history. This course begins with the French Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Revolution and the Napoleonic Era and examines the political, economic, HIST2105 America Since 1960 social, cultural and diplomatic history of America’s history from 1960 to the recent Europe to the close of the 19th century. past is explored in this class. The course Among the topics to be covered are: the will focus primarily on social and cultural industrial revolution; new ideologies such history, diversity, and change since 1960, as nationalism, liberalism, socialism and including the struggle for civil rights, the romanticism; the revolutions of 1830 and women’s movement, youth culture, the 1848; unification of Italy and Germany; counter culture, the anti-war movement, Bismarckian diplomacy; militarism; the new gay and lesbian rights movements, and imperialism; and the turn-of-the-century the resulting political, social and economic mind. ramifications. Students are asked to Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits challenge broadly held assumptions and reflect critically upon the past generation HIST2120 Europe in the Era of through the use of readings, film, music, and World War (H) other non-traditional primary sources. This course begins with Europe at its zenith Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits and the background to the Great War. The devastation of that war, and the troubled HIST 2106 A History of New England: 1500– international relations and radicalization of Present (H) domestic politics that followed from it, are This course will explore New England history major topics, as are the Russian Revolutions from pre-Columbus to the present day by of 1917 and subsequent development exploring the region’s historical relationship of the Soviet Union, the actions of the with the rest of the United States, Canada fascist parties and states, especially the and the world. We will examine New England ascendancy of Nazism in Germany, and the as a center of thought, politics and the causes and course of World War II. Film and economy, a place whose people often drive personal accounts are a prominent part of the nation’s policies and socio-cultural the course. development. Unique in its approach, this Spring semester. 4 credits team-taught course will provide students with a most engaging experience and it HIST2122 Sports and the Making of the promises to make you look at New England’s Modern World (H) history from an entirely new perspective Megan Rapinoe and Colin Kaepernick remind by examining important themes in the us that sports, politics, and society have region’s past, including: the Asian-Diaspora long been deeply connected, despite cries in New England, Transcendentalism, from some people to “keep politics out of the conservation movement, literature, sports.” This course will explore the history intellectual life, cities, migration, of sports in the development of the modern abolitionism, the American Revolution, and world. We will examine the beginning of 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
200 History Course Descriptions for organized sports, such as golf and rounders impact. Themes of the course will be youth Arts and Sciences (aka, baseball), as early as the 15th-Century engagement in times of change, revolution Europe and the development of ideas and tradition, nationalism and identity regarding the health and social benefits of (social, political, collective and individual). participation. Students will also consider Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits how sports began to shape - and be shaped (Cross-referenced with ENGL2124) by - the Industrial Revolution and emergence of Capitalism in the 19th Century, birthing HIST2125 History of Modern what we know as professional athletes Latin America (H) and athletics. Examining modern sports This course surveys the history of Latin history will include topics such as: sports America from approximately 1810 to & resistance; how sports history provides the present. This period witnessed the insights into the complexities of race, emergence of capitalist economies and gender, and social status; the modern the creation of governments based on the athlete and extreme wealth; the ongoing nation-state model. This course will focus politicization of athletes; among many on how these two transformations impacted other topics. We make use of the plethora Latin American societies across regional, of local shrines to sports history, including ethnic, gender, and class lines and the private tours of Fenway Park with the various social movements they produced. Red Sox official historian, Gordon Edes; Class discussions will focus on the following exploring the Brookline neighborhood themes: Colonial legacies, economic where the first Country Club in America development, gender and class relations, was built and introduced the United States urban versus rural relations, and revolution. to golf, Mathews Arena at Northeastern The course will also address the push-pull University, and the Boston Bruins Museum factors associated with emigration to the to augment our examination of integration United States and Europe. in professional sports. A variety of reading Fall semester, even years. 4 credits (books and articles), documentary films, and sporting events will be assigned, along with HIST2126 History of Japan Since written response papers, group projects, and 1600 (H) research papers, and presentations. Sports This course traces the history of Japan examined will include baseball, cricket, from 1600 to the present, paying particular golf, American football, soccer, hockey, attention to the social, cultural, and political basketball, and several regional sports narratives of that history. Broadly speaking, across the globe. the class will portray the past 400 years Spring semester,even years. 4 credits of Japanese history as two major periods, the early-modern period (or Tokugawa HIST2124 History through Fiction period, 1600-1868), and the modern period History and literature question and (1868-present). In this course, students will illuminate one another as the imagined embark on an unforgettable journey through world of novels is read against, and as the history of one of the most intriguing part of, historical events. How do we gain a and influential nations in the modern greater understanding of power relations international world order. Along that journey, and human relations in times of crisis and students will read a variety of texts, primary stasis by analyzing works of fiction? Works as well as secondary, and will be exposed to will be placed in context and then discussed multiple visual primary sources, including in terms of perspective, ideology, style and woodblock prints, photographs, films, and Emmanuel College
History 201 manga (graphic novels). the present. Topics include: emancipation; Course Descriptions for Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Reconstruction and its aftermath; the rise Arts and Sciences of Jim Crow; Booker T. Washington and his HIST2127 Religion, Society, and Europe critics; migration and the making of urban This course looks at religious beliefs and ghettoes; the Harlem Renaissance; African practices in modern Europe from the French Americans and American popular cultures; Revolution to the mid-20th century. Such the origins, conduct, and legacy of the Civil forms of religious affiliation and expression Rights Movement; the “War on Poverty;” and as apparitions, pilgrimages, the occult, and race in contemporary American politics. minority and dissident churches are major Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits topics, as are religious life in cities, women and religious life, and the challenges posed HIST2140 History of Modern Middle East by science and atheism to religion. Most of This course will begin by studying the the course is concerned with varieties of institutions and internal and international Christianity, but Judaism is also considered. dynamics of the Ottoman Empire, beginning Fall semester, even years. 4 credits with its 14th century rise, including its 16th-century height and its role and HIST2128 Immigrants in the influence as the seat of the Caliphate. American Experience Our concentration will then turn to the This course examines the history of imperial decline from the 18th century, with immigration to America from the colonial particular focus on increasing competition era until the recent past. Emphasis is given and colonization by European powers. We to the role immigrant groups have played in will study competing ideas of culture and the nation’s history and the contributions governance that emerge in the 19th century, they have made in shaping America’s as well as the effect of World War I on the diverse culture. It will examine the “push” region. We will therefore include indigenous and “pull” factors which helped propel programs of reform and reaction to the emigrants to the United States, particularly strong impact of European imperialism. its cities. The course focuses on the diverse The creation of the Mandates of Iraq, immigrant experience and the debate over Transjordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, assimilation as well as the problems and along with the separate situation of Egypt, promises immigrants have historically effectively created the contemporary Middle confronted upon their arrival in the United East as well as some of its most pressing States. Students are expected to develop problems. Throughout, but particularly in an appreciation for the role of immigration conclusion, the course focuses on ethnic and in American history and challenge broadly religious interrelationships in the region by held assumptions about immigration by mid-century. writing and thinking analytically about the Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits. topic through the use of actual immigrant experiences, film and field trips. HIST2205 Women in American History (H) Spring semester, even years. 4 credits The central focus of this course is the contributions of women to the country’s HIST2130 African American History: history since the Colonial era. Various topics 1865 to the Present (H) will be addressed, including work, family, This course examines the history of African race, ethnicity, reform and the development Americans from the end of the Civil War to of the modern women’s movement. The 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
202 History Course Descriptions for course will combine lectures, discussions, HIST2210 Themes in the History of the Arts and Sciences readings, a walking tour of Boston’s women’s American West (H) history, and films in re-examining the role of By taking the idea of the many “Wests” women in American society and the reasons and many Western experiences as a starting for their marginalization. Students will point, this course explores the history of the develop interpretive and analytical skills American West as both a region and an idea. through writing assignments and class Part cultural, intellectual and geographic discussion. h istory, the course will highlight a number Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits of selected themes that defined the region from the Corps of Discovery (1803) to the HIST2207 Slavery in Global History (H) present day. Although the antebellum Slavery is an ancient institution that period will receive some attention, the continues to shape peoples, cultures, and overarching focus is the Trans-Mississippi societies in the 21st century. Perhaps the West after 1865. Course readings and class single largest forced migration in world discussions will draw from the following history, 12-20 million Africans were sold into topics as they relate to the West: myth and slavery across Europe and the Americas, popular culture, boom and bust cycles, profoundly reshaping communities, cultures, women’s history, Hispanics and Chicanos, and global economies. We will examine a Native America, environmental history, variety of secondary and primary sources Chinese h istory, the New Deal, and World that make up the core of study of African War II and the nuclear age. This course is slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. designed as a seminar to facilitate high We will also study other forms of forced levels of d iscussion and interaction, so labor and bondage, and micro –studies active participation is required. of the slave ship and its importance in Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits the development of race, resistance, and identity. Additionally, we will study the HIST2222 The Business of America: An impact of the slave trade in the development Economic History of U.S. (H) of cultures and economies throughout the This course examines the economic and Atlantic world, including the Caribbean, business history of the United States to Africa, and Latin America. The course will 2009. It anaylzes the historical development conclude with and examination of Human of the economy and business in shaping Trafficking in the global economy with an American politics, society, and culture since emphasis on America’s role in sustaining the colonial era. It explores the important contemporary slavery. We will also use the changes in the national economy from Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, www. mercantilism; slavery and the development slavevoyages.org, in conjunction with a of capitalism; the rise of big business and four-volume set of primary sources – ships industrialization; consumption; and the logs, port records, diaries, etc – on reserve relationship between business and labor. at Cardinal Cushing Library. Compiled by Particular emphasis is given to the role some of the most respected scholars in the of the government, individuals, and labor world, this database and primary source have had in shaping the nation’s economic collection will be a key source for classroom development. and research data. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Emmanuel College
History 203 HIST2401 Modern China: Continuity and among other areas. Students will develop an Course Descriptions for Change (H) appreciation of Boston’s varied and unique Arts and Sciences Modern China is a dynamic society changing history through readings, lectures, outside every year through economic development assignments and field trips. and social transformation, but at the Spring semester, even years. 4 credits same time, China is deeply rooted in the Prerequisite: one previous 1000- or 2000-level philosophical and political traditions that history course and sophomore standing have shaped and supported the largest and oldest bureaucracy of the world. In HIST3121 Surviving Columbus: History of this course we will study how a 3000- Native Americans, 1492 to 1992 year old civilization has changed from an This course explores the events and currents empire to a republic, from a republic to a of the past 500 years from the perspective Communist state, and under the Communist of selected Native groups in North and ideology has turned itself into one of the South America, from the period of the world’s economic powerhouses; all this in first contact through the colonial period a bit more than one century. The history of and culminating in the modern period. modern China is the focus of this course; Course readings and class discussions a history of social contradictions and focus almost exclusively on the indigenous power struggles, of political revolution and peoples of Mesomerica and the Andes, the economic reconstruction. Understanding Pueblo nations in present-day New Mexico, the history of the making of modern China is and the Lakota Sioux nation of present- understanding the history of the globalized day South Dakota. Successful students modern world. will understand the ways in which Native Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Americans construct their identities and organize their communities and how these HIST2701 Historical Methods and Research strategies allowed them to adapt and This course introduces students to basic survive the changing economic and political h istorical research methods, interpretations, processes associated with colonization and and the processes of historical writing. Stu nation-building. dents will examine and learn how to use Fall semester, even years. 4 credits both primary and secondary sources, gather Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level information, form questions, and gain the history course and sophomore standing skills necessary to conduct research. Stu dents will additionally study the major HIST3225 Utopias, Dystopias and historical methodologies of history, including Revolution in Latin American History social, political, gender, environmental, and This course explores Latin America through economic analyses. selected themes that shaped the region’s Spring semester. 4 credits history. They include colonialism, trans Prerequisites: Sophomore standing national identities, utopianism, modernity, and environmental perceptions. Course HIST3107 A History of Boston readings and class discussions will focus This course examines the history of Boston on congruent as well as contradictory since its founding in 1630. The city’s processes experienced by the people of history will be explored in a number of Latin America individually and collectively. ways, including its geographic expansion The period covered spans the colonial and growth, the development of its period to the present day. This course will neighborhoods, immig ration and politics, also consider thematic intersections as 2019-2020 Academic Catalog
204 History Course Descriptions for they relate to Latin American emigration to well as patterns of material and cultural Arts and Sciences the United States and Europe in the 20th exchange that travel in either direction. century. Readings and discussions will explore Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits. thematic concepts such as identity, Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level ethnicity, nationalism, and citizenship. history course and sophomore standing Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits. Prerequisites: one 1000- or 2000-level History HIST3231 Europe Since World War II course and sophomore standing. This course examines important developments in Europe from the post-World HIST 3412 Immigrant Kitchens: A Glocal and War II era to the present. Among the topics Historical Perspective on Identity, Ethnicity covered are: the quest for economic and and Foodways political recovery, including the debate over This course investigates how immigrants use which individuals, parties and movements culinary practices and traditions as staples are the appropriate post-War leaders, the of identity. The course is based on a glocal division of the continent and the histories approach; that is, it analyzes the history of Eastern European states in the Soviet of eating habits, beliefs and diets in both sphere, diplomatic relations within Europe immigrant communities and their countries and between European states and various of origin. With a comparative examination of world powers, decolonization, the collapse culinary lifestyles, alimentary adaptations of Communism, European culture and living and expectations, the course will delve into standards, t errorism and activisms, and the discourse of ethnicization (the processes changing European identities. At the end of of identity formation defined and shaped by the course, students will characterize the local and global historical developments). power and achievements of the European With a wide variety of readings in the history Union, and Europe’s contemporary place in of emplacement of immigrant groups the world. around the world, this course will ask you Spring semester, even years. 4 credits to consider, for example, the role of taste Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level in the construction of ethnic stereotypes; history course and sophomore standing the influence of ancient culinary traditions in the creation of ethnic boundaries often HIST3404 East Asia Migration and Diaspora based on an “us” versus “them” dichotomy; in Global Perspective the meaning of situational trespassing of The course explores the history of East such barriers in host countries as practical Asian migrations from the 19th century survival strategies. Students will study to the present day. The course follows secondary sources on immigration history a transnational approach insofar as it in combination with the history of taste analyzes the migratory patterns of East and food production in different countries. Asian communities in South Asia, Africa, Students will also be exposed to experiential Europe, and the Americas. Migrant learning in two main ways: visiting local communities are organisms placed in ethnic communities and making and tasting different nations or regions, but connected recipes from cookbooks analyzed in class as by a corridor that serves as an extension primary sources. of the migrant’s old environment. To stress Fall semester, even years. 4 credits the importance of connections, this course will illustrate the corridors migrants create between host and receiving societies as Emmanuel College
History 205 HIST3504 From Lenin to Putin: HIST4000 Senior Seminar A History of the Soviet Union and Its This course is a seminar on historiography, Collapse the history of historical writing. Covering This course will examine the roots of the a variety of topics, the course will give Russian Revolution of 1917, the 70 years s tudents an overview of historical writing of the Soviet regime, and the brief history across time. By the end of the course, of Russia as an independent state since students will be familiar with historical 1991. In addition to politics, both domestic methods, classic and recent interpretations and international, the course will survey of history, varieties of approaches to the economic policies, everyday life, and cultural past, and major ideologies and arguments accomplishments in the Soviet Union over in the field. The course will be a capstone the past century. experience and will provide students with Fall semester,odd years. 4 credits a foundation for their future research. Prerequisites: one previous 1000- or 2000-level Spring semester. 4 credits history course and sophomore standing HIST4178-4179 Directed Study I and II HIST3718 Pirates, Rascals and Scoundrels Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Pirates are some of the most romanticized Prerequisite: Permission of department chair and legendary figures on the High Seas. Thousands of books have been written HIST4194-4195 Internship I and II about them, from children’s bedtime stories This course involves an internship in a to great novels to serious scholarly works. cooperating institution, regular discussion But why are pirates so interesting and sessions, and a project term paper. Students mesmerizing to audiences throughout the select their internship with the approval centuries? This course explores the illicit of the agency and a department faculty side of history by examining the role of member. pirates, criminal convicts and otherwise Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits outsiders in creation of the Atlantic world Prerequisite: INT1001 from 1450-1850. Marginalized peoples such as pirates, criminal convicts, indentured Course Descriptions for servants, and non-enslaved populations Arts and Sciences labeled as “rebellious Rascals” (for example, the Acadians, Indians and others) counted as a silent majority in the Atlantic world. While exploring issues of class, race, gender and forced migration, the course examines how a variety of marginalized peoples navigated the difficult and complex landscapes of the Atlantic. Spring semester,odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: one previous 1000- or 2000-level history course and sophomore standing 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
206 Integrated Digital and Data Sciences Course Descriptions for INTEGRATED DIGITAL AND DATA use computational, statistical, and visual Arts and Sciences SCIENCES methods to tell a story. Students will develop valuable technical skills focusing on IDDS1000 Digital Citizenship (SI) programming, statistical inference, and clear This course provides a foundational communication. Additional professional understanding of Internet technology, skills will be developed in teamwork, critical impact, regulation, and ongoing problems. thinking, and problem solving. By the end A “how it works” course that demystifies of the class students will demonstrate a the system that is the Internet, and the proficiency in various tools essential in the impact of technology on culture, politics, field of data science. and economics. Includes technical elements Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: where students will learn about the basic MATH1118 or MATH1117 and MATH0118 mechanics of modern technologies, and sociological elements of how it affects us as IDDS2132 Practical Machine Learning people. This course provides an introduction to Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, and Machine Learning (ML). A survey of IDDS1101 Introduction to Programming multiple AI techniques, focusing heavily on (QA) ML. Students will learn about the different This course is a general introduction to concepts behind each technique, experiment programming (coding), problem solving, and with interactive demonstrations, assess computer science. A simplified programming them for equity and bias, and apply them system will be used to introduce students in their assignments. Techniques may be to the programming process and to explore updated as the fast-moving field of machine some of the “big ideas” of computer science. learning evolves. This course does not go Programming topics include variables, into extreme depth on ML theory, instead looping, decision structures, functions, focusing on how to use these techniques to testing, and debugging, among others. solve problems. The goal of this course is Computer science topics include algorithms, for students to understand what Machine data structures, graphics, and memory Learning is and is not, and have a “utility management, among others. This course belt” of skills and conceptual understanding uses accessible, engaging content situated to allow them to identify a problem, choose in the Liberal Arts. an AI technique, and apply it effectively Fall and Spring semesters. 4 credits Spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: MATH 1101 Prerequisite: IDDS1101 IDDS2201 Data Analytics We are all completely inundated with data, yet only a small fraction of the population has the skillset necessary to interpret, understand, and communicate the meaning inherent within datasets. The goal of this course is to give students lifelong and lucrative skills in raw data retrieval, data cleaning, data analyses, and data visualization. Students will engage with datasets from a variety of fields and Emmanuel College
Management 207 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 management. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits MGMT2111 Personal Finance (QA) Course Descriptions for This course is designed for non- Arts and Sciences 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 personal 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 2019-2020 Academic Catalog
208 Management Course Descriptions for MGMT2202 International Management (SA) develop greater leadership self-awareness Arts and Sciences This course focuses on the strategic role of through assessments and class work. 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 c areer 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 MGMT2308 Organizational apply leadership concepts and ideas to the Behavior (SA) Travel Section lives and accomplishments of many different Organizations are complex, dynamic and leaders, some well-known, others not. diverse. When organizations are comprised Through readings, class discussions, group of individuals working across activities and projects, students consider national cultures, both complexity and questions like: “What is leadership?” opportunity grow. Through the travel compo- “What makes a great leader?” and “How can nent of this course, students will leadership be learned?” Students will also Emmanuel College
Management 209 develop the cultural intelligence necessary to provide you with a structure for thinking Course Descriptions for to understand the effects and opportunities about investment theory and show you Arts and Sciences presented by national culture how to address investment problems in a differences. This understanding will enable systematic manner. students to be more effective organizational Spring semester. 4 credits members and leaders. Prerequisites: ACCT1201 Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: Sophomore standing MGMT3211 Leadership at Work Being an effective leader at work requires MGMT2401 Introduction to Sport self-knowledge, an understanding of Management conceptual and practical models of Principles, practices and issues in sport organizational leadership, a range of management. This course will provide an leadership behaviors and skills, as well as overview of the history of sport and sport ongoing leadership development. In this management in the United States, the course, students will learn from conceptual relationship between sports and society, material, experience, behavioral exercises, the business of sport, contemporary legal cases, discussion, and reflection. The focus and ethical issues that are associated with is on both the leader and the organizational athletes, athletics, and organized sports and context of leadership. Topics include: self- 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 2019-2020 Academic Catalog
210 Management Course Descriptions for Prerequisites: Junior standing, ACCT2201, will deal with theoretical, practical and Arts and Sciences MATH1118, and MATH1111 or MATH1121 ethical aspects of work. Together with the internship supervisor, a project is defined MGMT3305 Financial Management for the student that will add value to the Topics in this course include the search for organization and that will help the student financing and the management of funds build expertise and confidence in an area of a lready invested, economic value added mutual interest. The student completes the (EVA) and wealth creating strategies, finan- project as part of the internship. cial analysis and planning, valuation of Fall, spring and summer semesters. 4 credits stocks and bonds, the management of work- Prerequisites: INT1001, completion of two of ing capital, the cost of capital and capital the four courses: MGMT2200, MGMT2307, budgeting analysis. Also reviewed are finan- MGMT3302, MGMT3305, and permission of cial markets, institutions and interest rates. instructor. This course is limited to management Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits majors. Prerequisites: Junior standing, MGMT1101, ACT2201, MATH1118, MATH1111 or MATH1121 MGMT4178 Directed Study or concurrently with MATH1118, MATH1111 or This course is limited to seniors. MATH1121 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MGMT3423 Sport Law A review of legislation, and cases relating MGMT4303 Strategic Management to professional and amateur athletics This is the capstone course of the and athletes, sports events, sports management curriculum. This course merchandising, contracts, broadcasting and focuses on the formulation and sponsorships. Students will learn applicable implementation of strategy. Students use law and analyze cases and situations using tools and knowledge from other courses legal precedence, legal theory and ethical to extract, develop, and make sense concepts as they may apply. of technological, financial, economic, Alternate fall semester, expected fall 2021. 4 marketing, operational, geographic, and credits human information. Emphasis is placed on Prerequisites: MGMT2301 and MGMT2401 the strategy process (assessing company performance, identifying problems and MGMT3496/MGMT3497 Management p ossibilities, developing strategies, putting Internship I or II (Cross listed with strategies and plans into action) as well as ACCT3496, ECON3496) the ethical issues and social responsibilities The management internship involves that should be addressed in the formulation experiential learning in a for-profit or not- and implementation of strategic decisions. for-profit firm related to the student’s Traditional and live cases and/or simulation major and prospective career. The course exercises will be a pedagogical component of requires that students apply theoretical this course. knowledge to a practical setting, and Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits provides them with the opportunity to gain Prerequisites: MKTG2200, MGMT2307, experience in their chosen career and make MGMT3302, MGMT3305 and senior standing a contribution to the organization in which they complete their internship. In addition to working at their internship site, students attend seminar or individual sessions that Emmanuel College
Marketing 211 MARKETING MKTG3110 Marketing Research: An Applied Course Descriptions for Orientation Arts and Sciences 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 programs. Fall semesters. 4 credits Emphasis is on a managerial approach to Prerequisites: MATH1118, MGMT1101 and making responsible m arketing decisions. MKTG2200 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. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites MGMT1101 and MKTG2200 Prerequisites: MGMT1101 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
212 Marketing Course Descriptions for MKTG3422 Sport Marketing advertising and promotion. Arts and Sciences Application of Marketing principles and Fall semester. 4 credits theories to sports events, facilities, athletes Prerequisites: MKTG2200 and products. The course will also explore the role of athletes in the promotion of MKTG4200 Marketing Strategy products and services as well as the role of This course provides a capstone class a marketing program in generating sports for undergraduate students with prior business revenue. background in marketing to integrate their Alternate spring semester, odd years. 4 credits learning in marketing (“put it all together”). Prerequisites: MKTG2200 and MGMT2401 It examines the marketing management concepts underlying both consumer and MKTG3496 Marketing Internship industrial marketing strategy and tactics. It The Marketing Internship involves helps students learn to think strategically experiential learning in a for-profit or not- when making and implementing marketing for-profit firm related to the student’s decisions (“strategic decision making”), prospective career. The course requires that apply specific analytical approaches students apply theoretical knowledge to a and tools for understanding customers, practical setting. This provides them with competition, and markets (“applications the opportunity to gain experience in their of marketing data and information”), and chosen career, and make a contribution to develop an appreciation for the relationship the organization in which they complete between marketing and the other functional their internship. In addition to working areas of business. Strategic marketing at the internship site, students attend a focuses on the concepts and processes seminar that deals with the theoretical, involved in developing market-driven practical, and ethical aspects of their work. strategies. The key challenges in formulating Students must also complete a project as market-driven strategies include: (1) part of the internship. Together with the acquiring a shared understanding Internship supervisor, a project is defined throughout the organization about the for the student that will add value to the current market and how it may change in organization and that will help the student the future, (2) identifying opportunities for build expertise and confidence in an area of delivering superior value to customers, (3) mutual interest. positioning the organization and its offerings Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. 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 MGMT3305 program to deliver superior customer value. Spring semester. 4 credits MKTG3501 Advertising and Promotion Prerequisites: MKTG2200, MKTG3110, This course takes a managerial approach MKTG3501, MKTG3322 or MKTG3422, and to advertising campaign decisions and senior 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 new media. They also explore a range of social, legal, and ethical issues related to Emmanuel College
Mathematics 213 MATHEMATICS news; voting systems and elections; and Course Descriptions for cryptography and ciphers. This course is Arts and Sciences MATH0118 R for Statistics Lab designed primarily for non-science majors In this course, students will learn R for and does not serve as a prerequisite for performing statistical analyses. R is a powerful future course work. statistical software which is free and widely Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits available. The workshop will get students familiar with R syntax and to use the software MATH1111 Calculus I (QA) for analyses. This course studies limits and continuity, Fall and spring semesters. 0 credits differential calculus of algebraic, Prerequisite: MATH1117 trigonometric and transcendental functions, applications of the derivative, MATH1101 College Algebra (QA) and introduction to integration through the This course provides a foundation in the fundamental theorem of calculus. skills and concepts of algebra, including Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits linear, quadratic, exponential and Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math logarithmic equations and functions. placement exam or MATH1103 Applications to real-world problems are emphasized throughout. The course is MATH1112 Calculus II (QA) designed primarily to prepare students This course is a continuation of Calculus for further study in the natural and social I and includes methods of integration, sciences. Students with low scores on the applications of the definite integral, and mathematics placement exam are required infinite sequences and series. to take 75-minute recitation in addition to Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits regular class time. Prerequisite: MATH1111 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits MATH1117 Introduction to Statistics (QA) MATH1103 Precalculus Mathematics (QA) This is an introductory course in statistics. This course is designed to prepare students The objective of this course is to organize, for calculus (MATH1111). It includes the summarize, interpret, and present data study of polynomial, exponential, logarithmic using graphical and tabular representations; and trigonometric functions and their apply principles of inferential statistics; and graphs. assess the validity of statistical conclusions. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Students will learn to select and apply Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math appropriate statistical tests and determine placement exam or MATH1101 reasonable inferences and predictions from a set of data. Topics include descriptive MATH1105 Mathematics of Everyday Life statistics; introduction to probability; (QA) probability distributions including This survey course introduces students to normal and tdistributions; confidence a few “big ideas” of mathematics and their intervals; hypothesis testing; correlation applications to various situations in everyday and regression; two-way tables and chi- life. The topics chosen will depend on both square test. Course involves regular use of the instructor’s discretion and student statistical software. interest. Examples include: graph theory Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits and its application to urban planning; data, Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on the math statistics and quantitative literacy in the placement exam or MATH1101 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
214 Mathematics Course Descriptions for MATH1118 Introduction to Statistics exponential and logarithmic functions, linear Arts and Sciences with R (QA) programming and the Simplex Method, and TThis is an introductory course in statistics. formulas for financial mathematics. The objective of this course is to organize, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits summarize, interpret, and present data Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math using graphical and tabular representations; placement exam or MATH1101 apply principles of inferential statistics; and assess the validity of statistical conclusions. MATH1122 Foundations of Mathematics Students will learn to select and apply for Teachers II (QA) appropriate statistical tests and determine MATH1122 is the second course in a reasonable inferences and predictions from three-semester mathematics content a set of data. Topics include descriptive sequence designed to develop fundamental statistics; introduction to probability; computation skills and a comprehensive, probability distributions including normal in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics and t-distributions; confidence intervals; among elementary education majors. This hypothesis testing; correlation and course begins with a study of patterns regression; two-way tables and chi-square and functions, followed by a study of two- test. Course uses R statistical software. dimensional geometry, and concludes with a Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits study of measurement. Problem solving will Prerequisites: MATH1101 be emphasized throughout the course. Fall semester. 4 credits MATH1120 Foundations of Mathematics Prerequisite: MATH1120 for Teachers I (QA) MATH1120 is the first course in a three- MATH2101 Linear Algebra (QA) semester mathematics content sequence This course serves as a transition from designed to develop fundamental computational mathematics to more computation skills and a comprehensive, theoretical approaches. Topics include in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics systems of linear equations and their among elementary education majors. This solutions; matrices and matrix algebra; course focuses on numeration systems and inverse matrices; determinants; properties of numbers. Different numeration vector spaces and their axioms; linear systems will be studied, followed by transformations; and eigenvalues and 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 Emmanuel College
Mathematics 215 to the natural sciences are emphasized. such methods. Particular topics are chosen Course Descriptions for Fall semester. 4 credits at the instructor’s discretion and may Arts and Sciences Prerequisite: MATH1112 include set theory, number theory, algebraic structures, combinatorics, or graph theory. MATH2104 College Geometry (QA) This is a gateway course for the major in Euclidean geometry has long been held as mathematics, and must be satisfactorily an essential part of mathematics. Its results completed before a student declares a major and methods of deduction have been valued in mathematics. and found application in architecture, Spring semester. 4 credits law, engineering, and many other fields. Prerequisite: MATH1111 This class is a deeper look into Euclidean geometry and the underlying axioms. MATH2111 Mathematical Modeling in the Particular emphasis will be placed on the Sciences (QA) development of mathematical reasoning The interdisciplinary course is an through critical analysis and construction introduction to mathematical modeling, of formal proof. In addition, we will explore the process of using mathematics to changes in the underlying axioms of represent real world situations. The main Euclidean geometry and several different objective is to introduce the student to types of non-Euclidean geometry created by modeling methodology: constructing models these changes. Geometric software will be appropriate for an intended application, used as a tool to construct geometric figures and investigating them mathematically and for analytic proofs. and computationally. Particular topics are Fall semester odd years. 4 credits chosen at the instructor’s discretion and Prerequisite: MATH1111 may include discrete dynamical systems, differential equations, and game theory. MATH2107 Differential Equations (QA) Applications will be taken from a variety Many of the principles governing the of fields such as the life sciences, physics, behavior of the real world can be chemistry, engineering and social science. described mathematically by differential The course will culminate in a project in equations. This course studies the theory which students develop and/or investigate and applications of ordinary differential models of their choosing. equations. Topics covered include first-order Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits and higher-order differential equations, Prerequisite: MATH1112 systems of differential equations, Laplace transforms, numerical methods, phase plane MATH2113 Applied Statistics with R (QA) methods, and modeling using differential This course is a calculus-based introduction equations. Applications will be drawn from to statistics. Topics covered include science and engineering. descriptive statistics, elements of Spring semester, even years. 4 credits probability, binomial and normal probability Corequisite: MATH1112 distributions, estimation, hypotheses testing, and simple linear regression. R MATH2109 Introduction to Proofs (QA) statistical software is used to summarize In this course, students are introduced to data and perform statistical tests. methods for reading and writing formal Fall semester. 4 credits mathematical proofs, including proofs Prerequisite: MATH1112 by contradiction, by induction, and by contrapositive. More advanced courses in 2020-2021 Academic Catalog mathematics will assume familiarity with
216 Mathematics Course Descriptions for MATH2115 Introduction to Programming mathematical content of the MTEL (03) test Arts and Sciences with MATLAB (QA) objectives as they practice multiple-choice MATLAB is a programming language that and open-response problems both during is used extensively by mathematicians and and outside of class. Teacher candidates scientists in both academia and industry. enrolled in MATH 2122 who have not This course, which does not assume any successfully completed the math subtest prior experience with programming, will of the General Curriculum MTEL (03) by introduce students to general concepts in the start of the MATH 2122 course must computer science and programming as they concurrently enroll in this preparatory lab. formulate, solve, and visualize quantitative Teacher candidates enrolled in the lab are problems. Applications will be drawn from also required to register for a late spring mathematics and science. The course will MTEL (03) test date within the first two culminate in a project in which students weeks of beginning the preparatory lab. develop a MATLAB program to study a This lab does NOT satisfy the college-wide problem of their choosing. QA requirement and does not contribute Fall semester, even years. 4 credits to the credits for graduation. Any teacher Prerequisite: MATH1111 candidate enrolled in MATH 2122 who has successfully completed the math subtest MATH2122 Foundations of Mathematics of the (03) MTEL is exempt from taking this for Teachers III (QA) preparatory lab. MATH2122 is the third course in a three- Spring semester. 0 credits semester mathematics content sequence designed to develop fundamental MATH3101 Real Analysis computation skills and a comprehensive, In this course, students investigate the in-depth understanding of K-8 mathematics theoretical foundations of calculus and among elementary education majors. deepen their conceptual knowledge by The course will focus on topics in linear reading and writing formal proofs about programming, analytic geometry, probability, sequences, limits, functions, and derivatives. and statistics. This course, like Foundations This also serves as an introduction to I and II, will deepen students’ knowledge of fundamental principles and techniques of mathematics and provide a solid foundation mathematical analysis. Other topics – such for learning about the methods for teaching as integration or sequences of functions elementary school mathematics. –may be explored, at the instructor’s Spring semester. 4 credits discretion. Prerequisite: MATH1122 Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Corequisite: MATH2122L Prerequisites: MATH2103, MATH2109 MATH2122L Preparatory Lab for Math MATH3103 Probability Subtest MTEL This course is an introduction to the theory The audience for this laboratory is teacher of probability and its applications. Topics candidates intending to become licensed include combinatorial analysis, probability to teach at the elementary level in grades laws, discrete and continuous random 1–6. This is a preparatory lab designed to variables, joint distributions, the Law of familiarize teacher candidates with the Large Numbers, and the Central Limit content and structure of the mathematics Theorem. subtest of the General Curriculum Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits (03). Teacher candidates will examine the Prerequisite: MATH2103 and MATH2113 Emmanuel College
Mathematics 217 MATH3105 Advanced Statistics they can use to analyze data. Statistical Course Descriptions for This course is a continuation of MATH 2113 concepts will come from MATH 2113 Arts and Sciences Applied Statistics. More advanced topics Applied Statistics and MATH 3105 Advanced in statistics will be covered, including Statistics. At the end of the course, students contingency tables, exact tests, single and will use SAS to perform data analyses multiple linear regression, one-way and two on their own data sets, write a paper way analyses of variance, logistic regression summarizing the statistical methods they and nonparametric methods. Students will used, the data they worked on, the results learn both the theory behind these statistical they received, and give a short presentation. procedures and practical applications using Spring semester, even years. 4 credits a statistical software. At the end of the Prerequisite: MATH3105 course, students will perform data analyses on their own data sets, write a paper MATH4157 Senior Seminar summarizing the statistical methods they This seminar serves as the culminating used, the data they worked on, the results experience for mathematics majors. they received, and give a short presentation. Students will research and present on Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits advanced topics in mathematics, as chosen Prerequisites: MATH2101, MATH2113 by the students and/or the instructor. In addition, as part of the capstone experience, MATH3107 Abstract Algebra each student will compile and present a This course studies abstract algebraic portfolio of their work as a mathematics systems such as groups, examples of which major. are abundant throughout mathematics. Spring semester. 4 credits It attempts to understand the process of Prerequisite: Senior mathematics major status mathematical abstraction, the formulation of algebraic axiom systems, and the MATH4178 Directed Study development of an abstract theory from The course is available for junior or senior these axiom systems. Topics may include mathematics majors. This is an independent groups, rings, fields, and homomorphisms. study of material not covered in offered Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits courses. Prerequisites: MATH2101, MATH2109 Offered as needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: Consent of department chair MATH3113 Special Topics in Mathematics This course is on a special topic in MATH 4194/4195 Research Internships I Mathematics not listed among the current and II course offerings. Qualified students may undertake senior Fall semester, even years. 4 credits year research projects under the supervision Prerequisites: MATH1112 and MATH 2101 or of Emmanuel mathematics faculty or with MATH 2109 faculty at other departments or institutions. With their research supervisor, students MATH4101 Programming in SAS plan and carry out original research projects SAS is a powerful statistical software in mathematics and/or statistics that reflect package used by statisticians worldwide their interests and goals. If the research in a diverse range of fields, from sociology supervisor is not a member of the Emmanuel to business to medicine. In this course, mathematics faculty, a faculty coordinator students will be introduced to SAS, and learn from the department will be assigned to to develop templates, scripts and routines the project. A proposal for the internship 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
218 Mathematics must be submitted by April 1 of their junior by the student’s academic advisor and year for committee review. The proposal signed by the site supervisor. Students describes the project, the name and meet for a minimum of 15 hours per week commitment from the research supervisor at the internship site. Students meet (and faculty coordinator if applicable), and weekly with a faculty coordinator and are the expectations and significance of the evaluated by the site supervisor and faculty project. Students devote a minimum of 15 coordinator. A comprehensive portfolio hours per week to the project. Students and formal presentation are required. This meet weekly with their research supervisor, one-semester internship course counts as and also with the faculty coordinator, if an Emmanuel College elective, but not as applicable. An undergraduate thesis an elective toward the biology, biostatistics, and presentation, including a defense, chemistry or mathematics major. are required. MATH4194 and MATH4195 together represent a two-semester course. Students are not permitted to register for only one semester. Upon successful completion of the sequence, only MATH4194 may count as a mathematics elective. Both MATH 4194 and MATH4195 are required for distinction in the fields of mathematics or biostatistics. Offered as needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: Senior status, at least 3.3 grade point average in courses toward Mathematics or Biostatistics major, and permission of the department. Course Descriptions for INT3211 Experiential Internship in the Arts and Sciences Natural Sciences/Mathematics Biology, biostatistics, chemistry and mathematics majors may apply to do an internship in a research or non-research setting. The internship site and project must be appropriate for the disciplines above and it is the student’s responsibility to obtain an internship. The options for sites could include venues that would allow for career exploration. A complete proposal form for the internship must be submitted to the faculty teaching the course and to the Career Center by the first day of class. The proposal must describe the project, the name and commitment from the onsite supervisor and the expectations and significance of the internship. The proposal must be approved Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 219 MODERN LANGUAGES LANG2613 Arabic Conversation and Course Descriptions for Composition Arts and Sciences ARABIC Arabic Conversation and Composition is designed to introduce students to complex LANG1661 Beginning Arabic I Arabic grammatical constructions, expand Beginning Arabic I will introduce students to vocabulary, and improve both conversational Modern Standard Arabic and to the cultures and writing skills. The course would also of the Arab world. This program is d esigned introduce students to more advanced for students with little or no prior knowledge readings selected from literary, historical, of Arabic who are committed to the study political, social and cultural sources. of this fascinating language. The course This would further develop the students’ will emphasize the spoken language while critical thinking skills while enhancing their developing basic reading and writing skills knowledge of the Arab and Muslim worlds. as well. It will also present grammatical In addition, students would be introduced structures in context, relating abstract to the art of translation from Arabic to concepts to practical skills. Students English and vice versa in order to develop an will be introduced to a range of Arabic, understanding of the nuances of the Arabic from colloquial to standard, in authentic language. Along with the textbook, the contexts. They will be encouraged to verbally course materials include articles and literary communicate in Arabic with one another and pieces selected from Arabic books as well as with the instructor. newspapers and magazines from different As needed. 4 credits Arab countries. This course would teach students how to use the Arabic language LANG1662 Beginning Arabic II both creatively and independently. Beginning Arabic II will continue to introduce As needed. 4 credits students to Modern Standard Arabic and to Prerequisite: LANG2662 the cultures of the Arab world. The course is designed for students who have completed LANG2661 Intermediate Arabic I Beginning Arabic I or its equivalent and are Intermediate Arabic I is a language committed to the study of this fascinating immersion course that seeks to improve language. It will emphasize the spoken all areas of language communication and language while developing basic reading develop cultural competency. Intermediate and writing skills as well. It will also present Arabic I will continue to introduce students grammatical structures in context, relating to Modern Standard Arabic and to the abstract concepts to practical skills. In cultures of the Arab world. The course will a ddition, students will gain ample cultural emphasize the spoken language while knowledge, learning about conventional developing speaking, listening, reading, forms of politeness, social greetings and and writing skills. Intermediate Arabic will culturally appropriate etiquette. Students also expand vocabulary and introduce key will be introduced to a range of Arabic grammatical structures. Class discussions, from colloquial to standard in authentic pair work, and oral presentations will contexts. They will be encouraged to verbally improve oral proficiency. communicate in Arabic with one another and As needed. 4 credits with the instructor. Prerequisite: LANG1662 or equivalent As needed. 4 credits 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
220 Modern Languages LANG2662 Intermediate Arabic II FRENCH This course, a continuation of Intermediate Arabic I, strengthens language skills and LANG1201 Beginning French I enables students to master more vocabulary This course is a language immersion and grammar. The course will also help program that introduces French to students develop proficiency in reading and writing with little or no previous knowledge of Standard Arabic, as well as knowledge of the language while developing basic spoken Standard Arabic and of the Egyptian comprehension, speaking, reading and and Levantine dialects. It includes readings writing skills. The students are encouraged of medium length, composition exercises, to communicate with each other and review of Arabic grammar, listening the instructor through role-playing and exercises, and conversation practice in interpersonal activities. A video program Modern Standard Arabic. supplements classroom instruction. As needed. 4 credits As needed. 4 credits Course Descriptions for Prequisite: LANG2661 or equivalent LANG1202 Beginning French II Arts and Sciences This course is a continuation of LANG1201. LANG2664 The Arab World through Its Students will continue their progress in con- Literature (AI-L) versational French while developing basic In “The Arab World through Its Literature,” language skills. A video program supple- students will be exposed to one of the ments classroom instruction. richest and oldest cultures of the world As needed. 4 credits while focusing on the aesthetic and cultural Prerequisite: LANG1201 or equivalent significance of influential Arabic literary texts written in a variety of genres. After LANG2201 Intermediate French I: placing each text in its historical and cultural Language through Film context, class discussions will focus on This course is part of a language critical issues presented in each reading and immersion program that emphasizes oral on the literary merits of each text. Some of communication through interpersonal the authors include legendary pre-Islamic activities, while also further developing basic poet Antara Ibn Shaddad, as well as the comprehension skills, such as listening, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature Najib speaking, reading, and writing, through a Mahfuz. Students will also read a selection variety of classroom activities and homework from the eighth century aesthetic poetess assignments. A conversationally interactive Rabia al-Adawiyya as well as contemporary cultural component is also emphasized, leading Arab feminists that include Egyptian through the viewing and discussion of both author Nawal al-Sadawi and the Moroccan classic and contemporary French films. Fatima al-Mernissi. This course will also As needed. 4 credits cover the impact of the Arab Spring on Arab Prerequisite: LANG1202 or equivalent literary expressions to demonstrate the influence of this momentous event on the consciousness of Arab literary figures. As needed. 4 credits Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 221 LANG2202 Intermediate French II: ITALIAN Course Descriptions for L anguage through Film Arts and Sciences This language immersion course, a contin LANG1301 Beginning Italian I uation of LANG2201, continues to develop Beginning Italian I is a language immersion listening, speaking, reading and writing course designed for students with little or skills in the French language. no prior knowledge of Italian. Its objective As needed. 4 credits is to introduce the language and culture of Prerequisite: LANG2201 or equivalent Italy while developing basic comprehension, speaking, reading and writing skills. The LANG2213 French Conversation course emphasizes oral communication, and Composition I encouraging students to verbally Develops proficiency in the oral and written communicate in Italian with one another use of French language through literary and with the instructor. and cultural readings, written essays and As needed. 4 credits oral presentations. Students will expand their vocabulary and will also review key LANG1302 Beginning Italian II grammatical concepts. Beginning Italian II is a continuation As needed. 4 credits language immersion course designed for Prerequisite: LANG2202 or permission students with prior knowledge of Beginning of instructor Italian I. Its objective is to continue to introduce the language and culture of Italy LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in while developing basic comprehension, Modern French Literature and Culture (AI- speaking, reading and writing skills. The L) course emphasizes oral communication, As a source of inspiration, romance, and encouraging students to verbally sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has communicate in Italian with one another exerted a profound influence on generations and with the instructor. of artists and writers. In the fall prior to As needed. 4 credits our travel, students will take a preparatory Prerequisite: LANG1301 or equivalent course introducing them to history and culture of the city of lights. Through novels, LANG2301 Intermediate Italian I novellas, short stories, poems, and films, This course offers a language immersion contrasting accounts of life in the city of program that further develops basic com- Paris will be studied, offering often radically prehension skills such as listening, speak- opposing views of the French capital as ing, reading and writing. A primary objective expressed by realist and surrealist writers, of the course is to help students acquire artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, a good command of spoken and written Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The Italian, and an appreciation of the culture cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where of Italy.Students will engage in a variety of the students will experience firsthand a city interpersonal activities, will study the struc- which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic ture of the language and will be introduced reflections on modern urban life. This to literary readings. course, conducted in English, travels to As needed. 4 credits Paris in January. Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission Travel component required. of instructor As needed. 4 credits 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
222 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for LANG2302 Intermediate Italian II LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through Arts and Sciences This language immersion course, which Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life (AI-L) f ollows LANG2301, continues to develop Students will analyze and discuss some listening, speaking, reading and writing m asterpieces of Italian literature and some skills in Italian language. The development movies inspired by them. The course is of strong communication skills and an comprised of two parts of four weeks each. appreciation of the culture of Italy will The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, remain at the center of the program. the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). As needed. 4 credits During the first part of the course, students Prerequisite: LANG1302 or permission will be reading and discussing some of the of instructor masterpieces of Italian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific LANG2313 Italian Conversation and focus on Milan. The readings will include two Composition plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello This course aims at giving students a fresh and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If and authentic image of Italian culture and This Is a Man,” and Calvino’s “The Invisible society, while engaging them in oral and Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in written activities on topics close to their Milan, during the second part of the course, interests. The course focuses on different where students will visit some of the actual themes related to the social, political sites described in their readings and will and cultural life of present day Italy and view movies inspired by the works they read. explores them through the lenses of a The virtual images from the literary pages variety of media, newspaper articles, literary and the “real” ones from the movies will texts, video clips and songs. The course help them discover how modern city life in will pioneer a new peer-to-peer exchange Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply program with Italian students of Cattolica rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic University, Emmanuel’s partner university and cultural background. This course, taught in Milan. Such an exchange will be based on in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the discussions between our students and their summer where students will complete the peers in Cattolica on the themes studied coursework started at Emmanuel, as well as in the course. This will create a realistic take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at situation where the students will be able to the Università Cattolica. write and converse in Italian in areas that are useful and meaningful to them. The Program is open to COF students. students’ active role in connecting their personal experience to that of people living Prerequisites: None in a different country will provide strong motivation to develop and improve their Travel component required. linguistic skills. As needed. 4 credits As needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2302 Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 223 Spanish LANG1412 Beginning Spanish for Course Descriptions for Healthcare Professionals II Arts and Sciences LANG1401 Beginning Spanish I Beginning Spanish for Healthcare This course is a language immersion Professionals II is the second semester of an program that introduces Spanish to elementary level course sequence designed students with little or no previous knowledge for people currently employed in the medical of the language while developing basic field or for those students planning a career comprehension, speaking, reading and in a health-related field. This course builds writing skills. The students are encouraged on the skills and knowledge acquired in to communicate with each other and LANG 1403 and trains students for more the instructor through role-playing and advanced linguistic tasks, such as making interpersonal activities. recommendations, discussing past events Fall semester. 4 credits and giving advice about possible medical treatments. It is designed for students with LANG1402 Beginning Spanish II some previous knowledge of Spanish who This course is a continuation of LANG1401. are looking to learn specialized medical Students will continue their progress in vocabulary. The primary objective of this conversational Spanish while developing course is to continue to develop aural/oral basic language skills. A video supplements proficiency in Spanish within a medical classroom instruction. context. The course aims to provide Spring semester. 4 credits students in health-related programs with Prerequisite: LANG1401 or equivalent the solid foundation in Spanish grammar that is essential to communication and LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for with the medical vocabulary that will be Healthcare Professionals I useful in the workplace. Emphasis will Beginning Spanish for Healthcare also be placed on cultural issues that can Professionals I is the first semester of an affect communication between patient and elementary level course sequence designed provider. for people currently employed in the medical Spring semester. 4 credits field or for those students planning a Prerequisites: LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for career in a health-related field. The primary Healthcare Professionals I or permission from objective of this two-course sequence is to the instructor develop aural/oral proficiency in Spanish within a medical context. The course aims to LANG2401 Intermediate Spanish I provide students in health-related programs This course is a language immersion pro- with the solid foundation in Spanish gram that emphasizes oral communication grammar that is essential to communication through interpersonal activities. Class work and with the medical vocabulary that will and home assignments further develop basic be useful in the workplace. Emphasis will comprehension, speaking, reading and writ- also be placed on cultural issues that can ing skills. A video program provides the basis affect communication between patient and for classroom discussion. provider. Fall semester. 4 credits Fall semster. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1402 or equivalent 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
224 Modern Languages Course Descriptions for LANG2402 Intermediate Spanish II LANG2413 Spanish Conversation and Arts and Sciences This course is a continuation of LANG2401. Composition I Conversational skills are emphasized This course encourages the student to through role-playing and interpersonal integrate the grammatical structures already activities. Literary readings are incorporated learned into meaningful communication into the course. in the context of practical settings. Varied Spring semester. 4 credits activities and audiovisual material will Prerequisite: LANG2401 or equivalent s upplement literary readings, readings of cultural interest, and readings on public LANG 2412 Spanish at Work in the Health events as a stimulus to everyday oral and Care Community written language use. Spanish at Work in the Health Care Fall semester. 4 credits Community is an intermediate-level Spanish Prerequisite: LANG2402 or equivalent course that promotes linguistic fluency through advance Spanish grammatical LANG2414 Spanish Conversation and structures as well as a better understanding Composition II of the culture of the Latino communities This course is a continuation of LANG2413. in the United States. This course explores The course encourages student to integrate topics related to health care disparities, the grammatical structures already learned patient-provider communications, and into meaningful communication in the healthcare accessibility of the country’s context of practical settings. Varied activities biggest minority group. In addition, and audiovisual material will supplement other relevant topics, such as linguistic literary readings, readings of cultural and cultural barriers, identity, and interest, and readings on public events socioeconomic and demographic trends, as a stimulus to everyday oral and written will also be explored. To exploration of language use. these topics will be conducted via scholarly Spring semester. 4 credits articles and class discussions. The course Prerequisite: LANG2413 or equivalent or will also include a review of key grammatical permission of instructor. structures and vocabulary relevant to the health care field. Students are required to LANG2415 Spanish at Work in dedicate two hours per week (approximately the Community twenty hours in total) of volunteer This is an upper-level language course community service at a local hospital, that will promote linguistic fluency and clinic, or medical practice serving the better cultural understanding of the Latin Latino community. This internship will allow American and Latino communities in the students to put their Spanish-language United States. The course’s content will skills to practice while helping Spanish- focus on Hispanic immigration, emphasizing speaking patients navigate the complex the experiences of the Latin American and health care system Latino communities of the United States. Fall semester. 4 credits It will concentrate on the largest groups Prerequisites: LANG 1412 Beginning Spanish for of immigrants, those from Mexico, Puerto Healthcare Professionals II or permission from Rico and Cuba, exploring issues related to the instructor. language, identity, socioeconomic realities and demographics. Class discussions will center on cultural and literary readings and films. Students will provide community Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 225 service to non-profit organizations within other assorted materials (music, pictures, Course Descriptions for the Boston area, as well as to local schools, paintings, articles, short narratives, and Arts and Sciences where they will be using the like). The course will place special their language skills while assisting emphasis on the links that tie the films with Spanish-speakers. the broader economic, sociopolitical and Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits historical landscape of the Hispanic world. Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of All movies will be shown in their original instructor language with subtitles. The course will be conducted in Spanish. LANG2416 Latin American Peoples and Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Cultures (AI-L) Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission This Latin American culture course will of instructor introduce students to the cultures and p eoples of the region from pre-Columbian LANG2418 The Art of Spain to modern times. Following a thematic This course provides students with a broad approach, students will gain a better survey of Spanish art. It examines artistic understanding of s ignificant historical masterpieces from different periods events, g eographical regions, indigenous highlighting their social and historical cultures, regional languages, religious implications. In this course students will customs and beliefs, music, and other further develop listening, reading, speaking forms of artistic expression. Litera ry texts and writing skills. There will also be field from different Spanish-speaking countries visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the will illustrate the richness and diversity of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The this complex world. Students will read Inca course will be conducted in Spanish. Garcilaso de la Vegas account of Pizarro’s Spring semester, even years. 4 credits conquest of Perú, José Martís vision of Prerequisite: LANG2413 Cuba, Marta Truebas’s gripping narrative of military repression in the Southern Cone, LANG2419 Approaches to Hispanic and Nellie Campobello’s fiction of the Literature (AI-L) Mexican revolution. They will also read a The last half of the 20th century witnessed selection of poetry and short stories relevant a revolution in literary theory and criticism. to the content of the course. Music and film Drawing on a vast network of other disci will also be incorporated into the program. plines such as philosophy, anthropology, Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits linguistics, political economy, sociology, Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission women’s studies, religion, etc., this course of instructor will introduce students to this vast and varied present-day field. The critical and LANG2417 Hispanic Culture and Language theoretical concepts presented in this class through Film aim to provide undergraduate students This course will introduce students to the with the tools to conduct in-depth study of heterogeneous culture of the Hispanic world literary texts. through the use of films and other selected Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits materials provided by the instructor. The Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission course aims to provide students with a of instructor panoramic appreciation of Hispanic cultures as well as to develop their linguistic proficiency through the use of films and 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
226 Modern Languages LANG2605 Spain: A Cultural LANG3429 Great Figures of Spanish Approach (AI-L) Literature (AI-L) This course presents an overview of Spanish This study of selected texts of the most culture in the physical reality of the geogra- o utstanding Hispanic authors across the phy of Spain, the trajectory of its history and centuries will bring the student into contact the rich values of its art. with the evolution and artistic riches of the Spring semester, even years. 4 credits literary history of Spain. Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits of instructor Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor LANG3411 Latin American Literary G iants (AI-L) LANG3431 Contemporary Spanish This course will focus on the most influ- Novel (AI-L) ential Latin American authors. It will The student will read and discuss relevant engage students in literary analysis of works of the most outstanding contemporary representative texts by Borges, Neruda, Paz, novelists of Spain, noting particularly Garcia Marquez and others. Readings will the changed social, political and cultural include a wide range of poetry, short stories environment of present day Spain as and novels. evidenced in these novels. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor of instructor Course Descriptions for LANG3417 Spanish American Experience: LANG3433 Modern Hispanic Arts and Sciences An Overview (AI-L) Drama (AI-L) This course examines the developments of This is an approach to the study of Hispanic Spanish American literature through the society and culture of the contemporary study of the most representative literary p eriod through the reading, discussion of, movements and cultural periods. and analysis of selected works of outstand- Fall semester, even years. 4 credits ing dramatists of the period. Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits instructor Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor LANG3427 Contemporary Spanish American Women Novelists (AI-L) LANG4478-4479 Directed Study This course introduces the student to out- Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits standing women novelists of the contem- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor porary period, such as Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, Marta Traba, Rosario LANG4999 Senior Seminar Ferré and Isabel Allende. Discussions will Students will conduct in-depth research of a focus on literary analysis, sociopolitical chosen topic that will result in a significant c ontext and feminist perspective. senior paper. There will be regular peer- Spring semester, even years. 4 credits reviewed oral presentations of progress. Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission Spring semester. 4 credits of instructor Prerequisites: Two 3000-level Hispanic literature courses and senior status Emmanuel College
Modern Languages 227 LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION reflections on modern urban life. This Course Descriptions for course, conducted in English, travels to Paris Arts and Sciences LANG2103 Literary Mirrors: in January. Introduction to World Literature (AI-L) Travel component required. Embark on a literary journey to Africa, Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Europe, Asia and Central and South Americas with major world authors who treat LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through in short novels the triumphs and t ragedies of Literature, Cinema and the human condition. This course, conducted Everyday Life (AI-L) in English, is designed to foster critical Students will analyze and discuss some thinking and to improve writing skills. m asterpieces of Italian literature and some Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits movies inspired by them. The course is comprised of two parts of four weeks each. LANG2105 Contemporary Latin American The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, Fiction (AI-L) the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). Conducted in English, this literature in During the first part of the course, students translation course introduces students to will be reading and discussing some of the major contemporary authors from the Latin masterpieces of Italian literature from the American Boom to the present. S tudents will 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific engage in literary analysis of representa- focus on Milan. The readings will include two tive prose from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. Reading and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If selections will expose students to literary This Is a Man,” and Calvino’s “The Invisible styles characteristic of Latin A merican writ- Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in ers as well as to the sociopolitical reality of Milan, during the second part of the course, the Americas. Conducted in English. where students will visit some of the actual Fall semester, even years. 4 credits sites described in their readings and will view movies inspired by the works they read. LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in The virtual images from the literary pages Modern French Literature and Culture (AI-L) and the “real” ones from the movies will As a source of inspiration, romance, and help them discover how modern city life in sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply exerted a profound influence on generations rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic of artists and writers. In the fall prior to and cultural background. This course, taught our travel, students will take a preparatory in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the course introducing them to history and summer where students will complete the culture of the city of lights. Through novels, coursework started at Emmanuel, as well as novellas, short stories, poems, and films, take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at contrasting accounts of life in the city of the Università Cattolica. Paris will be studied, offering often radically Travel Component Required. opposing views of the French capital as Program is open to COF students. expressed by realist and surrealist writers, Prerequisites: None artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where the students will experience firsthand a city which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
228 Neuroscience LANG3421 Spanish Caribbean Course Descriptions for Literature (AI-L) NEUROSCIENCE Arts and Sciences This course will introduce students to the literature of the Spanish Caribbean, NEURO2201 Neurobiology engaging them in literary analysis of major This course is designed to introduce authors form Cuba, Puerto Rico and the s tudents to the exciting and ever-evolving Dominican Republic. Special attention field of neuroscience from molecular will be given to the author’s literary style, to behavioral levels. Consideration of themes developed and to the ideological the fundamentals of neuroanatomy, content of each piece. Students will also neurophysiology and neurochemistry as get a glimpse of this region’s historical and they relate to brain function is emphasized. sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the Topics include neuronal communication, semester participants will have acquired sensory, motor and autonomic systems, an appreciation of the literature of the learning and memory, neuronal plasticity Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a and higher level functioning with a focus better understanding of the complex issues on behavior. Throughout the course, affecting this interesting region. Conducted examples from current research and clinical in English. references will be utilized to reinforce and Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits illustrate key concepts. Three hours lecture, (Cross-referenced with ENGL3421) three hours laboratory. Fall semester. 4 credits Emmanuel College Prerequisite: BIOL1105 or permission of instructor $100 lab fee NEURO3000 Experimental Neuroscience and Lab Neuroscience is a very broad, complex 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 business. This course has the potential to—
Neuroscience 229 figuratively and literally—change minds! drugs used in the treatment of psychiatric Course Descriptions for Spring semester. 4 credits disorders as well as psychoactive drugs of Arts and Sciences Prerequisites: BIOL2201, CHEM1102 and abuse. Special topics of interest will include PSYCH2802 and junior standing the study of pharmacological treatments $100 lab fee available for major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood and anxiety NEURO3137 Medical Neuroscience disorders. Upon completion of this course, This course is designed with the future students will be able to define and discuss m edical student and health professional in the principles of the pharmacotherapy mind. Lecture content will focus on diseases currently available for the treatment of and disorders of the nervous system. Clinical major psychiatric disorders, as well as the case studies will be discussed, thus making underlying mechanisms of drugs of abuse, this a good course for pre-med students. and will be able to interpret and critically While there is no separate laboratory, evaluate new findings in the field. students will participate in class on group Spring semester. 4 credits projects working on clinical cases as if Prerequisites: PSYCH2229 or BIOL2201 they were working in the medical field. This and CHEM1101 course is an upper-level elective course for completing the neuroscience concentration. NEURO4160 Senior Seminar in Fall semester. 4 credits Neuroscience Prerequisite: BIOL2201 or permission of Students read and discuss current research instructor and give in-depth oral presentations. Topics may include: human genetic disorders, NEURO3205 Neuroendocrinology endocrinology, biochemistry of development, This course will examine the relationships neuroscience, molecular biology, between hormones, the brain and behavior. reproductive physiology, genomics, cancer We will approach this from a biological biology, advanced physiology or others. psychology perspective, thus we will begin The neuroscience seminar section satisfies with an overview of the anatomy and the s eminar requirement for biology and physiology of the endocrine systems, the psychology majors with a concentration chemistry of hormones, and the cellular in neuroscience. and molecular features of hormone action. Spring semester. 4 credits We will follow by looking at a number of Neuroscience Seminar section prerequisite: behaviors and their regulation by hormones. BIOL2201 or permission of instructor Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: PSYCH2209 or BIOL2201 and NEURO4178 Directed Study sophomore standing A student, with departmental approval, may pursue research or applied experience NEURO3214 Psychopharmacology in a specialized area in neuroscience under The framework of the course includes: (1) the personal direction of one or more Introduction to the principal concepts in members of the department. pharmacology, such as pharmacokinetics, Offered as needed. 4 credits pharmacodynamics and drug-drug Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or interactions. (2) A brief review of the permission of instructor mechanisms of action of difference drugs in the central nervous system. (3) A thorough introduction to different classes of psychoactive compounds, including 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
230 Nursing NEURO4282/NEURO4283 Neuroscience NURSING Research Internship I and II Students interested in gaining research NURS1000 Nursing Seminar I experience, preparing to take on post- This class focuses on assisting the graduate clinical research positions, getting nursing student to acquire essential skills, a Ph.D. in any psychology subfield, and/or techniques and behaviors that will lead to wishing to develop a broad set of skills for success as a student, a lifelong learner and a careers in research, marketing or business beginning member of the nursing profession. should take this course. Students will 1 credit develop research skills, write an APA style research paper and engage in professional NURS2000 History and Theory in Nursing/ positions. Students will work as a research Service Seminar II assistant either on campus with a faculty This course provides a broad overview and member or off campus at any number of synthesis of the issues and trends most sites (e.g., Children’s Hospital, Mass Mental relevant to the practice of professional Health). Students will have the opportunity nursing. Historical, contemporary, theoretical to either (a) develop and implement their and potential influences on professional own research study under the supervision nursing practice are reviewed. An emphasis of another researcher or (b) participate on the unique and varied roles of nurses in executing an existing research study. in today’s interdisciplinary healthcare Students will gain significant exposure to environment are examined within the context research process (e.g., developing research of individual, family, community, and global questions, methodologies) through their health. internship site and in the class. Fall semseter. 1 credit Prerequisites: NURS1000 Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits NURS2100 Pathophysiology (8 credits total) This course examines selected pathophysiological concepts within a nursing Prerequisites: INT1001, PSYCH1501, framework. The course will incorporate holistic aspects of disease process. PSYCH2801, PSYCH2802, attendance at (1) Concepts include genetics, mechanisms of disease causation, genetics and genomics, capstone information session, application immune processes, cellular growth/ proliferation, circulation, oxygenation and submission by mid-February, and senior status. alterations in renal, neurological and endocrine functions. The effects of various Students who wish to study abroad during their environmental factors and physiological compensatory changes will be examined. junior year must submit their application by the Adaptive responses across the life span are explored. Friday before Winter Break. Credit granted upon Spring Semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: NURS2000 completion and acceptance of the work. Concurrently with NURS2200,2300 and 2400 Course Descriptions for Arts and Sciences Emmanuel College
Nursing 231 NURS2200 Health Assessment nurse as a member of the healthcare team is Course Descriptions for This course introduces health assessment emphasized. Students are introduced to the Arts and Sciences and wellness concepts. The focus of this concepts of client needs, safety, course is on the development of beginning communication, teaching/learning, critical skills in assessing health across the thinking, clinical judgement, ethical-legal, lifespan with an emphasis on physical and cultural diversity. Additionally, this examination and techniques and clinical course introduces psychomotor nursing judgement based on findings. Topics skills needed to assist individuals in meeting include the multitude of variables that basic human needs. Skills necessary contribute to wellness, the use of the nursing for maintaining microbial, physical, and process, interacting with clients using psychological safety are introduced appropriate communication skills, taking along with skills needed in therapeutic an accurate health history and establishing interventions. At the conclusion of this an appropriate database using current course students demonstrate competency informatics for correct documentation of in performing basic nursing skills for obtained information. Spring Semester. 4 credits individuals with health needs. Prerequisites: NURS2000 Spring Semester. 6 credits Concurrently with BIOL1919, BIOL1920, Prerequisites: NURS2000 NURS2100, and NURS2300 Concurrently with NURS2100,NURS2200 and NURS2300 Pharmacology NURS2300 This course focuses on the chemical and physical characteristics of therapeutic NURS3100 Adult Health I (Clinical) drugs as well as their physiological impact This course emphasizes the knowledge on clients of all ages. General principles of and skills essential for the nursing care pharmacology and the key categories of of the adult and older adult clients. The commonly used drug to treat a broad range role and responsibilities of the nurse of pathophysiological conditions will be include those related to client advocacy included. The therapeutic use of drugs and teaching, communication, safety, and essential for current nursing practice will be cultural sensitivity are emphasized. The examined. Clinical, legal and ethical student will utilize the nursing process to decision making related to drug plan and provide evidence-based patient administration will be covered. centered care with a focus on the physical, Spring Semester. 4 credits pathophysiologic, psychosocial and spiritual responses of individuals to disease Prerequisites: NURS2000 processes and health promotion. Nursing care of clients with oncology, respiratory, Concurrently with CHEM 1109, NURS2100, cardiac, endocrine and musculoskeletal dysfunction will be covered. The clinical NURS2200 and NURS2400 component involves experience in an acute care environment, in which the NURS2400 Intro to Nursing (Clinical) nursing process and clinical judgment is This course introduces the beginning implemented in collaboration with other student to the nursing profession, with a healthcare professionals with clinical focus on the current state of the nursing instructor supervision. The application profession and its alignment with the most of standards for professional nursing recent trends in healthcare. The role of the practice is expected. Fall Semester. 8 credits 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
232 Nursing Course Descriptions for Prerequisites: NURS2100, NURS2200, covered. Emergency and disaster nursing Arts and Sciences NURS2300 and NURS2400 will be introduced. The clinical component involves experience in an acute care NURS3200 Nursing Research environment, in which the nursing process This course is an introduction to the process and clinical judgment is implemented of scientific inquiry and its application in collaboration with other healthcare to nursing practice. The focus is on the professionals with clinical instructor identification of researchable questions supervision. The application of standards for derived from nursing practice, the critical professional nursing practice is expected. appraisal of relevant research in the Spring Semester. 6 credits literature, and the application of evidence- Prerequisite: NURS3100 based practice to improve quality of care. Fall Semester. 4 credits NURS3500 End of Life Nursing Seminar III Prerequisites: MATH1117 This course emphasizes the role of the nurse in providing palliative care for patients at end NURS3300 Mental Health Nursing (Clinical) of life. Cultural, spiritual and psychosocial This course focuses on the provision of aspects of death will be covered. Topics in nursing intervention to clients experiencing palliative care include, communication, pain mental health issues. In addition to management, symptom management, final theoretical and clinical exposure to a hours of life, loss, grief and bereavement. broad range of psychiatric conditions, the Care of the dying patient and family across connection of the mind-body, the importance the lifespan will be addressed. of coping skills and stress management will Spring Semester. 1 credit be explored. Interpersonal skill development and clinical decision making with this Prerequisite: NURS3100 population will be emphasized. 6 credits NURS3114 Culture and Diversity in Health Prerequisite: NURS3100 Care (Social Analysis) NURS3400 Adult Health II (Clinical) This course focuses on understanding This course builds upon Adult health I diversity in nursing and health care. to emphasize the knowledge and skills Theoretical bases in transcultural nursing, essential for the nursing care of adult clients. spirituality, and lifestyles are discussed and The role and responsibilities of the nurse their impact on the provision of health care including those related to patient advocacy services are analyzed. The genetic origins of and teaching, communication, safety, and man as it relates to the commonality of all cultural sensitivity are emphasized. The races are explored. The use of music, art, student will utilize the nursing process to literature, and healing/touch modalities that plan and provide evidence-based patient enhance care giving and healing response centered care with a focus on the physical, of individuals will be studied. Contemporary pathophysiologic, psychosocial and interventions addressing complementary spiritual responses of individuals to disease therapies and cultural practices including: processes and health promotion. Nursing Reiki, acupressure, Tai Chi, yoga, care of clients with neurology, hematology, meditation, guided imagery, homeopathy, immunology, kidney and urinary, herbal medicine, food supplements, and gastrointestinal, reproductive and aromatherapy will be reviewed as it relates to integument disfunction will be the care of the mind, body, and patient health outcomes. There will be a travel option with Emmanuel College this course. Prerequisite: NURS3100
Prerequisites and Restrictions 233 NURS3600 Maternity and Women’s Health/ course examines how the professional nurse Course Descriptions for Peds (Clinical) works collaboratively within the structure Arts and Sciences 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 NURS3700 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 NURS3400 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 NURS3700 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 NURS3400 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 NURS3700 in a leadership/ management position. The 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
234 Philosophy Course Descriptions for PHILOSOPHY artistic merit are culturally determined. Arts and Sciences Spring semester. 4 credits 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 Emmanuel College
Philosophy 235 cultures to determine right from wrong, deliberation and ethical decision making. Course Descriptions for and the values that they believe we ought Fall semester. 4 credits Arts and Sciences to pursue to lead full, rich and happy lives. Moral traditions considered include PHIL2104 Theories of Human Nature (M) European, Asian, Arab, African, Latin This course is an introduction to a wide American, Caribbean, and Native American. v ariety of views on how human beings In this global age, multicultural ethical views understand human nature. It will consider will deepen a student’s appreciation of major the accounts of Confucianism, Hinduism, the ethical traditions from v arious c ultures, Bible, the early Greeks (Plato and Aristotle), serve as a foundation for further exploration, Darwin, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and develop moral r easoning and critical- Freud, Hume and Skinner. The course thinking skills. will conclude with an overview of some Fall semester. 4 credits contemporary issues and topics: gender, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and PHIL1205 Health Care Ethics (M) cognitive science. After an overview of the various normative Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits frameworks for making moral decisions and judgments that moral philosophies and PHIL2106 Ethics (M) moral theologies propose, the course will This course addresses some fundamental focus on intelligent decision making about questions about the “Good Life” and the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise what makes life worth living. Students will in the field now known as bioethics. Among explore questions about what makes an the topics considered are: patient choices a ction “right” or “wrong,” what makes us and informed consent, proxy decision happy, what kinds of qualities a person making, advance directives, brain death, should have, and how we should treat withholding life-prolonging treatments and other people. The course will begin with an feeding tubes, diagnostic and experimental examination of various conceptions of the interventions on human embryos, cloning, good life and what it means to be virtuous. artificial reproductive techniques, surrogate This will be followed by a discussion of motherhood, preimplantation and prenatal the central moral theories that continue testing, treatment and destruction (abortion) to influence contemporary discussions of fetuses, treatment of seriously d efective about ethics: Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, babies, euthanasia and physician-assisted Utilitarianism, and Immanuel Kant’s suicide, medical research on human Deontology. Throughout the semester, we subjects, transplanting organs from dead will also consider the ways in which feminist and living donors, the ethical implications of and non-Western perspectives both parallel genetic medicine and genomic information, and challenge some of the ideals of Western and the ethical issues arising in m anaged moral philosophy. care payment systems. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits PHIL2107 Philosophy of Justice & PHIL1207 Ethics at Work (M) Equality(M) After a brief introduction to moral theory This course examines some of the most and moral reasoning the course will examine pressing issues in political philosophy of some typical ethical issues that arise in our time. It begins with a brief overview managing organizations. Case studies of contemporary theories of justice. A will help students develop their skills in variety of current problems within political 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
236 Philosophy Course Descriptions for philosophy are then addressed from varied PHIL2201 Existentialism and the Meaning Arts and Sciences perspectives. These include (1) inquiries of Life (M) into the nature of and justifications given Existentialism, unlike many technical and for human rights, (2) competing conceptions academic philosophical movements, is a of liberty, (3) just what is meant (or what philosophy of life. It begins with the should be meant) by equality, and, finally, (4) recognition that we are inescapably the nature and injustice of oppression. The responsible—responsible for our outlook class periods will involve a mixture of lecture on life, responsible for what we do and do and small group discussions including case not do, responsible for the kind of person we studies are, and responsible for what we become Fall semester. 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 e valuate 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 problems are especially problems about Emmanuel College
Philosophy 237 how we do or should use language. This PHIL3115 Ancient and Medieval Course Descriptions for course traces the development of analytic Philosophy Arts and Sciences philosophy through the 20th century and This course is a textual analysis of ancient discusses its contemporary influence. philosophy, including the pre-Socratic Fall semester, even years. 4 credits. philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of the Stoics. Medieval philosophers studied instructor include Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure and Aquinas. PHIL3109 Philosophy of Mind Spring semester, even years. 4 credits This course will begin by discussing the Prerequisite: Junior status or permission problem of how mental phenomena fit into of instructor a physical universe. The past century’s most influential responses to the problem PHIL3215 Modern Philosophy will be discussed: behaviorism, the identity This course is an examination of some theory, and functionalism. Next, topics c entral ideas of major modern philosophers, such as whether computers could ever have including Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, thoughts or consciousness, the extent to Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant, as well which our thoughts and experiences depend as associated authors. These philosophers on the nature of our environment, and how greatly influenced the development of it is that the mental causally interacts with the contemporary mind. Emphasis is on the physical, will be discussed. Additional epistemology and metaphysics, especially q uestions to be explored include: What is the rationalist and empiricist traditions, consciousness? What is the mind-body with some discussion of political philosophy. problem? Are mental states identical with Students will read original texts and, with neural states? Is there something it is like the help of background readings, interpret to be in a mental state? What is the problem their meaning and significance. of mental causation? We will consider some Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits of the most important historical answers Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of offered to the topics and questions above, as instructor well as some of the views philosophers have developed in response to the contemporary PHIL4178-4179 Directed Study sciences of the mind. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of instructor PHIL4999 Senior Seminar in Philosophy Topics in major areas of philosophy will be PHIL3110 Philosophy of Psychiatry discussed. A major paper and presentation This course will examine philosophical are required. This course fulfills the questions raised by mental disorder and our capstone requirement in philosophy. attempts to understand and treat it. Topics Spring semester. 4 credits explored include the mind/body problem, Prerequisite: Open only to senior philosophy self-consciousness, the unity of the mind, majors and diagnostic practice. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits. Prerequisites: Junior status or permission of instructor 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
238 Physics Course Descriptions for PHYSICS planets and the possibility of life in the Arts and Sciences universe. Three hours lecture, two hours PHYS1110 Introduction to Physical laboratory. Sciences (SI-L) Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits (Cross listed with CHEM1110) $100 lab fee This course is an introduction to physical science. Students will learn how to PHYS1121 Energy and the apply scientific concepts to create and Environment (SI-L) understand scientific explanations of In this course, students study energy use, physical phenomena. Topics covered will production, and environmental effects. include: motion, energy, heat, light, basic Topics may include, but are not limited electricity, physical and chemical changes. to energy basics, fossil fuels, alternative This course is required for those planning on energy (solar, wind, biomass, etc.), nuclear teaching at the elementary school level. This energy, acid rain, ozone depletion, climate course is taught in a workshop format which and global climate change. The class will integrates lecture and laboratory so that focus on scientific and quantitative issues, students will develop their understanding however, political and social aspects will through hands-on experiments. Equivalent also be touched upon. Three hours lecture, of three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. two hours laboratory. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester, even years. 4 credits $100 lab fee $100 lab fee PHYS1116 Astronomy (SI) PHYS1122 Energy and the This course is the same as PHYS1117, Environment (SI) but without the laboratory component. This course is the same as PHYS1121, This course gives the student a tour of the but without the laboratory component. universe, from our Sun and Solar System Students study energy use, production, to the very edge of space and time itself. and environmental effects. Topics include: Topics may include, but are not limited to the energy basics, fossil fuels, alternative eight planets; our Sun and the structure of energy (solar, wind, biomass, etc.), nuclear the stars; nuclear fusion as a stellar energy energy, acid rain, ozone depletion, climate source; stellar evolution; the Milky Way; and global warming. The class will focus on galaxies and galaxy evolution; large scale scientific and quantitative issues, however, structure; the fate of the universe; extrasolar political and social aspects will also be planets and the possibility of life in the uni- touched upon. Three hours lecture. verse. Three hours lecture. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits PHYS2201 General Physics I (Calculus PHYS1117 Astronomy (SI-L) based) (SI-L) This course gives the student a tour of the This course is a mathematical treatment universe, from our Sun and Solar System of introductory physics using calculus. to the very edge of space and time itself. This course provides an introduction to the Topics may include, but are not limited to the classical mechanics of particles and rigid eight planets; our Sun and the structure of bodies. Topics include: vectors, momentum, the stars; nuclear fusion as a stellar energy energy, angular momentum, conservation source; stellar evolution; the Milky Way; laws, basic thermodynamics, Newton’s galaxies and galaxy evolution; large scale laws of motion, statics, projectile motion, structure; the fate of the universe; extrasolar oscillations, and orbits. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Emmanuel College
Political Science 239 Fall semester. 4 credits POLITICAL SCIENCE Course Descriptions for Prerequisites: MATH1111, MATH1112 Arts and Sciences $100 lab fee POLSC1201 Introduction to American Politics and Government (SA) PHYS2202 General Physics II (Calculus This course offers an overview of the based) (SI-L) American political system. Included are This course is a mathematical treatment examinations of the American presidency, of introductory physics using calculus. Congress, political parties, interest groups, This course provides an introduction to the the courts and the mass media. Students classical theories of electromagnetism and analyze the way in which American optics. Topics include: electrostatistics, society attempts to realize the goals of a electric and magnetic fields, electric circuits, constitutional democracy, as well as the magnets, Maxwell’s equations, waves, successes and failures of the system. optics, interference, and diffraction. Three Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Spring semester. 4 credits POLSC1301 Introduction to Comparative Prerequisites: PHYS2201, MATH1111, Government and Politics (SA) MATH1112 This course offers a comparative analysis $100 lab fee of the structure and operation of selected European, African, Latin American and Asian PHYS 2410 Sustainability Science (SI-L) governments. Emphasis is placed on the (cross listed with IDS2410) structure, functions and operations of the This course provides an introduction to the political systems in each country. science of sustainability and to selected Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits issues in sustainable development. We fill focus on topics that are of major importance POLSC1401 Introduction to International to Indonesia: (1) deforestation, (2) urbaniza- Relations (SA) tion, and (3) depletion of marine resources. The course introduces students to the We will study three geographical regions dynamics of the interrelationships in the of Indonesia as case studies: Borneo (de- international arena. It examines the inter forestation), Java (urbanization), and Bali actions of states and international organi (the oceans). We will examine the causes of zations as well as sub-national actors such these processes and their effects on people as guerrilla groups. The course explores and the environment. Proposals for sustain- the theoretical concepts used to explain able solutions to the problems posed will the international system and applies them also be evaluated. In the travel component to international politics today in Europe, of this course we will visit these regions to the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin see the facts on the ground and how Indone- America. sians are trying to find their own solutions. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits POLSC1501 Political Theory & Analysis PHYS4178-4179 Directed Study This survey course will provide an intro This is an independent study of material not duction to major political philosophers, included in existing courses. concepts, and to competing ideologies on Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits political science by presenting some of the Prerequisite: Permission of department fundamental theoretical schools and by examining many of the approaches that underlie contemporary ideologies. Special 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
240 Political Science Course Descriptions for attention will be placed on the theoretical what factors contribute to a successful Arts and Sciences background that ultimately deals with the campaign strategy. A main goal of the complex triangular relationship between the course is to intrigue students as campaign individual, society, and the state. participants through an understanding of Spring semester. 4 credits how to approach campaigns. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits POLSC2203 Political Socialization Political socialization, the “people-oriented” POLSC2225 The 1960s explanation of political events, is concerned The decade of the 1960s represents dif- with the knowledge, values and beliefs of ferent things to different generations. The the average citizen. What do citizens decade was a combination of a peculiar set demand of their government? Under what of events, conflicts and emotions. To those conditions are they willing to support its who lived through it, it was a difficult period leaders? What is the relationship between in time. Yet now there is a nostalgia about it. citizens’ attitudes and the way the state For those who did not live through it, there is operates? How are political standards often a sense of “lost moments.” This course and beliefs transmitted from generation shall explore the many events, personalities to generation? By what agents? These and movements that constitute the unique questions are addressed throughout the period of the 1960s. semester. Spring semester,even years. 4 credits Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits POLSC2228 Federalism through State and POLSC2207 Politics and the Media Local Government This course examines the impact the mass This course will explore the relationship media has on the workings of the American between national, state, and local authority political system. The course investigates with an emphasis on the latter two the continually increasing influence of levels of governance. The bulk of public the media in terms of its interaction with policies affecting the lives of citizens are political institutions, its role in campaigning, implemented at the state and local levels, its use by politicians and office-holders, yet it is not always clear which level of its effect upon recent trends in the political government has ultimate jurisdiction, arena (e.g., its treatment of violence, riots, creating periodic conflict over contested etc.) and possible future effects. ground; which is the essence of the evolution Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits of federalism in America. A focus on state and local governments is essential to POLSC2211 Campaign Strategies and become more knowledgeable about public Electoral Politics policy and the American federal system. This course will undertake an examination of Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits the motivations that propel voters to choose the winning candidate or campaign in POLSC2232 Parties and Interests in Electoral politics. We will utilize current and American Politics: Polarized America recent American elections on the national, It is perceived that America is indeed a state, and local levels, to evaluate whether polarized nation. This course investigates campaign strategy or candidate-appeal this possibility through the prism of political determine the Electoral outcome. Party parties and interest groups. Parties and affiliation, issue importance and campaign interests arguably articulate the will of techniques will be reviewed as to determine the people, and will be assessed in their Emmanuel College
Political Science 241 role in government, the electorate, and as to the issue of Europe-making related to Course Descriptions for organizations. This course will explore these the post-EU/NATO enlargement and the Arts and Sciences institutions to assess the relative strength post-9/11 situation and European-Atlantic and influences of these groups and to see to relations. what degree America is a polarized nation. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1201 Prerequisite: POLSC1301 Spring semester, even years. 4 credits POLSC2401 American Foreign Policy POLSC2301 Politics of Race and Ethnicity in This course will examine when and how the Latin America and Caribbean United States acts in the world arena. We Historical, cultural, economic, and will analyze the role of domestic politics, geopolitical, imperatives have forged the interpretation of the national interest, identities that are influencing the politics and the formulation of policy. of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits This course examines the politics of 21st century in LAC primarily through the prism POLSC2409 The Politics of International of identities of race and ethnicity. Gender, Economic Relations class, religion and sexual orientation, are This course will explore the interrelation- also addressed as they influence political ships of economics and politics in interna- culture and public policy regionally and tional arenas. Students will therefore study within cases. The course examination is the interdependence of economics, ques- divided along different regions, such as: tions of economic development, the power Mexico and Central America; the Andes; of multinational corporations, international Brazil and the Southern Cone; and the trade and trade agreements, oligopolies, Caribbean. **Please note. There will NOT be oil, environment and arms trade. The class a travel component with this course during will travel to China as it is an increasingly the Fall 2020 semester. This course will important economic and political actor in the extend beyond the classroom in a number international arena. It is therefore an excel- of ways, most importantly with travel to a lent vehicle for understanding the financial country within a featured region and based and power relationships that impact the on the themes established in the syllabus. globalized world.Fall and spring semesters. 4 Travel will take place during the January credits intersession following the class and will be a Prerequisite: Either one economics or required component. Possible destinations one political science course include: Cuba, Peru, Brazil, or destinations (Cross-referenced with ECON2113) approved by the International Programming Office. POLSC2411 The Contemporary Middle East: Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Challenges and Promise This course will introduce students to the POLSC2302 European Politics: states, political movements, conflicts and From Transition to Integration the possibilities for peace in the Middle East. Comparative study of politics in several Students will begin by examining the major Western European countries, with an international dynamics of the region, such emphasis on political development, as the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, the inter institutions, major issues in contemporary actions of the Gulf Region, and the Syrian- politics, and the impact of European Lebanese-Israeli triangle. The discussion will integration. Special attention will be paid then turn to the domestic political, social, 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
242 Political Science Course Descriptions for and economic environment challenging the POLSC2417 Statecraft and Globalization Arts and Sciences people and governments of the area. Lastly, In a globalized political system, states’ students will look at the implications for ability to use statecraft is affected by the the United States of the complexities of this condition of the international system and region—its challenges and its promise. the structure of alliance membership. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits The current Eurozone crisis that has at its epicenter the southern Mediterranean POLSC2413 International Law and littoral states of Portugal, Italy, Greece, I nstitutions and Spain (PIGS) presents interesting In this course, students will examine the dimensions of statecraft that states practice sources and historical foundations of within institutional arrangements such as contemporary International Law as well as the European Union and NATO, at a time of the international institutions most closely economic crisis. associated with its application. Students Travel component required. will gain an understanding of the role played Summer. 4 credits by state actors, international institutions Offered in Crete as part of Eastern and NGOs in both the development of Mediterranean Security Studies program international law and its application, as well as of the difficulties of enforcing these POLSC2419 The Geopolitics of Democracy norms on sovereign states. This will be In this course, we will examine the conflict of demonstrated through applied case studies geopolitical interests versus domestic forces in specific areas of international law, such that challenge the modern state. We will as humanitarian law, the Responsibility to begin by outlining the dominant arguments Protect Doctrine, the Law of Seas, the use of that have defined the emergence of liberal force, and the environmental law. democracy as “the only game in town” as Spring semester, even years. 4 credits. well as the new geopolitical “great game.” We will then proceed to examine how the POLSC2415 In the Footsteps of Thucydides coveting of energy highways within the new The course examines the theoretical genesis geopolitical great game affects the domestic of the dominant argument of International political priority of democratic governance in Relations, namely that of the Realist and the eastern Mediterranean. the Neorealist paradigm. Thucydides, an Travel component required. Athenian general and a combatant in the Summer. 4 credits “world war” of his day, which pinned two Offered in Crete as part of Eastern great alliances against each other and Mediterranean Security Studies program ultimately caused the demise of the entire city-state system, traces the seductive POLSC2421 Model United Nations lure of state power and its effects on The Model United Nations (MUN) course those who p ossess it as well as those who aims to increase the student’s knowledge seek it. Students will trace the footsteps of international issues, policy making and of Thucydides through the pages of The the activities of the United Nations. You will Peloponnesian War and in Athens, Sparta also gain valuable skills in public speaking, and Milos, where “the strong did as they research and writing, negotiation and powers wished and the weak suffered as they must.” of persuasion, leadership, organization, and This course travels to Greece in March. interpersonal communication. Students Travel component required. will gain these skills through course Spring semester, even years. 4 credits assignments, and, most importantly, by Emmanuel College
Political Science 243 playing the role of United Nations delegates policy in the U.S., with an emphasis on the at MUN and Crisis conferences during the social, economic, geographic, educational, fall semester. You will have the opportunity and culture forces contributing to health to represent EC as a delegate at Model law and policy formulation. Included in this UN and Crisis conferences locally as part course will be developing an understanding of the course. Students are responsible of the broader political environment of for attending classes, completing several vested interests that impact the governing assignments in preparation for attending of health care, the policymaking process and participating in two Boston-area MUN and how that environment may misperceive/ conference at Boston University and the misidentify what policies and potential Harvard National Model United Nations reforms are the most effective in achieving conference in February, following the end of an equitable distribution of health care to the semester. the country’s diverse population. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits POLSC2503 Revolution and Nationalism POLSC2701 Research Methods in Political Course Descriptions for This course discusses the nature and causes Science Arts and Sciences of rebellion and revolution with special The aim of this course is to give students regard to the national self-assertion of opportunities to conduct their own research societies emerging from imperialism since and to understand and use the research of World War I. others. Both qualitative and quantitative Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits methods will be covered, including Prerequisite: POLSC1501 library and archival research, legislative documents, election data, and multivariate POLSC2602 Introduction to Law and the analysis. The immediate aim of the course Judicial System is to provide students with the necessary This course provides a general introduction tools to conduct research and to create to the study of law and the judicial process in substantive work in any of the sub-fields the U.S. It will explore the different areas of of Political Science, and thus to prepare law, giving students an overview of the many them for their own Senior Seminar capstone different directions in which the study of law paper. Students will be encouraged to may take them. submit their Research Methods course for Fall semester, even years. 4 credits presentation at a professional conference such as the Northeast Political Science POLSC2603 Problems of Law and Society Association meeting. The course evaluates the current ability of Spring semester. 4 credits legal institutions to deal with a variety of Prerequisites: MATH1117, at least one 1000- societal problems such as discrimination, level Political Science course and sophomore child rights, the aged, drug addictions, AIDs, status prisoner rights and rehabilitation, and the environment. POLSC2705 Sustainable Development: Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Paradigms and Policies This interdisciplinary course examines the POLSC2613 Law, Health and Public Policy idea and practice of sustainable develop- “Health” is more much than “the absence ment in the global north and south from of disease.” This course will explore the the perspectives of Economics, Political interrelationship of law, health, and public Science and Sociology. The course starts by 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
244 Political Science Course Descriptions for analyzing definitions and theories underlying which public policies do not always comport Arts and Sciences the concept of sustainable development. It with American ideals. This course assesses continues to critically assess the sustain- debate over the meaning of American ability indices built on these different para- political ideologies; as well as how the digms before analyzing major sustainability disenfranchised, those marginalized on the challenges such as population growth and basis of their ethnicity, national origin skin climate change. Students will also learn color, gender, sexual orientation, or about the actors, processes and institutions economic status have enhanced their rights at the national and international levels that over time. This course seeks to explore this play a significant role in sustainability policy. debate through an overview of American Lastly, the course examines policy measures political thought from the nation’s founding towards sustainable development. through present day. A close reading and Spring semester. 4 credits analysis of canonical documents will reveal a (Cross-referenced with SOC2705) society often at struggle with itself while striving to attain certain ideals. POLSC2801 Food Policy and Social Justice Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits (SA) Prerequisite: POLSC1201 ‘This course will explore food policy as an issue of social justice. Politics involves POLSC3201 Congress, Representation and conflict over scarce resources. How these the Legislative Process resources are allocated and to what The powers and duties of Congress are programs reveal the values of those making delineated in Article 1 of the Constitution. the decisions. Food policy and social justice Congress has a unique role in the will be explored through the political, American political system by possessing economic, and social concerns of food legislative, representative, and oversight production and consumption in the United responsibilities. It is accepted wisdom States, and its extension throughout the that representatives want to get reelected, globe. We will assess policy issues such but the question is how or in what acts do as immigration, trade, the agro-industrial individual members engage to affect this complex, labor, poverty, public health, and reality. As a result, this course focuses government initiatives to promote healthier on Congress’s role in the formation, and more nutritious diets. In addition to a enactment, and implementation of public comprehensive research paper, this course policy in the United States from the will include an experiential education perspective of legislative agendas and goals. component that will take us out of the Understanding the basic characteristics classroom and into the community to and nature of Congress is critical to a fuller explore how all aspects of food policy affects appreciation of the development of American people’s everyday lives. government and politics as a whole. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or permission POLSC3160 American Political Thought of instructor American political development is character ized by consensus and conflict—consensus POLSC3202 The American Presidency over a shared set of ideals and values; This course studies the development and conflict over how these values are to be contemporary importance of the Presidency implemented in society. This trajectory of as an institution of national and interna- consensus and conflict results in a society in tional leadership. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Emmanuel College
Political Science 245 Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or EDUC1111 or United States. Course Descriptions for permission of instructor Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Arts and Sciences Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or EDUC1111 POLSC3209 Public Policy, the Law and Psychology POLSC3301 Comparative Politics of Public policy and the law affect, and D eveloping States are affected by, many disciplines, with This course explores various models of psychology playing an increasingly the government of changing societies, such prominent role in the legal system. One as those evolving out of revolution and cannot truly understand psychology, the m ilitary juntas, as well as the politics of law, or public policy in the United States e conomic and religious change. Africa, without understanding the interrelationships Asia and Latin America are the areas of of these three realms of knowledge and c oncentration. practice. This course will explore the Fall semester, even years. 4 credits evolving interactions at the t heoretical Prerequisite: POLSC1301 or permission and practical level among psychology, of instructor law and public policy. This is a service- learning course, which requires two to three POLSC3303 Street Democracy hours per week devoted to working at an This course focuses on protest movements appropriate site. and their role as interest articulation mech- Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits anisms specifically within transitioning and Prerequisites: POLSC1201, PSYCH1501, consolidated democracies. The main ques- PSYCH2203 or instructor permission. tion that this course raises is: Do protest movements work to hinder or enhance the POLSC3210 Education Policy process of democratic consolidation, and (crosslisted with EDUC3210) to what extent? Comparative methods will Education is a fundamental tenet of be used to identify, compare and contrast American society. In fact, the right to a protest movements in Latin America and sound education is enshrined in many state Europe. constitutions. Yet, debate over how best to Fall semester,odd years. 4 credits affect a quality and effective educational Prerequisite: POLSC1301 system has pervaded American politics and society since the country’s founding. This POLSC3403 Human Issues in International debate has involved the equitable funding Relations and distribution of resources, assessment, Through the use of novels, films, biogra- issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic phies, and special studies, students examine class, teaching standards and qualifications, the phenomena which play an increasing and curriculum on the K-12 level, as well role in the world arena. These may include: as in colleges and universities. This course nationalism, genocide, refugee movements, explores the debate surrounding educational international intervention and women and policy in the American political system. the environment. Politics is often about conflict over values Spring semester, even years. 4 credits and resources. Education policy embodies Prerequisite: POLSC1401 or permission this conflict quite clearly. We will assess of instructor the social, cultural, and political factors influencing the crafting, implementation, POLSC3405 Negotiating Peace and assessment of education policy in the This course emphasizes conflict resolution. 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
246 Political Science 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, odd years. 4 credits meet as a seminar class. As often as pos- Prerequisite: POLSC1401 or permission sible the internship and required research of instructor project should interrelate. Each student presents his/her research in the seminar and POLSC3407 People and Politics of the writes 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 POLSC4178/4179 Directed Study I&II 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 presentations of each student’s individual research papers. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1401 or permission of instructor Course Descriptions for POLSC3607 Constitutional Law Arts and Sciences Through an examination of Supreme Court decisions, the first part of this course explores the constitutional powers of the Presidency, Congress, and the judiciary as well as the constitutional relations between states and the federal government. The second part of the course will focus on individual rights and freedoms. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: POLSC1201 or permission of instructor Emmanuel College
Psychology 247 PSYCHOLOGY family and abuse, and racial and ethnic patterns in family life. PSYCH1501 General Psychology (SA) Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits This course introduces the broad field of psychology by surveying a wide range of PSYCH2203 Social Psychology (SA) topics, including personality, development, Social psychology deals with the study of motivation, emotion, adjustment, cognition, people and the environmental contexts consciousness, the nature of psychological in which they live. Social psychology research, social problems and behavioral encompasses a broad range of topics, disorders. The objective is for students to including such areas as conformity, gain a base of knowledge, which they will attitudes, gender, attraction and love, broaden and deepen in other p sychology helping and aggression, and prejudice courses. and discrimination. Through lectures, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits discussions, demonstrations and group activities, we will take a scientific approach PSYCH1503 Lifespan Growth & to explore these everyday topics. We Development will examine classic, as well as more This course will cover lifespan contemporary, research in social psychology, developmental research and theory from critically evaluate this research and apply conception through old age. Students will social psychological findings to real-world learn about the major areas of lifespan situations. developmental psychology including Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits physical, cognitive, social and emotional development in childhood, adolescence, PSYCH2209 Physiological Bases adulthood, and older adulthood. Students of Behavior (SI) will also develop an understanding of This course covers current knowledge con- the theoretical foundations of lifespan cerning the relationship between anatomy developmental psychology along with and physiology on the one hand, and behav- and understanding of current trends and ior on the other. Although the focus is on the issues in the field. This course will be of central nervous system, other structures relevance to students interested in careers having wide ramifications for behavior, such in psychology, education, and nursing or as sex differentiation and cardiac, endocrine any field that requires an understanding of and gastrointestinal systems, are studied. human behavior. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 PSYCH2103 Relationships, Marriage PSYCH 2211 Race, Gender and Sexuality: Course Descriptions for and the Family (SA) Intersection of Privilege and Oppression Arts and Sciences This course considers how intimate relation- (SA) ships are formed, what makes a successful Our social environments typically determine relationship and how relationships fail. the ways in which we are defined. For Topics include people’s choices of different example, the expectations for appropriate lifestyles, sex and love, communication and behavior for women and men are prescribed conflict. Modern data is used to consider by a given culture. These labels, in turn, changes in the typical family, the troubled have social consequences. Privilege refers to advantages that are prescribed to people based upon their perceived group 2020-2021 Academic Catalog
248 Psychology Course Descriptions for membership. In most societies, differences PSYCH2403 Adolescent Development (SA) Arts and Sciences are transformed into inequalities. Whether This course studies the physical, cognitive, someone experiences privilege or oppression social and moral development from the can depend on which aspects of our onset of adolescence to young adulthood. identities are salient in a given context. The influence of heredity, family, culture, Why does this take place? We will discuss school and peers will be discussed, the causes and social manifestations of including common adolescent problems privilege/oppression as they relate to three as well as adolescent psychopathological aspects of three aspects of identity (race, disorders. Special emphasis will be placed sex, sexuality) and their relationship to on the characteristics and needs of early socioeconomic class and social power. We adolescents and the role of professionals in will read classic and contemporary theories adolescent assessment, coordination and and research, discuss the real implications education. in people’s lives, and develop ideas for social Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits change. Spring semester. 4 credits PSYCH2405 Health Psychology This course deals with the psychophysical PSYCH2303 Child Psychology (SA) bases of health and illness. It considers This course offers a comprehensive view health-enhancing and health-endangering of the research and theory dealing with the behaviors, the causes of stress, ways of psychological development of the individual dealing with stress and the psychological throughout childhood. Within these stages preparation for stressful situations. Psycho the focus will be on the specifics of cognitive, logical research on coping and adaptation is emotional, physical, social and moral tasks applied to specific questions of pain, illness of development. In addition to dealing with and modern behavioral medicine. the key markers of the early life stages, Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits language development and the emergence Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 of personality, appropriate applications Recommended: PSYCH2209 or BIOL1501 from research will be made to parenting and educational situations. PSYCH2801 Methods and Statistics I Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits This course will introduce psychology students to the scientific method and the PSYCH2304 Adulthood and Aging basics of conducting research, including This course offers a comprehensive view the use of appropriate measures, design of the research and theory pertaining to the and analyses. Students will learn to use developmental tasks of adulthood and the PsychiNFO, follow the elements of the later adult years. The focus is on normal American Psychological Association’s adjustment processes, both biological sixth edition manual of style and and psychological, from young adulthood, compose a research report. Validity, through mid-life, to the end stages of life. reliability, descriptive statistics, sampling Topics will include the biological process of distributions, ethics, simple measures, aging, changes in emotional and cognitive probability theory, hypothesis testing, basic functions, relationships, parenting, mid-life inferential statistics, and the foundations of crises, life choices as to occupation and a statistical package will be covered. retirement, coping and adaptation. Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Satisfactory score on the math Prerequisite: PSYCH1501 placement exam, MATH1101 and PSYCH1501 Emmanuel College
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