2023-2024 Course Listing

ACT222

Financial Accounting Principles I

This course represents an introduction to accounting principles including the accounting process, double-entry bookkeeping, adjusting entries, and the preparation of financial statements. The objectives of this course are to make students aware of the importance of accounting information in every type of organization (private business, not-for-profit, and governmental).

ACT223

Managerial Accounting Principles

This course represents an introduction to managerial accounting concepts, including cost allocation and measurement, cost/volume profit analysis, budgeting, variance analysis, job and process costing, and capital budgeting.

ACT322

Intermediate Accounting I

This course engages the student in a comprehensive study of generally accepted accounting principles as they relate to the measurement and reporting of assets and income. Students will examine the nature, composition, valuation, and classification of balance sheet items.

ACT323

Intermediate Accounting II

This course is a comprehensive study of generally accepted accounting principles as they relate to the measurement and reporting of various liability and equity accounts. Students examine the nature, composition, valuation, and classification of these accounts as well as important financial reporting concepts, proper financial statement presentation, and related disclosures.

ACT324

Individual Tax Accounting

The primary emphasis of the course is on the income taxation of individuals, but the course also includes an overview of the federal taxation of other forms of business organization (e.g., corporations, partnerships). The focus of the course is on developing knowledge of tax law and its application.

ACT412

Auditing

The course engages the student in a study of auditing objectives, standards, and procedures employed in the examination of business enterprises and verification of their financial statements. Topics include an evaluation of internal control, preparation of work papers, report writing, professional ethics, and current auditing trends.

ACT480

Accounting Information Systems

This course examines critical business processes and IT audits through theories of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) and using auditing tools and enterprise systems. Case analyses and project assignments nurture professional competence in communicating objectives and procedures through systems documentation techniques, systems analysis and design methodologies, and information processing.

ACT490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

ACT498

Tutorial: Accounting

Tutorial: Accounting

ACT499

Tutorial: Accounting

Tutorial: Accounting

ACT510

Accounting Fundamentals

An accelerated study of accounting and financial management issues and techniques to provide insight into the financial performance of organizations. The course is a comprehensive study of the preparation, interpretation, analysis, and use of accounting statements and financial information.

ACT512

Auditing

This course engages the student in a comprehensive study of auditing objectives, standards, and procedures employed in the examination of business enterprises and verification of their financial statements. Topics include an evaluation of internal control, preparation of work papers, report writing, professional ethics, and current auditing trends.

ACT519

Intermediate Accounting I

A comprehensive study of generally accepted accounting principles as they relate to the measurement and reporting of assets and income. Students examine the nature, composition, valuation, and classification of balance sheet items.

ACT523

Intermediate Accounting II

This course continues from Intermediate Accounting I with the application of generally accepted accounting principles to liability and equity accounts including accounting for intangibles, bonds, debts and loans, partnerships, corporations, and analysis of working capital.

ACT524

Federal Tax Accounting

The focus of the course is on developing knowledge of tax law and its applications. The primary emphasis of the course is on the income taxation of individuals, but the course also includes an overview of the federal taxation of other forms of business organizations (e.g. corporations, partnerships).

ACT540

Government and Non-Profit Accounting

This course's focus is upon the principles of fund accounting and the financial reporting, budgeting and auditing of both public and private not-for-profit organizations. Particular attention is given to accounting procedures for the activities of state and local governments, but the course also considers other not-for-profit entities.

ACT545

Accounting Theory

This course encourages students to take a conceptual view of accounting, urging them to get beyond the process and to grasp the reasoning behind the accounting procedures. The focus is upon what it means for accounting to be a source of information and providing a framework for evaluating accounting alternatives.

ACT573

Business Law and Ethics

This course provides students with a broad-based understanding of legal issues that affect modern businesses. The course covers the following substantive law areas: Choice of Entity, Corporate Governance, Raising Money, Securities Regulation, Bankruptcy, Contracts, Intellectual Property and Employment Law.

ACT580

Accounting Information Systems

This course examines critical business processes and IT audits through theories of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) and using auditing tools and enterprise systems. Case analyses and project assignments nurture professional competence in communicating objectives and procedures through systems documentation techniques, systems analysis and design methodologies, and information processing.

ACT620

Advanced Financial Accounting

This course introduces the student to many advanced financial accounting issues. Includes the application of GAAP rules for consolidation of inter-corporate acquisitions and investments in other entities, multi-national accounting issues involving foreign currency transactions and translation of foreign entity statements, accounting for partnerships, and segment and interim reporting requirements.

ACT625

Cost Analysis

Cost Analysis introduces students to the role cost considerations play in management decision making. Topics include the classification and allocation of costs, job order and process costing, standard costs, budgeting and planning, cost-volume-profit analysis, and using costs as performance measurements.

ACT630

Advanced Tax Accounting

This course is designed to introduce students to advanced strategies in taxation. The course's focus is upon how tax research is performed and the basic concepts underlying the strategic tax planning. Tax issues associated with new businesses, business operation, growth, expansion, termination, and liquidations and estate planning are examined.

ACT640

Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting

This course's focus is upon the principles of fund accounting and the financial reporting, budgeting and auditing of both public and private not-for-profit organizations. Particular attention is given to accounting procedures for the activities of state and local governments, but the course also considers other not-for-profit entities.

ACT645

Accounting Theory

This course encourages students to take a more conceptual view of accounting, urging them to get beyond the process and to grasp the reasoning behind the accounting procedures. The focus is upon what it means for accounting to be a source of information and providing a framework for evaluating accounting alternatives.

ACT650

Managerial Accounting

This course examines accounting information that is used in managerial decision making within the organization. Focus is on interpretation of financial statements, cost accounting, financial planning and analysis, the development of internal controls, and constructing budgets.

ACT660

Preparing for the CPA Exam

This course will familiarize students with the structure and substance of the CPA exam. Students' current level of preparation for the CPA exam will be tested through use of sample CPA exams. Test results will be used to assist students in developing individualized exam preparation plans.

ACT699

Forensic Accounting

Focuses on preventing, detecting, and investigating common types of internal and external fraud. Designed to cultivate advanced understanding methods of analysis of financial crime allegations. Provides the culminating experience of Chatham University's MAcc program. Should be one of the last courses taken in the MAcc Program.

ART103

Intro to Visual Culture

Visual Culture can be understood as the practice of scrutinizing visual items in both elite and popular culture; of determining how and what they mean to a variety of audiences; and of examining how those meanings might slip, change, or be changed according to both context and audience. Students examine a broad range of visual materials - from paintings to films - through the term of study.

ART111S

Ceramics I

This studio course provides students with an introduction to ceramic processes and materials. Instruction in beginning wheel-throwing methods augments competency in basic construction and surface application techniques. Projects focus on development of form and surface in ceramics, as well as exposure to historical and contemporary issues specific to the medium. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART114

Design Studio

This course is an introduction to the visual grammar of dynamic composition and form. In this studio course the student will study design with an emphasis on gaining an understanding of organizing principles that contribute to visual engaging and visual arrangements.

ART115S

Painting I

This course introduces the student to basic principles of painting and two-dimensional thinking and expression. Drawing skills, color theory, stretcher construction, and a general understanding of visual art concepts accompany each assignment. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART117S

Drawing I

Through various drawing media, this studio course explores the basic principles of creating a work of visual art, including figure studies from the model, studies from nature, and techniques of composition. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART127S

Printmaking I

This course is an introduction to the techniques and aesthetics of graphic media, including dry point, engraving, mezzotint, etching, and aquatint. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART129

The Body: Self/Other in Three Parts

The Body: Self/Other in Three Parts

ART131

History of World Art I: Prehistory to 1400

This introductory survey focuses on art of the ancient world and the Middle Ages in the West and selected non-Western cultures to 1400 including India, China, and Mesoamerica. It emphasizes the role of art in the formation of a culture, the shifting function of art in different societies and time periods, and the approaches students can use to understand art.

ART132

History of World Art II: 1400 to Present

This introductory survey focuses on Western art from the Renaissance to today and the art of selected non-Western cultures (including Japan, Africa, and Islamic countries) after 1400. It concentrates on the stylistic, technical, and expressive evolution of painting, architecture, and sculpture within specific historical contexts, yet also explores the cross-influences and interaction of non-Western and Western art as defining characteristics of the modern world.

ART141

Media Literacy

This course introduces students to computer graphic systems and related media practices. Students explore digital foundations, media-related histories, theoretical frameworks, and critical examination of production elements as they discover how digital practices are continuously changing the way imagemakers create and present their work. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART142S

Photography I : Black and White Darkroom

This course introduces students to black and white darkroom photography. Students build camera skills while investigating 35mm film fundamentals and wet lab methods. A range of photographic materials and analog techniques are covered. Students study the photograph as a medium for documentation, representation, and expression. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART152S

Photography II - Introduction to Digital Photography

This course introduces students to the basic aesthetic grammar of digital photography and provides a historical and critical context for looking at and making photographs. Students use cameras with manually adjustable focus and exposure control. Digital darkroom techniques will be explored in Lightroom and Photoshop. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART205S

Sculpture Studio

This advanced studio course gives the student the opportunity to study a particular process or combination of processes in more depth. Contemporary approaches such as installation and performance art, and environmental and conceptual art are introduced. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART208

Introduction to Art Museum Studies

This course introduces students to the themes and issues addressed in the Art Museum Studies program, including an overview of the history and function of art museums, their role in society, the interpretation of objects for museum audiences, and other issues central to the museum profession such as censorship and repatriation.

ART210

History of Photography

This course will examine the relationships between photographs and audiences from the early nineteenth century to the present. A variety of themes will be discussed, including fashion photography, war, fine arts, advertising, portraits, landscapes, and social documentary. Within this structure, we will consider fundamental questions about photography, vision, and meaning, such as finding truth in images and discovering the relationship between image-making and power.

ART211S

Ceramics Studio

This studio course advances the student in all technical aspects of ceramics and explores conceptual, critical approaches both to the medium and to specific contemporary issues. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART213

Special Topics

Special Topics

ART214S

Design Studio

This course is an introduction to the visual grammar of dynamic composition and form. In this studio course the student will study design with an emphasis on gaining an understanding of organizing principles that contribute to visual engaging and visual arrangements.

ART215S

Painting Studio

This advanced course in painting gives the student a broad understanding of technical issues in the context of contemporary conceptual and critical approaches to the medium. Students will have an opportunity to work on independent projects. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART217S

Drawing Studio

This advanced studio course continues figure studies from the model, as well as landscape drawing and architectural drawing. Conceptual and critical approaches to the medium are emphasized. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART220S

Material Studies Studio

Students continue to develop their understanding of three-dimensional materials and processes, their history and practice, and associated conceptual vocabularies in this studio. The course aims to challenge students with ceramic and/or sculptural skills in order to move beyond technique, and reconsider material and process from a variety of perspectives. Studio and research assignments will examine technical and conceptual concerns - prompting students to articulate and contextualize their artistic practice.

ART225S

Typography Design Studio

This class is an introduction to the concrete and conceptual aspects of typography as a visual medium. Technique and the abstract compositional uses for typography will be examined. Historic and contemporary forms of alphabetic communications will be explored, along with image-based communication through applied projects. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART227S

Printmaking Studio

This course further explores the conceptual and technical potential of printmaking through a variety of processes and projects, including, but not limited to: aquatint, etching, mezzotint, monoprint, woodcut and experimental practice. Historical and contemporary practices are introduced, discussed, and critiqued. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART230W

Women and Art

Women and Art addresses the work of women artists from the Renaissance to the present and images of women in Western art. Feminist approaches to the history of art are examined critically to determine their contribution to the history of art. This is a writing intensive course.

ART231

Renaissance Art

This course traces the rise of the humanistic spirit in the art of Italy between 1300 and 1550. Equal emphasis is placed on the achievements of Early Renaissance artists and architects (Ghiberti, Alberti, Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli), and the masters of the High Renaissance (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bramante, Titian).

ART234

Baroque and Rococo Art

An in-depth survey of the various styles and aims of European art from 1590 to 1700.

ART241S

Lighting Principles

This course gives a basic grounding in lighting techniques for both studio and location work and covers the use of available light and various lighting instruments. Students create lighting plans; learn to create dramatic high-key effects of subtly sensitive illumination, and master color balance and metering. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART245S

Design Praxis

This course introduces the concepts of visual perception and the relevance of symbols and archetypes in expanding cognitive and perceptual skills. The course will broaden and deepen student's visual and verbal skills in critical thinking, the creative process and problem solving through applied branding identities. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART247S

Photography III - Advanced Digital Imaging

This course introduces students to the creation, enhancement, and manipulation of high-quality digital imagery. Adobe Photoshop is the primary tool, and students learn fundamentals of the interface, resolution, masking, layering, compositing, color correction and retouching. Emphasis is on artistry as well as developing technical skills. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART248

19th-Century Art

This survey examines art movements in France, England, Germany, and other European countries from the early to late 19th-century, focusing on Romanticism and Realism, the Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism. It explores the impact of urbanization, industrialization, and race and gender issues on visual culture.

ART254

Modern Art, 1900 to the Present

In this course the student will be introduced to the major movements in European and American art since 1900. The first half will focus on 1900 to 1950 and the concept of modernism, who and what shaped it, and the shifting definitions of the artist. The second half will focus on recent trends in world art, focusing on new media and movements, including installation art, earth art, video art, postmodernism, and the new theoretical and conceptual approaches to art and art history.

ART261S

Web Design 1: Code + Aesthetics

This course introduces students to web design software and basic code and programming languages. Students will develop technical, aesthetic, and conceptual skills by participating in lectures, demonstrations, computer labs, and critiques, as well as participating in critical analysis of various sites and Internet strategies. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART271

Asian Art

This course surveys the art of India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan from the earliest civilizations to the modern period. Since much Asian artistic production was inspired by religious belief, students also will be introduced to the major currents of Asian religion and philosophy, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shintoism.

ART305S

Sculpture Studio

This advanced studio course gives the student the opportunity to study a particular process or combination of processes in more depth. Contemporary approaches such as installation and performance art, and environmental and conceptual art are introduced. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART309W

Art + Land: Artists Engage the Environment

This course explores interactions between visual artists and the natural environment. It examines 15th- to 17th-century landscape painting and the role of landscape and national identity in the 19th century. It also explores the Earth Art movement that began in the 1960s and current investigations of art and sustainability.

ART311S

Ceramics Studio

This studio course advances the student in all technical aspects of ceramics and explores conceptual and critical approaches both to the medium and to specific contemporary issues. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART313

Special Topics

Special Topics

ART315S

Painting Studio

This advanced course in painting gives the student a broad understanding of technical issues in the context of contemporary conceptual and critical approaches to the medium. Students will have an opportunity to work on independent projects. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART317S

Drawing Studio

This advanced studio course continues figure studies from the model, as well as landscape drawing and architectural drawing. Conceptual and critical approaches to the medium are emphasized. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART320S

Material Studies Studio

Students continue to develop their understanding of three-dimensional materials and processes, their history and practice, and associated conceptual vocabularies in this studio. The course aims to challenge students with ceramic and/or sculptural skills in order to move beyond technique, and reconsider material and process from a variety of perspectives. Studio and research assignments will examine technical and conceptual concerns - prompting students to articulate and contextualize their artistic practice.

ART327S

Printmaking Studio

This course further explores the conceptual and technical potential of printmaking through a variety of processes and projects, including, but not limited to: aquatint, etching, mezzotint, monoprint, woodcut and experimental practice. Historical and contemporary practices are introduced, discussed, and critiqued. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART328

The Carnegie International

This course will analyze contemporary art of the past 4-5 years as organized by the curators of the Carnegie International. It will examine the history of the International and other exhibitions of this type, the globalized art market, and current media techniques and broader concerns of visual artists working today.

ART353S

Print Design

This course combines technical training in digital imaging with exercises in creative print-based media design and critical thinking. Students learn advanced design principals, typography, image placement and structure. Students work with a range of digital tools, including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART365S

Visual Communication

This course introduces students to the process of developing a Visual Communication system with a special focus on non profit branding. An understanding of branding strategies are researched, explored and implemented to help serve the needs of growing community-based non-profits. Visual Identities are created for existing small non-profits to address their needs as well as strengthen their position in the marketplace and community.

ART366

American Art: Colonial to 1900

This course examines the major movements, artists, and cultural issues of American painting, sculpture, and photography from its beginnings to 1900. Special attention is given to works that address definitions of American "identity" and cultural interaction and conflict between races.

ART368

Museum Education and the Visual Arts

This course traces the development of the American art museum's educational mission from the early nineteenth century to the present. A range of programming types, including docent touring, computer-based learning, museum-school partnerships, and hands-on experiences are observed and analyzed. Students will also design programs for exhibitions in the Chatham University Art Gallery.

ART370S

Digital Illustration Methods

This course will concentrate on the concept and originality of ideas in digital illustration and will also explore vector and raster-based applications to be used as tools to create digital illustrations. Illustrations created in this course will be applied to design formats and page layouts.

ART372

Curating African Art and Artifacts

This course explores the rich diversity of art across sub-Sahara Africa from the Paleolithic era to today. It focuses on cultures from West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa to complement the holdings of the College's outstanding Olkes Collection of African Art, which includes more than 600 objects. Class lecture, discussion, and student projects utilize works from the collection, including masks, wood sculpture, beadwork, and metalwork.

ART378

Curating the Visual Arts

This course explores the roles and duties of the art museum curator. Topics addressed include collection care and management, exhibition planning and design, object handling, and exhibition critiques. Curators from local museums will serve as guest speakers. Students will collaboratively curate at least one exhibition.

ART388

Landscape Photography

The landscape is fascinating from a natural and contrived point of view. This course explores the art of taking landscape shots digitally with emphasis on composition, focal points, color, light, movement, time of day, framing, and weather conditions. You will explore a range of image capturing from macro flower shots to vast panoramic points of view from urban and rural subject matter. Several new digital image editing processes will be taught using Photoshop. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART405S

Sculpture Studio

This advanced studio course gives the student the opportunity to study a particular process or combination of processes in more depth. Contemporary approaches such as installation and performance art, and environmental and conceptual art are introduced. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART411S

Ceramics Studio

This studio course advances the student in all technical aspects of ceramics and explores conceptual, critical approaches both to the medium and to specific contemporary issues. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART415S

Painting Studio

This advanced course in painting gives the student a broad understanding of technical issues in the context of contemporary conceptual and critical approaches to the medium. Students will have an opportunity to work on independent projects. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART417S

Drawing Studio

This advanced studio course continues figure studies from the model, as well as landscape drawing and architectural drawing. Conceptual and critical approaches to the medium are emphasized.. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART420S

Material Studies Studio

Students continue to develop their understanding of three-dimensional materials and processes, their history and practice, and associated conceptual vocabularies in this studio. The course aims to challenge students with ceramic and/or sculptural skills in order to move beyond technique, and reconsider material and process from a variety of perspectives. Studio and research assignments will examine technical and conceptual concerns - prompting students to articulate and contextualize their artistic practice.

ART427S

Printmaking Studio

This course further explores the conceptual and technical potential of printmaking through a variety of processes and projects, including, but not limited to: aquatint, etching, mezzotint, monoprint, woodcut and experimental practice. Historical and contemporary practices are introduced, discussed, and critiqued. Additional Fee(s): Applied art fee.

ART483

Event Photography

In this practicum, students gain experience in studio-based and field photography. Students develop a portfolio of portrait and event photography with the potential to be used for the Communique, college publications, and other outlets, with name credits on all published work. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

ART489S

Portfolio

This course provides essential marketing principles and advanced desktop publishing skills to complete individual design portfolios. Using advanced tools in Adobe InDesign and other applications, students create portfolios in print and interactive formats. Topics such as selective content, innovative graphics, consistent layout, stylized copy, and creative packaging are covered.

ART490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

ART492

Independent Study

The designed environment influences and is influenced by human activity patterns and behavior. This course is an introduction to significant theories concerning the interaction of people and interior architecture. Emphasis is placed on shared human needs and differences based on age, culture, gender, and occupation.

ART493

Independent Study

This course develops graphic literacy as a language and philosophy for observation, analysis, expression, and presentation of interior architecture. Students are introduced to a number of techniques and methods of drawing used by interior designers, including freehand drawing, use of colored pencils, markers, and mechanical drafting through various exercises. An understanding is developed of architectural scale, plans, elevations, and sections. Additional work is spent on values, colors, palettes, and shadowing techniques that culminate in a final project. Cross-listed as IAR 510.

ART498

Tutorial: Art

Tutorial: Art

ART499

Tutorial: Art

Tutorial: Art

ATH500

Prevention and Care of Emergency Medical Conditions

This course will teach athletic training students recognition, evaluation, and treatment of emergent medical conditions. This will include basic skills required for injury prevention, treatment and recovery as it relates to physically active populations.

ATH501

Therapeutic Modalities

This course educates and expands on theories and application of therapeutic modalities utilized in athletic training. Focus includes clinical decision making and evidence based utilization of modalities in pain modulation and treatment of acute and chronic conditions.

ATH502

Introduction to Professional Practice

This course will introduce athletic training students to various aspects of professional practice as it relates to athletic training including historical aspects of the profession, ethics, documentation and collaboration with other healthcare professions to optimize patient outcomes.

ATH503

Orthopedic and Neurologic Assessment I

This course teaches athletic training students a systematic evaluative process including techniques involved in the assessment of orthopedic and neurological conditions of the lower extremity, pelvis, and lumbar spine.

ATH504

Orthopedic and Neurologic Assessment II

This course teaches athletic training students a systematic evaluative process including techniques involved in the assessment of orthopedic and neurological conditions of the upper extremity, torso, head, thoracic, and cervical spine.

ATH505

Medical Management of an Athletic Population

This course teaches recognition, evaluation, management, and treatment of non-orthopedic medical conditions that affect physically active populations.

ATH506

Therapeutic Interventions I

Theories, concepts and psychomotor skills in the appropriate application and utilization of therapeutic exercise in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries.

ATH507

Therapeutic Interventions II

Students acquire a scientific and physiological rationale, selection criteria, indications and contraindications of exercise, and return to activity guidelines. Techniques and skills provided in both classroom and lab experiences will address range of motion, strengthening, proprioception, cardiovascular fitness, joint-specific and sport specific protocols.

ATH508

Pharmacology in Athletic Training

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of drugs commonly used to treat patients seen by persons working in health science professions. Medical reasons for drug treatment, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of various medications, and adverse effects are presented. Specifically emphasized are drugs affecting the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, and gastrointestinal systems.

ATH509

Research Seminar I

This course will introduce the fundamentals of research design and interpretation, including basic statistical analysis. Students will identify, locate and appraise current literature related to athletic training and determine how it applies to clinical practice.

ATH510

Research Seminar II

This course will introduce the fundamentals of qualitative research design and other topics including disablement models, clinical prediction rules, patient oriented outcomes. Students will gain an understanding of qualitative research and its applicability in the Athletic Training profession.

ATH511

Research Seminar III

This course will promote student analysis and summary of quantitative research as it relates to athletic training. Students will develop a research question, search literature, summarize and make evidence based clinical recommendations stemming from their research.

ATH512

Clinical Experience in Athletic Training I

This course is designed to allow students to review and demonstrate lower extremity and lumbar spine injury evaluations, foundational athletic training skills, modality implementation and emergency management techniques through the completion of a 12-week clinical education experience of approximately 240 clinical hours.

ATH513

Clinical Experience in Athletic Training II

This course is designed to allow students to develop clinical proficiency in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of upper extremity dysfunction, demonstrate therapeutic exercise and modality applications through the completion of a 15-week clinical education experience of approximately 240 hours.

ATH514

Clinical Experience in Athletic Training III

This course is designed expose students to common non-orthopedic medical conditions present in physically active patients across the lifespan. Students will complete experiences collaborating with other health care providers in local primary or urgent care clinics through the completion of an 8- week clinical education experience approximately 160 hours.

ATH515

Clinical Experience in Athletic Training IV

This course is designed develop and enhance the practical skills and knowledge necessary for clinical practice, develop student clinical proficiency in all areas of the athletic training profession and facilitate increasing levels of autonomous practice through completion of a student selected 10-week fully immersive clinical education experience approximately 320 hours.

ATH516

Clinical Experience in Athletic Training V

This course is designed to develop and enhance the practical skills and knowledge necessary for clinical practice, develop student clinical proficiency in all areas of the athletic training profession and facilitate increasing levels of autonomous practice through completion of a student selected 10-week immersive clinical education experience approximately 240 hours.

ATH517

Administration and Management

This course will address administration responsibilities, policies, and procedures as they relate to the athletic training profession. Focus will be placed on legal and ethical practices, budget, record keeping, facility design and budget as well as job seeking, and interview skills.

ATH518

Optimizing Athletic Performance

This course explores the concepts of assessing, designing, and implementing specialized performance programs to address the health and performance goals of the athletes. The primary focus is on movement instruction, nutrition, energy systems, program design and concepts of strength and conditioning.

ATH519

Advanced Topics in Athletic Training

This course provides students the opportunity to examine advanced issues that shape the athletic training profession through practical application and professional development. Emphasis is placed on surgical techniques, radiological concepts and interpretation, laboratory reports, interpreting imaging, and lifespan issues and advanced treatment procedures used in diverse settings.

ATH520

Certification Preparation Course

This course is designed to prepare students for the Board of Certification Examination and for becoming licensed to practice as an athletic trainer. Through the use of self-assessments, students will identify areas of strengths and weaknesses, create tailored study plans, and complete practice examinations.

ATH521

Advanced Sports Nutrition

This course discusses scientifically founded sports nutrition including macro nutrients, energy expenditure in sport and exercise, dietary requirements pre-activity, during and post activity, ergogenic aids and nutritional supplements in a variety of active populations. Various diets and their implications/impact on the body will also be discussed.

ATH522

Healthcare Delivery

This course will discuss the historic development, organization and characteristics of health care delivery systems, payment and reimbursement systems, accrediting agencies applicable to athletic training, organizational patterns of health care facilities, medical staff organization and bylaws; and the athletic training profession from its initiation to the present and future.

BIO114

Basic Nutrition

This course is an overview of scientific principles of nutrition and their application to humans throughout the life cycle. It is designed for students who need a broad coverage of nutrition and have little or no background in science. Enrollment in a school of nursing is required.

BIO115

Basic Microbiology with Lab

This course is designed for students who need a broad coverage of microbiology and have little or no background in biology or chemistry. It includes a study of microscopic organisms and their relation to health and disease. There is a special emphasis on disinfection, sterilization, immunology, and microbiological aspects of infectious disease. Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week. Enrollment in a school of nursing is required.

BIO116

Basic Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab

This is the first of two courses designed for students who need a broad coverage of anatomy and physiology and have little or no background in science. It includes a study of the structure and function of human cells, tissue, organs, and systems. Clinical applications of anatomy and physiology will also be considered. Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week. Enrollment in a school of nursing is required.

BIO117

Basic Anatomy and Physiology II with lab

This is the second of two courses designed for students who need a broad coverage of anatomy and physiology and have little or no background in science. It includes a study of the structure and function of human cells, tissue, organs, and systems. Clinical applications of anatomy and physiology will also be considered. Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week.

BIO118

Environmental Health Issues

This course addresses the connection between health and the environment. Topics include; the areas of environmental epidemiology, toxicology, and policy, agents of environmental disease, and water, air, and soil quality. The work of scientists and public health specialists to discover, assess, and reduce exposure and risk to environment health problems are also explored. Case studies are used to provide context and background for the environmental health issues past and present.

BIO119

Medical Terminology

This course is designed for students who need a broad coverage of medical terminology and who have little or no background. It includes studies of etymology and human anatomy. There is a special emphasis on clinical applications. Three hours of lecture including media presentations per week.

BIO123

Nutrition

An introduction to nutrients, their composition, functions, and sources. Human physiology, including digestion, metabolism, and excretion, is covered, along with special nutritional needs throughout the life cycle. Integrated with this basic information are special topics pertaining to diets, organic foods, preservatives, pesticides, world hunger, and other current concerns.

BIO129

Our Fragile Earth: A Scientific Perspective

This course introduces students to a wide range of environmental issues from a scientific perspective. Specific topics vary from year to year, but this course utilizes lectures, discussions, laboratories, guest speakers and field trips to increase knowledge about environmental problems as well as increase scientific knowledge and literacy.

BIO129L

Our Fragile Earth Lab

This lab offers hands-on opportunity to perform basic environmental lab skills, including water testing, bioassay, and greenhouse experiment protocol. The course may be taken independently as a freestanding environmental lab course. Two hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

BIO131

Human Genetics

This course is designed to help students understand issues in genetic research and biotechnology. Topics include Mendelian genetics, DNA structure and testing, pedigrees, birth defects, cancer, and the creation of transgenic plants and animals. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO135

Applied Human Biology

This course is designed to introduce non-science majors to major aspects of human biology. The course will be taught as a series of modules covering the basic biology of various human systems followed by applications that are appropriate to the needs of students.

BIO135L

Applied Human Biology Lab

Laboratory course emphasizing aspects of human biology. Experiments will correlate with and enhance lectures in BIO 135.

BIO143

The Cell

This course is designed to provide a broad overview of current biological concepts, including cell structure, function, division, and basic genetics. Biologically important molecules also are presented. This course serves as the foundation for all upper-level biology courses. Three hours of class

BIO143L

Lab: The Cell

Experiments to complement the material presented in BIO143. Two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite or Prerequisite: BIO143. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

BIO144

The Organism

This course provides a general survey of animals and plants at the organismic level, with emphasis on their evolution and various physiological processes such as respiration, circulation, digestion, and reproduction. This course serves as the foundation for all upper-level biology courses. Three hours of class.

BIO144L

Lab: The Organism

Experiments to complement the material presented in BIO144. Two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: BIO144. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO201

Anatomy

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of anatomy. Lectures emphasize the human body and clinical applications of anatomy. They focus on anatomical terminology, gross structures, body movements, forming a three-dimensional mental image of body parts, and functional understanding of normal structures. Three hours of class per week.

BIO201L

Lab: Anatomy

Laboratory experiments emphasizing comparative anatomy between humans and other animals. Three hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: BIO201. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO205

Human Cadaver Dissection

Students in this course will dissect a human subject, learning techniques with scalpels and scissors to separate and prepare the gross anatomy for study. This is an experiential lab course with teaching by example and supervision. A core part of this experience is learning professionalism in dealing with subjects, as well as lab safety and human remain protocols.

BIO209

Basic Neuroscience

This course is designed for wide appeal. It is an introduction to structure and function of the brain and spinal cord, and how nerves function and communicate. The basics of movement, sensation, language, emotion, and consciousness are discussed. Emphasis is placed on contrasting normal function with altered function in diseases. Three hours lecture per week.

BIO209LW

Basic Neuroscience Lab

Experiments and skills to compliment the material presented in BIO209. The lab course focuses on experimental procedures, scientific analysis and scientific writing. Three hours of laboratory per week. Laboratory Fee. Corequisite: BIO 209.

BIO213

Special Topics: Women's Health Issues

BIO217

Human Genetics

This course covers the underlying basis of genetic disorders. A foundation of basic genetic concepts such as Mendelian genetics and exceptions to Mendel’s laws, chromosomal inheritance, and molecular genetics are taught and applied to the following advanced topics: epigenetics, medical genetics, cancer, biotechnology, population genetics, and evolutionary genetics.

BIO218

Women's Health Issues

This course examines the biology of women, both cis gender and people within trans communities, providing a framework for the discussion of health issues, current research, treatments, and historical perspectives. Aspects of reproductive life and an examination of psychological, sociological and cultural influence.

BIO221

General Microbiology

The study of fundamental characteristics of bacteria and related microorganisms, including taxonomy, physiology, and distribution. Three class meetings per week.

BIO221L

Lab: General Microbiology

Experiments to complement the material in BIO221. Four hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: BIO221. Addtional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO221LW

Lab: General Microbiology

Experiments to complement the material in BIO221. Four hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO224

Botany

An introduction to the structure and function of plants. Topics include the evolutionary rise of green plants, plant life cycles and development, plant physiology, plant ecology, and the morphology and taxonomy of vascular plants. The importance of plants fro humans is discussed, including their use for food and medicine. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO224L

Lab: Botany

Experiments to complement the material presented in BIO224. Four hours of laboratory or field experience per week. Corequisite: BIO224. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO226

Toxicology

An introduction to toxic substances, their classification, entry into living systems, modes of action, and fate. Various living systems are considered, from the subcellular to the ecosystem level. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO231

Cell and Molecular Biology

A lecture course covering the organelles and activities of cells. Topics include the structure of proteins and other biomolecules, bioenergetics and enzymes, membranes, the mitochondrion, the chloroplast, the endo-membrane system, the cytoskeleton, and the nucleus and cellular reproduction.

BIO231W

Cell and Molecular Biology

A lecture course covering the organelles and activities of cells. Topics include the structure of proteins and other biomolecules, bioenergetics and enzymes, membranes, the mitochondrion, the chloroplast, the endo-membrane system, the cytoskeleton, and the nucleus and cellular reproduction.

BIO248

Ecology

A study of the interrelation between organisms and their environment. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO248LW

Lab: Ecology

Experiments to complement the material presented in BIO248. Four hours of laboratory or field experience per week. Corequisite: BIO248. Additional Fee (s): Laboratory fee.

BIO255

Biomedical Ethics

This course examines moral dilemmas created or intensified by recent advances in medical technology. Examples of topics include euthanasia and the right to die, abortion, behavior modification, allocation of scarce medical resources, in vitro fertilization, genetic screening and engineering, and human experimentation.

BIO302

Physiology

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of physiology. The lectures will emphasize chemical principles, cellular biological principles, and a survey of the nervous, endocrine, immune, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, excretory, respiratory, and digestive systems. The laboratory will emphasize comparative physiology between humans and other animals. Three hours of class per week.

BIO302L

Physiology Lab

Laboratory experiments emphasizing comparative physiology between human and other animals. Three hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: BIO302. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO303

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

This course will focus on the importance of microorganisms in environmental and industrial processes, and the role of scientific research in finding solutions to applied problems. Areas that will be covered include basic microbiology, soil and water microbiology, agricultural and food microbiology, and public health microbiology.

BIO303LW

Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab

This course will focus on modern laboratory techniques for the identification, purification, and cultivation of microorganisms at the bench; combined with microbial genomics and applied bioinformatic analyses through participation in authentic scientific research.

BIO319

Experimental Neuroscience

With an emphasis on neuropathology, the course builds on the foundations of neuroscience to explore advanced topics in sensation, motor control. emotion, and cognition. Classical and modern methods for investigating the structure and function of the nervous system will be examined through lectures, discussions, and student projects.

BIO408

Developmental Biology

A study of the embryonic and post-embryonic development of animals, with special emphasis on humans. The morphogenesis, growth and mechanisms of differentiation are stressed. Other topics include cancer, regeneration, cloning, hormones as mediators of development, and developmental genetics.

BIO417

Genetics

This study of the modern concepts of the gene stresses theory and experimental evidence relating to the structure of the gene, heritability of characteristics, and the behavior of genes in populations. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO418

Chemical Analysis Laboratory

This laboratory teaches the proper design, implementation and analysis of modern techniques in instrumental chemistry, encompassing spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and separation science. In addition, several inorganic compounds are synthesized and characterized. Student-originated research projects are used extensively throughout this course. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

BIO419

Immunology

This course covers fundamental principles of immunology with emphasis on molecular and cellular immunology, including antigen and antibody structure and function, effector mechanisms, complement, major histocompatibility complexes, and the cellular basis for the immune response. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite(s): BIO221 or BIO302

BIO423

Neurobiology of Mental Health

The course explores advanced topics in neurodevelopment, neurotransmission, neuroplasticity, and cognition through the lens of mental health, using neurological diseases such as depression and schizophrenia, as examples of pathophysiological processes underlying mental illness. Neurobiological mechanisms, clinical presentation, and therapeutic interventions will be discussed, with emphasis on neuropharmacology and mental health.

BIO440L

Macromolecule Laboratory

An advanced laboratory course for junior and senior science majors who wish to gain theoretical and practical experience with the techniques and equipment commonly used in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Topics include PCR, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, aseptic cell and tissue culture, cell surface receptors, and molecular modeling. Five-hour laboratory with one-hour pre-lab lecture each week. Cross-listed as CHM340.

BIO440LW

Macromolecule Laboratory

An advanced laboratory course for junior and senior science majors who wish to gain theoretical and practical experience with the techniques and equipment commonly used in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Topics include PCR, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, aseptic cell and tissue culture, cell surface receptors, and molecular modeling. Five-hour laboratory with one-hour pre-lab lecture each week. Cross-listed as CHM340. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

BIO455

Biomedical Ethics

This course examines moral dilemmas created or intensified by recent advances in medical technology. Examples of topics include euthanasia and the right to die, abortion, behavior modification, allocation of scarce medical resources, in vitro fertilization, genetic screening and engineering, and human experimentation. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO458

Histology

A microscopic analysis of human and animal tissue and organ function at the cellular level. Material comes from text book, lecture, images and animations in addition to practical application and identification of histological specimens. Recommended for students planning to apply to professional schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, or dentistry.

BIO461

Aquatic Entomology

Aquatic environments harbor a vast number of insect species that are widely used as biological indicators of environmental health. This course introduces the physiological, ecological, and biomonitoring attributes of aquatic insects and emphasizes taxonomic identification. Preparation for a formal identification certification test from the Society for Freshwater Science is optional.

BIO461L

Aquatic Entomology Laboratory

Aquatic environments harbor a vast number of insect species that are widely used as biological indicators of environmental health. This laboratory section complements the course introducing the physiological, ecological, and biomonitoring attributes of aquatic insects. Laboratory assignments will emphasize taxonomic identification and sampling techniques.

BIO481W

Ecology and Environmental Journal Club

Presentations and discussions of important research papers from the current literature. One class meeting per week. Co-requisite: BIO 498 or 499 or CHM 498 or 499 or permission of instructor.

BIO484

Plant Physiology

This course is an introduction to the physiology and biochemistry of plants. Lectures and laboratory exercises cover plant cells, enzymes, transport of water and nutrients, metabolism, defenses against pathogens, gene expression, hormones, and responses to environmental stimuli. Three lectures per week.

BIO484L

Lab: Plant Physiology

Experiments to complement the material presented in BIO384. Four hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: BIO484. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees.

BIO487

Neuropathology

The course explores advanced topics in neurotransmission, plasticity, motor control, emotion, and cognition through the lens of neuropathologies, such as stroke, seizure, TBI, multiple sclerosis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Neurobiological mechanisms of disease cause and progression, clinical presentation of symptoms, and therapeutic approaches, including pharmacology, will be discussed.

BIO490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

BIO491

Independent Study

BIO492

Independent Study

BIO493

Independent Study

Independent Study

BIO494

Independent Study

Independent Study

BIO498

Tutorial: Biology

BIO499

Tutorial: Biology

BIO502

Human Gross Anatomy

An in-depth study of gross human anatomic structure, emphasizing the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems through study of head and neck, body wall, and upper and lower extremity structures. Clinical correlates examine normal movement and pathological processes. Four hours of class and three hours of laboratory per week.

BIO502L

Human Gross Anatomy Lab

Human Gross Anatomy Lab

BIO503

Human Anatomy

This course provides a basic understanding of human anatomy, with an emphasis on the osteology and muscles of the upper and lower limbs, including the back. It uses a combination of systems-based and region-specific instruction. Lectures are complimented by laboratory exercises based upon the A.D.A.M. computer program. Three hours of class and two hours of laboratory per week.

BIO503L

Laboratory: Human Anatomy

Laboratory: Human Anatomy

BIO506

Principles of Neuroscience

A study of the structure and function of the human central and peripheral nervous system, including vascular components and special senses. The course emphasizes nervous system control of movement. Three hours of class per week.

BIO506L

Lab: Principles of Neuroscience

Laboratory experience includes the human nervous system material, brain sections, and anatomical models. Two hours of Laboratory per week.

BIO508

Developmental Biology

A study of the embryonic and post-embryonic development of animals, with special emphasis on humans. The morphogenesis, growth and mechanisms of differentiation are stressed. Other topics include cancer, regeneration, cloning, hormones as mediators of development, and developmental genetics.

BIO509

Fundamentals of Neuroscience

This course is designed to examine the fundamental aspects of nervous system function, emphasizing the bases of excitability, synaptic transmission and neuron target interactions. BIO509 introduces students to the basics of integrative neural function, including sensory, motor, learning, memory, and limbic systems. Three hours of lecture per week.

BIO509L

Fundamentals of Neuroscience Lab

Laboratory exercises to compliment lectures in BIO509, including study of human nervous system material, brain sections, and anatomical models. Two hours of Laboratory per week.

BIO512

Advanced Human Gross Anatomy

An in-depth study of both regional gross human anatomic structures & cellular level tissue. The course is clinically oriented with emphasis on the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary, urinary & reproductive systems. Regional study of the head/neck, trunk, and upper/lower extremities, is accomplished through human cadaver dissection.

BIO512L

Advanced Human Gross Anatomy Lab

The laboratory compliment to BIO512, this course uses human cadavers to facilitate a deeper appreciation for regional gross human anatomic structures. The course is clinically oriented with emphasis on the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary, urinary and reproductive systems, via regional study of the head/neck, trunk, and upper/lower extremities.

BIO513

Integrated Seminar in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

This course will provide a forum for interdisciplinary learning and discussion in the core areas of applied and environmental microbiology. Students will analyze case studies based on real-world issues, use evidence-based practice to devise solutions to applied problems, and develop communication skills to convey disciplinary knowledge to different audiences.

BIO514

Advanced Human Physiology

An in-depth study of the mechanisms of human body function, emphasizing cells, genetic control of protein synthesis, transport across membranes, contraction and excitation of muscles, the physiology of cardiac muscle, and rhythmical excitation of the normal heart.

BIO516

Advanced Neuroscience

A study of the structure and function of the human central and peripheral nervous system, including vascular components and special senses. The course emphasizes nervous system control of movement.

BIO516L

Advanced Neuroscience Lab

This lab complements the lectures in BIO516, using hands-on laboratory and data collection exercises. It examines nervous system function, emphasizing excitability, synaptic transmission and neuron-target interactions. It also includes a study of integrative neural function in sensory, motor, learning, memory and limbic systems. Two hours of laboratory per week.

BIO517

Genetics

A study of the modern concepts of the gene. Lectures stress theory and experimental evidence relating to the structure of the gene, heritability of characteristics, and the behavior of genes in populations.

BIO518

Chemical Analysis Laboratory

This laboratory teaches the proper design, implementation and analysis of modern techniques in instrumental chemistry, encompassing spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and separation science. In addition, several inorganic compounds are synthesized and characterized. Student-originated research projects are used extensively throughout this course. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

BIO519

Immunology

This course covers fundamental principles of immunology with emphasis on molecular and cellular immunology, including antigen and antibody structure and function, effector mechanisms, complement, major histocompatibility complexes, and the cellular basis for the immune response.

BIO523

Neurobiology of Mental Health

The course explores advanced topics in neurodevelopment, neurotransmission, neuroplasticity, and cognition through the lens of mental health, using neurological diseases such as depression and schizophrenia, as examples of pathophysiological processes underlying mental illness. Neurobiological mechanisms, clinical presentation, and therapeutic interventions will be discussed, with emphasis on neuropharmacology and mental health.

BIO532

Biostatistics

The study and application of biostatistics and probability distributions in biology, for students who already have a working knowledge of statistics and want to understand the place and application of biostatistical methods in science. Topics include hypothesis testing, analysis of variance for one and many variables, and linear and nonlinear regression. Three hours of class per week.

BIO538

Biochemistry I

This course offers the structure and function of proteins, polynucleic acids, and biological membranes. Enzymes and kinetics are also taught. Metabolic pathways, with emphasis on the thermodynamics of the equilibria and the storage and usage of energy are also discussed.

BIO539

Biochemistry II

This course offers the structure and function of proteins, polynucleic acids, and biological membranes. Enzymes and kinetics are also taught. Metabolic pathways, with emphasis on the thermodynamics of the equilibria and the storage and usage of energy are also discussed.

BIO540L

Macromolecule Laboratory

An advanced laboratory course for junior or senior science majors who wish to gain theoretical and practical experience with the techniques and equipment commonly used in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Topics include PCR, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, aseptic cell and tissue culture, cell surface receptors, and molecular modeling. Five-hour laboratory with one-hour pre-lab lecture each week.

BIO552

Computational Drug Design

Study of computational techniques of importance in contemporary drug design. Topics include molecular docking, ligand binding free energy calculations, de novo drug design, pharmacophore elucidation, quantitative structure-activity relations, and combinatorial library design. Cross-listed as BIO 452 and CHM 452.

BIO553

Special Topics in Biology

Lectures and/or laboratories in selected areas of contemporary biology, with a focus of recent research.

BIO555

Medical and Bio-ethics

This course will discuss selected topics in medical ethics emphasizing methods of ethical reasoning about moral dilemmas and contributions of philosophical theories and principles to practical problems of medicine. Includes legal aspects of health care decisions.

BIO558

Histology

A microscopic analysis of human and animal tissue and organ function at the cellular level. Material comes from textbook, lecture, images and animations in addition to practical application and identification of histological specimens. Recommended for students planning to apply to professional schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, or dentistry.

BIO561

Pharmacology

This course covers the general principles of drug action, including administration, distribution, mechanism, and excretion. Emphasis will be placed on key pharmacological concepts, basic signal transduction pathways and molecular mechanisms. Pharmacology of the nervous, cardiovascular, and endocrine systems as well as the mechanisms of various antimicrobial agents will be considered.

BIO562

Cardiometabolic Disease

This course is a focused course extending the concepts related to human physiology. It is expected that each student has an advanced knowledge of the physiological systems of the body as well as basic understanding of the pathophysiology related to cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

BIO587

Neuropathology

The course explores advanced topics in neurotransmission, plasticity, motor control, emotion, and cognition through the lens of neuropathologies, such as stroke, seizure, TBI, multiple sclerosis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Neurobiological mechanisms of disease cause and progression, clinical presentation of symptoms, and therapeutic approaches, including pharmacology, will be discussed.

BIO601

Professional Development in Biology

This course provides students with an opportunity to receive mentorship or practical training in teaching, research, or other professional activity in biology.

BIO612L

Cadaver Dissection Lab

This course presents an extensive overview of gross human anatomic structure, through cadaver dissection, emphasizing the thoracic and abdominal viscera, as well as the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems. Evident pathologies are highlighted when present. Strong emphasis is placed upon the development of excellent dissection skills and practices.

BIO630

Biological Research Principles

This course provides students with a foundation in biological research principles, covering ethics, professional development, writing, research design, data analysis, and research proposal development. These are essential scientific components for any graduate student in the biological sciences.

BIO637

Internship

Internship

BIO638

Internship

Internship

BIO639

Internship

Internship

BIO650

Research Proposal

In conjunction with BIO623 Methods of Biological Research, this course provides the tools for writing a valid proposal to do basic or applied research. Students complete a research proposal for approval of scientific inquiry project, as part of their degree requirements. In this course, students will take the steps to clearly outline a research project for BIO693 Independent Study (non-thesis track) or BIO698 Thesis I (thesis track), which requires program approval. This course is taken subsequent to BIO623 Methods of Biological Research.

BIO691

Independent Study

Independent Study

BIO692

Independent Study

Independent Study

BIO693

Independent Study

Independent Study

BIO697

Scientific Dissemination

This course fulfills a scientific inquiry requirement for the MS Biology program, non-thesis track. Students document and present results from their independent study project, under the guidance of their faculty mentor. The student will complete an independent study report and give a professional public seminar of the study results. Students normally register for this course in the semester following the semester they performed their required independent study project.

BIO698

Biology Thesis I

Research in an area of biology. This is the first of two courses that result in a thesis approved by a committee of three faculty members.

BIO699

Biology Thesis II

Research in an area of biology. This is the second of two courses that result in a thesis approved by a committee of three faculty members.

BIO800

Graduate Continuing Credit

Graduate Continuing Credit

BUS105

Foundations of Business

This course introduces the theory and practice of business and fosters analytical thinking. Students build a foundation for learning by gaining an understanding of business organizations, their structure and functions, the increasingly dynamic and complex global setting in which they compete, and the fundamentals of sustainable business practices.

BUS110

Business Statistics

This course introduces essential research tools in business. Topics include descriptive statistics of central tendency and variability and hypotheses testing statistical analysis using correlation, analysis of variance, and regression. Problems use applications from business cases, marketing research, and economic policy.

BUS110

Business Analytics I

This course introduces analytical tools that are essential for deriving actionable data-driven solutions to real world business problems. Modules address descriptive statistics, inferential analysis, hypotheses testing, results interpretation, and presentation of key findings. Students utilize diverse sources of data from business cases, research studies, open access datasets, and secondary reports.

BUS138

Eden Hall Experiences - Ecosystems: Food to Fun

This experiential class uses the Eden Hall Campus and surrounding environment to give students a hands-on understanding of their relationship and dependence on ecosystem services. The class looks at examples of the four ecosystem services - provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural.

BUS145

Sustainability in Action

This course combines classroom instruction with real-world application. Students are familiarized with the latest science concerning environmental degradation, sources of adverse environmental impact and opportunities for making improvements. We will review current theory and practical methods for increasing targeted pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) given the scope of individual, organization, and community-level conditions that may be present.

BUS171

Information Systems and Operations

This course explores basic concepts of communication networks (e.g., the Internet), hardware, software, databases, and systems. Students apply information systems to decision making, communication, collaboration and coordination in the operations of contemporary organizations. Students gain skills in word processing, presentation software, data visualization, spreadsheets, and relational databases.

BUS213

Special Topics

Special Topics

BUS217

Introduction to Project Management

This course covers concepts and techniques of Project Management (PM), given the triple constraint of limited cost, time, and project scope. Students acquire knowledge of generally accepted tools and become familiar with techniques for achieving project success. The coursework prepares the student for the Certified Associated Project Manager (CAPM) examination.

BUS230

Organizational Behavior

This course teaches students to understand, explain, and improve human behavior in organizations. Most organizations focus efforts on improving job performance and organizational commitment. The purpose of this course is to provide a theoretical foundation and realistic understanding of how human behavior influences the effectiveness of the modern corporation.

BUS230W

Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior is a field of study that seeks to understand, explain, and improve human behavior in organizations. Most organizations focus their efforts on improving job performance and organizational commitment. The purpose of this course is to provide a theoretical foundation and realistic understanding of how human behavior influences the effectiveness of the modern corporation.

BUS240

International Business

This course provides the background on the relationships among multinational corporations, international financial markets, and government agencies. Multinational corporations' strategic formulations of product policy research and development, production, and supply systems, as well as financing of international operations, are examined. This course fulfills a global general education mission requirement.

BUS243

Principles of Marketing

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of marketing strategy and management. Basic marketing concepts such as strategic segmentation, targeting, positioning, product design, pricing, promotions and distribution are covered. Environmental sustainability is analyzed from the consumer perspective.

BUS243W

Principles of Marketing

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of marketing strategy and management. Basic marketing concepts such as strategic segmentation, targeting, positioning, product design, pricing, promotions and distribution are covered. Environmental sustainability is analyzed from the consumer perspective.

BUS244

Consumer Behavior

The course reviews and evaluates the major theories of consumer behavior from the economics, behavioral sciences, and marketing literatures. The use of consumer research data for marketing decisions is emphasized. Topics include market segmentation, theories of brand choice, family decision making, life cycle theories, and the diffusion of innovations.

BUS257

Business Law and Business Ethics

This course introduces students to the introductory concepts of business law including employment law, social and environmental responsibility of corporations, and international business law. It also emphasizes frameworks for conducting ethical analysis and the analysis of ethical dilemmas.

BUS272

Principles of Finance

This course enables students to apply fundamental ideas of financial economics to problems in corporate finance. Participants will gain an overview of valuation principles, learn basic principles of corporate finance from the perspective of a financial manager, and through case studies, analyze important financial decisions made within firms.

BUS301

Introduction to Continuous Improvement Methodologies

This course introduces students to concepts, tools, and skills essential for problem solving, decision making, and change management using continuous improvement methodologies. Continuous improvement methodologies covered in the course include introductions to Lean, Six Sigma, the Toyota Production System, and Agile. The course will include a class project.

BUS310W

Business Resarch and Analytics

This course introduces traditional business research methods and business analytics as two sets of tools underlying data-driven business decision making. Students will practice analyzing data, reporting results, interpreting findings, and developing actionable recommendations.

BUS310W

Business Analytics II

This course builds upon the student’s foundational knowledge of business research and analytics. Students practice a disciplined approach to assessing real-world business problems and applying descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive techniques to solve them. Course activities include discussion forums, case studies, experiential projects, and constructive assessment.

BUS312

Marketing Research

Business leaders at all levels need to be intelligent designers and consumers of marketing research. The essential aspects of qualitative and quantitative marketing research design and execution are addressed with assigned readings, class discussions, homework problems, in-class exercises, cases, and a team led custom research study.

BUS317

Systems Analysis and Design

This course introduces information systems analysis and design for contemporary organizations, with a focus on developing critical skills in communicating with people as users, analyzing processes, translating needs into information systems requirements, and testing of prototype ideas. Topics also include functional, structural, and behavioral modeling, and Unified Modeling Language (UML).

BUS319

Professional Selling

This course introduces students to professional selling best practices. The curriculum addresses strategic planning techniques such as sales performance analytics, customer lifetime value, and social media networking. Tactical execution includes prospecting, lead generation, sales presentation development, and closing a sale. Role playing and sales strategy creation reinforces concepts with practice.

BUS350

Advertising and Promotion

This course offers a detailed study of advertising and promotion, including public relations and support media. An integrated marketing communications perspective is emphasized. Advertising and promotion are examined utilizing a range of media outlets, including the internet, television, consumer magazines and professional journals.

BUS357

Strategy and Entrepreneurial Ventures

This course illustrates the strategic management framework by taking students through the entrepreneurial process from start-up growth while exploring the personal and professional challenges. The student examines key issues in opportunity recognition, financing models, strategic choices, and sources of competitive advantage at different stages of the firm's development.

BUS390

Human Resources Management

This course uses readings and case studies to assess and evaluate alternative approaches in staffing, training and development, organization development, performance appraisal, compensation, benefits, labor relations, and collective bargaining. The emphasis of the course is to help students understand these elements of human resources management within an integrated systems approach.

BUS395W

Leadership and Management

This course builds students' ability to identify challenges facing managers in 21st century organizations. The course covers theories and applications of leadership in the changing environment of today's world. Students learn organizational skills, presentation skills, and critical thinking skills. Writing skills are emphasized.

BUS413

Operations

This course introduces students to technical tools and skills essential for problem solving and decision making in operations management. Topics include manufacturing and service operations, inventory optimization, network planning, demand forecasting, transportation planning, product planning, Lean and Six Sigma. Mastery of quantitative methods using spreadsheet modeling is required.

BUS416

Computer Networking & Telecommunication

This course introduces students to the foundational network technologies for data encoding and transmission. Topics may include telephone network and internet architecture, communication protocols (e.g., HTTP, SMTP), transport protocols (e.g., UDP, TCP), and network protocols (IP), TCP/IP, LANs, WANs, circuit vs. packet switching, network security, and multimedia.

BUS421

Information and Cybersecurity

This course introduces fundamental issues in information and cybersecurity, with an emphasis on vulnerabilities available to cyber attackers. Students develop conceptual tools for identifying vulnerabilities, assessing threats, analyzing risk, and selecting controls to mitigate risk, and practical skills in implementing security, responding to incidents, and designing systems that prevent cyberattacks.

BUS423

Continuous Improvement Project Course

Students will advance their knowledge and application in the form of a continuous improvement project. The project will apply to a process (or processes) with a designated client. Students will work independently with stakeholders of the given process to make improvements using continuous improvement methodologies.

BUS445

Marketing Strategy

This course examines the concepts and processes for gaining competitive advantage in the marketplace. It is designed around a marketing planning approach with an emphasis on strategic analysis and planning. The course takes a hands-on approach toward analyzing markets and market behavior, and matching strategies to changing market conditions.

BUS450

Advanced Database 

This course examines advanced topics of database management, including system architecture, complex database objects, building database applications, designing data warehouses, and creating database infrastructure to support Big Data analytics. Students gain hands-on experience through the implementation of database systems, including storage management, query processing, transaction management, and security management.

BUS452

Managing Nonprofit Organizations

Through the use of case studies, assignments, and class projects, this course familiarizes students with the distinctiveness of nonprofit organizations and their management. Specific topics include marketing and fund raising, budgeting, personnel management and supervision, strategic planning and implementation, environmental and program evaluation, and managing interorganizational networks.

BUS462

Global Procurement

In this course, students examine success factors, ethical challenges, legal issues, and managerial implications of global procurement. Students also develop a deep understanding of the impact of procurement on quality, cost, and efficiency of supply chain management through use of procurement tools, techniques, and methodologies.

BUS490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

BUS493

Independent Study

Independent Study

BUS496

Digital Marketing

This course explores digital platforms that transform marketing, including the Internet, search engines, online advertising platforms, and digital analytics platforms. Through participation in real or simulated digital marketing projects, the student will critically apply principles of advertising, marketing analytics, and research methods.

BUS498

Tutorial: Capstone Research Project

Tutorial: Capstone Research Project

BUS499

Tutorial: Capstone Research Project

Tutorial: Capstone Research Project

BUS506

Statistic Essentials

This course examines the fundamentals of research and quantitative methodology with emphasis on statistical analysis by business. Topics include statistical measures and distributions, application of probability to statistical inference, experimental design, hypothesis testing, linear correlation, and statistical quality control. Focus is on business applications of statistics using problems and case studies.

BUS508

Marketing Essentials

This course will introduce student to marketing concepts relevant in any sector of business. Topics will include market analysis, product strategy, the marketing mix, and managing the marketing program. Course material will be resented through online discussion, collaborative activities, assigned readings, and team creation of a comprehensive marketing plan.

BUS509

Economics Essentials

The introduction to market analysis examines the major areas of study within microeconomics and macroeconomics and teaches students to apply the basic tools of economic analysis to policy and business decision making. Topics include supply and demand, production functions, cost, market structure, inflation, unemployment and economic growth.

BUS511

Health Policy & Advocacy

Analyze and synthesize innovative approaches to issues in health care delivery at all levels. Politics, policy, market forces, and advocacy are used to assess how system approaches affect health care delivery. Transformational leadership for political and policy activism are emphasized, while exploring regional, national, and global health issues and trends.

BUS513

Logistics and Operations

This course introduces students to technical tools and skills essential for problem solving and decision-making in logistics and operations management. Topics may include inventory optimization, network planning, demand forecasting, transportation planning, and productions planning. Mastery of quantitative methods using spreadsheet modeling is required for all students.

BUS523

Continuous Improvement Methods

This course introduces students to the concepts, tools, and skills essential for problem solving, decision making, and change management using Continuous Improvements methodologies. Continuous improvement methodologies covered in the course include introductions to Lean, Six Sigma, the Toyota Production System, and Agile.

BUS524

Agile for Practitioners

This course will teach participants the principles and values of Agile, the most popular agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development and Extreme Programming (XP), and help them apply Agile practices and techniques to their projects.

BUS525

Leadership and Communication Skills for Project Managers

This course offers all necessary knowledge needed to be proficient as a project manager. Students learn how to apply leadership skills when leading teams and how best to communicate within those teams. The Myers-Brigg Type Indicator is used as a resourced to identify benefits of working in project teams.

BUS526

Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a problem-solving methodology especially well-suited for investigating ill-defined problems. It uses methods derived from the discipline of design to match people's needs with what is feasible and what a viable organizational strategy can convert into customer/stakeholder value in a financially sustainable way.

BUS527

Scrum for All

This course covers Scrum and the Scrum Master role in particular. The course focuses on what makes a great leader and how to overcome resistance to change and increase the effectiveness of your Agile initiatives. Originally formalized for software development, Scrum works well for any complex, innovative scope of work.

BUS540

Leadership for Change in Healthcare Organizations

Focuses on the needs of health care leaders to take health care delivery into the future through innovative initiatives. Includes: variables impacting health care delivery systems; reimbursement and funding for design change; managing competition; creating the health care delivery system of the future; and managing human and financial resources.

BUS550

Innovation and Commercialization

This course focuses on how to successfully commercialize an innovation. Understanding commercialization activities such as pre-product launch planning, market testing, actual product launch, and post-launch follow-up is a major part of the course. The course provides a run-through of the complete cycle from idea to market entry.

BUS551

Informatics in Healthcare

This course is designed to assist the student in understanding the various database systems used within a healthcare setting. Key to this course is understanding how healthcare professionals can collect and extract data from database systems to assess the organizations performance and impact on patient outcomes.

BUS552

Managing Non-Profit Organizations

Through the use of case studies, assignments, and class projects, this course familiarizes students with the distinctiveness of nonprofit organizations and their management. Specific topics include marketing and fund raising, budgeting, personnel management and supervision, strategic planning and implementation, environmental and program evaluation, and managing interorganizational networks.

BUS562

Global Procurement

In this course, students examine success factors, ethical challenges, legal issues, and managerial implications of global procurement. Students also develop a deep understanding of the impact of procurement on quality, cost, and efficiency of supply chain management through use of procurement tools, techniques, and methodologies.

BUS570

Global Business

This course introduces students to international business and management by studying cultural influences, government, and business structures in our global economy. Students also learn about trade relations, international finance and legal and labor agreements. Also covered, are topics on information needs, production systems, marketing and promotion, and career planning.

BUS571

Business Communication

This course targets key aspects of business communication: persuasive presentation skills, writing skills and listening skills. Students will be more effective in "selling" ideas to others, developing a more effective and adaptable communication strategy, and aligning objectives with those of the audience.

BUS573

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

The course requires the student to take the Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) perspective and consider strategies to develop resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain competitive advantage for both established firms and entrepreneurial ventures. Strategic analyses employed in this course critically examine the direction and goals of an organization, the social, political, technological, economic, and global factors in the business environment, industry structure, market dynamics, and firm strengths and weaknesses. The skills to develop and successfully implement strategy in different types of firms across industries are refined through case analyses and simulations, with a particular emphasis on entrepreneurship.

BUS575

Leading Organizations and Projects

The course cultivates the student's executive leadership potential for organizational development and transformation, with specific applications to the project management environment. Theoretical perspective and case analyses will explore topics of leading one's self, motivating project teams, change management, and transforming the organization.

BUS576

Sustainable Human Capital

Cultivate theoretical understanding and ethical and practical skills for managing human capital. Explore individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis focusing on topics of motivation, communication, group dynamics, decision making, culture, power, and politics. Analyze the effectiveness of tools for talent acquisition and development, such as compensation, feedback, and assessment.

BUS577

Information Systems and Analytics

This course explores the strategic management of technology, information, and people from a Chief Information Officer's (CIO) perspective. The business value and organizational challenges of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, data warehouses, analytics, and Big Data are critically examined through cases and hands-on projects.

BUS577

Business Analytics

This course explores the strategic transformation of raw data into information and intelligence. Students learn to source and integrate datasets, apply analytical methods, and communicate insights from modeled findings. Enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), data warehouses, and Big Data are critically examined through cases and hands-on projects.

BUS580

Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

This course provides an intellectual framework in which to consider the ways society and organizations affect an individual's and corporation's ethical decision making. Students apply ethical decision tools to the numerous moral challenges confronting them in their professional careers. The global context of ethical decision making is examined.

BUS582

Foundations of Project Management

This course explores the knowledge areas and project stages from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Students acquire concepts and skills in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects. The course examines the management of project integration, scope, time, cost, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement.

BUS607

Human Resource Management and Issues of Diversity

In this course the student will develop conceptual, ethical, and practical skills for managing people through the understanding of, and effective use of HR systems including compensation packages, feedback loops, assessment measures etc. In addition, ethical, legal and strategic issues concerning diversity, international HR challenges as well as domestic situations will be examined.

BUS608

Economics for Managers

The goal of this course is to provide students with the tools and concepts from managerial economics that practicing managers can and do use. Drawing on issues in both microeconomics and macroeconomics, fundamental principles are applied to business decision-making.

BUS609

Business and Sustainability

This course covers basic questions concerning sustainability and the challenges in reconciling free-market capitalism with the need for more sustainable business practices. Among topics covered will be: the need to translate real-world sustainability challenges into future business opportunities, and the economic moral challenges involved with the creation of a sustainable world.

BUS610

Statistical Application to Business Efficiency

This course is designed to expose students to the essential concepts and methodologies of business improvement techniques used to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of business operations, increase profitability, eliminate waste, and reduce costs. Quality management principles including continuous process improvement, Six Sigma, and lean manufacturing/service will be introduced.

BUS611

Healthcare Quality Measurement

This 3 credit course will address the quality of healthcare in the United States. Key issues relating to quality of care will be analyzed from the perspectives of health care systems, providers, patients and payers. The course will also address the various methods of assessment and quality control for patient care. Students will learn to understand and apply the science of studying and measuring the flow of work in providing patient care. Methods of Quality Control (including QA/QC, Deming and TQM) will be covered in detail. Substantive case analyses will add depth to the course.

BUS612

Healthcare Economics and Reimbursement

This course applies microeconomic principles to analyze the drivers of healthcare behavior, the supply and demand for healthcare services, and the impact of insurance on the demand for healthcare services and the role of government in healthcare markets.

BUS613

Health Policy and History

This course will provide an introduction to the history, structure and current issues in the United States' health care system. The interrelationships of the major stakeholders in the system, including providers, patients and payers, will be examined in detail. Particular attention will be given to the influence of legislative bodies, lobbyists and regulatory agencies.

BUS618

Economics for Managers

This course teaches how economic tools and techniques can be used to solve business problems. Economics describes why firms do what they do and points to business strategies. The course focuses on economic applications. The course provides an understanding of how economics influences marketing, management, and other business-related decisions.

BUS623

Strategic Performance for Executives

This course will cover issues specific to business leaders such as conflict management, negotiation and persuasion, mentoring structures, crisis communication, and organizational change. Other topics will include implicit and explicit attitude toward authority in the workplace; implicit social cognition; attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes, etc.

BUS639

Sustainability and Assessment Reporting

An in-depth study of how to measure, track, and report on sustainability issues in a business. Includes a study of how to create effective Social Responsibility reports and the standards currently used to measure sustainability. Teaches students how to monitor and measure sustainability issues from within a business.

BUS641

Sustainable Supply Chain Management

This course provides students with an understanding of how supply chain works, how and where along the supply chain sustainability questions should be addressed/considered, and the impacts of those decisions on stakeholders further down the chain. Topics include: packaging, transportation, energy use, and waste.

BUS643

International Field Experience

MBA students attain firsthand understanding of the markets and corporate settings of foreign countries through supervised experience, observation, interaction and research/analysis. This course provides that critical knowledge with a ten day study abroad field experience. While not required for graduation, BUS 643 is highly recommended. Additional Fee(s): Travel fee.

BUS652

Managerial Accounting

This course examines accounting information that is used in managerial decision making within the organization. Focus is on interpretation of financial statements, cost accounting, financial planning and analysis, the development of internal controls, and constructing budgets.

BUS661

Logistics and Operations

logistics and operations

BUS662

Global Procurement

Global Procurement

BUS671

Marketing Management

This course takes the Chief Marketing Officer’s (CMO) perspective to explore marketing as a core business practice. Discussions focus on theories and principles for interfacing with customers, competitors, partners, and the external environment. Concepts are applied to planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods and services.

BUS671PLA

Marketing Management

BUS672

Corporate Finance

This course deepens an understanding of financial analysis tools and concepts. Students will learn how and when to use the financial-analytical tools required to make effective business and policy decision. Functional areas addressed are assessing financial health, planning financial performance, interpretation of data and recommendations, supply-chain management.

BUS672

Corporate Finance and Governance

This course focuses on financial-analytical tools and methods for making effective business and policy decisions. Topics include setting financial health benchmarks, assessing financial performance, interpreting financial data and making informed recommendations that protect the interests of all stakeholders. The principles of good corporate governance provide assurance of long-term business viability.

BUS673

Legal Aspects of Business

This course introduces business law and the legal system in preparation for dealing with legal business issues and attorneys. Topics include civil procedure, torts, strict liability, legal fees and case management, common law contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code, partnerships, corporate law, estates and trusts, secured transactions, third-party rights, property, insurance, securities law, and ethics.

BUS680

Complex Issues in Project Management

Case studies and simulations engage students in the examination of complex issues in project management, such as control, portfolio management, and rescuing failing projects. The Student will be able to analyze, evaluate, and optimize projects in specific environments and industries.

BUS691

Independent Study

Independent Study

BUS692

Independent Study

Independent Study

BUS698

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

"Develop strategies to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Examine the goals of an organization, the social, political, technological, economic, and global factors in the business environment, industry structure, market dynamics, and firm strengths and weaknesses. Develop and implement strategy across industries, and as an entrepreneur, through case analyses and simulations. "

BUS699

Business Consulting Capstone

This course is the culminating experience in the MBA program. Students apply professional-level business consulting skills learned in the MBA program. Business Consulting Capstone student teams solve business problems for businesses and entrepreneurs.

CHM102

Chemistry in Context

One semester lecture course with selected topics in inorganic and organic chemistry. Emphasis is on relevance to biological and environmental issues. Topics include matter, energy, atomic and molecular structure, bonding, reaction chemistry, and radioactivity. Three hours of lecture per week. Not open to majors in biology or chemistry.

CHM102

Energy and the Environment

Lecture course that utilizes the principles of chemistry to explore selected topics, including climate change, environmental pollution, alternative energy, commercial products, drugs, and nutrition. The course is not open to majors in chemistry, biology, or neuroscience.

CHM102L

Chemistry in Context Lab

One semester laboratory course to accompany CHM102 Chemistry in Context. Two hours of lab per week. Not open to majors in biology or chemistry.

CHM102L

Energy and the Environment Lab

One semester laboratory course to accompany CHM102 Energy and the Environment. Two hours of lab per week. Not open to majors in biology or chemistry.

CHM105

General Chemistry

This class covers the same material as Chemistry 107 below, but is specifically structured for students who have had little or no previous chemistry experience, or who need extra help with algebraic problem solving. Three hours of lecture and one hour of recitation per week. Co-requisite: CHM 109

CHM107

Chemistry I

This course is the first course in a two-semester sequence designed to provide a robust foundation in the principles of chemistry. Topics include atomic and electronic structure, periodicity, nomenclature, dimensional analysis, reaction stoichiometry, molecular shapes, bonding, intermolecular forces, gases, solids, liquids, and solutions.

CHM108

Chemistry II

This course is the second course in a two-semester sequence designed to provide a robust foundation in the principles of chemistry. Topics include thermochemistry, phase changes, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, reactions in aqueous solution, thermodynamics, kinetics, and electrochemistry.

CHM109L

Chemistry I Laboratory

Introduction to the basic experimental procedures and laboratory techniques in chemistry. Experiments are correlated with the lectures in Chemistry 105 and Chemistry 107. Three hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: CHM 105 or 107. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM110L

Chemistry II Laboratory

Continued introduction to the basic experimental procedures and laboratory techniques in chemistry. Experiments are correlated with lectures in Chemistry 108. Three hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: CHM 108. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM205

Organic Chemistry I

Development of the structural theory of organic compounds. Relationship of structure to reactivity, stereochemistry, types of organic reactive intermediates, and the chemistry of alkanes, alkenes, and aromatic compounds are covered. Co-requisite: CHM 215.

CHM206

Organic Chemistry II

Discussion of organic functional groups and their chemistry. Spectroscopy, mechanisms, and synthetic type-reactions are included. A discussion of biologically important compounds is covered during the last third of the term.

CHM209

Inorganic Chemistry

A descriptive survey of inorganic chemistry, including bonding theories, coordination compounds, electrochemistry, inorganic syntheses, and the chemistry of the transition metals.

CHM215L

Elementary Organic Laboratory

Basic manipulative skills, including introduction to several chromatographic techniques, are followed by chemistry of alkenes and aromatic compounds. Four hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM216L

Organic Chemistry Laboratory

Chemistry of organic functional groups. Identification of unknowns and a multistep synthesis. Four hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM216LW

Organic Chemistry Laboratory

Chemistry of organic functional groups. Identification of unknowns and a multistep synthesis. Four hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM311

Physical Chemistry I

Introduction to thermodynamic aspects of physical chemistry, and a survey of kinetics. Chemical reactions and other transformations are examined in light of ideas of energy conservation and the direction of spontaneous change. Molecular, mathematical, and statistical-mechanical underpinnings are emphasized as appropriate.

CHM312

Physical Chemistry II

Quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, introduction to symmetry, and introduction to statistical mechanics. Four hour lectures per week.

CHM317L

Integrated Chemistry Laboratory

Experiments are selected to illustrate important principles of advanced experimental chemistry and familiarize students with important experimental methods. The course is intended to encourage students to think critically about the reliability of their experimental results in the light of their previous chemistry experience. Five hours of laboratory per week.

CHM317LW

Integrated Chemistry Laboratory

Experiments are selected to illustrate important principles of advanced experimental chemistry and familiarize students with important experimental methods. The course is intended to encourage students to think critically about the reliability of their experimental results in the light of their previous chemistry experience. Five hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM317W

Integrated Chemistry Lab

Experiments are selected to illustrate important principles of advanced experimental chemistry and familiarize students with important experimental methods. The course is intended to encourage students to think critically about the reliability of their experimental results in the light of their previous chemistry experience. Five hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM318L

Chemical Analysis Laboratory

This laboratory teaches the proper design, implementation and analysis of modern techniques in instrumental chemistry, encompassing spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and separation science. In addition, several inorganic compounds are synthesized and characterized. Student-originated research projects are used extensively throughout this course. Seven hours of laboratory per week. Cross-listed as BIO418. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM322

Topics in Analytical Chemistry

This course explores the fundamental chemical principles underlying modern chemical instrumentation. Students learn the advantages and limitations of these instruments, how to select the proper instrumental configuration for a specific experiment, and how to evaluate emerging chemical technologies. Corequisite: CHM 318

CHM338

Biochemistry I

This course covers the structure and functions of proteins, polynucleic acids, and biological membranes. Enzymes and kinetics are taught. Metabolic pathways, with emphasis on the thermodynamics of the equilibria and the storage and usage of energy, are covered.

CHM339

Biochemistry II

Metabolism is studied with an emphasis on anabolic pathways and special pathways such as cytochrome P450. Other topics include molecular genetics and protein synthesis, hormones and receptors, and immunology. Cross-listed as BIO438

CHM340L

Macromolecule Laboratory

An advanced laboratory course for junior and senior science majors who wish to gain theoretical and practical experience with the techniques and equipment commonly used in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Topics include PCR, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, aseptic cell and tissue culture, cell surface receptors, and molecular modeling. Five-hour laboratory with one-hour pre-lab lecture each week. Cross-listed as BIO. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM340LW

Macromolecule Laboratory

An advanced laboratory course for junior and senior science majors who wish to gain theoretical and practical experience with the techniques and equipment commonly used in the fields of cellular biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Topics include PCR, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, aseptic cell and tissue culture, cell surface receptors, and molecular modeling. Five-hour laboratory with one-hour pre-lab lecture each week. Cross-listed as BIO 440. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

CHM343

Environmental Chemistry

This course is an advanced study of the chemical principles underlying common environmental problems. It aims to deepen the student's knowledge of chemistry and its role in the environment and shows the power of chemistry as a tool to help us comprehend the changing world around us. Cross-listed as ENV 443.

CHM443

Environmental Chemistry

This course is an advanced study of the chemical principles underlying common environmental problems. It aims to deepen the student's knowledge of chemistry and its role in the environment and shows the power of chemistry as a tool to help us comprehend the changing world around us. Cross-listed as ENV 443.

CHM490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

CHM491

Independent Study

Independent Study

CHM492

Independent Study

Independent Study

CHM493

Independent Study

Independent Study

CHM498

Tutorial: Chemistry

Tutorial: Chemistry

CHM499

Tutorial: Chemistry

Tutorial: Chemistry

CHM503

Introduction to Green Chemistry

Green chemistry was defined by Paul Anastas in the 1990s as "the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous compounds." Stated broadly, this course helps students understand the notion of sustainability and how it applies to chemistry. It also explores the history of chemistry, outlines the critical need for green chemistry, and explores the principles that guide its practice.

CHM515

Life-Cycle Assessment

Study of objective processes used to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with a product, process, or activity. This involves identifying energy, materials, and wastes in order to evaluate and implement opportunities to affect environmental improvements. Material and energy flow analyses (e.g., mass balancing) are covered for a variety of scales, such as an individual business, industrial sector, or an entire economy.

CHM516

Chemical Process Principles

Fundamental concepts of chemical engineering; problem-solving techniques; applications to the environment and sustainability of stoichiometry, material and energy balances, and phase equilibria; bioprocesses and how to make things from renewable resources.

CHM520

Internship

INTERNSHIP

CHM543

Advanced Environmental Chemistry

This course is an advanced study of the chemical principles underlying common environmental problems. It aims to deepen the student's knowledge of chemistry and it's role in the environment.

CHM607

Catalysis

Catalysis lies at the heart of many chemical processes, from the academic research lab through living systems to the industrial large-scale reactor. By understanding and careful use of catalysis many processes can be made faster, cleaner and more sustainable. This course will provide training in the state-of-the-art of catalysis theory, application, preparation and analysis.

CHM692

Independent Study

Independent Study

CHM698

Green Chemistry Practices I-Industrial Challenges

In the first of this two-course sequence a series of professionals from the region are invited to present to the class. These presentations will present problems/projects being addressed by local industry. Groups of students will choose one, design a protocol to follow, and present their protocol to the class.

CHM699

Green Chemistry Practices II-Industrial Solutions

The second part of a two-course sequence; students will complete a project they propose in CHM698 in conjunction with a local industry/business.

CMP120

Introduction to Programming

An introduction to the theory and practice of computer programming with an emphasis on problem solving. No previous programming experience is required.

CMP150

On-line Genealogy

This course is an introductory study of all aspects of personal and family history, and genealogical research, with a strong emphasis on computer search engines. Methods used to identify individuals and their ancestors will be surveyed, emphasizing the scientific approach to genealogical research, rather than chance.

CMP202

Introduction to Programming

An introduction to programming using C++ for students with no previous computer programming experience. Includes introduction to algorithms and object-oriented programming techniques.

CMP220

Computer Programming II

In this course students learn to develop computer programs using a modern object-oriented language such as java, python, or C#. Topics covered include user-defined classes, inheritance, polymorphism, data structures such as linked lists, stacks, queues, and trees, sorting and searching algorithms, recursion, event-driven programming and exceptions.

CMP283

Database Management Systems

This course is a study of database management systems and their applications to a wide range of information processing needs. Students design and implement database management systems while being introduced to a conceptual model of a database environment comprised of five basic components: databases, database management systems, data dictionary/directory systems, database administration, and user-system interfaces.

COM101

Foundations Of Human Communication

A survey of the discipline of communication studies with emphasis on multiple theoretical, and methodological issues relevant to the systematic inquiry and pursuit of knowledge about human communication. This course explores the basic history, assumption, principles, processes, variables, methods, and specialization of human communication as an academic field of study.

COM101

Introduction to Communication Theory

This course introduces students to theories in the field of communication. Students will survey the seven traditions of communication, covering classical topics as rhetoric, modern examinations of language with semiotics, and postmodern analyses of critical theory. The course will cover contemporary research to discuss paradigms, methods, and theories.

COM106

Media and Society

The effects of mass communication on individuals and society, particularly as they relate to values and ethics, are examined. The course emphasizes the history and structure of the mass media.

COM151

Introduction to Reporting

This course covers the fundamentals of reporting and includes identifying different types of news sources, properly quoting interviewees, and orientation to basic media ethics, differentiating between opinion and analysis, confirming facts in the course of reporting, and finally writing skills.

COM209

Intercultural Communication: Values and Ethics

Course will provide the student with an appreciation of the complexities involved in the development of beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that reflect cultural values. This course will provide an understanding of the specific forces, which shape perceptions, feelings and behaviors of various cultural groups. These forces include socially constructed categories such as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, socio-economic status, and religion. These will be explored in a variety of contexts, language, family structures and the handling of conflict of laws and ethics (cultural relativism) will be examined.

COM209

Intercultural Communication

The course introduces students to theories of culture and identity. Students will examine how culture and identity give people their sense of self. Students will also examine contemporary approaches to gender, race, and sexuality in international contexts. The course includes a term-long project emphasizing empirical research.

COM213

Special Topics in Communications

Special Topics in Communications

COM223

Qualitative Research Methods

Qualitative Research Methods refer to a collection of approaches focused on understanding the ways people experience their worlds. There is an emphasis on multiplicity that attempts to comprehend and represent the diversity of the human experience. Such approaches utilize interpretation as a form of analysis situated in the narrative paradigm.

COM234W

Persuasion

This course introduces students to socio-psychological theories that measure and quantify communication. Students will focus on attitudes, behaviors, and values to identify cause-and-effect relationships. As a writing-intensive course, students will develop a term-long project that demonstrates interaction and influence.

COM251

News Writing and Editing

This is an introduction to journalistic writing and editing for print and the Web. Students will explore lede writing, interviewing and structuring stories in a variety of styles. They also will learn Associated Press style. At the core of the class is an emphasis on ethics and news judgment.

COM251L

Communique Lab

A one-credit pass-fail lab section attached to COM 251: Newswriting and Editing. Credit will be awarded upon a student's fulfillment of a staff position on The Communiqué over the course of one semester. A student may register for this lab a maximum of three times during her undergraduate years.

COM255

The Communique Newsroom I

This PRO course is designed to give students hands-on training in the various roles that work together to make a multiplatform newsroom function by fulfilling a staff position with the Communiqué. Students will develop skills related to developing/pitching story ideas, beat reporting, story budgets, print newspaper design and digital journalism.

COM256

The Communique Newsroom II

This course will give students hands-on training in the roles that work together to make a multiplatform newsroom function, with an emphasis on newsroom management. By fulfilling a staff position with the Communiqué, students will work on skills for developing/pitching stories, beat reporting, budgets, newspaper design and digital journalism.

COM260W

Practical Public Relations

Students learn the theories, practical writing skills, and strategies involved in planning and implementing public relations campaigns. The course is an exploration in how to influence public opinion/behavior and build connections with legacy and new media outlets through effective, ethical, and socially responsible communication.

COM264

Strategic Communication Agency

This course is designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary departments that make up a strategic communication agency by completing client-focused projects. The course will explore the role of strategic communication in the nonprofit sector vs. corporate sector and connect students with projects that align with Chatham’s mission and values.

COM310W

Environmental Communication

This writing-intensive course provides an overview of contemporary environmental communication theory, practice, and criticism. Students interrogate topics such as the meaning of "green" or "sustainable," social justice and environmental advocacy, and public participation in environmental decision-making.

COM313

Special Topics

Special Topics

COM314

Careers in Strategic Communication

This PRO course is designed to give students hands-on training in skills and organizational processes that make up an integrated communication agency and business strategies involved in managing and promoting an agency. Students will complete client-focused projects related to public relations, marketing, design, and social/digital media and develop professional portfolios.

COM351

Advanced News Writing and Editing

Students will build upon foundational skills and apply them to writing a variety of multi-source story styles, deadline writing, and briefs. The course also will cover advanced headline writing, copy editing, and media law basics, as well as the challenges and opportunities surrounding newsroom management/leadership in the digital age.

COM351L

Staff Position: The Communiqué

Pass-fail lab section attached to COM351: Advanced Newswriting and Editing. Credit will be awarded upon students fulfillment of a staff position on the Communique over the course of the semester. A student may register for this lab or COM251L a maximum of three times during her undergraduate year.

COM355

Organizational Communication

Organizational Communication will focus on five theoretical approaches to the study of communication in organizations. Those approaches are: classical, human relations/human resources, systems, cultural, and critical, with most time spent on the final theoretical perspective. Additionally, the course will examine how communication affects the gendered nature of the workplace.

COM360

Advanced Public Relations

Students will sharpen PR writing skills and critical thinking by applying communication theories and methods to analyzing case studies, developing multiplatform campaigns, and crafting crisis management plans. An emphasis on strategy will prepare students to work with clients in a range of industries, including small businesses, corporations, agencies, and nonprofits.

COM365

Visual Communication

This course introduces students to the process of developing a Visual Communication system with a special focus on non profit branding. An understanding of branding strategies are researched, explored and implemented to help serve the needs of growing community-based non-profits. Visual Identities are created for existing small non-profits to address their needs as well as strengthen their position in the marketplace and community.

COM374

Documentary and Photojournalism

This course focuses on photojournalistic practice and social documentary. Students analyze news topics from a practical, ethical, and visual perspective, to produce images that tell stories. Students will be introduced to a variety of approaches with an emphasis on point of view. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee

COM416

Environmental Communication

This course provides an overview of contemporary environmental communication theory, practice, and criticism. Students interrogate topics such as the meaning of "green" or "sustainable," social justice and environmental advocacy, and public participation in environmental decision-making.

COM490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone , undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student’s major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

COM492

Independent Study

Independent Study

COM493

Independent Study

Independent Study

COM498

Tutorial: Communication

Tutorial: Communication

COM499

Tutorial: Communication

Tutorial: Communication

COM510

Health Communications

Course provides an introduction to the essential concepts and theories of health communication. Students study how individuals understand health issues and how communication processes help shape and influence our acceptance of health-related messages. Topics include health literacy, media coverage of health issues, and health risk communications.

COM515

Environmental Communications

Course offers an overview of environmental communications providing an analysis of how individuals, institutions and corporations describe and portray our interactions with the environment. Discussion topics include environmental discourse, environmental conflicts, risk communication, environmental disasters, environmental social movements, and the nature-society relationship.

COM518

Strategic Communications

Course provides an overview of concepts, tactics and skills employed in strategic internal and external communications. Students learn how to determine the communications objective(s), define the target audience(s) and stakeholders, and develop key messages to improve strategic communications.

COM525

Communications Research and Theory

Course provides an overview of the major theoretical and research developments in the communications discipline. The emphasis will be on the application of theory to practice and on applied research. Topics include quantitative and qualitative research methods, research ethics, and the history of development of communication theories.

COM528

Risk and Crisis Communications

Students acquire an understanding of crisis management and risk communication. Course topics include public opinion research, data collection and analysis, crisis and risk management theory, and communication tactics and strategies. Students develop case studies relating to their areas of professional interest.

COM550

Organizational Communications

Course covers current theory and research in the area of organizational communications. Includes formal and informal organizations and public and private organizations. Topics include organizational culture, employee information needs, decision making, leadership and power. Emphasis will be placed on developing the analytical tools to analyze and improve organizational communications.

COM613A

Special Topics:

This course will explore different special topics in professional writing.

COM613C

Special Topics:

This course will explore different special topics in communication.

COM625

Communications Campaigns

Students explore the use of communication campaigns to reduce health risks and promote public health and awareness. Course prepares students to develop, implement, and assess health campaigns. Drawing on health behavior theory and communication research and theory, students work on case studies and develop original campaigns employing multiple communication channels.

COM675

Communication Law & Ethics

Course provides an examination of the legal and ethical dimensions of communications. The historical development of media law is covered, although emphasis is placed on contemporary legal issues. Students explore complex ethical challenges facing media practitioners through case studies, exercises and class discussions.

COM685

Communications Project

This is the capstone project for all students in the Master's in Communications program. This applied learning experience builds upon previous coursework. Students develop a major project designed to meet their professional interests. The project will demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills gained throughout the program.

COM691

Independent Study

Independent Study

COM693

Independent Study

Independent Study

COR145

Foundations of Effective Writing

This course is designed to provide writing support and instruction for first-year students enrolled in College Seminars. Supplemental instruction focuses on the development of writing skills necessary for successful completion of the College Seminar and applicable to other courses across the curriculum.

COR492

Supplemental Instruction in Writing II

Supplemental Instruction in Writing II

CRM101

Introduction to Criminal Justice

This course is an introduction to U.S. criminal justice system. Topics covered include the nature of crime, law, justice, police, functions of courts, and the effectiveness of punishment and sanctions.  Also explored will be the roles of various professionals in the system to introduce students to potential career paths.

CRM220

Women and the Criminal Justice System

This course focuses on three aspects of women's involvement in the criminal justice system: as victims, offenders, and professionals. Coverage will include theories and facts about women offenders, the impact of crime on women victims and survivors, and special issues facing women who pursue careers in policing, corrections and law.

CRM224

Juvenile Justice

Examination of biological, psychological, sociological, and ecological theories of juvenile delinquency; its historical and current legal definitions and enabling legislation; statistical resources and activity patterns; and methods of prevention, control, and treatment of juvenile delinquency. Cross-listed as SWK 224.

CRM225W

Criminology

Criminology is the study of crime, its causes and effects. This course covers definitions and types of crime, research methods, theories of criminal behavior and responses to crime. Crimes against people, property, and organizations will be examined, and biological, psychological, and sociological explanations will be discussed.

CRM305

Criminal Investigations

Survey of the history, theory, and practice of criminal investigations conducted by law enforcement officers and private investigators. Crime scene documentation, search and seizure, interview and interrogation, suspect identification and arrest procedures are applied to both violent and property crimes. Report writing and courtroom presentation are also covered.

CRM305

Law Enforcement and Criminal Investigations

Survey of the history, theory, and practice of criminal investigations conducted by law enforcement officers and private investigators. Crime scene documentation, search and seizure, interview and interrogation, suspect identification and arrest procedures are applied to both violent and property crimes. Report writing and courtroom presentation are also covered.

CRM310

Survey of Corrections

This course provides both a historical and contemporary exploration of correction methods utilized in the United States. This course examines the philosophy, theory, and practices involved in the control and behavior modification of offenders. Issues of inequality and at-risk populations are explored.

CRM313

Special Topics

This course allows in-depth exploration of a special topic in criminology. Possible topics include organized crime, the death penalty, victimization of children and adolescents, and media portrayals of forensics and forensic professionals.

CRM320

Criminalization of Mental Illness

This course explores the intersection of the criminal justice and mental health systems. Areas of focus include: the impact of governmental policies, law changes, prevalence of mental illness among offender populations, the biopsychosocial status of offenders, and interventions that assist offenders transitioning back into society.

CRM332

History of Crime and Punishment

This course will provide an introduction to the historical study of crime and punishment. Specifically, the course will examine definitions of crime, goals of punishment, and how these forms of crime and punishment reflect the structure of that society within that specific historical context.

CRM340

Violent and Predatory Crimes

The criminology and victimology of violent and predatory crimes are explored from psychological, sociological, and biological perspectives. Serial, spree, rampage, and mass murder are covered. Students will gain increased understanding of violent and predatory criminals, their victims, social science research methods, forensic investigations, and criminal law.

CRM362

What is Evil?

This course will utilize an interdisciplinary framework (criminology, sociology, psychology, history, political science) to examine definitions of "evil," motivations to commit "evil" actions, social reactions to "evil," and control of "evil."

CRM490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

CRM491

Independent Study

Independent Study

CRM492

Independent Study

Independent Study

CRM493

Independent Study

Independent Study

CRM494

Independent Study

Independent Study

CRM498

Tutorial: Criminology

Tutorial: Criminology

CRM499

Tutorial: Criminology

Tutorial: Criminology

CSA210

Chatham Abroad: Asia

Chatham Abroad: Asia

CSA230

Chatham Abroad: Europe

Study Abroad

CSA311

Chatham Abroad: Asia

Study abroad

CSA331

Chatham Abroad: Europe

Study Abroad

CSA341

Chatham Abroad: North America

Chatham Abroad: North America

CST120

Introduction to Jewish Studies

Far from monolithic, the global Jewish experience has been one of multiculturalism, ethnic and linguistic diversity, adaptation, exile, and migration. This interdisciplinary course will consider the global Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a variety of lenses: Religion, diaspora, culture, language and literature, and self-representation.

CST183

Representations of Race and Gender

This course introduces students to the methodology of cultural studies. In this survey students learn those skills essential to analyzing social constructions of identity. Specific attention is paid to diverse texts, including film, in order to locate how representations of race, gender, ethnicity, and "otherness" are culturally produced and disseminated.

CST204W

East Asian Studies

An exploration of East Asian geography, history, language, and culture from the Zhou Dynasty (ca. 1,000 BCE) to present times. Focus on China, Korea, Japan with reference to neighboring regions and discussion of Taiwan. Emphasis on arts, ideologies, and East Asian cultural sites in Pittsburgh area.

CST213

Special Topics

Special Topics

CST215

Perspectives in Queer Theory

This course examines the cultural representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in literature, film, history and social movements. We will explore how gender and sexual identities intersect with race, class and ethnicity. Finally, students will become conversant with the arguments and critical terms used in the field of queer theory.

CST234

Asian Foodways

A strategic survey of Japanese, Chinese/Taiwanese, Korean, and South Asian food ways in their originating contexts and the U.S. Emphasis on anthropological understanding of food ways, cultural studies critique of class, gender, and family dynamics articulated via food, and historical transformations of food culture in response to migration and globalization.

CST235

East Asian Cinema

This course investigates the political-economic and ethical-aesthetic factors that have shaped cinematic expression in China, Japan, and Korea, starting in the 1930s but emphasizing the recent outpouring of widely acclaimed films in a variety of genres.

CST342

Post/Modern China: Digital Storytelling

An examination of Chinese cultural history from early 1900s to early 2000s, via literature and film, with training in digital storytelling techniques. Discussion of this dramatic national narrative framed by political and aesthetic considerations. Our interpretation and transmission of these narratives framed also by ethics and efficacy.

CST351

Asian Pacific Islander America: History and Culture

Study of diasporic waves arising in Vietnam, Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, etc., and flowing to the US (especially Western Pennsylvania) and elsewhere. Graphic novels, lyric tales, gender and class, emigrant-immigrant and rural-urban transitions, viewed from Cultural Studies and historical perspectives. Assignments include analyses, an interview, and a communication project.

CST490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

CST498

Tutorial: Cultural Studies

Tutorial: Cultural Studies

CST499

Tutorial: Cultural Studies

Tutorial: Cultural Studies

DAN101

The World of Dance

This class explores the multitude of dance forms around the world via lectures, readings, films, and live performances. It approaches movement as a means of expressing the spirit and performing ritual, interacting socially and embodying cultural mores, and creating art. It looks at how new forms of dance are evolving as cultures fuse and technology opens up new venues.

DAN121

Contemporary Dance Technique I

Students will explore movement patterns of dance within the contemporary, lyrical genre. Choreography will be taught each week, and foundational elements of ballet, spine articulation, body isolations, and floor work will be incorporated within the daily class lessons. Students will be challenged physically and artistically in this high-impact class.

DAN125

Folk and Ethnic Dance

Folk and Ethnic dance will focus on the similarities and differences among the different International classical and folkdance systems. Through workshops students will learn basic dance steps as adaptation of motor skills, rhythmic perception and accuracy, musical phrasing and spatial awareness in both classical and folk ethnic forms.

DAN160

African Dance

This introductory course immerses students in the many varieties and styles of African dance, while also attending to the ceremonial and ritual functions of dance in African culture. Various African historical and aesthetic perspectives will be introduced and studies through movement. Videotapes illustrating dance forms, and guest artists will also enhance this course.

DAN213

Special Topics:

Special Topics course.

DAN239

Dance Performance

This course will examine fundamental elements of dance performance. Movement patterns, choreographic phrasing, and musicality will be explored to heighten the dancer’s ability to stylize movement and enhance dance technique. This active, dynamic dance class will study applications across various dance genres in rehearsal and performance settings.

DAN305

Choreography

Experiential exercises in traditional stage space are created by the student. Students experiment with time, rhythm, space, and effort through improvisation. Choreography in non-traditional spaces and electronic mediums are part of the course. Creating motifs, works in progress, and short choreographic pieces are part of the course experience.

DAN313

Special Topics

This course in dance covers the techniques and historical significance associated with a specific style.

DAN493

Independent Study

Independent Study

DSA200

Data Science Ethics

In this course students learn about data science methods from a non-technical perspective and discuss cases that highlight ethical issues related to data science models, including inherent biases learned from training data, discrimination through proxy variables, lack of transparency, and issues related to privacy and data ownership.

DSA250

Fundamentals of Data Science

In this course students learn the fundamentals of the data science process, including data acquisition, data cleaning and manipulation to prepare for analysis, common machine learning models for classification and regression, unsupervised machine learning models, and principles of model evaluation.

DSA400

Data Visualization and Communication

Cover the different ways of visualizing data, given different types and characteristics of data. Includes assessment and evaluation of existing data visualization techniques. Current tools used transform data and visualize data are reviewed, including Python, Google Charts, and/or Tableau.

DSA400W

Data Visualization and Communication

Cover the different ways of visualizing data, given different types and characteristics of data. Includes assessment and evaluation of existing data visualization techniques. Current tools used transform data and visualize data are reviewed, including Python, Google Charts, and/or Tableau.

DSA411

Machine Learning and AI

An introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Topics include classification, regression, clustering, planning, and scheduling. Includes current issues relevant to big data problems.

DSA490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone is an extended project centered on a major; projects may include laboratory or fieldwork, creative work in the arts, advocacy work, or independent research; projects may be conducted in a group setting. Integrative capstones in the interdisciplinary major must be approved by both academic programs.

DSA492

Independent Study

Independent Study

DSA493

Independent Study

Independent Study

ECN101

Principles of Macroeconomics

The concepts of national income and output are analyzed, and emphasis is placed on factors that influence the levels of economic activity, unemployment, and inflation, including fiscal and monetary policy and the role of international economics.

ECN102

Principles of Microeconomics

Microeconomics is the study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in specific markets. Students are introduced to the basic concepts and tools that economists use to understand how the economy works. This course is designed to increase economic literacy through acquiring core knowledge about economics.

ECN262

Global Environmental Economics

This course examines the economic perspectives and tools for analyzing environmental problems and evaluating policy solutions. The course covers both conceptual topics and real-world applications. Course discussions reflect the global nature of environmental problems and solutions. Cross-listed as ENV 262. This course fulfills an environmental general education mission course requirement.

ECN330

Global Financial System and the Macro Economy

Combines material on economic analysis of the macro economy with a review of the global financial system. Develops analytical models on how to attain economic growth, price stability, and full employment. Covers the financial system, financial crises, and monetary policy. Emphasizes both analytical models and real world policy applications.

ECN331

Managerial Economics

This course covers the application of intermediate microeconomic analysis to business decision making. It is designed to bridge economic theory and economic practice. Topics include consumer theory, production analysis, pricing strategy, and risk analysis.

ECN351

International Trade and Finance

An introduction to international trade and finance, and an examination of the structure of international trade and the functioning of the international monetary system. Attention is given to recent issues in these areas and the relationship between the domestic and international economies.

ECN355

Economic Analysis of Public Policy

This course focuses on evaluating the rationale for government intervention in the economy and evaluating the efficiency, incentive, and distributional effects of government policies. Policies' impacts on issues such as how best to protect intellectual property, improve airline safety or control illegal immigration are also analyzed.

ECN358W

Economic Development

An examination of the factors accounting for economic growth and development of modern economically developed nations and less-developed areas. A review of the problems encountered in initiating and sustaining the process of economic development. Major policy issues are discussed. This course fulfills a global general education mission course requirement.

ECN490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

ECN498

Tutorial: Economics

Tutorial: Economics

ECN499

Tutorial: Economics

Tutorial: Economics

EDC107

Field Placement I

This field experience is designed to familiarize pre-service teachers with the development of children in school settings. Through observation, guided practice and reflective journaling, this placement allows the pre-service teacher to strengthen observation and planning skills, to observe the physical, emotional and cognitive growth of children and to become familiar with classroom practices while working with a host teacher.

EDC200

Field Placement: Learning Theory

This field experience is designed to familiarize pre-service teachers with the cognitive development of children in school settings. Through observations, guided practice and reflective journaling, this placement allows the pre-service teacher to strengthen observation and planning skills, to observe the cognitive growth of children and to become familiar with classroom practices while working with a host teacher.

EDC250

Field Placement III

This field experience is designed to familiarize pre-service teachers with the inclusion practices and early interventions in school settings. Through observation , guided practice and reflective journaling, this placement allows the pre-service teacher to strengthen observation to observe the cognitive challenges of some children and to become familiar with classroom practices to accommodate these children.

EDC350

Field Placement V: Instructional Strategies II

Students work with host classroom teachers at two different levels (preK and 2nd or 3rd grade). Students assume a greater role in teaching students through small group activities and whole class activities with a focus on mathematics and social studies. Practice and comparisons of a variety of teaching methods are part of the experience. Students submit lesson plans, host teacher reviews, as well as a reflective journal and summary essay.

EDS210

Collaboration Consultation and Teamwork

This course is to prepare special educators to connect and interact with other professionals and families as co-educators. Students will explore theories of interrelationships within the school context as related to special education services, and how to complete information for the IEP.

EDS320

Early Intervention Birth Through K

This course introduces the candidate to methods of service delivery for children with disabilities and families from birth through school-age. Key aspects of collaboration, interdisciplinary collaboration, service coordination and culturally responsive family-entered practices are explored. Field work is required.

EDS361

Instructing Students with High Incidence Disabilities

This course provides an advanced application of research-based interventions for individuals with high incidence disabilities. Topics include research on interventions in reading, writing and math; effective instructional practices; learning strategies; reading, writing and math instructional strategies; content area accommodations; testing accommodations; and early intervention methods.

EDS362

Instructing Students with Low Incidence Disabilities

This course focuses on the design of a comprehensive educational program for students with low incidence disabilities. Teacher/Teacher candidates will be exposed to the curriculum of students with low incidence disabilities such as life, vocational, and social skills, and functional academics.

EDS405

Instructing Students with Autism

This course covers topics that concern students with autism. This course provides an overview of evidence-based instructional strategies used to teach students with autism, as well as ways to collaborate with individuals in the home, school and community. Topics cover specific instruction strategies, family/community relations, behaviors, inclusion and transition.

EDS464

Behavior and Social Intervention and Support

Students investigate the principals and systematic approaches used to identify and analyze problem management techniques, individual behavior, social, and affective intervention strategies, and community-based support programs designed to address problem behavior. Positive Behavior Supports, functional behavior assessment, crisis intervention and conflict resolution are explored as strategies for confronting challenging behaviors

EDS490

Practicum in Special Education

This course focuses on observation and demonstration of teaching and participation in seminars that discuss the current issues in transition and special education. Students refine and increase their sophistication of teaching competencies with a qualified special educator in a school setting for a minimum of 100 hours.

EDU104

Perspectives on Education

Students examine the role of teachers and schools in past and contemporary society. Selected educational issues are analyzed including role of technology in the classroom, legal issues for teachers, school-community relations, and current legislative initiatives.

EDU105

Child Development: Birth Through Grade 4

This course addresses physical, social, cognitive, and moral development from prenatal stages through middle childhood. Students examine child development in the context of social, cultural, instructional settings. Using case studies, the implications of growth and development on instructional planning for effective learning is achieved. Students learn to create environments that are healthy, respectful, supportive and challenging for all children.

EDU108

Play and Movement

A range of games and activities are explored in terms of functional movements and progression towards mature forms of selected physical skills. Healthy warm-up and participation strategies will be part of the exploration of each game. Games will be analyzed in terms of developmental appropriateness and the involvement of certain muscle groups and skill requirements. Students design an original game targeting the development of age-specific skills.

EDU205

ELL Teaching Strategies for Classroom Teachers

This course explores how effective language development results in children who successfully learn to read and can use reading effectively in academic subject areas and to negotiate the world. A major focus of this course is on information and methods for enhancing the literacy and academic experiences of students in grades K-12 classified as English as second language (ELL) students.

EDU207

Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education

Students in this course will examine current and contemporary issues surrounding early childhood education. Class discussions focus on sociological, psychological, political, and economic forces shaping families, children and early educational experiences. Students will explore the connection between curriculum and physical environment. Major approaches and theories in early childhood curriculum are explored in terms of the cognitive, social and physical dimensions. Emphasis is placed on the physical expression of early childhood learning theory. Issues of health and safety, including state and federal regulations are also explored.

EDU214

Special Topics

Special Topics

EDU219W

Cognitive Learning Theories

This course addresses brain and cognitive development from prenatal stages through middle childhood. Students examine child development in the context of learning theories. The implications of physical and social growth and development on instructional planning for effective learning are explored.

EDU227

Literacy

This course is designed to equip graduating teachers to produce readers who are successful in the classroom and on standardized tests and use reading effectively to negotiate the world through the presentation of theory, research and practical strategies associated with the teaching of literacy skills. For the purposes of this course, literacy will be defined as one's ability to use language in order to listen, speak, read and write across the curriculum.

EDU230

Mathematical Foundations

This course relates the principles and process skills of basic mathematics to effective teaching with the best practices in the classroom. Concrete experiences with manipulatives and hands-on learning are an important piece in this course. In this course, students will acquire the skills necessary for informed decision-making in planning, facilitation of learning based on knowledge or research, best practices, state and national performances standards, and assessments.

EDU234

Inclusion: Issues and Strategies

This course provides the conceptual framework for understanding inclusion issues in our public schools. The students discuss the variety of exceptionalities found in public school settings and the resultant impact of inclusion policy upon instructional practice. A field placement is embedded in this course. Additional Fee: Field Placement Fee.

EDU240

Integrating the Arts

This interdisciplinary course provides the basic understanding of the use of art, music, movement, and creative dramatics in an early childhood setting. It is designed to enhance the student's mastery of other subjects in the elementary curriculum. Students examine national and PA Academic Standards of the Arts and Humanities in Art, Music, Theater, and Dance; and learn how to integrate these standards into interdisciplinary lessons in literacy, mathematics, science and history for students pre-Kindergarten through fourth grade.

EDU241

Pedagogical Practices

This course focuses on the characteristics of effective teaching practices and examines different ways that effective teachers help students learn. The impact of standards and accountability on lesson planning, implementing instruction and assessment is examined. How student diversity influences classroom practices is examined through case studies and discussion topics. The use of technology to create lesson focus, increase student involvement and to organize lesson content is a theme that is explored throughout the course.

EDU301

Eden Hall Experience - Experiential Learning and

This course covers strategies for experiential learning and for creating meaningful K-12 classroom experiences through community partnerships, field trips and projects. The class explores the following concepts and more: project based learning, place based learning, design challenge learning, maker spaces, adventure/outdoor education, environmental education.

EDU319

Methods of Teaching Elementary Social Studies

This course is a study of the resources and methods of teaching elementary social studies including geography and culture. Links to literature and the fine arts are part of this exploration of a thematic integration of social studies in classroom activities. A structured field experience is part of this course.

EDU323

Educational Research Methods

This course focuses on basic research methodology in preparation for the senior tutorial project. It provides a general approach for conducting any basic research project. Through a series of readings and meetings with an education program faculty member, the student will explore the various types of educational research, select and define a research question and complete a literature review. The student will also create an outline for the research paper including the appropriate statistical measures. Tutorial guidelines and Institutional Review processes will be reviewed. Students will meet with the faculty mentor, both in person and online.

EDU323W

Educational Research Methods

This course focuses on basic research methodology in preparation for the senior tutorial project. It provides a general approach for conducting any basic research project. Through a series of readings and meetings with an education program faculty member, the student will explore the various types of educational research, select and define a research question and complete a literature review. The student will also create an outline for the research paper including the appropriate statistical measures. Tutorial guidelines and Institutional Review processes will be reviewed. Students will meet with the faculty mentor, both in person and online.

EDU328

Literacy II: Connections to Literature

This course provides a foundation for selecting age, development, and cultural-appropriate literature that engages children and provides links to reading and writing in content areas. Students evaluate authors, illustrators, and study the various types of literature common to early elementary experiences that develop their emotional, social, language, cognitive, and creative talents.

EDU335

Methods of Teaching Elementary Mathematics

This course is designed to examine and explore recent research developments related to national efforts to reform the teaching and learning of mathematics. Students explore the teaching of mathematics in grades K-8 within the context of child development and learning theory. Research-based curriculum projects are explored in terms of their ability to promote deep conceptual understanding in mathematics. Considerations involved in examining or developing assessment tasks, instruments, and frameworks are addressed in relation to the content taught. Emphasis also is placed on reviewing specific content topics in math to increase the student's won competencies in these disciplines.

EDU336

Methods of Teaching Elementary Science

This course presents concepts, processes, and skills essential to the elementary school science program. The standards set by the National Science Teachers Association serve as a framework for the course. Inquiry teaching and learning are experienced through research-based national programs.

EDU340

Education for Sustainability

Students will learn how to promote collective problem-solving skills in K12 classrooms to address critical environmental, economic, and social issues. Connections between sustainability, poverty, and equity issues will be highlighted. This course will include a multi-week field experience in Costa Rica plus on the ground meetings before and after.

EDU400

Data Driven Instruction Decisions

The importance of making decisions based on actual data collected on students now plays a major role in all schools. The data that needs to be reviewed goes beyond standardized test results and needs to include both summative and formative assessment results. The connection between the curriculum and the assessments utilized to assess a student's progress along the curriculum needs to be viewed as a guide to effective educational decision making. Students entering the educational profession need a background in types of assessments and how data collected from such assessments can meet the needs of students in the context of the curriculum.

EDU409

Differentiated Reading and Writing

This course provides the regular and special education teacher with specific data-based knowledge and skills to teach reading and writing to students with disabilities. Strategies to develop conceptual understanding in the content areas are equally important for the beginning and more accomplished learner. Projects include developing lessons that differentiate instructional practice and assessment to help all students achieve.

EDU411

Early Elementary Curriculum

This course will explore both the theoretical framework and the practical strategies that teachers will utilize as they design learning situations to meet these challenges. Students will learn and apply a variety of techniques for designing lesson and unit plans, integrating curriculum across subject areas, addressing state standards, authentically assessing children, implementing positive classroom management strategies and involving parents in the classroom. Particular attention will be given to the topic of differentiation and the exploration of instructional strategies.

EDU415

Secondary School Curriculum

Students investigate instructional planning and implementation as well as a range of behavior and classroom management techniques. Reading assignments in appropriate professional literature encourage students to develop a familiarity with the most effective teaching approaches. Motivation, evaluation of student achievement, and differentiation of instruction are considered.

EDU416

Methods of Teaching Secondary English

This course addresses the theory and philosophy of teaching language arts in middle and secondary schools. Classroom teaching strategies are explored and implemented in class presentations and in grades 7-12 public classrooms. Students plan instructional situations that clearly express the reading-writing connection that exists in effective language arts programs. FP Embedded: 16 hours

EDU417

Methods of Teaching Secondary Social Studies

This course intends to develop teaching/learning styles that research has shown are most effective for teaching social studies to adolescents. Contextual teaching, problem based learning and critical thinking are approached through instructional strategies that combine investigative classroom inquiry with both national and state content standards. Students learn to frame issues, help students research and analyze data and information and to construct meaning and understanding.

EDU418

Methods of Teaching Secondary Science

Examination of current theory and practice for teaching science in secondary schools is explored in this course. Curriculum development, teaching strategies and methodologies, and assessment issues are also addressed. Students examine research-based curriculum and inquiry teaching and learning as best practices in science education.

EDU419

Methods of Teaching Secondary Mathematics

A balance of theory and practice is explored in this course to help students become effective teachers of mathematics. Curriculum development, teaching strategies and methodologies, and assessment issues are also addressed. Students examine research-based curriculum and inquiry teaching and learning as best practices in science education.

EDU422

Pre-Student Teaching

In this one-day week field experience, the pre-service teacher gains experiences that will allow them to practice, develop, and demonstrate Pennsylvania Department of Education Stage Three competencies through meaningful and collaborative school-university partnership with a local district. An approved application to Pre-Student Teaching is required.

EDU423

Student Teaching

Student Teaching

EDU430

Diverse Family and Community Partnerships

Advocates, educators, and parents have called for more and better family-school partnerships for decades. Recently, a body of empirical evidence has indicated that partnerships can have a positive impact. A number of studies highlight the positive associations between parent involvement in schools and their children's social and emotional development and academic achievement. This course explores the form and focus of several types of partnership.

EDU431

Assessment and Adaptation

Students investigate the assessment of individuals with mild to moderate disabilities. Topics include the fundamental principles of assessment tools and the social responsibility of professionals to exercise fairness and accuracy in the assessment process.

EDU432

Human Geography

The course provides a review of the interaction between diversity of culture and the impact of geography. Economics, government, social structure, and cultural diversity are all reviewed as they developed over time and in the context of the contemporary world.

EDU437

Methods of Teaching Elementary Art

Students approach the teaching of art consistent with national standards of pedagogy and art. This course combines theory, research and practical knowledge about teaching art as a universal language and creative experience to elementary school children. This course contains an embedded field experience of 16 hours in an elementary art classroom. Additional Fee: Field Placement Fee

EDU447

Methods of Teaching Secondary Art

Students approach the teaching of art consistent with national standards of pedagogy and art. This course combines theory, research and practical knowledge about teaching art as a universal language and creative experience to secondary students. Students work with host classroom teachers at two different schools or two different levels (middle and high school). Corequisite: EDU415.

EDU448

Teaching the Holocaust

A study of the Holocaust is not only a study of Jewish history, but of human history, and how humanity can collectively learn from our greatest mistakes. This course will offer best-practices in Holocaust education with a focus on L.I.G.H.T. - Leadership through Innovation in Genocide and Human rights Teaching.

EDU460

Non-Licensure Practicum in Education

This 140-hour practicum and weekly seminar is designed for students not seeking teaching certification in Pennsylvania. This course is to prepare students for professional practice in educational related settings and students will create documents or projects that ask them to reflect on the development of their own professional competencies.

EDU490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student’s major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

EDU492

Independent Study

Independent Study

EDU493

Independent Study

Independent Study

EDU498

Tutorial: Education

Tutorial: Education

EDU499

Tutorial: Education

Tutorial: Education

EDU502

Perspectives on Education

This course examines the influences that have resulted in the unique role of the teacher and school in our society in the past as well as the present. Topics include needs of exceptional children, the role of technology in education, and school-community relations. Students are required to complete a major research project that addresses a current educational issue. Co-Requisite: EDU580

EDU503

Young Adolescent Literature

In this course students explore and develop in-depth knowledge of children's literature and its integration into the early childhood or elementary curricula. Students are required to complete a major project using technology and the arts that reflects effective pedagogy.

EDU505

Issues of Poverty in Education

This course focuses on the characteristics and effects of poverty on education. Definitions and types of poverty are examined. The impact of poverty on cognitive and physical development as well as learning and behavior on individuals is examined. The influences of poverty on classroom and schools is assessed. Strategies to teach students of poverty and combat poverty in schools are discussed.

EDU508

Games Children Play

A range of games and activities are explored in terms of functional movements and progression towards mature forms of selected physical skills. Healthy warm-up and participation strategies will be part of the exploration of each game. Games will be analyzed in terms of developmental appropriateness and the involvement of certain muscle groups and skill requirements. Students design an original game targeting the development of age-specific skills.

EDU509

Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education

Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education

EDU510

Differentiated Reading and Writing

This course provides the regular and special education teacher with specific data-based knowledge and skills to teach reading and writing in content areas to students with disabilities.

EDU511

Early Elementary Curriculum

Students explore the teaching of all content areas in the early childhood setting. Students experience using a computer as a teaching tool, and examine and evaluate instructional software. A capstone research paper or project will demonstrate theory-based best practices to develop a curriculum for use in the early childhood classroom.

EDU513

Education for Sustainability

Participants are introduced to foundational understandings of sustainability and how to promote a mindset that supports sustainability in a K12 setting. Connections between sustainability, poverty, and equity issues are highlighted.

EDU514

Data Driven Instructional Decisions

The importance of making decisions based on actual data collected on students now plays a major role in all schools. Data review goes beyond standardized test results and includes summative an formative assessment results. The connection between curriculum and assessments assessing a student's progress needs to be viewed as a guide to effective educational decision making.

EDU515

Secondary School Curriculum

Students investigate instructional planning and implementation as well as a range of behavior and classroom management techniques. Reading assignments in appropriate professional literature encourage students to develop a familiarity with the most effective teaching approaches. Motivation, evaluation of student achievement, and differentiation of instruction are considered.

EDU516

Methods of Teaching Secondary English

This course addresses the theory and philosophy of teaching language arts in middle and secondary schools. Classroom teaching strategies are explored and implemented in class presentation and in 7-12 public classrooms. Students plan instructional situations that clearly express the reading-writing connection that exists in effective language arts programs. Co-Requisites: EDU515 and EDU581

EDU517

Teaching Methods in Secondary Social Studies

This course develops research-based strategies for teaching social studies. Contextual teaching, problem-based learning, and critical thinking are approached through instructional strategies that combine investigative classroom inquiry with both national and state context standards. Students learn to frame issues, help students research and analyze data and information to construct meaning and understanding. Co-Requisites: EDU515 and EDU581

EDU518

Methods of Teaching Secondary Science

Examination of current theory and practice for teaching science in secondary schools is explored in this course. Curriculum development, teaching strategies and methodologies, and assessment issues are also addressed. Students examine research-based curriculum and inquiry teaching and learning as best practices in science education. Co-Requisites: EDU515 and EDU581

EDU524

Teaching in a Urban Schools

This course helps future teachers understand the complexities of teaching in a culturally diverse classroom. Students learn how to work effectively with students from various socioeconomic, religious, ethnic, and cultural groups. Students complete a major research project reflecting an understanding of best practices in effectively developing multicultural learning communities.

EDU526

Integrated Humanities Methods

This course addresses theory and practice in teaching secondary school students to read and communicate effectively in the content area. The course provides strategies for teaching reading, listening, speaking, and writing in the secondary classroom. A research paper or project demonstrating mastery of contact area literacy is required.

EDU528

Integrated Math and Science Methods

The purpose of this course is to provide pre-service teachers with experiences, understanding, and methods that they will be able to use in middle level mathematics and science classrooms. Students in this course will build an understanding of the relevant standards, instructional methods, and resources available for the middle level mathematics and science class.

EDU530

Diverse Family and Community Partnerships

Advocates, educators, and parents have called for more and better family-school partnerships for decades. Recently, a body of empirical evidence has indicated that partnerships can have a positive impact. A number of studies highlight the positive associations between parent involvement in schools and their children's social and emotional development and academic achievement. This course explores the form and focus of several types of partnerships. Must be taken with student teaching.

EDU531

Assessment and Adaptation

Students investigate the assessment of individuals with mild to moderate disabilities. Topics include the fundamental principles of assessment tools and the social responsibility of professionals to exercise fairness and accuracy in the assessment process.

EDU534

Methods of Teaching Elementary Social Studies

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and tools needed to be effective elementary social studies teachers. Students will learn strategies that allow for diverse learners to "experience" social studies, and to integrate social studies with all other subject areas. In this course, together we will attempt to establish a "social curriculum" that starts with the social studies, includes all academic areas, and expands into the halls, the playground, and into the world.

EDU535

Methods of Teaching Elementary Mathematics

This course explores recent research developments of national reform efforts in teaching mathematics. Students explore the teaching of mathematics within the context of child development and learning theory. Research-based curriculum projects promote deep conceptual understanding in mathematics. Review of specific topics in math to increase the student's own competencies is included.

EDU536

Methods of Teaching Elementary Science

This course explores recent developments of national reform efforts in teaching science based on developmental and learning theory. Students will learn hands-on innovative classroom practices and review national and state standards for science education. Methods for increasing content knowledge related to schedule and technology will be explored.

EDU537

Methods of Teaching Elementary Art

Students approach the teaching of art consistent with national standards of pedagogy and art. This course combines theory, research and practical knowledge about teaching art as a universal language and creative experience to elementary school children. This course contains an embedded field experience of 16 hours in an elementary art classroom.

EDU547

Methods of Teaching Secondary Art

Students approach the teaching of art consistent with national standards of pedagogy and art. This course approaches the teaching of art in the secondary school as a means of exploring the meaning and relevance of art to humanity. This course explores methods for engaging students in art experiences through a variety of teaching. This course contains an embedded field experience of 16 hours in a secondary art classroom.

EDU580

Supervised Field III Experience

This field placement offers the student the opportunity to experience and assess the culture of a school. Daily interactions among teachers, students, administration, and support staff in a unique physical setting provide the pre-service teacher with a comprehensive overview of school life.

EDU581

Pedagogical Practices

This course focuses on the characteristics of effective teaching practices and examines different ways that effective teachers help students learn. The impact of standards and accountability on lesson planning, implementing instruction and assessment is examined. How student diversity influences classroom practices is examined through case studies and discussion topics. The use of technology to create lesson focus, increase student involvement and to organize lesson content is a theme that is experienced throughout the course.

EDU583

Conflict Resolution

This course teaches students how to avoid conflicts from developing and explores methods to resolve conflict. This course also defines and presents a mediation process that employs a specific set of techniques that enables students to peacefully resolve conflict. Students taking this course will learn to manage conflict in their personal life, classroom, and in the workplace.

EDU591

Independent Study

Independent Study

EDU592

Independent Study

Independent Study

EDU593

Independent Study

Independent Study

EDU605

Instructing Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders

This course is designed to focus on pertinent issues and topics that concern students with autism. Spectrum disorders. This course provides an overview of evidenced-based instructional strategies used to teach students with autism as well as ways to collaborate with individuals in the home, school, and community. Topics will cover specific instructional strategies, family/community relations, behavior, inclusion and transition.

EDU606

Adolescent Development and Learning Theory

This course addresses physical, social, cognitive, and moral development during adolescence. The physical, social, and cognitive changes during puberty are explored in terms of their impact on student participation and performance in school settings. Through the use of case studies, an understanding of the implications of growth and development on instructional planning for effective learning is achieved.

EDU607

Child Development and Learning Theory

Focusing on child development from the prenatal stage to age 12, this course emphasizes current research on physical, cognitive, and social development. Students examine the nature of adolescent development, implications of the cognitive and affective characteristics of adolescents in the selection of instructional methods and materials, and structural and organizational features of typical high schools.

EDU609

Literacy

The interrelationships among listening, speaking, writing, and reading are investigated with a view toward emphasis on the impact that classroom organization, patterns, materials, and approaches have on teacher effectiveness in teaching elementary and early childhood-aged students, individually and in groups. Students are required to complete a major research paper or project in which they demonstrate knowledge of and skill in using teaching strategies that reinforce the theoretical considerations of the course.

EDU618

Instructional Computer Integration

This course helps students develop competency integrating computer technology with the school curriculum. It provides a practical introduction to using computers to help students learn emerging instructional technologies. Special emphasis is on the process and products available through computer technology and educational media. Students prepare an instructional unit integrating a variety of technologies.

EDU629

School Law

The focus of this course is to explore the interaction between law and educational practice and their continuing development under the press of changing societal demands. The course provides educators with information and insights to enable them to address potential legal problems using sound judgment.

EDU634

Inclusion: Issues and Strategies

This course surveys practices of inclusion in education. It encompasses the historical precedents, underlying philosophy, education theory, instructional strategies, and practical implications of it implementation. Students participate in a variety of learning experiences throughout the course.

EDU639

Integrating the Arts

This interdisciplinary course provides the basic understanding of the use of art, music, movement, and creative dramatics in an early childhood setting. It is designed to enhance the student's mastery of content areas in the elementary curriculum. Students examine national and the PA Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities in Art, Music, Theater and Dance; and learn how to integrate these standards into interdisciplinary lessons in literacy, mathematics, science and history for students pre-Kindergarten through fourth grade.

EDU657

ELL Teaching Strategies for Classroom Teachers

This course explores language development for English Language Learners for whom English is a second language. Pre-service teachers acquire knowledge and skills required to meet the educational needs of ELLs in their future classrooms. The course also addresses the legal responsibilities to English Language Learners under Pennsylvania and federal laws and regulations.

EDU661

High Incidence Disabilities: Instructional Strategies Birth-Grade 8

This course focuses on the design and implementation of an individualized education program for a child with mild learning needs and the selection, design, and adaptation of curriculum and instructional techniques in the areas of reading, language arts, and mathematics.

EDU662

Advanced Instructional Interventions 7-12

This course provides an advanced application of recent research and reviews of interventions for individuals with high incidence disabilities in the 7-12 grades. Topics will include: recent research on interventions in reading, writing and math, effective instructional practices, learning strategies, reading, writing and math instructional strategies, content area accommodations, testing accommodations and transition.

EDU664

Behavior Management in the Classroom

Students investigate the principles and systematic approaches used to identify and analyze problem management techniques, individual behavior and affective intervention strategies, and community-based support programs designed to address problem behaviors. Crisis intervention and conflict resolution are explored as strategies for confronting challenging behaviors.

EDU668

Low Incidence Disabilities: Birth-8th Grade

This course focuses on the design of a comprehensive educational program for students having low incidence disabilities in PREK-8. Teacher Candidates are exposed to the curriculum of students with low incidence disabilities, define various low-incidence disabilities, as well as develop and implement lesson plans, curriculum and assistive technologies.

EDU669

Low Incidence Disabilities 7-12

This course focuses on the design of a comprehensive educational program for students having low incidence disabilities in 7-12.Teacher/Teacher candidates will be exposed to the curriculum of students with low incidence disabilities such as life, vocational, and social skills, and functional academics.  In addition, student will be able to identify and define various low-incidence disabilities as well as develop and implement lesson plans, curriculum and assistive technologies. Student will learn how to consult and research available journals and resources for teaching students with low-incidence disabilities. * This course requires an embedded 10 hours of field placement. Students must have valid federal FBI, PA Criminal and PA Child Abuse clearances to complete the field placement.

EDU671

Collaboration, Consultation, and Teamwork

This course focuses on developing effective collaboration skills with members of the school community, as well as the community at large, to provide a realistic and integrated program for all children. Students engage in a variety of group activities that call for the need to analyze group dynamics and implement effective communication strategies.

EDU673

Instructional Personalization and Transition

This course focuses on the transition of special needs students throughout their school programming. The following topics are examined: parent's needs and methods of collaborating, Early Childhood Intervention, Inclusion, Sexuality and Transition to Adult Life.

EDU690

Practicum in Special Education

This course is designed for students who hold a Pennsylvania certification and are seeking certification in special education. Students demonstrate their ability to plan for and deliver a minimum of 15 lessons to special needs students enrolled in regular education or resource rooms.

EDU694

Student Teaching for the Urban Fellow

During the 14 week pre-K-6 placement, student teachers will plan and implement lesson and assume other appropriate instructional responsibilities under the guidance of an experienced teacher and a college supervisor. Students develop a portfolio based on the PDE Form 430 to document their competencies for certification.

EDU696

Student Teaching

During one 8 week elementary and one 8 week secondary placement, student teachers will plan and implement lessons, and assume other appropriate instructional responsibilities under the guidance of an experienced teacher and a college professor. Students develop a portfolio based on the PDE form 430 to document their competencies for certification. Pre-requisites: Completion of all program requirements.

ELI031

Basic Reading

Basic Reading

ELI032

Basic Grammar

Basic Grammar

ELI033

Basic Listening/Speaking

Basic Listening/Speaking

ELI034

Basic Writing

This basic level writing course focuses on developing learners’ abilities to write sentences and series of sentences about topics of immediate relevance linked with simple connectors like ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’.

ELI071

Focus on Listening/Speaking

Focus on Listening/Speaking

ELI073

Focus on Reading

Focus on Reading

ELI075

Focus on Writing

Focus on Writing

ELI077

Focus on Grammar

Focus on Grammar

ELI081

Listening/Speaking I

This course focuses on improving students listening comprehension and oral expression in English. Students will work on improving conversational skills and participation in classroom discussion.

ELI082

Speaking/Listening II

Speaking/Listening II

ELI083

Grammar I

This course focuses on improving students' awareness of English grammar. Grammar structures will be taught through a variety of mediums including reading, writing, and listening activities.

ELI084

Grammar II

Grammar II was developed for intermediate-level language learners to raise learners' awareness of the differences between the grammar of written English and that of spoken English and improve learners' accuracy in their speaking and writing. Grammatical elements are integrated into topical reading, listening, speaking, and writing assignments, and students learn to identify, analyze, and apply new sentence structures. By the end of the course, students will have the skills to comprehend more sophisticated texts and to communicate in speaking and writing with increasing levels of accuracy.

ELI085

Reading I

This course focuses on improving reading skills and focuses on fluency and comprehension. Students will read academic articles as well as longer extensive readings. Vocabulary acquisition is also stressed.

ELI086

Reading II

Reading II

ELI087

Writing I

This course will focus on improving students' written expression in English. Students will be able to write a well-organized and coherent paragraph with minimal grammatical errors.

ELI088

Writing II

Writing II

ELI090

American Culture and Cinema

American Culture and Cinema

ELI091

US Culture I

US Culture I

ELI092

Communication for Success

Communication for Success

ELI094

Writing for Success

Writing for Success

ELI101

Academic Reading

This course offers advanced instruction in college-level reading on a variety of topics that students will encounter in their academic experience. Acquisition of academic vocabulary is also stressed.

ELI102

Academic Writing

Most international students have had no previous interaction in writing academic English and are not aware that the rhetorical patterns of English are different from those used by their native languages. Thus, the primary focus of this course is on the American English rhetoric necessary for presenting written arguments in a logical, coherent manner. Students write short papers (for their academic classes, if possible), demonstrating their mastery of the forms. The second focus is on the form and mechanics of writing a research paper. Using library facilities, students learn the various types of materials and ways of researching a topic.

ELI104

Academic Composition

Academic Composition

ELI106

Classroom Interaction

This course focuses on improving students listening comprehension and oral expression in English. Students will work on improving conversational skills and participation in classroom discussion.

ELI107

Advanced College Readings

Advanced College Readings

ELI108

Academic Communication Skills

Academic Communication Skills

ELI193

US Culture - Pittsburgh

US Culture - Pittsburgh

ELI501

Graduate Academic Discourse

Graduate Academic Discourse

ELI503

Graduate Writing

Graduate Writing

ELP011

Basic Listening/Speaking A

This basic level course focuses on developing learners' abilities to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters and describe in very simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment, and matters in areas of immediate need.

ELP012

Basic Reading A

This basic level reading course continues to develop students' abilities to read simple texts on a variety of familiar topics.

ELP013

Basic Writing A

This basic level writing course aims to develop the students' abilities to write comprehensible sentences on familiar topics.

ELP014

Basic Grammar A

This basic level grammar course provides explicit instruction and practice of basic grammatical elements and structures including nouns and adverbs, tenses, and time and reason clauses.

ELP016

Basic Listening and Speaking B

This basic level course focuses on developing learner's abilities to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters and describe in very simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment, and matters in areas of immediate need.

ELP017

Basic Reading B

This basic level reading course continues to develop students' abilities to read simple texts on a variety of familiar topics.

ELP018

Basic Writing B

This basic level writing course aims to develop students' abilities to write comprehensible sentences on familiar topics.

ELP019

Basic Grammar B

This basic level grammar course provides explicit instruction and practice of basic grammatical elements and structures including nouns and adverbs, tenses, and times and reason clauses.

ELP031

Low Intermediate Listening and Speaking A

This low-intermediate listening and speaking course was designed to develop the students' abilities to communicate in simple tasks requiring a direct exchange of information and to participating in discussions in the classroom context The course also focuses on developing listening comprehension skills and strategies and everyday and academic vocabulary.

ELP032

Low-Intermediate Reading A

This low intermediate level reading course is designed to develop students' skills in reading simple academic and literary texts. The focus is on developing their abilities to identify main ideas and details by answering a variety of question types. The course also focuses on increasing high frequency and academic vocabulary and sentence structures.

ELP033

Low Intermediate Writing A

This low intermediate writing course is designed to develop students' abilities to write well-developed and fairly well-organized texts on familiar topics. The course introduces different writing process strategies and expands students' knowledge and use of vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and paragraph structure.

ELP034

Low Intermediate Grammar A

This intermediate level grammar course develops learners' ability to notice and understand the meaning and use of new grammatical forms in intermediate level listening and reading texts; use new grammatical forms in speaking and writing with improved accuracy; and plan, monitor, and assess their spoken and written output.

ELP036

Low Intermediate Listening and Speaking B

This low intermediate level listening and speaking course continues to develop the students' abilities to communicate in simple tasks requiring a direct exchange of information and to participating in discussions and presentations in the classroom context. The course also focuses on developing listening and comprehension skills and strategies and everyday academic vocabulary.

ELP037

Low Intermediate Reading B

This low intermediate level reading course continues to develop students' skills in reading simple factual and literary texts. Students continue developing skills to demonstrate their ability to identify main ideas and details by answering a variety of question types. The course also focuses on increasing high frequency and academic vocabulary and sentence structures.

ELP038

Low Intermediate Writing B

This low intermediate writing course is designed to continue developing students' abilities to write well-developed, well-organized, and cohesive texts on familiar topics. The course expands on the different writing process strategies and expands students' knowledge and use of vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and paragraph structure.

ELP039

Low Intermediate Grammar B

This intermediate level grammar course develops learners' ability to notice and understand the meaning and use of new grammatical forms in intermediate level listening and reading texts; use new grammatical forms in speaking and writing with improved accuracy; and plan, monitor, and assess their spoken and written output.

ELP051

Int. Listening and Speaking A

This intermediate-level listening and speaking course develops students' knowledge and skills in social and academic interactions such as lectures, classroom discussions, and presentations in the classroom context. The course also focuses on developing students' listening comprehension skills and strategies, note-taking skills, and building general and academic vocabulary, as well as improving their cohesion, coherence, and clarity of speech.

ELP052

Intermediate Reading A

This intermediate level reading course develops students' skills in reading a variety of academic texts. The focus is on developing students' abilities to identify the main ideas and supporting details in the reading texts and use the information in responses to readings and classroom discussions. The course also focuses on expanding students' academic vocabulary.

ELP053

Intermediate Writing A

This intermediate level writing course is designed to develop students' abilities to write well-developed, well-organized and cohesive essays on personal and academic topics. The course introduces different strategies in the writing process and expands students' knowledge and use of vocabulary, sentence structures, and organization.

ELP054

Intermediate Grammar A

This intermediate-level grammar course develops learners' abilities to notice and understand the meaning and use of new grammatical forms in listening and reading texts; use new grammatical forms in speaking and writing with improved accuracy; and plan, monitor, and assess spoken and written output.

ELP056

Int. Listening and Speaking B

This intermediate-level listening and speaking course develops students' knowledge and skills in social and academic interactions such as lectures, classroom discussions, and presentations in the classroom context. The course also focuses on developing students' listening comprehension skills and strategies, note-taking skills, and building general and academic vocabulary, as well as improving their cohesion, coherence, and clarity of speech.

ELP057

Intermediate Reading B

This intermediate level reading course develops students' skills in reading a variety of academic texts. The focus is on developing students' abilities to identify the main ideas and supporting details in the reading texts and use the information in responses to readings and classroom discussions. The course also focuses on expanding students' academic vocabulary.

ELP058

Intermediate Writing B

This intermediate level writing course continues to develop students' abilities to write well-developed, well-organized, and cohesive essays on personal and academic topics. The course introduces different strategies in the writing process and expands students' knowledge and use of vocabulary, sentence structures, and organization.

ELP071

High Inter Listening/Speaking A

This high intermediate course was designed to develop students' abilities to listen to short authentic academic talks. It also aims to develop their abilities to participate in classroom discussion and presentations.

ELP072

US Culture

This course introduces students to various topics related to US culture, values, traditions, and ways of life through readings, discussion, and reflection on experiences.

ELP073

High Inter Writing A

This high intermediate course was designed to develop students' writing abilities to write well-developed, well-organized, and clear argumentative essays on a general or academic topic.

ELP074

High Inter Grammar A

This high intermediate grammar course was designed to develop students' ability to make grammar choices in writing. It focuses on giving students corrective feedback on their writings, addressing common errors among second language writers, teaching students' self-editing skills, and introducing certain grammatical features useful for various academic writing tasks.

ELP076

High Inter Listening/Speaking B

This high intermediate course was designed to continue developing students' abilities to listen to short authentic academic talks. It also aims to develop their abilities to participate in classroom discussion and presentations.

ELP077

US Culture and Pittsburgh

US Culture-Pittsburgh is a course of study which will acquaint each student with historical and cultural information about the City of Pittsburgh. It will also allow students to participate in and enjoy cultural experiences with are uniquely "Pittsburgh."

ELP078

High Inter Writing B

This high intermediate course was designed to develop students' writing abilities to write well-developed, well-organized, and clear argumentative essays on a general or academic topic.

ELP079

High Inter Grammar B

This high intermediate grammar course was designed to develop students' ability to make grammar choices in writing. It focuses on giving students corrective feedback on their writings, addressing common errors among second language writers, teaching students self-editing skills, and introducing certain grammatical features useful for various academic writing tasks.

ELP103

Advanced Grammar

This advanced grammar course was designed to develop students' ability to make grammar choices in writing with the focus on writing styles and mechanics specified in the latest guidelines for APA.

ELP122

American Literature

American Literature is a survey of contemporary American fiction, and all of our readings will be in the form of short stories. Students will learn to identify literary elements of fiction that help readers identify author purpose, audience, and cultural significance. Students will also be expected to write short response papers that discuss these literary elements in selected stories and to attend at least one literary event.

ENG100

Introduction to Literary Studies

This course focuses on the principles and methods of close literary analysis to develop critical reading and thinking skills. By examining how culture relates to literature, students explore how ethnic heritage contributes to writing; how writers define community and culture; and how strong oral traditions translate into literary forms.

ENG102

Expository Writing

A practical course for students who need to improve their grammar and usage skills, digesting and arranging ideas, marshalling suitable evidence, illustrating a point, composing distinct paragraphs, and commanding various appropriate means of reaching an intended audience. May be repeated up to three times with the permission of the English program.

ENG105

First-Year Writing

This introduction to college composition covers analytical and argumentative writing, oral presentation, critical reading, information literacy, and academic integrity. The course employs active-learning pedagogy of discussion and dialogue and examines intersections of race, gender, class, ethnicities, and systems of belief through the lens of relevant topics. Students who need additional support with writing skills beyond what is normally covered in the classroom (based on a diagnostic writing exam required before matriculation) will require supplemental instruction through OAAR. Students with transfer credits may meet the requirement for ENG105 with the transfer of a college-level composition course or AP/IB credit.

ENG200

Frankenstein: Creation of Culture

This course introduces students to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. In addition to studying this primary text, we will examine the reasons for the extensive presence that Frankenstein and his creature occupy in our cultural imagination. To this end, many critical approaches will inform our analysis of the text and mythology of Frankenstein in both literature and film.

ENG201

Environmental Literature and Film

This course considers how literature and film can engage the reader/viewer in issues of ecological sustainability. The course promotes the value of green spaces, an understanding of ecological systems, and a decentering of commonly held anthropocentric assumptions. Texts include contemporary films, fiction, and nonfiction.

ENG204

World Literature

A critical and imaginative approach to major themes and genres in literary works from different places and periods in human history. Emphasis on interconnectedness of culturally diverse efforts to make sense, via literary representation, of personal and community experience.

ENG207

British Writers I

A critical and historical approach to major writers in English during the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, and Renaissance periods, including such representative authors as the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton.

ENG208

British Writers II

A critical and historical approach to major writers in English during the Augustan, Romantic, and Victorian periods, including such representative authors as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning.

ENG209

Linguistics

An introduction to theoretical and applied linguistics as the "science of language" and its history, nature, and functions. Includes consideration of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural linguistics, the nature of learning language, and linguistic analysis. Fulfills secondary English education certification requirement; recommended also for any student considering graduate study in English.

ENG213

Special Topics

Special Topics

ENG216W

American Writers I

A study of cultural and literary developments in America, beginning with the Puritans and culminating with the writers of the American Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, and Melville.

ENG217W

American Writers II

A continuation of English 216, with emphasis on such figures as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Henry James, Faulkner, and Sylvia Plath.

ENG220

Gender and Sexuality in Speculative Fiction

This course focuses on speculative fiction genres (which include but are not limited to science fiction, fantasy, and futurism). Course materials examine issues of gender and sexuality and how writers working in these genres envision alternative gendered realities through their constructions of language, the body, sensuality, identity, etc.

ENG234

Literary Publishing

This course is an introduction to literary publishing through practice, reading, and discussion. All phases of the publishing process are addressed, especially copyediting, design, and marketing. The course is designed to allow students to gain experience and knowledge in the creative, technical, and professional aspects of publishing a literary journal.

ENG241

Writing for Professionals

Writing for Professionals helps students write clearly and effectively about a variety of subjects in genres related to the workplace. Through writing and reading assignments, students learn about targeting an audience, organizing writing, and developing a professional style. They create documents useful when seeking employment and in the workplace.

ENG242

Introduction to Creative Writing

This course introduces students to the distinguishing features and traditional elements of poems, plays, fiction, and nonfiction writing. Students read classic and contemporary works in each of these genres, while attending to how a given text adheres to or plays with generic norms. Readings in genre theory will accompany each unit of the course.

ENG243

Creative Writing I

Students present a selection of their work each week for class comment and criticism. In addition, special problem topics are assigned weekly to develop writing skills. Readings concentrate on contemporary prose and verse.

ENG244

Creative Writing II

Students present a selection of their work each week for class comment and criticism. In addition, special problem topics are assigned weekly to develop writing skills. Readings concentrate on contemporary prose and verse.

ENG245

Advanced Writing Workshop

This course focuses on creative writing for experienced writers, geared toward preparing a finished manuscript for potential publication. Fiction writers work intensively on a single story, revising and integrating its various parts. Poets write either long poems or poetic sequences and experiment with contemporary variations on traditional forms.

ENG262

Introduction to Women Writers

Examining writers from Mary Wollstonecraft to the present, this course delineates the features of a literary tradition specific to women writing in English. Students study novels, essays, and poetry.

ENG282

20th-Century African-American Literature

This course is a critical study of major African-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s to the present. Although the course concentrates on primary texts, specific attention is paid to contextualizing these works within historical and cultural frameworks. (See also Cultural Studies.)

ENG283

The Harlem Renaissance

The course explores the literature, politics, and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. This artistic, philosophical, and intellectual movement in New York City’s Harlem took place roughly from the early 1920s to the onset of the Depression. Topics to be considered include Modernism, The Jazz Age, and Urban Migration. Specific focus will be placed on the relationship between identity and geography as we consider the effects of migration and urbanization.

ENG286

Contemporary African-American Women Writers

This course will examine the literature of African-American women from 1950 to the present. Specifically, students focus on issues of marginalization, silencing, and female community and how they affect the construction of these narratives. Possible authors include Shange, Naylor, Williams, and Jones. (See also Cultural Studies.)

ENG287

African-American Writers

This course provides an introduction to the African-American expressive tradition, including poetry, fiction, autobiography, song and folktales from the 18th century to the present. Examining writers such as Douglass, Chesnutt, Brooks, Baldwin, Ellison, and Walker, this course works to delineate the critical and historical contours of the African-American literary tradition.

ENG302

Environmental Children's Fiction and Film

This course considers how children's and young adult literature and film can awaken environmental sensibilities in the reader/viewer. Students explore textual representations of flora, fauna, and the elements; the human desire to affiliate with the natural living world; and how fiction and film can promote ecological literacy and awareness.

ENG303

Food and American Identity

Examines literature in multiple genres (e.g. fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, graphic novel, film/television, and long-form journalism) through the theoretical lens of food studies to understand how writers use food as a cultural object to point to issues of identity including race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and systems of belief.

ENG310

Summer Community of Writers

The ten-day intensive residency in Pittsburgh is for upper-level BFA Creative Writing students. The residency is composed of genre-specific craft sessions, workshops, lectures, readings and one-on-one conferences with mentors.

ENG313

Special Topics

Special Topics

ENG321W

Shakespeare Survey

A representative study of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies as literary, dramatic, and Elizabethan art.

ENG327

Writing About Environment Science

This course is designed for students with some basic scientific skills, who might become scientists professionally, but all of whom will be communicating about science, often to non-scientists. In this course, we will read, discuss, and practice a variety of methods of communicating about environmental science, from popular culture to news to government reports. Students will competently translate scientific results into written journalistic English and will be able to evaluate scientific results from the news in terms of its scientific accuracy and clarity. Three hours of lecture per week. Cross-listed as ENV 327. Pre-requisite: any 200-level ENV course or permission of either department chairperson.

ENG350W

Seminar in Literary Theory and Scholarly Writing

An advanced course in writing literary analysis and methods of literary research; required of all junior English majors and interdepartmental majors before enrollment in the tutorial. Second-term junior status is required.

ENG355

Advanced Writing and Stylistics

This is an advanced writing class which concentrates on style, meaning, and effect. It is designed for upper-level students, and emphasizes the skills of writing more effective sentences, paragraphs and essays. The course focuses on writing academic papers, applications, proposals, and personal statements across the disciplines in appropriate formats.

ENG365

Writing Fiction

This is an upper-level course for BFA students specializing in fiction. Reading and writing will center on the craft of fiction and will include exploration of tools for creating character, scene, sense of place, summary, dialogue, framing, flashbacks, and transitions, as well as oral presentation and publication.

ENG366

Writing Nonfiction

This is an upper-level course for BFA students specializing in creative nonfiction. Reading and writing will center on the craft of nonfiction and will include exploration of tools for scene, sense of place, point of view, character and narrator development, tone, lyricism, structure, as well as oral presentation and publication.

ENG367

Multi-Genre Writing

This is an upper-level course for BFA students focusing on creative writing for experienced writers, geared toward preparing a finished manuscript or portfolio of work for potential publication in the student's primary genre. Students read and write in the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Offered every spring.

ENG368

Writing Poetry

This is an upper-level course for BFA students specializing in poetry. Reading and writing will center on the craft of poetry and will include exploration of poetic tools including figures of speech, meter, music and rhythmic devices in both traditional and experimental forms, and oral performance and publication of poetry.

ENG385

Toni Morrison Seminar

This seminar is a study of Toni Morrison’s literature within the context of African-American critical theory. Through Morrison’s work, students will engage in current issues regarding the politics of language, narrative authority, historical revision, the production of meaning, and African-American subjectivity.

ENG413

Special Topics

Special Topics

ENG419

Frontier Women

An impressive number of narratives, novels, diaries, and poems recording the responses of women to the American frontier have become available in recent years. By reading about these frontier experiences, and examining differences in perception and conception based apparently on gender, students will better understand how the frontier functioned within American culture and what "cultural work" these texts accomplished.

ENG425

Bleak Houses: Shifting Landscapes of the English Novel

This course will cover the modern European novel through the thematic rubric of "love and lies." The latter theme affords the opportunity to consider fiction not only as a medium of the literary genre of the novel but also as a discourse of self-expression, self-creation, and in the cases of some our lying protagonists, self-destruction. Students will focus on characters' constructions of "truth" and "lies" as these concepts are informed by characters' emotional positions. At its most ambitious, this focus on the dynamic of intersubjectivity not only provides important insights into the literature we will read but also enhances students' understanding of the interpersonal connections that drive individuals' worldviews and narratives.

ENG427

Ethnicity and Place

This course focuses on the connection between place and cultural identity in the shaping of a writer's distinctive voice. Influences include ethnic, regional, and linguistic markers, as well as dislocation from the place of origination. Regional focus within the global community may vary by academic term.

ENG428

Academic Writing

Students develop the writing skills necessary for success in graduate school, including proper citations, time management, and the content and format for two types of research proposals. Students become proficient in the APA style and have the opportunity to resolve grammar and structure problems with the professor.

ENG429

The Literary Cookbook

This course examines the contemporary cookbook as a genre of literary nonfiction, influenced by autobiography, memoir, and personal essay. Students will read and write recipe texts through the theoretical lenses of food studies and literary theory to understand how cookbooks function as literature in the popular market and the academy.

ENG434

Literature of Fact: Informing the World

Working from careful study of the construction of “fact” and “truth” in selected nonfiction genres, students will produce informative digital projects designed to engage a public audience. Readings may come from a variety of fields including humanities, culture, art, natural and social sciences, psychology, history, sustainability, and technology.

ENG446

Wilderness and Literature

Through close reading of poetry and prose, students will explore the relationship between wilderness and literature - both representations of the natural world and what Stanley Kunitz calls "your wilderness . . . the untamed self that you pretend doesn't exist, all that chaos locked behind the closet door, those memories yammering in the dark." Writers examined include: Anne Carson, Mark Doty, Kathleen Hill, and Virginia Woolf.

ENG449

Exiles

This course will examine the 20th-century condition of exile in relation to its different configurations, from European émigrés to postcolonial subjects to experiences of exile in the United States, to the relation of exile to Diaspora (African, Indian, and Jewish). Students will see how different patterns of movement define subjects variously as exiles, migrants, nomads, and tourists. They also will approach the concept of exile from psychological, geographical, and cultural angles to understand the different uses of the term, its scope, and its limitations.

ENG452

Ecofeminist Literature

This course brings together theoretical, nonfictional, and fictional approaches to the study of women and the environment. Students will examine how diverse ecofeminist writers problematize, resituate, and reclaim the woman/nature paradigm--a construct historically based in patriarchal culture. This course focuses particularly on how representations of women and environment (ranging from the traditional to the radical) can help students rethink and reimagine their relationship to the ecological world.

ENG480

August Wilson Seminar

This course explores the dramatic work of August Wilson, paying particular attention to Wilson's ten-play cycle, which chronicles twentieth century African American life. Wilson's "Pittsburgh cycle" serves as a lens for reading the history of the city decade by decade.

ENG490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student’s major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

ENG491

Independent Study

Independent Study

ENG493

Independent Study

Independent Study

ENG498

Tutorial: English

Tutorial: English

ENG512

Teaching Creative Writing in Alternative Spaces

This course prepares students to teach creative writing in alternative spaces, including jails, prisons, halfway houses, and medical facilities. Students will study existing programs, learn strategies to work with special populations, design a course, observe community based classes, and facilitate a community workshop.

ENG513

Writing About Food

Students will develop technique and skills for writing about food and culture by studying ethics; journalism, advertising, multimodal and new technology venues, recipe writing, food criticism, writing about food in a variety of genres from history to fiction, magazines, and websites. Course emphasizes both print and online media.

ENG515

Teaching Creative Writing

Students will explore the genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction from the perspective of a teacher, producing lesson plans, as well as developing a final curricular creative writing unit/course. Aspects of lesson design, classroom environment/management, the writing process, writing workshops, assessment, publication, and performance will be emphasized.

ENG515

Teaching Writing

Students will explore the genres of creative and academic writing from the perspective of a teacher, producing lesson plans and developing a final curricular design for a creative or academic writing course. Aspects of lesson design, classroom environment/management, the writing process, writing workshops, assessment, publication, and performance will be emphasized.

ENG523

The Craft of Creative Writing: Multiple Genres

This course may substitute for any other craft course for students specializing in any genre. Students will be introduced to the craft of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and will also be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending out work for publication.

ENG525

Bleak Houses: Shifting Landscapes of the English Novel

This course surveys the English Novel from 1850 through the present. Of particular interest will be how these novels depict their subjects' relationships with notions of Englishness, and with the radically changing landscape from estate-culture to urban-industrialized, and ultimately, suburban. Each novel will explore a new sense of Englishness rooted in the social-political and economic events of the era.

ENG527

Ethnicity and Place

This course focuses on the connection between geographic places and cultural identities. Ethnic, regional, and linguistic markers help define writers' distinctive voices. Dislocation from the place of origination can also result in a creative tension. Students will read a variety of texts that explore the borderlands between ethnicity and place.

ENG528

Academic Writing

Students develop the writing skills necessary for success in graduate school, including proper citations, time management, and the content and format for two types of research proposals. Students become proficient in the APA style and have the opportunity to resolve grammar and structure problems with the professor.

ENG529

The Art of Compression

A multi-genre writing workshop focusing exclusively on the short form in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of short-form writing through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other writers and stories, and regular submissions of original creative compositions.

ENG531

Readings in Contemporary Lyricism

This course is a graduate seminar focusing on the close reading of text from various genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's writing) that use lyricism as a primary craft device. Designed to complement the craft workshop, this course or Readings in Contemporary Narrative is required for all MFA students.

ENG532

Readings in Prose and Poetry

This course is a graduate seminar focusing on the close reading of prose and poetry drawn primarily from the modern and contemporary periods. Designed to complement the craft workshops, this course is required of all MFA students.

ENG533

Readings in Contemporary Narrative

This course is a graduate seminar focusing on the close reading of narrative texts from several genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's writing), drawn from modern and contemporary periods. Designed to complement craft workshops, this course or Readings in the Contemporary Lyric is required of all MFA students.

ENG535

Writing Poetry: Form

A poetry writing workshop to focus on form. Pre Requisite: ENG583

ENG537

Writing Poetry: Literary Movements

A poetry workshop focusing on readings from a particular poetic movement, and writing poetry that models or responds to movement. Pre-requisite: ENG583

ENG539

Writing Creative Nonfiction: Memoir

A creative Non-Fiction workshop focusing mainly on the memoir. Pre requisite: ENG582

ENG544

Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Lyric & Formally Adventurous Essay

A creative non-fiction workshop focused on lyric and experimental essay forms.

ENG545

Writing Creative Nonfiction: Literary Journalism

A creative non-fiction workshop focusing on literary journalism. Pre Requisite: ENG 582

ENG546

Wildness and Literature

Students read poetry, nonfiction and fiction that explore the relationship between wilderness and humans as well as the relationship between wilderness and culture. This seminar will trace the idea of wilderness in American literature through the twenty-first century.

ENG548

Writing Creative Nonfiction

This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of creative nonfiction through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other writers and stories, and regular submissions of original creative compositions. The course is taught in a workshop format. Pre-requisite: ENG582

ENG549

Exiles

This course examines the 20th-century condition of exile in relation to its different configurations, from European émigrés to postcolonial subjects to experiences of exile in the United States, to the relation of exile to Diaspora (African, Indian, and Jewish).

ENG551

Writing Fiction: The Short Story

This course furthers one's technique and practice of fiction writing via focusing on the short story. Classic models are read and analyzed for variety of P.O.V., character development, story structure, etc. Students are expected to participate in ongoing discussions and weekly peer review. This course is taught in a workshop format.

ENG552

Ecofeminist Literature

This course brings together theoretical, non-fictional, and fictional approaches to the study of women and the environment. This course focuses particularly on how representations of women and environment can help students rethink and re-imagine their relationships to the Earth.

ENG553

Writing Poetry

This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of poetry writing through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other poets and poems, and regular submissions of original creative compositions. The course is taught in a workshop format.

ENG554

Writing Fiction

This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of fiction writing through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other writers and stories, and regular submissions of original creative compositions. The course is taught in a workshop format. Pre Requisite: ENG581

ENG557

Writing Fiction: Story Collections/Novel-in-Stories

This course furthers one's technique and practice of fiction writing via studying book length story collections and/or story cycles. Contemporary models are considered for their creative melding of varied themes. P.O.V.'s structures, etc. Students are expected to participate in ongoing discussions and weekly peer review. This course is taught in in a workshop format. Pre requisite: ENG581

ENG566

Young Adult Literature

This course explores young adult fiction and focuses on authors that capture the teenage experience. Students learn the distinction between children's and adolescent literature, the history of the genre, the psychological challenges of adolescence, and literary structural elements and techniques.

ENG567

Long Projects

The Long Projects class is a multi-genre workshop focusing on generating long projects including memoirs, essay collections, novels, story collections, poetry collections or long poems.  Students may choose to work toward their theses in this class but work is not limited to the thesis.    

ENG569

Practicum: Fourth River Journal-2

This course is a practicum in which grad students publish the print edition of Chatham's national literary journal, The Fourth River. All phases of the publishing process are addressed, with a special emphasis on design, production, proofreading, marketing, and distribution.

ENG572

The Literature of Social Engagement

A course in which students examine literature that engages with social problems. Readings will include poetry, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, scriptwriting, and fiction. In examining these texts, we will analyze the finished product as well as research methods authors used to research a topic and render it on the page.

ENG580

August Wilson and Pittsburgh

This course explores the dramatic work of August Wilson, paying particular attention to Wilson's ten-play cycle. We will perform close readings of the plays, examining themes such as urban migration, the blues and Black Nationalism, while simultaneously using Wilson's drama as a lens for reading the history of Pittsburgh.

ENG581

The Craft of Fiction

This is a required course for MFA students specializing in fiction. Students will experiment with creating scene, sense of place, summary, dialogue, framing, flashbacks, and transitions. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication.

ENG582

The Art and Craft of Narrative

Readings and writing in this multi-genre course will focus on constructing narratives in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or writing for children. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication.

ENG583

The Art and Craft of the Lyric

Readings and writing in this multi-genre course will focus on writing lyrically in poetry and prose. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication.

ENG584

The Environmental Imagination

This is a multi-genre course that focuses on the art and craft of nature and environmental writing. Students will read and study contemporary nature and environmental writing, and will be expected to generate creative work that illustrates a deep understanding of the literary tools available to writers in this genre.

ENG585

Travel Writing

This course focuses on the art and craft of travel writing. Students will read and study contemporary travel writing, and will be expected to generate creative work that illustrates a deep understanding of the literary tools available to writers in this genre.

ENG589

Creative Writing: Multi-Genre

A multi-genre craft course that includes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, children's writing and hybrid genres. This course fulfills the craft requirement for all genres.

ENG595

Independent Literary Publishing

This course gives students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience as publishers. Students will research independent literary presses or magazines of their own choosing, and then they will publish a literary chapbook by an author other than themselves.

ENG600

Foundations of Creative Writing

ENG 600 is a first-year tutorial course comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to provide a foundation in creative writing craft for the student writer.

ENG601

Foundations in Literary Analysis

ENG 601 is a first-year tutorial course for students choosing the low-res MFA format, comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to provide a foundation in analytical reading and writing for the student writer.

ENG605

Prose Thesis Seminar

A workshop focusing on generating a thesis proposal, bibliography and significant creative work towards completion of the student's thesis. Readings will focus on creating and articulating a creative process and vision as well as models for longer creative projects. Normally taken the first semester of the student's second year, this course is a prerequisite for ENG698 Final Manuscript.

ENG606

Thesis Seminar

A workshop focusing on generating a thesis proposal, bibliography and significant creative work towards completion of the student's thesis. Readings will focus on creating and articulating a creative process and vision as well as models for longer creative projects. Normally taken the first semester of the student's second year, this course is a prerequisite for ENG698 Final Manuscript.

ENG607

Thesis Seminar: Poetry

A workshop focusing on generating a thesis proposal, bibliography and significant creative work towards completion of the student's thesis. Readings will focus on creating and articulating a creative process and vision as well as models for longer creative projects. Normally taken the first semester of the student's second year, this course is a prerequisite for ENG698 Final Manuscript.

ENG621

Advanced Literary Analysis I

ENG 621is a first-year mentorship, comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to deepen the development of the student writer. In it, students work one-on-one with a faculty mentor who guides their study of literature and analysis. ENG 621 should build off the work of ENG 601.

ENG622

Advanced Creative Writing I

ENG 622 is a first-year mentorship, comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to deepen the development of the student writer. In it, students work one-on-one with a faculty mentor who guides their study of creative writing craft. ENG 622 should build off the work of ENG 600.

ENG623

Advanced Literary Analysis II

ENG 623 is a second-year mentorship comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to refine the development of the student writer. In it, students work with a faculty mentor who guides their study of literature and analysis. ENG 623 should build off the work of ENG 621.

ENG624

Advanced Creative Writing II

ENG 624 is a second-year mentorship comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to refine the development of the student writer. In it, students work with a faculty mentor who guides their study of advanced creative writing. .

ENG660

Thesis Writing Mentorship

ENG 660 is a second-year mentorship course comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to expedite the development of the student’s creative thesis project. During the 3-credit mentorship, a student works one-on-one with a faculty mentor who guides the student’s generation of creative thesis materials.

ENG674

Field Seminar: International

The field seminar is a traveling creative writing workshop designed to push students outside the realm of comfort and make them question their assumptions about themselves and their culture. Travel locations and specific topics will vary, but will always be outside the United States. May be repeated for credit. Additional fee(s): Field Seminar fee.

ENG674A

Field Seminar: International

The field seminar is a traveling creative writing workshop designed to push students outside the realm of comfort and make them question their assumptions about themselves and their culture. Travel locations and specific topics will vary, but will always be outside the United States. May be repeated for credit. Additional fee(s): Field Seminar fee.

ENG674B

Field Seminar: International

The field seminar is a traveling creative writing workshop designed to push students outside the realm of comfort and make them question their assumptions about themselves and their culture. Travel locations and specific topics will vary, but will always be outside the United States. May be repeated for credit. Additional fee(s): Field Seminar fee.

ENG676

Artists in the Community

The field seminar is a traveling creative writing workshop designed to push students outside the realm of comfort and make them question their assumptions about themselves and their culture. Travel locations and specific topics will vary, but will be within Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. May be repeated for credit. Additional fee(s): Field Seminar fee.

ENG678

Field Placement

During this course, taken in one of the final semesters of the M.F.A., students teach/study in a supervised field placement and practice the pedagogy of creative writing in a working classroom.

ENG683

Special Topics

Literature Courses on differing topics, usually thematically based.

ENG691

Independent Study

Independent study on a topic of the student's choice.

ENG692

Independent Study

Independent study on a topic of the student's choice.

ENG693

Independent Study

Independent study on topics of the student’s choosing.

ENG694

Internship

Internship with a publishing company, literary press or other writing organization.  

ENG698

Final Manuscript

Independent work on the final creative thesis and critical introduction. Taken in the last year of the MFA. The Thesis Seminar (ENG 605, 606, 607, 608, or 609) is a prerequisite for this course.

ENG709

Summer Community of Writers

This ten-day residency in Pittsburgh is particularly tailored towards ACT 48 educators or students seeking elective credit. Daily attendance in genre-specific writing workshops and conferences with visiting authors is required. Craft sessions, lectures and readings are available but optional.

ENG710I

Summer Community of Writers - Part One

Summer Community of Writers - Part One

ENG710II

Summer Community of Writers - Part Two

Summer Community of Writers - Part Two

ENG800

Graduate Continuing Credit

Graduate Continuing Credit

ENV115

Shifting Environmental Paradigms

This course emphasizes quantitative and formal reasoning, critical reading and analytical thinking. Students, drawing on real life examples in environmental science, learn to identify and evaluate data and become knowledgeable consumers of scientific information, and explore the ways science and technology impact our everyday interactions with the world around us.

ENV115L

Environmental Paradigms Lab

This course uses laboratory modules on soil, water, plants, animals, climate and energy to enhance the material presented in ENV 115. Students will learn to make careful and precise observations, design testable hypotheses, collect and interpret qualitative and quantitative data, and integrate these findings into written and oral presentations.

ENV116

Global Environmental Challenges

This course explores the global implications of environmental issues. It is designed for all students interested in our global environment, one of the most critical issues of our time. The basic premise is that global ecological systems are in decline. This course will not only introduce students to the major issues causing or relating to this ecological decline, but also provide a template for thinking about and acting on solutions. Therefore, the focus is on active, participation-based learning, and students should leave the course ready to create environmental change.

ENV129

Our Fragile Earth: A Scientific Perspective

This course introduces students to a wide range of environmental issues from a scientific perspective. Specific topics vary from year to year, but this course utilizes lectures, discussions, laboratories, guest speakers and field trips to increase knowledge about environmental problems as well as increase scientific knowledge and literacy.

ENV129L

Our Fragile Earth Lab

This lab offers hands-on opportunity to perform basic environmental lab skills, including water testing, bioassay, and greenhouse experiment protocol. The course may be taken independently as a freestanding environmental lab course. Two hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

ENV145

Environmental Biology

This course addresses contemporary environmental issues in a consistent and concerted fashion so as to introduce students to biological concepts. The concepts are developed to the extent needed to inform an understanding of the issues. Three hours lecture and two hours lab per week.

ENV145L

Lab: Environmental Biology

Lab: Environmental Biology

ENV208

Backpacking: Experiencing the Natural History of Western

Students learn local land-use and natural history, including soil formation, flora, and some fauna. Also covered are wilderness trip planning and leadership, including principles for minimizing human impacts and conserving outdoor spaces and wilderness heritage. One weekend overnight camping trip is required. Prior completion of 100-level science course is desirable.

ENV242

Women and the Global Environment

This course will examine contemporary global environmental issues from a gendered perspective. It will address the following question: How does environmental change impact women’s lives, women’s health, women’s community roles, and how are women offering leadership to address these problems and offer alternative solutions at the global, national, and local levels? The course will examine these issues from a North/South perspective, examining how northern countries' consumption and policies are impacting women in poor and transitional countries. It will also focus on key environmental concerns, from climate change, resource extraction, population, consumption, and toxic contamination.

ENV247

Environmental Geology

Fundamental earth science concepts are used to assess the impact of global climate change, human demographics, and human development on the Earth’s natural resources. Course will also examine how natural processes interact with human activities.

ENV247L

Environmental Geology Lab

Laboratory and field exercises will help students understand the fundamental earth science processes linked with global climate change and with human use of the Earth’s natural resources. Two hours of laboratory per week. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fee.

ENV250

Plants, People, and the Environment

An introduction to the uses of plants by humans. Topics include the form, structure and genetics of plants related to their use as sources of food, shelter, fiber, flavors, beverages, drugs, and medicines. Plant structure and reproduction are studied in lecture and in-class activities with a particular focus on relationships between the plant's structural, chemical, or physiological attributes and the agricultural plant. Agricultural policies will also be discussed. Three hours of lecture per week.

ENV327

Writing about Environmental Science

This course is designed for students with some basic scientific skills, who might become scientists professionally, but all of whom will be communicating about science, often to non-scientists. In this course, we will read, discuss, and practice a variety of methods of communicating about environmental science, from popular culture to news to government reports. Students will competently translate scientific results into written journalistic English and will be able to evaluate scientific results from the news in terms of its scientific accuracy and clarity. Cross-listed as ENG327.

ENV327W

Writing about Environmental Science

This course is designed for students with some basic scientific skills, who might become scientists professionally, but all of whom will be communicating about science, often to non-scientists. In this course, we will read, discuss, and practice a variety of methods of communicating about environmental science, from popular culture to news to government reports. Students will competently translate scientific results into written journalistic English and will be able to evaluate scientific results from the news in terms of its scientific accuracy and clarity. Cross-listed as ENG327.

ENV451

Soil Science

Study of soils as natural bodies, media for plant growth, and ecosystem components. Topics include soil morphology and characteristics, composition, formation, conservation, and soil erosion. Physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils are related to the production of plants, the functioning of hydrologic and nutrient cycles, and the protection of environmental quality.

ENV490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone is an extended project centered on a major; projects may include laboratory or fieldwork, creative work in the arts, advocacy work, or independent research; projects may be conducted in a group setting. Integrative capstones in the interdisciplinary major must be approved by both academic programs.

ENV491

Independent Study

ENV492

Independent Study

Independent Study

ENV493

Independent Study

Independent Study

ENV498

Tutorial: Environmental Studies

Tutorial: Environmental Studies

ENV499

Tutorial: Environmental Studies

Tutorial: Environmental Studies

EXS101

Introduction to Exercise Science

This course is designed to provide an overview of the field of exercise science as a discipline and profession. Students will be exposed to methods and techniques employed to develop positive attitudes and habits that support an active lifestyle. Topics of health risk factors and wellness will be explored as they specifically relate to exercise. Possible career choices related to this field will also be discussed.

EXS102

First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

A 1-credit lab/lecture course will provide students with an understanding how to recognize and care for a variety of emergent situations, breathing and cardiac emergencies, and provide basic first aid care. Successful completion of written and practical exams will result in BLS certification through the American Heart Association.

EXS103

Wellness

This course is designed to optimize students' wellness. The various dimensions of wellness will be explored and various field trips will be taken over the course of the semester. The dimensions of wellness that will be covered in this course include: Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, and Environmental. This course will provide opportunities to support students' desires to lead a healthy lifestyle. Wellness opportunity resources will be provided to improve overall health. In addition, students will complete self-assessments and document their individual progress within each of the dimensions of wellness stated. This course fulfills a wellness course requirement.

EXS104

Introduction to Careers in Athletic Training

This course is designed to provide an overview of the field of athletic training as a discipline and profession. Topics of injury prevention, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation will be explored as they specifically relate to the profession. Possible career choices related to this field will also be discussed.

EXS105

Personal Nutrition

This course explores the various nutrients, their sources, digestion, absorption, and metabolism. Current research and dietary trends are presented against a background of basic nutritional concepts. Special emphasis is given to how nutrition can be emphasized to promote health and health maintenance across the lifespan.

EXS106

Movement for Life

This course will explore the importance of movement throughout the lifespan with a focus on the diverse relationships existing between movement and inflammation, the autonomic nervous system, and nutrition. Emphasis on language precision, other concepts such as movement hierarchy, yoga, meditation, breath and intentionally creating movement habits will be explored.

EXS201W

Introduction to Critical Research Appraisal

This course reviews current research design and statistical techniques needed for a better understanding of peer reviewed literature within exercise science. This course also reviews basic principles of an evidence based approach related to various types of exercise interventions, and common diagnoses and prognoses in the area of public health (e.g., obesity, diabetes). Material presented in lecture will be focused on "real world" data from the current literature.

EXS202

Exercise and the Environment

This course will provide students with a basic understanding of how various environmental conditions impact all aspects of health and exercise performance. Topics to be discussed will include: environmental health concerns, air pollution, temperature regulation heat/cold stress, altitude and health, microgravity, and hypobaria. Three hours of lecture per week.

EXS252

Exercise and Nutrition

This course introduces the student to the science of human nutrition and the relationship between health, exercise and food intake. Basic topics of digestion, absorption, metabolism, interaction and functions of nutrients will be covered. Special topics emphasized in this course include optimal nutrition for exercise and sport, energy use during exercise, evaluation of body composition (body fat, muscle mass), development of obesity, weight management, and nutritional factors in planning a successful muscular strength and endurance program.

EXS252W

Exercise and Nutrition

This course introduces the student to the science of human nutrition and the relationship between health, exercise and food intake. Basic topics of digestion, absorption, metabolism, interaction and functions of nutrients will be covered. Special topics emphasized in this course include optimal nutrition for exercise and sport, energy use during exercise, evaluation of body composition (body fat, muscle mass), development of obesity, weight management, and nutritional factors in planning a successful muscular strength and endurance program.

EXS275

Measurement and Evaluation in Human Performance

This course provides students with an introduction to measurement and evaluation across all domains in human performance. Common test and measurement techniques in physical fitness, sports performance and motor abilities will be covered and students will practice these techniques on their classmates.

EXS302

Principles of Strength and Conditioning

Students learn to integrate anatomical and physiological function into a comprehensive strength and conditioning model. Topics include testing, evaluation, exercise techniques, program design, and aerobic endurance training. Students are introduced to facility organization, risk management, and developing a policies and procedure manual.

EXS303

Skeletal Muscle Biochemistry

This upper level undergraduate course will provide students with a comprehensive examination of the biochemical properties of skeletal muscle within the context of human health and disease. Specific topic areas include control of gene expression and protein synthesis, contraction and substrate utilization, non-muscle tissue interactions and exercise training and adaptations.

EXS313

Nutrition Across the Lifespan

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the nutritional requirements for humans during all stages of the life cycle. Particular attention is given to how nutrition impacts normal development, health, and disease in pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and early and late adulthood.

EXS314

Community Nutrition

This course will examine the role and impact of nutrition in promoting, improving and maintaining health in the community. Aspects of the emerging health delivery system, and entrepreneurial ventures will be discussed. Focus is placed on the financial, legislative, political, sociological, and scientific aspects of public and community health nutrition.

EXS321

Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries

This course is designed to provide entry-level knowledge regarding the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries. This includes the recognition of signs and symptoms of injuries and their care that occur during exercise, physical activity, or athletic participation. Students will earn nationally recognized certification in First Aid, CPR, and AED.

EXS326

Applied Exercise Physiology I

This course provides students with the knowledge of theoretical and applied aspects of exercise physiology with an emphasis on exercise response and exercise testing. An in-depth understanding of how the body responds when exposed to acute bouts of exercise will be provided through lectures and laboratories. Topics discussed will include physiological adaptations of the cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, and neuromuscular systems in response to exercise, and assessment of aerobic endurance, muscular fitness and body composition. Three hours of lecture per week. CPR and first aid certifications are required.

EXS326L

Lab: Applied Exercise Physiology I

Experiments to complement the material presented in EXS326. Two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: EXS 326. Additional fee(s): Laboratory fee.

EXS333

Functional Anatomy

This course explores the relationship between the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems through the study of the structural and functional components that produce human movement. Students will acquire foundational skills in surface anatomy, identification and palpations, goniometry, manual muscle and neurological testing.

EXS345

Kinesiology and Movement Science

This course serves as an introduction to kinesiology and movement science of the human body. The student will learn the functional anatomy and biomechanics of the major joints of the human body and the application of kinesiology and biomechanical principles to describe and analyze normal and pathological human movement. Principles and practical application of motor learning, motor control and skill acquisition will also be introduced. Lab will include activities related to skill acquisition, performance and biomechanical analysis of functional motor patterns. Three hours of lecture per week.

EXS345LW

Lab: Kinesiology and Movement Science

Experiments to complement the material presented in EXS 345. Lab will include activities related to skill acquisition, performance and biomechanical analysis of functional motor patterns. Three hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: EXS 345. Additional fee(s): Laboratory fee.

EXS360

Exercise and Aging

This course will explore the importance of exercise across the lifespan. Theories of aging, exercise prescription for older adults, and exercise for the prevention and management of chronic disease will be discussed. The role of exercise in the compression of morbidity will be emphasized.

EXS385

Pathophysiology

This course provides students with the knowledge needed to understand complex disease processes. The pathophysiology of several acute and chronic diseases will be covered with special attention given to the management and treatment applications in the health sciences.

EXS413

Nutrition Planning

This course aims to integrate students’ understanding of nutrition and development of individualized nutrition recommendations for a variety of populations including adult, athletic, and special populations (i.e. pediatric, geriatric, and obese). This course will emphasize how an individual’s demographics, medical history, socioeconomic status, etc. can impact nutritional status.

EXS425

Exercise Science Certification Preparation

Students will learn practical application and real-world administration of comprehensive strength and conditioning programming in preparation for the National Strength and Conditioning Association CSCS and CPT examinations. Topics include FMS, SFMA, YBT assessments, testing, evaluation, exercise techniques, program design, anaerobic training and aerobic endurance training.

EXS426

Applied Exercise Physiology II

This course provides students with the knowledge of theoretical and applied aspects of exercise physiology and wellness. The emphasis of this course is on the physiological adaptations to exercise training. Students will learn how to design exercise prescriptions for typical adult populations, athletic populations, and special populations (i.e. pediatric, geriatric, and obese). Three hours of lecture per week.

EXS426L

Applied Exercise Physiology II Lab

The emphasis of this lab is on the physiological adaptations to exercise training. Students will learn how to design exercise prescriptions for typical adult populations, athletic populations, and special populations (i.e. pediatric, geriatric, obese). Three hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: EXS 426. Additional fee(s): Laboratory fee.

EXS490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

EXS493

Independent Study

Independent Study

EXS498

Tutorial: Exercise Science

Tutorial: Exercise Science

EXS499

Tutorial: Exercise Science

Tutorial: Exercise Science

FDT150S

Introduction to Digital Video Production

Introduction to Digital Video Production introduces the tools, technology, and techniques of digital video production. Students plan and produce videos using digital technologies. Along with the technical application, students are exposed to the history of video as an artistic and instructional medium. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

FDT160

World Film History

This course presents an overview of the history of film by focusing on key countries, both Western and non-Western, whose film industries have made important contributions to world cinema and/or whose filmmakers have pioneered important film movements. The course places film industries and movements in the context both of cinematic history and history of the societies in question.

FDT161

Introduction to Film, Video and New Media Art

This course is an introduction to critical and aesthetic perspectives on film, i.e. the rules, codes, and strategies by which film represents reality. Students will be exposed to a variety of movements and moments in film history, but history will not be an explicit focus for the course. The course will map out the major conceptual areas in film studies using new methodologies in the areas of narrative comprehension, new vocabulary in film semiotics, and multiculturalism and the media. Issues explored in this course include questions of history and memory, self and other, and identity in both the Western and non-Western contexts.

FDT200

Final Cut Pro X

This is a 3-credit course that provides students with a foundational knowledge of Final Cut Pro X. In this hands-on course, students work with practical approaches to video editing, from basic techniques to powerful advanced features.

FDT210

Studio: Adobe Illustrator

This supplemental studio explores the practical applications of today's computer hardware and graphic design software. The focus of the class is on gathering critical knowledge and gaining basic mastery of a powerful design visualization and creative production tool. The studio will cover Adobe Illustrator on the Macintosh platform.

FDT213

Special Topics

Special Topics

FDT220

Studio: Adobe Photoshop

This supplemental studio explores the practical applications of today's computer hardware and graphic design software. The focus of the class is on gathering critical knowledge and gaining basic mastery of a powerful design visualization and creative production tool. The studio will cover Adobe Photoshop on the Macintosh platform.

FDT225

Female Narration: Race and Gender in Women's Films

This course looks predominantly at films directed by women who have worked out strategies for feminist film practice. The course will focus on the relationship between representations of women and the socio-political structures in which women live. It will also focus on the need for women, if they wish to affect perception of self and other, us and them, to take up the means of production. Exposing the sexual stratagems in various contemporary societies' permits women filmmakers to recreate the world in their own image. Study of traditional portrayals of women will support understanding of the differences between subject and object position. Negotiating these often-conflicting spaces allows students to comprehend the multiple mediations that structure a critical consciousness. Such awareness allows questions of responsibility in a world of diverse values and perspectives. The course is organized as a reading, viewing, and lecture, experience.

FDT230

Studio: Adobe InDesign

This one credit supplemental course will provide students with a foundational knowledge of the InDesign interface. Students will learn foundations of InDesign, threading text-boxes, importing photos and styling images, utilize baseline grid, hyphenation, and libraries to create simple and complex layout compositions.

FDT267S

Intro to Podcasting

This course explores the growing medium of podcasting and how it effectively communicates stories in the digital realm. This course introduces students to the history and technology behind audio storytelling and trains students to be active podcast listeners. Students will produce a live podcast series from inception to completion.

FDT300

Critical Theory

Critical theory offers a critical study of the key debates in theories of media and communication interfaced with cultural studies. This course also examines the communication circuit from production to consumption within the broader paradigms of cultural studies, feminism, politics of identity, and theories of ideology and postmodernism. Connections are made between these debates and wider debates in communication studies.

FDT300W

Critical Theory

Critical theory offers a critical study of the key debates in theories of media and communication interfaced with cultural studies. This course also examines the communication circuit from production to consumption within the broader paradigms of cultural studies, feminism, politics of identity, and theories of ideology and postmodernism. Connections are made between these debates and wider debates in communication studies.

FDT313

Special Topics

Special Topics

FDT350S

Intermediate Digital Video Production Studio

Intermediate Digital Video Production further examines methods of production that were presented in the introductory course. Lighting and audio production are introduced to strengthen creative projects. Students synthesize what is provided in the classroom and what is discovered in the field to create meaningful, expressive work.

FDT421

Digital Animation and Compositing

This production course introduces computer animation and visual effects. Students learn the principles, processes, and philosophy of animation with a focus on the design and construction of environments, characters, and time-based motion. Students script, storyboard, design, and produce a short animated digital video. Additional Fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

FDT450S

Advanced Digital Video Production Studio

Advanced Digital Video Production is an intensive studio course that looks at advanced methods of digital video production including highly developed lighting practices, audio recording and mixing, nonlinear editing, and digital effects.

FDT469

Advanced Visual Effects

This course provides an advanced study in developing and executing visual effects for live action films. The course explores the history of special and visual effects by studying practical special effects that can be accomplished in camera, introducing color correction and grading, and mastering the advanced functions of Adobe After Effects as it pertains to live action visual effects.

FDT490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student's major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

FDT491

Independent Study

Independent Study

FDT493

Independent Study

Independent Study

FDT498

Tutorial

Tutorial

FDT499

Tutorial

Tutorial

FDT500

Lab: Final Cut Pro X

This is a 2-credit supplemental course that will provide students with a foundational knowledge of Final Cut Pro X. In this hands-on course, students work with practical approaches to video editing, from basic techniques to Final Cut Pro's powerful advanced features. This is an Apple Certified Training Course. Additional Fee(s): Course Computing LAB Fee.

FDT510

Lab: Adobe Illustrator

This one credit supplemental lab explores the practical applications of today's computer hardware and graphic design software. The focus of the class will be on gathering critical knowledge and gaining basic mastery of a powerful design visualization and creative production tool. The ab will cover one of the essential design applications: Adobe Illustrator on the Macintosh platform.

FDT520

Lab: Adobe Photoshop

This one credit supplemental lab explores the practical applications of today's computer hardware and graphic design software. The focus of the class will be on gathering critical knowledge and gaining basic mastery of a powerful design visualization and creative production tool. The Lab will cover one of the essential design applications: Adobe Photoshop on the Macintosh platform.

FDT530

InDesign Lab

This one credit supplemental course will provide students with a foundational knowledge of the InDesign interface. Students will earn foundations of InDesign, threading text-boxes, importing photos and styling images, utilize baseline grid, hyphenation, and libraries to create simple and complex layout compositions

FDT543

The Media Production Industry

This course is offered in the final semester of the program and is designed to enhance the ability of graduates to establish themselves in the media production industry.

FDT550

Media Project I: Digital Video Production

Media Project I introduces the production process for digital video and other media work, from concept to production to completed piece. This course provides an understanding of the tools for each step of production and students focus on the technical elements of shooting and editing video.

FDT563

Media Contexts I: Media History

Provides overview for incoming graduate students of current rhetorical concerns related to independent media, film production, and histories.

FDT571

e-Merging Media I

Maps ways the web can be utilized for the production of alternative narratives. Enables students to analyze and create works online using web-cams, streaming media, and interactive web-based projects. Additional fees: Course Computing fee

FDT613

Special Topics

Special Topics Class

FDT641

The Craft of Screenwriting

Provides a focus on the art and craft of Screenwriting. Students will read and study contemporary Screenwriting, and will be expected to generate creative work that illustrates a deep understanding of the literary tools available to filmmakers in this genre.

FDT650

Media Project II: Advanced Digital Video Production

The course expands on the knowledge gained in Media Project I and focuses on the nonlinear editing process. Students develop their existing foundational software knowledge, learn to navigate additional NLE systems used by the industry, and have the opportunity to explore how these programs can enhance traditional editing techniques.

FDT663

Media Contexts I: Theory

Analyzes the aesthetic conventions, narrative, and formats of new media, as well as the impact digital technologies have had on existing media.

FDT666

Cinematography and Lighting

In this course, students will focus on the skills required to make appropriate camera and lighting decisions under a variety of field and studio situations. Students will gain mastery of advanced concepts and principles of camera operation, camera movement, use of lenses, composition and lighting techniques used in digital filmmaking.

FDT667

Advanced Sound Design and Audio Post Production

In this audio production course, students will advance their audio knowledge and production abilities in sound design through sound recording, mixing, processing and editing. Students will learn how to assemble a pre-dub or temp mix, group and sub-mix tracks into the final dub that is for distribution and delivery.

FDT671

Emerging Media II: Advanced Web Design

Focuses on the technical through advanced study. Students will produce DVD, CD-ROM, and other interactive projects. Additional Fees: Course Computing Fee

FDT675

Media Project III: Advanced Sound Production

Focuses on advanced sound recording, editing, and mixing technologies using Pro Tools digital audio workstation. Additional Fee(s): Course Computing fee

FDT676

Media Project IV: Visual Effects & Animation Modes

Extends to visual effects, animation modes and compositing. Students will utilize this course to develop their masters' thesis topic and begin pre-production processes. Additional Fee: Course Computing Fee

FDT677

Media Project V

The mastery of written, oral, and production components: a self-directed project with an approved thesis topic generated by individual student interest. The final project is completed under joint guidance of the class instructor and an outside advisor. Additional Fee: Course Computing Fee

FDT683

Internship

Internship

FDT692

Independent Study

Independent Study

FDT693

Independent Study

Independent Study

FDT698

Portfolio

The MA Portfolio is the final requirement for the MA degree.The Portfolio project must demonatrate the student's aesthetic, conceptual, and technical skills along with a strong personal artistic voice from the intial concept to the completed 15 minute short film. Additional fee(s): Applied laboratory fee

FDT699

MFA Thesis

The MFA THesis is the final requirement for completion of the MFA degree. Students will demonstrate the aesthetic, conceptual, intellectual, and technical skill in a research based written thesis and a 22-to-32 minute exhibition ready film. The thesis project must demonstrate advanced written and production skills. Additional fee(s): Applied laboratory fee.

FDT800

Graduate Continuing Credit

Graduate Continuing Credit

FST150

Food, Farm & Field

This course explores food, farm, and environment through readings, films, lectures, demonstrations, field trips, and on-farm and kitchen experiences in research and production problems. Activities include presentations on specific topics, group discussions, hands-on lab and field activities, individual and group presentations, field trips, and reflection through writing, video, and photography.

FST205

Food Science Principles and Practice

Through didactic and experiential learning, students explore the physical, biological, and chemical makeup of food and how final products are influenced by food processing. Students identify the changes to food caused by storage and cooking methods and apply food science concepts to risk and prevention of foodborne pathogens.

FST213

Special Topics

Special Topics

FST215W

Global Foodways

Course is focused on the global history and nature of food traditions, cuisines, and cultures, from the Columbian Exchange to globalization, with a depth analysis of one region, country, or time frame. Emphasis on the division of labor, colonialism, conquest, power, and continuity and change in social and economic systems.

FST234

Asian Foodways

A strategic survey of Japanese, Chinese/Taiwanese, Korean, and South Asian food ways in their originating contexts and the U.S. Emphasis on anthropological understanding of food ways, cultural studies critique of class, gender, and family dynamics articulated via food, and historical transformations of food culture in response to migration and globalization.

FST250

International Cuisine

This course explores international cuisine and culture through an interdisciplinary lens. Focusing on culinary history, the course emphasizes knowledge of global culture and cuisine. One of the featured regions of study will align with Chatham's "Global Focus" for the academic year.

FST302

Nutrition and Community

This course focuses on North American community-based nutrition research, programs and policies. Students become familiar with community-based research, programs, and policies where nutrition plays a role. Using public health nutrition and community asset building, it includes an introduction to grant writing, evaluation, and assessment to support community health programs.

FST307W

Community and Food

Through experiential learning and field work, this course explores the intersections between food and community. Global and regional food systems are "felt" at the level of community and communities often create the organization of agriculture and food. Students will practice applied work with community, government, nonprofit, activist, and business groups.

FST310

Futures in Food Systems

This is a one credit professional development process that prepares students for their internship and provides insights into future careers. Emphasis is on project planning, individual skills assessment, professionalization and communication.

FST315

Food Access and Policy

If food is a basic human right, how do societies create universal access to food? This course explores the ethical basis for making citizens food secure despite global inequality. Major topics include private vs. public solutions and the relationship between food access, gender, cultural appropriateness, nutrition, sustainability, and justice.

FST320

Basic Agroecology

Through working on Chatham's Eden Hall Farm as well as neighboring farms, students will integrate best practices for sustainable agriculture with theory encountered in class. Topics will include basic principles of soil fertility, biodiversity, agriculture history, effects of both conventional and organic agriculture, and the politics surrounding the issues.

FST320L

Growing Sustainably Lab

Through working with Chatham's Eden Hall Farm as well as visiting neighboring farms, students will integrate best practices for sustainable agriculture with theory encountered in classes. Topics will include basic principles of soil fertility, biodiversity, greenhouse production, agriculture history, effects of both conventional and organic agriculture, and the politics surrounding the issues.

FST342

Sustainable Production

Course explores specific modes of production, agricultural and culinary, with a focus on applied and experiential learning through practical application in a group project. Students focus on farm to kitchen and develop problem solving skills for practical applications, including plant and crop production and culinary product development.

FST345

Applied Agricultural Experience 1

Course explores specific modes of agricultural production with a focus on applied and experiential learning. Students focus on farming competencies and develop problem solving skills for practical applications in agricultural and food enterprises. Focus is on basic crop production, animal care, pasture management, and woody plants.

FST345L

Applied Agricultural Experience Lab 1

Course focuses on repeated practice and skill development with specific modes of agricultural production, as complement FST345. Students focus on farming competencies and develop problem solving skills for practical applications in agricultural and food enterprises. Focus is on basic crop production, animal care, pasture management, and woody plants.

FST365

Coffee: History, Politics, Practices

This course includes hands on and practical experiences at local coffee roasters with different business models. Participants train in the Eden Hall student cooperative cafe at Eden Hall including cupping, barista, and tasting skills. The correlated readings and assignments address challenging issues surrounding coffee, including labor, global procurement, and labeling.

FST370

Applied Culinary Experience 1

This course focuses on applied kitchen-based research that confronts real-world food systems problems in the areas of recipe and product development, purchasing and cost controls, and menu management. Culinary techniques and philosophies such as preserving the harvest, fermentation, and reduced-waste cooking will be practiced.

FST370L

Applied Culinary Experience Lab 1

Throughout this lab course students receive course work and hands-on experience that is culinary, and hospitality focused using experiential based learning as we investigate how to navigate a more equitable and sustainable food system. The themes of food preservation, dairy skills, and grains will be a focus.

FST402

Global Agriculture

This multi-disciplinary course examines agro-ecological, socio-economic, and political issues in tropical agriculture in the global South, focusing on how production and consumption impact food, agriculture, and community sustainability. The course centers on a two-week visit to EARTH University in Costa Rica, plus pre- and post-trip sessions in Pittsburgh.

FST417

Safe Practices in Food and Agriculture

This course offers professional knowledge about safe practices in agriculture and food production, such as safe food handling, worker safety, best practices for agricultural markets, and overviews of regulatory organizations. Students will follow practicum materials to gain both food safety certification and good agricultural practices standing.

FST428

Tree Care

Tree care skills are integral to sustainable land and food system management. This course provides an introduction to arboriculture, tree climbing and pruning. It will teach proper tree pruning, basics of climbing, and basic equipment safety, applicable to tree work in urban or agricultural settings.

FST446

Applied Agricultural Experience II

This course explores specific modes of agricultural production with a focus on applied and experiential learning. Students focus on farming competencies and developproblem solving skills for practical applications in agricultural and food enterprises.Focus is on greenhouse production, specialty products, livestock care, and early spring planting.

FST446L

Applied Agricultural Experience II Lab

Course focuses on repeated practice and skill development with specific modes of agricultural production. Students focus on farming competencies and developproblem solving skills for practical applications in agricultural and food enterprises. Focus is on greenhouse production, specialty products, livestock care, and early spring planting.

FST471

Applied Culinary Experience 2

This course focuses on kitchen-based research that confronts real-world food systems problems in the areas of product development, purchasing and cost controls, and menu management. Hands-on culinary and hospitality focused experiences using experiential based learning aid in investigating how to navigate a more equitable and sustainable food system.

FST471L

Applied Culinary Experience Lab 2

Throughout this lab course students receive course work and hands-on experience that is culinary, and hospitality focused using experiential based learning as we investigate how to navigate a more equitable and sustainable food system. Both hyper-local foods and global commodities (such as chocolate, coffee and tea) will be explored.

FST490

Integrative Capstone

The capstone in Food Studies is an independent project on a food studies topic that culminates in a summary paper and public presentation. The focus is directed and supported study using methods of inquiry or research, peer feedback on process, and communication of the results through a scholarly or applied product.

FST502

Essential Readings in Food and Agriculture

This class provides grounding in essential texts in the contemporary understanding of food and agriculture. Readings include key food histories, journalism, critical nutrition and food industry writers, and agriculture and environmental treatise. Class will meet monthly to analyze texts. Students will contribute to forum and blog discussions throughout the year.

FST503

Urban Agriculture

The Urban Agriculture course focuses on the practices and models of urban agriculture in a variety of different global contexts with an emphasis on Pittsburgh, PA. The course uses a lens of political ecology to understand the historical, cultural, ecological, and political factors that influence the practice of urban agriculture.

FST504

Food Science Principals

We will study scientific literature on nutrient availability before and after cooking, learn about chemical and physical and visual changes to food through various storage and cooking methods and investigate our sensory responses to certain foods in various types of physical and cultural settings.

FST505

Food and Representations

Food is elemental to survival, culture, home, and subjectivity - to rituals of love, loss, and celebration. Focusing on representations of food and eating in spiritual narratives, epic texts, myth, novels, and film, this class examines the cultural work food performs along with the varying meanings assigned to food and eating.

FST508

Food Systems

Examines philosophical, sociological, economic, and cultural issues related to the production and consumption of food. From Agrarianism to the Green Revolution, explores the transformations of industrialization, technology, and migration. Provides foundation in food systems and commodity chains as concepts and methodological tools for uncovering the relationship between communities, agriculture, markets, and consumers.

FST509

Food Access

If food is a basic human right, how do societies create universal access to food? What is the moral ethical basis for making citizens food secure in an age of global inequality? To what extent does providing food access need to consider culturally appropriateness, nutrition, and sustainability, and justice?

FST510

Food, Culture, History

Provides an overview of food and diet in transnational history, emphasizing cultural impact of modernity of food gathering, farming, plant biology, the body and consumption, health, taste, and cuisine. Topics include the development of agriculture, the causes of famine, the disruptions of colonialism, global exchange, industrialization, migration, and commercial economic dominance of the food system.

FST511

Research Methods

Introduction to social science research methods applicable to the study of food and culture. Practicum includes ethnography, interviews, focus groups, survey research, oral history, textual analysis, cultural mapping, and visual methods. Applied approach to research: students will produce data for practical use in existing community or commercial projects.

FST512

Practical Nutrition

Course provides an overview of nutrition as an evidence-based research field, focusing on groups and communities where research is conducted and then applied. Topics include science and politics of food categories; supplements and functional foods; weight and disordered eating, commercial, local, organic, and conventional foods; cuisine, culture, and diet.

FST513

Integrated Seminar in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

This course will provide a forum for interdisciplinary learning and discussion in the core areas of applied and environmental microbiology. Students will analyze case studies based on real-world issues, use evidence-based practice to devise solutions to applied problems, and develop communication skills to convey disciplinary knowledge to different audiences.

FST514

Wine, Ciders and Meads

This course provides a detailed study of wines, grape varieties, ciders and mead. Offers an exploration of global wine regions and regional traditions for ciders and meads. Experiential components utilize local fruits and honey to produce experimental batches of wines and meads. Includes lab at Eden Hall and fieldwork component.

FST515

Writing About Food

Students will develop technique and skills for writing about food and culture by studying ethics; journalism; advertising, multimodal and new technology venues; recipe writing; food criticism; writing about food in a variety of genres from history to fiction, magazines, and websites. Course emphasizes both print and online media.

FST518

Business of Food and Agriculture

In this class the student will learn both history and current practices related to food and agriculture as economic enterprises in the United States and the world. Skills include ability to understand strategic management principles including identifying target markets, niche marketing, SWOT analysis and diffusion of innovation theory. Students will be able to develop a business plan including understanding barriers of entry, compiling demographic data, developing feasibility studies, long and short term business goals, define and calculate a breakeven point, and budget formulation.

FST520

Basic Agroecology

Through working on Chatham's Eden Hall Campus farm as well as neighboring farms, students will integrate best practices for sustainable agriculture with theory encountered in class. Topics will include basic principles of soil fertility, biodiversity, agriculture history, effects of both conventional and organic agriculture, and the politics surrounding the issues.

FST520L

Growing Sustainably Lab

This course is a co-requisite to FST520, Growing Sustainably, and comprises the experiential lab component of the course. Students will engage in sustained research on sustainable agricultural projects, from biodynamic methods to soil or pest management comparatives. Course may be taken up to four times for credit.

FST521FE

Integrative Animal Care and Management

This multi-disciplinary graduate course examines a range of agro-ecological, philosophical, socio-economic, health, and policy issues in livestock management. Key themes include: comfort and behavior of live animals; grass- and grain-based animal production; animal (and social and human) nutrition; livestock care; animal (and human) welfare; history of animal production; food safety.

FST522

GIS: Food and Agriculture

This course provides students with a solid foundation of the principles and applications of GIS, an introduction to the desktop software ArcGIS, and demonstrates its use in the public sectors related to food, agriculture, and resource use. Students will have the flexibility to focus on their particular area of interest through project work.

FST524

Greenhouse Production

Students will explore alternative season extension practices used in cold season production and compare the opportunities available to local farmers who choose to adopt season extension practices. Through class lectures and assignments students will learn the essentials of healthy soil, pest and disease identification, planting, harvesting and marketing opportunities available to sustainable farmers. Through working on Chatham's Eden Hall Farm as well as neighboring farms, students will integrate best practices for sustainable greenhouse growing with theory presented in class.

FST527

Permaculture

Course explores natural systems, aboriginal knowledge and best practices for designing human systems, which reflect care of the earth. It integrates findings of agriculture, horticulture, ecology, alternative energy, community design and green building. Students learn methods of growing and living sustainably, with local examples and applications of permaculture design for Eden Hall.

FST528FE

Tree Care

This course examines the roles of trees in agroecosystems, including trees in orchards, farms, forests, and urban landscapes. We look at trees as organisms – understanding tree biology, learning to climb and prune trees – and also at trees as they function within systems including forest ecology, agroforestry, silvopasture, silviculture, and/or arboriculture.

FST530

Sustainable Gastronomy

This course covers the history of cooking as a profession and a skill set. Emphasis on gastronomy and culinary arts as both integrative creative enterprises and structured labor in specific contexts. The history of public cooking and dining, restaurants, communication of culture and cuisine, and procedures will be covered.

FST531

Sustainable Fermentation

Fermentation is an incredible process by which microbes transform foods into more digestible, nutritious, and flavorful versions of themselves. Participants will learn the basic techniques for lacto-fermentation, as well as the process of using starter cultures and wild fermentation via lecture, research, tasting, demonstration, field work and experiential learning.

FST532FE

Sustainable Meat Production

As part of agricultural and culinary knowledge, understanding meat production is a critical skill for work across the food system. In this comprehensive overview we will examine meat’s many historical, cultural, economic, ecological, and ethical dimensions, and engage with animal agriculture and meat processing both in and outside the classroom.

FST534

Learning Through Food

This course explores theoretical frameworks and instructional approaches relevant to describing and supporting the ways people learn through experiences with food. This course covers the fundamentals of sociocultural and experiential learning theories and associated instructional philosophies to help students develop their identities as food educators.

FST540

Orchard Systems: Focus on tree fruit

Focusing on field experiences, this course explores tree fruit orchard production. Students will explore historical, cultural, agronomic, economic, and geopolitical aspects of tree fruit in a large orcharding region; gain hands-on experience in a mainstream industrialized sector of agriculture; and wrestle with complex questions regarding the contours of sustainability.

FST575

Field Ecology

The goal of this course is to introduce the students to the principles of ecology in urban and rural environments. Initially there will be a series of lectures to study ecological concepts, with extensive reading and discussion from the primary literature. The students will gain the understanding of how the physical environment, global cycles and climate influence the biogeographical distribution of global and regional ecosystems and local microhabitats. Lectures will focus on the physical environment, plant and animal adaptations, population ecology and community dynamics. One-half of the classes will consist of field trips to observe flora and fauna, practice plant and animal data collection techniques using standard field methods, and to study human ecology and the impacts of population growth and resource consumption.

FST591

Independent Study

Independent Study

FST592

Independent Study

Independent Study

FST593

Independent Study

Independent Study

FST600

Oral History Intensive

This course is a practicum designed to allow students intensive experience conducting oral history. It presumes a basic knowledge of research methods and is meant to provide a platform for exploring voice, history, and experience as key issues in the study of food, agriculture, and society. Students will produce three oral history interviews and participate in on-line and in-person discussions of technique, theory, and function.

FST602

Global Agriculture

This course examines a range of agro-ecological, philosophical, socio-economic, and political issues related to international agriculture and food systems. It provides an introduction to tropical and/or temperate agriculture systems, exploring how choices of production and consumption impact the nature of food, agriculture, sustainability, and communities across locations and scales.

FST603

Food Journeys

From the Columbian Exchange to eco-tourism food travels the world, the traveler journeys through food, and the citizen consumes place and goods in a journey towards selfhood. This course examines food and geographic movement with an applied emphasis on culinary tourism and writing about food in global and local contexts.

FST605

Food and Climate Change

This course considers the relationship between Earth's changing climate and the human production and consumption of food. With attention to current theories and case studies, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of food systems in relation to global environmental change, with a specific focus on livelihoods, adaptation, sustainability, and justice.

FST607

Sustainable Consumption

Eating "sustainably" considers environmental health, local economies and social justice issues. The course explores 3 viewpoints: consumers', including eating behaviors, access and marketing; growers' and producers', including supply chain concerns and food safety; and the institutions' or food business' challenges of incorporating regionally and sustainably sourced food in their operations.

FST608

Culture and Culinary Grains

Culture and Culinary Grains

FST609

Dairy: From Pasture to Plate

This multi-disciplinary graduate course examines a range of agro-ecological, philosophical, socio-economic, health, and political issues related to dairy production in the US. Key course themes include: dairy history; sustainable and conventional production; raw milk and consumption debates; livestock care; milking; cheese-making; dairy policy; international issues; and popular representation of dairy.

FST611

Religion, Community, and Food

This course explains the ways in which sustainability and communal religious life have Intersected in the U.S. from the 17th century to the present. Using lecture readings, film, and independent research, we will study ethical farming practices, food sustainability, and moral food choices through the lens of American religious communities.

FST612

Food, Commerce, and Culture in Japan

Combined with field experiences, this course explores food and culture in commercial and domestic settings in a specific global site, to be determined each summer. Classroom work and field experiences will explore historical, cultural, economic, and geopolitical aspects of food in that site. Topics include: food and national identity, food and globalization, food and economic sustainability.

FST613

Community Research: Food and Health

Research focused on community needs, health and wellness issues, and the relationship between food access, agriculture, and food production. Participation in a pre-selected research study that aims to address some component of health, food access, agriculture, and cooking. May include: engaging relevant community agencies; recruitment of subjects; screening subjects for risk; adhering to IRB regulations; data collection and data entry, aiding in teaching a risk reduction class, participating in the urban garden, and coordinating cooking demonstrations.

FST614

New Product Development

This course will explore the new product development process from ideation to market. Students will study the methodologies and practices of product development in a traditional Consumer Packaged Good firm and apply modified methods to manage the new product development process for a start-up local distiller. Over the course of an academic year, students will develop and bring to market a liqueur to be sold by Pittsburgh Distilling Co.

FST615

Food, Labor, and Inequality

In this course, we will focus on theoretical and applied frameworks for thinking about the labor of growing food, transporting it, transforming it into comestibles, and finally, serving and cleaning related to food consumption. The course considers how global labor shapes the availability and appropriateness of food for different populations and therefore includes a substantial analysis of gender, race, and social class. Readings and discussion will touch on migrant labor, domestic cooking, waiting and serving, agriculture, cooks and chefs, and food professionals.

FST616

Cultivating the Midwest: Corn and Soybeans

Combined with field experiences in western Minnesota, this course explores food and agriculture in the Midwestern U.S. Classroom work and field experiences will explore historical, cultural, agronomic, economic, and geopolitical issues, including corn and soybean production, processing and distribution, alternative agrifood networks, and other food systems issues in the Midwest.

FST620

Research in Food and Agriculture

This course assists students developing a research, educational, public policy, or advocacy project in sustainable farming. Participants study a practical and current sustainable food and/or farming problem, review the literature related to the problem, develop management tactics and strategies to address the problem, and communicate their conclusions. Goal is to develop a research plan and project outcomes for a Masters thesis or project.

FST621

Applied Methods

This course is designed to help the student deepen their facility with qualitative and/or quantitative research methods to better understand diverse issues in the interdisciplinary field of food studies. The student will design, conduct, and/or analyze research as part of a thesis or other large project.

FST622

Advanced New Product Development

This course explores new product development process from ideation to market. Students study methodologies and practices of product development in a Consumer Packaged Goods firm. Focus for the advanced course includes consumer testing, packaging development, and production process to develop and bring to market a liqueur sold by Pittsburgh Distilling.

FST624

Chocolate: Politics and Pleasure

This course will explore chocolate as a global product including history and culture, agriculture (growing trees, processing beans), direct/fair trade, labor and justice, health, chocolate production, sales, marketing, and sustainability. Experiential components include chocolate making, tempering; culinary practices, and site visits to chocolate manufacturers, culminating in the design and marketing of a sustainable chocolate product.

FST625FE

U.S. Agricultural Policy

This graduate multi-disciplinary course examines a range of philosophical, socio-economic, health and political issues related to agricultural policy in the US. It provides a foundation and introduction to U.S. farm policy as a means of exploring how political dynamics and choices impact the nature of food, agriculture, and communities at local, national and global scales.

FST626

Food Project Manuscripts

This independent study practicum supports Food Studies graduate students moving a project or thesis to a publishable or professionally accessible document as a thesis or project outside the scope of regular classroom activities. Focus is on crafting a manuscript that meets standards for grants, academic research, and community projects.

FST640

Sustainable Community Development

This course explores how people can engage in creating more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable communities at multiple scales, from the local to the regional. The reading and assignments emphasize sustainable planning theory and practice as well as sustainable food systems perspectives. Students will engage in practice-based research and community projects.

FST683

Special Topics

Special Topics

FST691

Internship

Internship placement will focus on local nonprofits, advocacy group, community projects, food companies, farms, co-ops, food producers, and policy agencies. Directed experience can include developing products, community knowledge, food system data, or promotional materials (course requires instructor signature).

FST692

Internship

Internship placement will focus on local nonprofits, advocacy group, community projects, food companies, farms, co-ops, food producers, and policy agencies. Directed experience can include developing products, community knowledge, food system data, or promotional materials (course requires instructor signature).

FST693

Field Work Practicum

Students engage in semester long field work and internships. Class meetings address ethical, logistical, and intellectual issues of community-based work in Food Studies. Site-based project development and implementation occurs in supervised and collaborative settings. Individual meetings with professor provide career development and advance research proposal skills.

FST697

Thesis Practicum

Thesis Practicum is intended to assist Masters students in the preparation of thesis and to facilitate the transition from research and project development to writing. This course will review research methods and design, literature review, time management demands, project management, and presentation skills.

FST698

Thesis/Project

Course provides supervision and research guidance for Masters thesis or projects in Food Studies. Students will have instruction in data analysis, writing for public presentation and publication, professional development workshops, and community development issues.

FST800

Graduate Continuing Credit

Graduate Continuing Credit

GST490

Integrative Capstone

The integrative capstone, undertaken by the student during the senior year, is an extended project that helps the student complete their transition from an undergraduate student to a world-ready professional. The study usually centers on the student’s major and may be conducted, at least in part, in the context of a group experience. Such programs are crafted to meet the unique needs of each major, and could include, for example, fieldwork, theater production, creative work in the arts, independent research, or independent readings. The integrative capstone in an interdisciplinary major must have the approval of both academic programs.

HCA500

Data Literacy and Analytics

This course provides students the opportunity to master data literacy skills needed to participate in and contribute to a data-driven culture. Through analysis and appropriate visualization of data, students will effectively communicate data as information to influence decisions for targeted performance improvement areas. Students will engage in story telling using data.

HCA501

Analytics Leader

This course provides students the opportunity to strengthen basic skills and knowledge in using data to make decisions. Leadership skills addressing interprofessional communication, strategic thinking and persuasive motivation will be discussed. Students will engage in activities which advance their ability to use technology and information systems to influence outcomes and improve overall quality.

HCI502

Healthcare Delivery Systems

In this course, students will be engaged in dynamic content to gain an understanding of the role of information systems within healthcare delivery. The course provides an introduction to the use of information technology, information systems, data, and informatics in regards to health care delivery system entities and functions.

HCI503

Informatics Foundation and Health Care Technology

This course will assist students to develop a strong foundation of knowledge in understanding the impact technology and informatics has in the delivery of care across various settings. Student will be introduced to current and emerging technologies while exploring the impact on patient outcomes and staff satisfaction.

HCI504

Project Management

Explores project management from a strategic perspective, focusing on the development of leadership skills and evidence-based decision making. Explores management techniques of various business projects including project estimation, fiscal management, continuous quality improvement, and diverse project management tools.Specifically delves into use of information technology to improve healthcare outcomes.

HCI505

Foundational Data Analytics

This course explores data literacy, visual literacy and how outcomes are dependent upon the integrity of data, the analysis of data and the need for clearly defined report writing. Students will manipulate data for analysis and interpretation in order to effectively conduct and/or contribute to data analytics projects.

HCI506

Health Policy and Informatics

This course will explore health care policy and how it relates to informatics. Students will describe the history and development of health care policy while comparing U.S. health care policies to other countries. Legal, privacy, storage, and security issues will be discussed regarding healthcare and genomic data.

HCI507

Informatics Immersion

This course leads students to combine management and technical skills to solve real problems regarding healthcare information systems and use of technology in a healthcare setting. The immersion project requires the application of principles in health systems, information technology, healthcare delivery and project management. Students must complete 80-100 internship hours.

HCI525

Advanced Analytics

This course builds upon HCI505 by assisting students to advance their knowledge and skills regarding analytical methods. Using tableau, students will obtain a higher level of understanding in applying and manipulating advanced visual analytics while being introduced to machine learning with "R".

HCI582

Project Management II

This course emphasizes the concepts/theories/practices in handling the fiscal and leadership responsibilities of project management related to informatics. By the end of this course, students will have developed their Informatics Immersion Project proposal. Students must complete 40 internship hours under the supervision of a mentor in the field of informatics.

HCI583

Virtual Engagement to Improve Health

This course introduces students to a virtual world where technology is driving change, impacting the way healthcare is delivered and managed through the use of the Internet, social media and mobile technologies. Students will engage in virtual activities that transform the traditional roles of interprofessional healthcare providers.

HCI584

Telehealth I

This is a foundational course that introduces students to telehealth services. Core concepts to be explored include telecommunications, technology infrastructure, and basic business requirements of implementing a telehealth service. Students will be introduced to designing telehealth encounters that promote health and wellness for both clinicians and consumers.

HCI585

Telehealth II

This course explores advanced telehealth services and concepts such as regulatory, compliance, legal, and accreditation needs. Students will be exposed to legislative and state parity laws, licensing, and payment reimbursement processes. An in-depth look at real-world critical telemedicine services and contracting needs will be presented.

HCI586

Cybersecurity

Students will explore the cybersecurity needs within a health-related organization’s IT infrastructure. Core concepts to be reviewed include cyber frameworks (exploitation, defense, threats etc.), cryptography, malware, and hacking. Students will gain a foundational awareness of the technical and managerial competencies needed to protect and secure database systems and information infrastructures.

HCI631

Integrating Technology into a Healthcare Environment

This course will introduce students to key factors to be considered when integrating new technology within a healthcare environment. Understanding how to successfully create change, define current process, design future processes and complete a gap analysis using the four stages of a systems life cycle to successfully integrate or change technology.

HCI651

Database Management for Evidence-Based Decision Making

This course will assist the student in understanding the various database systems used within a healthcare setting. Key to this course is understanding how healthcare professionals can collect and extract data from database systems to assess the organizations performance and impact on patient outcomes.

HIS100

Introduction to World History

This course is an introduction to world history from the rise of civilization to the present. It establishes and compares major themes in the leading civilizations of today’s world. It investigates the development of the modern world system and interpretations of its impact on these civilizations.

HIS102

Introduction to American History

This course examines significant areas in the development of American society from the Colonial period to the present. It focuses particularly on the issues of gender, class, race, religion, politics, and ideology to provide students with the grounding in those areas crucial to understanding today's society.

HIS200W

Revolutions in Latin America

This course surveys Latin American history from colonization through the present with an emphasis on world history themes. While the legacies of the colonial period will be briefly examined, the course will focus primarily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Global themes will include the spread of European religions among indigenous populations; reverberation of liberal revolutionary ideas in the western hemisphere; the incorporation of Latin American and its populations into the world economy; the influence of race on society; and the spread of Marxism and resulting revolutions.

HIS201

Modern Middle East

This course introduces students to the cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of the Middle East. It provides an in-depth look at 'traditional' society, state and culture and then highlights change and resistance to change in the period since the First World War, when European imperialism redrew the political map and westernization threatened to redraw social, cultural and religious maps.

HIS201W

Modern Middle East

This course introduces students to the cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of the Middle East. It provides an in-depth look at 'traditional' society, state and culture and then highlights change and resistance to change in the period since the First World War, when European imperialism redrew the political map and westernization threatened to redraw social, cultural and religious maps.

HIS202W

Modern Europe

The impact of World War I on Europe, the crisis of democracy and rise of totalitarian ideologies in the interwar period, and the decline of European influence in the world after World War II provide the focal points of the course. It then explores the slow resurgence of Europe, prospects for European unity, and revived European influence in international relations as a "third force."

HIS204W

East Asian Studies

An exploration of East Asian geography, history, language, and culture frim Zhou Dynasty (ca. 1,000 BCE) to present times. Focus on China, Korea, Japan with reference to neighboring regions and discussion of Taiwan. Emphasis on arts, ideologies, and East Asian cultural sites in Pittsburgh area.

HIS205W

Africa, Past and Present

This course is an interdisciplinary examination of the problems and promises of African development. It investigates the historical development of pre-independence society, culture, political institutions, and economic structures, and their interaction with post-independent economic problems and development strategies.

HIS207

Oral History, Neighborhoods, & Race

Through this course, students will learn about oral history and the racial dynamics of American cities, especially Pittsburgh, since World War II. Students will learn about the history of racial inequality in cities and the efforts of people to both combat and maintain that inequality. They will then conduct oral history interviews to further explore the role the lives of people in two neighborhoods in Pittsburgh.

HIS213

Special Topics

Special Topics

HIS215

Ind & the Working Class in Europe & America

This course seeks to understand who built America, under what conditions they labored, and to understand their hopes, dreams, and struggles to create a better future for themselves and their families. The course traces the historical development of the American working class from colonial times to the present. Particular attention is given to the formation of working class political and economic organizations and their impact on American history.

HIS215

Working-Class Radicals

This course examines working-class history in the United States with a special focus on working-class activists, organizers, and thinkers that were often labeled “radicals.” It incorporates the diverse voices of the American working class, including activists inside and outside the labor movement.

HIS216

Rise of the Third World

The emergence of Third-Worldism after 1945 is the central historical development of the twentieth century. The Afro-Asian movement namely aimed at recasting the historical initiative away from implacable colonialist powers. This course focuses on the analysis of doctrines and models that have collectively marked the rise of the Third World.

HIS220

U.S. Women's History

This course explores women’s historical experiences in the United States, from Native American women in the pre-colonial era to the present. It investigates the interaction of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality and the ways that these relationships have shaped women’s lives socially, economically, and politically.

HIS224

The Holocaust

This course surveys the destruction of two-thirds of European Jewry during World War II. Through a close reading of primary texts and secondary sources, it explores the foundations and development of Nazi policy toward the Jews. The course documents the reactions of Jews, European peoples and governments, the U.S. people and government, and various churches and political movements.

HIS228

Recent African History

Western media typically paints a catastrophic view of Africa with stories of conflicts, environmental degradation, horrendous sanitary conditions, and their corollaries. Are the positive trends regarding economic growth, democratization, and endogenous creativity bring overlooked? The course tackles this question while offering opportunities to gain substantial, practical knowledge about contemporary Africa.

HIS230

History of Social & Political Thought

History of Ideas surveys some fundamental normative questions that have been formulated in religion, politics, the Arts, and popular culture from Plato (5th century BC) to the present. It examines principles and methods of political and social thought as they relate to authority, obedience, freedom, equality, and justice.

HIS231

History of the British Empire

History of the British Empire examines the historical narratives relating to imperialism, ethnocentrism, military aggressions, colonization, acculturation, repression of revolt, technological diffusion, intellectual outreach, and cross-cultural fertilization from the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

HIS234

Asian Foodways

A strategic survey of Japanese, Chinese/Taiwanese, Korean, and South Asian food ways in their originating contexts and the U.S. Emphasis on anthropological understanding of food ways, cultural studies critique of class, gender, and family dynamics articulated via food, and historical transformations of food culture in response to migration and globalization.

HIS241

History of Islam

This course is a historical examination of classical Islamic civilization: its origins, nature, and development. Special attention is given to the religion of Islam and the contributions of Arabs, Persians, and Turks to Islamic civilization. Cross-listed as REL 241.

HIS247

American Environmental History

Environmental history examines human interaction with their environment over time, a relationship shaped by cultures and political economies. In US history, there have been competing ideologies of capitalist exploitation, conservationism, preservationism, and sustainability. The course will also introduce students to different facets and methods of environmental history.

HIS250

History of Christianity

This course provides students with a broad historical overview of Christianity, its origins, nature, and development. Students analyze primary sacred and historical texts in addition to historical scholarship on the religion.

HIS257

The Sixties, Vietnam & America

This course examines the 1960s in America and Vietnam. The course focuses on the war in Vietnam from multiple perspectives including those of Vietnamese and American leaders and ordinary people, examining the roots of the conflict and how it shaped lives and the path of history.

HIS263